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 favourite 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 USSR.
So I came, did my job.
I was met by this guy from Initial Correction,
he says, what are you doing tonight?
35 miles to the city - let's
drink with the 'fours'?
Why not? We took two litres of vodka,
canned food...
The territory there must be like half of Moscow.
We arrive.
There are different departments around,
We went into this huge building,
where the 'fours' live.
- All 'fours' and all twins?
- Yes.
Sure. There are around 300 of them there.
Jagged bricks sticking out of the walls.
They're all dressed horribly,
of course. In rags, dirty.
He says lets go to dept 32.
The 16-year-old girls are there - all 'fours'.
So we went in.
They look at us.
We poured some vodka for them.
They come up, four of each.
We drink.
The first one, the one with the biggest tits -
four of them too - tears my shirt,
and right on me!
The guard comes in,
And says: what the fuck're you doing?
Can you imagine?
So we were kicked out.
I practically lost my job.
That's not a flying saucer, eh? That's a story!
There was this other time,
Not in the Krasnoyarsk slum, in the Pushkin one.
We came there with this guy.
We weren't really boozing,
we were there for work...
We come to