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CIRCUS

Concentrate!

Here.

Boom.

Well. Here.

Here.

Here you go.

Here.

Hurray!

The Composter Clown!

And now -

the knife thrower

Gleb Orekhov!

Please welcome!

A mortal performance -

the Fifty Shades of Steel!

А tiger!

Damn it!

Zagorskiy! A tiger went out of the cage!

-Zagorskiy! -Where is he?!

There, downstairs! By the cages. Where is Ruslan?

-Ruslan! -What has happened?

Where have you been? Faster!

Caesar, lie down! At your place!

At your place, I told you!

My last performance with you, bastard!

The audience likes it.

Zagorskiy, damn it!

You’ll answer for your carelessness, I promise!

He cut me, after all, idiot!

Respected ladies and gentleman!

At the circus stage -

a mortally dangerous performance called the Bloody Lathe!

The king of illusion,

magician and wizard

Fedor Orekhov is tied so well!

He can’t escape steel spikes!

The Bloody Lathe is covered with fabric!

The audience will be spared

the terrible sight

of the magician’s death from the steel spiker.

The weight of the upper plate amounts to 200 kg.

As you can see, the arena under the lathe is seen clearly.

The magician can’t be able to escape.

In ten seconds,

this huge plate with steel spikes

will fall on the magician.

So!

Ten!

All together!

Nine!

Eight!

Seven!

Six!

Five!

Four!

Three!

Two!

One!

No!

Yes?

I thought you wouldn’t come.

Sit down!

Do you have time to do the CAT-scan?

Yes, he is here.

What CAT-scan?

A rhynoscope is a good thing but not enough for a complete examination.

Yes.

Yes. Good.

Very good.

Please meet my husband, Kostya.

He’ll help me with the examinations.

Hello!

Well? Shall we do the CAT-scan?

Wilma! Wilma!

Look for witnesses in this case and find out who is alive.

I want to interrogate them.

Oh, Holy Mother of God...

The scans will be ready in an hour...

Damn it...

What happened? You OK?

How may I be all right if everything here is covered with zinc sulphate? Yes?

Damn it!

Wait. Where are you going?

To the circus!

On unfastening the last chain, Fedor had to move there.

Anya! Please help us.

And send me a signal that he is safe.

How?

By pressing a button of a control.

This lathe is a training one.

There, we have a remote control.

It sends a signal to the indicator on the lathe

and to my bracelet.

What happens next?

Next...

this is all the trick is about.

Did you get a signal today?

Yes, of course. Otherwise I wouldn’t pull the holder out,

and the plate wouldn’t...

I beg your pardon.

Damn it...

I can’t say anything. Too many smells.

Besides, I have a bout of allergy.

I see.

We shall find the control. Or whatever is left of it.

Anya,

could you have confused the target?

No.

I fastened the chains in a right way, to his left hand.

Everybody saw that.

What relations were you in with the deceased?

I loved him.

Are performances recorded?

-Yes. -Who has the recording?

Igor Borisovitch.

Igor Borisovitch Orekhov. The director of the circus.

Another Orekhov...

Igor Borisovitch, my sympathies.

I need recordings of today’s performance.

A VHS?

Our circus is state-owned.

Dad, some water?

There were two chains without a magnetic lock -

on the arm and on the leg.

He couldn’t get out.

Where is remote control?

It’s gone.

It means it’s a murder.

At last!

Mum! He is hot.

I noticed it too.

And he is breathing heavily.

Bye, daughter.

Show me the backstage.

Stop.

Rewind.

Play again.

What is it?

Dad, yes. I’ve checked every chain! Every single one!

Where does this chain without a magnetic lock come from?

I don’t know!

Maybe Anya is to blame?

Maybe you couldn’t forgive Fedor for stealing your assistant?

Dad,

stop talking nonsense.

He has fucked a half of the circus.

Many people didn’t like him for that.

And were jealous.

Go...

Call the Zagorskiys to me.

Both of them!

Lyusya...

Put it back!

Put it back, I told you!

Yes, come in.

Hi.

We came to you.

Please meet Robert.

Robert, here we go.

Say a hello to the lady.

My baby is sick.

You know that local polyclinics are full of idiots.

Please examine him.

I’m not a pediatrician.

I know.

But you’re still the best.

What happened?

Bloody cats!

What cats? They are tigers.

This lock was opened with a brass key made recently.

-Is it a key from the warden? -No.

That key is made of the German silver - an alloy of brass, nickel and zinc.

It means it’s a copy.

Who had access to the keys from a cage with the tiger?

Zagorskiy did. Who else?

Here is the log, all the records are there.

This is it!

No. I can’t see anything dangerous.

His adenoids are a bit enlarged but that is easily treated.

Thanks God!

One drop into each nostril, thrice a day.

Let me examine him again in three days.

Thanks a lot!

How much do I owe you?

Nothing. I’m doing it as an old friend.

I’m in a difficult situation now.

I’m alone with a child

and...

Thank you.

Who was it?

One girlfriend. A former one.

Look what I found.

Here.

It’s impossible.

The main tiger is the trainer.

If the trainer demonstrates his weakness, the tiger will take his place.

Tigers need constant trainings. Constant!

This is why I made a copy of the key

not to run to the warden for it all the time.

Where is this key now?

Somebody stole it.

A week ago.

Here you go!

A belt for tricks belonging to Fedor Orekhov.

Except for him, there was only one person touching it.

Mr. Zagorskiy, according to the testimony of Strelnikov, the worker of the circus,

you were absent in the make-up room when the tiger got out of the cage.

I was in the toilet. On the first floor.

Nobody may confirm it, right?

I go to the toilet alone.

What relations were you in with Fedor Orekhov?

It’s none of your business.

I have reasons to believe that you, Ruslan Zagorskiy,

opened the cage with a tiger on purpose,

and then used the commotion to replace the chain and steal the remote control.

The motive for the murder of Fedor Orekhov was jealousy.

Ruslan knew about my affair with Fedor

and forgave me for the careless behavior long ago.

Ruslan won’t hurt a cat,

and you’re trying to accuse him of a murder!

Hurt a cat?

What about the trainings?

Ruslan’s main secrets of training are kindness and meat.

Kindness and meat!

I’m the one with the whip.

Besides, you have no proofs.

Dad!

Give me the towel!

He is so quiet. He wouldn’t make a step without his wife’s approval.

He trains tigers, and his wife trains him.

He was strangled with this.

A whip of a trainer.

Made out of calf leather.

I feel the smell of the Brazilian resin on the handle.

This material is used to cover gloves

for the better grip on metallic objects, for example, knifes.

-Gloves for throwing knives? -Exactly!

Anything else?

No.

It smells of tiger urine everywhere.

It was with the victim.

Damn it! The tiger urine!

Yesterday, after the rehearsal, I took them off and put on the barrier - here.

And then?

I helped dad install the barrel and went to look for my gloves.

I didn’t find them. I decided that the workers

accidentally took them away together with other requisite.

You were absent at the rehearsal with Orekhov’s Barrel.

I was looking for my gloves in the requisite room

and didn’t find them. I went home.

What relations were you in with the deceased?

With Strelnikov?

We had none.

He is one of the workers of the circus.

He has been working here for ages.

Here is his locker.

No. 13.

Were the Zagorskiys at the rehearsal yesterday?

No.

We were only rehearsing my number.

They weren’t at the circus.

BLOOD AT THE ARENA

Nothing special. Allergic rhinitis.

Bloody cats.

-Yulia?! -Yes. Her baby is sick.

-Weren’t you... -No, we didn’t communicate.

-Hello! -Hello!

Look.

I took pictures of a normal person, so to speak, to compare with yours.

To see what I mean. Here is the mucous membrane of the nose.

It contains olfactory receptors.

I know.

Usually, the mucous membrane is 0,1-0,2 mm thick.

And here is your picture.

Your membrane is 3 mm thick!

Thicker than a dog’s!

It’s a sensation!

I think we shall do the encephalogram.

In this way, we’ll find out more about how your sense of smell works.

I have something interesting.

Here?

Late Strelnikov and Orekhov-senior used to work

as commonplace assistants to Yashin,

an illusionist famous all over the country.

Yashin came up with numerous numbers; one of them was called the Electric Chair.

Yashin was fastened to the chair with chains and covered with fabric.

After that, electricity was switched on.

Allegedly.

After that, the fabric was taken off - and Yashin wasn’t there!

He would suddenly appear on the upper deck of the circus,

and rise under the dome as a “soul”.

It’s very interesting, of course...

During one of the rehearsals,

the fastening didn’t hold and Yashin fell to his death.

A criminal case was instigated. Strelnikov was a suspect.

He was the one who had to check all the chains and fastenings.

But the investigator didn’t find anything and the case was closed.

During the rehearsal, a 10-year old kid was present.

When Yashin fell, the security rope got tangled around the boy’s arm;

due to a sharp pull, the arm was injured.

An ambulance took the boy to the hospital.

Who is that boy?

It’s still unknown.

He is just mentioned in the case as the “ten-year old kid”, and this is it.

This boy is over 40 today.

-Yes. -Like Orekhov’s sons, by the way.

The Yashin’s Barrel?

Is it the same one which is now called the Orekhov’s Barrel?

Boris and Gleb Orekhovs! Come to the director’s office.

Where did the boy come from?

How do I know?

Yashin was a philanderer. He had a child in every single city!

Do you want to say that Yashin’s extramarital child

was present in the circus during the rehearsal?

How do I know?

Come in!

Show your arms to the gentlemen from the SIB!

Pull up your sleeves! Both of you.

Look!

What is it?

It’s fresh. Five years old.

Before throwing knifes,

Gleb was into whipping, but it didn’t go well.

You may go.

Why is Yashin’s Barrel is now called Orekhov’s Barrel?

I helped Yashin construct different mechanisms. So...

What about Strelnikov?

What about him?

Strelnikov has been drinking all his life.

That day, he didn’t check the fastenings because he was drunk.

Famous illusionist Yashin died because of his carelessness!

Your knives are so sharp, Gleb.

Orekhov was the only person who benefited from Yashin’s death.

He pocketed all his ideas.

Hold it!

What? A nappy?

Sodium polyacrylate. The hydrogel.

Hydrogel absorbs moisture and enlarges greatly in the process.

Tonight during the performance, it’d clog the tube,

and old Orekhov would die of suffocation in the barrel.

Who put it here?

The same stranger in gloves with the Brazilian resin.

-What flowers... -The membrane is pink. This is good.

I am so happy to hear that.

Still, go on with drops. For a week. Then, come for a check-up.

OK.

Do you want some coffee?

I’d gladly drink coffee with you but not now - I need to feed Robert.

-OK. Next time, then. -It’s a deal.

OREKHOV’S CIRCUS

Come on, finish!

Workers! Workers!

Yes, Igor Borisovitch?

Replace these tubes! Be quick!

Is the plan in action?

Orekhov rose the alarm.

They are replacing tubes.

-Let’s go! -Come on.

It’s all right. Let’s go!

Ladies and gentlemen! Let the parade begin!

Hi!

Here.

Here.

Here.

Here you go.

The Composter Clown!

Legendary Igor Orekhov is on stage!

The mortal number - the Orekhov’s Barrel!

Try to hold your breath.

How long may you stay underwater?

What about you?

The upper barrel is full up to the brim.

You saw it yourself.

We caught you, Gleb!

Only magic may transfer a magician to a lower,

dry barrel.

What are you looking for there, Gleb Igorevitch?

It’s impossible!

I just came to check what dad didn’t like about the tubes.

Take him away.

Be brave!

Gleb’s reaction seemed sincere.

He doesn’t look like a murderer.

He is an actor. He may play any reaction.

I’ll press on him at the SIB.

Igor Orekhov is fastened to the chair.

He can’t get out.

The magician is covered with the fabric.

You’ll be spared the terrible sight

when a strong jolt of electricity passes through the chair.

270,000W!!!

How do you like that, Elon Musk?

What a pity.

Igor Orekhov was a great magician.

However, nothing remained from his body...

For the successful solving of the case!

You evidently have problems with alcohol.

I don’t have problems with it.

Gleb, faster!

Ready!

You?! Where is Gleb?

You did it, bastard!

Help!

Somebody! Help!

I longed for this day for 30 years!

You killed my father,

you cut his fastening rope, murderer!

Confess, bastard, and I’ll spare your life!

Help! People!

Help!

Well!

It was long ago.

I was young.

We all make mistakes.

Forgive me. It was my fault!

Bastard! You worked together!

And you killed my father!

Confess!

Yes.

This is not true.

I didn’t kill anybody.

It’s a lie and slander!

Damn it...

...Once, Strelnikov saw the scars on my arm

and guessed that I was Yashin’s son.

He told me that Orekhov

had killed my father.

Strelnikov was feeling bad about that all those years.

Why did you kill Strelnikov?

After

Fedor’s death, he realized that I wouldn’t stop

until I eliminated all the Orekhovs.

He wanted to give me in.

I had to kill him.

I dreamt of becoming an illusionist all my life, like my father,

but could only become a clown due to my injury.

Orekhov ruined my life!

Take him away.

Shall we order a pizza?

To commemorate the end of the investigation?

Investigation...

we did it all wrong.

We failed to solve two murders and we arrested a wrong person.

But you may order a pizza.

MAKE-UP ROOM

-What do you want? -Is Ruslan here?

Don’t even try approaching my husband.

I’ll scratch your eyes out.

Got it?

Shoo!

Help!

Somebody!

Kind people!

Subtitle translation by Olga Cherniavska