Vershinin is investigating a shootout on the road in which Gubin was wounded and five were killed, but for some reason they left alive a witness - Masha. He forbids her to tell anyone that she was at the site of the shootout. This raid was made by the people of Davydov on the orders of Medushevsky. Christine, fulfilling the task of Medushevsky to get to know Isakov closer, sets a bug in his room. Isakov still has no opportunity to transport weapons abroad, despite the fact that the people of Zharov recaptured him from the police.