Vershinin's daughter does not get in touch. The group and all the hero's affairs are going to be transferred to Major Ladygin. Businessmen come to the city and start a war for the post of head of the port. And Masha's suspicions about who the "mole" is from the department are confirmed.

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.