Neophyte

Kogout and Buffet meet in the church where the last statue is located. Kogout hits Buffet with a knife and leaves.

Gutya manages to find what is hidden in the telegrams. Along with Masha, she walks through the cinema halls to learn where the criminals gather.

Palulya is captured during his assault on a liquor factory. Shvedov does the interrogation in an unfair way and Masha quarrels with him.

The investigation leads Masha and her department to Pavlovsk. She faces Buffet there while he was looking for one of the statues in a local museum.

Gutya helps Masha in the investigation on her own initiative. Masha's private life is a mess. She can't chose between the two colleagues - Petrov and Shvedov. Shvedov seems to hide something from her and she starts following him. Masha learns that her father lies to her, and that he was Buffet's lawyer before the war. This is a real shock for her.

Gutya keeps on trying to build Masha's private life. She arranges dancing party and invites the police personnel.

Masha's friend Gutya takes part in the private investigation and teaches Masha how to build loyalty with Shedov. Paulina allows Masha to work with her own version regarding the Buffet case, Masha being certain that he was after a certain statue in the jewelry shop.

On her first day in the criminal investigation office, Maria Krapivina finger-prints a thief called Buffet who was arrested during the attempted robbery of a jewelry store. During the interrogation, Buffet attacks Masha and whispers to her that there's a traitor in the police.