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that I'm leaving for you.

I'm on my way. Wait for me.

Mikhail will let you in.

Wait, I've got a call.

Trofimov! Get here quick!

The whole thing's falling apart!

Yuri, I can't.

I've got to go straight home.

- They're demanding the shift supervisor.

- Where are you?

- At 152.

- Wait.

I'm scared without you.

- I feel awful.

- Get a hold of yourself.

Pour yourself a whiskey, drink as

much as you can, and wait for me.

I'm so scared for some reason.

I feel like my heart

is about to stop.

Do you know what will happen

in fifty years?

And in eighty years?

Do you?

What eighty years?

I'll be there soon. Wait for me.

Are you the shift supervisor?

I'm "Sir" to you.

Show some respect.

Sir... Whatever...

It doesn't change the situation.

On the fourteenth, did you pull

over our semi hauling memory?

Was that your shift?

Was it in transit?

In transit. On the way to Antwerp.

The truck had no deposit.

Do you know whose transit it was?

Suvorov's.

What do you want?

Give it back.

Why didn't you speak up before?

It's been a week already.

- It's been confiscated.

- Then buy the same kind.

It had one million

two hundred thousand in memory.

Now you're really pushing it.

You f***ed up, and we have to pay?

They'll have you

on all fours, you moron.

What have you done?!

What have you done, what have

you done... What have I done?!

Are you out of your mind?

I was forced into it.

You saw it. They forced me.

They forced me, the bastards!

And what should we do now?

Put 'em in the car,

stage an accident, and torch it.

You're ordering us?

Torch it yourself!

He's out of his mind! F***.

Remember, once you promised

your help

in some delicate affair?

Of course I remember. You don't

forget a thing like that.

Are you still in shape?

Yes, I still can work with people.

I this case it's not exactly

work with people.

Did something happen to you?

For the first time in my life

something happened.

- Something bad?

- Yes, bad. I killed.

What's going to happen to us?

I exploded.

Happiness is when there's you.

But I swear, I promise you,

we won't have anything bad.

Never and nowhere. Nothing bad.

Nothing.

Nothing.

Nothing bad.

Welcome the Curator of the

Russian Pavilion at the World Expo,

Minister of Natural Resources,

Viktor Georgievich Chelishchev.

Ladies and Gentlemen.

You're expecting me to report on

our preparations for this event.

You're expecting sums and figures.

And that's understandable.

But I'd like to start by asking

for your forgiveness.

Forgiveness for years and years

of blindness.

The truth is, it's only in these

past few years I began suspecting...

that there are no ethically

neutral substances in the world.

Now it's a scientific fact.

I'll try to explain what I mean.

The thing is, any substance can be

constructive or destructive.

Simply put, it can transmit good,

but it can also transfer evil.

It can be easily seen by observing

how a substance polarizes light.

It turns out, there's nothing easier

than telling good from evil.

It also turns out that

good and evil literally exist.

They're literally everywhere:

in soil, water, glass, oil, coal...

It's in everything we mine.

And by digging it out,

we extract either good or evil.

And another thing.

Good and evil substances are

highly active and highly infectious.

They constantly interact with each

other, engaged in a decisive battle.

We must ensure that evil stays

in the ground forever,

and mine only the good. We mustn't

think about short term profits,

but rather about the health

of the whole country.

About the future of mankind, about

what it will be - bright or gloomy.

Understand?

Mr. Chelishchev, that's poetic,

but we came for specifics.

Poetic?

- We'd like something concrete.

- Concrete?

And what I told you isn't concrete?

And what do you know?

What do you know about

shady licenses?

About tenders for depleted mines?

About the black budget?

Do you have any idea

of the scale of that black budget?

You don't know anything!

Thank you for your attention.

Did you see that, Tsao?

Tsao, did you see?

It's just like

standing on the roof.

Like this. Look, like this!

And it's absolutely the

right thing!

And that's it...

- Track me by my scent.

- You smell of me.

I can't distinguish

your scent anymore.

You smell of me.

Nikolai Anatolievich!

It's... the horses... all of them...

- Lyosha, what is it?

- The horses... all of them...

Don't leave me.

Where should we put it?

Thanks. We'll do it ourselves.

Why did you sleep on this before?

It's very convenient.

When I'm alone I deflate the other

mattress and there's more room.

To sleep on air?

Yes... to sleep on air.

We won't get any closer.

Now I understand it all.

What?

I understand it all.

We don't need this bed.

Why?

We can't get any closer,

only further apart.

We feel so good together

it can't get any better.

So good that it's bad?

Yes! I feel it so clearly

and so strongly.

We'll be eating each other,

like too much chocolate.

We'll be covered in it.

It's coming like a wave.

- A wave?

- Yes, and it will smash us to bits.

We have to wait it out,

wait it out, wait it out!

- And if we wait, it'll be better.

- I understand that.

- To wait it out. It'll be better.

- It'll be better. You know why?

- Why?

- Cause waiting's better than taking.

To wait till it passes

in order to survive.

Right, not to let it collapse.

- It'll be better...

- Just gotta hang on. It's so simple!

- We'll outsmart it. We can do it.

- We need to part.

- We need to stop. For a long time!

- For a long time!

- We have to part.

- Yes.

- For how long?

- For how long?

Twenty? Thirty? Forty? Fifty?

- Forty? How many?

- Twenty. Thirty.

Right.

Twenty?

Right?

- Twenty?

- Twenty.

Twenty.

Yes.

Viktor Georgievich, good evening!

Good evening, Pyotr Stepanovich.

What's going on with you?

They showed me your speech.

I watched and listened to it.

- Has something happened to you?

- Yes, it has!

My wife left me.

So your wife left!

My sympathies.

But what's that got to do

with good and evil?

And black budgets?

Is there anything besides

good and evil?

I see.

Look here, Viktor Georgievich...

Don't worry. Calm down.

Our lives are in our hands.

Take a vacation. Spend some

time alone. Get some rest.

And then we'll decide

about good and evil.

We'll sort it all out.

Today in our kitchen, demonstrating

their gastronomic mastery

and political maturity are

Andrey Maksimovich Kolesov

and his opponent,

Boris Leonidovich Lesin.

Andrey, what's going on

with our bull steak?

Four more minutes,

and it'll be ready.

Before our break we said a true

politician is a public servant.

So what is public service?

As Leonid Borisovich stressed,

public service is the search for

a path to a harmonious society.

Is that what you said?

Andrey Maksimovich,

what's your opinion?

I agree with Mr. Lesin, but our

recipes for such a society differ.

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