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The simplest and most effective trick used to justify evil...

Is admitting that every person has a dark side.

So, Ilya Nikolayevich, I've run a background check on him.

That was interesting. But you already know all this.

Why are we meeting then?

What can you do to make this information disappear?

Forever. Do you understand me?

I do. Those who should not suffer always suffer.

Right, Ilya Nikolayevich?

Will you help me?

I'll try.

TEACH ME HOW TO LIVE

I saw the list of the patients you've kept.

I like you, of course. But I like your wife better.

What else do you know about him?

EPISODE 6

Psychiatric hospital. How can I help you?

- Hello! This is Ilya Nikolayevich Lavrov. - I'm a psychiatrist. - Hello!

I need information about your former employee.

Aleksandr Andreyevich Melentyev.

I'm sorry, that's confidential. We don't provide this kind of information.

Goodbye.

12 DAYS EARLIER

Storozheva! What's the matter?

- What? - I don't know.

Kazantsev called me and told me to find Nikushin, but he didn't tell why.

Did you hear anything?

Oh my God, will I ever get rest on my day off?

The summer's almost over, and I haven't even bathed yet.

This is a nightmare!

On the day the waitress was killed, Melentyev really was at a diving club.

- But on the day Plotnikova was killed... - What were you doing after work that day?

I was at a diving club.

It's from the hospital.

Everyone's alibis.

Will you question me too?

AUGUST 2. FROM 7 P.M. TO 8 P.M. WAS AT THE DIVING CLUB.

Here. Polina Ageeva.

They took the equipment at 6 p.m.

- They? - Yes. She comes with her boyfriend.

They dive together.

Here. Aleksandr Melentyev.

By the way, I got a call from the police about him too.

It must have been your colleague. He asked if he was here on Wednesday.

When he came and when he left.

What, are they in trouble?

- What time did they leave? - Here. They returned the equipment at 8.

I need to check other days too.

- Thanks. - Would you like to dive?

- Ilya Nikolayevich! - Happy Birthday, Yury Lvovich!

- Thank you. - And this is for you, Marina.

Thank you. They are beautiful.

Ilya Nikolayevich, and where's your beautiful wife?

She's not feeling well.

Tell her to get well soon.

I will.

Hi! And you don't tell anyone that you and Katya..?

You should've told me. I could've said too much yesterday.

- Did you talk to Katya? - Yes. I wanted to drop by and support her.

But she said she wasn't at home.

- And where's she? Did she tell you? - No, she didn't.

Listen, can we eat the food already, or do we have to wait for some signal?

- For the light to go on or something... - Sure you can, Aleksandr.

This isn't a formal reception.

So no light.

No light.

- Is Polina with you? - No.

We look weird. All of us.

Polina was supposed to bring the present.

And she isn't here. So we don't have a present.

Yes.

I was just about to go to the hospital.

No, not to see you.

And where's everyone?

At Berden's?

No news, Lavrov.

I'm telling you, this guy has a computer for a brain.

I don't know as much as he has already forgotten.

Why are you here?

Not to see you. I need to talk to someone.

With who? What did you learn?

I haven't learned anything yet.

I need to check something.

Where's Polina Ageeva, by the way?

- She hasn't arrived yet. - Ilya Nikolayevich!

Am I late? The engraver is a jerk.

He said it wasn't ready and told me to come on Monday. I said, "No way! Do it now!"

I left my phone at home and couldn't call anyone.

Polina, excuse me. Can I have a minute with you?

No, don't look!

Ilya Nikolayevich, why didn't you tell me that you would bring a companion?

- Investigator... - Storozheva. - Nice to meet you.

I'm sorry. My phone died. Can I charge it in the house?

Of course. But I won't let you go without drinking a glass of wine to my health.

Excuse me. How's the investigation going?

I know that you can't tell me the details.

Just tell me yes or no.

Should I be worried about the hospital?

Are you looking for something?

I just wanted to charge my phone. May I?

Sure.

- Come with me. - Thank you.

That's our son's bedroom.

He's in a boarding school.

So he won't mind.

Thank you. Does he visit you often?

No.

Excuse me, and you are..?

Margarita Storozheva, investigator.

Yes.

Yury told me about you.

Well...

Please join us.

Thank you.

Yury Lvovich!

You're our guru.

You're a beam of light in the dark hallways of our hospital...

And the corners of our collective mind.

Thank you.

- Well... - It's from all of us.

I know that's not how it usually works, but I'd like to make the first toast myself.

I make the rules today.

And I'd like to drink... No, not to my health.

It's not that bad.

This is a bottle of 1963 wine.

Grateful patients come with benefits.

And I've been thinking...

When should I taste this wine?

I can't just sit alone and gulp it.

My conscience won't let me do it.

I need an occasion.

And here's the occasion.

- Your birthday. - No, not my birthday.

Life. We're alive, and that's an occasion.

Let's drink to life.

Or at least get a taste of this life.

That's what it tasted like in 1963.

- Happy Birthday! - Congratulations!

And he spent two years there?

Pick me up on your way back.

How much longer will you be charging your phone?

As long as I need.

What do you need it for?

And you want me to trust you.

Melentyev lied about his last place of employment.

He didn't work there. He was treated for drug addiction there.

Tolya, I'm waiting for you.

I never said that I wouldn't do anything.

I have a plan. I just need to check something.

Okay, I'll check something too. Something that I'm competent in.

Lavrov, don't rush it.

It seems like you just want to blame someone, not find the killer.

Alik knows that Katya left. And he might even know where she is.

But that doesn't make him a killer.

Let me pass.

Do you see Alik?

No.

- Me neither. - Ilya!

Come here.

I'm in a bad mood today.

But it's getting better and better with every glass.

You said you were at a diving club till 8 p.m., right?

Yes. 8 or 8.30, I don't remember exactly.

Who were you there with?

With Alik Melentyev.

What are you on?

Opiates?

You won't believe it, but I have a bad back.

You're right. I don't believe it.

What's going on?

Berden disapproves of relationships between coworkers, so we don't tell anyone.

Did you help Melentyev get into Lavrov's office?

Are we in trouble?

Where were you on Wednesday night?

I don't have to answer you.

Are you nervous?

Okay. Is this an interrogation? Don't you think it's too much?

No, I'll put it another way.

- That's none of your business. - What were you doing in my office?

What were you doing in my office? I put cameras there. I saw you!

Are you playing detective?

You didn't work at the hospital from 2007 to 2009.

You were treated for drug addiction.

And it doesn't seem like it helped.

Who told you it didn't help? He?

I haven't seen him for 5 years. I've been clean for 5 years. And he knows about it.

- Who? - Don't do this, Ilya. You know who.

Yes, it was wrong to sneak into your office.

But you know why I was nervous.

I just didn't want my life to fall apart because of some junkie.

But you...

You, Ilya...

You found out that I take drugs and started to spy on me?

You set up taps and cameras?

I don't do drugs.

I don't take opiates. I really have a bad back.

Stop yelling. Everyone's listening.

That's great.

To hell with all of you!

Lavrov, he has an alibi.

He was with Polina on the days of the murders.

When you transferred your patients to Alik, he saw that you're treating a Sobolev.

They were in you know where together.

Alik didn't want everyone to find out about it.

And he decided to look at his file.

To see if it's the same Sobolev, what he's treated for, get his address, talk to him.

Nothing terrible. He should have talked to you.

What's the matter? Where's the fire?

Was it Aleksandr Andreyevich who was yelling?

Excuse me. I'll be right back.

And you? You're an investigator too, right?

I can help you.

You can help me get rid of him?

It's your name day today.

Your saint's day.

I've told you before and I'm telling you again to stop playing detective.

- May I? - Yes.

Vyacheslav Yuryevich, can I go home?

I thought you had already left.

Go.

I'll get it.

Okay.

Nikushin.

Got it. Sonya!

Is Storozheva here?

- Find here, now! - Okay, okay.

- Yes. - This is Nikushin. Is Lavrov with you?

- No. - We got permission to meet Kosyrev.

Find Lavrov and go there.

Yes.

Coming.

Really?

You know that we need to go?

Why didn't you tell me that you're drunk?

- We need to be there at 8 a.m. - 8 a.m.?

- Yes! - Okay. - Give me the keys.

Lavrov!

Lavrov!

Water.

Thank you.

Why are we going so slowly?

I'm driving as I can.

If you hadn't tried to drink your failure away yesterday, you would've been driving.

But you told me that if we're late, the permission is revoked.

I hope you have sobered up by now.

Do you really think that Kosyrev can expose the killer?

If we do it right.

And how are we going to build the conversation?

What should I expect?

Expect?

I don't know what to expect.

I can tell you one thing.

Whatever plan we come up with, we won't get the result we expect.

Stop playing with me.

There must be some rules.

If we want results, we must be willing to take risks.

And if you're not, you should have stayed out of this case.

And what do you risk, Lavrov?

You try to play by the rules, and I respect it.

But now playing by the rules means losing.

Winning at all costs isn't a solution either.

Are you willing to lose? Because I'm not.

- And you think we're losing? - To sociopaths? Definitely.

Because we're on their territory.

Sociopaths make up less than 20% of the population...

But it's them who shape the world for us, and not vice versa.

They don't take us for people.

Because we're flawed and weak.

And do you know what our weakness is?

Conscience.

We're involved in their games, but we try to live by our rules.

Law, morality, forgiveness...

- There are no other rules. - Then we must play without rules.

And how will we be different from them then?

Here, look, we have permission. You must let us in.

- Miss... - Investigator Storozheva.

I don't care. You have your orders, and we have ours.

We can't let you in after 8 a.m.

- But it's precisely 8 a.m. - According to your watch.

And by ours, it's two minutes past eight.

Whose order is that?

- Come in. - Wait, only we can't enter?

Puchkov got to Kosyrev somehow.

It means he has connections here.

But Puchkov is in the hospital.

I wouldn't be calling him if we didn't have to do something.

Cell 2, at your places!

Kosyrev, step out!

- Hello! - Hello!

Okay.

Hand over your phones and get your papers ready.

Open your mouth.

- Close your mouth. - Who's there? My lawyer?

- I need to call my lawyer. - Hands!

Where are you taking me?

Move!

Move.

Stop.

Move.

Stop.

Sit down.

I'll be outside.

Investigator Storozheva.

Ilya Nikolayevich Lavrov.

I have a lawyer.

Have you talked to him?

We're not here to blame you.

We need your help.

I saw your parole application.

It says that you're not guilty.

I'm not guilty.

You know about the recent murder.

You don't believe that I'm not guilty?

In that case, you know who's guilty.

I don't know anything.

How old are you?

You will answer my questions.

How did you learn about the recent murder?

I don't know anything.

That's enough.

You can go.

And take the folder with you.

Go.

What?

Your boss kicked you out?

He's not my boss.

And now let's talk.

On the record?

No.

Okay, off the record.

It's off.

So you know Puchkov?

Tell him not to ask me for any more favors.

He has dragged me into this already.

He's in the hospital with a heart attack.

He didn't sound like it.

- Will he make it? - Tell me...

Is there any way to know who have visited Kosyrev over the years?

You can stop pretending.

She could believe you.

I won't.

If you want me to confess...

To these murders?

I know that you it was you who killed these women.

I just wanted to remind you...

Larisa Lopatina, 25 years old.

She was pregnant. So you killed not only her but also her child.

Valentina Semenenko, 28 years old.

She had two kids, ages 8 and 5.

They were left without a mother, just like you and your brother.

It was different with us.

Because no one killed your mother.

And this is Tamara Gavrishina.

You don't understand anything and don't know anything.

At least I understand you.

These women mean nothing to you.

And I know... I know even more than you can imagine.

Do you want me to tell you?

- Yes, Katya. - Slava, I'm scared.

- Help me please. - What's the matter?

He's opening the door.

Katya! Who's opening the door?

Hello?

Why are you quiet?

Katya!

Katya, answer me! Hello?

Katya, do you hear me? Hello?

Katya!

Hello?

Yes.

- He came in. - Who? Is he threatening you?

No, he's...

- What? - He's standing by the door.

He's just standing there.

Katya! What does he look like?

Describe him to me.

Is he old, heavy built, and bearded?

- Is he? - Yes.

Okay.

Don't be afraid of him.

Pass him the phone. I'll talk to him.

Slava wants to talk to you.

Hello, Slava!

I'm not trying to control you.

The neighbors saw that lights were on.

I came over to check.

I saw a stranger in the house.

Do you think I can't..?

Okay.

He said he's on his way.

So I'll stay here if you don't mind.

Okay.

There you go.

Two women have been writing to him.

One of them is Zinaida.

And can I have a look at these letters?

Okay.

I can do that.

Igor! Check Kosyrev's cell.

And make it quick. I need his letters.

So you say Puchkov is in the hospital?

- Yes. - May I?

Yes. Quickly.

Here, sir. There was nothing else.

Well done! Dismissed.

Here.

But we need to put them back. Because you know who Kosyrev is...

And I don't know it anymore. I'll make copies.

But you said that Kosyrev corresponded with two women.

That's what the records say.

But he didn't correspond with them.

They wrote to him. And he never wrote back.

And why are all these letters from one woman, Zinaida Kumyskina?

That's all we have. Igor had a good look, I'm sure.

Does she live nearby?

Not just nearby.

She practically lives here, in prison.

She comes here like it's her job. First to one, then to another.

So they met?

Yes.

One.

Two.

Five times.

But three years ago, he refused to see her.

She came, and he didn't come out to meet her.

I remember that day.

Zinaida made a scene.

She even wanted to complain.

Thought that we did something to him.

We brought him. He said something to her.

And she never came again.

And who's the second woman?

Some Anna.

There was no last name on the envelopes.

He didn't fall for her if he didn't keep her letters.

Did he meet her too?

No.

Then we would've known her last name.

He last had a letter from her...

Two weeks ago.

And he didn't write back.

And when was the first one?

In 1993.

- When he was transferred here. - Can I write down the dates?

So she has been writing to him all this time.

And he never wrote back.

What else do you know about this Anna?

Nothing.

Yes.

Got it.

It was the gate guard. Wrap it up.

Put it back where it was. Quickly!

Security! Let me out!

He doesn't care about your justice!

Shut up! He didn't do it!

- What's going on here? - Then ask him yourself.

What are you doing here?

Escort the prisoner back to his cell.

Stand up!

I didn't tell you anything. You learned nothing. Nothing.

Move!

What's your name?

Show me your papers!

Here are our papers.

Don't shove your ID in my face.

You can't be here if you were late.

You! You should have seen to it.

They weren't late. They came right on time.

Escort them out.

Step out. Face the wall.

- Open your mouth. - Leave him to me.

Stop!

Face down.

Where has Kosyrev been?

Who's visiting him? Are they helping him out?

Shut your mouth.

I said face down.

- I knew it right away. - Hands!

I thought he was an ordinary maniac.

And he's privileged.

Move.

Face down.

I have something on him.

No kidding.

But we need good hands for this.

Face the wall.

Move.

Face the wall.

Move.

Turn right.

Face the wall.

Move.

Someone has ratted me out.

Someone young, who's are aiming at my place.

They think they can play both sides. We'll see.

I need to meet Kosyrev again.

Forget about it.

Kosyrev knows who's the killer.

Listen, I'm sure that...

I'm sure that Kosyrev knows who's the killer.

I get it that you're sure.

Look, if there's any chance...

When your boss is away...

We can come at any time.

Here's what I can tell you...

We all take orders here.

Someone called my boss and told him not to let you in.

Even if you came right on time, they would hold you back.

Sir! Can I have a minute?

It's urgent.

What was that?

Why did you kick me out?

He wanted to win your favor.

Your approval.

And for this, he would have to lie.

And we wouldn't have learned anything.

So you want to tell me that you learned everything?

And Kosyrev told you who's the killer.

Well, I guess you could say that.

- Tell me more. - To put it short...

Kosyrev doesn't match the profile.

So he didn't kill them?

He killed them. But he's not the initiator.

And you think that this initiator is killing now?

And who's he?

I don't know.

Is this your house?

You don’t know whose house you're in?

Slava told me it's his friends' house.

Friends? Really?

How long have you known Vyacheslav?

A couple of days.

A couple of days?

I see.

Then I think I have the right to warn you...

Because I've known him for a little bit longer.

It's not the time.

I hope you understand you.

He shouldn't have brought me here?

What would you do if I say yes?

Here's the thing...

What authority do you have?

I mean, what can you do for an inmate who's willing to cooperate?

Honestly?

Nothing.

But...

We can promise to help.

- Yes. - So you can promise that?

I think that'll be enough.

He's enthusiastic anyway.

There's this inmate, Nikolay Lopatkin.

Until last week, he was Kosyrev's cellmate.

He says he has something on Kosyrev.

Something went wrong between them.

So he wants to spoil the fun for him.

And get some benefits.

Can we meet him today?

- No, not today. - Then when? We're not staying.

I can try to arrange a meeting with him tomorrow.

We'll do it quietly.

When the boss is away.

He's not Kosyrev.

We need to find a hotel nearby.

We'll have to spend the night.

You may go look for a hotel...

And I need to find the woman who wrote letters to Kosyrev.

He might know something about the initiator.

So it turns out that it's not a copycat.

It depends on whose ritual it was.

- A recorder? - Yes, I recorded our conversation.