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Episode 38 ROBESPIERRE'S TALISMAN

All right, disperse now!

You can't be here.

JEWELER

Oh, well, this one is obvious.

Murdered... and robbed.

Go on, tell me

how this human tragedy transpired.

- I left after midnight last night. - Right.

The master was alive then.

And he locked the door behind me.

But the door isn't broken.

Unlocked with a key.

So he let them in himself.

Who else has a key to the shop?

I do.

ST. PETERSBURG

Right...

Pass me the caviar, please.

Caviar...

There you go, caviar. - Thank you.

And more tea.

And more tea...

Tea...

And sugar while I'm at it.

Thank you.

Are we going to the exhibition today?

Exhibition? Exhibition...

Lizon, you know, I somehow feel tired...

I don't know, tired for no reason.

So, I think I won't, but you should go alone, if you want to.

No.

It's improper to go alone.

Why improper?

Well, it would be improper in Zatonsk,

but here in St. Petersburg, you can go alone wherever you want.

So put on your best gown,

take the carriage and go.

I won't mind at all if you

develop your artistic taste.

When will we finally get married?

- Married? - Married.

Um, Lizon...

We need to talk.

Good day, Doctor.

Good day, Yakov Platonovich.

Who is this?

This is Mr. Sinyavski, the jeweler.

His shop was robbed last night,

but you must have heard about it.

No, I've been busy with something else.

Anna Viktorovna has sent me.

She apologizes for not being able to come today.

Yes, yes... It's too bad

but apparently, I will have to learn to do without her now.

I'm afraid so.

So, what happened to the jeweler, how was he killed?

At first glance, it looks like a suicide.

He stabbed himself with a knife right in the heart.

But you must admit this is somewhat strange...

Very strange.

Can you determine the time of death?

Sometime between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.

I can't be more specific.

Thank you, Doctor. I must go.

You are beautiful, Lizon.

This is the time of your

very first and sweetest blooming.

Very soon you will meet someone with whom you will be truly happy.

And I won't leave you

until that blessed day.

You can count on my money.

You can count on my most devoted friendship.

So, you're bored with me?

Not--

You can see yourself that we are too different.

If, for example--

- Excuse me, Pyotr Ivanovich. - Yes?

A telegram for you from Zatonsk.

Well... Who? What?

Oh, this is from Anna.

Master Qi...

Master Qi is somewhere on Nevsky, isn't it...

Well then, I'll be dressing now, get it ready.

- Yes, sir. - All right. Yes, I'll go too...

I'll see you tonight, my dear, see you tonight.

Just a moment...

Ignat, get ready,

and prepare the second carriage for Yelizaveta Gavrilovna.

A lady came, you say.

Can you describe her?

No, she was wearing a veil.

The master was looking forward to her visit.

That's how much he wanted to buy this thing from her. - The snuff box?

Have you see it?

Only in passing, in his hands.

He was so happy...

You see, the master was convinced it was

that snuff box, Robespierre's talisman.

Mademoiselle Lenormand, the famous fortune-teller,

said to Robespierre that he would die on the guillotine in a year.

Robespierre didn't like that at all.

I can imagine.

What happened next?

Then he went to the Paris sorceress Catherine Theot,

and she made for him a protective talisman, a snuff box.

She allegedly summoned some evil spirit to help her,

and its image appeared on the inside of the lid.

And whoever looked at it would lose their will

and blindly follow any orders.

How horrible...

I heard that this object

had been stolen from a collector in Paris a while ago.

Well, Yakov Platonovich, Paris isn't exactly a next town over.

My point exactly.

I suppose the snuff box is gone with the other jewelry?

The master put it in the safe yesterday.

Could it still be there?

Let's go.

How can I help you, sir? (*hereinafter a Chinese accent)

To be honest, I'm not sure.

I was recommended this place.

The general is very tired.

His army is fighting poorly.

Ge-- General?

What general?

It's liver, sir.

This organ is to man

like a general on the battlefield.

And you don't take care of your liver at all.

Foot massage

helps the free flow of qi.

It's very important.

Otherwise, stagnation, pain, heavy thoughts.

I don't understand, to be honest, I don't understand anything.

You are a clever man.

I ho-- I hope I am.

It's not good.

Not good, man should be stupid and merry.

The liver point.

Good day! I was told you did tattoos.

Come back in an hour, sir!

Did he say "tattoos"?

I think now I know why I'm here.

Did you do this tattoo for anyone?

Zhurong? It's possible.

Yes. A year ago, in December.

A young man, with a beard, very drunk...

His friends said it was a bet.

Here.

Was that him?

Yes, him.

So, he got a tattoo last December

because he had lost a bet.

He was very drunk, very.

I wanted to cure him, but he wouldn't let me.

Thank you. Take this, thank you,

you have been a great help.

Take care of your liver!

Freeze! Police!

A Chinese boy...

Who are you?

All right, I have to send a telegram to the Zatonsk police.

No, wait, I have to go there.

I'll send a telegram on my way to the station.

Has Yelizaveta Gavrilovna left? - Yes, Pyotr Ivanovich.

She left a letter for you.

What letter?

Well, why didn't you say something?

I was looking for love but I couldn't find it.

Gosh.

You are just like your brother.

I am leaving you for Taube,

He is as rich as you are.

Well, Taube it is.

My eyes...

Must be pepper dust or something like that...

Open the safe.

I can't feel my eyes, Yakov Platonovich.

Here it is.

Wait, sir.

If it is that snuff box, you should take precautions.

Hypnosis doesn't affect me.

Yakov Platonovich, he is right, you shouldn't risk it.

Hypnosis applied by a person is one thing,

but this is completely different, maybe this magical object...

What is it?

Take a look.

This is that

gnostic rooster...

Anna Viktorovna was talking about.

Abraxas.

You did go out after all.

Don't be angry, Yakov... Platonovich,

we just took a brief walk by the house.

I hope you have brought us good news.

The merchant, the judge, and now the jeweler,

the same trick has been used on all three.

The criminal escaped but now we know precisely who to look for. - Yes.

Yes.

A young Chinese man.

Chinese?

Wait, two days ago I hired

an Altai boy...

to help me around the shop.

His name was Umrat.

It might be him, but you have nothing to be afraid of.

He is powerless without the box.

I hope you hid it safely?

Of course. It's in the safe at the precinct.

It's safe there. After all, this is a magical object we're talking about.

I have never heard of these things before.

Thank you for enlightening me, Yakov Platonovich.

There is a big chapter on the subject in The Encyclopeadia of Heresies and Dangerous Cults.

You must have read it, Yakov Platonovich.

I have never read this book.

Didn't you order it at the bookshop?

An encyclopeadia of heresies?

No, I did not.

But you told me that--

It's him! Umrat!

He won't get away this time!

Stay in the house!

Freeze!

Where is he?

Where is the Chinese boy?

There he is!

Mr. Shtolman, The Encyclopeadia of Heresies and Dangerous Cults.

How strange.

Are you surprised?

But I clearly remember you saying that Shtolman ordered that book.

Must have been some kind of mix-up.

And what does it matter now anyway?

Who are you?

Umrat.

- How long have you been in town? - A month.

A month?

And three murders on your conscience already!

I didn't murder!

Suppose you didn't murder them yourself.

Do you recognize this?

Where did you get it?

A gentleman gave it to me.

This one?

There you go.

Things are getting clearer, gentlemen.

Go on.

Tell us, all the details, in order.

He told me to plant it on saadi chuga.

What? What saadi chuga?

The merchant. Semion Nikitich.

- Rukavishnikov? - Yes.

He gave me money, lots of money.

Kind gentleman.

Did you buy the snuff box back from Judge Kudryavtsev's widow?

Yes.

Good...

What about the woman?

The woman who came to the jeweler. Your accomplice?

Where is she now?

- There is no woman. It was me-- - What?

So it was you...

Dressed as a woman...

Well, whom did you give the money, tell me now!

The gentleman... I left it in the corner of the barn.

We have to go to Kliuyev's house immediately, the money must still be there.

I'm waiting for you, Anton Andreyevich.

Go!

Hurry, hurry!

Who gave orders to the victims? You?

Yes.

I would say, "Give me what you have and go to paradise."

So, you knew what you were doing.

You knew that they would kill themselves.

You will have a hard time proving that, Mr. Shtolman.

Are you going to present a magical object to the court?

The jury will laugh you down.

Don't you worry about the jury.

You'll get a secret trial, and I know what the sentence will be.

You know nothing.

Anna.

I need to talk to you urgently.

Free him.

You will shoot yourself in an hour.

Yakov Platonovich...

Yakov Platonovich!

Yakov Platonovich...

What are you doing, what's wrong with you?!

- What's going on? - What's wrong with you?

Yakov Platonovich!

What's this?

Ludus finiit.

"The game is over."

Yakov Platonovich, where is the snuff box?

Yakov Platonovich, where is the snuff box?!

Where is the arrestee?

Where is he?

Sir, an urgent telegram from St. Petersburg.

From Mr. Mironov.

Why would he send a telegram to me personally?

What?!

[speaking in Altai]

See you tomorrow.

Was I sleeping?

Apparently so.

You were hypnotized!

The snuff box.

- What? - The snuff box, it's been stolen!

By whom?

By the Altai boy, I suppose.

He escaped!

But that's not the most unfortunate part.

Here is the most unfortunate part.

What is this?

Mr.... Kliuyev

got a tattoo on Nevsky a year ago.

Lost a bet.

But Krutin was already operating in St. Petersburg a year ago.

It means it wasn't Kliuyev...

We have been fooled!

The criminal is still at large.

Where is Anna Viktorovna?!

Polina...

She went to the dressmaker for a wedding dress fitting.

Anna Viktorovna was with her...

They never showed up at the dressmaker's.

An abandoned carriage has been found

just outside Zatonsk.

Revolver.

Don't worry, it's all over.

- Kliuyev wasn't-- - No.

But what about...

Do you want to know everything?

Why am I here with you?

We have met before...

hundreds of years ago.

You are my sister in faith, one of us.

I got you to take that stupid book so that you would remember everything.

Consolamentum.

Consolamentum.

Drink this.

You will need your strength.

We have a long road ahead of us tomorrow.

Here is the carriage, sir!

I think they got on another one!

There is a fork here! They could have taken either path!

We sent riders in both directions, nobody has returned so far.

Why did I leave Pelageia at the Mironovs'...

I should have known that with Anna she would be in danger!

You still don't get it, do you?

Don't touch me, or I might not be able to control myself!

We must search the nearby woods, they could have walked!

Chernyshov, take that side!

Yes, sir! Follow me!

Anna...

You have to wake up.

I know that you can hear me.

Hurry, my darling girl.

Time is running out.

Looks like footprints.

Anna.

Anna!

Anna!

Yakov...

Yakov...

Anna!

I'm here... here...

Come on, wake up...

Wake up.

Here, sir, take this.

Anna Viktorovna,

where is Pelageia?

There.

The cabin... the hunting cabin in the woods...

Yakov...

Yakov...

Take her to the hospital.

Yakov--

It�s going to be all right. I love you.

I love you. - Yakov--

- Trifanov, with me! - Yakov--

Wait, Anton Andreyevich!

That way.

- There's nobody in there. - Stay here!

Are you crazy?

Pelageia!

Polina, stop!

Pelageiushka, it's me, don't be afraid!

She doesn't know what she's doing...

Get down, you're next!

She's hypnotized, she's Krutin's victim!

She is Krutin!

Pelageia...

You have killed my fiancee...

I'm sorry...

I should have figured it out sooner.

You've made a mistake... You've made another mistake!

She fooled us all!

Even the secret police...

She's alive, sir!

Oh, I forgot all about it. (The Encyclopeadia of Heresies and Dangerous Cults)

- She convinced them that she was Krutin's victim-- - No!

...that we had to look for a man with a tattoo on his chest...

It was Kliuyev!

He just sent the letters!

Thinking that he possessed magical powers...

And then she set him up and killed him...

She would have killed you too...

She...

loved me...

She did...

Anton Andreyevich...

Are you...

Are you ready to hear me out?

This...

This woman was at least 35 years old.

Of course, she looked much younger.

I suppose, it was because she kept to a strictly vegetarian diet.

And another thing...

She was a virgin.

It's impossible.

No...

No...

I'm not Raymonde...

I want to live my life...

With him, now... Yakov...

Yakov!

Yakov...

I'm here.

I'm here.

It's all over.

She is dead.

What am I to make of this, Yakov Platonovich?

Anna Viktorovna is still weak.

I'll ask you-- no, I insist that you cut your visit short.

No... Doctor, no!

Anna Viktorovna, my dear,

you are my patient, so I'll thank you to do as I say.

I'm staying here, Doctor.

She will get well soon, won't she?

She will certainly get well, don't worry.

ROBESPIERRE'S TALISMAN

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