professor with you?
No!
We only brought Docent.
- What's your name?
- Ludmila.
You can call me Fedya.
- What are you working on now?
- Well... digging things up.
How interesting! You take from
the earth treasures lost for centuries...
Oh, how I envy you!
Maybe you could take me along,
though I have no special training.
- I could be a cook or whatever...
- That All depends On A person.
A friend of mine, a scientist too,
he finished three years of school.
His banknote drawings are so good
they lookjust like real ones.
- Is he the man?
- I can't say for sure.
I'll have to get a closer look.
- Have you a light by any chance?
- I don't smoke.
- Well?
- No, it's not him.
- So he's a dick.
- You're right.
We've checked: there's no helmet at
the addresses given by Docent's men.
There's only one lead left:
Prokhorov, the cloakroom man.
We haven't been able to check it yet,
he didn't come to the appointed place.
He might have got suspicions. He quit
his job and didn't go back home.
- We better find him.
- What'll we do now?
And you... We apologize
and thank you.
You may take the wig off, wash
the tattoos off, and go home.
I wish you a happy new year.
We are very grateful.
- And the boys?
- They'll be sent back to prison.
But ifyour cloakroom man appears,
you'll be needing us.
I would prefer not to tell you this,
but today Biely, or Docent, escaped
from jail, very close to Moscow.
- He broke out?
- Hard to believe, but it's a fact.
It would be too dangerous for you
to impersonate this man now.
Maybe tomorrow, then?
It's New Year's Eve today, a holiday.
They've been trying so hard.
We're living in the country.
Docent will never find us there.
All right.
Only stay in the house.
Oh yes, your message was forwarded
to Sheremetyev's wife.
Here's her reply
addressed to her husband.
Do you promise you'll come for dinner
at our home New Year's day?
- We'll be there!
It's so sad.
Such a nice girl!
And yet her father
is a speculator.
What's all the noise about?
And why did you leave the house?
Here he is again...
The untrustworthy fellow.
Happy New Year!
Vassia...
Gavrila Petrovich...
Fedya...
Comrades!
A brand new year is beginning,
and I hope
that in this year
everything will be brand new for you!
We can't tell what's in the cards,
but I want you to know that wherever
you are, wherever I am,
I will always remember you, men.
And believe me, I'll find you.
Just a minute... I'll be right back.
Just a second...
- Where's he going?
- The devil only knows...
You can never tell with him.
I know what he meant. He said
he'd find us, and he'd bleed us, too.
- You mean he'll bleed us to death?
- No other way.
Look what they say he did to Pockface!
Took his razor and "swish"!
- Curtains!
- Nothing but a wild beast, a hyena!
Knock, knock, knock... Who's there?
Santa Claus!
And he's brought you some presents.
- Fedya, come over here.
- What did I do now?
Come here I said.
This is for you.
Something to wear at home.
What good is it to me?
I've got no home.
You will though. Everything will come
in time. They'll be useful in prison.
Anything for a laugh.
For you, Vassia.
Gavrila Petrovich, this is for you.
Thanks very much.
Hey, it's virgin wool!
And there's this, too, for you.
To us. Drink up.
Arrgh! Like acid!
- What a drag not having vodka!
- do you Have to get drunk Like swine?
- What else is there to do?
- tell people the dreams you have.
You sound like a headshrinker
in a courtroom.
We can play indoor games,
ifyou want.
Am I a sucker to play with you?
You play with a stacked deck.
But why poker, comrades?
There're many interesting games.
We can play hide and seek.
I know a good game called "cities".
I start and say "Tula", then you pick
one that begins with "A", Astrakhan.
Then you think "N", Novgorod.
You got it?
It's now your turn, Fedya.
- Why me?
- Name a city that starts with "D".
- Vorkuta.
- Vorkuta? Why?
- I