- Which departments?
- The KGB, the defense ministry.
- How many clones are there?
- In our laboratory?
No, in general? How many've been grown?
Hard to say. You see my professor -
he's been in this project since 1968.
He says that then throughout the country there
were about 6000 healthy
doubles and about 19000 sick ones.
Now... Jesus, I couldn't even tell you.
Wait, so you're saying that...
Nonsense... the 'doubles' are among us?
So why no-one knows about it?
Nobody writes about it?
In the president's administration
nobody's ever said anything!
There've been publications. A number of them.
Sure your people talked.
Just you didn't pay attention.
- I would pay attention to that.
- No, you didn't.
There was a big article six months ago
in a tabloid, 'Twins Village'.
It described a village somewhere in Mordovia,
that's full of sick twins. Twins,
triplets, quadruplets.
They all have some kind of internal disease.
- For twins it's a normal thing.
- Normal?
A lot of sick people too.
Yeah, but four kilometers from this village is
Soyuz 4- one of the first Soviet incubators.
These twins are production waste.
The first Soviet doubles.
Volodya! Past midnight, great time for stories...
Let me tell you how I once saw a UFO.
Near Smolensk, after the army draft.
We were takin' a leak,
it was there, hanging above the forest.
Bluish-green!
Really. Three of us saw it.
The guys at the gate did too!
I once saw a ghost. In Petersburg.
I got so scared.
I'm not insisting on it,
let's go on to something else.
Just Marina asked me where I work...
Forget it. Hey,
get me a shot of something stronger?
Right. Before midnight - lower the strength,
after - raise it.
How do you know?
A lot of boozing in your line of work?
We like to relax. Work is tough,
just to get around.
And we can afford a drink.
- The whole firm relaxes together?
- Yup. Don't you?
- Or you got prohibition there?
- No, nobody bans it.
Just not in groups...
Everyone has their own friends.
We just go two or three of us to
our favorite places.
- Like where?
- John's, Kempinsky,
sometimes - Pushkin.
Volodya, I can't really recall any bars
around Belyaevo.
- Or you just booze in your lab?
- Pure spirit with the clones?
I've had a few drinks with them.
Not in the lab. In the slums.
- Where?
- In the Krasnoyarsk slum.
It's this place, where...
Well, it's kind of hard to explain.
Like a transit prison...
But let's go on to something else.
Barman, another 50 grams of
Moskovskaya and that's it.
- And 50 for me too.
- And I'll go home.
- Come on, tell!
- Tell her, she's asking.
You won't believe it
- no interest to be a clone...
Tell about this... this transit place.
Let's get this down first.
To 'accordance'.
What?
For everyone to live in accord
with his place on earth.
Good toast.
To start with, there are three types of doubles:
M-type, F-type and Type-4,
or simply 'fours'.
The Germans conducted the first in 1937.
It was M-type. Then stolen by the KGB.
Then Professor Bronstein modernized it,
added the domino principle: A paired chromosome
connected to the unpaired one when substituted.
That allowed for you to make one double.
That's F-type.
In 1968, the now-deceased
Nikolai Petrovich Golosov
discovered Type-4 doubling.
That's when four chromosome-complexes
are put in one cell.
Four doubles developed, four clones.
The most amazing thing
is that '4' produced the least errors
and the optimal survival rate.
They tried doubling by three, seven;
even a double-12.
But four turned out to be the ideal number.
It was never sacred in any culture's history.
Not '3', '5', '7' or '12'.
But '4'! The number the world rests on.
This is the heart of the matter of four corners.
- Like four table legs. - Yes.
And about three years ago
I was sent on a work
trip to the Krasnoyarsk slum.
It's a cool place. The things that happen there!
Built back in Stalin's time
- the first incubator in the