00:00 Face in the Photograph Gennady Korneev, the owner of a chain of dry cleaners, approaches the detectives. He is concerned about the behavior of his wife Vika, who immediately after the wedding withdrew into herself, avoids her husband and is immersed in some heavy thoughts. The detectives believe that the whole thing is about her boyfriend Artem Brevnov, who pursued Vika even before the wedding and did not give up his claims after Vika's marriage. However, Vika soon mysteriously disappears, and Artem does not know where she is - he is looking for her himself. The detectives find out that a certain young man was present at Vika and Korneev's wedding, and Vika's mood changed right after she saw him. This man turns out to be Semyon Evgrafov, Vika's former classmate. At university, Vika had a close relationship with him, but he dropped out and went on a geological expedition to the Urals, where he was caught in a landslide and was considered dead for a long time. The detectives find Vika and find out everything else. Vika became pregnant by Evgrafov while she was studying. Fearing responsibility, he left her and went to the Urals. Vika hid her shame and gave birth in the apartment of her friend, a doctor, Polina. Then, while Vika was unconscious, Polina threw the newborn baby out into the street, because she believed that Vika would not be able to raise him without support and sufficient funds. Vika tried to forget about this terrible incident, married Korneev, but when she saw the “resurrected” Evgrafov, she decided that he would start blackmailing her. She decided to disappear - to go to the wilderness so that Evgrafov would not find her, and Korneev would not learn the terrible truth about her past. 31:43 We are insulted by indifference Antonina Korableva, a literary editor at a private publishing house, approaches the detective. Someone has clearly decided to ruin her personal life, discrediting her in every possible way. The detectives examine the leaflet that discredits the client and realize that her attacker must be sought at the publishing house. The first suspect is art editor Vladimir Belousov, whom Antonina rejected when he tried to court her. And the second is her best friend Marina Shestakova. The assistant learns that Marina's husband left her, who fell passionately in love with the detective's client. The detective instructs his assistants to keep an eye on the suspects. However, further investigation shows that Vladimir and Marina are not aware of the setups that are pursuing the detective's client, moreover, they are going to get married. In order to provoke the attacker, the detective decides to call fire on himself and begins to actively court Antonina. This leads to the fact that the director of the publishing house, Yuri Parisov, comes into the detectives' field of vision. They tell Antonina about their suspicions, but she refuses to believe in Parisov's involvement in the hooligan antics, and says that she has never noticed any interest in her from his side. However, the Chief decides to continue developing this version, and soon receives confirmation of his rightness - albeit, a rather peculiar one. Yuri stuns the Chief with a blow to the head, and then offers him a bloodless duel in the spirit of Conan Doyle - to choose from two capsules, one of which, according to him, contains potassium cyanide. The detective's assistants come to his aid in time, and the capsule intended for the detective really does contain deadly poison. #detectives #detectiveseries