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It's taking too long.

Don't worry. It's bad for you now.

How far along is she?

Six weeks.

It's not what matters the most. We love each other.

Well, son-in-law… We need to celebrate.

I can't. I'm driving.

Good for you.

Okay, then.

A husband of a general's daughter can't be a lieutenant.

Here.

What is it?

Open it.

We have information that she works for foreign intelligence.

The Mop?

Yes.

THE MOP

EPISODE 8

Are you thinking again?

No.

Really.

You won't understand.

I was thinking about why I was thinking about the Markov chain.

-I love you, too. -Yes.

In the probability theory it is a chain of random events

when for a constant present the future is independent from the past.

Can you believe it?

How can I explain?

Well…

Mathematically, the future is predictable.

Okay.

All right.

Your phone will ring now,

and you'll be summoned to a dead body and…

Yes?

I really do love you.

I'm on my way.

Markov chain.

Mom, we want to have the wedding banquet at Leonardo's.

Aren't they closing for repairs?

Maybe they'll open for general Sosnovskiy.

Okay. I'll talk to him.

Just let them finish their talk first. It is taking too long.

Yes?

Got it.

Okay, Mom.

I need to go. We have a body.

We'll have a grandchild. Grandpa and I want it to be a boy.

It's time for you to finish with this bodies business.

Bye.

Bye.

I need to go.

Of course. We'll finish it later.

Tomorrow at 11. My office.

Yes.

What do we have here?

You tell me.

It's still warm. Or rather, not cold yet.

I'll tell you more after the postmortem.

No ID, no wallet.

Here.

What is it?

Open it.

Do you know him?

Why don't you answer me? Do you know him?

No.

What do you say, expert Sosnovskaya?

At the first glance, there are no signs of violence.

His face is sort of…

I've seen a lot of dead bodies.

-Do you know what they have in common? -What?

None of them expected to die.

Funny.

I got it, son. How are you doing?

If she calls, let me know.

Okay, bye.

Mitia, have you seen Ania?

The Mop? I'm sorry, I haven't.

I can't find her anywhere.

Does Vitia know something?

I've just talked to him. He's at a camp. A math camp.

What about her phone?

The phone is here. It was on the floor when I came back.

I was only out for a couple hours.

Something is wrong.

We have information that she works for foreign intelligence.

The Mop?

Yes.

What happened?

I can sometimes predict what a woman will do but not why.

What did you want, anyway?

Can I go away for a few hours on personal business?

Katia doesn't have new data regarding the body anyway.

Go.

I'd be most grateful.

Goodbye.

You're just in time.

Sit down.

Thanks.

-General. -Boris Mikhaylovich.

Boris Mikhaylovich,

this man was found dead yesterday, and the Mop is missing.

This is very unfortunate.

Who is this man?

Where and under what circumstances was the body discovered?

Who else knows?

The body was found at the Madison Hotel swimming pool

when I was at your summer house.

Captain Vershinin, Katia, and I were at the crime scene.

No ID, no wallet, no cell phone.

Katia is doing the postmortem as we speak.

So, who is it?

Sosnovskiy.

Get to work.

Call me at any time.

From this minute on, this is a matter of state security.

It's also your case.

This man…

He is Sergey Levinskiy.

An MI-6 agent since 2005.

He was recruited when he was at Cambridge.

I converted him in 2010.

Now it transpires that the British knew.

So we suspect he is involved with the US, Great Britain, and Israeli intelligences.

Or rather was involved.

Hello?

Yes, he is my father.

Yes, we want to celebrate at your Leonardo's.

Right now?

All right. I'll be there in ten minutes.

General… Boris Mikhaylovich.

What does the Mop have to do with it? Anna Shvabrina.

That's what you are going to find out, Lieutenant Goncharenko.

But first, my dear son-in-law,

you need to find her.

You remember me.

You remember me.

I do.

And it's amazing.

I'm sorry for the disturbance caused by my people.

Disturbance! What do you want from me?

I told you so.

Is it true that you proved your innocence

from behind the grates using mathematics?

Actually, it was Fourier's harmonic analysis.

That's great.

I need you to do it again.

What's going on?

We're taking away the body. It's the State Security's case now.

We're taking the case, too.

General Sosnovskiy's orders.

Goodbye.

KATIA

Boris Mikhaylovich, I wanted to ask you…

Whether you are betraying your friend and your fiancée?

Yes.

I mean, we are responsible for those we have tamed and all that.

Lieutenant Goncharenko, if you have tamed someone…

it's your problem.

And if someone have tamed you, it's also your problem.

Hello?

Yes, baby.

I'm listening. You're my only daughter. Yes.

Seventeenth.

Well, seventeenth it is.

Yes. I'm very happy.

Love you. Bye.

So we're having a wedding in a week.

Off you go.

We need to close this case before the wedding.

Got it. Goodbye.

One more thing.

Mitia, make sure you always take your wife's calls.

-Got it? -Yes, sir.

-Off you go. -Goodbye.

My brother was accused of a murder he didn't commit.

This folder contains everything pertaining to the case. But first…

First the coffee. Double espresso, no sugar.

Two. No sugar.

Maybe you want to make a call to your family or friends.

They must be worried sick.

Especially if these friends are a police captain.

Tell him you need to be alone for a couple days to solve a problem.

A couple days.

If you solve it sooner…

You'll see your captain sooner.

Thank you.

My brother is the closest person to me.

Don't disappoint us.

This phone is untraceable.

I went out for literally 30 minutes.

It's not your fault, Katia.

Your dad's orders.

-I can call him. -Don't.

Ania is missing.

What?

Vershinin.

It's me.

Ania, what's going on? Where are you?

I need to be alone for a few days.

Where are you? What's wrong?

I'm fine. I just need to solve this problem.

Ania, what problem?

I'll explain later.

Also… I love you.

She hang up.

I don't understand.

She called you so that you didn't worry.

That's what scares me the most.

She also said that she…

Well…

She loves me.

Really?

She couldn't say that.

I suppose.

My brother Arkadiy is a good person.

He was arrested on the suspicion of killing his lover Viktoriya Selivanova.

No need for emotions. Read it out.

At 4:30 p.m. a maid at the Madison Hotel heard screams and noise

from a suite on the eighth floor and called the security.

At 4:37 the security knocked on the room door.

No one answered, and they called the police.

At 5:20the police entered the suite and found this.

Viktoriya was stubbed seven times.

Three of her wounds were fatal.

My brother was arrested on the scene, half-conscious and covered in blood.

There were fingerprints all over the knife and the entire room.

There was no one else there. No other fingerprints, either.

Anna Nikolayevna, you were arrested on a crime scene today.

Your fingerprints were on the murder weapon.

Why are you so sure that he is innocent?

He loved Vika.

It's not a mathematical category.

Then I'll put it this way: he was set up.

By whom?

Sergey Selivanov.

Viktoriya's husband.

We put him under surveillance.

Selivanov is organizing a fancy funeral.

He went to the sculptor to order a tombstone.

He is always surrounded by bodyguards. Invulnerable.

So she was with you last night when you got summoned.

She was talking about some chain, the predictability of the future.

Then she called me today to say she was okay,

from a number our experts were unable to trace.

If a woman says not to worry, it means it's too late to be worried.

Thank you.

We'll find her, I promise.

Our wedding is in a week.

She has to be there. Right, Katia?

And so do you, by the way.

Did she say anything else?

She said she needed to solve something.

Some kind of problem.

Selivanov is a clever, rich, ruthless man.

Just like you.

Yes. But I don't kill people.

We used to run a business together.

I know what this man is capable of.

What else was in the room?

Viktoriya's letter.

They found it in my brother's pocket.

She says their affair was a big mistake and asks him to stop stalking her.

I can read.

It's printed. Anyone could have done it.

The lab report says it was printed out on the Selivanovs' printer.

The desk clerk confirms

that Arkadiy rented the suite the day before it happened.

The CCTV cameras caught Viktoriya entering the suite at 4:15,

Arkadiy entering it at 4:23.

We can hear the maid knocking at 4:30.

More coffee?

The investigation believes that, having received the letter,

Arkadiy asked Viktoriya to meet with him and part on good terms.

-Did you talk to Arkadiy? -Yes.

He swears he never got the letter.

That it was just a routine date.

She comes in first, leaves the door unlocked.

But this time coming into the room is the last thing he remembers.

They found hydrocodone and acetaminophen in his blood.

He was taking them after a car accident on doctor's prescription, but…

Something to go with your coffee?

Yes.

Some quiet.

More coffee.

Thank you.

They figured the blind zones and turned off the camera at the entrance.

Everything will be fine. She will come back.

The coherency rule.

Your brother didn't kill her. I believe you.

If you are drawing a straight line, you need two points,

for a triangle – three points. But no more.

The letter, the fingerprints, the knife, the security cameras.

It's a lot.

And all this evidence points to your brother.

It was a set-up.

No one wears this lingerie to break up with someone.

The investigator is not going to believe it.

I want to see the security video.

Okay, guys, go.

You have a wedding coming. Go get some rest.

Call me if you need me.

-Bye. -Bye.

She enters the hotel at 4:11 p.m.,

enters the suite at 4:15.

Arkadiy comes up to the suite at 4:20.

4:23. Everything is just like in the report.

No. It wasn't like in the report.

-Do you see this shadow? -Yes.

And here?

-It's the same shadow. -No, it isn't the same shadow.

What is it?

Judging by the shadow, it's the crane beyond the hotel window.

The shape is the same, which means the arrow was immobile.

We can neglect the change in the sun position in seven minutes.

I don't understand.

They used to tell the time by the…

Sun.

We have the same time, but the position of the shadow is…

Different.

So…

Someone has moved the sun.

Or the earth.

Or rather the floor.

In fact, he came to the eighth floor, not the ninth.

The security video confirms it.

His elevator ride took three seconds longer than his.

He entered the elevator, pressed the eighth floor button,

but the elevator was overridden.

It's not that hard with the modern technologies.

Selivanovs' men knew everything in advance.

They probably rented the entire ninth floor.

All floors in the hotel are identical. They changed the doorplates.

Arkadiy entered the suite.

They knocked him off with a mix of hydrocodone and acetaminophen.

By that time Viktoriya was probably already dead.

They drugged Arkadiy to her suite.

Left his fingerprints on the knife, slipped the letter into his pocket,

and raised the alarm.

After that, they only needed to swap the records on the server,

which isn't that complicated.

I need a drink.

-Not coffee, though. -Have your drink. I'll go home.

Don't disappoint us.

-You're freezing. -Yes, very much so.

Let's drink champagne.

Okay. Champagne.

What is it? An AC?

What are you doing here?

You know very well what we are doing.

Sosnovskiy's orders?

I'm glad you came.

Where is Anna Shvabrina's phone?

With Anna Shvabrina.

Don't be like this.

According to our information, you had it the entire time.

It's still on you. I just don't know

whether it is your left pocket or the right.

It's the back pocket.

Here.

By the way, did she call you?

No.

Don't be like this.

We know she did, and she said she loved you.

Katia.

Lieutenant Sosnovskaya.

By the way, general Sosnovskiy wants to talk to you.

Do you have a warrant?

The general also hopes for your cooperation and help.

And yes, we have a warrant.

I need to feed the fish.

Nikolay Ivanovich is fed up.

I know how he feels.

Again, I'm sorry for the disturbance.

Since you refused the money, take this as a sign of gratitude.

This is unnecessary. The champagne was enough.

It's important to me.

It's only the best coffee maker in the world

and a yearly supply of coffee which, I hope, will last you a week.

Okay. I'm going home.

You and I are pros, captain, and we know the rules.

That's why, general, you aren't playing by the rules.

-Let's get to business. -Let's.

-Were you following her? -We were following him.

Did you kill him, too?

No, not us.

But he was killed, and I want to know who did it.

-Not her. I'm sure about that. -I know that.

According to the lab report,

he was killed yesterday between 4 and 5 p.m.

Anna Nikolayevna was with you at that time, right?

That's right, general.

What does your lab report say about the cause of death?

Heart failure due to absorption of excessive amounts

of hydrocodone and acetaminophen.

In fact, he was being strangled.

There are particles of cotton in his lungs

that got there after he lost consciousness.

The killers simply didn't have enough time.

So, who is he and why was he killed?

I can't tell you that.

I understand.

You probably want to know

what Miss Shvabrina was doing next to him and what she passed to him.

Yes.

I will definitely tell her you asked that when I see her.

Goodbye.

Vershinin, tell me, has Anna Nikolayevna ever use the word Fatum?

In a conversation or by the phone.

No.

Coffee?

No.

I'll never drink coffee again.

Sosnovskiy.

Yes, sir.

My car. Now.

Good morning again.

Will you tell me where you've been all this time.

No.

Solving applied mathematics problems.

Nothing serious.

No cause for worries.

I'm not worried.

Well, maybe I was when you said you loved me.

It was an accident.

You know there is no such thing.

Speaking about accidents.

Did you meet this person by accident?

I've never seen him before.

It's the café downstairs, by the way.

Maybe I was there for coffee.

What did you pass to him? Or he to you?

I don't remember this at all.

Where did you get this picture? Are you following me?

No. I'm not following you.

The State Security are, and not you but this man.

-What did he do? -Not much.

He died. Or rather he was killed.

His body was found yesterday at the Madison Hotel.

Madison?

How was he killed?

First they injected him with hydrocodone and acetaminophen and then strangled.

They found particles of cotton in his lungs.

Could these particles be from the hotel towels?

I don't know. We need to have them tested.

Time of death?

Can you tell me what's going on?

Yes. On our way.

Let's go. I'll tell you about the problem I'm working on. What?

Sit down, drink your coffee.

I remember now. I passed him sugar.

So there is no such thing as an accident.

It's so random that it stops being random. Markov chain. Let's go.

I love you, too.

Wait. Let me take a sip.

We can't tell yet who is behind the Levinskiy murder.

I'm not interested in Levinskiy.

Where is Fatum?

We're looking.

Do you realize what the stakes are?

Yes.

As far as we know, our counterparts also don't know…

I'm not interested in Mossad or the CIA.

I need Fatum.

We are looking.

Have you found out the connection between your math teacher and Fatum?

Not yet. It might be an accident.

I'm not interested in accidents.

I need Fatum.

Keep looking.

Yes, sir.

Wait for me here. I'll go myself.

Please don't ask and don't argue, all right?

Thank you for your trust.

Thank you.

Hello.

Hello. I didn't expect you. Is something wrong with the coffee maker?

No, it's fine.

I wanted to know what you are going to do about Selivanov.

My lawyers are working in it.

All we have is speculations.

It won't be easy, brilliant as they are.

That's why I'm here.

I have an offer for you,

Two coffees.

Thank you.

-Sit down. -Thanks.

I need to go to Rozenko. The sculptor.

He is making a tombstone for Vika.

I'll be there soon.

Okay, Rozenko and his office. Let's start.

We'll give a congruent answer. Right, Anna Nikolayevna?

The building where Rozenko's office is has seven stories.

Selivanov had been there before.

We'll recreate the interior of this floor with all details.

Ready in four minutes.

Let's hurry up.

We can't let anything spook Selivanov.

We need his confession.

It's the only chance to get an innocent man out of jail.

Even if it's one chance in 100, we'll use it.

Selivanov is entering the building. Two men with him.

Shit.

The elevator is the hardest problem right now.

If Anna Nikolayevna succeeds,

any button will send him to the floor we need him in.

Anna Nikolayevna?

Yes. I've taken over the elevator.

Now, Mr. Vershinin, we'll need your help.

And the recording equipment.

Hello, Mr. Selivanov.

Let's go.

Wait here.

Mr. Rozenko.

Mr. Rozenko?

How?

The same way you tricked Arkadiy and killed Vika.

Yes, I killed her, but you can't prove it.

Yes, I killed her, but you can't prove it.

Mr. Selivanov.

You're under arrest.

I'll take care of Vika's tombstone.

You look so pretty.

Thank you, Mom.

-What's this? -What?

There are some numbers.

Shit.

Where are you going?

Please be careful.

So, the poem.

"I'm not good with cotangent or sinus,

But I'm sure a plus is born out of a minus".

You know nothing about mathematics.

And I'm not ashamed of it.

-This man called me today. -Yes.

His brother Arkadiy got released.

He says he owes us now.

-Rather he owes you. -Well, that's what he said.

Hello. Congratulations.

Hello. Congratulations.

-You look great. -Hello.

You won't cop out of dancing with me this time.

I don't mind. I love salsa.

-Really? -Yes.

Where is the bride?

Are we starting soon?

Anna Nikolayevna, do you have any formula to rush up the bride?

I can try.

It would be great.

-Congratulations. -Thank you.

Your theory has been confirmed.

Levinskiy witnessed Selivanov's people carrying Arkadiy out of the suite.

So his death was an accident.

There is no such things. We know that.

Let's celebrate.

-Hello, everybody. -Hello.

-Please come in. -Thanks.

Actually, accelerator is physics.

Remember, the charge-particle accelerator? The Hadron Collider?

I didn't care too much about physics, either.

-Here comes the bride. -Congratulations.

Mitia, we have a problem.

I saw your dress before the wedding?

During the Levinskiy postmortem I found this capsule.

I was supposed to call but I didn't. I forgot.

So it opened just now, and there are some numbers inside.

I think this is very important.

Where is it? Can I have a look?

What shall we do, Mitia?

Okay, we need to tell the general.

We don't. There's nothing to tell.

I need a paper and a pen.

Let's go.

I don't know how I could have forgotten.

It must be the hormones.

Everything is under control. Don't be nervous.

Here you are. I've been looking everywhere.

Hi. What is this business of state importance?

Mom.

Guys, the guests are waiting. Katia. Dad is getting nervous. Well…

Anna Nikolayevna, what are we to do now?

Go and finally discharge your civic duty.

All right, ladies.

Come on, come on.

If you are watching this video it means I'm dead.

So it's high time to tell you about Fatum.

Fatum is…