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In 1956, the Space Race was in full swing.

The Soviet Union built a launch base

in a steppe region with extreme weather conditions.

For almost thirty years,

all manned spaceflights to the ISS were launched from Baikonur.

Today, that supremacy is a thing of the past.

The city is now a Russian enclave within an independent state, Kazakhstan.

Slated for destruction, the cosmodrome is in its final days.

ISS - International Space Station - Infiniti mission

Final day of the mission - Arrival of an automatic cargo

Control Room - TsUP - Baikonur Cosmodrome

Mercury Antenna - Suburb of Baikonur - Kazakhstan

You should pray, Isaak.

You'll make Him mad at you.

I'm the one who's mad at Him.

It's over there.

I saw the crows.

I thought maybe an animal had gotten stuck.

But it wasn't an animal.

No. It's the Shaitan, Detective.

Come, I'll show you.

The Shaitan did this.

No good Muslim would ever do such a thing.

You wait here.

Ok.

It's starting again.

It's on the roof?

Yes.

I'm telling you, it's harem!

By Allah...

It must be the Shaitan.

Look at this paint.

It's not paint.

I'll wait outside.

You do that.

Watch over the goats.

THE TOWER OF SILENCE

Xavier?

What happened, Anna?

You took 75 mg of benzodiazepines

at 10:30 pm GMT.

You could have died.

I know. I'm a doctor.

Military Hospital - Paris

It started again... Is that it?

Why didn't you call me?

I'm your delegation head. I would have helped you.

Did you come here to reminisce?

The Agency is behind you. It always has been.

No matter what, we're one big family.

A family?

Please leave.

I can't.

Not without you.

No one told you?

Since the incident, we haven't heard from the Infiniti mission.

A press conference is underway at the Baikonur Cosmodrome...

Kurz, the American astronaut, wasn't originally on the mission.

Human error is suspected and Kurz's responsibility is under scrutiny.

Arwel Mason, head of the US delegation,

formally disagrees.

Cosmoros has summoned the French delegation to Baikonur.

They want to talk to you.

Me? Why?

You were supposed to be on the mission. You know the crew.

And there's something else.

Just before he lost radio contact,

Anthony Kurz

shouted out your name.

My name?

He must have had a reason.

Why?

In those moments, people will say anything.

True.

But... they won't call out to just anybody.

Mason is right.

Kurz may have done it for a good reason.

He did exactly what you'd do if you wanted the ISS to crash.

That man wasn't supposed to go up in space.

Maybe it's no coincidence that he took Anna's place.

Maybe she can shed some light on this.

Leave Anna out of this.

She's suffered enough.

Too late.

She's on her way here.

Where did you find this one?

Cooked in wax on top of a building.

Like the other one...

Tell me what killed him.

It's obvious, isn't it?

What would you say to a weekend in Almaty?

About the girls.

Two girls.

Three?

Take it.

You've lost your mind.

These look like burns.

What is that?

It detects buckshot in game.

Customers don't want any.

There's something here.

What is that?

It's...

a microchip.

The big breeding farms shoot them into the livestock.

- And soldiers. - You think he's military?

If he's Russian, we have to get rid of him.

Chingiz, you're the biggest wimp in the entire police force.

But you're right.

I just need 48 hours.

A dead goat?

A sheep.

The shepherd noticed the crows.

His imagination ran wild.

Is this true?

Yes, it is.

International media are showing up because of this ISS business.

So, if we find another body

dressed up as a candle,

you come to me first. Don't make waves.

These stories are bad press

for the city. They'll get the Russians all worked up.

You follow?

Understood.

Isaak.

You've caused enough harm.

Don't start again.

Got it?

He knows.

I don't like to lie, Isaak. It's a sin!

And accepting bribes isn't?

And burying cases?

That's what the police does.

It's different.

You know exactly what I mean.

I'm the one with a family!

Sorry.

I didn't mean it that way...

It's fine.

Here.

Get the chip hacked.

I wrote down the address.

If it's an ID number, write down the name.

Meet me at the Rocket.

It's the last favor I'll ask of you.

Where are you going?

To find the Shaman.

That's a man's watch.

Baikonur - 6 Months Earlier

I don't know trinkets.

I do.

It's junk.

It doesn't sell around here. No tourists.

My mother used to come see you.

She believed your stories.

She said you were a respected bakshi. Please help me.

Tell me about this pendant.

Are you

with the police?

Not for much longer.

It's a good pendant.

It protects whoever wears it from the Djinn.

You should wear it.

The man who wore this necklace

was decapitated

and dipped in wax.

It's empty in here.

Tell me your story.

What caused this wound?

I don't have the time or the money.

I don't take money.

Tell me... And I'll tell you.

A woman?

A son.

May the earth be light on him.

Zarathustra.

It's the eye of Zarathustra.

A long time ago,

before Islam, before Jesus,

he was our prophet.

Here, we worshipped the sun.

Why on a rooftop?

That is how we bid farewell to our dead.

We didn't bury them.

We perched them on a tower and offered them to the sun.

The scavengers took care of the rest.

A tower?

A tower of silence.

It was later destroyed.

Now, there's nothing but a hill.

Even today, the faithful go there to pray sometimes.

That's where the pendant comes from,

along with the man who wore it.

Have you seen him?

A white man. A Westerner.

He wanted to see the tower, too.

Where is this lower?

To the east, in Semipalatinsk.

But no one is allowed to go there.

They poisoned the land.

Keep your money.

I don't take money from people who don't want to heal.

Baikonur Cosmodrome

Is that why I'm here?

To confirm their deaths?

I didn't summon you here.

Semipalatinsk - Irradiated Zone

Hey, pal.

Where is the Tower of Silence?

That way.

But you can't go there like that.

Don't worry, I'm a cop.

That's not what I mean.

Your beat-up car won't make it.

Are you a safety inspector? Give me cigarettes.

You know...

You need an experienced driver.

- Zhukovskaya. - An ID chip was hacked.

Where?

Look, I can take you there.

Where did you get the cap?

From a tourist.

A tourist? Here?

The Moscow Hotel sends us tourists. An American.

Why was he here with a NASA-cap?

Sometimes, people do weird things.

Can I have the cap?

No, it comes from space.

But this doesn't.

Is it for you?

For my son.

He wants to go into space, too?

He's already there.

And the cigarettes?

That should cover it.

Moscow Hospital - Semipalatinsk

Excuse me, where can I find the hotel manager?

Not exactly our typical customer.

Do you serve food?

There's some pilaf left.

I'll just have coffee.

And a vodka.

It's homemade.

You know him?

You mean that Yankee?

Maybe I do.

He came here with that French woman...

A French woman?

Yes. Just like him.

Chingiz, call me back. I may have found something.

Meet me at the Rocket.

Hurry up.

Lunch is on me.

A beer.

Here. Your partner left this for you.

Vodka.

A dead sheep, huh?

You just don't get it.

You want more pain, is that it?

You like pain?

Maybe.

You know what, you bastard?

You know why everyone hates you?

Because you're always lecturing people.

Rubbing their nose in their shit.

To make them feel guilty.

And to make you feel better than everyone else.

I didn't know you were such a poet, Fef.

You're an "honest" cop.

You're not for sale, right?

You think everyone owes you.

But now, you're the one with the big debt.

Your partner betrayed you. He betrayed us.

And it cost him dearly.

Chingiz flipped out and gave the body back to the Russians.

He can't talk anymore.

You're all alone, now.

You want justice, fine. But don't drag me into this.

And watch out.

If anything happens to my sister...