The first task is to shoot a story about a huge, spontaneous dump in the courtyard. Lanskoy pushes Anya to make mistakes, hoping she will fail. The video ends up online, and this threatens the girl with dismissal.

Anya exposes the head of the prison, who hired actors from the Youth Theatre to pose as inmates in order to conceal embezzlement. The high‑profile report makes the intern a star of the TV channel, but provokes a dangerous conflict between the management and the mayor. Faced with a choice, the girl rejects Tolik's proposal and chooses her career.