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Chaos. To deal with it...

You move further and further away from understanding the meaning of your life.

You're drawn into the absurd struggle for survival.

You don't live.

You survive.

TEACH ME HOW TO LIVE

EPISODE 8

She's in the Aurora Hotel at Lesnaya Street.

You're going to her, aren't you?

Okay, do as you see fit.

10 DAYS EARLIER

Rita!

Rita!

Rita!

There you are.

What, did Sergeev call again?

Nothing is working out.

It's okay.

Someday we'll find him, I'm sure.

I won't call you too much.

How was your trip?

Okay.

Is this the report?

Did something happen?

Nothing happened.

- You didn't meet Kosyrev, did you? - We did.

- Then what didn't happen? - Everything happened, Tolya. Get lost.

When will you learn to make reports?

- So you don't like my reports? - No, I don't.

- Did you check the witnesses? - No.

I didn't have time.

We were at Lavrov's all day today.

Someone broke into his apartment. And I can't be everywhere at once.

Who was it?

You know, I'll describe it in detail in my report.

Tolya!

Katya! Open the door, please.

Please open the door.

I get it. I totally get it.

You couldn't... You can never...

You can never count on me.

I do everything wrong, and I'll probably never get it right, but...

You must tell me. Tell me.

You must forgive me.

Okay, not forgive, but at least tell me... Talk to me.

Tell me it's my fault. Tell me it's all my fault.

- Okay, I'll stay, and we'll talk. - Stop it! - Not for us to be together!

I'm not going to stop you.

I don't want to persuade you.

It's just for us to...

To finally start living, you know.

For you. For me.

Katya...

Listen...

Someone tried to break into your apartment yesterday.

So there's no point for you to go back there yet.

I think you should stay the night here, and tomorrow I'll take Katya to a safer place.

I don't want you to stay here.

I don't suppose you remember me.

My name is Nikushin.

I attended your lectures in 2008 and was very interested.

Hello, Lara! This is Lavrov.

Hello, Ilya Nikolayevich! I'm so glad you called.

Lara, when I called you last time...

You told me that someone from the police came to you for a consultation.

- Yes. - Do you remember who it was?

Did he leave his name?

He left his card. Wait a second.

He was very nervous and insisted on seeing you.

So? Have you found it?

I'm still looking, Ilya Nikolayevich.

I told him it was unlikely that you would meet him or help the police.

Wait. What did you tell him?

I didn't tell him the details, just hinted on it.

Here, I found it. Nikushin Vyacheslav Yuryevich.

Okay.

Thank you, Lara.

Come in, girl.

Come in.

Don't get up.

I'm not made of glass.

I won't break in pieces.

These IVs...

You think they treat me?

They just tie me down.

So that I don't run away.

So tell me about Kosyrev.

There's nothing to tell. But thank you anyway.

Come on, tell me. I don't work for nothing.

It seems that in 1979, Kosyrev had an accomplice who incited him to murder.

An accomplice?

How do you know?

Kosyrev knows who's the killer.

Most likely, it's a man from his past.

Lavrov, our consultant, thinks so.

And he has dealt with people like Kosyrev before.

A consultant, that's serious.

Although they're hard to understand. I would divide them in half.

Although there are good guys among them.

The one who did Kosyrev's evaluation.

He was pretending to be insane.

And that psychiatrist said, "No, he's fine."

He thought it through, planned everything, hid the evidence, and all that.

Because of that evaluation, Kosyrev got the maximum sentence.

And who was that psychiatrist?

I don't remember his name.

He was appointed by court when I was already retired.

And as for the accomplice...

No, he didn't have one. I would've known if he did.

Kosyrev has been receiving letters from a woman named Anna.

And he tried to destroy them.

I know that you've been looking forward to our meeting.

We'll meet soon.

When I pass by the park...

I always think of you.

I'll go to that park soon.

This letter is definitely not from Zinaida. So it's from Anna.

But it doesn't make any sense.

Lavrov!

Lavrov!

I don't understand why hide it, let alone eat it.

Or am I missing something?

He's not of the sentimental kind, if that's what you're asking.

So it has to make sense.

But where's this sense?

Listen. On my birthday...

On my birthday, I'll give you a present.

Am I paranoid, or does it really sound threatening?

I checked the dates, by the way.

Sinyaev, who used to be Kosyrev's cellmate before he was released on parole...

Said that after Kosyrev received another letter from Anna, he changed.

What do you mean changed?

He said that he got a different look in his eyes.

That it was the first time he thought he was capable of killing.

And you think it was the letter that affected Kosyrev's behavior?

All I think is that we need to find this Anna.

And he tried to destroy it?

To eat it.

Who do you think this Anna might be?

Anna...

I don't know.

His mother's name was Anna.

She died and was buried at Ilchevsk cemetery.

Kosyrev visited her grave several times.

I followed him.

What?

You think there was no Anna?

Yes, I do.

He doesn't care about your justice!

You wanted justice.

And you deserved it.

But look what he's doing now. He's spoiling everything.

You think he's doing everything right?

You don't believe me? Do you want to see the forensic report?

He doesn't care about your justice!

He wants something else. He's not punishing them. He's getting off!

And remember what I told you about you wanting to kill your mother?

WHO ARE YOU?

TO: ANNA. ILCHEVSK, P.O.B. 16274

Rita, this is Lavrov. I need to see you.

Okay. I'll be at the station in half an hour.

And what am I supposed to see there?

Sit down.

Injection marks.

The first and the second victims.

And now I know what they were injected with.

A muscle relaxant. Remember that their throats were damaged?

I thought it looked like amateur intubation.

As if an unskilled person inserted a tube down their throats.

- Guess what, it really was intubation! - They were intubated? - Of course.

When he gave them the drug, their respiratory muscles relaxed.

The victim couldn't breathe, and he started to push a tube down her throat.

It was important for him that the victim was conscious.

So they felt everything but couldn't move?

Exactly.

- And they couldn't say anything either? - Yes.

And where can one buy this muscle relaxant?

You can't buy it that simply. It's in the list of surgery medications.

- So he's a doctor? - Could be.

But not necessarily a surgeon. He could be, for example, a veterinarian.

They use these drugs too.

Or he could buy it online.

And so on.

He's in compulsory psychiatric care.

He was a veterinary paramedic.

And he didn't kill anyone.

A veterinarian?

Who's Nikushin and what do you know about him?

Are you out of your mind?

These are not even indirect evidence. These are just your crazy speculations.

Look at the facts. He came to town shortly before the first murder.

He has access to all information.

And he's too interested in our case. You said that yourself.

Tell me, is this normal behaviour for the head of the investigation department?

- No, but... - But this is normal behavior for a killer.

The maniac desire to be aware of everything that's going on.

Haven't you seen cases where investigators "solved" crimes in which they participated?

I'm sorry, but you have seen one.

You made a mistake back then. But it can be the same thing now.

This isn't about me.

Nikushin doesn't fit.

He exposed himself when he was seeking permission for us to see Kosyrev.

So what? Couldn't he do it quietly, like Puchkov?

Nikushin holds such a position and hasn't got any connections?

Do you believe it?

So you want to say that Nikushin is deliberately making all this fuss...

To make it seem like we're dealing with multiple players?

Really? This is just...

- A crazy plan? - This is ridiculous!

The murders are connected to the hospital, and he thought about me right away.

- You think he's an idiot? - Or he treats others like idiots.

And there's something I haven't told you.

Nikushin lied. He knows what happened to Katya.

Six months ago he tried to contact me.

But I didn't pay any attention to it then.

And what does it mean?

At least it can give you food for thought.

Last night, someone tried to break into your wife's apartment.

Let's say it was our killer.

At that time, Nikushin was looking for her all over the town.

Sure. Katya runs away, and Nikushin is looking for her.

Where could she go? His first thought is that she's at home.

So he goes there. But she's not there.

Why did your wife run away in the first place?

I don't know.

Have you talked to her? Where's she now?

She's in a hotel with Nikushin.

As long as I know where he is, Katya is safe.

And here's the question.

Do you really think that Nikushin is guilty?

Or do you want him to be guilty?

Rita, and what do you want?

- Do you want me to be jealous of my wife? - I want you to think with your head!

- Mom! - Yes.

I'm back.

Okay.

I saw this on TV today.

They said that if a food product doesn't have this mark...

You need to get rid of this product immediately.

So join me and help me.

I was going to take a shower, Mom.

Okay.

You never have time for me.

You leave early and come back late.

I don't even know why you came here.

I'm doing perfectly fine without you.

Look, there's no mark here.

Then throw it away. Get rid of it immediately.

Are you sure?

Tolya brought me groceries yesterday.

I think you underestimate him.

You always pick the wrong men.

Mom, I don't pick anyone!

If you don't tell me anything, it doesn't mean that I don't see it.

Hello, Vadim Alekseyevich! Yes, this is Lavrov.

You offered me your help the other day.

What kind of help can I get from you?

- Yes. - We have another murder.

Is it connected to the series?

We don't know yet.

Yana! Yana!

You can't go there!

Don't let anyone in. Tolya, go deal with it.

- Let me go! I need to see her! - Easy. I'll handle it.

Maybe it's not her!

You can't go there! You'll step on the footprints!

I didn't touch anything after I saw her.

Just tied a cloth to the tree to make the place easier to find.

That's great. Just don't step all over the place.

Do you need help?

Get out of here!

Her husband should identify her. Maybe it's not her.

- Do you know her husband? - Her husband? No.

He wrote on our forum, asking to help him. And here we are.

We'll need your statement.

And you don't leave either!

I came when they had already found her.

It was too late. I didn't see anything.

Wait behind the tape please.

- So? - It doesn't look like our case.

Asphyxia.

Call Semyonov. Tell him to take it over. It's definitely not our case.

Hold on, don't rush it. Come take a look at this first.

Was this information in the media?

About the newspaper.

- What's with her eyes? - It's just soil.

He covered her eyelids with it.

Okay, what do we have here?

Wounds.

But it looks like...

Yes, these are postmortem wounds.

Rita...

If I'm not mistaken, this is a rape and murder case.

Whether she was raped postmortem or not, I'll find out later.

Lavrov said that the next victim would be raped.

Is it our case then?

I was hoping...

Until the last moment... That I wouldn't recognize her.

And I didn't... I mean...

I mean, at first. I thought it wasn't her.

But that's her.

When was the last time you talked to your wife?

At 6.30 p.m. She was leaving her office and called me.

But I had to stay in the office for a while.

For work?

No.

I see. I'll need to contact the person who can confirm your whereabouts.

It's a formality.

And when did you know she was missing?

I called her at 8 p.m. to tell her I was going home.

But she didn't answer.

I was calling her until I came home.

But she wasn't there.

Then I called you. I mean, the police.

They told me that I need to wait.

That she could have gone to visit someone.

But I didn't wait.

It was late.

Did she always walk home through the woods?

No. Never.

- Hello! - Hello! - There's a man with a camera over there.

He's filming. Is it allowed?

Thank you. I'll deal with it.

- Excuse me, wait a second! - Channel 7.

- I don't care. - I'm from Channel 7.

- Give me your camera. - You can't take away my camera.

I was just performing my professional duties.

You won't believe it, but that's what I'm doing too.

To be honest, I don't need your camera.

I just need the memory card, see?

I have a permit.

I'll make a call, and you'll see.

Are you threatening me?

What's going on here?

Channel 7 in the flesh. Here.

You don't have a permission.

How did you know what happened here?

Do you know how to use the internet?

- Me too. - You think you're so smart?

I'll give it back to you after I study what's on it.

I need to make a call.

Go ahead.

Tolya!

- Take him to the station, will you? - Okay.

Wait a minute!

Tell me, do you happen to know Ilya Nikolayevich Lavrov, a psychiatrist?

And have your wife ever visited a mental health hospital?

Yana was perfectly healthy.

She never saw a psychiatrist or went to therapy.

It's not her fault.

I'm not blaming her of anything. Do you happen to have a picture of her?

I've been giving them out to volunteers.

Thanks.

You went to my Mom's?

Thank you.

Oh, come on! I'm sorry about yesterday.

Okay, okay, forget it.

- Did you let him go? - Who?

- Yes. I was told to let him go. - Who told you that?

- Nikushin. He said he gave his permission. - Damn it!

Oh, not that again.

So you called Nikushin?

Did he give you the information about the first murder too?

It was your channel that covered it in detail.

Why are you so interested in these murders?

I was you who interviewed Gavrishin.

Gavrishin and I went to school together.

By the way, if you start suspecting me too...

I have cameras at the entrance to my house.

So my alibi is in order.

Why is Nikushin helping you?

Don't ask me.

It's Lavrov.

Hello, Ilya Nikolayevich!

I just wanted to ask you, is Katya with you?

In the hotel?

Is that your friends' house you told me about?

Okay.

Thank you.

It'll be taking you a lot of time to get here.

It's okay.

I'm just...

I don't want you to disappear again.

Yes.

You got the information?

Yes, Vadim Alekseyevich, I'll be right over.

- Hi! Is Nikushin here? - No. And I don't know where he is.

With the last boss, I always knew where he was, even if he went to the bathroom.

And with this one, nothing at all.

It's a mystery.

Don't tell me that you haven't checked him out through your channels.

Yes, I have, and I'm guilty.

I told you he's right for you, but no, he's not.

- What do you mean? - I mean he's not your type.

What did you learn?

I didn't want to tell anyone. I don't like gossip. But I'll tell you.

They say he was married.

And something happened to his wife.

Maybe she even got killed.

And he was treated after that. Get it?

It's not 100% accurate, but it makes one think how to act when he's around.

Right?

I see.

Tell me when he comes back.

Okay.

Hello! Anything on the new murder?

I'm gathering information.

Is it one of the series or should I give it to another investigator?

No, don't give it to anyone. I'm waiting for the forensics report.

Our officers are interviewing the locals.

Does Lavrov know?

- I'm heading to him now. - Okay.

A journalist from Channel 7 was at the crime scene today.

- Yes. - Belyashevich. Do you know him?

He interviewed me.

Just that?

I got the impression that he knows you well.

He just pretends that he does.

Yeah.

Tolya! I need you.

Nikushin?

Just find out where he lives and check the cameras near his house.

And do it quietly.

Well, I figured it out that Nikushin isn't supposed to know that he's a suspect.

Ilya Nikolayevich, why didn't you come alone?

- I'm alone. - Then you're being followed.

At the table in the corner behind the pillar.

Hello! You're an investigator, am I right?

- Do I know you? - No.

Investigator Storozheva.

Does this concern her too, Ilya Nikolayevich?

What? Is this about Nikushin?

Trusting your instincts isn't always enough.

Sometimes, you need facts.

Ilya Nikolayevich knows that I like to check everything thoroughly.

Not to trust someone I shouldn't.

Ilya Nikolayevich went through this check himself.

Are you a patient of Ilya Nikolayevich?

We're all patients. Some sooner, some later.

Healthy paranoia can be really useful if you don't let it go too far, right?

Right. So what do you have?

Nikushin Vyacheslav Yuryevich.

His record and personal details.

But you told me you found something interesting?

I did.

Last year on April 12, there was an accident between a car and a truck.

Niskushin's wife and daughter were in the car.

No one survived.

And here's an important detail. Page 5.

He was sent to compulsory therapy.

But that doesn't make him a killer.

Of course not.

But a confession of his guilt does.

- What guilt? - In the killing of his family.

What?

Here's a report that classifies their death as an accident.

And a week later, Nikushin's confession that he had staged the crash.

And here's an order to discontinue the case due to lack of corpus delicti.

Compulsory therapy.

And a statement by Leonid Stanislavovich Govorov vouching for Nikushin...

Because he no longer poses a threat to himself or others.

Who's Leonid Stanislavovich Govorov?

A key person in the local administration.

And concurrently the father of Nikushin's late wife.

So you want to say that Nikushin's father-in-law...

Having learned that Nikushin killed his wife and child, vouched for him?

And they got away with it?

Who are you? How do you know all this?

And you said you're an investigator...

Is this Nikushin's address?

The house where he lived with his family?

The safe place where Nikushin took Katya is Nikushin's own house.

He never said that.

Okay. And what does it mean?

It means he's personally interested in the case.

And doesn't want anyone else to know that.

But if anything happened, we would know that it's Nikushin's house.

I never said that he's going to do something in that house.

But the house definitely means something to him.

I'm starting to think that I've been following his plan this whole time.

- Hello! - You've already said hello on the phone.

Your investigator kept asking about whether it's you who gives us information.

- Storozheva. - Yes.

You should've been more careful.

It wasn't part of our deal that you would come to every crime scene.

Next time, you're on your own.

Will there be a next time?

I came for information.

Stick to Kosyrev, like we agreed, okay?

Mouth!

Hands!

Move!

Face the wall!

Move.

Stop.

Come in and sit down.

There's a call button on the wall.

I'll be outside.

- Who are you? - You called.

I'm Sergey Petrovich Levshin's assistant.

I don't know you. I won't tell you anything.

You won't have to.

- What's this? - You may talk. He can see you.

Hello, Grigory Matveyevich!

Have you already met my assistant?

I'm sorry I couldn't come.

My assistant will stay in town.

He'll be able to visit you every day.

I'm sure that a woman came to my cell.

An investigator.

I think her name is Storozheva.

She was here yesterday with a man named Lavrov.

He talked to me.

I don't know who he is.

I didn't tell him anything.

And that woman was in my cell today.

Did you see her?

No. But I know she was there.

But why?

You can speak freely in front of my assistant.

You can tell him that...

She might have found the letter.

And Lavrov said that the murders are different.

Tell him that.

Or better tell him that we need to talk.

Tell him?

Grigory Matveyevich!

Let me explain.

I can't tell anything to anyone.

I was contacted on the condition of full anonymity.

There's no two-way communication.

So you'll have to tell me what's in that letter and what Lavrov said to you.

And you still think I'm crazy?

There's a lot we need to ask Nikushin.

But what about our theory about the initiator?

What does it have to do with you?

And what is Nikushin's plan?

Look, I don't have time to even think about it because Katya is in his house now.

Now?

Yes, I just came from there.

Yes, I followed them.

Haw long have you been following them?

From last night to this morning.

Don't look at me meaningfully.

I'm not looking meaningfully, I'm just looking.

It looks like Nikushin has an alibi.

An alibi?

You're his alibi, Lavrov.

There was another murder yesterday.

From 8 to 9 p.m.

Who's the victim?

Yana Murygina.

Do you know her?

No, I don't.

Yes, this murder is very different from the others, but anyway...

She was found in the forest near Zhukovskogo Street.

10 stab wounds, all of them postmortem.

The cause of death is asphyxiation.

So this is a spontaneous unplanned murder? Rita, no!

Don't you see? It's a different signature. This isn't our case.

She had a piece of newspaper in her mouth. Her eyes were covered with soil, not ink.

And she was raped. And you said that the next victim could be raped.

No! Stranglers are a different type of killers. This isn't our case!

There was nothing in the media about the newspaper.

I need to get Katya!

Will you help me?

Well, Grigory Matveyevich...

I guess that will be the end of our meeting.

You'll sign the papers.

And we'll enter into the final stretch, so to say.

Goodbye!

This is a challenging time.

Another woman was killed.

I know it sounds terrible, but that's good for us.

Was she...

Was anything else done to her?

You mean sexual violence?

I think so. Sign the papers.

Maybe it has nothing to do with your case.

But we need publicity.

I need to write a letter. Do you have paper?

Unfortunately, I've got to go.

Maybe next time.

We're done.

Listen...

Don't send anything now.

- Step away from the prisoner. - Okay, okay.

Do you understand me?

No way.

Don't tell me what not to do.

- Stop! - It's all right!

It's all right! I'm fine! Let him go.

Let him go.