Khokhlov, the bank's cashier, is cut off by a bandit jeep, and the "brothers" who got out of it are forced to pay twenty thousand dollars. A frustrated Khokhlov shares his trouble with the garage watchman, who offers to pull off a scam with the substitution of real money for fake ones. Khokhlov agrees to load counterfeit banknotes for a large amount into ATMs. Artyom witnesses the seizure of a fake bill from a girl in a supermarket, which he had just received at the store's ATM. Thus, the case falls to Artyom and Lena Brusnikina. Expert Innokenty recalls that only the deceased counterfeiter Filippov could produce such a "masterpiece".

Pregnant Masha was robbed in the underpass by a fortune teller, taking all the gold and twenty thousand dollars intended for the purchase of an apartment. The fraudster suggested to the young woman that she was defaced through valuables and money. Hypnotized Masha fell for this "bait". To catch a thief, Lena Brusnikina has to portray a pregnant woman.