Gubin secretly comes to Novikov’s office to clean up the evidence ... Nikitin finds his eldest son German killed in a drug overdose. The boy Petya Karelin disappeared in the orphanage. The director of the orphanage Zotova is very worried, but she does not care about the fate of Petya. Starting to study the circumstances of the disappearance of the child, Vershinin notices discrepancies in the testimony of the director and the teacher.