In the opening cafe scene, Johannes says, "We have to meet." Undine flips out his phone and says, "Your voicemail says 'I need to see you'"; "I'm going to work now, you'll wait for me here for an hour and a half. Hours, after I come out, you have to tell me you love me. If you are not here after I come out, I will kill you." Undine's stubbornness is evident. The identity of the part-time tour guide of Undine Urban Development Museum, on the one hand, restores Undine's "elf" identity as witnessing the changes in Berlin; on the other hand, it continues Petzold's retrospect of German history and geography. It is not surprising that the water tank in the cafe and the industrial diver in the water tank appear alone in the story. When Undine's shouts came from the tank, one was an encounter with Christoph; one was Christoph's foot being swept into the turbine, and Undine's mind echoed. The second shout, like
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