Trokhin, commander of the intelligence group, receives an order to urgently bring the head of the laboratory "Auerge" Guts to Moscow. Vlad persuades Katerina to take Guts out of the protected building, promising to snatch her from the clutches of the Nazis and smuggle her to a secure place. The operation to capture Guts is about to fail when he is critically wounded. Vlad suggests Trokhin not to remove Katerina as planned at the beginning of the operation, and to send her to Moscow, so she can help to decode the notes of Guts. At the same time, in order to obtain first-hand information and an opportunity to control the plans of the enemy, German counter-intelligence tries to recruit the chief of the 4th Department of SMERSH Pavel Hlopko, using blackmail and threats. German intelligence is also preparing to throw on the territory near Kursk former Soviet prisoner, pickpocket, and now a cadet of the German sabotage school with the last name Shut.
