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Katia!

Katia.

Did you bring it?

Yes.

Let's go.

She's with us today, even though it's against the rules.

Well, shall we?

It's not time yet.

Sonia, don't tremble, I'll throw you out.

By the name of Adonai who created Hell.

By the name of Adonai who created Hell.

I command you by the name of Kados, Kados, Kados.

I command you by the name of Kados, Kados, Kados.

By Lord Zhaim, Kantan, Anie.

By Lord Zhaim, Kantan, Anie.

I command you with the names of the demons who serve the Lord of the Dark.

I command you with the names of the demons who serve the Lord of the Dark.

Prince of Dark! Prince of Dark! Prince of Dark! Come out, show yourself!

Prince of Dark! Prince of Dark! Prince of Dark! Come out, show yourself!

One,

two,

three,

four, five.

Ready or not, here I come.

DETECTIVE ANNA

Viktor Ivanovich, I'm here to see you as the best lawyer around.

Ignatiy Demyanovich, I'll... I'll do everything within my power.

PRINCE OF DARK EPISODE 3

Please do. I'll spare no expense. My Katia is but a child.

What a tragedy. What a tragedy.

So we meet in that damned house and wait for... what was it...

Shtolman.

Yes, Shtolman. Well, all the best.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Good morning.

What happened?

-What happened is... -Vitia!

In Kurezin the marchant's house, the abandoned one,

his daughter Olimpiada was found with her throat slit.

God forbid that happen to you.

And along with her, Prokhorov's daughter Katia was in there, and Sonia Molchalina.

The girls were calling the devil, with all the proper attributes,

a knife, a mirror... Well, and there you have it.

There you have what? Did Prokhorov's daughter kill Olimpiada?

We don't know anything yet. They only found the bloody knife, the murder weapon.

Poor girl, what a nightmare.

The problem is that Prokhorov's daughter is 14 already.

If they rule she's guilty, then... she's going to a reformatory.

So strange.

What's strange to you?

That Prokhorov is strange. As if he's hiding something.

Here we go again. Don't even think about it!

Did you hear me?

Don't even think about getting involved in that business!

You're getting nightmares as it is!

Mom, I'm not a child anymore. I'm coming with Dad.

Yes. What? If Prokhorov really is hiding something?

That's dangerous for the girl.

God be with you, Anna, he's her father.

And you're mine. So I'm coming with Dad.

One gymnasium girl is stabbed to death, the other two are scared to death.

But no one is admitting any guilt.

You know, Yakov Platonovich, I honestly don't understand what motive

those two girls must have had.

The dead girl's blood is on both girls' dresses, Katia Prokhorova

and Sonia Molchalina.

Yes, but it is hard to believe one of them holding her down

and the other one striking.

One would really want not to believe that. What do you have on your end, doctor?

This is pretty obvious. She was stabbed from above.

A deep piercing wound.

I get the impression someone was standing behind her.

Hallucination. But a strike like that could hardly be done accidentally.

Yes. Vita brevis, ars vero longa.

Life is short, experience is deceptive, and science is vast.

All the best, doctor.

Anna...

-I think all these murder scenes are... -Are no place for a young woman.

Mom, I know everything you're going to say.

You know, you've been seen in the company of that Shtolman several times already.

I have only met with him about business.

What business could a young girl possibly have with a policeman?

Mom, you know full well what business it was.

Besides, Mr Shtolman came here from St Petersburg.

They say Mr Shtolman was fired from St Petersburg

for inappropriate behavior.

Really? What was it that he did, then?

They say he was seen smoking opium and visiting opium dens.

Mom, that's what his job is like.

He was there on police business, to investigate.

God, how can you say that?

-What's the flute for? -I'm going to play it.

Anna, I'm begging you. Anna, don't go!

Looks like no one was in the house except the girls.

What do you say, Anton Andreievich?

What can I say? Nothing is clear.

And more to the point?

Three gymnasium girls decided to call the devil and...

And one of them fell victim to it. So absurd.

And what do you think about it?

I think that's a very bad omen.

We need to call Anna Viktorovna as soon as we can.

Wait with that about Anna Viktorovna.

The girls couldn't have killed their friend, Yakov Platonovich.

The Kuriokhins lived here very recently.

And now... you have this.

What's beyond that door?

-A haunted place. -What?

Dad, what happened to Olimpiada's father?

He hung himself. A month ago. Didn't even leave a note.

And his business seemed to be going well... Wait.

Right, and now, after a little while,

someone kills his daughter in the same house.

That's very strange.

There are rumors now that Kuriokhin sold his soul to the devil.

Right here, in this house. And that's why his daughter was killed

when she tried to call the devil here herself.

You start believing this sort of nonsense against your own will.

Dad, why did Kuriokhin's widow and his daughter left this house?

She couldn't sell the house, but she couldn't live in it

after her husband's suicide either.

And she just decided the house was cursed.

All right, let's go.

Well, that's everyone. Gentlemen. Looks like we aren't late.

No, no, you're on time. Anton Andreievich, write it down.

Beginning questioning in the case of the murder of Olimpiada Kuriokhina.

Present are the witnesses Sofia Molchalina accompanied by her father,

Yekaterina Prokhorova accompanied by her dad,

and Mr Prokhorov's lawyer Mr Mironov.

This is my daughter Anna Viktorovna. My assistant.

Let's get to it. Well, tell us, girls.

How come you decided to get up in the dead of night and go call the devil?

Am I going to the fortress?

Silly girl. Who's going to jail you, you little silly girl?

Come on, answer him. Answer.

We were calling the Prince of Dark. By the book.

I guess you really needed him in the dead of night.

What happened next?

The mirror started shaking, and he started to break through to us.

And a terrible demon broke out.

Prince of Dark! Come out, show yourself.

What's wrong, young lady?

-Is everything all right? -Yes.

I'm sorry, gentlemen, my daughter is just very impressionable.

Girls, sit the way you were sitting that night.

Where was Olimpiada sitting?

Right here.

Anna Viktorovna will help you.

Show us exactly how it happened.

-And the knife? Tell them about the knife. -The knife?

What about the knife? The candles went out.

And it pounced on Olimpiada.

Who, the demon?

Who else?

Then you lit a match and...

Who was holding the knife?

Stupid, what are you talking about? I only cut my hand.

I only held it for a second.

-And then I put it down. -And then?

And then we left. What else did we have left?

Call an adult, for example. The girl was bleeding to death,

and you just left and went to sleep.

Yakov Platonovich, the girls were really scared.

She was sneaky. And I'm going to the fortress for this?

I didn't kill her!

I just cut my hand! And put the knife down right away!

Was there anyone else in the room? A stranger, an adult.

Who do you think you are? Dad, how dare he?

Gentlemen, we're pressuring the girls too much.

Okay, let's consider the first questioning over.

First? What, there will be more?

Of course. Girls, you can wait outside. And I will ask you gentlemen to stay.

You can stay too, Mr Mironov.

Girls, come with me.

Come on, come on.

Did you start all that recently? I mean, calling the devil.

A month ago. It was all Olimpiada. She's the one who started it all.

And now I'm the one to blame.

Why that house in particular?

Well, Lipka said that if that house is cursed, that's where the devil lives.

You learned the spell from a book. Who brought the book?

She brought it, Lipka.

So what, everything worked out?

It was working out. Then we heard those strange noises.

Then the floorboards started creaking. And then it happened.

The scary ghost.

They say you and Kuriokhin were partners. Friends, as far as I know.

What happened to him?

God knows.

Gambling debt, they say.

They also say you two had a fight with him.

Broke of all relations, stopped all business.

And he hung himself.

I don't understand the reason for all these questions. Viktor Ivanovich...

That has no bearing on the daughters.

That's merchant business. Commerce didn't go well for us. So...

Now listen to me carefully. I'm a medium.

I know what spirits are capable of. I know they're going to take revenge

on the one who has the book. And it will be terrible.

Isn't what's already happened enough for you?

It's there, upstairs.

Can you bring it?

Tell me, please. Olimpiada, was she seeking friendship with you?

She only came up with it all to be friends with us.

And you had some kind of parcel, too.

What parcel?

-What? -What parcel?

The parcel was on the floor next to the mirror.

Lipka brought it there for some reason.

Where is it now?

Well, when Lipka fell, Katia and I ran away.

We didn't care about the parcel.

Are you really a medium? You don't look like one.

Don't you realize how dangerous this is?

We didn't know the devil really existed.

And now?

Now we have no doubt.

Are you feeling all right?

Yes.

You're going to drive me insane like that.

This is material evidence and I'm taking it in the interest of the investigation.

Yes. You know, you better burn it, too. I wanted to tell you something.

But let's walk away a little.

There was something else. The girls had it during the ritual.

There was a parcel, and something in it.

Did the girls tell you that?

You could say that.

But listen to me, it's really important. That thing is the key to it all.

Yakov Platonovich, you can't do that. They're children, after all.

Clearly, there was no great friendship in between the victim and these two girls.

So there wasn't, what does it matter? It's no reason for killing a person.

Think about it. What if every quarrel between girls ended in a knife fight?

Good day.

I must say you're being very indiscreet.

Whispering with an unmarried man in plain sight.

Dad, we were only talking about business.

Really? What was it?

Now that is something I can't tell you.

Because you, Dad, are the lawyer for the opposing side.

Let's go.

I sympathize with your tragedy, I understand how hard it must be on you.

But time waits for no man, we must find the killer.

That is why I dared to talk to you.

Yes, I understand.

Do you remember who your daughter met with lately?

Her girlfriends. Who else?

Maybe there was a new friend.

Friend? What friend?

Well, someone must have turned her onto all that black magic.

She couldn't have thought of it herself.

She had no friends. She only recently started talking to girls from her class.

Where did she get the book from, then?

I have no idea. First time I've seen it.

Did Olimpiada receive any gifts lately?

What gifts? From whom?

Well, some trinket, a statue, a jewel...

No. Of course not. Have you searched my daughter's room already?

I have to ask you this. Why did your husband take his own life?

I don't know.

He was depressed for a few days, worried.

As if something was tormenting him. But he didn't share it with me.

I thought something was going wrong in commerce, so I didn't nag him about it.

So there... I don't know anything else.

You... I'm sorry, but if we get more questions, we'll have to bother you.

So what now? How are we going to call him without the book?

We aren't. I'm not doing this anymore.

Aren't you curious?

Are you dense? He killed Lipka, he could kill us two as well.

Olimpiada was the one who came up with it, that's why he killed her.

Where is the parcel?

I don't know. I didn't take it. You're the one who hid it.

What do you mean, me? I don't have it, it was you.

I never even touched it!

And the clairvoyante kept asking about it.

If she was clairvoyante, she wouldn't have to ask.

If only we knew what's in it...

I bring it to your attention that, concerning the case of the murdered girl...

Come in.

-Hello. -Good evening.

I'm here to see you about some personal business.

This is Korobeinikov, my assistant. He takes part in all the investigations.

Pleased to meet you. But it's personal.

Anton Andreievich, wait in the hallway.

-We'll finish later. -Yes.

I don't get it. Is this... Is this evidence?

300 rubles. If you say it was an accident.

What do you think this is? Get it away.

Don't be high and mighty, Your High Nobleness.

Katia, she must take after her mother. Gypsy blood.

She would go for her knife whenever she didn't like something, too.

She almost slit my throat once, you know. Such a shame.

She burned out quickly. Consumption.

Don't be high and mighty.

Take your money and leave.

Take it, take it!

You should hold your horses. You haven't been in town long.

If you continue with the case, you've no one else to blame.

All the best.

Look at him jump out. As if he saw a ghost.

In your town, wherever you look it's a ghost or Baphomet.

God help us.

Spirit of Olimpiada, come. Spirit of Olimpiada, come.

Spirit of Olimpiada Kuriokhina, come! Spirit of Olimpiada Kuriokhina, come!

Olimpiada, tell me,

was there anyone in the house beside your two friends?

Was he the one who killed you?

He takes everyone. He doesn't spare anybody.

Yes.

Am I intruding?

No, come on in.

I haven't seen you in a long time.

I've been very busy.

Yes, I understand. I understand. You're practicing.

You've stopped asking for my advice completely.

Don't trust me anymore?

Come, now. I am very grateful to you, for all your advice.

Annette, you know what I think?

What?

How about you and I go to St Petersburg?

St Petersburg?

Well, yes. Like we wanted, the two of us.

I could introduce you to the medium society.

I'm a known person there. I'd introduce you to people you need to know.

That would be very useful. And this town? This Zatonsk?

It's not big enough for your gift.

I'm going rusty here, too. What do you say?

I don't know.

Come on. You've always wanted that, and now what?

Well, maybe not now, a little bit later.

Mr Shtolman isn't in St Petersburg. Mr Shtolman is here.

What are you saying? It's absolutely not about Shtolman.

Annette, listen to me.

Be careful with that Shtolman.

Did you know that he was involved in an unpleasant incident in St Petersburg?

A woman was involved.

A woman, how?

A duel! And the special officer

of the police department is sent to the province.

That Mr Shtolman is a womanizer.

No. It can't be.

Shtolman is so... so... serious.

They're not mutually exclusive.

You know, serious gentlemen, they can be pretty...

I need to go.

-Where? -Will you help me?

So late in the day?

I really need, trust me. What were you going to do tonight?

I wanted to play solitaire.

They're not mutually exclusive.

What the hell is this?

It's not her.

My God, you... How did you get here?

The desk sergeant wasn't there.

Scatterbrains. Why have you come?

Katia Prokhorova didn't kill Olimpiada.

Why do you think that?

Olimpiada told me.

Anna Viktorovna, please.

And she also said that the devil killed her.

You know I don't believe all this nonsense.

Don't you feel something when you take this book?

Yakov Platonovich, when I... When I touched it, I...

I couldn't breathe, it's so full of evil.

Yakov Platonovich, please, I'm begging you, let's go to that house.

It really is haunted. And the solution is there, too.

In any case, it's night, we won't find anything there.

Go home. Your parents must be looking for you already.

It's unbearable.

At least we can be sure she's not summoning any spirits.

Don't you think our daughter has been playing particularly badly today?

And I ask you to note that she got her bad habits from your brother.

First these spirits, now the flute.

Well, let's talk about it.

Anna Viktorovna, why are you doing this?

I know I can help you. And the girls, too.

Don't think this is bravado, I allowed myself a glass of brandy.

But to be honest, you intrigue me.

Intelligent, educated, beautiful, and a medium.

They say you reject every suitor. How come you appeared in this backwater?

I had the luck to be born here.

No, no, that's not what I wanted to say.

You just don't look like a girl from Zatonsk.

I hope that's a compliment. Now it's my turn to ask.

How did you end up in our backwater?

It's a long story.

They say you were a special officer back in St Petersburg.

They say I was. But... But that isn't interesting.

It's very interesting to me. And they also say that...

That you left the capital because of a woman.

Did you leave it behind?

The capital?

The relationship.

Well, yes.

Leave it completely?

Damn it... Goddamn...

Anton Andreievich! What are you doing here so late?

Excuse me... The paperwork... I'm getting swamped...

Anna Viktorovna, I... Good evening.

I'm done for tonight. If you'll excuse me...

No, no, wait. It's good that you've come, you...

-You'll walk Anna Viktorovna home. -Yes

Gladly.

All the best.

Always glad to see you, Anna Viktorovna.

...and then, Anna Viktorovna, it was aut vincere, aut mori.

You win or you die. And Yakov Platonovich says, "Drop the ax!"

I can hit a fly from 10 paces!

And the drunk, he's yelling something and coming at Yakov Platonovich with an ax.

And Yakov Platonovich shoots him in the leg and hits the mark.

He... he didn't even hit the bone. The man falls and doesn't move.

It's like you're in love with him. "Yakov Platonovich, Yakov Platonovich..."

Oh, come now. It's just that Yakov Platonovich, he...

I know. What's that story he had in St Petersburg?

Oh, a duel.

-Tell me. -Over a woman.

Come on, give me the details!

You know, I overheard Artiukhin's conversation, he's our chief of police...

Accidentally, of course.

Well, I didn't know Shtolman back then.

Yakov Platonovich nobly aimed his shot at the sky.

And his opponent shot at him and wounded him.

For that, Yakov Platonovich got demoted and sent out to us.

-As if this were Siberia... -Do you think that's true?

Of course. I'm absolutely positive about it.

-Can you see that house? -I can.

I'm going in there right now. Are you coming with me?

Me? Anna Viktorovna! Is there a need for that?

Although... Of course I'm coming with you.

Or... maybe some other time, Anna Viktorovna.

Anna Viktorovna.

Anna Viktorovna.

Anna Viktorovna.

Anna Viktorovna.

Quiet...

-What's gotten into you? Let's leave this place. -Quiet!

Spirit of Kuriokhin, answer me.

Spirit of Kuriokhin, were you murdered?

Was it... because of your friends?

Stop. Stop! Don't move! No! Stop!

Come on, chase him! Run!

Freeze, I said! Stop!

Hey, you! Stop! Police!

Freeze! Freeze, I said!

Open up! Police! Open up immediately!

Who are you?

Street sweeper. I'm the street sweeper.

What were you doing in the abandoned house?

Spirit of Kuriokhin, are you there?

Tell me, was that your murderer?

Was it Prokhorov?

Who are you?

Like you don't know. Ms Clairvoyante.

What did Kuriokhin tell you? What did he say?

Help!

Follow me! Come on, come on!

Anna Viktorovna!

-He's there! He's there, there! -Who's there?

-Where? -He's there!

Come on, faster!

There's nobody there. Lost him.

So I saw someone run into the door. I went to take a look.

I go up the stairs, and Your Nobleness starts yelling.

Police, police! So I ran.

Why run if it's the police?

That's why you run, it's the police. Who knows? Good luck proving it later.

You knucklehead, we let the criminal go because of you,

and Anna Viktorovna was attacked.

What did he look like, at least?

I couldn't see in the dark. Just a shadow.

Listen to him, "couldn't see." Where did he go, could you see that?

Who knows? there's a back entrance, too. And they've made some holes already.

Tell me, please, did you happen to see something...

unusual around that house a couple of days ago?

I did. Around the house and inside, too.

What did you see?

It's a bad house. It's full of ghosts. They go from window to window.

Light them up. Howl like wolves. Even cry like children.

Suppose it's true. Did you see anybody alive?

A girl. The night before last.

A girl. About thirteen years old?

No less.

I'd locked all the courtyards already, and I always lock that one last.

That's how it happened.

And what did you say she was carrying?

I couldn't see. Some parcel.

So following a stranger into an empty house with...

So he wasn't afraid to follow a stranger into a haunted house,

but when someone yelled "police", he got scared and ran."

That really is very strange.

But... what follows out of it? What does it mean?

Just one thing. He wanted to meet that stranger.

Yes.

-We're here. -Yes.

Good night.

Pleasant dreams, Anna Viktorovna.

PRINCE OF DARK