Doctor Akhtin escapes from his pursuers through the swamp. Having lost a month of his life, he gets out of it and finds people - Victor and Valentin - who are lost in the forest. He walks with them through the taiga until they end up with sectarians living in caves and waiting for the Apocalypse. Doctor Akhtin does what he knows how to do. And he becomes the one who brings the End of the World to the sectarians. He takes the first step into the Abyss, from which he returns with the knowledge of what he must do next. Dr. Greenberg carries the pregnancy to term, remembering and cursing Akhtin. Investigator Ilyushenkov is watching her, waiting for Parashistai to return.