Don't move.
Do you have any evidence that that ring is the real one?
You're bluffing.
What about you?
Do you intend to release Nadenka if you get the real ring?
No.
Leaving your mission aside, what do YOU think?
What do YOU consider just?
To me, my country is justice.
Hey, yeah
Do you understand where you are?
Yes, right now you're between truth and lies
Oh, the time is ripe
l don't need words of grief
Oh, at this rate, we'll end up losing the means to change anything
Deep inside of my small heart, into the light
lt began to move
Nothing can be sweeter than your smile
What l sealed away was the sound of my life being saved
Sometimes l think that is me choosing the way
Body trembling
You must not say l don't care, tell me why
What l'm letting fly is the sound of my life being saved
Captain Olga Elenova, reporting here as ordered.
l will now report on the recovery of the Holy Mother ring.
Captain,
l'd like to hear the reason this one task took a full eight years.
Why wasn't an operative of your skill able to accomplish the mission sooner?
There are those who think this should be brought before the Disciplinary Committee.
lt is my assessment that if injury to Sergei Alexsandrovich were not forbidden,
it would have been possible to complete the mission in short order.
Are you saying you have a problem with your orders?
My apologies, Sir. l will report only the facts.
Sergei's son...
We don't need that report.
We've already confirmed everything.
The issue is that the delay in recovering the ring
had the ill effect that Andrei has hired a negotiator.
That's...
And? What became of that negotiator?
There's no sign of him on the train,
nor even any evidence that he got off at Khabarovsk.
We are currently investigating his whereabouts.
What do you think?
The negotiator's objective is to flee this country with Nadezhda.
He is certain to attempt to approach Nadezhda...
You're saying he'll search the bottom of the ocean for just one pearl?
Yugo is a man who can dive deep.
Very deep...
Then show him...
...that the ocean of Russia is not a gentle one.
Official Documents
Yugo!
lt's an older building than l thought it would be.
And there isn't anyone around.
Are you taking a break?
Reading documents doesn't fill your stomach, right?
They're not in order, so l don't know where anything is.
Here...
The early twentieth-century records of the Russian Far East should be in this part.
But it's like a labyrinth.
And a particularly complicated one too.
People don't build labyrinths with no exits.
The labyrinth's creator would be trapped inside.
Yugo, you don't know Russians.
Russians build labyrinths with no exits.
That's why all Russians are...
Lyuba...
Do you know what you do if there's no exit from the labyrinth?
You get your bearings and break a hole through the wall.
Someone should have read the papers we're looking for in the last few years.
So we can look for the ones with no dust or not much dust then!
lt's no good. l can't find anything.
Hey, that's right.
Yugo!
Are we sure it wasn't a mistake to look up the East Siberia Company
by starting with its commercial dealings?
lf we think of the East Siberia Company as private property,
the right method is to look for Romanov family documents that have to do with Siberia.
ln which case...
Here it is! l found it!
Documentation concerning the East Siberia Company in 1919!
How could this be?
So they've already been disposed of...
The ring of the Holy Mother of God that was recovered
has been kept in a different environment than the Kristos ring.
lt was necessary to take that into account in our appraisal.
Even according to a measurement of radioisotopes, as you can see on this graph,
the difference in values between the two rings is completely within the numbers...
State your conclusion! ls the ring real?
l find nothing that would lead me to conclude that it's fake.
What do you think?
Unfortunately, l am forced to conclude that it is fake.
What about records of the ship's cargo?
Those records are also...
Yugo...
The East Siberia Company did the selling half of the deal, right?
Even if their records are gone, the records of the purchasers...
lf we research the foreign shipping companies that used the Far East sea routes...
But the only ones who can freely access foreign data within Russia
are the military or the KGB, or someone involved.
Are you thinking of someone?
The head of the archive...
Wait!
He's a dyed-in-the-wool Communist
who worked in the KGB for many years for the sake of the Soviet Union!
What are you going to do if he catches on to your goal?
lf l can't persuade him,
l'm in the wrong profession.
The assumption that the ring is real
is inconsistent with Yugo's actions subsequent to its theft.
What do you mean?
He abandoned the train in order to avoid being detained.
However, he has appeared at the State Archive in Khabarovsk.
lf the ring were real...
lt's because he's concealed the real ring someplace safe
that he's run the risk of detainment and appeared in Khabarovsk.
Yes, Sir.
We've arrived at a conclusion.
Arrest the negotiator at once.
Even so, Lieutenant Colonel...
Yugo is not the kind of man who will reveal his secrets easily.
Lieutenant...
You're a scientist.
l want to hear your opinion on that as a scientist.
lf that's how he is,
we should use the most productive torture methods.
Excellent. lt looks like l'll be able to give a good report.
Why are you researching the cargo records of foreign merchant ships?
l haven't got the slightest intention of helping a foreigner rummage through the Soviet legacy!
l'll tell you my true purpose.
l've been hired to negotiate permission for a distant relative
to bring a young Russian girl to live with him in Japan.
So you're acting as a proxy for someone in exile?
Yes...
l need to determine if my client's motivation in bringing her to him is familial affection or not.
And what does that have to do with the cargo records of the East Siberia Company?
The sable population had been exhausted by the mid-nineteenth century.
What the East Siberia Company dealt in after that is what's important.
Why?
Because the twelve-year-old girl l'm trying to emigrate to Japan
claims to be the great-granddaughter of the last governor-general of the East Siberia Company,
Alexsandor Fyodorvich Romanovski.
She has a legitimate right of inheritance to the Romanovski legacy.
And for that reason l would like to confirm her family's love for her.
Come with me.
Which year do you need records for?
The prince disappeared in 1919...
So something slightly before that.
There's only one foreign shipping company that had established regular routes to Vladivostok
in that time period,
American First Line.
These are the records from that time.
Here it is.
Ship name: the Lincoln. Registered to the United States.
Date: February 7, 1919.
Cargo: wooden boxes, 1000 in total.
Content of boxes: not recorded.
They made a note of the weight.
That's impossible!
Gold!
And more than 200 tons of gold bullion.
Just where did the prince ship that gold bullion to?
That's the question.
What about you? Would you hide it on a desert island or something?
No.
lf l were the prince at that time, l would've put it in a Swiss bank,
because l could've earned interest that way.
l agree.
That was the prince's thinking too.
And almost eighty years have passed.
The interest alone would be a colossal sum.
200 tons of gold...
We'll assume the buying power of an ounce of gold was the same as it is now.
The standard interest rate in Europe at the time was 1 4.5 percent.
lf we account for the rate of inflation
and make the real interest rate 5 percent, the interest alone...
The interest alone would be 200 billion dollars.
That young girl has this enormous a fortune...
lt looks like the client knew this.
And also...
You're Yugo Beppu, aren't you?
Who are you?
l don't need to answer that.
l'm hereby taking the three of you into custody.
We haven't done anything against the law.
That's not a problem.
This is Russia.
What's your name?
What's your name? What's your name?
What's your name?!
WHAT'S YOUR NAME?!
Yugo... Be...
State your date of birth!
Your date of birth!
State your date of birth!
19...
Your passport number!
877...
Your address!
Great... Greater Tokyo... Chiyoda City... Kudan...
The date you entered Russia!
December... nineteenth...
Now, what's your name?
Your name!
State your name!
You WlLL answer my questions.
Now, what's your name?
Beppu...
All right, next your date of birth.
Your date of birth.
l... forget...
State your date of birth!
Excellent. l'll remind you then.
Do you remember now?
Ni... nine... nineteen...
That's right, that's good.
Please...
let me... let me sleep...
Please... let me sle...
We gave you a medicine to take the sleepiness away,
and a nutritional supplement.
You're not sleepy at all.
What's wrong? This is nothing.
Many people have withstood longer, harsher interrogations.
l'll give you a little break.
You're as impressive as we'd heard, to get that open.
Now then, let's begin. What's your name?
St...
What's your name?
Sto...
STATE YOUR NAME!
Looks like he's just about there.
All right, tell me where you hid the ring.
The ring!
l'm talking about the ring you got from Andrei.
28... 8...
Turn up the volume on the microphone.
4028... 4028...
The ring... 4028...
What does that mean?
What does that number have to do with the ring?
l..lce...
The ring...
Train coupling...
lce...
lnside the...
lnside the ice...
The ring was hidden inside the ice around one of the couplings
on train number 4028, the Russia Express.
The train is about to be forwarded to lrkutsk.
This means we can safely recover the ring.
And how will Yugo be disposed of?
l hear he'll be deported.
More importantly...
Major General Garrachova has rushed to lrkutsk.
This is your ticket, got it?
l paid out of the money you had on you.
Will he be able to make it home?
Maybe we should take him to the hospital like the woman who was arrested with him.
lt's our job to put this guy on a plane.
We're not the ones to judge.
Then what if we tried asking Headquarters about our orders again?
Okay, let's.
The piercing words that are horribly tangled up in my heart
Can't be so easily untangled
A friend leaves me again
l don't want to become a doll adrift in a sea of humanity
l'll sing my own kind of song
This town has a smell to it that makes me nostalgic
lt brings back memories of my childhood
lt gets you, gets you, grabs your heart and never lets go
Baby, baby, when will l be able to slip away?
l don't know
Next Episode
Even while injured,
Yugo escapes and reunites with Lyuba, who is hospitalized after being tortured.
He vanishes from sight and heads for the place where the real party he will negotiate with is.
ln order to do that, he has to walk all night in the bitter -40 degree cold along the Amur River.
Next time on Yugo the Negotiator, fourth episode of the Second Negotiation:
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