1 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:04,960 Do you hear me? 2 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:07,880 Do you hear me? 3 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:19,600 How did you get here? 4 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,120 -I need to go home. -I'll take you. 5 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:25,440 I am totally fine. 6 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,200 Produced by Pronto Film 7 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:20,360 Idea by Artyom Litvinenko 8 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:23,600 Kirill Kyaro 9 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,040 Ivan Oganesyan 10 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:28,200 Nina Gogayeva, Marina Anikanova 11 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,680 Agne Grudite, Nikolay Chindyaykin 12 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,520 Make-up by Ludmilla Semashko 13 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,720 Wardrobe by Elena Rukavishnikova 14 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,360 Sound by Sergei Stepansku 15 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,440 Music by Nikita Moiseev 16 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,120 Casting by Alla Samoylenko 17 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,440 Artwork by Petr Vyzhikovski 18 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:49,920 Cinematography by Vladimir Zapriagalov 19 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,280 Director of Photography Graham R. Frake 20 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,480 Line Producer Sergey Lysyaniy, Tatyana Ditkovskaya 21 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:58,640 Producer Viktor Mirski 22 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:01,840 Screenplay by Artem Litvinenko Andrey Babik 23 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,160 Directed by Artem Litvinenko 24 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,040 THE SNIFFER 25 00:02:56,720 --> 00:02:59,280 And still, what were you doing in the port? 26 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:02,400 I've got an exacerbation of allergic rhinitis, 27 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:06,080 and the doctor advised me to breathe river air. 28 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,320 That is, you were just walking around. 29 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:12,320 -Yes. -What about the convulsions? 30 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,480 An allergic reaction. 31 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:17,600 To ragweed pollen. 32 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:19,840 Clear. 33 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:23,120 What's with the finger? Have you cut yourself? 34 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:26,240 It's nothing serious. 35 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:33,360 Bless you! 36 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:34,800 Thank you. 37 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:38,840 This allergy, damn it. 38 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:20,600 Well, I have to go. 39 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:22,960 Already? 40 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,280 -I've got things to do. -Too bad. 41 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,200 -Hope you'll get better. -Thank you. 42 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,880 You're welcome. Bye! 43 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:34,520 See you! 44 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,040 -Get well soon! -Thanks. 45 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:14,120 The law enforcement refrains from commenting for now, 46 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:17,160 but the criminal's pattern is much too familiar. 47 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,080 Five years ago, 48 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,760 our city was shaken up by terrible murders. 49 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:24,840 It seems like the grim maniac 50 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,640 known as Professor is back. 51 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,600 The shocked passers-by don't want to leave, 52 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,720 they are waiting for explanations from the law enforcement. 53 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,440 How's your rhinitis? Won't it disturb the investigation? 54 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:37,920 Everything is fine. 55 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,960 -Will you mind if I work a bit? -Not at all. 56 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:17,920 Well? 57 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,760 The victim was killed two days ago, and not here. 58 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,240 First she was put to sleep with chloroform and then strangled. 59 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:27,760 They brought her here in a van. 60 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:29,200 Which brand? 61 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:31,120 Just kidding. 62 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:32,640 How did you find out that it was a van? 63 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:34,080 Hydro-silicic acid. 64 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,280 Class C automobile tires, produced in Europe. 65 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,320 They don't put those on regular cars. 66 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:41,960 -Produced in Europe? -As a rule, 67 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:46,480 they use technical carbon obtained by burning natural gas. 68 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,400 But European producers, to save their costs, 69 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:52,640 replaced technical carbon with hydro-silicic acid. 70 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:54,360 Now to the killer. 71 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:58,040 He wore a protective suit and did not leave any smells. 72 00:06:58,680 --> 00:06:59,920 One more detail. 73 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,640 The victim's clothes were dry-cleaned not long before her death. 74 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:04,920 That's all. 75 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:10,160 Being a sniffer, what can you say? Have you managed to smell anything out? 76 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,160 Three years ago, six identical murders were committed. 77 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,360 In each case, the victim was a woman 78 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:08,720 who had been strangled and tied to the chair. 79 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:10,400 The murderer planted the chair 80 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,400 with the victim in busy places of the city. 81 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:13,760 He also applied 82 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,240 make-up on their faces used in a children's TV program 83 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,400 "Professor Positron's Academy". 84 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:21,160 It was on air in the 80s. 85 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:24,560 I remember it. Professor Positron and the Prism. 86 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:28,240 The first victim of the maniac was Yelena Orlovskaya, 87 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,560 the actress who had played Prism. 88 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:33,679 Orlovskaya's body was found by the backstage crew 89 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,559 in the theatre she had worked in. 90 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,520 The press immediately named the killer Professor. 91 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:42,120 What's with the actor who played Professor Positron? 92 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:45,440 He died eight years ago from a heart attack. 93 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:49,800 Also tied to the chair here. 94 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,880 According to the program's plot, Prism was disobedient 95 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:55,880 and misbehaved all the time, so Professor Positron 96 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:57,480 often punished her. 97 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:59,720 Once, he tied her to a chair. 98 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,320 Experts who were creating a psychological profile of the killer 99 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:07,040 believed that he was reproducing this scene. 100 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,080 Most probably, he was five or six 101 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:10,840 at the time the program was aired, 102 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:12,920 and the episode with punishment 103 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,000 became a traumatizing experience for him, with further fixation. 104 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:20,760 This means that now, the killer is about 40 years old. 105 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:24,960 The last murder, the sixth one, is the most remarkable. 106 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,760 A certain Lyudmila Mikheyeva was killed in her own apartment. 107 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:31,280 But the killer did not manage to finish applying make-up. 108 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:34,880 Mikheyeva's daughter, Polina, suddenly came back home. 109 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:36,360 She started shouting, 110 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,440 the killer attacked her and tried to strangle her, 111 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:41,920 Polina jumped from the fifth floor window 112 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,400 trying to save herself and the killer fled. 113 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:47,840 -And she died. -Strangely enough, no. 114 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,960 She was delivered to the emergency room with spinal fracture 115 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:53,280 and then disappeared in three days. 116 00:09:53,920 --> 00:09:56,760 -What do you mean, disappeared? -She was kidnapped. 117 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:58,640 And the murders stopped immediately. 118 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:03,440 It's strange that the killer stopped killing then 119 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,360 and started now. 120 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:12,000 We need to find out what happened to this... 121 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:14,760 Polina Mikheyeva. 122 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:48,120 I don't know this. 123 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:49,480 They found the video at his place. 124 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:51,840 I have to kill him. 125 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:04,320 I've come about that fingerprint on the table's surface. 126 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:05,600 I digitized it. 127 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,400 -Any matches? -Not in our database. 128 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,280 Please compare it with these fingerprints. 129 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,240 Who do they belong to? 130 00:11:16,600 --> 00:11:18,680 It's not important for now. 131 00:11:52,880 --> 00:11:55,120 This looks like a quiet and cozy city park. 132 00:11:55,280 --> 00:12:00,040 Nobody could imagine that another terrible murder... 133 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,560 would be committed here. 134 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:04,600 Let's do it once more, I've made an unnecessary pause. 135 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:05,840 Can we start? 136 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,320 This looks like a quiet and cozy city park. 137 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,080 Nobody could imagine... 138 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:24,600 Not more than half an hour has passed, 139 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,240 and our law enforcement is already here. 140 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,600 And I hope that now, we'll receive exhaustive answers to all questions. 141 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:36,200 Tell me, how long will the maniac keep killing innocent people? 142 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,560 Please, move away from the barrier. 143 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,600 Well, chasing the journalists 144 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:53,880 away from the barrier is for now the only thing 145 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,720 our law enforcement is capable of. 146 00:12:58,120 --> 00:12:59,640 Film it. Film it. 147 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,960 She was killed at night, in a room with tiled floor. 148 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,720 She was brought here in a van. 149 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:55,840 Before death, her clothes were dry-cleaned in the same facilities 150 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,280 as the clothes of the previous victim. 151 00:13:58,120 --> 00:13:59,760 So we have to look for the drycleaner. 152 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:02,960 -Plus the smell of benzyl benzoate. -What's that? 153 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,040 A medicine to remove lice and itch mites. 154 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,080 Used for sanitizing skin and hair. 155 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:13,960 Clothes from drycleaner's. 156 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:15,600 Sanitization. 157 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,280 The first victim still hasn't been identified. 158 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,360 Maybe all victims are linked to the same social protection center? 159 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:24,480 -There's one more thing. -What? 160 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:25,480 The killer's smell. 161 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:28,320 Weak and indistinct, but it is there. 162 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,360 A man, 35 to 40 years old. He dyes his hair. 163 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:32,640 That's all from me, I'll get going. 164 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:53,880 Here he is! The killer! 165 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,040 Where were you between 9 AM and 5 PM? 166 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:05,520 At work, in the cutting room. 167 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,040 I was working on a crime news program. 168 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:09,640 Can anybody confirm that? 169 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:11,520 The guard. 170 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:14,360 Did you have any contact with the body? 171 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:16,480 No. 172 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:19,520 I've got somewhat different information. 173 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,720 You know, I... 174 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:29,960 I am a professional journalist, 175 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:35,480 I've worked for 15 years, you have seen my programs for sure. 176 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:41,480 And it's for the first time in my career that I had this... 177 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:45,360 absurd and annoying incident. 178 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,480 When I was filming a lead to the report... 179 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,400 One more terrible murder in cold blood. 180 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,760 It might seem like your ordinary park in the morning, and nothing... 181 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:58,520 I stumbled and... 182 00:15:58,680 --> 00:15:59,680 Did you film that? 183 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:01,480 ... and I fell on... 184 00:16:02,840 --> 00:16:04,600 on the body. 185 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:07,200 Terribly unprofessional. 186 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:10,120 Who can confirm that? 187 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:13,440 The camera technician. 188 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,200 He's got the video. 189 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:20,640 But I'm asking you not to show it to anybody. 190 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,800 If somebody finds out about it... that would be the end of my career. 191 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:29,680 Unfortunately, 192 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:34,240 the rehabilitation of patients with grave psychological traumas 193 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,880 is often an unpredictable process, 194 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,720 and it is hard to understand what's happening 195 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:40,680 with the patient's mind. 196 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,000 This means she won't recover soon. 197 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,280 Hardly in the nearest future. 198 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:51,760 Poor girl. 199 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,160 Please give these magazines to her. 200 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:06,480 If she is able to read them, of course. 201 00:17:08,960 --> 00:17:10,720 They arrive here. 202 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:12,920 They leave their clothes for disinfection here, 203 00:17:13,079 --> 00:17:15,160 then they take a shower, undergo sanitation, 204 00:17:15,319 --> 00:17:17,880 and receive clean clothes at the exit. 205 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,680 If their clothes are much too worn out, we give them new clothing. 206 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:24,079 Where do these people spend the night? 207 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,880 Actually, it's forbidden to spend the night here. 208 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,840 But there are people who simply have nowhere to go. 209 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,440 And we let them stay here. 210 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,360 Did both victims spend the night at your place? 211 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:36,760 No, only Katya. 212 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:39,240 And Vera is not homeless, she's just lonely. 213 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:41,600 She came here and helped us. 214 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,320 Very kind and good-spirited. 215 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,640 -Are there any guards on night duty? -What do they have to guard here? 216 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:52,560 They need to be here. 217 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:53,840 Okay. 218 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:57,400 Wait a minute! 219 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,280 You're Tatyana Voskresenskaya's friend, right? 220 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,920 -Yes, what's the matter? -Let's move aside. 221 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,400 I don't want us to be seen together. 222 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,040 I really ask you to. 223 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:12,920 That's absurd. 224 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:17,120 Your friend was taking pills and feeling sick. 225 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:19,520 When she stopped taking them, she got better. 226 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:23,160 But the head doctor found it out and is now giving her forced injections. 227 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,200 Her condition is grave. She needs to be taken away from here. 228 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:29,440 Here are these pills. Save your friend. 229 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:31,160 She's in danger. 230 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:40,640 That's absurd. 231 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:42,160 Investigator! 232 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:43,520 Investigator! 233 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:48,880 You were here about Katya's and Vera's murders, right? 234 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:50,680 Well? 235 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:52,880 I don't know, maybe I'm making things up, 236 00:18:53,040 --> 00:18:58,040 but on the day when Katya went missing, there was a van driving around here. 237 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:10,000 What kind of van? 238 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:12,960 I couldn't see the brand and the color. It was dark. 239 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:14,760 I wanted to come closer and look, 240 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,720 but it speeded right from that spot and disappeared. 241 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:19,120 Do you remember the license plate number? 242 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:20,120 No. 243 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,320 But it had C class tires. 244 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,720 So you didn't see either the license plate number 245 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:31,040 or the brand but made out the tires? 246 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,040 I didn't. I've got poor vision. 247 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:37,000 But very good hearing. 248 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,280 When I worked as a car mechanic, 249 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,280 I determined any breakdown by sound. 250 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,000 In your car, for example... 251 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:47,960 the hydraulic lifters are clattering. 252 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,640 -Maybe you could repair them, then? -No. 253 00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:56,680 Here. Ulnar nerve palsy. 254 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,440 Occupational injury. 255 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:14,960 Damn it! 256 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,320 Yes, I remember this girl very well. 257 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,960 Extremely grave spinal fracture, spinal cord injury. 258 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:24,520 If the car roof hadn't absorbed the shock, then... 259 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,840 Tell me about the day she was kidnapped. 260 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,880 We hadn't had things like that before, that's for sure. 261 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,760 The whole shift on duty passed out, imagine that. 262 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:42,320 They were obviously put to sleep. 263 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,440 But when they came to their senses, several hours afterwards, 264 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,960 the door to the ward was ajar and Mikheyeva was missing. 265 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,960 No bed, lung ventilation equipment stolen, 266 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:56,760 X-rays and clinical record also disappeared. 267 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,760 As if there hadn't been such patient in our facility. 268 00:21:59,920 --> 00:22:03,200 I've read this in the report, you tell me something I don't know. 269 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,280 When we were X-raying her spinal cord, 270 00:22:11,440 --> 00:22:14,160 we found an external object in her stomach. 271 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,400 We conducted a gastroscopy and extracted it from there. 272 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:19,040 Turned out to be a finger. 273 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:24,160 -A finger? -A ring finger from a man's right hand. 274 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:26,040 She had obviously bitten it off 275 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,840 when she was struggling with the attacker. 276 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,280 Why didn't you tell the police about that? 277 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,960 Mikheyeva had acute renal failure, 278 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:35,240 we were fighting for her life all night long 279 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,640 and hardly managed to bring her back. Everyone simply forgot about the finger. 280 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,760 Then, when the girl was kidnapped, the finger also disappeared. 281 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,320 But it was already too late to report. 282 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,280 It looked like negligence on our part. 283 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,760 1:15 PM. 284 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,560 Mikheyeva was kidnapped together with lung ventilation equipment. 285 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,320 This means they weren't going to kill her. 286 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,000 She needed surgery, so she was probably transferred 287 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,560 to another traumatology department. 288 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:06,920 Possibly under a false name. 289 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,960 Mikheyeva's kidnapping was organized very well. 290 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:16,400 She knows something, so she's a very valuable witness. 291 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,320 -We have to find her. -Got it. 292 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,200 What's with the journalist's alibi? 293 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:25,760 On the nights of the murders, he was in the cutting room 294 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:26,840 of the broadcasting center. 295 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,480 This is confirmed by the guards at the desk. 296 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,560 And all of his fingers are intact. 297 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,520 We have to let the journalist go. 298 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaking. 299 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:38,720 The fingerprints match. 300 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:40,080 Are you sure? 301 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:42,720 It's a 100 % match. 302 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,280 She came back to her office 303 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,680 and found that something weird was happening. 304 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:22,960 Some flasks were mixed up, and the others were missing. 305 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:24,200 So what? 306 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,000 Someone must have infiltrated her office. 307 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:30,600 Why do you think so? 308 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,720 She might have mixed it all up herself. 309 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:37,760 The most suspicious thing is that the blood sample of Barkov 310 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:40,040 who had shot himself was gone. 311 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,040 What's in it for me? 312 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,960 Or do you think I did that? 313 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,040 How could you even think that about me? 314 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:54,960 We've known each other for so many years. 315 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,160 Then why have you come? 316 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,160 Irina says 317 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:08,600 that you studied this Barkov's blood sample that's gone now. 318 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,120 Was there anything unusual there? 319 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,200 There was only hy-po-cla-min. 320 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,800 A medicine used to treat hypertension. 321 00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:20,480 Nothing else. 322 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:23,320 I got it. 323 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,080 Is that all from you? 324 00:26:27,120 --> 00:26:31,480 Then, with your permission, I'll go to bed. 325 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:18,000 I'll go make a round. Will you stay here? 326 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:44,720 Good night. 327 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,120 Good night, Yelena. 328 00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,120 Lena! 329 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:22,800 Lena! 330 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:25,280 Lena! 331 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,200 A new day brings a new murder. 332 00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,360 Now no one can feel safe. 333 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:05,000 Professor might be looking for his new victim at this very moment. 334 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,600 Who'll become this victim? You, you... 335 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:10,960 Or maybe me? 336 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,160 We shouldn't have let him go. 337 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,520 Well? 338 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:36,360 I can't say anything about the killer but I know where the murder took place. 339 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:38,160 In a room with tiled floor? 340 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,560 Yes. In a boiler house working on peat. 341 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,360 -Why a boiler house? -There is a smell of peat. 342 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:50,320 And of nylon slate added to fuel bricks. 343 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:52,880 It was a boiler house. 344 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:54,720 But this smell hadn't been there before. 345 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:55,720 No, it hadn't. 346 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,880 And now it's become colder, and the heating season has started. 347 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,560 Look for a boiler house working on peat. 348 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:08,400 And don't forget to put it under surveillance. 349 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,360 -Maksim! -Yes. 350 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,720 Organize 24-hour surveillance over the social protection center 351 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,040 and start checking boiler houses. 352 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,240 We are interested in the ones working on peat. 353 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:25,280 Got it. 354 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,720 He used to kill only women. 355 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,280 Viagra for women? 356 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,560 None of your business, sweetheart. Go make us coffee. 357 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:23,960 Yes, it's her. 358 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,240 She was transferred to us from some district hospital. 359 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,560 Here's her clinical record. 360 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,000 Ivanova Polina Ivanovna. 361 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:36,640 Ivanova? 362 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,000 Not Mikheyeva? 363 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,280 Ivanova. 364 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,720 A very difficult case. 365 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,000 I operated her twice, but to no avail. 366 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,680 She remained paralyzed from the neck down. 367 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,480 She could chew and swallow, but the rest... 368 00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,000 But for her father... 369 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:00,560 Father? 370 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,760 Yes. He practically never left her. 371 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,400 He bandaged and fed her himself. 372 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:11,400 He nursed the girl, if I can say so. 373 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:13,880 Describe him, please. 374 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:21,080 Average height, 375 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,160 a regular-looking man. It was a long time ago. 376 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:27,160 Maybe some distinguishing feature in the way he spoke, or his gait? 377 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,000 No. Just your regular man. 378 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,280 -Goodbye. -Goodbye. 379 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,320 Did you see Ivanova after she had been discharged? 380 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,320 No. Her father took her away and that's all. 381 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,080 I'll take her clinical record with me, if you do not object. 382 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,320 Of course, you may. 383 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,920 And if you remember any details or something unusual, 384 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,280 please contact me. 385 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:51,600 Okay. 386 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:53,680 I'll see you off. 387 00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:58,680 Wait! 388 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,200 Wait, I... I remembered. 389 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:05,320 I remembered. 390 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:11,160 When Ivanova was in our hospital, we celebrated 391 00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,560 the 50th anniversary of our hospital. 392 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,760 I was preparing a photo album. 393 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,640 I was taking pictures of wards, patients with their parents, 394 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,080 all that. 395 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:28,480 So, once I was taking picture of our corridor, 396 00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,240 and Ivanova's father got in the picture. 397 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,760 He came up to me without saying a word, grabbed my camera, 398 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,720 took out the film and spoiled it. 399 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:41,960 I was shocked. 400 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:43,800 I couldn't even say a word, 401 00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:45,760 everything happened literally in a second. 402 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,640 Do you still have this album? 403 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,320 Unfortunately, we didn't make it. 404 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:53,520 We developed the films 405 00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,360 but didn't have enough money to print the photos. 406 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,640 -Do you still have the films? -Yes. 407 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,600 -I've got them at home somewhere. -I'll need them. 408 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,000 Is it you? What happened? 409 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,560 So if I came, it means that something happened? 410 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,080 Purge regime activated. 411 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:23,680 Delicious. 412 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,080 This variety is called Da Hong Pao. 413 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,880 There are only six bushes of this tea in the world. 414 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,360 And all of them grow by Chang Shing monastery in China. 415 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:36,640 You don't say so. 416 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:41,880 When we met, you drank the most ordinary tea. 417 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,800 Do you remember? 418 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,040 Time flies. 419 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,320 Sometimes, I even regret that we broke up. 420 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,880 -Well... why this reaction? -Sorry. 421 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:02,480 You don't seriously think that... No, it was a joke. 422 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:06,160 Actually, I came for a reason. I need your advice. 423 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,920 My friend has mental problems, 424 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,960 and she buys some medicine from her doctor. 425 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,000 Without a prescription, for cash. 426 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,080 And lately, she has started feeling worse. 427 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,560 So she wants to know what kind of medicine is that, 428 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:24,880 but she's too shy to ask her doctor. 429 00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:29,400 And you're a genius in these things. You know it all. 430 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:34,560 Well, maybe you could say what is this? 431 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,960 This is a familiar smell. 432 00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:44,800 Where did you get this package from? 433 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,400 I don't know what you are talking about. 434 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:21,720 Wow. 435 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:16,600 Phenyl ethylamine. 436 00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,280 A psychoactive substance causing altered mental states. 437 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,280 It provokes nervousness and hallucinations. 438 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,440 The doctor who gave this medicine to your friend is a criminal. 439 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,640 She needs to go to the police at once. 440 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:40,040 Yes. 441 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:41,800 Did you find it? 442 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:44,560 I'll be right there. 443 00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:46,680 We were checking yet another boiler house, 444 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,720 and the guard noticed that there was a new lock on one of the doors. 445 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,360 Well, we broke off the lock and found... 446 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,280 You'll see for yourself now. 447 00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:58,320 This way. 448 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:14,960 He killed his victims here. 449 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,400 He put them to sleep with chloroform and then strangled. 450 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:21,920 A protective suit. 451 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:27,840 That's why he didn't leave his smell on the victims. 452 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:29,400 He knew about me. 453 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:36,280 But now, I also know who he is. 454 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,240 He does the cutting work here. 455 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,000 CUTTING IN PROCESS, DO NOT DISTURB 456 00:39:58,720 --> 00:39:59,960 Well... 457 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:04,080 Not more than half an hour has passed, 458 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:07,520 and our law enforcement is already here. 459 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,520 Our law enforcement is already here. 460 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:11,640 It's a recording. 461 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,040 He escaped through the window. 462 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,720 This is how he was creating an alibi. 463 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,880 He would escape the cutting room through the window, 464 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,360 kill the victim and then come back. 465 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,520 This is how simply he outsmarted the investigation. 466 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:30,840 Or, to be more precise, one of our employees expecting a raise, 467 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,960 which I already doubt he'll receive. 468 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,960 Why does he kill people? He's not a maniac. 469 00:40:40,080 --> 00:40:41,640 He's Journalist of the Year. 470 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:47,640 He became a celebrity thanks to Professor. 471 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:49,840 And then it was all over. 472 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,360 Just two small articles. 473 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:54,400 He was forgotten, 474 00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:57,000 so he decided to remind about himself using such cruel methods. 475 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,120 I always hated these deceitful journos. 476 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,320 They are ready to do anything to get in the picture. 477 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,360 Then why did he touch the body during his report? 478 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:10,120 Probably his smell leaked through a tear in the protective suit, 479 00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:15,160 and to hide it, he staged this incident during filming. 480 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,360 And where do we look for him now? 481 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,080 I confess that I committed three murders, 482 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:26,240 two women and a man. 483 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,560 I wanted to become famous with the help of Professor, 484 00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:31,520 but I'm not him, just a despicable imitator. 485 00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:37,160 But they were just bums, nobody ever wanted them, just stinky bums! 486 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,440 Stop it. Stop it. 487 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,560 I behaved badly. 488 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,840 I behaved badly, I must be punished. 489 00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:11,880 The profession of criminal journalist is hard and perilous. 490 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,280 We are always in the avant-garde fighting against the crime. 491 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:15,280 Unfortunately, 492 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,480 sometimes, it is impossible not to become a victim. 493 00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,520 One of these victims is our talented and promising colleague 494 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,840 who has been killed by an insane maniac. 495 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:25,960 One more celebrity journalist. 496 00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:27,920 Not anymore. 497 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,480 Looks like the real Professor came back. 498 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,440 I can't say anything, it's cat's smell everywhere! 499 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:52,760 Start. 500 00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,760 During the repeated test of Barkov's blood, 501 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,600 I used the method of spectral analysis. 502 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:20,600 I managed to find an unknown substance. 503 00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,160 Its chemical composition is close to phencyclidine. 504 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,040 What is that? 505 00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,720 A preparation for intravenous anesthesia. 506 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,400 Synthesized in the US, in the 1950s. 507 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,400 But soon, it was recalled and prohibited for use. 508 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:36,760 Why? 509 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,560 Even in case of insignificant overdose, the preparation caused seizures, 510 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:44,040 psychomotor agitation, and muscle convulsions. 511 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,360 Now, it is synthesized only in surreptitious laboratories. 512 00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,640 Drug dealers call it the "angel dust". 513 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:53,240 Angel dust? 514 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:58,800 Why does all this shit always receive such poetic names? 515 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:32,560 Phencyclidine blocks D4 receptors of prefrontal cerebral cortex. 516 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:38,320 It causes a feeling of euphoria, hallucinations, confused mental state, 517 00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,200 alienation, and negativism. 518 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:42,600 A person can be subject to a suggestion 519 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,960 and given any information and orders. 520 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:50,760 Phencyclidine is considered the reason behind a series of strange suicides 521 00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,920 among party officials after the disintegration of the USSR. 522 00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,800 It is assumed that they received a suggestion 523 00:44:57,960 --> 00:44:59,440 to keep some kind of information to themselves. 524 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,000 They must have known something. 525 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:02,760 Yes. 526 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,520 They must have known something. 527 00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:44,040 I assumed that the substance found in Barkov's blood 528 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,520 is similar to phencyclidine in its operation. 529 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,400 I also checked the blood sample of Stepanov, 530 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,600 the mental hospital convoy. 531 00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,560 It also has traces of this substance. 532 00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:58,400 As I understand, they were injected this substance 533 00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,120 and programmed for killing. 534 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:02,040 Possibly. 535 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,800 What was the trigger? 536 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:07,800 The trigger for action? 537 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:09,840 Directly before the murder, 538 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,920 each of them received a call from a hidden number. 539 00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:18,560 The caller might have pronounced a code word, 540 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:21,000 which launched the action program. 541 00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:24,360 And we never found the caller. 542 00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:50,120 He arrived. 543 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:58,360 This is the father of Polina Mikheyeva, the last victim of Professor. 544 00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,640 He kidnapped his daughter from an emergency room 545 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:02,640 and finished her treatment in another hospital under a false name. 546 00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:04,200 After the completion of treatment, 547 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:05,960 he took off with her in an unknown direction. 548 00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:08,280 And this is Salamatin, 549 00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:11,160 commanding officer of unit 1354. 550 00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:14,920 -The same person. -Very interesting. 551 00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:17,800 Polina Mikheyeva's mother was not officially married, 552 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,280 so we have no new data about Salamatin. 553 00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:22,640 Riddles all around. 554 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:25,080 One more thing. 555 00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:30,360 We had the blood sample of guard Barkov stolen from our lab. 556 00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:34,560 Do you know who did it? 557 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:39,320 Yes. 558 00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:58,480 So it's you. 559 00:48:00,720 --> 00:48:03,280 I waited for you to find everything out. 560 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:06,280 We have to talk. 561 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:08,040 I have nothing to discuss with you. 562 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:15,840 You'd better go with me. 563 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:46,240 Damn, he passed out! Faster!