Danila attends the funeral of Channel One journalist Nadezhda Avdeeva. He means that the serial killer is not decapitated. The people he exposed are only tentacles of the hydra. Nimak continues to investigate, but is hindered in every way possible by prosecutors: Timia Lendel and Alexander Krymchak. In the Carpathian Mountains, it is common to see single cases with a disease outcome. Danila clearly understands that the Beast from Belokorovichi, or rather the puppeteer, has taken over the case. In pursuit of the killer in the Carpathian mountains, Danila himself spotted under an avalanche, but his training and experience survived. The murders in the mountains continue, the whole country frozen in anticipation of another tragedy. Nimac gets on the trail of the killer and begins his pursuit. The investigator already has the breath of the beast, but the latter, a subtle psychologist, circles Nimak and sets him up on another troupe in the mountains. All the accidents are well known in the version that it is Danila Nimak who is the killer. Even Michael Lemka gives cases of occurrence that it was Nimak who was their source. The prosecutor's office declares Nimak wanted. He is hidden at his dacha by Yuri Popovich, whom Danila warns of a possible attack by the beast on his daughter. Popovich calls his daughter, at which time she is always at home. But daughter Anna doesn't answer. The two rush the car to the daughter's house. Nimak flies into the apartment, sees blood and the absence of his commander's daughter. Here, too, he finds a clue as to where the next one will be stashed, to be solved. Police officers rush into the apartment to capture Danila. He gets away from the chase and hides in an abandoned mine. Popovich helps him, and meanwhile Nimak finds the answer to the question of where Anna is now. The chief and his subordinate rush to the alleged poisoning in Mezhigorie, to the spiral staircase sanatorium being reconstructed. That is where the commander's daughter is supposed to be. Unfortunately, they are too late - Anna is brutally murdered. This is seen by Danila and keeps his father out of the tragedy, blocking this passage. At one point, Yuri shoots Nimak and wounds him in the leg. The men are slowed by emotion. Nimak rushes on after the beast; he knows where it will be in a minute. The bandage falls off his leg and Danila gathers a lot of blood. When he gets out on the beast, he is forcibly released. The operatives state that Nimac is lying at the feet of the forcibly hanged man. Everything is against Nimac. He is placed in the detention center. Everybody knows how convicts treat police officers in their midst for a long time. Nimak gets into conflicts now and then. At one point he is beaten half to death and remains in intensive care for several weeks. In the meantime, Krymchak does everything in his power to get Danila a life sentence. The beast from Belokorovich is laying low at this time. And it is nice to find time with his hostage, she turns out to be Nadezhda Avdeeva, a journalist for Channel One...