8.055 minSeason 2 • Episode 14
LatestFew days before his retirement, an experienced chief investigator gets assigned a new case, where a corpse mysteriously disappears from the morgue. The mortician swears that the man, killed by a train while saving a woman’s life, just got up and left. The woman happens to be a well-connected neuroscientist and she wants to know what happened to her rescuer. The elderly detective and the young doctor make an unlikely duo and their terse relations often get in the way of the investigation. But to get to the truth they have to work together. Intricate plot lines mix three different stories that unravel the mysteries of hundreds of WWII soldiers’ deaths, and even a terrorist plot.
Acting
Garmash's world-weary perfection
Writing
Three timelines that actually connect
Production
Soviet-era bleakness as character
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series taps into Russia's obsession with unresolved WWII trauma and secret medical programs that actually existed.
Sergey Garmash reportedly took the role because he wanted to play a detective who actually retires—rare in Russian crime drama.
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