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- Captain Kostenko. Committee for State Security of USSR.

We got a call from you. - Yea? Who?

- Where is the investigator on duty, Skrypnik surname.

One moment.

Comrade Captain.

Someone has come to see you.

Copy that.

I'll walk you out.

- I can do it myself.

- Yes, sir.

Hello sir! Captain Skrypnik, investigator of the fourth department... - At ease, camptain. Sit down.

Take off your cap, you're not on parade.

Captain Kostenko. You can address me just Sergey. What happened?

- The district police officer, on the street, saw three teenagers...

prowling in the car.

It turned out that the car did not belong to them...

they opened the car with an iron ruler.

- Why didn't you go to Moscow right away?

- Excuse me?

- I mean...

What does this have to do with me?

The precinct officer saw a gun at one of them.

It turned out to be a combat revolver of the Nagant system.

There were 5 rounds.

- Have you interrogated them? - I called you right away.

Because they had stuff...

Weird stuff.

You can look, fingerprints have been removed.

Plus... Numbers... It looks like a calculator.

- I pressed the buttons, it doesn't work.

It says, "made in China".

The second one works, but it requires some kind of code.

What is this?

It looks like miniature headphones. Such headphones "Ninth" uses.

- Who?

Protection of the first persons of the state.

It says "mic", microphone.

And it looks like...

a radiation meter.

- Did they steal it from the station workers?

All these are strange things, but why did you come to us?

Why not directly to your superiors?

- They had something else...

I didn’t even know what to think.

I thought it might be a joke at first.

But it’s so well made...

Look, there’s an eagle.

The royal coat of arms.

And it says, "Russian Federation".

- I can see that, Captain.

I know that one.

- Sorry, what?

- Where are they?

Chernobyl: Zone of Exclusion

"The Day Before..."

Hello, lover of free kvass.

- Now I understand which academy you studied at.

And I figured out how you got so many imported clothes.

At first I thought that maybe your parents work in Poland or DDR, but now...

I'm even afraid to assume.

Do you recognize it?

What it is?

- Calculator.

- And why are the letters there?

Enter the code.

- I do not know the code.

- I’ll help you remember...

- I really don't know. It's not mine.

This is my friend’s, but he's delusional.

- Yeah...

I was told that something is wrong with one of you.

All right, let’s put that aside for now.

And what is this?

You're wasting your time.

I'll tell you what it is...

This is a passport.

At least that's what it says there.

The passport was issued to Pavel Vershinin. April 19, 2009.

The photo is yours.

The royal coat of arms.

Issued to a citizen of the Russian Federation.

Maybe you can at least explain it approximately?

- My friends...

It was my friends who made a joke.

- Friends were joking...

I love books. Fiction. About the future.

Jules Verne...

Herbert Wells, "The Time Machine".

- The Time Machine? - Yeah.

Friends made a birthday present.

- Present?

Such a passport, as if from the future, as if from another country.

- Did they made a present to your friend too?

- Well, yeah.

What are you talking about, boy?

Do you think I'm kind because I treated you to a mug of kvass?

I am an KGB officer of the USSR

I took an oath.

I’ll tear up your kind for my country.

Stand up!

For those two things...

I can shoot you.

You'll tell me everything later, won't you?

- Should I take you to the others?

- I'm calling a car and an escort right now.

And we're taking them away from you.

Them, all their belongings and documents of this case.

- Will you provide us with any document that you... - Listen up, Captain...

No one will provide you with any document.

No one was brought here today.

You didn't take any things.

No one was seen, nothing was heard.

And I'll keep an eye on your career.

Do you understand?

- Yes, sir.

- Prepare the others.

Wait, wait, this is nonsense!

This is nonsense!

Any good physicist, and I'm a physicist and I think not bad, will say that...

if possible, then only in the future.

This does not contradict Einstein's theory.

And even then it will not be moving, but slowing...

- Listen...

We are not physicists.

We recently graduated from school.

We don't understand much, but I know for sure that I was born in 1995.

And I know for sure that there is an anomaly in this place of our planet,

because of which all these movements occur.

- Please explain to me why the anomaly exists here, in Pripyat.

- Look.

(The pipe is visible...)

- This is our station.

(...block number 4...)

This is my block...

What is this? - Look.

(Hold on to this place, hold on!)

(Where the smoke goes! Where's the smoke!)

(Like that!)

(You see the rarest shots. These are spots of red-hot graphite masonry.)

(Their high temperature contributed to a strong updraft of air...)

(and with them, radioactive particles were carried out of the reactor shaft.)

What happened?

- Will happen.

It's going to happen tonight.

During your shift.

- And Pripyat will turn into this.

- How?

- Gosh, you have a file with information.

Read, it's about how this accident happened and why.

I think you'll understand more than we do.

- Where are they taking us?

Seems like to a local "Lubyanka". [KGB building in Moscow]

- Are they like the FSB?

- KGB, it used to be called that.

- Hey, podcaster!

Do you want to record a podcast from the prison bus of the past...

on the verge of a nuclear apocalypse?

"I'm shit podcaster..."

- Don't be stupid, what are you happy about?

- And why worry about it? We'll be thrown back in a few hours anyway.

No matter what prison we are locked up in.

- These "few hours" still need to last.

He have our phones, passports.

I would like to look at his face when he saw the passport.

- He's not as simple as you think.

Forget it, that's what he'll do to us?

He's not going to chop off our fingers, is he?

Come on...

Then we'll tell him what he wants.

What's the difference?

The main thing for us is to win a few hours.

Let's say that we are from the CIA, and that we will tell everything.

We can of course tell him the truth, but then he will definitely not believe us.

- Yeah...

Forgive me.

I'm not thinking straight yet.

I can't fit it all in my head.

Would you believe it?

- I don't know.

- And who are you?

Anya, how do you know about my father?

- I...

I knew you in the future.

I mean, I will know.

You're my father's friend.

A good friend.

- What's your father's name?

- You don't know him yet.

- That's not the most important thing right now.

Yeah...

Yeah, you are right.

Ira.

Take Lana and go to your parents in Moscow, immediately.

- Seryozha, I'm not going anywhere! - Ira!

I don't have time to explain right now.

Listen.

There are problems at the station, no one knows about it yet.

A disaster may happen in the near future.

A very terrible disaster. Therefore...

Please.

Pack your things and leave. Quickly.

Damn, Leha.

Well...

They probably won't interrogate us until the evening. Lucky.

Lucky? Maybe the other way around?

We'll be there again, in the middle of the zone.

- We will destroy this device immediately.

- If we find it. - We'll find it.

It'll be in this building somewhere. We'll find it, destroy, and leave right away.

Without this, we are not dangerous. Maybe the zone will let us go.

How are the girls. Will they understand that they need to get out without us?

- Gosha is with them. Although this is more of a minus than a plus.

Someone is coming.

Podcaster, why are you twitching?

- Where am I?

Stand up.

Stand up!

This one.

What's going on? Who are you?

Where am I?

- This is us wanting answers.

Mom, why are we leaving?

- It's necessary.

So, the accident will happen tonight.

We really have a reactor test scheduled today.

- Is it possible not to do the test?

- How?

- I don't know. You can say that there is some kind of malfunction.

- It's not that simple. A team of repairmen will be sent out...

and this lie will be discovered very quickly.

- What if call and report a bomb?

- What bomb?

- Well, to say that the station is mined and an explosion will occur.

Or does no one do that?

No, no one do that, thank God.

What do we get out of this?

Do you think this will stop the work?

This station supplies energy to a huge area.

The work may not be stopped, but the tests will definitely be canceled.

- Who will call? We won't be here at this time.

- And I'll be at the station.

Why won't you be here?

- Long story...

Does that mean there's nothing we can do?

Wait...

Do you have access to control?

- Reactor control? No.

Then what should we do? - I see only one option.

Sabotage the operation of the block. - What?

- Never mind, go outside.

Break something. Press the wrong button.

Create an emergency situation to force the shift supervisor to shut down the reactor.

- What if it gets repaired again and the same thing happens?

- No, it won't happen. This happens once. It was the human factor.

I need to do something about the cooling system.

And this will not cause an accident? - No, it won't happen.

As far as I understood, there was a problem that the staff thought for too long that everything was fine...

and did not shut down the reactor.

And when they realized, it was too late.

So i need to make sure that everyone understands everything at once.

- Wait! What about you? Everyone will understand that you did it. And on purpose.

- Then I'll say that I felt bad.

For example, I ate something at lunch and became ill.

- They'll find out everything. Can you imagine what they'll do to you then?

- What should I do then?

What should I do then?

Two hours before the shift. Where are your friends?

Well, what are we standing for? Let's go!

Where am I?

- Sit down.

- How did I get here?

For what?

He spoke after all. Good boy.

Let me ask you a couple of questions now.

Who are you?

- I am Igor Matveev. I live and am registered in Moscow.

My passport is in my bag, probably in my motorcycle.

How did I get here?

- Enter the code.

- It's not mine. I do not know the code.

- Not yours? But your friends say it's yours.

- What friends? Those two in the cell? I hardly know them.

- Don't know?

- I don't know. And this is the first time I've seen this phone.

- Phone?

What phone?

- This one. That's why I don't know the pin code.

- What do you mean, a phone?

- What do you mean?

- Are you going to fool around with me here?

Answer what phone!

- Wait! It's a phone. cell phone. I can't turn it on without a pin code.

Wait, though. I can, but then it won't work. This code is from the SIM card.

One moment.

Here.

Here. It works.

- What it is?

A miniature means of communication?

- Well, yeah...

- Who are you? What are you doing here?

- Where is "here"?

I don't remember anything.

The last thing I remember...

The last thing I remember, I was in Pripyat. In Chernobyl.

- That's right, this is where you were arrested, with those two others.

- Yea? I didn't do anything. Really, I'm just...

Am I in Ukraine?

Where exactly?

- In the same place. - Where is "in the same place"?

- Don't talk my ear off. In Pripyat!

- No, what are you talking about? It can’t be.

I saw houses there. And your place is so clean. There is electricity.

- I don't get it.

- Pripyat no longer exists. It's been a ghost town for 20 years now.

Radiation. Explosion. The accident at the Chernobyl station.

Accident on the fourth block. April 26, 1986, at 1:24 am.

What happened?

- How many people do we have in our personnel?

Doesn't matter. Gather everyone up!

- Should I call the boss, Comrade Captain?

- No need! I can do everything myself.

Hello, get Dr. Danilov on the phone.

Valery Stepanovich, this is Kostenko. I need you for interrogation. Urgently.

Yes, the strongest drugs. I'm waiting.

"From the operational journal of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. April 26, 1986."

"01h23m48s. Emergency Protection signal: «pressure increase in RS. (FC gap)»"

"01h23m48s. Signal «no voltage =48v» (Power is removed from "Control and Protection" systems)"

"Until the destruction of the reactor: 0h00m..."

"KGB of the USSR"

And report by 18:00.

At ease.

Emergency situation. There is information about the upcoming sabotage...

on the fourth block, of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Where are they? I don't see anyone.

What is it?

Anya, I have a bad feeling. - Don't say that. It's already scary.

Why are people crowding there?

Petya. - Oh, hi Sergey.

- What happened?

- Can you imagine, some guys broke into my neighbor's car.

- For real?

What now?

Nothing, really.

Valerka, our precinct officer...

was passing by and caught them.

Can you imagine, the boys had a gun.

- Petya, where are these boys now?

Where else should they be? They were taken to the police station.

And then... who knows.

- I see...

(Everyone, the performance is over, disperse!)

- We need to get them out of there.

- Did they really have a gun? - Yes.

- Then hardly anything can be done.

My shift is coming soon.

Although, they will be thrown out as well as us, so they are not in danger.

Yes, but we need to get out of here somehow.

We will appear in the very center of the zone.

- The car! - Exactly! We need a car.

- My friend has a car.

Can your friend take us to the "Dityatki"? We passed by when we were driving here.

Okay, I can ask him.

I will go with you, and then he will return me to the station.

God, what should I tell him...

- Why should we go there?

When we get thrown back, we will withdraw money from the card...

we'll find a man with a car and come back for the guys.

What are you doing?!

Seryozha, what kind of injection will we give?

- I don't need anything!

- Sodium thiopental.

- Have you thought well? He's just a kid.

- Emergency situation.

I need information.

- Well, if you're sure...

- Please don't give me any injections!

I'll tell you everything myself.

I work for the CIA!

For the CIA!

Do you hear? I work for the CIA, yes!

But I can only tell you everything in Moscow. They want to kill Yeltsin!

Ah, damn it! Not Yeltsin, but Gorbachev!

I have to go to Moscow! I'll tell you everything there!

- What is he talking about? - Don't listen, I don't understand anything myself.

Sit still.

- It's impossible.

- Look here!

Open your mouth or I'll knock your teeth out!

Just try to move.

- That's it.

Fooling around here with me...

- He is ready.

- Do you hear me?

Do you hear me?

Do you hear me?

- I hear you...

- What do you know about the Chernobyl accident?

- Radiation.

Zone of Exclusion. Many people died. Disaster.

- Who is committing sabotage? - Keep it simple, he's delirious.

- Who will blow it up?

The name and surname of the one who blows up.

- I don't know.

It seems to have exploded itself.

The helicopter was flying...

- What does it mean?

- Are you done? - Yes.

Then wait for me. I'll call you if I need you.

- Well, as you know.

Your date of birth.

- February 21

Winter. Snow...

It's good when there is no wind...

- What year?

- 95.

1995.

When I went to the first grade, it was 2002.

If I went to school in 2002, then graduation in 2012... I hate this.

Serega, I didn't know you had three nephews.

- There are two of us.

Nastya is my friend. She came to stay for a week.

From Moscow.

I have already understood that you are from Moscow.

You have clothes, just don't be offended, like parrots.

- Come on, Uncle Vova. Why are you bothering young people, they dress as they want.

- Sergey, I didn't mean to offend.

I just said to keep the conversation going.

So, where should I take you?

Dityatki or Ivankovo?

I don't care.

For me, the main thing is that Sergey takes over the shift on time.

- You know, then it's better to "Ivankovo". Is there an ATM there for sure?

- Must be.

Yes, it's better to "Ivankovo"

- As you say.

What it is?

- Why are there so many police?

And traffic police.

- They're looking for us... - It can't be!

- Probably another security exercise.

I'll go talk to them, tell them what we really need.

- Uncle Volodya, don't! This is not a drill! - Guys!

- Stay where you are!

- What's going on?

We need to go, there are guys...

- Stand by the car and put your hands on the roof.

Open the trunk. Everybody get out of the car!

Check and inspect the car.

Stand still, boy, this is inspection.

- They'll find things...

- What things?

- Electronics.

- Comrade Captain!

What does "through time" mean?

"Through time", what does it mean?

We are in the future first...

then bang! Past.

Then the future again.

It's all a device. It moves...

- What device?

- It was in our bag.

It was there accidentally.

Gamer counter...

- Geiger counter.

- Gayra counter

Does the device we took from you move people in time?

What nonsense!

Are you sick?

You are registered in a neuropsychiatric dispensary, right?

Answer me!

- I don't know where.

I'm not scared.

We'll just disappear later.

Pop - and that's it.

- Yeah, of course... I can't right now, i'm busy!

- Comrade Captain, this is urgent!

What?

Comrade Captain, by your order we have blocked the road...

and at the exit from the city we have detained another group.

They reported that they had various technical means with them.

Among them are three teenagers and two men.

One of them, a mechanic at a service station.

- Local? - Local.

And the second engineer of the fourth power unit of the station.

- Captured!

Bring them all here. Quickly. - On their way.

Good job.

That's it.

Now I can call my superiors.

Follow me.

Separate them and put them one by one in the cells. - We don't have so many cells.

So to the offices. There are bars on the windows. And put a guard at the door.

Put the seized technical means on my desk. Is that clear?

- Copy that.

These people are not with us. They don't even know us.

We just asked them to give us a ride.

- We'll figure it out.

- Please let them go, it's not their fault.

- Stop talking. - Anya!

Anya, it's me, can you hear me?

- Pasha! - Quiet!

Anya, can you hear me?

Glad to serve, Comrade Colonel.

Yes, sir.

I serve the Soviet Union!

- They escaped. Gone, Comrade Captain.

- Who?

Who?!

- Teenagers.

- How?!

The second guy is also here.

- Keep an eye on him.

Assign two people to each of them. Handcuffed fasten.

- Yes, sir.

Hi.

- Four-eyed, hello!

I've never been so glad to see you!

- So that's who you traded me for.

- Come to me.

- Can I interrupt you?

- Wait, I have a boner.

- Lyosha, you're as usual...

- Hey, help!

Is anyone here?

This is podcaster has come to his senses.

- Wait, where are Pasha and Anya?

- Anya was taken somewhere lower, and Pasha...

- And Pasha is probably in the cell. In the basement.

Anya is probably there too.

I'll go find our stuff and go there, while you take care of this moron.

- Don't yell like that.

- Who is there to be afraid of?

The zone hears it anyway, unless of course we invented it all.

Hey, can you hear me? - We hear you, don't shout.

Where am I? What happened?

I was in the police first, and then... - Calm down.

What's with the door? - It's jammed, I can't open it.

Damn...

I should have sent the nerd.

Anya? - Lyosha, is that you?

Damn, I almost shit myself. Why scare so much? - I almost died of fright myself.

- Where are the others? -Everyone is upstairs except Pasha.

- And where is Pasha? - I don't know, somewhere here.

What's it? Blood.

You are alive.

What happened? You have blood on your head, have you been beaten?

No.

Those assholes... - What's wrong?

Bunks...

There were bunks there in the past. I was standing, looking out the window when...

And apparently fell.

- You're such a loser, this is the fourth dimension!

Is this yours?

Yes, thanks.

So, well. Need to get out?

Go first.

Are you coming? - Yes.

Meet them.

Here is a podcaster.

Then the hinges jammed tightly. We pushed and pulled...

Can we leave him, huh?

- What are you guys talking about? I don't even know where I am!

We'll tell you.

- Don't leave me here!

Maybe...

Maybe we really will leave, it serves him right.

- Please, don't! - Pash, he'll die here.

We need to get him out.

We can shoot off the door. Where's the gun?

There are only 5 rounds left.

Okay, I'll try.

Igor, can you hear me? - Yes!

Move to the far right corner. I'll shoot.

- Got it!

Stay here. Otherwise it may ricochet

Now hit me a couple of times with your shoulder. With all your weight.

Get up.

Hi.

Are you normal now? - Had he ever been one?

- Yes, i think so.

Everything is fine.

Explain to me where we are and what is all this?

- We need to get out.

She's right. Let's get out of here, and then we'll tell you everything.

Guys, wait.

Gosha, give me the device. - Why?

- I said, give it to me. - What do you want to do?

I have one round left... - No!

Wait...

What about my father?

I don't even know what happened to him.

- Look at the pictures on your phone.

Come on!

The battery is dead.

Everything is fine with him, if he died, you wouldn't be here.

- Wait!

Don't waste the round, I heard something out there.

- Maybe he's lying again? Like before.

- No, I'm telling the truth.

- Then go first.

- What?

Why should I go first? - You heard something.

So what?

Okay. Then...

Give me the gun.

- Move.

Go, go.