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Dreyman publishes an anonymous article in ''Der Spiegel'' accusing the state of concealing the country's elevated [[suicide]] rates. The article angers the East German authorities but the Stasi cannot link it to a registered typewriter. Rejected by Sieland, Hempf orders Grubitz to arrest her. She is [[blackmailed]] into revealing Dreyman's authorship of the article, although the Stasi do not find the typewriter. Grubitz, suspicious of Wiesler, has him do the follow-up [[interrogation]] of Sieland. Wiesler makes Sieland reveal the typewriter's location.
 
When the Stasi return to Dreyman's apartment, Sieland realises that Dreyman will know she betrayed him and fleesruns into the street andright isin hitfront byof a passing truck. Dreyman runs after her and Sieland dies in his arms. Grubitz finds nothing beneath the floorboard; he ends the investigation with a perfunctory apology to Dreyman. Grubitz then informs Wiesler that while the investigation is over, so is Wiesler's career; his remaining years with the Stasi will be steam-opening letters for inspection in Department M, a dead-end assignment for disgraced agents. The same day, [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] is elected [[leader of the Soviet Union]].
 
Two years after the fall of the wall, Hempf and Dreyman meet at a performance of Dreyman's play, each reflecting on life before and after [[German reunification]]. Dreyman asks why he was never monitored by the Stasi, to which Hempf replies that he had been: "We knew everything." Dreyman finds the abandoned listening devices in his apartment and rips them from the walls.