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You know nothing about mathematics.

If you kill a killer,

the number of killers won't change.

What shall I do?

First of all, pick up your phone.

Second of all, wake up.

Yes?

I'm on my way.

THE MOP

EPISODE 4

Isn't it getting old?

What do you mean?

We keep meeting over dead bodies. It kills the romance.

-It's the second one in this month. -Second what? Dead body?

Very funny, Mitia. Hilarious.

A body with numbers.

What do you say, Katia?

The numbers are different,

but the killer is probably the same.

Same MO. A shot to the head, instant death.

It was a sharpshooter, like last time.

From 100 yards?

We are searching the houses the shot could be made from.

But I'm afraid they won't find anything like the last time.

It's a pro.

Some weird pro.

Instead of running away from the scene,

he comes back in spite of the risk and writes some numbers.

Yes, it is strange.

The first one said 89.

I would understand if it were one there and two here.

These numbers.

He leaves them right next to the body, so that we didn't miss them.

What does it mean?

Someone watches too much TV.

Mitia, did you notice

if the numbers at the first scene were the same?

I guess so.

I'm not the Mop. I can't remember all these numbers.

By the way, you should call her.

A body is a great excuse for a date.

Right, Katia?

Very funny. You are a regular standup comedian.

You are hilarious today.

I have nothing to say.

Vitia.

Why aren't you at school?

Why haven't you come for three days?

Okay, come in.

It says that we're losers.

What do you think about it?

Nothing. We are losers.

The killer is a pro.

But he hardly is a hitman. The MO is wrong.

He might be a SWAT or a commando.

No fingerprints, no one saw or heard anything.

In both cases, there was only one shot.

In addition to the numbers on the floor, he leaves identical notes with numbers.

Why does he do that? Is he trying to draw attention?

We have two bodies. What more attention does he need?

Maybe from the media.

He already has it. They say we're losers.

What are these numbers? Some kind of code or…

Listen, this Mop o yours,

she's supposed to be some math wiz, right? Go to her.

Okay.

Anna Nikolayevna, I'll make you soup.

Where is the salt?

Look over there.

And the pots?

Oh, the notebook! I was looking for it.

Vitia, I don't cook at home. I don't have the time.

Anna Nikolayevna, I'll be right back.

-Whoa! Stop. -What are you doing here?

What are you doing here? You're supposed to be at school.

-Do you have money? -Yes.

How much do you need? What for?

Come on. She's in there. I'll just make a quick run to get a pot.

What pot?

What pot, I'm asking you?

The number 18 repeats five times,

23 – four times.

Fifteen prime numbers.

I could extract the denominator of Riemann zeta function, but…

Anna Nikolayevna, please, no buts. I'm confused as it is.

It took several centuries to crack the Great Cipher, but…

No buts. I'll try to do it sooner.

The soup is almost ready.

It's my mom's recipe, by the way.

Where is your mother?

-It was a long time ago. -Long time ago isn't a precise definition.

Okay.

Fine.

Which number was first, 89 or 55?

You mean which body was first?

Yes.

-89. -Good.

-What's good about it? -It means there will be only nine bodies.

What if 55 were the first?

You should learn from your son to ask correct questions.

If it were 55, the number of bodies would be endless.

It's the famous…

probably the most famous sequence in the world.

The Fibonacci numbers.

It's simple.

Each number is the sum of the two preceding ones.

Like, 21, 34, 55, and so on.

It's easy to remember.

Fibonacci sounds like something from an Italian menu.

Focaccia, carpaccio, Fibo…

…naccio.

…cci.

…cci.

Right! The soup.

It's really simple.

Look. Zero, then one and one.

What's next?

-Two. -Two. Next?

-Three. -Three.

One plus two equals three. Next? Don't help him.

Two plus three…

-Five. -Five. And so on.

It's a brilliant sequence.

So it's an endless string, right?

It's very good that 89 went first and not 55.

So the next body will have 34 next to it, right?

-Right. -I hope there will be no next body.

Why is this sequence so famous?

Everything in the world can be described by these numbers.

The galaxy, the Sun, the Earth, every leaving thing.

I don't know, the number of petals on a flower,

the fish scales.

Looks like the killer is acting in accordance with this sequence.

Or rather, the Fibonacci coefficient.

It's what you get if you divide a Fibonacci number by the preceding one.

It's also called the divine proportion

or golden ratio.

Golden ratio?

Sounds pretty.

The Golden Ratio isn't even toilet paper now.

It's worth something, and these aren't.

What will happen now? Do we have something left?

Well, if we find a recycling place…

What happened?

We are penniless now.

Worse than that:

penniless and stupid.

It's good.

Dad, what happened?

Nothing. Everything's fine.

Thanks a lot. I have to go. It was delicious.

Don't thank me, thank Vitia.

Thank you, son. Don't stay late.

It is delicious.

You were right.

Maksim Senchenko, head of development, the Golden Ratio.

Andrey Bykov, deputy chief accountant at the same company.

So we have an avenging sharpshooter and nine potential victims,

if we believe the Mop.

We should believe the Mop. She hasn't made a single mistake yet.

What does she think about this?

She says she needs a code.

And I need a suspect.

He wants justice.

Vershinin, are you okay?

We need to find out who in the Golden Ratio management

is the next victim.

The 34.

Too late.

The MO is the same.

So the Mop is right, and there will be eight more murders?

One of the idiots who had handed over their money to these crooks went berserk.

Mitia, shut up.

What's wrong with him?

His parents had lost everything because of this Golden Ratio.

When the pyramid went down, his mother died of a heart attack.

And his father died a month later.

How was I supposed to know?

Everybody here knows.

It's you who doesn't care about anything except for Mr. Goncharenko.

I wouldn't say that. I care about you.

You were asked to shut up.

Hi.

Hi, Mitia.

What is this hall of fame?

The next Fibonacci numbers.

We need to protect all these bastards except for this one. Nazarov.

Nazarov.

Wait.

What's his first name?

Leonid.

But he doesn't need protection. He is already protected.

Ten years.

He must be bumming cigarettes from his cellmates right now.

Actually, he has been out for three years.

What? How?

Legally, of course.

Good behavior, great recommendations.

He was pardoned.

There is more.

A month ago he announced the new Golden Ratio.

He's been swindling people of their money like there's no tomorrow.

No I see why the sharpshooter started shooting.

…TAKE ME OFF THE CASE BECAUSE OF A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

What do you mean, take you off the case?

Maybe I should let you go.

Listen, I understand.

It's because of this Nazarov.

Did you know?

I found out today.

This bastard blames the government for him not paying people off.

And people believe him.

Of course it's the government's fault if they let bastards like Nazarov…

Kolia.

I remember about your parents, but we can't…

Listen, here's what we'll do.

Let Goncharenko take care of Nazarov and the rest of them,

and you look for the shooter.

We have no leads.

I hear there is an association of the Golden Ratio's cheated depositors.

They should have lists of everybody who was swindled by this Nazarov.

The killer must be one of them.

Pavel Nikolayevich.

The killer is doing our job for us.

Kolia.

I heard about their death, but I don't know anything.

I have retired.

Call me if you have something to say. It's in your best interests.

Of course I'm afraid. That's why I'm going to Nice.

I have a small house there.

Of course I'll call from Nice.

Liuda, cancel all tomorrow's meeting and get my panic room ready.

The police say I'm in danger.

What is it?

A bullet. Just like the one that might kill you.

First of all, a lot of people want me dead.

Second, I have bullet-proof windows everywhere.

And third, I'm very busy.

Here.

Are these all the victims.

Yes. In this city.

Here are some more.

And here.

And there.

We'll need to take these.

Well…

Anna Nikolayevna, hi.

Hi.

I meant to talk to you. Do you have a minute?

Thank you, I'm quite well.

You have seven minutes until we reach my house.

Or maybe nine if we take the scenic route.

The scenic route, then.

If you don't mind, of course.

Why not.

Anna Nikolayevna, you said there was a program

able to extract relevant information from a bulk of data.

Yes. Naive Bayes spam filtering. What do you need to extract?

The Golden Ratio.

This company swindled and robbed thousands of people,

and now someone is killing its management.

The Fibonacci sequence.

Yes.

We believe the killer

is one of the Golden Ratio's victims or their family members.

He's a sharpshooter, maybe an ex-commando.

Anyway, we need to find him.

If you say so.

Okay, I'll write a program,

but this time I'll need someone to enter the data.

But I can't.

You can't. But I have a very gifted student.

I'd like to involve him if you don't mind.

I'm all for it, Anna Nikolayevna. You can do it at the station.

All right. Deal.

Thanks a lot. Goodbye.

Tahir Affimov, 09.11.1957.

Ivan Gonchar, 09.10.1976.

Are you tired? Your eyes?

Lesia Sokolova, 08.05.1973.

Mikhail Popov, 01.10.1962.

Vladimir Vershinin, 09…

-Vershinin? -1962. Yes.

So many people don't know even basic mathematics.

Dad, look.

Is it them?

Yes, son. Your grandma and grandpa.

I loved them very much.

Mikhail Vashchenko, 01.10.1984.

Mariya Filatova, 09.10.1986.

Anna Shepeliova, 29.08.1957.

Where are you going? It's the other way.

Yes, but I need to warn another member of the pyramid

that he'll be killed soon.

It won't take more than five minutes.

They never listen to me anyway.

Then we'll go to the restaurant.

My glutton.

Valeriy Mikhaylovich, you have a…

This evening has just become interesting.

Vitia, I didn't know that your…

I'm sorry.

Yes, thank you. I'll do everything possible to find him.

Another murder.

What do you have?

I tried everything.

The statistical analysis, the coherency method,

probabilistic groups.

I need the cypher. It won't work without it.

It can be anything.

A book, a phrase, the Bible, Doctor Seuss.

Anna Nikolayevna, I don't see any sense in your presence.

Please leave my office.

Anna Nikolayevna, I don't believe you can't handle these numbers.

Anna Nikolayevna.

In three years, the company has attracted over 7,394…

-Hello, everybody. -Hi.

I was too late.

-The same MO. -The numbers.

What's this?

An invitation to the meeting of the New Golden Ratio JSC.

They explain in detail why they didn't deliver the last time

and why they will this time.

He is Valeriy Slesarenko, their PR manager. Was.

Twenty-one.

Get to work.

Dad said he'd pick me up soon.

Anna Nikolayevna, tell me about cyphers.

To hell with it.

I can't help the investigation.

Let me cook you something. Take everything out of the fridge.

Spaghetti in the fridge?

Yes.

We'll make pasta.

Okay.

I need oil.

No oil. We'll cook without it.

Did you know spaghetti break in three spots, three certain spots?

Richard Feynman based on it his famous fragmentation theory.

Your dad.

Anna Nikolayevna, please excuse the colonel.

He didn't mean it.

Let's continue.

No, he's right.

I really can't help the investigation.

I can't get into this avenger's head.

Anything can be a code.

We're going.

Okay, let's look through this Golden Ratio papers.

There's a fricking lot, I course.

Let's A fricking lot is at least less than everything in the world.

I need something. I don't know, statistics.

-Like this? -What is it?

It's from the crime scene.

An invitation or the shareholders of the New Golden Ratio JSC.

"A notice about the shareholders of the New Golden Ratio JSC annual meeting.

In accordance with the decision of the council of directors…"

That's not…

"…New Golden Ratio JSC.

In three years, the company attracted 7,394…"

Stop it.

These numbers are in the note. Go on.

The government banned the Golden…

Numbers. Read out only the numbers.

2, 13, 180, 1,900,000,000, 17.

That's it.

What? Go on.

That's all.

These numbers aren't in the note.

What does it mean?

It's a phone number.

The code plus the number itself.

Great job.

This is MP Oleg Nechiporenko's receptionist.

Opening hours…

Son, are you staying here?

Yes. Yes, sure. I…

That's good, Vitia. That's very good.

A phone number.

Good job.

Good job.

What does it mean?

Your Mop says MP Nechiporenko is involved?

No. She says

the avenger's note contains his reception's number.

What else does she say?

She says you have insulted math,

and she won't be helping you until you apologize.

To the Mop.

To math.

What do you mean?

Memorize the table of logarithm and recite it in the town square.

A table of what?

Logarithms.

Are you kidding me?

Pavel Nikolayevich, the entire department is busy

studying thousands o filed on the Golden Ratio's victims.

Her program can process them very quickly.

Okay. Buy some flowers and apologize

to her and to math on my behalf.

Be careful with Nechiporenko.

Don't tell him about the note with his number.

Okay.

Buy her a cactus. The Mop.

Oleg Igorevich will see you now.

What do you mean, did I hear about the Golden Ratio?

Here. All my deputy proposals regarding this financial pyramid.

My report to the police,

to the DA's office, to the national DA.

Oleg, do you know that Nazarov has organized a Golden Ration 2.0?

What do you mean if I know that? Just a second.

Here. Please have a look.

By the way, Dad and I eat only spaghetti at home now.

I've gone through 20 packs trying to understand the Feynman theory.

Right.

It took Feynman 20 years.

No. Dad will not live through 20 years of pasta.

No, this is the wrong way.

We need to find a new angle.

I don't understand.

If this Nechiporenko is in fact the Golden Ratio's archenemy,

why would the killer leave his number?

Great.

When we hit the rock bottom, somebody knocked on it.

Dad, the M-- Anna Nikolayevna and I are done.

Great job.

How did you do it?

We hacked into your database. Your firewall is shit.

Watch your tongue.

It is. But it isn't the point.

We did it to analyze not just the Golden Ratio victims

but also their families.

Here's what we've found.

You said the killer was probably with the SWAT or a commando.

Yes.

The program has analyzed the data and gave us 86 people,

but there were no sharpshooters.

So we changed the search conditions to look for a victim

or a family member of a victim of the Golden Ratio

who is also a shooter.

Here's what we found.

Igor Yashchenko,

international master of sports in biathlon.

He is the head of the cheated depositors society.

A motive? Does he have one?

He's not on the lists, but he has a motive.

His daughter was pregnant.

They invested everything they have 0into the Golden Ratio.

The baby had a grave congenital disease. They needed money for the treatment.

They tried to get it back. It finished in a tragedy.

Okay.

I see.

"Thank you, Anna Nikolayevna and Vitia".

Thank you.

Anna Nikolayevna.

Vitia.

Shall we get out of your office?

God forbid.

Where is he?

Who?

Your chairman Yashchenko.

He has just left.

Where to?

Yes?

That's for you.

Who is it?

Igor Yashchenko.

I'm listening.

Since you've figured me out, I have a proposal.

Stay away of this.

I'll finish what I started and turn myself in.

I have a counterproposal.

You turn yourself in, and we finish what you started.

You can't.

What does the MP have to do with it?

I told you that you can't do it.

That's why I have to do it or you

and your father, captain Vershinin.

I didn't have a chance.

You didn't have the balls.

The department has been working 24/7.

Obviously, he's lying low.

But there is an upside to it. I think the murders will stop.

He was in front of it for the entire time.

I can imagine what the reporters will call us.

Losers?

Worse.

Yes?

Is the MP in the office?

Call him. He can't show up there. I'm on my way.

There are numbers at the Nechiporenko office.

What numbers?

It's 13. The next number in the sequence.

How was he going to kill him?

Kill whom?

Wait. What time do you usually come to the office?

Always at 10.

Where is the mail?

Fire in the hole!

Why are you here?

Kolia, do you remember this poem?

And my heart beat with a rapture new, And for its sake arose again

A godlike face, an inspiration, And life, and tears, and love, and you.

I have no heart.

Why are you here?

Viktor said you were at the hospital, so I came.

Are you worried about me?

No. You missed two numbers. You can't do that.

I missed?

Yes. Look. Here, eight and five.

And?

These are the next numbers in the Fibonacci sequence.

And it's today.

Give me the phone.

Turn around. First give the phone to me.

I'll wait outside.

Don't.

This is simple arithmetic.

If you kill a killer, the number of killers in the world stays the same.

That's why it's important to kill all killers.

Put down your weapon.

Or what? Will you kill me, captain?

As you said, it won't change the number of killers in the world.

Please.

Come in. Finally.

You mean the case?

Of course not. You finally agreed to come to me.

The only way to beat the temptation is to succumb to it.

Yes.

I meant the dinner.

Okay.

…due to the law-enforcement agencies.

I have to mention the contribution from police

consultant Anna Shvabrina.

Anna Nikolayevna.

My mom loved these flowers.

Come in.

Yes. There are still real men in the world.

I don't mean you.

I mean Yashchenko the avenger.

The killer of four is already under arrested and giving his statement.

-What wine do you want? -Red.

He could have escaped after the explosion.

After the explosion and the death of the Golden Ratio 2 board members

the case took a new turn.

Why do we have this, Vitia?

By the way, Anna Nikolayevna, as you suggested,

I decided to look at the case from a new angle.

Did it work?

You will laugh aloud, but it did.

It appears the explosion was aimed not at killing the board member

but destroying the building which was protected by the state

as an architectural monument.

Who owns the building?

Svetlana Zinina.

The only board member who was absent from the meeting.

On the one hand, she got lucky. On the other, not so much.

I'll call you from Nice.

This Zinina came up with a wicked plan to set up Yashchenko.

In fact, she needed a permit to build a high-rise

in place of the monument of architecture.

She had been applying for years.

But either the officials wanted too big a bribe,

or the locals started protesting.

Yes. So she decided to blow it up. No bribes, no protests.

I it worked out,

she'd get away with it and earn millions of dollars.

Dozens of millions. It's the downtown.

Yashchenko thought the MP was behind all this,

so he coded his phone number into his message.

But surprisingly the MP proved to be an honest man.

Nobody thought about the other person having access to this number.

His secretary.

She is also under arrest and giving her statement.

As well as her brother who planted the explosives.

Zinina used these people blind.

Her brother didn't even think

that the bomb could kill his sister. So there.

I wonder if the Interpol extradites her.

It's none of our concern.

The only member of the criminal group who is still on the loose

is Svetlana Zinina, the Golden Ratio's board member.

At present she is hiding in Nice.

You should hold the glass with your left hand.

It's closer to heart, which helps you to understand the wine.

I thought you just wanted to get me drunk.

That, too.

So, Anna Nikolayevna,

I wanted to tell you…

Anna Nikolayevna, Nikolay Vladimirovich, dinner is ready.

What's or dinner, Viktor Nikolayevich?

Surprise! Your favorite pasta.

How nice. I love pasta.

It's actually my fault.

We were studying the fragmentation theory by Richard…

Richard Fr… Freud?

-Fi… -Fe…

-Bo… -Fi… Fo… Fi…

Fibonacci. All right.

-Let's skip it. -Whose fragmentation?

Freud somebody.

Hello there.

Freud is about psychology.

I can say with all certainty

that we are not losers like some reporters tend to call us.