“The operatives stood silently, watching Tutmin’s work. The fussy expert captain knew his business, doing the usual work in such cases that he had to do. The only thing that caused trembling excitement in him was the victim. What distinguished him from a stranger, with whom the expert was accustomed to dealing, was that during his long work in the search apparatus, if not friendly, but quite close relations had developed between them. They went out on calls together. Together they unraveled complex, from a forensics point of view, cases. And now Golikov is dead. Probably Tutmin, like Stas Kruchinin, did not want to believe it. Therefore, his touches to the dead body of the operative seemed to everyone to be cautious. Although in other cases Tutmin could easily have committed, albeit small, negligence...”