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Department Season 1 Episode 1

Description

A young investigator, Captain Yuri Zelenov, becomes a witness of a businessman Letyagin’s murder. The murderer wore a mask, but Zelenov managed to notice a tattoo with a lizard on his hand. Zelenov is suspected in the murder and is called for a questioning in the IAD. The questioning is made by the major of IAD Yevgeni Zhuzhukalo. He sympathizes for Zelenov, but still suspects him. Zelenov’s management watches him carefully as if they are afraid he would provide Zhuzhukalo with an unwanted information.

Starring:
Sergey Ugryumov, Sergey Gazarov, Semyon Shkalikov, Mikhail Trukhin, Mikhail Efremov, Daria Moroz, Victoria Tolstoganova, Andrey Sokolov
Directors:
Stanislav Mareev, Armen Harutyunyan
Written by:
Mikhail Shulman, Alexey Poyarkov
Country:
Russia
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    Episode 1

    A young investigator, Captain Yuri Zelenov, becomes a witness of a businessman Letyagin’s murder. The murderer wore a mask, but Zelenov managed to notice a tattoo with a lizard on his hand. Zelenov is suspected in the murder and is called for a questioning in the IAD. The questioning is made by the major of IAD Yevgeni Zhuzhukalo. He sympathizes for Zelenov, but still suspects him. Zelenov’s management watches him carefully as if they are afraid he would provide Zhuzhukalo with an unwanted information.

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    Episode 2

    Zelenov is temporary appointed as the head of District Department of Internal Affairs. His girlfriend Sasha is taken under the State protection and it’s hard to tell when would they meet again… Zhuzhukalo introduces Zelenov to Alik, the IAD analyst. Alik thinks that Zelenov let Antonov, who manipulated him, escape. Alik tells how deputy Mityai, Antonov, late Letyagin and Kolesnikov are tied up, and why Mityai wanted to get rid of all three of them.

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    Episode 3

    Zelenov’s girlfriend comes back home as there’s no more danger for her. During the operation when Zelenov and Misha Shevchuk arrest the fixed Highway patrol officers they are dragged into the pursuit race where one of the cars explode and Misha Shevchuk dies. IAD questions all the witnesses and all the tails lead to a special squadron 13 and its commander Kotelnik, who is responsible for smuggling on the highway. Mityai offers Zelenov his help and asks him to meet one person.

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    Episode 4

    Alik sets the task to work on a version that the highway smugglers are responsible for the car explosion. It’s necessary to follow the special squadron 13. Zhuzhukalo meets a lawer Alena Ivanovna Revnivtseva and he likes her very much, so he starts to court her. Alik learns that there’s a new head man on the smuggling highway and realizes that the explosion plan was made by a previous person, in order to clean the way with the help of IAD and to get rid of the rival.

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    Episode 5

    Romka, a nephew of Zhuzhukalo, catches a cell phone thief in school and beats him up. The thief’s father makes a report to the police on Romka. The father is someone called Grinberg, whose bank practices in white washing. The IAD finds Grinberg and suspects him in criminal affairs. Grinberg refuses to co-operate hoping to be protected by a brass hat. Zelenov wants to find out who that man is. Zelenov and Zhuzhukalo try to meet Mityai, but they fail.

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    Episode 6

    Grinberg takes back all complaints to Zhuzhukalo’s nephew, but doesn’t want to talk about his bank and declines the State protection thinking this won’t help him to be safe. Zelenov makes a proposal to his girlfriend. At the same time he notices he is being shadowing and starts to be nervous for Sasha and their future child. Alik is thinking over the major-general Rudzutak’s story. Rudzutak made the criminal affairs in Irkutsk less noticeable and now receives all the money outcomes being in Moscow.

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    Episode 7

    Lieutenant Merya appeals to the IAD to Zhuzhukalo, as the criminals in St.Petersburg are murdered by some “avengers” right after they are absolved in the court. This always looks like an accident or a suicide. Some suspect that those avengers are the dirty cops, the guys from the local SWAT squad under command of Rudnev. Zelenov goes undercover to establish himself in this squad. With the help of old friends Zelenov is successfully employed.

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    Episode 8

    Rudnev wants to get rid of Zelenov after that shot, but Zelenov’s friends don’t let him do that. The three of them escape and hide. Yarik and Dashuk promise to get Zelenov out of town but he convince them to run together, because they are also in a great danger now. Paul draws a picture of a man who shot at him and the image doesn’t look like Zelenov at all… This seems strange to Rudnev and Smolnyak and they can’t decide what to do with Zelenov.

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    Episode 9

    Police captain Nikita Sivak’s wife comes to Yura Zelenov. Her husband is lost and she asks Yura to find him. While Zelenov gathers information about the lost operative his colleague Semen Bakhrushev meets Guseynov. According to Guseynov’s words he’s been pressed by Serious Fraud Office that demands to change a whistler. In the meantime Semen tries to apprehend two cops who have planted drugs on a young guy. He plans an operation but the cops refuse to take money when the time comes…

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    Episode 10

    IAD checks the story of pressing on Guseynov’s store and finds proof that all this happened to be. Step by step an entire working scheme of the criminals surfaces. There’s a warehouse of a counterfeit alcohol in the Moscow region, which should be destroyed right at the place, but it’s not happening. The warehouse director sells this alcohol via some company. And all this business is protected by police officers of the department where late Nikita Sivak worked.

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    Episode 11

    IAD officers watch the recording. It shows Semen Bakhrushev taking money from Guseynov and Zhuzhukalo beats Guseynov later. Everybody rush to Guseynov only to find him dead. Only irresponsible Bakhrushev stays near unable to say anything at all. Bakhrushev is placed under house arrest – he starts to drink hard, but keeps on saying that he hasn’t killed anyone, but only went to Guseynov to sort things out. Zelenov, Zhuzhukalo and Lidiya Sergeyevna are rotating their duty in his apartment…

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    Episode 12

    Bandits are going to murder Zhuzhukalo and Bakhrushev. Paul and his men manage to save his comrades at the last moment, but they can’t capture any of the bandits who have any information. The third cop who Zhuzhukalo and Bakhrushev were searching for is dead. The goal of the operation is not the selling spots or counterfeit vodka, but a huge and abandoned factory, a complex of sections in a Moscow region. This includes the land and vacation hotel which is registered to the factory.

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    Episode 13

    Zhuzhukalo and Zelenov work with a case of a colonel who is suspected in corruption. Zhuzhukalo demands to work faster. But Zelenov is gloomy and doesn’t work hard. He worries about Kolesnikov’s appearance. Yura decides to talk to him to set the record straight. In the meantime strange and sad things occur in Romka’s school. His classmate is arrested during the lesson and is taken to another town to a police station, because of the drugs that supposedly were found with him.

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    Episode 14

    Zhuzhukalo and Zelenov break into the office of the cops who kidnapped the girl. They save Kanoshina before the cops started to torture her. Zhuzhukalo loses his temper and almost kills one of the cops right there. This turns into Zhuzhukalo’s suspending with a criminal case on him and a house imprisonment as a result. Something strange is happening throughout the country: several officers and public persons become the victims of blackmailing and buy off with huge sums of money.

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    Episode 15

    Zhuzhukalo is immediately asked to come to a godforsaken police department where an unknown arrested person keeps on repeating the last name - Zhuzhukalo. This man turns out to be some captain Zotov. Alik and Zhuzhukalo have sent him to work undercover to the area centre Zhizdra some time ago. The drugs are packed up there, loaded and sent to different points of Europe. Zotov’s task was to intrude and to report an exact packing date. The operation is supported by the Federal Security Service…

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    Episode 16

    Alik manages to convince to cancel the operation in the very last moment. The trucks indeed were full of flour. Zotov is surprised as he was sure he’d find drugs there. But the criminals don’t trust Zotov that much and they often check him weakening his nerves. He is sent to watch people who live in a specially built village where they pack up the drugs that arrive there. As soon as the date is set a special operation is being prepared.