Dead Mountain (2020) s01e03 Episode Script

I'll tell you something important.
I don't exist for any of your documents or protocols.
I'm not here, but I manage everything.
Did you recognize them?
- Yuri Krivonischenko and Sasha Zolotarev.
Zolotarev is an instructor in 'Kaurov' base,
and Krivonischenko engineer.
They weren't planning to leave the tent.
They had dinner and went to bed.
but someone or something
Who could it be?
- Probably my driver.
DYATLOV'S PASS
Comrade major, you are urgently called.
It's about the Dyatlov's case.
To the district administration or to Ivdel?
- To Moscow, on the Lubyanka.
Moscow
Comrade Major, do
we need to go somewhere else?
Comrade Major!
What?
- You're not getting out, so I thought
that I should take you somewhere else.
Second Main Directorate of the KGB, USSR.
Comrade Lieutenant General, Major Kostin.
- Come in.
I'm watching an American movie.
About spies and counterintelligence there.
Have a seat.
Yes, they know how to make movies,
it's not like fighting a war.
Well, did you find anything?
It's hard to say yet.
It doesn't look like
a simple accident.
Experienced group for unclear reasons
leaves the tent in the middle of the night.
The tent was cut.
Judging by the tracks, they were running.
'Strange' is the only word
that comes to mind.
One of our own was there.
One of our own?
- Semyon Zolotaryov.
Semyon?
Why Semyon, he is Alexander.
Instructor on the base of "Kaurov".
- According to the passport - Semyon.
From the Lower Tagil City Department of KGB.
Three zeros, Kostin. Three zeros!
There was some kind of operation?
- Naah, just a regular control.
The group had a device for fixation
of an increased radiation background,
so we assigned a supervisor.
- To each tourist group?
To many of them.
I just want you to know that.
Pay more attention to him.
In the folder, there is a
photocopy of another document.
Report of a person
in the search group. Read it.
I hereby inform you
that on February 17, 1959
Vladimir Shevkunov and I
got up at six in the morning,
to prepare breakfast for the group.
Accidentally turning my head to
the east I saw,
that a milky white spot
was spilled in the sky,
about one-fifth, one-sixth of
the lunar diameter
consisting of a string
of concentric circles.
After a few seconds it grew
to the size of the moon, then the ball
started to get dark,
then it spread into the sky
and it went out.
If you come across something like this
or it turns out
that this has something to do with the group's demise.
Then all information is
classified as three zeros.
Dmitry Andreevich, what is it?
Go back to Ivdel.
Yes, sir.
Oleg
Vitya?
Hello, Oleg.
Guys!
Petty officer!
- Looks like you're freezing, Commander?
Cover him, Vitya!
Thank you, brothers.
Get some sleep, Oleg. You're tired.
Comrade Major!
We're getting closer. Comrade Major!
How are you? Did you sleep?
I don't remember anything.
- I covered you, cause you were coughing.
You'd get sick.
Thanks. I owe you one.
Alcoholic hepatitis occurs
due to alcohol intoxication.
In the acute form, the
liver is dense and pale,
with reddish areas.
Hepatocytes are necrotic,
infiltrated by neutrophils and
a large amount of alcoholic
hyaline appears in it.
We will continue after a short pause.
You can exchange notes,
if someone couldn't write something down.
So fast?
- Moscow is not far away
if you're on a plane.
Let's go outside so as not to disturb them.
I want you to check the results
of Zolotarev's autopsy.
We don't have Zolotarev in the morgue.
- How so? Where is he?
Zolotarev was not found.
- They found him while I was in the pass.
It was a mistake. Doroshenko's corpse
was mistakenly identified as Zolotarev.
Probably because of the frozen snow
on his face, maybe because of his clothes.
What a 'great job'!
Okunev didn't tell me anything.
Maybe he thought you knew.
Sometimes, thinking is bad for you.
Why are you interested in Zolotarov?
What's with him?
Oh, I see.
You can't tell me.
Official information, I understand.
- As usual.
You're here now.
For a while.
Yes, for a while.
Tell me, do we still have the clothes and bodies?
Yes, relatives are not allowed.
This is an order of the investigator.
Clear. I'll give an order.
That's all. I have to go.
It was good to see you.
Oleg!
If you are poorly fed on the mountain,
you know where you can find a delicious soup.
Comrade Major, I swear to you,
I was sure they told you,
that there is a mistake in identification.
- You said that 20 times. Enough.
Yes, but you don't say a word.
I don't want you to think that I'm an idiot.
I won't do it again.
I'll make sure I'm convenced of everything three times
Oh phew, I'm convinced.
- Have you ever been there?
In Lower Tagil?
Yes, I was.
I've never been to their city department though.
- What were you doing there?
Alexander?
A woman lives there.
She works at the Sverdlovsk Plant. Vara is her name.
We met when
- I got it, that's enough. You were there.
But not in relation to work, so to speak.
- That's right.
You know, I've been to every city in the neighborhood
for these reasons.
Wow did they even get you into the KGB?
No brakes in your tongue. A nightmare!
I'm sorry.
Would you like a bite to eat?
Come on, get it out!
You think it's connected to
the Zolotarev case.
Is that why we're going to Tagil?
- He was the only one in the group,
that could have been the reason they were killed.
The rest are children.
Yes, children! 21-23 years old.
I was 18 when I went to the front.
Times have changed, Sasha.
The war remained only here.
Did you wire them to meet us?
- No, no one knows.
How is that?
- That's how.
I need their first reaction.
Lower Tagil City Department of the KGB USSR
Well.
- Hi.
Comrades, what are you here for?
- Where's your boss?
He is not in the office.,
He is inspecting a production facility.
What is the object?
- State significance.
Name?
Do you know what K-13 means?
It's for former employees?
And the way there is very short,
believe me.
He's at home, Comrade Major.
- Do you have a spare car?
Take the keys and let's go.
I'm not going to go any further.
He lives here.
Can you tell him
that you found out about it on request.
If he finds out it's me
- Why is he at home?
I don't know.
- Have you forgotten what I said?
I really don't know. Maybe he is drinking.
It happens to him.
Or he had a drink yesterday and today he's hungover.
There are no checks at all here.
Well.
Is that him?
- Yes, this is our boss.
Who is the second?
- His assistant, major Babichev.
I wonder what's in the tarp.
- That is very interesting.
Comrade Major, I really don't know what's going on here.
- Easy, easy.
Get ready, we'll go after them.
- Got it.
Wait!
Wait, wait, relax!
Take it easy!
Keep your distance. Don't get too close.
Don't be nervous.
It's all right.
He will cut us in half in a second.
Now!
Are you guys alive?
- We're all alive,
but someone here have shit their pants.
Go, go, go, Vitenka!
Come on, Vitya, start it up!
- It won't start.
Everyone out!
Back! To me!
Yegorich, lay down! Don't get up!
Grab his hands!
- We're not gonna make it.
Drop the radio!
Drop it, I said!
One, two, lift, lift!
- To hell with it, guys, leave me and run!
Yegorich, we don't abandon our own people.
- Guys, run!
Faster! Faster!
Forward.
Andryukha!
Vlad!
Vladka!
Brother!
You're Alive!
You're Alive!
Vityok!
Come on!
We won't make it.
We're not bringing him in.
We won't abandon him.
We're going to die! Oleg, we're going to die!
Then we will die.
Vladka!
Vladka, hang in there, brother.
Oleg! Look!
Stay here.
Put your hands down.
Comrade Major, they're leaving town.
That's why they're on truck.
What are you implying?
- There's a bad road up there.
We'll get stuck
and won't be able to move.
Pass them and block the road.
What?
- Can you say 'What?' without teeth?
Come on, come on.
Jakov, what are you doing?
Why the hell aren't you in the department? Who is it?
Comrades from Moscow.
- Major Kostin.
I have authority
from the top leadership of the KGB.
Put down your weapon!
Put it down!
What do you want?
- What do we want?
We're investigating the death
of Dyatlov's group.
We are here because of
Semyon Zolotaryov, your employee.
But now something else is more important.
What's going on here?
What's so funny?
- Nothing.
The funny thing is that all of this
is connected with Zolotarev.
We know who killed him.
- Go on.
This is the case that Semyon was investigating
before going to hike.
Poachers.
- Are they from the police?
Well yeah, a few locals,
a few from the camp in Ivdel.
A small gang like that.
They like to shoot moose
and any off-season game.
They sell hides and live well.
Only they found out about the case.
That's all.
- You mean,
that they were waiting for him in Otorten?
- What do you think?
Who else would need those students?
- They died of frostbite.
No one shot at them.
- That's the point, major.
They could have shot them,
but they would have been caught quickly.
So they pull out guns, force them out in the cold,
and it'll look like an accident.
Okay, let's leave it at that.
Where are you going with this luggage?
Semyon found out where the poacher's lair was.
He was going to arrest them after the hike.
60 km from here.
There is an abandoned village.
Today they return with their loot.
And you went there with machine guns,
for?
For Semyon to rest in peace.
So listen up.
You're going back to the office.
Make up a story about where you've been and why.
Then your boss will confirm everything.
If we don't come back tomorrow, sound the alarm.
What are you standing for? Do it!
- Come on!
Yes, sir.
Well, comrades, we are coming with you.
But we'll do it my way.
Let's go!
Is that them?
- The last house on the right, where smoke is.
Let's go!
All five of them are inside.
Three are sleeping, two are playing cards.
The rifle is in the far corner.
Come on!
Is that all?
How about them apples?
I'm going to take a leak.
Hands up!
Everyone on the floor! On your knees!
Hands up!
Hands up!
Everyone on the floor! Faster!
- Hands up! I wanna see those hands!
Come on, come on!
Hands, hands!
- Vadim Mikhailovich!
Maybe this is some kind of mistake?
- Sit down. What have you done? Tell me!
Speak up, they'll soften your sentence.
- What the hell? We didn't do anything!
We're lying in wait.
- What?
We're waiting for the poachers.
They'll be back soon.
Why are you waiting for them?
Do you have new orders?
Semyon Zolotaryov
Do you know that name?
- What?
Where were you between February 1 and 3?
- Who remembers where we were?
On duty, as usual.
- This duty here?
I buried my mother in Pervouralsk.
I got back before the 7th.
Until I got all the paperwork done
check it out if you want.
Do you think they couldn't
do it without one member?
What are you even talking about?
- Who killed the tourists in Ivdel?
What tourists?
- Don't you lie to me
that you don't know Zolotarov.
He was following your case.
I get who you're talking about now.
Was there someone from special ops in this group?
There was.
- No, guys,
we had nothing to do with it.
Are you sure
that you were in Pervouralsk?
Yes, yes. Ask my relatives.
I arranged the grave and organized the wake.
I hope for your sake, it is so.
Look - you'll tell us
everything you know about their affairs.,
And we won't arrest you,
we'll let you go.
You weren't with them.
- Shut up, you idiot, this guy is fooling you.
Shut up, you bastard!
- Don't be afraid, tell me!
We've been doing this for a year now.
I was included last,
because I'm a good shot.
Don't you dare say.
Who do you trust?
We sell meat to the locals
through a single person in a department store.
The skins are sold by two who work at
the camp in Ivdel. Some people at the top there.
I don't care about that. What do you know
about the killing of tourists?
Is this what they planned?
Were you sent away on purpose?
What do you mean 'on purpose'? My mother died.
It's not much, we need to know more.
- Guys, we'll be in prison for 10 years.
Shut up!
- I'm asking you about Zolotarev.
Did they know who was investigating them?
- I don't know. Don't!
To the head of the second GU of the KGB, USSR,
Lieutenant General Dmitry Rudakov.
Secretly.
During the following events
a gang of poachers was discovered and neutralized.
They engaged in illegal hunting
and selling of hides.
Among the criminal group, two employees of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs from Lower Tagil
and three convoy escorts
of the prison camp in Ivdel.
Data on the involvement of these individuals in
the murder of students
and the KGB captain - Semyon Zolotaryov,
was not found.
Comrade major!
Comrade major, are you wounded?
Comrade major!
Sverdlovsk
Have you finished?
- Thank you. It was delicious.
I was in the hospital with Okunev.
He's all right.
He's already walking. The bone is intact.
What happened?
It has something to do with
- We thought so.
And it turned out?
- It turned out not to be.
Understood. Don't, I can handle it.
I did a radiological exam, just
like you asked.
On the bodies, on the clothes.
Nothing.
The radiation background
is negligible, natural.
Can I?
- Of course.
Kolya must have been looking through it
and he didn't put it away.
So what's going on there?
Did you find anything?
Yes, there was suspicion of murder.
Murder? Our students?
A group of poachers.
But we checked them out.
It couldn't be them - they won't have enough
time to get up there and come back,
unless they had a helicopter
on hand, and they didn't.
On the Zolotarev line
so far, we are at a dead end.
What is special about Zolotarev?
- There are three zeros on the folder.
Yes, yes, of course.
Where are you on this one?
On lake Shartash, not far from here.
This was done by my husband
when he returned on leave in 1944.
He had a trophy camera.
We took two photos.
I have one, and he has the other.
Had.
Katya, my wife.
I never showed it to anyone.
- She's beautiful.
Why didn't you show it to me before?
I was afraid of the evil eye.
Leave these superstitions alone.
I understood that she saved me from
dying in that field.
A fighter pilot from the red army
saved you, brother, and me as well.
Too bad it's just us.
- Comrade captain, I wish you good Health.
May your guys rest in peace.
Yegorich was a fellow countryman of mine.
A letter for you.
From Minsk.
- Thanks.
It's from my wife.
26 April 1945
city of Stremen, Germany
What's up? Is everything all right?
Yeah.
I'm gonna go get some water.
And bring some for me.
Do you know where the operator is, brother?
- No.
Commander, where's the connection?
- There.
Thanks.
Guys, where can I find major Enikeev?
- Look over there.
Young man, what are you doing here?
This is the operating room.
Over here! Guys, help!
Guys!
Cut the belt!
Cut faster! Cut it!
- That's it, take him down!
Put him down, come on, come on.
- See if he's still alive.
Oleg! Slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly!
Oleg, are you alive?
Oleg! You're alive, you're alive!
Why?!
What happened?
A neighbor wrote to him.
His wife and son were killed.
Why didn't you tell me, Oleg?
Guys, come on, go out!
Get out! Run for the doctor.
I was looking for a major Enikeev.
- The connection is on the second floor.
Any progress?
- We found the barn.
It's a kind of warehouse.
I know what a barn is, comrade Ivanov.
- Well, in any case
They unloaded the main cargo,
stocked up on firewood
and went for an overnight
on the pass.
Two and a half kilometers away.
What is that, the barn?
What's it?
No, they were practically descending.
in the opposite direction.
The bodies were found here, and the barn
well, almost three kilometers away from them.
Understood.
It's clear, that nothing is clear.
We won't get anywhere that way.
I'm going there today.
- Where's 'there'?
Altitude 1079.
I'll spend the night in a tent,
in the place where they slept.
Kostin, are you crazy?
We won't solve this mystery from the office.
You can overnight at the seeker camp,
if you're so eager, it's just around the corner.
I want to see what they saw.
Prepare the helicopter!
I wish you good health.
- Hey.
Is he coming with us?
Comrade Major!
Comrade Major!
- No way.
Yes, of course. As if I would let you go alone.
How are you going to climb the pass with this foot?
- As I climbed to the greater Khingan range,
I'll get up here as well.
Your guys set up the tent.
You also have a stove to keep warm.
Was it the same as Dyatlov's?
No, they had a rappel stove.
Igor made it himself.
Perhaps you will come
with us to the camp?
As you wish, aren't you afraid?
- Stop scaring us!
A bomb doesn't fall twice
in the same place.
If there is something, the camp is there,
a little more than 2 kilometers.
Where they found the barn.
- It's all clear. Thank you again.
Sweet dreams.
- We only dream of a hot bath.
Come on, guys!
I lied to him. I'm not afraid,
but I'm not very comfortable.
Why do we eat this? You should have told me that
we didn't have anything, I would have brought sausage.
They ate the same thing.
I don't understand these tourists.
What's the thrill of wandering around in the cold?
They could stay warm at home.
But no, they need adventure.
Oh, the crazy young ones!
What's it?
- Alcohol.
Recommended for use
in freezing weather.
Honestly! Everyone does that.
By the way, did they have alcohol in their blood?
No.
- Strange.
They're young, maybe haven't been drinking
or maybe it's evaporated a bit.
What do you write in the folder?
The report of the authorities?
What's here to report?
I describe everything that we see,
we hear, we feel.
By the way, I felt a bit warmer now,
just do not write that.
What happened?
- It's all right.
Why is the entrance open?
Have you gone outside?
Yes, to take a leak.
- In this cold?
Is there not enough frozen bodies here?
Why do you need a camera?
I was taking a picture.
- What?
Of how you urinated?
Yes.