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CLOSED

Please, help!

Open the door.

Please, help.

Leonid Bichevin

Alexander Bukharov

Maria Andreeva

SILENCE

There seems to be two of them. They come in a lorry and kill.

- Without any reason, they say. - Say!

Hello!

I'm looking for my father, he should have come.

I heard, the catch is poor today. Probably, they're still at sea.

Whose daughter did shoot up so fast?

Tikhon's. She's about to have a misfortune.

Come here.

Sit down.

Thank you.

- Do you want some tea? - Yes.

Bring me a cup.

How do you call him?

Star.

It's a girl.

Mother abandoned her and I fostered her.

Do you want to pet her?

Star.

What do you want to become?

A teacher.

Father says, it's a good job for a woman.

I was unlucky with teachers.

Probably, that's why I didn't like school,

but I'm sure your pupils

will be happier.

Anna!

Your father.

Let's go!

The girl has her heart set on you.

Go away, writer, or you spoil all our girls.

Go to hell!

- Where do you go? - Leave me alone!

Stop, leave the bicycle here.

Nadya!

Nadya! Let me go!

Nadya is there, she may be hurt.

- So what? - We called, but nobody answered.

- What happened? - I don't know.

When it all exploded, my lantern went out and we lost each other.

Nadya!

- Take him to the hospital. - Don't take me to the hospital.

The vault may collapse, it's dangerous.

- Go away from there! - Hey, soldier, maybe you need help?

There's a woman inside, we need to inspect the rubble.

I got it.

Any volunteers?

You two! Let them go.

- Locals? - Yes.

Come with me. We need more light.

Keep close, when I call, answer me.

- Well, follow me. - Captain!

Come on!

Do you have a lantern?

They say, these corridors are endless.

In the past they were used to store powder,

then

smugglers were hiding here.

During the war

locals used them as bomb shelters.

Does anyone hear me?

Captain!

Did you find something?

- A broken lantern. - Don't go away alone.

Who is here?

We came to help you.

They were here.

Is anyone here?

Are you all right? Are you hurt?

Wait. Kazantsev!

I found her!

Larisa?

I think I saw something.

Stop. Let's go!

Go back!

Go back!

Alexander!

It's gas!

- She's there! I saw her! - To hell!

Lift him!

Vanya, what did your sister do there?

Your sister?

Ganin, there was gas,

you just unhaled too much.

She wanted to see the sea.

We saw it from the hills,

but I decided to lead her through the storage,

to come to the shore

and see the seaside.

You said her name was Nadya? The surname?

- I don't know. - I thought you were together.

Captain, I'd taken a load to Pskov and was returning empty,

saw her at the petrol station,

she had quarreled with her fiance, he left - she stayed.

- I picked her up, that's all. - Where to?

- Peshkovo. - Does she have relatives there?

I don't know, really.

Make an inquiry, probably we find her family.

- How old is she? - I don't know.

Well, calm down.

Are you alive?

We inspected his car.

Here's what we found there.

Long-distance drivers always have weapons - to scare away the thieves on the road.

Savushkin Ignat Timofeevich.

These are all his belongings, none of hers - no handbag, no documents.

We inspected everything around - nothing as well.

He called her name.

Well, take it to the station.

- I called Peshkovo registration desk. - So?

There're only 15 houses there, noone heard about this Nadya.

She could have lied.

So where was she going without any belongings?

He must be hiding something.

- He stayed in the caves more than you. - So what?

- He could have inhaled much gas. - Do you think he invented her?

Wait.

- How much time have you spent together? - Since yesterday night.

So, a girl, alone, with a stranger?

Why didn't she take the bus?

She didn't have any money. I saw her at the petrol station, she...

She was desperate - he just dropped her on the road.

Which petrol station?

The turn to Kucherovo, about 3 hours to go.

You see, there was gas in the passages.

That's why it all exploded.

Do you think I invented it all?

Well, bye!

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SERVICE ENTRANCE

Is anyone here?

"Ladoga" in quarter-final."

Hello!

I need to speak to captain Kazantsev.

Captain!

Look! I found a shell by the road.

Don't you paw it with your hands.

What do you look at?

A seroius case.

12-gauge, hunting double-barrelled gun.

And our long-distance driver had a 7.62 mm rifle, that's it.

My sister came from Chechetovo, she said,

her neighbour was killed.

The man was taking a car to the collective farm.

The was some lorry on the road.

The man stopped, and they started to shoot.

He tried to get away on the rims.

Drivers refuse to drive alone.

- How long ago? - The stiffening process is not over yet.

I think it happened last night.

Ignat was here more or less in the same time.

He threw away one gun and left the other.

Call the station to send a squad to the hospital.

Let them arrest him.

Let's go, nothing to do here.

Stop!

Yanina said you were looking through some case, I kind of gave a permission.

Sorry.

I would file a report against you, to keep you away from criminal investigation.

But they fire Yanina as well, and her mother is ill.

What have you found?

Do you know Lavrentiev's past? Where did he emerge from?

He worked as a labourer at the port.

And then he arranged hitfeasts for money.

All his lads are from there.

- Did Larisa's husband also work at the port? - No.

They had a crew, took the catch to the fish factory.

On their own, not depending on anyone.

And they gained more as well.

How many were there?

- About 8 boats. - And now?

Some went to the port,

others failed to do the plan.

So, the crew fell apart.

Did it happen after the fire at the boat house?

What are you getting at?

Lavrentiev may be involved in Larisa's husband death.

Are you serious?

A fire at the archive, a fire at the boat house.

And a dozen of fires in between.

So, or Lavrentiev is a pyromaniac,

or you don't want to believe that damsel killed her husband.

That's what we need now!

It's getting dark soon, we need to clear out from here.

I'll look for somebody.

Captain said your car is broken down.

Who is here?

Just bats.

I knew you were here.

Of course, here, where else.

Did you tell them anything?

No.

Your hands are so cold.

Well!

And here is the writer.

- Come, treat yourself to what god gave us. - Alexander.

- Nice to meet you, sit down, please. - You must be frozen, right?

More or less.

Well, dear hosts, let's drink to your house, for a chicken in every pot.

Thank you for warm reception, I don't know what we would do without you.

We pass the night here and go home in the morning.

Come, have a bite.

Have you seen the cheeks of their daughter?

So red,

and she was scratching them all the time.

- So what? - She's itching.

It is syphilis.

Did you get is because of red cheeks?

Well, yes.

Once I saw a German prisoner during the war.

He was scratching all the time, complained...

of itching.

His voice got hoarse, then they called a doctor.

So, the truth of life was revealed.

Why this stop?

I met my wife after the war.

I accepted her children as if they were mine. So did they.

I wouldn't say I loved her that much.

Well, she's nice.

Though after 4 years in the trenches any seems pretty.

But I was not going to marry.

I had a buddy at the front,

he called me to come to the Enisey to fish.

He told me a lot about the Enisey.

And I thought: when the war is over,

We all want something,

but who gets what he wants?

- You'll go there. - No.

Nothing of the kind, I'm washed out.

I'm like a watch dog,

throw a bone and I'll run.

At least you know why you run.

Did I come at a bad time?

No, why?

Come in.

How was the competition?

You were at the competition, right?

I met Vanya.

If you want to find out something, ask me, don't drag my brother into it.

Vanya is a clever boy.

He didn't say anything unnecessary.

You better beware of photographers.

- Is anything wrong? - No, it's all right.

It was a long road, I'm tired.

I better go.

Larisa!

What happened to your husband?

Why do you ask, you know it perfectly well. Kazantsev could not have failed to tell you.

- You told me to ask you. - What do you want to know?

Did I kill my husband?

Did you?

She came here before.

You were not here.

Do you love her?

I told you to arrest him.

I passed the information, the squad came to the hospital, but he was gone.

What about the found shell?

For the last 2 weeks there were 9 assaults on this road, 4 times with firearms.

The found shells match. Survivors portray a guy and a girl.

- So, was there a girl? - Yes.

All the survivors describe the same:

the girl was asking for help, they opened the door.

If it was a car, the driver stopped. And then - whoa! Her buddy with a gun.

- Can they identify them? - No, all the assaults happened at night.

Well.

Raise the personnel.

If they attack on the same road, there must be a den.

Let them block the roads.

- Here? - Why did you stop, go on!

Hey, what's on?

Are you all right?

What is happening here?

They found Ignat.

That's enough!

He was hidng in the caves, bastard!

One week ago a grocery store was robbed.

The salesgirl was so young.

She was beaten black and blue for this.

- Did he admit it? - No.

Besides that you have no witness and no proof, right?

That woman on the petrol station had dependent parents.

Her 2 children perished

during the war.

Look!

Here are the lists of murders.

Prepare a cell!

I don't think you did it.

Most likely, you speak the truth.

You met her on the road,

took her for a ride,

she told you about the fiance that had abandoned her,

you felt pity.

Now you get she may be somehow involved in this.

What happened between you so that you defend her that much?

When I was a child, I had a picture over my bed.

An autumn field, dry grass, a forest in the distance.

And

mother said

it was called "The Fox", but there was no fox.

I tried to detect that fox,

sometimes it even seemed I saw it.

We sense our fantasies as the truth,

because we want it so much.

Look!

A driver more or less or your age

was shot in the nape.

Almost an execution!

An old man with his granddaughter.

He tried to hide her in the cellar.

They were shot for a sack of cereal.

Shop assault,

a salesgirl

beaten with gunstocks.

That girl Nadya

is not what she pretends to be.

You're not defending her now.

And the guy she'd escaped from is somewhere on the road,

probably, searching for the next victim.

Can you help?

None trusts you here but me.

Just me. Help me.

Yes, you were right.

There was no girl.

Well.

Are you sure

he killed the woman at the petrol station?

He himself told us about that petrol station.

That's it.

What for?

What if he really just picked up a fellow traveller?

No!

That won't do.

Your silence complicates everything.

You just need to tell the truth.

You need to tell

the truth.

The truth.

You need it, we need it too.

Do you hear me?

Listen!

This is not necessary.

Stop!

Stop!

Stop!

Sergeant Golovorodko, document check...

Stop!

The wounded officer said the girl was in the lorry.

I was looking through the base of the disappeared ones.

In case Nadya has vanished not now, but earlier.

There is no girl that matches the age.

But there is

Zoya Novikova.

Born in 1931, she left school and worked ar hosiery factory.

She was living with her grandmother near Pskov.

Two months ago she ran away with her boyfriend.

Grandmother was scared and she reported it to the militia.

And here's her boyfriend.

Beloborodov Pavel Sergeevich, born in 1922,

he worked at the same factory as a driver.

He was sent to jail for theft, then allegedly went to Irkutsk

with a friend to earn money.

I telegraphed - he's not there.

The first assault was near Pskov in May. It matches.

- Well, show the photos to the patrol officer. - Yes!

- What? - It's not Ignat.

Here it's not, and at the petrol station?

- Did he confess, Petr? - Yes!

If you hadn't beat him,

you would have names, would catch the criminals

and probably nothing would have happened last night.

And what about the names?

Do you want to say patrol officers died because of me?

We're running out of kerosene and bread is over.

We'll have it.

Let me see.

- Quiet! - It hurts!

You need a doctor.

We need a way out, not a doctor.

You told me you'd throw it away.

It was not possible.

They would have caught us at night.

They will not let us go.

Don't you croak disaster.

You promised, you said you wouldn't shoot.

- They tried to arrest us. - And that woman at the petrol station?

- She didn't even get what was going on. - My finger jerked.

- Why am I making excuses? - You killed her just for nothing.

I thought you were going to kill me there as well.

Zoya,

I know I said it already. This time it's for sure.

We'll go to the south and I'll work as a driver.

We'll build a house and you'll give children as we wanted.

I need to fix the car.

- Why not in uniform? - My fault, lieutenant colonel.

Captain, uniform shows we serve to the law.

- Or are you ashamed to wear it? - No, sir!

- How is the wounded officer? - He's better.

That's good.

A journalist called me.

- Ganin? - Yes,sir!

He told me you ran the wrong hare and lost time.

Yes,sir!

Is the arrested linked to the attackers on the patrol?

I'm not sure.

Captain, the country is fighting banditry.

And we cannot be gentle.

Any weakness of ours is the strength of our enemies.

Two officers were killed.

You were to show intelligence,

firmness,

perseverance.

If your investigation were competent,

victims might have been avoided.

Interrogate the guy.

If he knows something,

he should speak.

- I don't hear you. - Yes, lieutenant colonel!

- Lieutenant colonel! - What?

Ganin.

Are you going somewhere?

Stay, you're the one who writes about this criminal investigation department.

- Yes. - So work.

And then send a copy to me.

Telephone talker!

I risked my life for such officers at the front!

Stop!

Take the suspected to the interrogation room.

Last night they came across a patrol.

Two officers were killed, one wounded.

The last one identified them.

She could not have gone back to him.

Do you want to say the witness is lying?

He makes her do it.

Well, you either say where they may hide, or...

We catch them anyway.

If your girl is innocent,

we will let her go.

If he forces her, when do you think

he gets rid of her?

I saw her

not far from the petrol station.

She said her fiance'd left her and she had no money.

What did she tell you about herself?

He proposed her go to Rostov-on-the-Don, saying it was easier to earn money there.

They were robbed on their way

and were starving, so they had to steal.

In one of the houses he found the sawn-off gun.

- Then everything changed. - What happened at the petrol station?

I didn't go to the petrol station.

I only know she ran away from him.

And she had

red drops

on her dress.

I thought it was

berry juice.

In the morning we saw his car, he was searching for her,

and I took her to the catacombes.

One can hide there, I used to creep in there before the war.

After the explosion

my lantern went out and I lost her.

How did you get she'd survived?

A pendant. I saw it on her neck in the cave

and found it at the exit.

She lost it while she was getting out.

- So you think you gave her a chance. - Where are they now?

- I don't know. - Listen here.

Your drivel does not interest me, I don't care what happened between you.

- They are killers! - He doesn't know anything.

You must let him go.

Sign here.

Let's go!

Zoya!

- Ignat? - Hush! My lorry's on the road, let's go!

I will not go!

They know all about you, they search for you, come on!

- Pavel is wounded, I can't. - Let's go!

- I will not go! - Let's go!

Drop the gun!

Drop it, I say!

Pavel, you promised.

To the car!

- He'll go away now. - I said, to the car, floozy!

He'll go away.

- To the car, quickly! - No.

Here they are!

- We need to wait for everyone. - They'll slip away.

Let's go!

Stop the car!

No!

Pavel, no!

- Pavel, no, please! - Let go of my hand!

Pavel, in front!

Pavel!

Pavel!

Get up!

Don't shoot!

Petr, they won't run away! Don't shoot!

I hate you!

I hate you all!

I hate you!

Why? He was wounded.

They are killers!

- There is tribunal for this. - I'm the tribunal for such! Got it?

"That was Ignat's first love.

I don't think something serious could have happened

between him and Zoya in one night.

Most likely, Zoya was using him

and Ignat saw the fox,

believed in what he wanted to believe".

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Here.

Your ticket.

The train leaves in 2 hours.

Because of respect for your father, you won't go in a suitcase.

Got it?

Well done.

Good boy.