Alexei shows Oleg and Kvass his plan of digging for the camp. Rokhlin’s suspicion creeps in that Oleg, for a reason, dragged Alexei to his detachment. Oleg, on the other hand, begins to process the head of the regime and offers him a bribe for organizing mobile communications for convicts. Having learned about this from his subordinates, Kolosov gives the go-ahead for acquiring a telephone for Oleg, hoping in this way to learn all the news of the life of prisoners. In addition, Oleg begins to collect incriminating evidence on the head of the prison depot Margosha to replace him with his man - Alexei. Aleksey sets out to Kolosov his plan for optimizing production in prison. Meanwhile, Ksenia is preparing a new book with money for transfer to the zone. Veronica is alarmed by the "disinterested" help of Gennady. Suddenly, she realizes that all these years, Gennady, like Alexei and Oleg, was in love with her.