killed.
As we discovered later, he was
the brother of Yegor Shilov.
Well, so what?
We'll be shipping a treasure.
We can't take any chances.
So I'm against Shilov.
Explain the joke to me,
will you, Lipyagin?
Shilov fought for three years
in my battalion alongside of me!
Yegor has nothing in common
with his brother.
A war record
can't justify everything.
I don't know.
Maybe, I'm wrong.
What do you think,
Comrade Kungurov?
Well, what do you want me to say?
We all have to decide.
Many relatives fought against each
other. Sons, fathers, brothers...
That's how a revolution is.
As for Yegor Shilov, he is...
He's one of us and I will vouch
for him.
I suggest we vote on all
the candidates together.
In favor? Opposed? Abstentions?
The day after tomorrow, on the 17th,
there's a train to Moscow.
We're going to attach the armored
car to it.
- No!
- No what?
I'm giving up cigarettes.
I can feel my heart pounding.
So, Kolia's become quite
abstemious.
Take my place, and I'll see
what you're going to become.
Suppose we switch? You take over
the accounts, I'll fight the Whites.
Your cartridge belt.
You'll escort the gold to Moscow
on the seventeenth, at 6:30 p.m.
I suggest you get lots of sleep
before that.
And try not to leave your home.
You'll be personally responsible
for the gold and valuables.
- Any questions?
- No.
You've got a difficult assignment,
Yegor. You'll be in charge.
- What's funny?
- Everything will be fine, Nikolai.
Farewell dear heart, adieu my joy.
You go away and leave me behind...
Listen, I didn't vote for you.
Getting old, I guess.
Nerves aren't holding out.
I'll stay alone till you return.
Farewell, I'll never see you again.
I swear no other girl will ever
tempt me.
You're the only joy of my life,
and yet I must say farewell to you.
- He'll be here any minute.
- Good.
There's everything you need.
Keep him asleep till I tell you.
- And the needle?
- I said everything you need.
But I don't see the reason for
doing that.
After the operation he could
leave the Cheka for good.
Just do your job, Fannyackov.
Stop it. My name is Vanyukin.
Fannyackov.
I'll do everything just right,
I assure you.
- Mitka, Shilov's been killed!
- I know. I'm coming!
I'm through here. His whole body
is covered with traces of torture.
His face was disfigured
beyond recognition.
He was killed by two bullets
in the neck.
Take him away. You can go.
Sasha!
All right, Vassily Antonovich,
I'm going.
Well?
I don't know, I can't...
Is the gold in the safe?
Have you checked it? Then do it!
Stepan, go to the Cheka. Send for
Grunko, Dmitriev, Lemekh.
- Did you hear what I said?
- I heard you.
You're going in Shilov's place.
What's wrong with you? It's not
the first death you've seen.
I can't go on doing this work.
Send me to the army or to industry.
To let a man like you go into
a factory? Just forget that!
I won't let you, I...
The gold will be shipped out today,
and without any army escort.
The armored car will stay in
the station. In view of everyone.
Let those who murdered Shilov
think we've postponed the shipment.
- Do you hear what I'm saying?
- I do.
Go to the station now and see
that it's arranged.
This is how it should have been
done from the start.
No noise, no escort.
Yegor might still be alive.
My heart is trying to tell me
something.
- I'm nervous and worried.
- It's all those cigarettes.
I'm going to quit.
- Are the boys asleep?
- Yes.
- The compartments all locked?
- All locked.
And there're no profiteers on
the roof either.
We're traveling first class.
- Lebedev, do you use lipstick?
- Sure I do. Take it easy.
Each to his own taste.
Gentlemen, the train!
- Everything ready? The semaphore?
- Yes.
- Don't move from the switch.
- Got it.
The operation must take 4 minutes,
or we'll all go off the bridge.
The signal is the white tower.
And make sure of one thing...
I haven't finished yet, Captain.