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Son, when will they release my boy?

The investigation will explore whether to release him or not.

Well, at least, have pity on me. You have a mother too.

Now I’ll deal with these idlers and come.

- You again? On what subject? - I want to make a statement.

I think you’ve become a frequent visitor, huh?

Last week, you already filed two applications.

- Have you taken one of those, huh? - Come on, make some noise here!

You should arrest such people! And not my boy!

Grandma, shut up! Or I’ll shortly...

- Look at him, gangster face. - Pipe down, we’ve said, old woman!

Forget it and drop dead, the devil!

Old woman, you’ve said a bit too much.

I don’t understand what’s up with him, huh?

It’s not me. I’ve nothing to do with it.

Hey, man, you hear me? Man, what’s wrong with you? Man! Hey, man!

Man!

ACADEMIA

GALINA SUMINA

MAXIM BITYUKOV

ELIZAVETA LOTOVA, ALEXANDER KONSTANTINOV, VLADIMIR YUMATOV

ALEXANDER YATSKO, IGOR YURTAEV, ERIK YARALOV

ACADEMIA

Kirill! Kirill! Have you prepared the autopsy report?

Well, excuse me. But sometimes I still pursue science.

Between sleep and autopsy.

Kirill! I’ve been looking for you. Sorry for interrupting you.

Kirill, have you already made a decision about participation in the conference?

We just have to figure out, which panel you’ll submit you paper.

Yes, of course, I will fill in the submission form.

That’s what I thought. Because the ticket’s already been booked for you.

I’m interested in the regenerative medicine and cell technology panel.

You know, there will be a fabulous and very interesting report

in the gerontology panel, in my opinion...

- Are you talking about Ivchenko’s report? - Well, certainly.

Of course, I beg your pardon,

But this Ivchenko is good only as an object

of a gerontological research, but not as a scientist.

You remember the conference in Minsk.

His report on the molecular replacement of the DNA. This is ridiculous!

Shurik, while you’re still with us, I need a report on the consumption of reagents.

Shurik, are you so sad because of the Army?

- No. - Don’t be sad. Just a year.

Well, where’s the investigator?

Hello. What’s your question?

Regarding a crime.

Do you understand what’s going on? They’re operating around.

And you’re sleeping here.

Here it is. It reads here:

“It includes scientists from Moscow University for the most difficult cases”!

Listen.

If a crime has been committed,

you should contact the police or the Investigative Committee.

And the experts will determine how complex your case is.

The Committee? Do you know where the people from the damn Committee told me to get off?

Should I tell you in more detail?

People are being killed around them! And they can’t figure out a damn thing!

I don’t need these scientists. These ones!

Only thanks to them I will be able to show their true colors!

Give me these very scientists!

Anastasia Vladimirovna, can I help you?

I’ll do it myself. Listen, dear sir.

It’s not a private detective agency here.

I’m an officer of the Investigative Committee,

and I receive all my tasks from the superiors.

If you need anything, please send an official letter to the address. Got that?

Is it the same here?

Where can an ordinary man appeal to? Where can I seek justice?!

They’re gonna kill me the same way.

They’re killers! Do you understand? They’re murderers!

To whom have I the honour of speaking?

Oleg. I’m Oleg Maksimovich Salabay.

It’s spelled with “a”. Salabay

Nice to meet you. Have a seat, Oleg Maksimovich.

- Hither? - Yeah.

Well, Oleg, tell me, what are you so worried about?

- Doctors. - Which doctors?

Killer Doctors.

- Hello? - Roman, good afternoon.

Roman, I have a question for you.

Tell me, when you worked with my father,

were you familiar with a Vera Nechaeva?

Vera Nechaeva? I don’t remember. Who’s she?

She had close relationships with my father.

She might know something.

Nastya, send me the information you have by e-mail.

I’ll try to dig up something.

Yes, good. Thank you, Roman. Thanks.

- Have I disturbed you? - No, no.

Just a minute.

I’m here about our hysteric man. Oleg Salabay.

- Did you manage to calm him down? - Yes, indeed, I calmed him down.

But I got nervous myself.

The thing is, he’s obviously a very nervous man.

A sick man. And he belongs to to such a hysteroid type.

But he’s not a paranoid. And so, his story about

him and his brother being the victims of an unfair

medical experiment, I find it very interesting.

Did he go to the police?

Yes, he did. They refused to initiate a criminal investigation.

They say that the brother’s death was from natural causes.

Then it’s clear. I see no reason not to trust my colleagues.

But I allowed myself to doubt.

The matter is that I, according to Salabay,

have made a psychological profile of the doctor

who used to run experiments on the brothers.

So, you’ve made a psychological profile according to this lunatic?

And you think it’s as if you listen to your neighbor singing opera?

Perhaps you’re right. But the thing is that I’ve developed a technique

for filtering value judgments.

I’m testing it. The results are quite decent. And so,

I presume that this doctor, who used to make experiments on the brothers,

he is of the melancholy type.

The man is very heartless, cynical, capable of murder.

But this is not enough for initiating a criminal case.

Yes, it’s not enough for initiating a criminal case. Unfortunately.

I wanted to share my suspicions.

If only Lemke could do an autopsy on his dead brother’s body,

that might clarify the situation.

But, unfortunately, he can’t do that

because he’s flying to Petersburg with Victoria.

If the investigation needs him, he’ll have to stay.

Arkady, call this patient. I’ll talk to him.

All right.

- Shurik, where’s Oleg? - He’s gone out. He’ll be back soon.

You’ve put your nose out of joint in vain! Do you know what I’ll tell you?

Actually, you want to go and serve in the Army.

Seriously? Hm! How interesting! I didn’t even know.

I’m not kidding. You want to be a soldier subconsciously.

That’s why you refused

my help in faking a mental illness.

You know better, doc. If you say so, so be it.

Oleg, the investigator Zorina is waiting for you. I’ll show you to her office now.

You’ll tell her everything. Shurik! Chin up!

Let’s go.

Shurik!

Be quiet, quiet, quiet! Your sister is here. If she sees us…

Who cares! It’s our last day together.

And this doctor Kupriyanov

suggested to me and my brother to participate in experiments.

“It’s absolutely safe, absolutely safe”. So, what about us?

They paid money. By the way, good money.

So, we began to drink his powders. I have some with me, by the way...

I poured out a little bit when my brother got sick.

He almost died there and then, two weeks ago.

Look at that powder. Study it. Look, here it is.

We went to him. “Come on”, we said, “give us compensation”. And he - “Nuts to you”!

Well, we went to a newspaper, mass media. Nowadays, in case

you don’t create a stir, you won’t seek any truth.

That’s right! We were demanding a renovation here.

It hit the headlines. It’s about him.

“Dr. Mengele of our days!”

But his experiment was closed then. It’s mostly thanks to us.

And after a while they sent my brother to him for an operation.

We didn’t even know who'd cut. It turned out to be the Mengele.

- Heart surgery? - Yes, yes, yes.

The cardiac pacemaker was changed. Battery’s dead.

And two weeks later your brother died of a heart attack?

Look!

It all fits! By the way, I’ve also had my pacemaker changed.

But I got another doctor for the surgery. That’s why I’m still alive.

Okay, I’ll find out the circumstances of your case.

Who made a decision to refuse to initiate the criminal case?

I wrote it down.

Here it is. Look.

I’ve read what you’ll have two hours of spare time.

You may text me every day.

And you have a whole day off.

It means you’ll text me every two hours.

Shurik, you’d better get busy.

Find out what this stuff is.

- We’ll study... - Go.

Here, study. I’m sick and tired of these tweedledum and tweedledee.

It’s my heavy cross to bear. How long?

It’s one year since you started to pass applications of these freaks to me, right?

Well, yes.

Well, I’ve been texting them for a year.

During this time, I’ve rejected about 15 stupid statements and legal claims.

Including Oleg Salabay’s statement about the murder of his brother.

Primarily, all is clear with this brother.

The autopsy showed unambiguously — it’s a heart attack.

But the second brother won't rest, until I have a heart attack myself.

Only this morning I issued a refusal order.

But what about Salabay’s evidence regarding the fact

that they had been conducting medical experiments on the brothers?

What kind of evidence is that? I’ve talked to the surgeon...

I took all the explanations...

All of them are here, you can read. All this is for the sake of standard form.

- Nothing interesting. - And the powder?

Salabay didn’t give me a powder sample...

But the surgeon... What’s his name? Yuri Kuzmich? Kupriyanov.

Yes, he said he only gave starch to deceased. The chemists confirmed it.

Tell me, Anastasia Vladimirovna, what’s moved you so much?

My expert psychologist’s assumed that

we should take Salabay seriously this time.

So, you’re saying that the powder, which they’d been stuffing Salabay, contains starch?

Yes. Polysaccharide amylose.

But we’ve managed to allocate sediment from the aqueous solution.

Here’s the substance.

It’s organic...

Maybe, it’s a vitamin or a vitamin-like substance.

And this stuff is fat-soluble.

Do you think you can make a test for fat-soluble vitamins?

That is, the deceased was fed with vitamins?

- Do they affect the heart? - The heart?

Wait. Vitamin K promotes hemostasis, blood clotting.

And too thick blood can be dangerous.

- It’s harder for the heart to pump. - You know what we’ll do?

We’ll make an elementary analysis, then we’ll understand what this substance is,

and what its effects are. Actually, it’s better to inform Kirill.

Well, in general, Anastasia Vladimirovna,

I don’t see any reasons to initiate a criminal investigation yet.

The psychologist’s statement. It’s not enough. Not enough. Here’s the deal.

If there’s new information, we’ll return to this question. Deal?

Yes, Shurik. Yes, yes, yes.

What? Are you sure? Yeah, thanks, I see...

Yuri Kuzmich, there’s new information.

Yes. They had been giving to our deceased not just starch.

Experts have discovered an unknown substance.

I think that’s enough for the second autopsy of the body.

I’m sorry, I’m leaving to St. Petersburg for a conference today.

We need to do the autopsy quickly. And, you know,

I’d like not to run to the airport out of the autopsy room wearing gloves and a coat.

Kirill, could you please stay for a while?

Zorina, it seems to me you’ve decided to add some more work, huh?

Well, it’s your business.

Good luck, guys!

- Yuri Kuzmich. See you tomorrow. - Take care.

Goodbye.

Yuri Kuzmich! There is another problem, beside Kirill’s busy schedule.

I need a chemist. And our Shurik,

Alexander Mukhin, must go to the military enlistment office tomorrow morning.

Nastya, the Defense Ministry is not under my command yet.

Yes. But can’t we do something about it?

Why are you looking at me like that?

Okay, let your Mukhin make the investigation.

I’ll try to contact the military enlistment office.

I have an option that he’ll depart for the military unit later and on his own.

Thank you, Yuri Kuzmich.

I think I’ve said everything to the previous investigator.

Indeed, these two were treated in my cardiology.

They took part in the experiment. Drug testing.

- What drugs? Starch? - The starch was a placebo.

- Have you heard of the blind method? - Yes, I have.

So, the deceased used to take ordinary starch, but not a cure.

Then why did he get sick?

The nocebo effect, I suppose. It has the effect that’s opposite to placebo.

When a person is sure that taking a medicine will definitely harm him/her.

And what kind of fat-soluble substance did your placebo contain?

Isn’t it dangerous for the heart patients?

Substance... Perhaps, we are talking about tutastatine.

I synthesized it. Tutastatine, from Latin word “tutus” —

“safety”. It could have become a unique hemostatic agent.

If it weren’t for your two fools.

By the way, it wasn’t the dead brother who’d been taking tutastatine,

but vice versa the survivor!

Please, explain.

I engaged them in the experiment,

because I’d noted the uniqueness of their case. Two brothers.

And they had an absolutely identical heart defect.

One of them used to take my tutastatine.

And the other, on the contrary, — a harmless starch.

And it’s him who had a psychosomatic attack.

And at once the commotion began.

The press, of course, overblow all this.

And they closed my research down to be on the safe side.

But then you operated on one of them.

They were still my patients.

And then, “operated” is too overstated.

I just changed the artificial pacemaker,

which supports this vegetative life.

And what does “vegetative” mean?

Aimless. Worthless. They don’t work anywhere.

Zina! They live on welfare. And I have to ensure their existence.

Cool? Do you know how they call you in the newspapers?

Dr. Mengele, right? So what?

Mengele substantially advanced medicine by his experiments.

Including those on twins.

You are a doctor, you know better!

Yes. And I didn’t kill that fool of yours during the operation either.

- How do you imagine that? - What?

Did I stab with a lancet? Right in the heart?

Interrogate the nurse who assisted me.

Well, I’m on the third floor.

Wait! Please, excuse my colleague!

He’s still worried about the disruption of his experiments.

I’m afraid he’ll have more serious worries in the near future.

But what if you are looking in the wrong direction?

What if it’s the pacemaker that they installed on the patient?

The cardiostimulator, put simply...

I don’t know...

Just don’t tell anyone about our conversation. It’s just suspicions.

The unknown substance is really similar in composition to vitamin K.

Although not quite — there’re molecules of nitrogen in its structure.

And there’s no this vitamin in the blood of the deceased.

And what about the second brother?

Well, Ed’s just drawing his blood sample for analysis.

Leave a little bit of blood for me. I’ve got a long time to live, ah!

Whatcha, who taught you to needle?

- All right, all right, that’s OK. - Did you study to be a vet?

I’m not even feeling well. I should probably get some air,

I’m feeling like... Oh...

Somehow I don’t feel good, ah!

Everything began to beat somehow!

Let me report to you and I’ll go to the airport. I’ve got a taxi waiting for me.

Dr. Lemke! Dr. Lemke! Oleg’s got a heart problem there! Hurry up!

I’ve disabled the pacemaker. Cut the contacts.

What for? It just stabilizes the heartbeat!

Well, pulse one hundred. He will live. That’s all.

It stabilizes? Not sure. Ambulance, ambulance, urgent!

While Arkady was unmasking Dr. Mengele,

I found something unusual in the death of our patient.

The characteristics of myocardial necrosis indicate that,

that the heart attack was preceded by a period of

an extremely high rate of heart contractions. This’s very weird.

As far as I know, tachycardia always accompanies a heart attack.

Tachycardia is a symptom, the result of a heart attack.

And in this case it was a source of the disease.

This’s very weird. Because our patient

used a pacemaker

which stabilized the rate of his heart contractions.

And could Dr. Mengele damage Igor Salabay’s pacemaker?

I can’t imagine how he could do that.

But Igor Salabay really had a surgery by another doctor.

Although they changed their pacemakers around the same time.

Only two days apart. Was it the same batch?

I don’t know. What’s more strange — this was a new model of cardiac pacemakers

by the start-up domestic producer — Kordsintez.

There’s no information about it on the Internet. Well, almost.

Kordsintez. A defective product?

I don’t even know what kind of defect it is. Apparently,

the stimulator sends some random impulses to the heart.

This leads to ventricular fibrillation and death.

Oksa said she’d check.

Her friend, electronics engineer, and she have drawn the scheme of a test bench.

In sum, they’ll test these cardiac pacemakers.

Great. I’ll send Arkady to the hospital tomorrow.

And tomorrow I’ll go and visit the military enlistment office.

You’re not going anywhere. We need you.

Yeah. Motherland needs me too.

I’ll go to serve.

You’ll serve here for a while.

Lobanov has arranged a draft deferment, during the investigation.

- What do you mean? - Really?

- Why were you silent? Thank you! - Olya.

Shurik...

He is staying here to work, not to have fun.

Nastya, you are a clever cookie. Shurik is a very valuable employee.

Are you leaving for Petersburg tomorrow?

I’m going today. I’ve only been late for the flight. So I’ll be looking for an option.

All right. Good day.

- Good luck. - Thank you.

- So long. - Have a good one.

Yes, Roman. Yeah, I’ve got the address.

Thanks a lot. I’ve already written a letter.

No, by regular mail, ordinary letter.

Yes. As it was before.

Yeah, like in the old days of my father.

Thank you very much again, Roman. Have a nice day.

I’ve received a signal. We’ll check it.

We’ll stop implanting the pacemakers of this model in patients.

More questions?

Yes. And, of course, you have all necessary certificates for these stimulants?

Of course. The firm won the open tender. It offered a good price.

So, if you want to check it, we have all the documentation.

We do. And we’ll certainly check it. Thank you!

Hello!

- Did you come to us? - Yes, I’m leaving now.

It turns out that your guess about the defected

pacemakers has been confirmed. How did you guess?

Well, nonetheless, I’m the deputy chief...

Well, I’ve heard something. I think that the purchase was shady.

What do you mean?

I’d not like to suspect Ivan Nikolayevich.

But I’m afraid that Kordsintez had no right to participate in the tender.

I’ve heard they were certified only a week ago.

But there’s the certificate in the tender documentation.

Maybe it’s all right... Excuse me. It’s time to go.

Pasha, are you sure, that you’ve soldered all correctly?

Sure! Look.

Your stimulator is giving off stable impulses.

Look, this’s Igor Salabay’s pacemaker.

It shouldn’t give stable pulses. It should be going into overdrive.

All right. We’ll think it over. Thanks, Pasha.

Thanks. You’re a genius.

Well, let’s think about it.

They changed Igor Salabay’s pacemaker on the 13th.

He died on the 27th…

That’s in two weeks. Oleg Salabay’s pacemaker was changed on the 16th.

In two days. Strange coincidence. But okay.

His pacemaker malfunctioned on the 30th. That’s in two weeks, too.

Let’s try to restart the pacemaker

and reset the time counter after turning it on.

Let’s try.

Hi! What accounting is this?

Hi, this is the tender documentation regarding the purchase of the pacemakers.

- Can I help? - That’s why I called you.

There must be violations of the terms of the tender in the documents.

I really need your help.

All right. Only then we’ll go to a restaurant.

We’ll see afterwards.

I’m ready.

So, good. Am I setting the time now?

Two weeks after switching on the pacemaker. Well, there it is.

So?..

Damn!

How are my twins doing?

Nothing. Unfortunately, doc, no psychology yet. Only bureaucracy.

My friends, the certificate was attached to the contract retrospectively.

And what does it mean?

This means that the tender was held improperly.

At the time of conclusion of the contract with Kordsintez, it had no certificate.

So, they had no right to conclude the contract.

Perhaps, they dispatched the pre-production, defective samples to the hospital?

I don’t know. But the fact of corruption is obvious — the tender was flawed.

That means there was a breach of the tender contract.

Faulty pacemakers. This’s a legally defined crime.

Well, the case is closed.

It’s kind of a boring scam.

Do you believe in that?

Well, doctor, you don’t always have to catch unique psychopaths.

Sometimes you have to investigate boring fraud as well.

I don’t know, Denis. I don’t like this outcome either.

We need to ask Oksa what’s wrong with these pacemakers.

Thanks. Oksa, any success?

Anastasia Vladimirovna, progress is being made!

Pasha and I checked Igor Salabay’s pacemaker.

And here’s an interesting tidbit.

Exactly two weeks after switching the pacemaker on

it begins to work with such a frequency that no heart can handle.

- Exactly in two weeks? - Yeah.

I mean, my understanding is that a patient is operated on,

he is discharged two weeks later.

And then he jumps down the track and… bang!

So it wasn’t just an accident.

It’s a deliberately damaged pacemaker.

But Kirill says that he has no idea how to damage them.

A doctor can’t do that. We need an electronics engineer here...

And what’s the motive? Back to our Dr. Mengele again?

He may be Dr. Mengele, but he’s not Prof. Moriarty. That’s true.

To promote such a scheme for the sake of usual revenge,

one needs a lot of money.

I don’t think one person can do that.

Competitors! Rivals.

Only two companies participated in the tender:

Kordsintez and Importmedservice.

The competitors must have an agent in the hospital.

Maybe that’s our Dr. Mengele...

By the way, I know a man in this hospital.

A suspiciously pleasant young man. The deputy chief doctor.

He told me about faulty pacemakers and the tender...

I mean, if the whole story becomes obvious,

the chief doctor will be fired, for sure.

And who will be in charge? The deputy, I think.

Oksa, you know, what you should do...

Find and analyze the whole call history, between Dr. Mengele

and the deputy chief doctor.

Look for a connection of both of them with Importmedservice.

- Oh! Do you think it’s that simple? - I think you can handle it.

- Oksa, who else if not you? - We believe in you!

Thank you.

- Oksa! - Yes.

Give me one of those pacemakers, please, I’ll analyze it.

Are you trying to level up? Get into electronics?

You may take Pashka with you, if you want. He is a genius of soldering iron.

No. You may train with your soldering iron yourself.

Just give me the pacemaker.

- Here it is. - Thank you.

What are you reading?

I’m studying fullerene synthesis. It’ll be useful in the military life.

Well, then it’s better to study the synthesis of cocktails made with industrial alcohol.

You’ll earn credibility among your comrade-in-arms.

Ed, but you’re a theoretician, armchair scientist.

How can you know how to gain credibility in the army life?

Well, you know, even sitting in my office I can see how the citation index

and the number of publications don’t impress your Sergeant.

All right. Fun is fun. Tell me what you think,

what’s the better way to extract DNA from the sweat and fat secretions?

Usually, using the method of organic extraction:

phenol, chloroform, isoamyl alcohol...

And how are you going to extract it?

Let’s go, I’ll show you.

- I’ll finish reading and come. - Come on, come on, let’s go!

Oksa, Zorina is interested whether you’ve analyzed the calls?

Yeah, that’s what I’m doing right now. Have a look.

Hello, hello! Is this Importmedservice company?

What? Which service? This is a private apartment. Can you hear me? Hello?

Sorry.

An interesting way to analyze. Are you just calling all the numbers in a row?

No. Why all? The communication men gave me some printouts

of the calls made by Mikulskiy and Kupriyanov, Mengele as everyone calls him.

I’ve excluded the numbers I managed to run through:

housing maintenance offices, film theaters, shops... There’re just private numbers.

Whether there’s any connection of these numbers with Importmedservice,

nobody knows.

Hello, hello. Is this Importmedservice company?

I’m an engineer there, but you’re calling my personal number.

- What’s the question? - Please, wait. One moment.

- Hello, hello. - Hello, hello.

Hello. Avtoprof company is calling you.

You have a personal car and your driving experience is more than ten years. Right?

- That’s right. - Excellent.

Especially for such drivers, our company has a gift.

Our branded air ionizer.

It is a wonderful decoration for your car.

And you will get it for free.

Tell me, can I come to you today?

Yes.

What’s your address, please?

And I’ll deliver it to you within an hour. Will you be at home?

Yes, I will. 14 Losinskaya St.

Thanks a lot. I’ll call you when I get there.

You did it!

Here, actually, is your ionizer.

Firstly, what’re the advantages of our ionizer…

The fact is that it filters 100% of the oxygen that gets into your car.

Second, it’s very compact and easy to use.

And thirdly, it’s absolutely free for you.

Install the ionizer.

Install the plug into the cigarette lighter. Push the button.

It works. Do you feel that? The air has become cleaner.

Now you shouldn’t worry about your lungs at all.

- Thanks. - Thank you.

- Good bye. - Good bye.

Any joy with you?

Anastasia Vladimirovna, in general, I’ve

conjured over Igor Salabay’s pacemaker.

I opened the body. It’s supposed to be sterile.

But, if someone had been digging in it, there must be signs.

- Fair enough. - It turned out so.

Shurik and I extracted a DNA sample from the traces of sweat and fat.

All in all, we have the genetic profile of the intruder.

- Very good work. Thanks. - That’s not all.

We’ve checked the calls from the list of Mikulskiy and this Dr. Mengele.

In sum, Mengele’s clean. And there’re two matches in the case of Mikulskiy.

The first one is the Director’s Secretary.

And the second is an engineer from Importmedservice.

Ed and I believe that this is engineer Volchkov,

it’s the spot on.

Yes. Moreover, I’ve already managed to meet him and get his DNA samples.

I’ve already launched a comparative analysis...

Perhaps, most likely, he’s the one who had been digging in the pacemaker.

Well done, guys. Very good job.

Give me the contact details of this Volchkov. I’ll call him in for interrogation.

- Yes. - Hello.

Did you call my engineer?

I’m the Director of the company, Petr Ilyich Koshelev.

This is my corporate lawyer.

Hello.

All conversations will take place in our presence.

Okay.

I’ll add that Mr. Volchkov had the right not to come here.

Because he didn’t get an official notification.

He’s come here only of his own free will.

All right. Have a seat.

So, Mr. Volchkov, you are an engineer in Importmedservice company.

He’s my best engineer.

Your company participated in the tender to supply

artificial pacemakers to the cardiology hospital.

- We did. - Along with Kordsintez company.

- Those mismanagers! - We’re engaged in import, and what do they have?

- Crap! Junk! - Pyotr Ilyich!

I don’t mind your presence.

But I’d really like to talk to your employee.

- No problem. - Thank you.

So, what’s your opinion on pacemakers produced by your competitors?

Well, not... Ours are better... More expensive, of course...

Anastasia Vladimirovna, may I?

Excuse me, one moment.

- Yes, Ed. - There’s the exact match to the DNA.

It’s Peter Volchkov who had been digging in the pacemaker.

Here’s the deal. When I or he do this — you’ll shut up.

Got it?

- Perfect. Thanks, Ed. - Don’t mention it.

Excuse me, can you tell me where the investigator Anastasia Zorina’s office is?

She asked me to come over.

It’s me. Could you wait for me for fifteen minutes in the break room?

Okay.

Once again, sorry.

Still and all, I’d like to talk to Mr. Volchkov face to face.

Mr. Volchkov, you don’t have to talk...

- Well. There won’t be any “face to face”! - It’s up to you to decide.

It’s about your fate. And your freedom.

I’ll ask you a few questions.

And you will decide whether to answer them or not.

I’ve already said. No “face to face”.

I think it’s time to end this conversation.

- Yes. - That’s all. It’s time to finish it. Let’s go!

Mr. Volchkov, do you agree to talk to me?

Yes, I do.

I kindly ask you to wait in the hall.

- In the hall? - Yes, in the hall.

In the hall…

- I have never... - Be quiet!

There’re microphones everywhere, cameras everywhere. Say no more!

What are they doing in there?

- Please, join me! - Me too?

Sure!

So, Mr. Volchkov, tell us,

how a sample of your DNA got inside of this faulty or,

more precisely, damaged pacemaker.

- The management… - What management? What are you talking about?

The Director of Importmedservice company Pyotr Ilyich Kushenov

gave me a task to reprogram

two pacemakers manufactured by Kordsintez.

Didn’t you find this task strange?

They told me,

this’s necessary for testing our competitors’ production.

How do you evaluate the quality of your competitors’ products?

Excellent quality. At their price, they’re not our competitors,

but just killers. We can’t compete with them.

- We’re engaged in import. - That is, the only option

for your company to stay afloat is to undermine the reputation of Kordsintez?

The only one or not, I don’t know.

And whom did you give

the reprogrammed pacemakers to?

To him.

To the deputy chief doctor of the hospital.

And he chose two lonely, unwanted patients,

who could be easily used as test objects for the experiments.

- And, in extreme cases, may be easily killed. - That wasn’t the deal.

- I didn’t know. - What was the deal?

- The position of the chief doctor? - You’d better be quiet.

- You too, Pyotr Ilyich. - I’m quiet!

What else can I do?! I’m quiet!

- Shurik. - I’m delighted.

- Shurik! Shurik! - Oh, hello.

- Hi. - We thought there was nobody here.

Here I am.

It’s just our last day together. The draft deferment is over.

Come on in. I won’t disturb you.

Have a seat.

- Sorry. Am I interrupting? - No, you’re not.

Haven’t you flown away yet or already have?

I didn’t make the flight.

There are no tickets for night and morning flights.

I booked tickets for an evening flight. And then Vika called and said,

it’s better not to take the flight with such an attitude.

Well, I thought if we didn’t need, so I wouldn’t take the flight!

Kirill, instead of taking part in the conference you saved a man’s life.

And this happens not so often in pathologists’ practice.

When a doctor fails to cure the patient...

pathologist has to tackle the problem. By the way, talking about pathology.

In terms of psychology, Dr. Rotkin, are these people normal,

if they, because of their scheme, killed one

and almost killed the second?

Absolutely normal.

When testing, they are likely to be much more normal than we are.

In terms of psychopathology, cynicism is a vice that can’t be treated.

See, I told you. They’re all here.

- And you’re going to the cinema, weren’t you? - The cinema can wait.

We decided to encourage Shurik.

Hi there!

Well, everyone’s here!

And the last one is, precisely - the first among us is Anastasia!

Kirill, I thought that you’d gone to Petersburg.

No, I decided to stay.

That’s great! We have some good news!

Shurik, it’s about you. Dennis and I have just come back from the Department of Chemistry.

Of course, we had to use all our eloquence and charm.

In general, you’ve been reinstated at the University for services to the Academy.

And you’ve been admitted to the summer session.

- I won’t go to the Army? - No.

Hooray, comrades!

Shurik! Stay away from my sister.

Congratulations!

Keep your distance, Shurik!

Thank you, Anastasia Vladimirovna!

- Hooray! - Hooray!