Rylov with a senior partner come on a call to Nikolai's apartment, where the corpse of Sergei Vadimovich lies on the floor. Evdokia is convinced that the killer is Rylov. Nikolai's partner, who did not have time to remember him, instructs Rylov to sit in an ambush and wait for himself. Sitting in ambush, Kolya learns that in fact Sergei Vadimovich is alive, and his murder was played out by himself and Evdokia with the intention of putting Rylov in prison.