The continuation of the detective series about the daily life of the detectives of the homicide department of the Petrovsky District Police Department in St. Petersburg. In the new season, the detectives will face new investigations and changes in their personal lives.
108 episodes · 69 h 40 min
E01
Igor Potapov, a scientist and inventor, has been shot dead. The murder took place in front of private detective Zhenya Krasotkina, whom Potapov had hired to tail his fiancée Ksenia. Ksenia is not answering calls. Zhenya shows the investigators a surveillance camera recording — the young woman entered the apartment and did not come out. But the apartment turns out to be empty — Ksenia has mysteriously vanished.
E02
Natasha and Tanya Golovanov learn from a stream channel about the kidnapping of blogger Malina, Natasha's former classmate. Natasha tells Tanya that it's a prank and no one kidnapped Malina, because in the photo she is in her old garage. The girls arrive at Malina's garage and find the still-warm corpse of the stream channel host.
E03
Grigory Mokeyev, a student at the Acropolis College of Urban Planning, is killed. Four days earlier, a young teacher at the college, Yulia Voloshina, committed suicide. The school believes she may have killed herself because of the mocking jokes of students Matvey and Grigory, who was killed. The investigators must find out whether there is a connection between these events.
E04
Businesswoman Margarita Smolina is poisoned with toxic gas and robbed in her home. Her daughter Irina claims that her mother was expecting pest control workers in the morning. Bubnov and Vetrov, patrolling the cottage village, run into the pest control workers, who flee from them in a special vehicle. The investigators enter the house from which the pest control workers fled and find a man's corpse on the terrace.
E05
Lyubov and Georgy Kuznetsov, friends of Anton and Lyudmila Vetrov, die at the hands of a hitman. Vetrov once served with Georgy, and later they became friends, as did their wives. Lately Kuznetsov had been working in the security service of a freight company. Vetrov takes the Kuznetsovs' ten-year-old son into his home, saying that his parents have gone on an urgent secret assignment.
E06
Almost in front of Shaposhnikov's mistress Alina, her friend Nina Semyonova, a fashion photographer, is killed. Hearing a shot from behind the door of the photo studio, Alina finds Nina dying on the floor with a pistol in her hand. In a panic, the girl snatches the pistol from her friend's hands, and that is how two fashion models find Alina over the cooling corpse.
E07
Library institute student Ksenia Nikitina is killed in a rented apartment. The investigators suspect she was killed because of an ancient book found in the library, which could be of enormous value. The killer did not find the book, because it was lying in plain sight. It turns out that Ksenia's classmates Marta and Lena knew about the book, and both have disappeared.
E08
Dr. Denis Kalyuzhny is killed by an explosion in his private medical office. Someone left a sports bag packed with explosives under his desk. Suspicion falls on Roman Abrosimov, who publicly accused Kalyuzhny of causing his wife's death and threatened to take revenge on him. Abrosimov does not deny this, but claims he meant going to court.
E09
One floor below Krasavchenko's new apartment, the young wife of successful businessman Alexei Mikhailov, Maria, is murdered. She is stabbed in her sleep in her bedroom with a knife found in the hands of her stepdaughter Paulina, who is sleeping nearby on the floor. The girl claims she remembers nothing, but even her own father does not believe her. Everyone is waiting to see what the forensic examination will show...
E10
Businessman Pozhogin dies during an MRI scan — a strong magnetic field tore an inoperable bullet out of his head. It turns out that before this, an attacker had deleted the record of the bullet from Pozhogin's medical file. But the investigators find it strange that the attending physician, who sent the businessman for the MRI, did not notice the bullet scar on the patient's head...
E11
Instructor Sabina Zhukova dies during training at an equestrian club. The examination establishes that death resulted from a bullet fired from a pneumatic weapon entering her temple. The club director reports that another instructor, Elena Gorshkova, did not show up for work. The investigators are alarmed that Elena practiced pentathlon, which includes such a discipline as shooting...
E12
Young patient Zoya Kurkova dies in a spa salon from nitrogen vapor poisoning. Zoya was brought to the salon by her stepdaughter Ada, who claims she was friends with her stepmother, even though she lives with her own mother. The nurse insists that she took the inhalation preparation as usual, from the refrigerator. That means someone had swapped the preparation in advance. Suspicion falls on Ada's mother...
E13
Student Marusya Tsyplakova discovers two corpses in her apartment: an unknown person stabbed her mother and stepfather. Suspicion falls on Marusya herself, since a neighbor tells the investigators that the stepfather constantly harassed the girl when the mother was away. The investigators come to question Marusya's fiancé, Roman Zaitsev, and find a knife in his apartment — the murder weapon...
E14
A daring raid is committed on the highway. A Tambov athlete, Sazonov, who had come to St. Petersburg to buy an apartment, is shot dead. The investigation believes that Sazonov was killed because of the large sum of money he was carrying. A previously convicted realtor, with whom the athlete had spoken on the phone, is suspected of involvement in the murder. The realtor presents an alibi, but will it withstand a thorough check?
E15
Manager Sergei Artemov is shot dead by an unknown person in the apartment of his colleague Yuri Vinokurov. Yuri himself has disappeared, and his phone is turned off. But besides traces of the colleagues, traces of an unknown person are found in the premises. Kuzmin finds out that Vinokurov had been in contact with two former criminals — Semenov and Galkin, previously convicted of fraud, which strengthens the suspicions against Yuri…
E16
Spouses Nina and Oleg Makeev are killed in their own home. Their son Kolya disappears without a trace. The investigators wonder whether Kolya killed his parents and fled, or whether he himself became a victim of criminals. The contacts of the murdered Makeev lead to crime boss Yakov Dashkov. The investigators are about to question him, but right before their eyes Dashkov is shot from a car that drives up…
E17
Chef Vadim Zubov is killed — during a live broadcast of a culinary master class. The criminal opened the door to the apartment with his own key. An unknown man with tattoos of knives on his neck is suspected of involvement in the murder; according to a neighbor, shortly before the murder he handed Vadim a package. The package is found — in it is a voodoo doll stuck with needles…
E18
As a result of an attack by an unknown person, Denis Kirilov dies, and his childhood friend, Konstantin Grachyov, ends up in the hospital. It turns out that Denis owed a large sum to a criminal nicknamed Sukhar. Denis's younger sister reports his conflict with the father of the murdered man's girlfriend. The investigators ask themselves — why did the two friends end up near the business center early in the morning?
E19
Janitor Samvel Gogia is killed at his workplace. He had never been noticed in crime, and no complaints about him had been received from residents. The investigators rack their brains over who could have killed a simple janitor? An engineer from the housing maintenance service recalls that Samvel had a conflict with a resident, Gorelov, who threatened to kill him. It turns out that Gorelov is a shell-shocked former sniper.
E20
A city administration official, Pyotr Zlobin, is murdered. His body, with a fatal injection to the neck, is discovered before the start of a wedding banquet at a country hotel. Suspicion falls on the groom, Platon Makeyev, who had a conflict with Zlobin shortly before the murder, witnessed by Major Shaposhnikov himself. Platon refuses to obey the investigators' order not to leave the hotel.
E21
After a sports duel between two fencing club coaches, Yelena Strelnikova and Vika Obraztsova, the latter is found murdered in the club's locker room. In Yelena's apartment, a sword is found that could have been used to stab Vika. Shaposhnikov does not believe in Strelnikova's guilt, but Krasavchenko accuses him of bias, since Yelena is Shaposhnikov's neighbor in his building and quite good-looking.
E22
Astrophysicist Igor Kolyadin, known under the pseudonym Pulsar, falls out of the window of his apartment. Captain Krasavchenko witnesses his death. The investigation finds more and more evidence that this was not a suicide but a murder. It may be connected to disputes about a meteorite approaching Earth. All the ufologists whom Pulsar ruthlessly exposed fall under suspicion.
E23
Bubnov helps Lidiya Zamyatina, who twisted her ankle on the street, get to her apartment and ends up in a shootout. Lidiya is wounded and is hovering between life and death. Bubnov shoots the attacker, but he manages to escape through the back door. It turns out that the apartment belonged not to Lidiya but to Karen Avakyan, who claims he is seeing Lidiya for the first time.
E24
Kuzmin's acquaintance, programmer Ivan Krapivin, dies mysteriously from a ritual Tibetan dagger, a phurba. At the same time, the doors and windows of the apartment turn out to be closed. Suspicion falls on the head of the company Debug-Plus, Aleksandr Solomatin, whom Ivan publicly struck while defending the honor of his wife Zhenya. Arriving at the corporate residence to detain Solomatin, the investigators hear gunshots in the forest.
E25
Before Alyona's eyes, her sister Irina drowns in a pond. Alyona cannot believe it, because her sister was into diving. And the examination shows that the girl did not drown by accident — someone forcibly dragged her under the water. But Alyona and a lifeguard were watching Irina from the shore and did not notice anyone near her.
E26
Liya Palazhenko, a swimming pool cleaner, leaves her phone number in the guest book at an art gallery with an offer to meet a native Petersburger. The next morning, Liya's body is found with knife wounds on the embankment near her home. Near the corpse, a bell from a toy exhibited at the gallery is found. Its creator is the last person who called Liya.
E27
In a small village, a young artist, Igor Luzhkov, is killed. On him is found a chain recently stolen from the house of an antiques collector, Morozov. The victim's closest friend, Gennady, claims that Luzhkov was killed by a village resident, Arkhipov, out of jealousy toward postal worker Elena Belyakova. Unexpectedly, Vetrov discovers that his father, a retired colonel, is planning to marry Belyakova.
E28
At an exhibition being prepared at a cultural center, the event organizer, Svetlana Kolokoltseva, is found murdered in an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus. At the same time, all the exclusive and valuable exhibits remain untouched. In Svetlana's clenched right fist, a button is found, presumably from a man's shirt. The cultural center's security guard, Pyotr Vasilyev, who persistently harassed Svetlana, is suspected of involvement in the murder.
E29
Nadezhda Kudryashova dies from the explosion of a smartphone ordered online. The investigators find out that no such order was placed with the company selling smartphones, and the courier who delivered the item is not listed with the company. The case of an accident becomes a case of premeditated murder. Kuzmin determines that only a highly qualified IT specialist could have carried out the murder in this way.
E30
In the morning, in a Ferris wheel gondola stuck at its highest point, student Yuliya Nikolaeva is found dead from heart failure. In the evening, she had been walking in the amusement park with her boyfriend, Konstantin Levashov. However, it turns out that at the moment of Yuliya's death, Konstantin could not have been near her. So who started the engine of the "devil's wheel" at night?
E31
Designer Ekaterina Lykova is killed — her body in a bathtub filled with water is found in the apartment whose interior she was working on. Initial suspicions fall on the apartment's owners and on the project curator, Liliya Kritskaya. Shaposhnikov brings in his former lover, Alina, as an independent consultant on the case. She agrees, unaware of what this threatens for her.
E32
Masseuse Angela Alekseeva is murdered. Her body, covered in numerous stab and slash wounds, was discovered by the neighbors downstairs. They called the emergency service because Angela had flooded their apartment. Next to the victim's body, her husband Mikhail is found unconscious with a cut on his hand. Naturally, all suspicions fall on him. It is only unclear why the man turned on the water and plugged the sink with a stopper.
E33
In an abandoned church, a murdered girl dressed in a Snegurochka costume is found. It turns out that she is Dasha's friend, a former prostitute and now a successful businesswoman, Serafima. Dasha suggests that Serafima's murder may involve her wealthy patron, businessman Glukhov. But witnesses saw not Glukhov, but a real Ded Moroz running away from the crime scene.
E34
On the street, a girl gives Bubnov an artificial Christmas tree wrapped in plastic film. The girl says that her boss ordered the tree to be thrown away, but she felt sorry that the good would go to waste. Timur brings the tree to the department, unwraps the film, and loses consciousness. The tree turns out to be poisoned, and Bubnov ends up in the hospital.
E35
Kuzmin was in a fireworks store when a shot rang out in the back room. Saleswoman Sonya Kuznetsova was mysteriously shot dead. The detectives cannot understand how the killer got into the back room and how he left unnoticed — Kuzmin was in the sales area with the second saleswoman, and the service entrance was on an alarm system that no one had disarmed.
E36
In one of the city's microdistricts, the corpse of an unknown man is found under a Christmas tree. Student Nikita claims that just an hour ago there was no corpse here — the young man had been hiding a gift for his girlfriend there: a box of chocolates and a plush fox cub. The New Year's surprise was a great success — instead of a gift, Nikita's girlfriend found an unidentified corpse under the tree.
E37
The entire "Magnificent Five," led by Golovanov, arrives at the shore of a picturesque lake to take part in an amateur fishing competition. The competition was devised by Golovanov's old acquaintance — children's gymnastics coach Marat Koltsov. The winner was supposed to receive a large sum, and the money was kept by Marat. Kuzmin gets up before everyone else for the morning dawn and discovers a corpse on the shore…
E38
Nina Makhova, a highly demanding economics professor at a university, is stabbed to death. Her ex-husband Oleg, previously convicted of assault, becomes the first suspect. Another theory suggests the killer could be one of the students whom the professor failed in exams. Oleg Makhov is hiding at his country house. The officers who arrive to detain him hear a woman's scream coming from the house…
E39
Businessman Igor Izmailov and his wife Vasilisa are murdered. Vasilisa's correspondence suggests she had a lover — Roman Belikov. Suspicion also falls on the former criminal Arkadyev, with whom Izmailov had some dealings. While searching for Arkadyev, Vetrov and Bubnov encounter a group of armed bandits who engage them in a shootout.
E40
In a suburban forest, Oleg Samokhin dies from a lightning strike after someone tied him to a tree before the storm. It turns out that shortly before this, the man had been driving to a holiday resort with his girlfriend Olga Romashova. Olga did reach the resort, but the investigators are unable to talk to her for reasons beyond her control.
E41
During preparations for a film shoot, actress Lana Shcherbinina dies. An unknown person stunned Lana with a blow to the head and set her wig on fire. The girl's makeup artist says that before this she had complained about her former boss — the foreman of a group of impersonator actors who demanded hush money from her and threatened to kill her. The driver recalls that Lana called him "emperor".
E42
In a park near the house, Krasavchenko's neighbor, landscape designer Milena Eliseeva, is brutally murdered. The older sister Zlata accuses Krasavchenko of the murder, since he had accidentally run into Milena shortly before her death. Zlata had raised her sister alone, which is why she reacted so sharply to her death. Urging the woman to be reasonable, Krasavchenko suggests applying proof by contradiction.
E43
During a game of paintball, furniture factory director Sergei Golubev dies of suffocation. The paintball pellet that hit him contained a chemical substance that triggered a fatal asthma attack. All participants in the game battle fall under suspicion, including Major Shaposhnikov and Interior Ministry psychologist Yulia Lebedeva, who was the one who dragged him to paintball.
E44
The owner of a tattoo parlor, Kamilla Chepyzhova, has been murdered. Her body, with multiple knife wounds, was found in the bathtub of a rented apartment. The investigators wonder why the killer dragged Kamilla's body from the kitchen to the bathroom—maybe he intended to dismember the body, but something stopped him? Kamilla's boyfriend comes to the police with an unexpected statement—he killed the girl at her own request.
E45
At night, a saleswoman, Elena Volkova, is murdered in the back room of a men's suit shop. Fyodor Gvozdikov, Elena's ex-boyfriend, is suspected of involvement in the crime. But the man is found dead. At first glance, he committed suicide, but he left a very strange suicide note. Elena's shift partner indirectly conveys to the investigators the information that the murdered woman was harassed by the store director.
E46
An industrial climber, Maxim Rezun, is killed by a knife stab in the back. A friend of the deceased reports that shortly before the tragedy, Maxim may have witnessed a crime. Their mutual acquaintance, Ivan Sokolsky, also wished the man dead—he blamed Maxim for the death of his fiancée. Gleb Govorov, the foreman of the industrial climbers, also falls under suspicion, as his alibi turns out to be false.
E47
In the morning, suffering from a severe hangover, a pensioner finds the corpse of a young girl in his garage. He swears he didn't kill anyone 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 older daughter, Natasha. The investigators see that this is not Natasha, but how did her passport end up with the murdered woman?
E48
A chess player, Veronika Zvonareva, dies because someone ran high voltage to the chess clock. Inga Larina, who along with Veronika was competing for the title of winner of the chess tournament, is detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder, but there is no hard evidence against Inga. Krasavchenko categorically denies the girl's involvement in the murder, citing intuition.
E49
In the flower salon "Hortensia," a saleswoman, Viktoria Pishchik, is brutally murdered. Elite cosmetics point to the girl having a wealthy lover. Suspicion falls on her ex-husband Kirill, the owner of the salon, and a delivery service courier. The courier's phone was in the salon during the crime, and his fingerprints are on the murder weapon…
E50
Krasavchenko's neighbor, a musical actress, is killed by a sniper rifle shot in her apartment. An unknown woman flees the crime scene after knocking out Krasavchenko with a combat sambo move. In the building across the street, investigators find the body of a pensioner whom the sniper killed in order to use his apartment for shooting. Who could have gone to such lengths to kill an actress no one had ever heard of?
E51
Popular writer Vitaly Peskarev is murdered. Everyone in his social circle is a suspect. When the will is read, it turns out that Peskarev's son gets nothing, while the inheritance goes to the housekeeper Klava and the secretary Stanislava. The young women swear they knew nothing about the will. Peskarev's daughter-in-law casts doubt on the document and immediately falls under suspicion.
E52
Programmer Alexander Svetlov dies at home. The examination shows that a hypertensive crisis was caused by stimulants entering his bloodstream. Svetlov's mother is certain her son was murdered. Her assumptions are confirmed — the fingerprints on the empty energy drink cans do not belong to Alexander. Suspicion falls on the courier who delivered a grocery order to the deceased's apartment.
E53
Weightlifter Sergey Andreev dies in a car crash. The examination establishes that the brakes in his car were deliberately damaged. It turns out that before his death, the man had been at the home of his mistress, Larisa Barsova. Suspicion for organizing Andreev's murder falls on Larisa's husband. But the woman claims he will not return from his business trip for another two days.
E54
Car market security guard Ruslan Prokhorov is killed by a blow to the head with an ashtray. The murder suspects, nurse Angela Selezneva and Viktor Artemov, disappear. Investigators follow Artemov's trail and find out that his credit card was used by a troubled teenager nicknamed Mishunya. To track down the suspect, the detectives have to turn to the juvenile affairs department.
E55
Medical college student Vera Kolokoltseva, who worked part-time as a dancer, dies in a club dressing room. The cause of death is rapidly developing decompression sickness, but poisoning by an unknown substance could have produced the same effect. A student at the college's pharmaceutical faculty, Zakhar, with whom Vera had a romance, is detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder. A whole arsenal of chemicals is found on Zakhar.
E56
Krasavchenko leaves the house of his new lover, Elina Smirnova, in the morning — and is hit by a car. Dmitry ends up in the hospital in a coma. The investigators suspect it was a deliberate hit-and-run. The motive could have been jealousy on the part of Elina's husband. Or is it revenge by Krasavchenko's previous girlfriend, an ambitious and not entirely sane fashion model?
E57
Alla Yelenkina is stabbed to death at night in her apartment. Her mother is certain that her daughter was killed by her husband Sergei, a security guard at an electronics store. But the man claims he spent the night with his mistress, which he honestly told his wife before leaving the house. Unexpectedly, a call comes in about a corpse at the store where Sergei works…
E58
Someone strangled young graduate student Larisa Panova of the Institute of Ethnography with his bare hands. Her laptop with her dissertation materials disappeared without a trace. The ancient artifacts she was working with were also stolen. Yet for some reason the killer left a valuable amulet untouched. Larisa's boyfriend, who recently served time for smuggling antiques, is suspected of involvement in the murder.
E59
Krasavchenko discovers the strangled Victoria Soina, an employee of a real estate agency, in his apartment. Dmitry had never met her before, but fabricated evidence points to his involvement in the murder. The investigators realize it is a skillful setup, but Golovanov suspends his colleague from work just in case. Kuzmin makes every effort to confirm Krasavchenko's innocence…
E60
During a training battle, the head of the reenactors' club, Denis Nikiforov, is killed. It is not immediately possible to determine who struck the fatal blow — everyone was caught up in the fight, and no one can say anything clearly. Suspicion falls on club members Arkhipov, whose sword became the murder weapon, and Gidovsky, on whose gloves traces of Nikiforov's blood were found.
E61
Shaposhnikov, vacationing at the Lesnaya Lyzhnya boarding house, goes on a ski outing with instructors Tamara Levashova and Zhanna Sinitsyna. Tamara is killed by an unknown sniper with a silent rifle. Banker Alexei Zabelin, Tamara's possible lover, is suspected of involvement in the murder. How could a simple ski instructor have so angered the banker that he decided to kill her?
E62
In a forest park, a disabled girl, Lilia Gerasimova, is strangled with her own scarf. Suspicion for the murder falls on Pyotr Yermolaev, Lilia's childhood friend, on her mother Nina Sergeevna, and on her stepfather, Fyodor Avdoshkin. All three suspects offer convincing arguments to prove their innocence, but in all three accounts the investigators find suspicious inconsistencies.
E63
During a wolf hunt, Roman Seits, a wealthy man and experienced hunter, dies. The gamekeeper Bogdan, Vetrov's friend and fellow soldier, disappears from the scene. It turns out that Bogdan has a criminal record that he was hiding. Roman's doctor, Vasily Maslov, is suspected in his death. He tries to convince the investigators that killing Seits would not have benefited him.
E64
During a wolf hunt, Roman Seits, a wealthy man and experienced hunter, dies. The gamekeeper Bogdan, Vetrov's friend and fellow soldier, disappears from the scene. It turns out that Bogdan has a criminal record that he was hiding. Roman's doctor, Vasily Maslov, is suspected in his death. He tries to convince the investigators that killing Seits would not have benefited him.
E65
After the presentation of a new erotic book, the popular writer Lidiya Skorikova is killed. The murder was committed with a poisoned dart shot from a blowpipe used by African hunters. Lidiya's driver, Aleksey Pakhomov, is suspected of involvement in the crime, since the deadly dart flew out of the window of his car. However, Aleksey disappears along with the car.
E66
Under strange circumstances, the artist of the guitar theater Viktor Suzdaltsev dies of a heart attack. This raises suspicions because, as the theater's director Svetlana claims, Viktor had a healthy heart. The examination reveals that the man was poisoned with a plant-based poison. But no one can name the poisoner — here all hope rests on the professionalism of the Magnificent Five.
E67
The owner of a consulting company, Valeriy Linkov, is killed. The investigators suspect that his entire activity consisted of intermediary services between construction companies and Linkov's corrupt uncle, who holds an important post in the city government. The last person to see Valeriy alive was his psychotherapist Razgonov. Maybe he killed Linkov? All that remains is to find out — what for?
E68
Shaposhnikov arrives in Vologda for his uncle's funeral and tries to find his killer. Major Sokolova asks Pavel not to interfere in the work of the local police. As soon as he begins investigating, he is beaten by unknown assailants. The entire "Magnificent Five" arrives in Vologda, led by Golovanov. This time they face a criminal of federal scale.
E69
Continuation of the plot of "I Planted a Tree".
E70
After a guided tour, popular Vologda guide Valeria Zhukova dies of cyanide poisoning. The head of the local police department, a friend of Golovanov, invites the "Magnificent Five" to join the investigation of the mysterious murder. The detectives must not only identify the criminal but also find the lost treasure from Peter the Great's era. Meanwhile, Golovanov finds himself drawn into the family affairs of his former classmate.
E71
Continuation of the plot of "The Secret of the Treasure".
E72
In Krasnoyarsk, Vasily Krasin is shot dead by an unknown person. It soon turns out that he is Konstantin Antonov, a criminal wanted in connection with a bank robbery in Saint Petersburg. The leadership decides to send the "Magnificent Five," led by Lieutenant Colonel Golovanov, to Krasnoyarsk to find the killers and recover the stolen valuables.
E73
Continuation of the plot of "The Escape".
E74
After successfully solving the case in Krasnoyarsk, the "Magnificent Five" goes on an excursion to the Stolby Nature Reserve at the invitation of the local forester's daughter. The detectives do not suspect that at the foot of the "Pillars" they will find not only the harsh beauty of Siberian nature but also the corpse of an amateur rock climber from Saint Petersburg. And no one suspects that the forester's daughter is also in mortal danger.
E75
The continuation of the plot of "Death on the Pillars."
E76
A waiter is murdered at the "Blue Forest" guesthouse. Everyone present at the establishment falls under suspicion. In the staff room where the waiter sometimes spent the night, investigators discover a large sum of money. The director of the guesthouse cannot explain why her modest employee kept so much cash of unknown origin. It turns out that one of the guests has quietly disappeared...
E77
In broad daylight, Nikolai Malykhin, a rising star of the "Piter-Balt" club, is murdered at a hockey rink. Someone shot Nikolai from the direction of the empty stands with an unknown type of weapon. Loktev, the head coach of a rival hockey club, is detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder. But the man insists that it would have been more profitable for him to buy Nikolai out than to kill him...
E78
Right during a rehearsal, violinist Vesta Koretskaya dies. Her boyfriend, Oleg, is detained on suspicion of poisoning, but he refuses to testify. However, Vesta's former teacher, Vikenty Lvovich, readily shares his feelings for his student with the investigators. But the case still lacks clarity regarding either the motive or the method of the murder...
E79
Upon returning from leave, police lieutenant Yevgeny Lisitsyn, who had distinguished himself the day before during the arrest of the dangerous criminal Nazarenkov, is killed by an unknown person. Nazarenkov is behind bars, but members of his gang who remain at large could have taken revenge on Lisitsyn for the arrest of their leader. Yevgeny's neighbor confirms that shortly before his death he had been receiving threats by phone. The investigators quickly identify the subscriber who threatened Lisitsyn...
E80
Early in the morning, IT company employee Irina Nikulina is murdered in her own car. On the back seat they find the murder weapon — a pistol registered in the name of her husband, Alexei. The man is detained, but he denies involvement in the murder. The expert conclusion on the examination of the traces left in the car shocks the investigators — at the moment of Irina's murder, Kuzmin was in the adjacent seat...
E81
In a hotel room, judge Valery Kulish is strangled with women's tights. It turns out that at the time of the murder there was a blackout at the hotel. Suspicion falls on the prostitute Anzhela Ponomaryova, who had been servicing Kulish, and on visiting businessman Roman Rozhkov, who had caused a brawl in the bar. But Kulish's wife points to electrician Lukyanov, who had previously threatened her husband with murder...
E82
Under strange circumstances, bank security guard Alexei Rakitin dies. An implant of unclear purpose exploded in his ear. There is no information about the device in his medical record, and the man's hearing had been perfectly fine. Rakitin's girlfriend claims that Alexei did not know he had an implant. But how can that be?...
E83
At the request of an old friend of his father-in-law, Bubnov takes part in a prestigious culinary competition. During the cooking, Alexander Sherov, the chef of the Samum restaurant, is killed. Suren Avetyan, Bubnov's former classmate, is suspected of the murder. It turns out that the culprit replaced Alexander's seasoning with a volatile narcotic substance. But during the competition there were no outsiders in the restaurant...
E84
The detectives investigate the murder of Mikhail Pakhomov, a reporter for a cable TV channel. He was going to record a report about defrauded homebuyers from an unfinished building. The owner of the development company, Vladislav Volkov, is in hiding, and all the money disappears from the organization's accounts. The detectives do not rule out a crime of passion either — Mikhail, like all the men at the TV channel, was in love with the producer Angelina...
E85
The corpse of Olesya Nikolaeva, a student at a mobile communications technical school, is found in an abandoned building. But what worries the detectives more is that in this place and at this very time, Tanya, Golovanov's younger daughter, disappeared without a trace. Tanya's friend from the economics college, Valeria Melnikova, disappeared along with her. Who could have kidnapped them and why?
E86
Yevgenia Anikina suddenly dies during a moxotherapy session. The examination establishes that the wormwood cigars used for warming contained a drug that caused cardiac arrest. Yelizaveta Lapina, Yevgenia's friend who conducted the session, is detained; she categorically denies any violation of the procedure's technology. The administrator Nikolai Terekhov, suspected of involvement in the murder and responsible for the medical center's supplies, disappears without a trace...
E87
Nurse Yekaterina Kratova is killed in a hospital during the night shift. Immediately after the murder, one of the patients saw a man walking away down the corridor. But the security guard Yevgeny Volodin and the nurse's aide Galina Chizhova claim that they saw no outsiders in the ward. The detectives try to find out which of them is lying and for what purpose...
E88
At night, Darina, the young wife of the elderly businessman Barsukov, calls the department and reports that she found her husband's corpse with a knife in his back in the bedroom. Arriving at Barsukov's house, the detectives found only a drunk Darina, but no corpse. Suddenly Barsukov appears alive and unharmed and is terribly surprised by the visit of the homicide police...
E89
Oleg Annenkov is killed on a suburban highway. His wife Yekaterina is robbed and beaten. Annenkov was connected to a criminal group selling counterfeit alcohol and may have fallen out with his former partners over something. Yekaterina gives the killer's description — a tall blond. The car used by the killer is found, and its owner is identified — a tall blond, Semyon Kochevnikov...
E90
Rodion Timokhin and his wife Vladislava are celebrating their wedding day with friends at the hotel restaurant. In the morning Rodion wakes up in the hotel room and finds his wife's dead body next to him. The detectives find a mysterious note in the room written by an unknown person and notice that a stranger is following Rodion. And the examination shows that Vladislava was poisoned...
E91
An old friend, Alexander Lesnikov, comes to Vetrov to visit his younger brother Nikolai, who is being treated for alcoholism at the Rodnik clinic. Lesnikov goes into the clinic and disappears. On the same day, citizen Zabotkina reports the disappearance of her son Ivan, who had set off for the same clinic. In the forest park near Rodnik, the body of an unknown man is found…
E92
Yelena Astrakhanskaya, the head of a private auditing company, is brutally murdered near her own home. Suspicion falls on her lover Georgy Svaniya and on Volodin, the owner of a small firm whom Astrakhanskaya had caught engaging in financial fraud. Svaniya presents a dubious alibi, while Volodin is detained as he tries to flee. But it turns out that Astrakhanskaya had threatened ruin to business players on a far more serious scale…
E93
The bodies of Ulyana Krylova and Maxim Yeremeyev are found in an apartment. The wine they had been drinking turned out to be poisoned. At the same time, Ulyana's former lover Sergei Malov entered the apartment using a telescopic aerial work platform. Sergei insists that he did not bring the wine. The investigators try to find out how the bottle with the poisoned contents ended up in Ulyana's apartment…
E94
In a stuck elevator in an office building, Regina Selivanova dies of heart failure. Suspicion arises that the elevator stopped between floors because of a hacker attack on the control system. The deceased's friend, Emma Lipatova, claims that Regina suffered from a severe form of claustrophobia and never used elevators. What extraordinary circumstances forced Selivanova to enter the car?
E95
Anastasia Zubkova is found murdered in a park. The day before, she ran away before registering her marriage to Kuzmin after receiving an SMS of unknown content. Territorially, the park belongs to the Zanevsky District Police Department, whose officers detain Kuzmin on charges of murdering Anastasia. Vladimir does not deny that he met the girl in the park shortly before her death…
E96
Bubnov and Vetrov go to check a suspicious SUV from which surveillance is being conducted on Bubnov's house, and find the body of private security company employee Konstantin Rebrov. During a search of the murdered man's apartment, an unregistered weapon is found. It turns out that Rebrov had been surveilling Bubnov's father-in-law, Anatoly Sergeyevich. But why he became the object of surveillance, no one can understand…
E97
The teacher of Vetrov's son Misha recommends finding him a physics tutor because of the boy's exceptional abilities. Vetrov arranges a meeting with Zinaida Streshneva, a graduate student at the Institute of Quantum Physics. At the appointed time, Vetrov and Misha arrive at the dormitory for graduate students. Behind the door, a crackle of discharge and a cry are heard. Vetrov breaks down the door and sees Zinaida's body…
E98
Student Artyom Zubarev decides to record a risky video with his friends. During the filming, Artyom dies — the plank he was walking on at the height of a five-story building had been sawed through. Suspicion falls on Zubarev's possible rival in matters of the heart — Vyacheslav. But then it turns out that shortly before his death, Artyom had raped a fellow student…
E99
Mark Platonov is killed. His body is found in the courtyard of the house where the Goryushin family lives: Mark's stepmother Alevtina, his half-sister Varvara, and Alevtina's husband Leonid. Alevtina is bedridden due to spinal problems. Mark lived separately and, according to his stepmother, was not planning to come today. What made him end up near her house at night?..
E100
Investigators are looking into the death of architect Rada Kasatkina, who died of "broken heart syndrome." The person who drove her to such a critical state did not help her and fled. Rada's daughter Diana, who was in an acute conflict with her mother, falls under suspicion. All the more so because the alibi Diana presented turns out to be false upon careful verification…
E101
Matvey Mylnikov's body is found in the river. Matvey had come from Tambov to visit his uncle Konstantin Talyanov, went out to buy things for his relatives, and never returned. The forensic examination and camera footage show that Matvey jumped off the bridge into the water himself. The money he had on him disappeared. The investigators set out to find out who drove Matvey to suicide…
E102
Physical education college teacher Pyotr Kaplunov is found dead in his ransacked apartment. The nature of the injuries indicates that Kaplunov was beaten before his death. A repeat-offender thief nicknamed Zhuchok and college student Valentin Gutin are suspected of the murder. A witness claims that it was Valentin who smashed up Kaplunov's apartment with a hammer the day before, and Kaplunov had promised to have him imprisoned for it…
E103
The head of a pharmaceutical holding, Nikita Korolyov, dies from a poison injection at his country house. The heavily drunk Fyodor Korolyov, the murdered man's brother, is found in the house. The evidence suggests that he may be involved in the crime. Moreover, at the moment of Nikita's murder, his bodyguard was distracted by a pizza delivery man bringing the pizza Fyodor had ordered by phone…
E104
Rosa Filippova, a housekeeper in the Golyshev family, is killed. Her body is found at the entrance to the boathouse built by Yuri Golyshev's company. The investigators find out that the owner had been showing Rosa signs of attention. A female visitor comes to Golovanov and declares that Yuri Golyshev is the killer. Isn't the "active citizen" trying to divert suspicion from herself in this way?
E105
Housewife Natalya Zheleznova is killed in her own apartment. Everything indicates that a thief broke into the premises and killed the hostess when she appeared unexpectedly. The murdered woman's son, Kolya, had previously been treated for drug addiction. His father suspects that drug addicts, his son's former acquaintances, may have gotten into their apartment. That same evening, Kolya is severely beaten by unknown persons…
E106
The body of Maria Boretskaya, an employee of the Isis massage salon, is found on the embankment with a fatal head injury. The investigators try to determine whether the woman fell temple-first onto the curb herself or was pushed by an attacker. The previous evening, Shaposhnikov had turned in Sergei Kashlayev to the police for attacking Maria. At the time, she refused to file a report against Kashlayev, and he was released. It seems that was a mistake…
E107
Yelena Sizova, a finalist in a departmental beauty contest, dies of cardiac arrest. All the apples from the rehearsal props turn out to be poisoned. Zina, the buffet worker responsible for supplying the contestants with fruit, dies before the investigators' eyes. The buffet worker's boyfriend, suspected of the poisoning, denies his guilt. And it is unlikely he would have planned to poison three other contestants besides Zina…
E108
Naina Filippova, a notary's assistant, is murdered in her newly acquired apartment. Suspicion falls on the renovation workers — Almaz Kovalenko and Vasily Tupikin. The work was supervised by Naina's colleague, Arseny Proshkin, who discovered the body. Arseny's wife, Bella, calls an ambulance for herself. The investigators are inclined to suspect that the woman is trying to avoid the questions that have arisen about her…
The Fabulous Five (2019)
The Fabulous Five
2019
The Fabulous Five
2019
The Fabulous Five
2019
