Medushevsky's wife finds out where Yura is being hidden and informs her husband about it, hoping that he will let her go. He gives instructions to kill Nikitin. At the same time, Lupanov, a top manager of the Moscow Resources Corporation, is found dead in a hotel room. Vershinin suspects that this is the work of Serge.

Vershinin is investigating a shootout on the road in which Gubin was wounded and five people were killed, but for some reason Masha, a witness, was left alive. He forbids her to tell anyone that she was at the scene of the shooting.