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STAR MEDIA

Aleksandr Domogarov

Mikhail Porechenkov

Yekaterina Vilkova

Pavel Trubiner

Written by Igor Ter-Karapetov

Production director: Sergei Ginzburg

Scory by Gleb Matveichuk and Andrei Komissarov

First cameraman: Vasya Sikachinskiy

Art director: Yuri Konstantinov

Costume designers: Zhanna Lanina, Kseniya Mavrina

Make-up by Anastasiya Ramlya

Casting by Yekaterina Struchkova, Anastasiya Lenova

Edited by Olga Proshkina, Irina Michurina

Sound producer: Leonid Shushakov

Post-production producer: Artyom Yeliseev

Produced by Andrei Anokhin, Vlad Ryashin

Kill Stalin

Stop! Stop! Stop! Come on, drive out.

There’s a shell crater in the beginning of the street,

can’t drive through there, you can only get in through the backdoor.

Major Letyagin. Lived alone in the apartment,

his mother evacuated, his father died before the war.

This way.

Was the door open?

No, we breached it.

The Major was pretty tidy, but his apartment’s a mess.

They were looking for something. Could have been some papers.

Yes, we were told at the district HQ that someone’s coming.

A woman’s been here.

That’s what I said, he lived here with his mother before the war.

She evacuated later.

Could be.

But a woman’s been here. Very recently.

Thank you.

‒ Mashkov Alley, building… ‒ …six.

Did we come in from Zhukovsky St.?

Yes.

What’s the exact address?

6, Mashkov Alley.

Okay, write down the leads.

Polina Serebryakova, 20 to 22 years old.

Gray eyes, dark blond hair, medium height.

Possibly dressed in a black fur coat with a white headscarf.

Be careful when taking her in, possibly armed with a TT pistol.

Oh yeah, during the arrest pay attention to her right hand,

there could be a bruise in between her thumb and index finger.

‒ From the gun? ‒ Yeah.

A Tokarev is a heavy gun, it’s not for frail dames.

You’re like Pinkerton.

How did you do that?

I know that girl.

Or I thought I did.

Sorry.

Negative.

Who are you, what are you doing here?

What are you doing here?

Major Petrov, acting in lieu of the Moscow District Commander’s aide.

Captain Berezhnoy, NKVD Special Department.

Can I see some ID?

Sure.

What about yours?

Well, what are you doing here, Major?

I’m here on Commander’s orders.

There are some important papers in Major Letyagin’s apartment.

Here’s the inventory.

Okay, look for it.

Who did this to him?

Robbery.

Yep.

Not exactly a pleasant guy.

He’s from HQ, they’re a special breed.

If they take the papers, we have nothing to do here.

Just wait a second.

‒ Didn’t you say it was a robbery? ‒ A robbery?

They didn’t even take the suitcase.

Have you seen the potatoes and chocolate in the kitchen?

What kind of thief wouldn’t take the food these days?

And killing a Red Army officer… too risky.

Well, Major, have you found anything?

Yes, all the papers are there, just like in the inventory.

I’m taking them with me.

It’s your right.

Good day.

Lieutenant.

Yes, sir.

Seal off the apartment. An investigation team is going to work here.

And pass along the leads on the girl faster.

Yes, sir.

Damn it, should have looked for the papers from the start.

Well, how were we supposed to know?

Now we’ll never find out.

Don’t worry, we will.

Is Sechin at the institute?

Yes, there are only five places where someone could

find the catalyst for the explosive. We left our people in all of them.

Don’t go anywhere, I need you here.

Yes, sir.

Is it going to take long, artist?

I don’t remember how her eyes looked.

Grey.

Could be a little short-sighted.

Thank you. Yeah, yeah. Definitely European eye shape.

A bit big… but that doesn’t make her look any worse.

I think that looks like her.

To the print shop.

Maybe she’s innocent.

Maybe she’ll come to the police herself.

She could not even be alive.

Carry out your orders, Lieutenant.

Yes, sir.

Sir, Captain, sir, permission to report.

Granted.

We were late.

Agness Leonidovna Terekhova

was murdered in her apartment tonight. The apartment was robbed.

They’re getting bold, the scum.

Yeah, now they definitely know we’re alive.

Yes, the disguise failed. The building could have been watched.

But I think tonight we finally caught the group’s scent.

‒ Why do you think that? ‒ I just do.

Letyagin’s murder could have nothing to do with our case.

That’s it, in a half hour all the police patrols in Moscow

will have her sketches. I went by forensics.

Here are the test results on the shell casing from the apartment

and the rounds that killed Letyagin.

The same gun killed Letyagin and the German bomber pilot

who brought the saboteurs here.

What pilot?

So the district’s second in command was killed by the same man.

Or woman.

Have you seen this woman?

No, I haven’t.

Thank you.

Have you seen this woman?

Good day, have you seen this citizen?

No, I haven’t.

What have you got?

Seven minutes, sir. It’s a long way.

Well, if it’s a long way, why didn’t you think about that sooner?

Get a move on.

Hello.

Good day.

Excuse me, are you coming from the city? I need to get to Kovrov.

Well, we won’t get to Kovrov, we’re going to Vladimir.

Why don’t you take the train?

I have no money for the ticket.

All right, we’ll take you along.

Would be a shame to leave a dame like that there.

What are you looking it? Start it!

Pulling the damn thing in circles… Grab it and go!

Come on, one. Two.

Are you from Kovrov?

I’m a Muscovite.

Good day.

Second Lieutenant Yasenok. Papers, please.

There you go.

Where are you headed?

To Vladimir.

Do you have any passengers?

Negative, it’s forbidden.

Have you seen this girl, by any chance?

She might have tried… to escape the city.

Let me have a look. The girl is…

Nope, we haven’t seen her.

Our regulations forbid that. We don’t pick up strangers.

Really?

Okay, carry on.

What did the girl do, actually?

Killed her roommate. A Red Army officer.

Well, if you see her…

We’ll report it, of course.

Captain Berezhnoy. No arrest yet?

Well, what are you calling for if there hasn’t been an arrest?

To report, huh. Well, you’ve reported already, go back to work.

They’ll catch her, she won’t go anywhere.

She won’t risk the train stations.

She could hitch-hike, she’s pretty enough. Or she could come in by herself.

She’d have come in by now if she’d wanted to.

She could have been taken away by force.

Yes, that’s a possibility if she’s seen or heard something.

If she had seen or heard something,

she’d be pushing daisies along with Letyagin.

The way it looks now, she’s either the killer or an associate.

It doesn’t look like anything.

She could have fled the crime scene when she heard something that shocked her.

Or she could have found out something about Letyagin that she hadn’t known.

What could she have not known?

She lived in his apartment, and for a pretty long time, at that.

Coming through. Who else doesn’t have a ticket?

Coming back from your shift?

Yep. And you?

Yeah, during the shift changeover, in the night.

All right, boy, get up.

You’re not old enough for a ticket.

You know what? The police was showing you some sketch…

Tickets!

Not showing, they were comparing me to it.

Who’s the one in the sketch?

The woman who killed a man, they say. Can you imagine?

Oh really?!

An armed criminal, that’s what the Lieutenant said.

Come through, lady.

Oh my god.

Look, Captain, don’t mess around with the morale.

An order is an order, and this is wartime, so yeah.

This Polina Serebryakova has to be found ASAP. I said ASAP!

So what if your people are coming back from a night shift?

I just had a night shift myself.

Excuse me, Major, sir.

You’re excused.

Hello.

I’m listening.

This is… this is… isn’t it…

Hands! What’s with the mitts?

Nothing, my hands are cold.

Igumunov, have you searched her?

Well, she came here herself.

Yeah, teaching you all is like talking to a brick wall.

Yes, sir, searching. Put your hands higher.

I wanted to tell that I’ve been to Major Letyagin’s

apartment shortly before he was killed.

Well, show me your hands.

I could see who shot him.

No weapons. No marks that were listed, either.

Well then, citizen Serebryakova.

Sit down, sit down.

Don’t be shy.

Here’s the arrested.

I was told she came of her own free will.

Yes, sir. We arrested her in the precinct.

Here is the detention protocol.

No weapons or marks on her hands were discovered.

I can read.

Why does she look like that?

Well, we searched her rigorously, we tore the inside of her coat off.

I read that those saboteurs can…

You read it where?

…that they can use the inside to… Well, in the books.

Books.

I’m sorry, Captain, sir, we’ll correct that.

Igumnov, follow me.

Yes, sir.

I told you to tear it off carefully! Yeah, teaching you all is useless.

Hey, mister, give me a cigarette.

What’s wrong with you, kid? Get out of here!

Captain, sir, I called all the precincts and cancelled the search

like you said, so that we don’t distract the police.

I’m sorry about her things. We had good intentions, Captain, sir.

Yeah, and it worked out as well as it usually does.

You can leave the coat, I’ll write it off.

Sir!

Kolyvanova, you here again?

I told you, sweetheart, I can’t accept you,

I don’t have the right to do that.

We’re the police, not the enlistment office.

Major, sir, yes you can! I’m not a kid anymore.

Yeah, you’re old enough to steal purses,

but not old enough for the front lines.

Sir, please!

Where is he?

He’s gone.

What’s wrong?

Got me a little bit.

Let me through.

All right.

She’s still a kid. I feel sorry for her.

When will it end!

Three murders, shootouts, explosions in the square…

When are we going to get results, huh?

We’re working on it.

Yeah, of course you’re working on it.

We have a traitor, and he needs to be found out.

Who’s in charge of that?

The best person for the job, don’t worry.

Well, ask them, then.

As long as our work is completely transparent for them,

we won’t get any results. They’re always ahead of us.

Okay, okay, calm down.

So that mess next to the precinct, what was it?

An assassination attempt on Serebryakova?

I don’t know, they could have been trying to get her, or us.

It’s hard to tell.

And I think they were trying to get her.

Sit down! Standing up like you’re on parade. Sit down!

Go on.

She’s more important to them than anything else.

The killer just didn’t know she’d be in uniform,

so he killed a different girl with his first shot.

That’s possible.

Is she in the HQ?

‒ Yes, in the office next door. ‒ Bring her in here.

Yes, sir.

So it looks like she’s very important to the saboteurs.

Or that’s what they want us to think.

Always exaggerating, aren’t you, Ivan?

Can I?

Sit down.

Your last name.

Serebryakova.

Well, Serebryakova. You have to tell us the truth.

Tell us what happened.

Major Letyagin is an old friend of mine,

he was a friend of my friend Olga Pavlova.

So I couldn’t be evacuated in time, and I ended up

on occupied territory without any papers.

Why don’t you start from when the world was created, then?

Tell us what happened in the apartment.

I’m telling you the whole story so you can understand

why I didn’t go to the police right away.

Kostya has done a lot for me.

And you and him, were you, I mean, as a man and a woman…

What?

Well…

Did you live together?

Yeah, that’s the word.

No, of course not! He’s just a friend.

And what did that friend do for you?

He forged a passport for me and gave me some papers

so that I could go to Ufa with some institute.

Well, why didn’t you?

My money and papers were stolen at the train station,

I had to go back.

I’m telling you the whole story so you understand

why I didn’t go to the police right away.

Kostya has done a lot for me.

So the group hasn’t been destroyed.

No, it hasn’t. It’s going to continue its work.

Did you find out what I told you to?

Yes.

Here are the copies of the documents,

they’re top secret.

You do understand I’ll be very easy to find out.

Polina, what the hell are you doing here?

And the important thing is, finding out something like that

about someone close to you…

He was like a brother to me, and it turns out he’s with the Nazis,

that he was killed and I’m suspect.

Tell us, if it wasn’t for the murder, if you weren’t wanted,

you’d run away just like that?

You wouldn’t come in to tell us anything about Letyagin?

I don’t know.

Would it have been easy for you to betray a friend?

They’re interrogating the people on the bus

and making a sketch of the second suspect.

Yes. Yes, sir.

Carry on, I’ll be back.

Well, do we have anything?

Here’s the second suspect.

Composed off of the witness statements.

Take a look.

No, this isn’t him. That one was older.

All right, what about this one?

I don’t know, he looks like him.

And like this?

Well, you did see his reflection in the mirror.

That is him.

What else do you remember?

His rank, his insignia, his awards, the way the uniform fit him?

Infantry Captain. The uniform fit him very well.

I don’t remember anything else.

Papers belonging to a Polina Serebryakova

were found on the Kazanskiy train station.

Do I go pick them up or will they bring them here, Senior Major, sir?

They’ll bring them here themselves, come with me.

Go on.

Hess has been to Letyagin’s apartment.

How do you know?

Serebryakova just pointed him out, and there’s the dactylography report.

We need to find him.

Not just him, the entire group. They won’t back down.

Comrade Stalin’s life is in constant danger.

Yes, of course, I took all the copies

and Hess’s prints from the filing cabinet.

They’re pre-war.

I’ll take them, when it’s over, I’ll destroy them.

Get to work.

Here you go.

Thank you.

Tea, Captain, sir.

Thank you. Well, have you remembered anything else

about the Infantry Captain whose uniform fit him so well?

Drink the tea, it smells good, doesn’t it?

I remembered something.

The lobby where the coat was stank of dogs.

You know, the wet dog smell.

Our Infantry Captain serves at a doghouse.

That’s almost like an exact address.

Thank you, Comrade Serebryakova.

There can’t be too many dog kennels left in Moscow.

Don’t thank me, your Senior Lieutenant helped me.

And another thank you for calling me Comrade instead of Citizen.

That’s him. The one with the dog.

Are you sure?

Yes.

Good boy, good boy. Come on. Work.

Well, do we take the Nazi?

Let’s take him quietly.

The Special Department will make him talk really quick.

What if we’re not able to take him quietly?

We will be.

Good boy, good boy, come on, come on.

Sit! Sit, sit.

Well, do we take him?

No, we watch him. Around the clock.

Come in.

You’re going to stay here for the time being.

Letyagin’s friends might be looking for you,

so try not to go out too often. Do you like to read?

Yes.

I have a good library. Well, there aren’t that many books,

but you there is what to choose from.

Here, in the kitchen, there’s tea, sugar, some grits and canned food.

This is Kuzya.

Well, if you need anything…

please call me at this number.

And those people downstairs are going to watch me?

They’re going to guard you. It’s for your own safety.

Here are the keys. Well, that’s it, feel at home.

Oh, and don’t forget to feed the cat, please.

All right.

Sir, Senior Major, sir.

Come in, come in.

Good news?

Yes, sir, good news. Hess has been found.

‒ Sir down. ‒ Thank you.

Well, what do you think you’re going to do?

I ordered my men to watch him around the clock.

You’re waiting for him to lead you to the others.

Yes, sir.

What about Comrade Beria’s order?

I remember the order, Senior Major, sir,

but I don’t think we should forget about the danger

that surrounds Comrade Stalin.

Or about what might happen if the assassination succeeds.

Well, what do you suggest I do, not tell the Commissar anything?

I suggest we keep silent for now.

All right, I got you. Very well, go back to work.

Yes, sir. Comrade Senior Major.

It’s a question of two or three days.

All right, go back to work.

Yes, sir.

Hey there, big gal.

Let me through.

He’s working in the dog house since 12.

He really was on an assignment.

That’s smart, we only checked the ones who arrived in October.

We need to think about the other ways to cheat the brass.

Go on.

All of his work contacts are discovered

and being checked. Two soldiers who work with dogs,

the cook, the food distributor from the mess, and so on.

All are misses.

Probably, but we have to check them.

And after 3 o’clock it’s like an interesting movie.

Our Ponomarenko lives on Verkhnyaya Radishevskaya St.,

the doghouse is next to the Novospassky Pond,

where the monastery used to be.

So he gets there in about thirty minutes, and gets back in around two hours.

Different route. Why?

That’s unclear. He went down the river to Sarinskogo St.,

from there to Dinamovskaya, and then Vorontsovskaya St.

all the way to Taganka. And then he makes some circles here.

And then he gets back home by Nizhnyaya.

Could he have been waiting for someone?

It looks like he was waiting for someone on Taganka,

but why make those circles?

Well, maybe he has a timetable for everything.

For going to one place, standing around in another,

sitting down in a third one.

So the whole route is a sign for someone?

Look, we need to time Ponomarenko’s entire route to the second.

Got it, will do.

Captain, sir, let me join in for a day, too.

I’ve gone sour with those test tubes.

Right, we’ll relieve you.

Hey, they say you found a girl.

I did.

And why were you playing such a sad tune, did you have a fight?

Well, a bit.

“There ain’t no tale that’s more worth catchin’

“than the one about the love of Sechin.”

Oh, go to hell.

All right, soldiers, be quiet.

Got any other thoughts?

Well, if it turns out he repeats the same route,

we could film him with a camera.

Say that again.

Well, look, he’s sending someone signals.

Well?

Our guys, the ones who are watching him,

can miss something, but if we film him, we could see what they missed.

So we got a movie, “An Enemy Behind Our Lines.”

Starring our Ponomarenko.

Well, that’s a good thought.

All right, tomorrow you go with Dronov,

check out the entire route and see how many cameras

and how much film we’re going to need.

Yes, sir.

Right, go to work. I’m expecting a report this time tomorrow.

Yes, sir.

He’s going to adjust his boot-top again.

It’s like he’s sending a signal.

Time.

15:42, like yesterday.

Not a single face is the same.

I don’t have anything either.

We’ll need to watch it on a screen, could get something from their looks.

Right, 3:25. Ponomarenko has long since left the doghouse.

Why isn’t Dolin calling?

Dolin?

I sent Mitrokhin and him to search the apartment.

Let’s go.

I kind of feel nervous.

Let’s go, let’s go.

Where’s Dolin?

Take out your gun.

Damn it.

Well, Dolin…

They cracked his skull, the bastards.

Well, let’s go.

What do we do?

How do I know?

Are we going that way?

We were ordered to wait, so wait.

There’s at least two of them. We’re going in.

Good day.

Berezhnoy, we have an order!

Everyone, down on the ground!

Get up. The ones next to the trucks in the street,

are those your guys?

Yes, there are!

Have you found anything?

Look, you don’t understand…

I understand everything perfectly. It’s an order and I know whose it is.

To the street!

You’re going to help me clean all of this up, got it?

Quick!

Put everything in its place.

Let’s go!

Was it like this?

I think so.

You think so or was it like this?

Where was the vase?

On top of the cabinet.

Was the rake here? I’m talking to you!

I don’t remember, I have concussion of the brain!

Brain? What brain? Idiots!

What are you doing?

If we didn’t have time to clean it up,

let’s mess it up.

Right, let’s go.

What are you doing, Comrade Captain?

In the car, quick!

Into the car or I shoot you!

Come on, come on.

And be quiet.

What are you reaching for your gat for?

You better watch the furnace.

Sorry.

Right. I don’t think anything else is burning.

Well, do you want me to help you me clean this up?

No, thank you, I’ll do it myself.

All right.

Shut the furnace door when you leave, got it?

Okay, okay.

Hello, Marya Ivanovna.

They almost burned the house down, I had furniture in there!

Sorry, sorry. Won’t happen anymore.

You won’t get away with this, Captain Berezhnoy!

I did everything like you told me to, and he threatened me with a gun!

How do you mean?

I was just walking in, and he took his gun out

and almost shot me! I almost soiled myself.

Well, it happens, old man, sorry.

It’s all right, I’ll be watching him twice as much now.

That’s right, watch him.

Captain Berezhnoy listening.

Got it. Yes, sir.

End of Episode Four.