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ALEKSANDRA NIKIFOROVA

DMITRIY FRID

SERGEY DRUZYAK

IRINA SIDOROVA ANDREY RYKLIN

BORIS KHVOSHNIANSKY ANDREY LUKYANOV

YULIYA TAKSHINA MAKSIM RADUGIN

NIKOLAY DENISOV YURI VNUKOV

WRITTEN BY ANNA RULEVSKAYA

CHIEF WRITER - ANNA RULEVSKAYA

DIRECTED BY ANDREY MARMONTOV

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY - ALEKSANDR ALIOSHNIKOV

MUSIC BY ANTON SILAYEV

PRODUCERS - NIKITA SHUMAKOV, VITALIY BORDACHIOV

ANNA PAVLOVSKAYA, PAVEL BABIN, VLAD RIASHIN

DETECTIVE ANNA SEASON 2

EPISODE 24 THE GHOUL

Accept the gift of eternal life.

As soon as I found out I sent policemen out to comb the city.

I assure you, if she's in town, we will certainly find her.

Mariya Timofeevna!

My regards, I have started the first chapter of your novel.

Very captivating and relatable.

Nikolay Vasilievich...

What's the matter?

Anna's gone missing.

Will I ever get some sleep?

I'm coming, I'm coming.

Anna?

What are you doing here?

What, you're not glad to see me?

Don't be silly.

Tell me what's happened.

Can I have some water?

Thank you.

I beg you, tell me.

I've seen them.

I've seen them all.

And I know where they gather.

It's horrible.

Who do you mean?

The ghouls!

This man had excellent health.

True.

He should have lived on and on.

But instead he fell on a stake with all his weight.

Perforated his stomach

and the left side of his liver.

By the way, look,

there are splinters all over his hands.

This was a terrible death, I'll say.

Yes, very slow and very painful.

He should have aimed for the heart, my word.

They're a cult of some kind.

They gather and drink blood for their rituals.

Everyone was there:

Countess Yeleonskaya, Prince Lyuvshin...

But the strangest thing is the man who leads them.

Can you describe what he looked like?

No, he was wearing a mask.

A mask, like a Venetian one.

Krutin would see patients wearing a mask like that in St Petersburg.

My God, Anna, what were you doing there in the middle of the night?

The showed me the way, Solange

and that man, what was it...

- Gudkov? - Yes.

I swear to you, when we're married,

you won't step foot outside of the house.

I will chain you to the home fire and the marriage bed.

So you're a tyrant?

Then I won't marry.

What else could I do with such a reckless wife?

Yakov Platonovich,

Anna Viktorovna's gone missing!

Her family last saw her yesterday night,

she didn't spend the night at home.

Her horse returned to the stable alone.

Calm down, she's in here.

Good morning.

Yakov Platonovich...

- What do you think you're doing? - Korobeynikov!

Anton Andreevich, this really isn't what you think.

What else is there to think?

You... your mother is climbing the walls,

don't you understand?

Anton Andreevich, Anna Viktorovna came very recently

to tell me about a crime she witnessed last night.

A crime?

There is a dangerous cult in town, Anton Andreevich.

Mr Pankratov.

To what do I owe the pleasure of seeing you again?

Emiliya Karlovna,

I have come to take my fiancee from your house.

Sofiya Kazimirovna agrees to be my wife

and you have no right to keep her.

I'm afraid you're wrong.

My ward does not wish to see you.

You lie.

You suppose...

That you are so irresistible?

What, a girl can't change her mind?

You're so wrong.

Mrs Yeleonskaya, I wish to see Sofiya Kazimirovna immediately.

Otherwise, I shall contact the police and notify them

you're keeping her against her will.

All right,

if you insist.

However...

Sofiya is ill right now.

Yesterday night, she had a fit. We let her blood, but...

I will have her brought to you,

she will tell you herself.

So they regularly drew blood from the deceased girl

and used it for those horrible rituals.

And then they murdered her to get rid of a witness.

Yes, you're right, Anton Andreevich.

I think Krutin is behind it all.

He could have been hiding in the house of one of his minions all this time.

We need to search those houses urgently.

Anna Viktorovna,

did you recognize any of the participants of that Black Mass?

I think we should act differently.

We know where they gather, we'll arrest them all at once.

What matters is that not a single soul find out about it.

Yes.

All we need now, is an explanation for where you spent the night.

Maybe they haven't noticed yet.

What do you mean, haven't noticed? Police are looking for you all over town.

I am handling it personally.

Well then, gentlemen...

Then I have this to propose.

I could ask Dr Miltz to confirm

that I was at the hospital all night.

That's risky.

Someone could mention that you weren't there

and it could reach the cultists.

However...

Hey, m'lord, you still in here?

I come to clean.

Go, Aglaya. You can clean tomorrow.

As you say, m'lord, as you say.

I'm afraid that only leaves me one option.

Saying I spent the night here.

Sonya! It's me, Andrey.

Do you recognize me?

I'll take you away. Come with me.

No.

But why not?

I do not love you, Andrey Yuryevich.

It was merely an infatuation.

I will ask you

to bother me no more.

I hope you are satisfied now,

sir.

- Everyone's looking at us. - And let them.

Now two people will be the talk of the town:

me and my father.

I won't let your name be dragged through the mud.

I will come to your house, visit with you as your fiance.

As soon as we catch him.

- Anna girl! - Mom!

- Mommy! - Anna girl!

Mommy, I'm so sorry about making you worry.

I'm all right.

Mariya Timofeevna.

Yakov Platonovich...

What am I to make of this?

What does this all mean, Anna?

Let me explain.

Anna Viktorovna was with me.

And I assure you we never crossed the line of what is decent.

Spare me the details, Mr Shtolman!

I only have one question.

Are you going to resolve this situation,

which is completely impossible for Anna?

Or will she have to leave town?

Mariya Timofeevna, you have know about my feelings

for your daughter for a long time.

You know that it is reciprocated,

and I assure you we shall resolve it shortly.

Well then, Yakov Platonovich...

In that case, would you like to eat with us?

I have hoped for your invitation for so long.

Thank you, I accept with great pleasure.

So you assert that your fiancee is being held by force?

I'm certain of it.

On what grounds?

You have just told us yourself

that she asked you not to come again.

Believe me, she was forced to.

Gentlemen, I ask you to make haste.

Sofiya's life is in danger as long as she stays in that house.

I think that Countess Yeleonskaya plans to murder her.

Yeleonskay?

That's a serious accusation.

Here, take a look.

I asked my counselor-at-law to find out

whether Sofiya has any other relatives.

And he discovered that she's not an adopted orphan.

She's the Countess' own niece.

Her older brother's daughter.

Yes, the papers confirm that.

Sofiya Kazimirovna is heiress...

to a great capital.

However, if the girl dies unmarried...

Mrs Yeleonskaya gets the money.

How about this:

the old hag has been telling Sonya since childhood

that she can never marry.

How so?

Supposedly, there is some family curse on her.

Mr Pankratov, your fiancee really is in danger.

Here is what I propose we do:

tomorrow, we all go to Mrs Yeleonskaya's

and interrogate her aggressively.

- Yes. - Tomorrow?

Why not today?

Gentlemen,

if you are too slow, it may cost Sofiya her life.

Mr Pankratov, I strongly recommend

that you do not attempt anything today.

You will face legal charges

if you attempt to sneak into the house.

I promise you.

I really don't know how you can bear it all.

I try to pay it no attention.

Tell me what they say about me.

Oh no, not a chance.

Polina, I'm curious.

They say you were a cocotte in Paris.

That your father left your family because he couldn't bear your harlotry.

That Klyuev lost you to Shtolman at cards.

That's all right.

It'll all happen tonight.

Yes, tonight.

You know?

Yes, I know.

But I'm surprised that you do.

Shtolman asked me not to tell you.

Strange.

He told me the same thing about you.

Thank God, then.

That means we can trust each other.

Polina, I can't believe it, tonight!

- And you will be free, too! - God willing.

Polina Ivanovna. Anna Viktorovna.

Hello, Mr Klyuev.

You've come at a good time, your books are delivered.

How are you, Anna Viktorovna?

Great, Andrey Petrovich.

Please excuse me, I have to leave for the hospital.

Anna.

You know I'm always on your side.

If there is anything I could do for you...

You're very kind, Andrey Petrovich.

You don't need to worry.

Have a good day.

It's time.

Halt!

Everybody freeze! You're under arrest!

Where is he?

He's supposed to be wearing a mask.

Halt!

I said halt!

Yakov Platonovich,

don't you find this is too much?

What are you doing here, Mr Klyuev?

I was carousing,

riding a horse around town with my friends.

I stepped away to relieve myself.

What are you talking about? What friends?

Over there.

This one and those over there, to the station.

Andrey Petrovich, not "this one."

Anton Andreevich, so what do you have?

Well, a painting in blood, 6 bodies, one still breathing over there.

Yakov Platonovich, did you arrest him?

I'm not sure.

Yeleonskaya is still alive. We need to take her to the hospital.

She might still tell us something.

- I'm going with her. - Anton Andreevich...

Take the men and go to her house.

Find everything that has to do with this cult's activities.

Yes sir.

Everybody else, comb the area.

He couldn't have gotten far.

Hell knows what!

Gentlemen, this is absolutely scandalous.

Where's my group?

Next cell, getting some rest.

I'll get some rest too, then.

So, have you caught him?

No, but we're looking for him.

Handle her carefully.

All the cultists have committed suicide,

only Countess Yeleonskaya is alive.

She doesn't have long.

I need to question her. Help me.

I will do all I can.

Open up, police!

Wake them. Wake them all, quickly.

All right, you go this way, you go that way.

Gentlemen, what's the matter?

Why have you barged in so late at night?

Ma'am, I have orders from the Court Investigator

to search your house immediately.

Please wake the help and gather every...

Sofiya Kazimirovna!

Sofiya Kazimirovna!

How much time do I have?

20 minutes.

Maybe half an hour.

Can you hear me, Countess?

Ease your soul before you go.

There is no death for me.

I will tell you nothing.

Do you really think

you've become immortal by drinking your maid's blood?

You're the one that killed her.

Why would I?

Solange gave her blood to me voluntarily.

I paid her well for it.

And immortality...

True immortality...

What could you know about it?

In my earthly life,

I have attained eternal youth.

That is enough for me.

Eternal youth...

You yourself...

...were looking at me at the ball,

Mr Shtolman.

Am I not beautiful?

Admit it, you would never think me older than 30.

Anna Viktorovna, do you have a mirror?

No!

No!

No!

How can this be?

No!

You were hypnotized all this time.

Every time you looked in the mirror,

you saw a young woman.

But the spell is broken.

You drank the blood of the innocent

for no reason, you were cheated!

Who did it?

I was sleeping in my room

and I dreamt that someone entered the room.

- And... - A dream?

Yes.

And I felt a light prick right here.

What? A prick?

Where?

If I may, I'll...

A prick... All right, what happened then?

Then I heard the window being broken.

Where?

Over there.

As soon as I was awake, he was on top of me and...

- I see, and... - Mr Korobeynikov.

What?

- What. - Shouldn't postpone the questioning?

You can see my sister has been through a great shock.

Yes, of course.

Excuse me.

We...

We called him Faultless.

He gave us eternal youth,

and then immortality.

Immortality, like vampires?

Of course not,

those are tales for children.

He promised us true immortality.

Eternal life... in another world.

What did he look like?

I don't know.

He never...

took the mask... off.

Do you know what happened to Mr Gudkov?

He was one of us.

Faultless punished him for talking about us to someone.

Did he kill him?

Why do you keep saying that? Killed this, killed that.

Murder is a great sin.

We are forbidden from doing it.

Those things weigh heavy on the soul.

Faultless has a special kind of power.

No one...

No one...

can defy him.

Anna Viktorovna?

Yakov Platonovich?

What is going on here?

Consolamentum.

Who are you?

Answer me!

I am a poor,

cursed man.

Name. Do you have a name?

You had better...

not know it.

Why did you attack the girl?

I had to...

save her.

From what?

From death?

Maybe you wanted to give her eternal life?

You'll answer for everything before the law.

For all your crimes.

Get him to the station, now.

What did I just say? To the station!

No,

don't!

The sun is out! It'll kill me!

- Chernyshov, it's your head! - Why?

- If you let him go, I'll skin you alive. - No!

Don't!

Hello, Mr Korobeynikov.

I came as soon as I heard about the cultists being arrested.

Thankfully.

I told you!

What are you standing around for?

I told you.

I begged you.

It's the sun.

What is he blabbing about?

Don't just stand there, come on!

What, is he dead?

He's dead, the bastard.

Oh, Chernyshov...

You'll answer for this.

Sonya...

I beg you, just don't leave me alone.

Andrey,

I can't leave right now.

But why not?

Yelena would never leave me alone at such a time.

Please understand and don't be angry.

Besides, I'm not in danger anymore.

Come tomorrow.

Who are you?

What do you want?

You're the one who escaped from the mortuary a week ago.

SAVE SOFIYA

What do you think, Aleksandr Frantzevich?

Will he get up and leave again?

Ivan Yevgeyevich, in our turbulent times, anything could happen.

Yes, come in.

Good day, I'm Professor Lange and I'm looking for Mr Skryabin.

Professor, you got my letter! I'm Skryabin.

Meet Dr Miltz, Chief Physician of our hospital.

I came to professor's clinic when I was in St Petersburg,

but sadly you were absent.

Pleased to meet you, Professor.

What brings you to our city?

Mr Skryabin wrote to me around a week ago,

asking what illnesses could cause a deep coma, similar to death.

He named a few more symptoms,

and I realized that your ghoul might be one of my patients.

I'm afraid you're too late, Professor.

This man perished an hour ago.

Yes, that's him.

Poor Kazimir.

Tell me, was this man... disturbed?

That's what I thought too, at first,

but it turned out that Kazimir suffered from a completely different malaise.

There is no name for it yet.

It's extremely rare, mostly found in northern regions of Europe.

Do you happen to know

about the secret malady of the English king George III?

I vaguely remember it.

If I'm not wrong,

he's the one that acted quite insane

when he got aggressive, right?

And he could not bear sunlight at all.

In the end, he stopped appearing in public.

The malady... had disfigured him.

And these people have come to be called vampires around the world?

You will not believe it, but these people really can't stand garlic.

Their gums dry up,

their sinews get deformed, they start to lose hair...

In a word, they turn into real ghouls.

Mr Leszczynski belonged to an old Polish house.

12 years ago, he abandoned his wife and infant daughter

in Warsaw without saying a word.

His illness had manifested itself already,

and he didn't want his loved ones to see him slowly turn into a monster.

His wife died soon after, and he ended up in my clinic.

I taught him to live avoiding sunlight.

And three weeks ago, he escaped.

Do you know why?

He got a letter from his sister, Countess Yeleonskaya.

May I see?

Yes.

Read the last lines.

"Sofiya will never marry."

Think about it:

she may pass your disease on to her children.

It would be best

if she were never born at all."

Say,

it appears this disease is hereditary.

Most likely.

It may not manifest itself for the longest time.

The first bout comes after a very strong emotional upheaval.

Infernal abdominal pain...

First pigment spots appear on the skin.

Like most hereditary illnesses, it is probably incurable.

No.

All that is possible is slowing the disease's progress.

We have searched the whole town, sir, turned it upside down.

He's nowhere to be found. Disappeared into thin air.

- And Shtolman? - Left with another squad.

Checking cultists' houses.

All right, dismissed for now.

- And put some tea on. - Anton Andreevich, a word?

Does the word Sofiya mean anything to you?

Yeleonskaya's ward?

She was attacked last night.

Really?

Where do you suppose she might be right now?

Home, perhaps. At the Countess' mansion.

- You know, she's still in danger. - Says who?

The ghost of the man who escaped from the morgue a week ago.

That is very strange, since he was the one who attacked her last night.

He seized her by the throat

and I barely pulled him off of her.

And yet, he insists that she is still in danger.

The only danger she was in came from himself,

and from Emiliya Karlovna.

They're both dead, so you have no reason to worry.

You know what, Anton Andreevich?

We must go to Countess Yeleonskaya's mansion right away,

and take some men with you.

Please spare me, Anna Viktorovna. I just got back from there.

I haven't even had tea yet. Would you like some tea?

Fine. I'm going alone.

I will... Anna...

Anna Viktorovna, wait!

Yelena, should I really? Why?

It calms me down.

You have very pretty hair.

Promise me that you will let nobody but me do your hair for the wedding.

I promise.

Stop!

Anna Viktorovna, the entrance is further up.

No! Sofiya!

- Sofiya! No, stop! - What are you doing?

Follow me!

Has she confessed to everything?

Yes.

Your sister tried to poison twice.

First she tried that horrible poison, aconite,

by spiking the maid's coffee with it.

Then she realized that the poison acts much quicker

if it gets directly into the bloodstream.

But why did she want to kill Sofiya?

You broke her heart

by choosing her sister Sofiya.

That murderer is not my sister, thank God.

She's your cousin.

My counselor-at-law has discovered

that you're the daughter of the Countess' own brother.

He abandoned me and my mother when I was five.

He just left without a word.

Mom couldn't handle it.

Perhaps it was a conscious decision and he had his reasons.

Your father suffered from a rare incurable illness.

I have just received a note from Dr Miltz.

He'll be here any minute with your father's physician,

and I hope they'll explain it all to you.

So my father is... alive?

Alas...

No...

Sofiya Kazimirovna, unfortunately,

this morning you and I witnessed

his death.

Are you saying that the horrible ghoul was my father?

But he attacked me, he tried to drink my blood!

He saw through the window that Yelena was trying to prick you

with a poisoned needle.

He had mere seconds to suck the poison out of your wound

and save your life.

My God!

Anton Andreevich, Yakov Platonovich...

Yakov Platonovich, gentlemen, what is going on here?

- What is going on? - Klyuev is raising a ruckus in his cell.

He woke from his drunken stupor, you see, sobered up,

and now he demands that you explain

why you arrested him.

Sort this out, gentlemen.

It's my fault, Nikolay Vasilyevich, I'm not myself today, not thinking right.

I'll have him released right away.

Wait. Have you interrogated him?

Have I ever, Yakov Platonovich. Five people corroborate his statement.

They were singing, shouting, disturbing the peace of night, carousing...

Then they went for a ride and woke half the town.

That's it, more or less.

There are several points

I would like to discuss with you.

Ma'am, what's the matter?

Ma'am, can you hear me?

Incredible.

I don't know what this girl is guilty of, but believe me,

she's already been punished until the end of her days.

What is wrong with her?

Remember when I told you about the first bout of that disease?

It is happening right before your eyes.

Here, look.

Is this Kazimir's daughter, perchance?

No, she's his niece.

Countess Eleonskaya's daughter.

Mr Shtolman, glad to see you again.

Hello, Professor.

Yakov Platonovich,

so the Countess was wrong when she claimed

that Sofiya had inherited the family illness.

No. Yelena.

She’s better. The attack has passed.

Don't just stand there, help her, take here away!

Unfortunately, we don't understand the laws of heredity yet.

Some get their parents' intelligence and hair color,

and others get family illnesses.

I have heard quite a lot about you, Mr Lange.

Allow me to introduce myself:

Nikolay Vasilyevich Tregubov, local Chief of Police.

Pleased to meet you, Mr Tregubov.

Anton Andreevich Korobeynikov.

Head of Investigation.

And Mr Shtolman needs no introduction,

I think.

Of course, we have known each other for a very long time.

Yakov Platonovich, your spouse sends her regards.

Thank you, Professor.

Sir.

You are a low

and despicable man.

I demand satisfaction.

At your service.

THE GHOUL