Maxim is shot before the formation. Bronnikov was transferred to the heaviest workshop - a smelter, from where rarely anyone comes out alive. Ali is left in the mine. Khayrullo is hospitalized. Bronnikov meets smelters. He does not abandon the idea of escape. But the smelters are skeptical. An old convict appears in the smelter, whom Bronnikov met during a riot on a ship. They are discussing the idea of a rebellion in a mine. The experiment with testing a new drug on Arina is completed. The bandits are ordered to leave, but before leaving, one of them rapes Arina. Dasha manages to trick her guard and escape. In the garage, she picks up the weapons that remained after the liberation of Sheremet, and goes home. Seeing that the bandits are trying to leave, she shoots them, trying to stop, and asks the neighbors to call the police. Information comes to Kazarin and Mezentsev. The bandits warned by Mezentsev are hiding.