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What? Nina,have you gotten out of your mind?
I've done everything that you asked me to do!
And I changed my mind.
You changed your mind,didn't you? She changed her mind!
She changed her mind! No,of course,you can change your mind,
but I don't care about it! We had an arrangement.
I did my part! Bye!
First of all,I'm still your wife.And secondly,
I'll get dressed now and go to Kristina.
What?
I said that I'd get dressed and go to Kristina.
You won't go anywhere.
I will.
No,you won't.
I said that I would.I'm going to Kristina now.
Let me go!
Let me go,I tell you!
Stop twitching.You won't dare.
I will.
Take the eggs and experiment.
Let's start!
Here is the winner!
Did you confuse a court hearing for a TV-show?
Your Honor,at the end of the experiment
our expert will tie it to our case directly.
Some blow will inevitably break the shell of one egg.
Physics calls it "the hollow spheres collision".
If the shell of one egg is broken it means
that the shell of another egg has nothing to break of.
How is it connected to the murder weapon?
If the scull of the victim was broken with a bottle
the bottle itself shall remain intact.If it is broken it means
that the scull shall be intact. They can't be both broken.
And the victim's scull was broken.It means that the fragments
of the bottle found at the crime scene
and shown here as a main piece of evidence
may be anything but a murder weapon.
The prosecution has no idea how Irina Antonova died
and who killed her.
Star Media presents
Ivan Okhlobistin
Natalia Antonova
in Mikhail Vaynberg's movie
Freud's Method
Idea of Vladimir Dyachenko
Director of Photography – Sergey Blednov
Art Director – Grygor Ter-Mesropyan
Music by Anatoliy Zubkov
Pavel Pryluchniy
Arthur Vakha
Alexei Gryshin
Yelena Nikolayeva
Episode One
Created by Vladimir Dyachenko
No,he cheated on the judge! And he cheated on us!
That clown is so good! He even painted the eggs
the colors of the national banner! What a patriot!
See you in the "Vulcan" at seven! I'll kill you if you're late!
Yes,with a bottle.
Congratulations.
Was it a trick with the eggs?
You shouldn't have miss ed natural science classes at school.
What did you miss at school?
Nothing.Not even one anatomy lesson.
Anyway,thank you for preventing us
from sending an innocent person to prison.
Why do you think that Antonov is innocent?
It's not important whether Antonov is guilty or not.
The main thing is that you failed to prove his guilt.
It means that your department is a piece of shit.
Look,who do you think you are?
You're not bad,by the way.
Have you ever thought of changing your job?
May I have your coffee?
It's hot chocolate.
It's even better.
Is chocolate really hot?
It is.
Anna,stop it!
Anna.We're acquainted now.
We are not.Thank you for cooperation.
Severe brain concussion. All the bones are intact.
That expert was right.Antonova was killed with some other tool.
With a bat.It looks a bit like a bottle.
Yes,but a person who had a bat
must have brought it with him.And if he did it means...
...that we were wrong.That was not a murder of passion
but a premeditated murder.
Yes.People don't come to visit their friends with a bat.
Draw down the protocol as soon as you can.
I'm leaving too.Clean up here please.
Is that because I'm a trainee?
Yes.
Wait! Can we do it justly?
No.
It's not salty again! Shall I send the cook to prison
for embezzlement of salt? It's impossible,impossible!
May I?
Sit down.
Bon appetite.
Bon appetite.Did you hear what Anya did in the court?
I did.We were wrong about the bottle.
Not we but she.She is the boss.It's the end of her.
She wasn't demoted yet.
The meeting is tomorrow. She will be demoted.
Who will be promoted?
Who?
Not you,Sandro! The food wasn't salted at all! Go to work!
Who will be promoted?
Me,great Viktor Pernitskiy.You know me.
I'll be strict but just boss.Be prepared to serve
the Russian prosecutor's office under my head.
And one more thing.I don't like whisky,
my stomach hurts after it.Bon appetite.
Bon appetite.
Thanks.
You have been the head of the investigation department
for less than a month.But you already have an accused
that was set free in the courtroom.
What a start to your career!
The lawyer brought some expert.
What expert?
He is cheeky and rude.
Is that his name and surname?
I beg your pardon.His name is Roman Freudin.
Freudin?
Yes,sir.
All right.We'll talk at the meeting.Hi.
Hello.
Did you see? Galchanskiy always protects her.
So what?
Do you remember? Whisky...stomach ache...
She is a good investigator, no doubt.But it was too early
to make her the head of the investigation department.
Let's return to Pernitskiy's candidature.
We didn't promote him last time.And he possesses
more knowledge and experience than Korablyna.
We all knew very well that the promotion of a woman
was a strategic step.Now we don't want to give her the time.
Korablyna just got unlucky.The expert found the only weak place
in the case and raised a clamor.
Your suggestions?
Make that expert work for us -in Korablyna's department...
as a civilian advisor.
Nonsense! Why would we pay the money to some...
Wait!
What do you know about that expert?
Almost everything,Roman Vitalyevitch Freudin,alias Freud.
He graduated with honors from the University,
Faculty of Psychology.He wrote a thesis on social anthropology –
comparative analysis of human communities.
What did he live for?
It was the end of the nineties.
He must have been exporting something from abroad
for selling here.
Any drugs?
We have no info on that.In 2005 he settled in France.
He took a great interest in poker160
nd became a professional gambler.
And? Was he successful?
He played at all major poker tournaments.
But then Interpol noticed him.
What did they catch him for?
He won at one private tournament playing with a wrong guy.
They opened a case on him. So he returned to Russia –
just in case.He is giving advisory services
to legal businesses at the moment.
What about poker? Is he still playing?
He constantly plays on professional poker sites.
He is one of the ten best gamblers in the world.
You're right.Such brain shall work for us.
Remind me once more why I shall agree to take your offer.
What reasons do you have to refuse?
First of all the money.Secondly -the things that I can buy
with that money.And then that investigator Anna,you and her...
Watch that tongue of yours!
I got you,I got you!
You didn't get anything. She is my friend's daughter.
He died when detaining a criminal.Anya was his only child.
She dreamt of being a doctor or a teacher,meeting some prince
on a white horse and have two boys and two girls with him.
Why did she fail to have those four children?
She didn't meet him,did she?
Her dream changed after her father's death.
She has been in charge of the department for just one month.
Do you know how many people want to eat her alive?
If you were there you could help her a bit.
I know.This psychological method is called "brain-washing".
Shut up! You dug a grave for the best woman
that you met on your silly and vain life path!
Do you think your pathos will sort the matters out? Which one?
Where are you going? I know,to the restaurant.
You've already told me about that.Do you have a reason?
What do you think?
You want to celebrate your victory over us,don't you? This one.
You guessed it right.
What is there to guess?
Do you know what we shall do? We shall part now...
as good friends.Shake each other hands and part.
Let's do it.
You said that we shall part like good friends!
I changed my mind.
Stop it! You may beat me up if you want to,
and we'll forget about it.
Forget about it!
This is the hero of the celebration.
I promised to kill you if you're late.
What's happened?
What's the matter?
Call the police.
Shall I call the doctor?
Call the police,I tell you!
I'm an investigator.
A trainee! Let the senior people come in first!
What's happened here?
A murder.About twenty people were celebrating at that table.
That this man fell down spilling blood.
Why did you decide that it was a murder?
I wasn't the one to say that.
Do you see a fresh chip on his front tooth?
I'm sure that your pathologist will find
a piece of that tooth in his throat.
Do you think somebody fired at him
and the bullet hit his mouth? But one could have only fired
point-blank here.Let me look.
It's weird.There is no exit wound.
Low initial bullet speed?
Or a non-streamlined bullet.I think that if you dig in his brain
you'll find a small metal ball 8 mm in diameter.
What do you mean?
A crossbow.
We seem to have found a murder weapon.
Where?
At that terrace.
Thanks.
I just...
We'll act on our own from here.
Take this man to other witnesses and make sure
that the investigation secrets are kept.
But he is...
My order applies to him too.
I'll go on my own.
What did you find?
A crossbow.
Galchanskiy? This is your former friend.
I agree to take your offer.
I need a separate office.
Even investigators sit in one office together.
But I'll be an advisor!
What do you need a separate office for?
For the same reason I need a personal car.
All right,I'll allot you a piece of room...with time.
What about the salary?
What salary? Interpol believes that you won 2 mln in Europe.
You may pay for our entire department.You have a great car.
Aren't you afraid that it might be stolen?
No.I control the situation.Please understand.
I need to be paid not to get the money
but to see that my efforts are appreciated.
All right.I'll express you my gratitude every month.
If you do something to win it.
Watch your tongue,or I may leave.
You won't.I'm a psychologist myself.
Will I get a bonus?
A diploma...in a frame.
You may even talk a dead man into resurrection.
Freudin will be at your disposal.
Why keep an enemy by our side?
I want him to become a friend.A colleague,at least.
You're trying to get me out of this bog.
Do you think I have no chance of making it on my own?
Absolute proofs don't exist. Defense will always find
some holes in the case and make a cosmic catastrophe out of it.
You're not the first one to get a blow.
It sounds like a polite suggestion to leave.
No.Freud is here to prevent it.
I see.He'll be saving me.
He calls it "pathos-doing".
Who will I be with him?
The better the master the more complex his instruments are.
Freudin is a very complicated instrument.
One,two,three.One,two,three!
That expert has come...Do you remember from yesterday?
One,two,three! One,two,three!
I remember.
He is winning all the time.
Once more.One,two,three! Damn it!
Look,try counting to two. It'll change the rhythm.
It's clever.
One,two!
What is that? It must be hypnosis.
It's the relativity theory.
According to the relativity theory she should have won long ago.
Mathematics is not an exact science.
Really? Most people think otherwise.
This is what I use.
Can you win over all of us at once?
If you play with him,then no.
And if you play with this comrade in a hat...
Comrade Lieutenant Colonel.
With Comrade Lieutenant Colonel in a hat.
Viktor Ivanovitch! Viktor Ivanovitch!
No problem.
One,two,three.
What's the catch?
Why wouldn't you win if she had played with him?
They could strike up a deal. And one can't negotiate with you.
Very funny!
I've almost forgotten.This is our new advisor Roman Freudin.
You already know something about him.
You'll get to know the rest in the course of work.
Serezha,go to ballistics. Ask them if they have a report
on Antonov's murder weapon.
Sure.
Don't you want to accompany Sergey?
Of course.
The most interesting thing is that the crossbow
was registered in Antonov's name
despite the fact that he was killed from it.
What is not interesting?
The ball found in Antonov's head coincides with the crossbow.
But it's impossible to connect them directly.
A crossbow has no cuts like on firearms.
Therefore even if we go to court with this evidence...
...they'll eat you for lunch
like it happened the last time.You learn fast.
All right.What does seem interesting for you?
Antonov would have never bought himself a cheap crossbow.
A crossbow means status. It defines it like his car,
his wristwatch brand,his wife's appearance,his dog's breed.
He wanted to change the wife,by the way.
When was the crossbow bought?
Philip,what did you write here?
8.
This crossbow was bought eight month ago.
The part where the hand touches it is polished to the shine.
Judging from its wear it was used
at least a few thousand times.
He could have given it away as a present.
Give away as a present?
Give a cheap crossbow away as a present.
Give it to a person who wouldn't let it out of his hands.
For example,to his son.
No.He had no kids.
He had now kids.He had no kids.
What did he have,except for the money?
Why did Antonov need a shooting gallery?
It's not a security company.
Our boss believed that shooting is the best way
of alleviating stress.He taught his subordinates to come here
during lunch-breaks. He even used to arrange
competitions between the departments.
Why crossbows?
Firearms are too loud.
Besides,the balls are cheaper than bullets.
Yes.Do you think it's easy to kill a man from a crossbow?
Like from any weapon.The main thing is to aim well.
Why are you asking?
Do you recognize it?
Yes.Where did you take it?
Tell us.
There was a shooting gallery in the cellar of Antonov's company.
About a year ago he ordered twenty crossbows.
Ours was one of them.
Who could have taken that crossbow from the shooting gallery?
Anyone.The entrance was free for the employees.
They didn't even notice that they lack it.
It means that the killer is his employee.What else?
Nobody knew that Antonov will be released in the courtroom.
The person that fired at him
must have taken this decision spontaneously.
Yes.It would have taken more time
to arrange a murder for business reasons.
Let's suppose it was revenge.
Antonov's killer wanted him to stay behind the bars.
All the people present have an alibi,don't they?
And an ability not to react to silly jokes too.
So,the killer hates Antonov.
He works in his company.
I think it was not him.It was her.Beautiful Kristina!
Her father is a big boss from the Ministry of Transportation.
She is a golden bride!
A union of a broker and a deputy minister? One can kill for that.
Antonov was a fool.He needed to sort out some problems
with his former wife before marrying Kristina.
But he slept with her...
I understand him.Nostalgia,retro...
You're joking.
Why? A gentleman arranged a party with a reliable woman.
What bad is there?
Hygiene!
But the woman let him down at the last moment.
When they had to part forever she decided to change
the conditions of separation in her favor.
Didn't she know that blackmailing is one of mortal sins?
Right! So Antonov hit his wife on her head with a bottle and...
Not with a bottle.
And?
And maybe it wasn't Antonov.
Yes...if your words in the court were true.
Did Kristina leave him?
Yes.She left him when she got to know
about his unfaithfulness.
By the way she never showed up in court.
When he was set free she decided to kill him.
We can't exclude it.She had a motive.
Lady,do you understand whom you're talking about?
Kristina Viktorovna will be free in 30 minutes.
You may wait for her here.
We'll wait...I know where.
A nine! It's my first experience with a crossbow,honestly!
People from the prosecutor's office are trained
to handle weapons.It's very similar to a gun.
Can I have an arrow?
Anything that you want.
A ten!
You're being waited for.
It's time for us to go.Thank you!
See you when the next stress comes!
Good bye.
Your fiance betrayed you before the wedding with his ex.
I won't believe that you didn't care.
I was very disappointed.
Disappointed enough to kill him?
I've already told you that I didn't love him that much.
Are you dating somebody at the moment?
My fiance has just died!
No,I'm talking about admirers that backed off before Antonov
and started to hope again after his arrest.
Some people want to marry my father's money.
I always send them to court him.
Antonov was my only mistake.
What about wanting something different?
Something different? Do you mean love?
Yes,that too.
People like me don't have it.
She didn't kill anybody. But you're right.
Somebody might have gotten upset that her fiance was released
and murder him.It means we shall find that somebody.
It won't be easy.The girl is demonstratively frigid.
It means that she has loads of admirers.
I thought that men are attracted by other traits.
A man may be attracted to any trait.
But in this case two strong motives come together.
First is vanity:each of them thinks that he will be able
to wake her sleeping passions.
And her father's money.Do you agree?
I do.
Here is a list of people whom Kristina might have dated.
And here is a list of people who flirted with her
but without much success.
Where did you take it?
We managed to make her secretary talk.
Who are "we"?
To tell you the truth,our new advisor
practically promised to marry her.
He is a typical male- he has neither conscience
nor sense of responsibility,
The majority from the list are Kristina's friends and colleague.
Freud told me to summon them for tomorrow.Simultaneously.
Simultaneously.You may be free.
Thank you.
I saw you shooting from a gun.
Did you?
These are fairy-tales! You can't shoot and...
I had the highest mark for shooting!
Hello.
Why are there so many people in the corridor?
They are the suspects.
What idiot did summon all of them simultaneously?
Here he is.
How will he interrogate them?
He'll need no less than 15 minutes to talk to each!
When shooting from a crossbow I hit no less than an eight!
But its trigger is not good. If a hand shakes,you'll miss.
Really?
Really.
So you're a cool sniper,aren't you?
I am.
I hope you didn't have a motive to kill Antonov.
He had! She had a motive – to restore justice
and to save her boss's reputation.Isn't that so?
What?
Wait! I understand it now! The murderer got insulted
when Antonov was released in the courtroom
and restored justice.Is that what you wanted to say,Roman?
Exactly.
It means you had a motive.
You didn't think that I did it,did you?
Why not? Each of us working in this department
has a motive for killing bandits.
Do you have it too?
Serega,open it for me please,help me.Thanks.
You're welcome.Shall I invite them in?
Yes.Call the first five.
All right.First five,please come in.
Come in,come in! Sit down.
Hello.
Wedding,divorce, successful deal,crime,
loss of a beloved person -each of such events
influences our appearance. With time these features
form a picture and you get happy lines in the corners
of your eyes or deep lines from constant violence
performed over yourself. You may be free.
I didn't get it.Can they leave?
Does the word "free" have any other meaning?
You may go.
Invite the next ones.
They can wait.Come to my office.
What kind of interrogation is it?
"You didn't ask them a single question; "
they didn't say a single word!
There is no need for their words yet.
No need...I'm just interested –
how did you put it down in the protocol?
There is nothing to put down too.
Then why did you let them go?
No one of them tried to even the lines on their foreheads.
I'm sorry but I have to work.
You saw your goal clearly.You were approaching it step by step.
You were overcoming obstacles and by doing that
you were sacrificing everything that you had.
But when at last you took a decisive step
after which there was no way back
a person who ruined all your plans appeared before you again!
Recall that moment when you realized that nightmare,
when your life was all but shattered!
Sit down,everybody.
What a great day!
Yes,it was indeed.
Did you find anything?
Yes,a lens.
It must have been lost during the fight.Is it yours?
No,mine are at place.Look, who else wears lenses here?
Not Freud and not Pernitskiy...it's for sure.
They must belong to Selyvanov.
Don't be shy.We shall give it back to him.
During the interrogation Selyvanov behaved inadequately.
It gave us the reason to suspect him in Antonov's murder.
Tell me what happened.
I provoked a fit of anger.And Selyvanov threw himself on me.
I understand him very well. Is that why you decided
that Selyvanov was the one to shoot at Antonov?
Memories of Antonov being released in the courtroom
gave rise to a fit of anger. Sevyvalov was stressed out.
And how do Antonov's subordinates alleviate stress?
How?
They shoot from crossbows.
A good guess.But you'll have to prove your version.
We have a suspect and more or less good version.
But the motive is too speculative.We need more facts.
Igor Selyvanov,aged 23. Born in Vladimir region.
Mother-Nadezhda Selyvanova. She died six years ago.
Ivan Selyvanov,father.He is in prison at the moment.
It's weird that a person with such biography
was working in Antonov's empire.
He is an interesting guy.When you talk to him
it seems to you that he is looking inside you
and is seeing something that other people can't see.Even you.
Did you date him?
No.He was trying to court me but no.
He is too young.And too much of a nobody.
But he seemed weird to you,didn't he?
Yes.He is wearing lenses.Brown lenses.
Though his eyes are blue.
How do you know?
I gave him eye drops once. A spark got in his eye
during our New Year corporative party.I asked him
why he was hiding such beautiful eyes.
What did he answer?
I don't remember.Must have been some banality.
How is the detained?
He is keeping silence. He only said one phrase.
Which one?
That he won't hire a lawyer.
I forgot to send him his lenses. They are without diopters.
I don't understand why he is wearing them.
Maybe he doesn't like the color of his eyes.
When he was leaving his eyes were brown.
The lens is of the same color.
Kristina saw Selyvanov without lenses.His eyes are blue.
Maybe this lens isn't his.
May I give him this lens myself?
You'll need to get a pass.
I'll wait for you in the canteen.
We found only one lens.We didn't find a second one.
I didn't lose anything.
Are you crazy? What are you doing? What is that?
This is what you asked for.
Pepper.
What is it?
Water.
Help him.What is going on?
Did I order you to use your psychological tricks?
This is not psychology but cooking.
Wash your eyes.Look here.
This is his mother's photo.
Her eyes are brown.
Yes.Nadezhda Selyvanova,born 1966.
What was she doing after school?
She entered the university.
Where?
In Novosibirsk.She studied there for two years,
then left the studies and moved to Vladimir.
The reason?
Pregnancy and then the birth.
Who is the father?
Three months before the delivery she married Ivan Selyvanov.
Do we have his photo?
We do.
His eyes are brown.
So what?
This is late Antonov's mother. Besides Selyvanov and Antonov
studied in the same university in the same years.
Can different colors of eyes be passed through a generation?
Even through two generations. Take DNA-samples from Sevylanov.
And compare them to Antonov's DNA.I bet my salary
that Antonov is the father of our guy with different eyes.
Selyvanov-senior was sent to prison for beating his wife and son
so badly that they ended up in a hospital.
What provincial manners!
Yes.His ten-year son shouted that his dad was not his dad.
Everybody was punished for that.
How did he get to know?
His mother told him.She said that when he grew up
he would have star future in the capital with his rich father.
What do you have,Serezha?
Selyvanov goes to his mother's grave twice a year –
on her birthday and the day of her death.
He pays the warden to look after her grave.
He was there recently. Brought a huge bouquet.
I made a photo of the grave.I may print it out.
Please do.Vitya?
Two waiters identified Selyvanov.He was sitting
in the next hall,at the terrace.
There is the entrance from the street there.
People started leaving that hall before we came.
The rumor spread that somebody died in the restaurant.
That is when Selyvanov left too.
They say that he went out of the table several times.
They were laughing that he hadn't had his food yet
but was already using the loo.
So the son revenged on his mother's spoilt life!
The puzzle is complete.
No,it is not.Selyvanov worked in Antonov's company
for a year and a half.Why did he wait for so long?
It's because he couldn't kill his father.
I hope we won't be talking with you.
Why is it important for you to scare people around you?
You grew up without a father,didn't you?
What difference does it make? Why are you playing up with us?
A hero...but not a lover.A secret admirer...but whose?
Stop teasing us.
When did Selyvanov last come to his mother's grave?
What? Two weeks ago. I checked his tickets.
Look.She was born in November and died in August.
He used to visit the grave on these days every year.
Why did he come two weeks ago?
For no reason! He just wanted to visit her!
Yes.And he brought a bouquet the size of a New Year fir tree?
The hearing on Antonov's case started three days ago.
Selyvanov came from the street.
He had a crossbow with him.He sat on a terrace
so that nobody could see him from the next hall
where Antonov was celebrating.
He found a convenient place for shooting.And shot at Antonov.
Both Selyvanov and Antonov spent more than an hour
in the restaurant before the shot.
Selyvanov chose that particular moment.Why?
Yes.And what was he doing for an entire hour?
Maybe he wanted to kill Antonov in somebody's presence.
So he was waiting for that person to come.
It means that if the crossbow didn't shake
the bullet would kill a person who was approaching
Antonov at that moment.
So Selyvanov is the murderer.
But Antonov wasn't the one he was aiming at!
Right! Selyvanov didn't want to kill his father.
He was shooting at a person who could spoil his plan.
Freud.
His mother sacrificed his life for Antonov's sake.
She tolerated beating and insults but she didn't care.
She loved another person.
But he hated his father!
Did you see their house?
All the walls are covered with Antonov's photos.
They only lacked candles. He couldn't kill a person
whom his mother loved! It would be the same
as killing his mother.
And killing his mother is like killing God!
And this is a different jurisdiction.
Yes.Here it is.
Yes.It looks like that.
Why are you so interested in that bouquet?
I love flowers.Pistils and stamens.
He didn't want to kill his father.
He wanted him to be sent to prison where he would suffer
as long as his mother did. That's why he killed his wife.
He was preparing for long and decided not to rely
on such unreliable thing as glass.
Did you find something?
A pistil,I think.Or a stamen.
Selyvanov started working for his father's company.
Of course he didn't know about his son's existence.
He started to study his life to revenge
for his mother's unhappiness in future.
Then Selyvanov got to know that his father
is visiting his ex-wife.
He decided to make use of that situation.
He came to Antonova's home and killed her
with a blow of a bat. Then he took a bottle
with his father's fingerprints,
stained it with his victim's blood and hair
and broke the bottle of his bat.He left shattered glass
as evidence at the crime scene.
So our guys from drug control department
made an announcement in the newspaper –
a DJ is needed,salary is 10 thousand.
Let's drink for music in our hearts!
Did you know that he was shooting at you?
One can't keep anything from you.
Did you know or not? Why did you keep silence,then?
I know! You didn't trust the new team.
Theoretically each of you could have shot at me.
Did you really suspect us?
I did.Was it a mistake?
Was that the reason you agreed to work here?
Good bye.
Why don't you go? I suspected you too.
Stop talking nonsense! Why are you trying to appear worse
than you are? You have enough shit in you without that!
You're the only one who sees through me!
Stop talking nonsense,I tell you! Let's just drink!
For drug control department!
End of Episode One