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Give it to me. Quick.

-I will kill her. -Whom?

The Mop.

THE MOP

EPISODE 1

One, two, three…

Five, six, seven…

One, two, three…

Five, six, seven…

Well? Do you like this transformation?

Neat, isn't it.

Galois. I have six periods today.

We'll continue after that.

One, two, three.

Six, seven, eight.

I told her it was an accident, and she said there is no such thing.

Like, all numbers are subject to distribution.

What distribution?

-I honestly… -Excuse me for a minute.

Yes.

I see. I'll be there. Eat your breakfast.

This wasn't for you. I understand.

Hey, son. Finish this up and go to school. I'm going to work.

Work? The Mop wants to see you.

You know who else wants to see me?

Just try not to kill anyone there. I have five bodies on my hands already.

Thanks.

A SERIAL PSYCHO KILLER ON THE LOOSE

Two months! Five bodies!

Why don't you say anything?

What is there to say, colonel?

We don't have any clues.

We don't know the motive.

There is no connection between the victims.

They have nothing in common.

The connection is that they are all humans. Were humans.

They paid taxes, which effectively paid your salary, lieutenant.

And yours, captain.

Some monsters killed them.

Now you need to kill this monster if you want to keep your salaries.

Zurabov. Yes.

Six bodies.

Same old. Multiple blows with a blunt object.

-Like a rock? -Something like that.

The body was discovered around 8 a.m. by some joggers.

Our guy?

Looks like it.

So it's number six.

No. Rather number three or four. He has been here at least a month.

We don't have enough joggers in this country.

So I want you to take a look.

Because if we approach it from the other side…

Like, -2…

-4, -6 etc.

Yes?

We'll get back to it.

Well, it's interesting.

-Hi. -Ania.

We had a reunion today.

What do we have here?

Katia… Expert Sosnovskaya claims it's the same culprit.

The MO, the weapon…

Yes, son.

No, go to bed. I'll be home late.

No park, no going out.

Okay, bye.

Why is he killing them?

We need to understand the killer's logic to catch him.

Is it from a TV show?

From the Academy.

But first from a TV show.

Sergey, are you coming?

Guys, you go. I'll catch up with you.

Ania, open the door.

Ania.

There is no need to yell.

I need to talk to you.

Yes, sure. Let's continue.

I will be waiting for you

at our bench. Please come.

So these zeroes are calledtrivial.

Now… Thus, all neutral zeroes are complex numbers,

symmetrical regarding the transverse axis

and the vertical one

that is called…

We are missing something.

I have everything here. Work places, spouses, lovers, friends, social networks.

Everything is different. Age, gender, social standing.

As I said, we are missing something.

The only thing in common is that they were killed in deserted places.

You mean they were killed because they were in deserted places?

-Different ones at that. -Looks like it.

See, I've analyzed their routes.

These three usually walked home through the park.

These ones were there by accident.

There are no accidents.

According to my son's math teacher.

She wants me to come to the school.

I hate math.

Vershinin.

Let's go.

Hello.

Where is he?

It's a she.

-She? -Yes.

Who is she?

No ID.

Doesn't say anything, doesn't answer the questions.

But she was arrested at the scene?

Yes.

Six brutal murders. A woman.

Okay.

Why haven't you questioned her yet?

I'm waiting for the lab report.

The murder weapon is a rock. If it has her prints on it, we're golden.

I hoped for a confession, of course.

The fingerprints are a match.

Go ahead. Close this case. I'll talk to the journalist.

Have you caught him?

First of all, not caught. Detained.

Second, it's a woman.

Who is she?

I'll repeat my question.

Your name, patronymic, and surname.

Anna Nikolayevna Shvabrina. Can I go now?

These are horrible, brutal murders. Could a woman have committed it?

We have enough proof to press charges.

Anna Nikolayevna, you were detained at the crime scene today.

There are your fingerprints on the murder weapon.

Obviously, you weren't a good student.

The presence at the scene is necessary but not conclusive

for committing a crime.

Can you at least take this off?

How long are you going to torture me?

My Galois is hungry.

Who is he?

Evariste Galois. A great mathematician and my fish who needs to be fed.

Hi, son. Were you sleeping?

I'm sorry.

Listen, is your Mop's name Anna Nikolayevna?

Shvabrina?

No, nothing. Go back to sleep.

Why did she commit those murders?

I am not at liberty to reveal all the details.

The only thing you need to convey to the city residents

is that the culprit has been detained.

Thanks, everyone. The briefing is over.

You are charged with a murder.

Article 115, Part 2, ten to life.

I'm telling you, I didn't kill Sergey.

Did you know him?

Do you know the number of the sunflower's petals

relative to the total number equals pi?

The probability is one to two.

Ania, I love you so much…

but you have to understand. This marriage can…

adversely affect my career.

What are you doing?

Drawing conclusions.

Ania?

Do you know him?

No. We were in college together.

What was his last name?

Inin. Sergey Viktorovich.

You don't even know whose murder you charge me with.

Do you also know these people?

Irina Pogodina, killed February 18.

Stepan Karasik, killed March 4.

Alina Pavlova, killed March 15.

Andrey Cherednichenko, killed March 20.

Roman Topalov, killed March 28.

And today you accidentally are seen at Sergey's murder scene.

Also, the murder weapon accidentally has your fingerprints all over it.

Also by accident, you're covered in the victim's blood.

There is no such thing as an accident. Isn't that what you say, Anna?

Yes. That's right.

Face to the wall.

Do you think she's insane?

She looks normal until she starts speaking about math.

Six murders. I hate math.

Come in.

Hi.

I see.

Who are you?

I'm a mathematician.

What's the sentence for math these days?

Ten to life. That's what they said.

Not bad.

I'm not here because of math.

Can you please stay silent for a moment?

Not bad.

What are you doing?

Thinking about how I want to spend tomorrow and the rest of my life.

Listen, this Mop, is she normal?

Of course she's crazy. Totally.

Okay, go to bed.

They say that Laplace the mathematician

Once had a brutal collision

He hit his opponent, then hit him again,

And it wasn't a wise decision.

What are you going to say?

It's good that they caught the killer.

I used to walk you through the park because it was dangerous,

and now I do it because you like me.

Another word, and I'll regret it that the killer is in jail.

Thanks for walking me home.

Hello?

Listen, today's victim had nothing on him.

No wallet, no papers.

Yes, weird. The others did.

He didn't even have a cell phone.

I wish I didn't have one, either.

Okay, bye.

What's wrong with you?

Not bad.

Katia.

-Hi. -Hi.

I wanted to talk about yesterday.

Nothing happened.

That's what I wanted to talk about.

Good morning, Nikolay Vladimirovich.

Hi, everyone.

Kolia!

Shvabrina? She's a genius.

And a genius and evil…

Well, you know how it goes.

Kill someone?

Maybe if he made a mistake in the calculations.

A psycho?

A math psycho, yes.

She proved a subcase off the Cauchy theorem when she was 17.

It's as if you became a marshal at 17.

There are no marshals in the police.

Exactly. That's the point.

She can do anything. Except for being human.

She and Sergey were supposed to get married in their fifth year.

She never forgave him. She doesn't know how to forgive.

She went to work at a school. With her talent!

She could be teaching higher mathematics to robots.

I'm not sure they'd make it, though.

Ania, a serial killer?

She is a nutcase, of course, but…

I wouldn't be surprised if someone killed her, though.

Of course Sergey had his ID on him, and the wallet.

We were at the restaurant.

She gave him this rock.

He wanted to return it, unfortunately for him.

She wouldn't even talk to us.

We all left, and he stayed. So there.

People like her are born once in a century.

Maybe a millennium.

-Has she confessed? -No.

Why aren't you interviewing her?

Yes.

Shvabrina demands that you came to her cell.

Demands? All right, let's go.

Can I go home now?

What do you mean?

This is the solution.

It's an outlier.

This date doesn't fit in with the murder function.

Someone else did it.

Not me, obviously, but also not the one who committed the other murders.

You see, all these numbers are harmonic.

This one isn't.

A harmonic murder?

Are you trying to make us believe you are insane?

It won't work.

Colonel, the fact that she was at the scene

doesn't mean she is the killer.

-What was she doing there? -I don't know.

She doesn't say anything. You see she is a bit…

I can see that. Still, we need to release her.

No.

We'll release her no sooner than you find the culprit.

I will. Permission to leave.

Granted.

Hello.

-I looked it up in Wikipedia. -And?

Over 50% of math geniuses ended up in a madhouse.

And the other 50%?

-Killed themselves. -Great.

Here's the list of things Inin was supposed to have.

Look for his cell. Maybe it'll show up somewhere.

One more thing. The witnesses said Inin had a bottle of champagne

when they went to Shvabrina.

He bought it specially for her, because she doesn't drink anything else.

-But there was no bottle. -Exactly.

So take a good look around.

I hate champagne. And math.

You don't want to help me, which is understandable.

But why don't you help yourself?

You went to college with Inin, but later you stopped talking to him.

Yes, later.

And, alas, I never will now.

Your classmates told us everything.

It's false information.

This is the answer. Isn't it obvious?

Call the special ops.

-On the floor! -Get down! Don't move!

Lay still!

Go ahead.

Hi.

I wasn't going to kill him.

I wanted a drink. He wouldn't give me the bottle.

There was this rock lying on the bench. So I grabbed it and…

So… You know.

The wine was shit, by the way.

There is no doubt he killed Inin.

But he has an alibi for the other murders.

He was in the hospital, a rehab.

Yes.

So it was…

What did she call it?

An outlier.

What does it mean?

Hell if I know. But we have to let her go.

Anna Nikolayevna, you're free to go.

On behalf of my seniors and my own, I apologize…

Do I have to listen to this?

I'm telling you…

Something I proved 24 hours ago. Goodbye.

What's wrong with you?

What's wrong with you?

I can come pick you up tomorrow.

No, thanks. I've got it.

Whatever.

I'll call you tomorrow.

Okay.

You're guarding me while the killer is out there. That's all.

Why are you still up?

You know, the Mop hasn't been at school for two days.

So? She's probably home sick. Go to bed, now.

In a minute.

You've got two.

I have nothing to add. The investigation is underway.

Can you name the suspect?

Has she been charged?

Again, it's an ongoing investigation.

If there are any news, you'll be the first ones to know.

And I promise it will be good news.

Can you comment on the City Festival?

What about it?

All the scheduled events will take place.

The police squads will be beefed up.

As they say, festival is festival, and work is work.

The chief says it's an ongoing investigation.

Let's start over. What do we know?

It wasn't the math teacher. Now we just need to know who it was.

The brutality of the murders points to compensatory aggression.

What?

It's when somebody is unable to create, so they destroy.

The brutality is growing exponentially.

Look. Here we have two blows.

Here there is more.

And here we have a few dozens.

He's a psycho.

In everyday life, psychos can look like normal people,

but when something triggers them, their bloodlust gets out of control.

You mean when they have a motive?

Speaking of people with mental disorders,

it's rather an impulse, an incitement.

In psychology, we call it a trigger.

What can act as one?

Anything.

Is it today?

I hope she was mistaken.

Hi.

Katia.

The murder was committed no more than an hour ago.

The math teacher predicted it would be today.

-How? -Just like that.

The killer thoroughly researches potential crime scenes.

There are no cameras.

There are cameras around them. They might have caught him.

Caught what?

A psycho looking like a normal person, going about his psycho business?

Mitia, if a person gets on cameras right before the crime

several times, it means something.

It might be an accident.

It might be or it might not be.

According to Shvabrina, there is no such thing as an accident.

She is a crazy math teacher.

Good job.

Check the mental houses. Maybe someone escaped a few months ago.

-Okay. Go ahead. -Where are you going?

I won't tell you or you'll think I'm a psycho, too.

Get to work.

-Hi. -The Mop is fine.

-Is she? -Yes.

That's good. Wait here.

Artiom, come back later to wipe the blackboard.

Hello, Anna Nikolayevna.

Hi.

Are you here to arrest me?

-You asked me to come. -Did I?

I'm Viktor Vershinin's father.

Now I see.

Anna Nikolayevna, I wanted to apologize for your arrest one more time.

Your Vitia's behavior…

I know. I know. Leaves much to be desired.

Yes. But you don't have time for this.

The thing is, there was another murder yesterday.

Just like you predicted.

Fortune-tellers predict. I'm a mathematician.

Could you do your calculations one more time?

He might kill someone else.

So why are you still here? Go! Catch him.

I'm sure you can help us.

No. I don't have time…

Vitia's father.

Good luck.

No running in the halls.

What's this?

Well?

Well?

No luck.

There are thousands of people here.

As I said, no luck.

Anna Nikolayevna.

Anna Nikolayevna.

Is it true that math can help find the culprit?

Math can do anything, Vitia.Goodbye.

Strange. I thought only God could do anything.

I don't think we can have a fruitful discussion on the subject.

But it's a pity that you underestimate the power of mathematics.

-You don't even try to grasp it. -How do I grasp it?

First, you need to learn to ask correct questions.

So if everybody learns to ask correct questions,

they will learn to understand mathematics?

Yes.

Even him?

Depends on how you word the question.

Okay.

Aleksey Ivanovich, which one is bigger, 2/3 or 3/5?

Or let's put it this way.

What's better, two bottles for three or three for five?

Two for three, of course.

Thank you. See you tomorrow.

See you.

Learn to ask correct questions.

We have 28 matches already. No, 29.

Who are they? Are there any with criminal record?

The face recognition program doesn't work as perfectly

as the TV will make you believe. We have only three identifications.

Go on.

Yes.

Too bad you left me, Galois.

Your advice would be most opportune.

Anna Nikolayevna.

Can you teach me math?

That was the right question. Come in.

So far nothing bad has happened.

You need to come to the city hospital now. Your son is an anaphylactic shock.

What do you mean?

I think it was seafood. Viktor felt ill, and the ambulance took him.

I didn't have enough information to give Viktor the right food.

It's a good firm. I always order the pizza from them. With seafood.

I've finished the calculations. Give this to him later. Goodbye.

Goodbye.

Yes?

Anna Nikolayevna, it's Vershinin. Viktor's dad.

He is okay… and I wanted to apologize.

I'm glad Viktor is okay.

I was going to ask about your calculations.

Well, this is--

Anna Nikolayevna.

Anna Nikolayevna, are you okay?

Anna Nikolayevna, answer me.