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There is no problem here. Please.

- Get out of my house!

- Calm down. Please, calm down. Take it easy.

Easy? You want easy? You want easy?

- Raisa, I have to go.

- Please, you must remember something.

Get out!

Are you on your own?

Does your mother know where you are?

Is that heavy?

It's heavier than it looks.

I could carry it.

All right then. Up you get.

Let's see what you're made of.

Hello!

Son, you're getting far too heavy

for me to carry.

- Hi.

- Hello, sweetheart.

- What did I tell you?

- I wanted to meet Daddy.

What are you worried about?

He's with me.

Come on.

In the war,

Hitler left hidden revenge squads

all the way back to the Rhine.

I saw what those German soldiers

were capable of.

Is there anything else?

He fed them...

special drugs...

to make them addicted

to the blood of children.

Now it's all coming to a head.

Nine children around here...

found like Artur in the past two years.

Nine?

That bloody monster is still killing us.

Even from his grave.

Sorry for your loss.

I'm sorry for your loss.

All citizens are required

to show proper identification.

The station is temporarily

under MGB jurisdiction.

All citizens are required

to show proper identification.

The station is temporarily

under MGB jurisdiction.

I think it's not good. It's not good.

We can't go this way.

We have to find another way.

I think I know someone who can help us.

I don't like this. I don't like him.

I don't trust him.

But I do.

We all thought you'd been arrested.

Or worse.

Leo refused to denounce me.

Why did you refuse?

She's my wife.

You traveled all the way back to Moscow

at, I assume, great personal risk.

Why?

You see...

each of these children

have been murdered

over the past several years and...

each of these individual cases

has been solved by the state.

The perpetrators dealt with.

But if you look very closely...

and examine the children, they have...

all been killed in a similar manner.

So what you're saying is

somebody is responsible for this?

Absolutely.

And this somebody is still out there.

Yes.

A murderer.

- You're saying there's a murderer?

- Without doubt.

You do realize there are

no murderers in paradise?

So you two are working

together now? As what?

Outraged citizens?

Sort of. Yes.

Going to capture

this troll by yourselves?

Somebody has to.

Ivan, look at these pictures.

Do you see?

These children. Look. This is real.

Look at these names, those documents.

The documents. Let's carefully

examine the documents.

- Yes.

- With all these names.

- All these... All these children.

- Ivan!

- Who is in charge of these wrongdoings?

- Ivan!

All right, all right, all right.

All right.

You are making me nervous.

- Close the curtains.

- All right.

Thank you.

Look.

I know someone who, if he's willing,

- can get you out of the city.

- Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Ivanov.

You have telephone?

They forgot to remove it

when the last tenant died.

I keep it hidden. Disconnected.

Save for emergencies.

Do you have many emergencies?

I have many problems.

Here we go.

Professor Zalman?

Are you free at the moment?

- Could you come to the apartment?

- I don't know why he has this.

There was an incident in school.

I don't know. He shouldn't have this.

Yes, immediately, if possible.

I'm afraid time is of the essence.

Thank you, Professor.

Hello? Professor?

Leo! Leo, wait!

I don't know why he has it.

Leo, wait.

Leo, please.

Leo, please, stop this!

Traitorous scum.

We should have killed you both.

I'm sorry. I truly thought...

Thought what? That he wasn't

fishing with his books?

That he wasn't MGB?

Don't be sorry. He couldn't draw you in

if he wasn't doing his job properly.

Listen...

I made you a promise.

Now you don't have to stay with me.

Do you understand?

I'm coming with you.

What?

That guy.

He can't read.

Thank you, sir.

Did you find your witness?

Moscow was a complete wash.

Well, forget Moscow.

We go towards Rostov.

It's the heart of this, I'm sure.

All kill routes passing through.

Plus twice the number of children

murdered there than anywhere else.

And I believe he works and kills

along the two train lines.

What is the connection

between Volsk and Rostov?

There are no murders east of here.

This may be his end point.

But what is here for him?

The GAZ factory?

The GAZ factory.

- And what's in Rostov for the factory?

- The Rostov tractor factory.

So it's likely he works there.

We find his job...

and we find him.

Hello, Leo.

You miss me?

Some people just don't learn, I guess.

I'd like a word in private.

Inessa.

I understand your...

desire to stay loyal to him.

My point being, it will be better

if you told me everything immediately.

Would it make any difference?

Of course.

You're a monster.

Raisa, I hope you understand

you leave me no choice.

Leo, what did they do to you?

Leo! Please, Leo.

Leo.

Leo. Leo, please.

Leo! Listen to me. You have to wake up.

Leo! Leo, please! Leo! Leo!

Leo!

Leo!

Are you all right?

We need to get off this train.

It was a guard.

That man behind the door.

He gave them the knife.

We must get off this train.

Jump, Raisa, now! Jump!

Go.

It's impossible. The arrangements

were made last minute.

There's no paper trail.

No one able to preplan.

No one even knew

which transport they were on.

You did.

Didn't you?

Listen to me, you.

I promise you something.

If my time is up, so is yours.

You wanted his desk?

Then take the weight that comes with it.

Alexei...

tell me why Leo was arrested.

See, the bosses believe that he

was working for the West, but...

I believe he was working on this.

Series of child murders, you see?

Your son, may he rest in peace,

- he was murdered, yes?

- No.

He was killed in an accident.

But at first you believed

he was murdered, right?

Sit down.

At first, yes, I did.

But, you see, I was... I was upset.

But... so when he came back to Moscow,

it wasn't your son's murder

he was interested in?

Well...

I don't... All I'm saying is that...

that if my son's death was Leo's

reason to return to Moscow,

he never contacted me.

Is that how little you think of me?

I don't think anything of you.

You think you can save Leo?

You can't save Leo, Alexei.

You know that, right?

But you can still save your family.

My family survives, Vasili.

If I may ask you,

where exactly did they escape?

Come here.

It's right here. Near Vladimir.

Well...

seems that the earliest incidents

were all around this area.

The highest concentration

around Rostov-on-Don.

My guess is that this man,

this child murderer, he lives there.

If I was Leo,

I would be heading to Rostov.

Is that all?

That's all.

- Rostov factory.

- Leo, we're here.

Stay with me.

I'll have to find a way

into the records office.

- If I'm not back in half an hour...

- You will be.

Wait here.

Where are you going?

You! Turn around.

Put your hands against the wall.

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