The five magnificent detectives of the homicide department return.
68 episodes · 44 h 45 min
E01
The body of Ali, a student at a dance studio, is found in the locker room after class. The studio director points to Ali's boyfriend, who was against her going away for an internship. Ali's brother also suspects her boyfriend — there were constant conflicts with him. The boyfriend is detained — the lace of his hoodie was found at the murder scene. But the boyfriend has an alibi...
E02
An art college student dies from an injury that is written off as an accident. But the student's older sister is sure her brother was killed. On the day of his death, he fought with a classmate, and before that he had been deeply depressed about something. The dead man's beloved girlfriend says he fought because of her. The investigators, however, find out that the fight was over a female teacher...
E03
A corpse of an unknown man is found in the elevator shaft — no one in the building knows him. It turns out he was shot before the fall. A female resident of the building recalls seeing the murdered man with an unfamiliar young man when they visited her elderly neighbor. The murdered man is identified as a henchman of the owner of an underground casino who had recently been released from prison. And soon the observant resident gets her head bashed in with a cast-iron iron…
E04
A car dealership director and his mistress are murdered. Nothing suspicious is found in the murdered man's business connections. But the mistress had previously dated a police senior lieutenant. And this policeman beat the director right in the car dealership, threatening him with a gun. The murdered man's wife is also under suspicion — among the clients of her photo studio there are criminal figures whom she could have used to kill her cheating husband…
E05
Emil, a young office administrator, dies on stage in a karaoke bar. He had a heart defect, and the drops the killer mixed into his alcohol triggered a heart attack. Emil's uncle blames the nephew's fiancée Dasha, who was caught cheating. But unexpectedly, Dasha's younger sister confesses her love for Emil, certain that he was hiding his new girlfriend from everyone…
E06
A young female lecturer is murdered at the institute. Colleagues describe her as a rather flighty person. Security claims that during the murder there was no one at the institute except her. There is talk of a conflict between the lecturer and a student who was expelled because of her — the day before, he had sent her curses. At the hotel where the murdered woman ordered a taxi, she is recognized as a regular customer…
E07
Tanya, Kuzmin's girlfriend, finds her parents murdered. She is placed in a pre-trial detention center, as all the evidence points to her. The investigators suspect that Tanya's father was killed for exposing fraud at the Gekon company. The head of security denies this, but cannot say where the company director disappeared to. A cellmate threatens Tanya with a swift and brutal reprisal…
E08
The daughter of a well-known businessman, Liza, is kidnapped and a ransom is demanded for her. The detectives find out that a certain Yuri had been courting the girl. Soon his abandoned car is discovered with traces of a struggle and smashed phones. A search of Yuri's apartment leads the detectives to the stripper Dina, the kept woman of his business partner…
E09
Retiree Korobkov drops dead on the hospital porch. It turns out someone mixed poison into his IV drip. The examination shows that shortly before his death, Korobkov was beaten with his own cane. The retiree's neighbor reports that he had thrown his daughter out of the house, but she had just come here with a man in red trousers…
E10
Bubnov, standing up for a man being beaten, receives a knife wound. He is operated on in the same hospital where the man he saved was also brought. The beaten man won't admit who attacked him, but his girlfriend suspects her ex-boyfriend. The investigators find one of the participants in the fight, but he doesn't know the man who stabbed Bubnov.
E11
Krasavchenko leaves his mistress Elena, nearly colliding at the entrance with her husband, who has returned from a business trip. The husband enters the apartment and discovers Elena's corpse. Krasavchenko is detained on suspicion of murder. Elena's husband refuses to cooperate with the "magnificent five," as with colleagues of his wife's lover…
E12
In the kitchen of a country cottage, the heiress of a successful business is killed. On the table is a jar of honey with a piece of herring—perhaps this is how the victim tried to point to the killer before she died. The murdered woman's friend blames her gigolo lover for everything. He is detained, but he himself is in shock over the loss of his "breadwinner." The friend is also suspected, as she was jealous of the murdered woman over her new live-in partner…
E13
Right during a session, the fortune teller Rufina dies—someone injected poison into her thigh. Questioning Rufina's clients yields no results. They find a young woman, Natasha, on whom, in her opinion, the fortune teller had placed a deadly curse. But Natasha has an ironclad alibi. Following Inga, Rufina's administrator, the investigators track down the sorcerer Avreliy…
E14
Near Vetrov's house, his army buddy Slava Andreev is killed with a submachine gun. He had come to Vetrov to tell him something important about their mutual acquaintances, but never brought himself to do it. At the wake, Vetrov declares that before his death Slava told him everything, but that is a secret of the investigation. That same evening, someone tries to kill Vetrov…
E15
Golovanov goes fishing out of town. His car is stolen by an unknown person, who runs over a local drunkard, killing him. An overzealous investigator detains Golovanov and locks him in the holding cell together with a dog. Shaposhnikov and Vetrov come to rescue their chief from captivity, but the investigator agrees to release only the dog. The detectives do not manage to take the dog away in time — a new mysterious murder occurs in the village… that of his wife…
E16
The body of a girl is found in a transformer booth. The girl was hiding from someone — she is wearing a man's coat over her bare body. On her hand is a phone number, hastily written in ballpoint pen. The number belongs to the dean of an institute. He does not know the murdered girl, nor how she got his number. The identity of the deceased is established — she is an applicant who failed to get into the institute where the dean works…
E17
An unknown person kills businessman Max Borovoy during an attempted assault on a girl. A random passerby calls the police. There are three theories: Max's sins from the past, business infighting, or jealousy. It turns out that four years ago, instead of Borovoy, his friend Rakitinsky went to prison for a murder in a fight. Rakitinsky has just been released and has settled with the widow of the murdered man…
E18
An unknown person attacks Krasavchenko's father and takes his violin. The Magnificent Five wonder — was this attack planned or a spontaneous robbery? At the same time, they search both for the person who commissioned the valuable violin and for the street robber-addicts. Disguised as a business traveler, Bubnov infiltrates a gang of street robbers. Vetrov, who is covering Bubnov, comes under attack. Young cellist Markova is overly sympathetic to Krasavchenko's father, which makes Krasavchenko suspicious…
E19
Professor Chinarkin is murdered, having just announced his discovery of an elixir of immortality. Chinarkin's body is found by Lyudmila, Vetrov's wife, who came to the professor's call as a district physician. Everyone suspects the eccentric graduate student whom Chinarkin dumped a couple of months ago after meeting his former student. The piquancy of the situation is that this student is Lyudmila Vetrova…
E20
Shaposhnikov's vacation at a ski resort goes wrong — Alyona Popova, whom he met the day before, is murdered. Alyona's bag is left in Shaposhnikov's car, and a huge sum of money is found in it. Perhaps that is why the girl was killed. The detectives spread the information that Alyona's forgotten bag is kept in Shaposhnikov's car. At night, an unknown person falls into the ambush…
E21
Lithotherapist Mark Kornilov dies in his office after hitting his head on a cabinet. Someone pushed him into that cabinet. The violent and jealous husband of yesterday's patient entered the office and immediately left right at the time of the murder. After him, mineralogist Stepanchikov entered the office and mysteriously disappeared from the cameras' view…
E22
On an abandoned construction site, the body of a strangled logistician, Malyonkin, is found. A homeless man is detained, who has been going around using the murdered man's credit cards. The homeless man recalls that the killer was trying to extract some password from Malyonkin. The Kozlenko spouses, whom Malyonkin had visited the day before his death, say that he left for home safely. But a neighbor saw Kozlenko dragging Malyonkin's body out of the apartment…
E23
Double Life. In a forest near the village of Kolosovo, a vacationer from Moscow, police captain Nekrasov, is killed. The main headquarters sends the "Magnificent Five" there under the guise of surveyors, led by Golovanov. Unexpectedly, the "surveyors" encounter fierce resistance from the locals. Golovanov manages to get the salesgirl to talk, but she falls silent when the local shoemaker appears. At night, someone damages the tires of the operatives' minibus…
E24
While extinguishing a fire, the crew commander Mikhail Polozov is killed. The second firefighter, Kuklin, falls into a coma from smoke poisoning — someone tore off his mask. Kuklin's wife blames Mironov, Vetrov's former colleague, for all the villainy. Mironov, as a guarantor, had been paying off a loan for Polozov. It turns out that the house was set on fire deliberately, and Polozov was the lover of Kuklin's wife…
E25
In a park, the body of a hotel maid is found with signs of robbery. Expensive jewelry is missing — it seems the girl was not living on just one salary. A friend blames the maid's ex-boyfriend for the murder. Kuzmin finds in the murdered woman's computer an explanation for her excessive income — the girl filmed hotel clients' amusements and blackmailed them. Shaposhnikov is worried that the videos also include his meetings with Alina…
E26
French engineer Foucault, who was setting up a production line at a factory, dies in a hotel. The Frenchman, while taking a bath, allegedly dropped a hairdryer into the water. The porter says he saw no one at the time, but the operatives suspect that a woman was in the room during the Frenchman's death. A paper burned in the room is deciphered — Foucault was writing about sabotage at the factory…
E27
A literature teacher tries to commit suicide — a boy whose voice had been haunting her called her and made her jump off a bridge into the river. The investigators find out that the call came from a burner SIM card. Could it be that the woman's stepson was jealous of her over her deceased mother? Or that her husband found out about a lover? During a search of the teacher's apartment, they find an extra-high-power rat repellent…
E28
A student's corpse is found in a park, dressed in a game costume with an arrow in his throat. Presumably, it is an arrow from a crossbow used in role-playing games. Magical signs are discovered on the trees in the park, which Golovanov deciphers with the help of a book on occult rituals. But will this help the Magnificent Five solve the mystical murder?
E29
Right on a ski slope lift, an employee of the rental shop, Yevgeny, is killed. A local police officer asks the Magnificent Five, who are vacationing at the ski resort, for help with the investigation. Yevgeny's partner recalls that the victim had a conflict with a vacationer over a girl. But it turns out that the partner himself also had a sharp conflict with the victim over his sister…
E30
Yevgeny Nenashev, the owner of a chain of sporting goods stores, dies of heart failure. The naturalness of his death is called into question. In the last hour, Nenashev ran an unrealistically long distance on the treadmill, knowing that he had recently had a heart attack. Could someone have forced him to run in order to trigger cardiogenic shock? The housekeeper states that the deceased had a conflict with his own sister…
E31
Aglaya Taran, a saleswoman at a flower shop, kills restaurant owner Ivanov with two knife strikes. Makarov, a witness to the murder, trying to stop Aglaya, accidentally kills her with a punch of his fist. He is detained. It turns out that Makarov and Aglaya worked at the same flower shop, but no connection to the murdered Ivanov is found. In Aglaya's phone there is only one number: Mikhail Bannikov, her friend from the orphanage…
E32
On the eve of her anniversary, a famous actress is killed at home. It looks like a robbery — everything in the apartment has been ransacked. The actress had previously been successful and rich, buying up diamonds, and many envied her. An electrician from the housing office, who was seen in the stairwell at that time, has already been involved in a case of apartment thefts. The investigators, who are on the trail of the vanished electrician, are attacked…
E33
The body of an advertising firm director is discovered. The director was poisoned with clonidine and robbed — he was carrying a large sum of "cash-out" money. The taxi driver who arrived on the victim's call tries to flee; drugs are found in his car. Kuzmin manages to identify the washed-off tattoo of the director's assistant, which Vetrov had seen and remembered. The assistant is wanted for robberies committed using clonidine…
E34
Internet technician Fyodorov is killed in the attic. Could he have gotten into a conflict with the homeless people living there? Fyodorov also quarreled with the Golitsyns from apartment seven. But the Golitsyns shift the blame to their psychopathic neighbor Layevsky — he was the one against the internet, cut the wires, and fought with internet technicians. Under the pretext of giving important testimony, a witness lures Shaposhnikov into her apartment…
E35
Young loader Yuri Ignatov, who recently moved to St. Petersburg from Sochi, is killed. Yuri's wife had a foreboding of trouble — on the day of his death he promised her imminent wealth. But what source of income could a quiet and inconspicuous loader count on? The Magnificent Five manage to find out that the victim had been in contact with a former classmate, also a native of Sochi, who the day before had robbed a jewelry store, shooting a security guard…
E36
TV weather presenter Valeria Bystrova is struck and killed by a car. The driver fled, the car is listed as stolen — everything points to a planned murder. Who could have wanted to harm the charming woman everyone fell in love with? According to Bystrova's friend, lately Valeria had been maniacally stalked by Antonov, a man from Siberia. Antonov, having convincingly portrayed drunken grief over the deceased in front of Shaposhnikov, instantly sobers up after he leaves…
E37
Margarita Dementyeva, a journalist for an online publication, is brutally raped and strangled. The victim's colleagues say Margarita had been threatened by an unknown man, but the publication's director, Ozerov, denies this. It turns out that on the eve of the tragedy Margarita left a restaurant with businessman Fyodorov in a car driven by his chauffeur, who had already served time for murder. And Ozerov himself had been unsuccessfully courting the striking Margarita…
E38
Boris Leontyev, the foreman of the loaders at a vegetable depot, is shot dead. Leontyev had long been divorced and lived alone. The loaders speak unflatteringly of their strict foreman's character, but his excessive demands on his subordinates are hardly likely to have been the reason for the murder. However, one of the depot's main suppliers really did threaten to kill Leontyev. The Magnificent Five will have to figure out whether the murder was the result of schemes at the depot, or whether it was someone's jealousy…
E39
Plastic bags containing the remains of Ulyana Krylova, a graduate student at the Institute of Philology, are found in the river. The cause of death is a shotgun wound to the heart. Ulyana's boyfriend is away and has not yet returned. The deceased's academic advisor, Professor Orlyansky, suggests that one of her clients killed her—perhaps the graduate student was moonlighting as an escort. Orlyansky himself is found to have a recently used gun…
E40
The body of a tutor is found in his own apartment with signs of a burglary. In the same building, three more apartments were robbed whose owners were away. It is obvious that this could not have happened without an inside tip. But who could have known the plans of all the residents for that day? The "Magnificent Five" manage to find out that a certain Valentina had recently been checking the meters in the building…
E41
The body of a tutor is found in his own apartment with signs of a burglary. In the same building, three more apartments were robbed whose owners were away. It is obvious that this could not have happened without an inside tip. But who could have known the plans of all the residents for that day? The Magnificent Five manage to find out that a certain Valentina had recently been checking the meters in the building…
E42
At a billiards tournament, the contender for the main prize, Alexey Golubev, dies mysteriously. He is killed by a bullet that flies out of a cue—someone had built a self-firing mechanism into the handle. The key fob for the remote trigger device is found in the pocket of Golubev's main rival. The man swears that the key fob was planted on him. Immediately after the shot, a waitress, Golubev's mistress, disappears from the club without a trace…
E43
Banker Manevich is killed right during the fireworks in honor of his anniversary. On a plot of land Manevich recently won in a lawsuit, a perch is found in a tree from which the shot was fired. Could the former owner of the plot have become the killer? Or perhaps the hitman was hired by Manevich's partner, who served six years for the banker and has just been released? It was not for nothing that a week ago Manevich increased his security…
E44
Young ballerina Albina is strangled in a rented apartment. The body was discovered by a plumber, Kolanych, who had earlier taken her ring out of the siphon. A completely different woman, pretending to be the landlady, brought the plumber into the apartment and then disappeared. All the evidence points to Kolanych, and he is detained. An inspection of Albina's apartment leads the detectives to the conclusion that the ballerina had a wealthy admirer…
E45
Petrovich, the duty officer of the department, agrees to help a pretty complainant, Alexandra, drive her annoying ex-husband out of her apartment. But at the scene, Petrovich discovers the corpse of the ex-spouse and the complainant's gravely wounded lover. Alexandra herself vanishes without a trace. Unexpectedly it turns out that Petrovich had a conflict with the murdered man, which he concealed, and his nose is suspiciously broken...
E46
During a wedding, the groom, a former classmate of Krasavchenko, drowns in a pond. Someone struck him on the head and pushed him into the water. Krasavchenko tries unsuccessfully to question the bride and her father, but they are in shock. Among the unopened gifts, a dead mouse is found. And the waiters saw an unidentified guest leave after the groom and never return...
E47
In the morning, with a severe hangover, a pensioner finds the corpse of a young girl in his garage. He swears he killed no one and that in his drunkenness he left the garage open yesterday. In the victim's handbag they find a passport in the name of Golovanov's elder daughter, Natasha. The investigators see that it is not Natasha, but how did her passport end up with the murdered woman?
E48
The young wife of the "tough" businessman Voldemar Makukh, Zhanna, has been killed. Makukh declares that he will find the killer himself and punish him himself. In the murdered woman's phone they find video recordings of her threats against Voldemar's daughter from his first marriage. Could Zhanna's death have been the result of a conflict with her stepdaughter? The waiter with whom the businessman's wife flirted before her death takes to his heels...
E49
A beaten young man comes out of the forest to people picnicking and dies. Nearby they find a pit from which the unfortunate man crawled out before dying. Apparently someone had buried him there thinking he was a corpse. They find the owner of the jeep that was spotted at the crime scene. He immediately admits his guilt, but he is caught in a lie...
E50
The wife of the owner of a shoe atelier, Ilya, dies from the bite of an exotic snake. In winter the snake could not have crawled into the house by itself, so someone must have brought it. Ilya suspects that his assistant Rita secretly visited the house. In the terrarium of Pomerantsev, Ilya's foe, a venomous snake is found to be missing. Pomerantsev's housekeeper recalls that the snake disappeared after Rita's visit...
E51
While out for a walk with yet another girl, Krasavchenko is severely and professionally beaten by two unknown men. The Magnificent Five try to figure out what could have prompted such a cynical attack on a police officer. The girl's brother asks them not to tell anyone about him, especially about the boxing club he belongs to. A year ago, a fighter died mysteriously in that club…
E52
An electrician named Morozov dies in a fire in his own apartment. Someone took advantage of his drunkenness—they threw a blanket over the heater, causing it to catch fire. A witness saw Morozov's wife, Lyusya, leaving the building with bags just before the fire. The investigation reveals that the dead electrician's apartment has a co-owner—a businessman named Rumyantsev, the lover of Lyusya Morozova's best friend, Rita. And Rita herself is the wife of Morozov's partner…
E53
Oleg, a photo shop salesman, is killed by a shot to the eye from an air rifle. Sonya, a photographer in love with him, knew where he was. The girl presents an alibi and accuses Vasily, a salesman in love with the murdered Oleg's mistress—a courier named Nina—of the murder. The Magnificent Five will have to untangle a knot of Shakespearean passions in which all the employees of the photo shop are entwined…
E54
In a funeral home, thanatopractitioner Emma Domskaya was strangled right in a coffin — she restored the appearance of the deceased. The agency's administrator, Faina, describes the deceased as an arrogant snob, of whom she was jealous regarding her boss, Matishov. Matishov says that Emma had a lawsuit with a client's widow. The widow accused the deceased of desecrating her dead husband's body.
E55
Numismatist Vasily Drozdov is killed, his apartment robbed. Counterfeit antique coins are found in the victim's pockets. Nora shows Kuzmin the same coins that swindlers foisted on her at three times the price. Kuzmin finds the swindlers, gets badly beaten, and the injured man is taken away by ambulance…
E56
Oleg Medvedev's corpse is found under the balcony of his own apartment. Medvedev's childhood friend Nechayev is detained in the apartment. It turns out that before his death, Medvedev learned that the child he had raised as his own was actually Nechayev's son. Nechayev swears that he passed out during a drinking session with Medvedev and could not have thrown his friend off the balcony. It seems that someone else was in the apartment besides the two childhood friends…
E57
Chain-store saleswoman Taisiya Golskova is killed. The corpse is found in her burned-down house — someone set the fire at night. The examination establishes that Taisiya died not in the fire but from a blow to the head. It turns out that five years ago the deceased was fired from a school for driving a student to suicide. The student survived but became disabled…
E58
At a dacha, student Inga, the daughter of General Kozlov, is shot dead. Jewelry is stolen. The general begs his friend, Lieutenant Colonel Golovanov, to find the killer of his only daughter. The thief was clearly one of their own — he knew where everything was kept and shot Inga with the general's award pistol. Soon the general's housekeeper is killed. On the floor of her apartment are some of the stolen jewels…
E59
A private dentist is brutally murdered in his office. The doctor died of pain shock — the killer pulled out all his teeth without anesthesia. Shaposhnikov does not come to the crime scene, and his phone is turned off. The dentist's assistant says that Shaposhnikov is their client and plays a recording on the answering machine of his voice threatening to come and pull out all the dentist's teeth…
E60
Weightlifter Sarmatov is murdered in a sophisticated way — the killer dropped a barbell with an impossibly heavy load onto his neck. His rival from a tournament with a large prize fund is suspected of the murder. But he confesses that he was with his mistress at the time. Sarmatov's blood-stained shirt is found in the locker room. It turns out that the deceased had a serious conflict with his coach…
E61
In the attic of an old house, black digger Semyon is murdered. Most likely, he unearthed a treasure and failed to share it with someone — ancient gold coins are found nearby. The same coins are found in one of the antique shops. On the coins are the fingerprints of Alla, the widow of the deceased. The detectives go to the apartment of the deceased Semyon and find Alla strangled. On the floor — the same gold coins…
E62
Milana Balashova, a dancer of the ensemble at the Decadence Hotel, is strangled. Her friend reports that a businessman staying at the hotel wanted to give Milana an apartment and bequeath part of his business. And the businessman's son is going to marry Milana's half-sister. The body of a girl who in life looked very much like Milana is discovered. The girl had come to the hotel for a screen test…
E63
Bubnov detains the criminal Nukamaev. Nukamaev threatens Bubnov and his family with cruel retribution. Bubnov's wife leaves her daughter Verochka unattended for a second, and the girl disappears without a trace. Could the accomplices of the detained criminal have turned his verbal threats into a tragic reality? And the most terrifying thing is that the kidnappers do not call or set any conditions. Could Verochka already be dead?
E64
Businesswoman Elena Nikitovskaya is stabbed in a swimming pool with an unknown weapon. The detectives suspect Derzhavina, the owner of a fitness club. Derzhavina lived abroad, owed the murdered woman a large sum, and is now hiding. The dentist Sheremetyev also raises suspicion, as he had a relationship not only with both women but also with Nikitovskaya's daughter. Could the murdered woman have been preventing her daughter from building happiness with her lover?
E65
On the way from the market where she traded, Margarita Mikhailova is strangled. The murder looks like a contract killing — nothing was taken. The phone of Margarita's son is turned off, and his whereabouts are unknown. Margarita's drunken husband is detained, but he is in no condition to give testimony. It is strange that only Margarita worked in the family, yet the Mikhailovs recently acquired an expensive apartment…
E66
After a party with friends, student Valery Zbarsky disappears. All the participants claim that the party passed without incident — Valera left home first. Valery's body is found in a nearby pond; before drowning, he was severely beaten. Zbarsky's blood is found on the staircase of the party host's house. Valery's mother warns Golovanov that he may be asked to hush up this case…
E67
At a country house, art academy teacher Mark Korablyov is hacked to death with a shovel. Before his death, Mark drank a decoction of hallucinogenic mushrooms with someone, traces of which remained on the fatal shovel. Under suspicion are Filipp, Mark's favorite student, and his best friend — the artist Borovitsky. Soon Mark's widow Arina is found dead — she fell out of the window of her apartment…
E68
Nikita, an acquaintance of Natasha — Golovanov's daughter — is killed. Golovanov is beside himself — a drug is found in the dead man's blood. Crime boss Muravyov is suspected, but he has an alibi. Muravyov meets the ringleader of the local drug mafia and demands that he name Nikita's killer. Natasha, as a policeman's daughter, decides to start her own investigation. She is in mortal danger…
The Fabulous Five (2019)
The Fabulous Five
2019
The Fabulous Five
2019
The Fabulous Five
2019
