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Andrey Chikatilo meets the boy Sasha with a fishing rod at the station and starts a conversation with him about fishing. He offers Sasha to give a foreign fishing line, but for this you need to go with him. At this time, the body of a young girl is found. Citizen Shein, who was detained in a trolleybus depot with a knife, admits to the murders.

Chikatilo after another crime comes to work. With colleagues, he discusses the brutal crimes that occur in the city. Meanwhile, the police are discussing inconsistencies in the case, which Shein confessed to. At home, Chikatilo is an ordinary family man. He warns his son to stay away from strangers, because he, like other parents, is worried about his child in connection with the maniac who has appeared. Chikatilo at the bus stop offers Valentina a drink of cognac. The girl liked this idea, and she suggested going to a secluded place.

The police detain Tarasyuk, who confesses to the crimes. There is a version that a criminal gang operates in the city, some members of which have already been detained. However, the crimes do not stop. A new victim of Chikatilo was a girl whom he met at a bus stop and asked to take him home, pretending to be sick.

Novoshakhtinsk. Thirteen years earlier. Chikatilo gets a job at a school as a teacher of Russian language and literature.

Mines. Five years earlier. At the bus stop, Uncle Andrey meets a girl. He gives her gum and promises to give her more if she goes to him. After all, he still has a whole box at home. The departure of a man with a girl does not go unnoticed. Later, the corpse of a girl who had been subjected to a brutal crime was found. A woman who witnessed how a tall, imposing man in a coat and hat left with a girl, gave evidence, thanks to which an identikit was compiled.

At work, Chikatilo watches the children. To suppress his impulses, he puts his hand to the hot kettle. Shein tries to convince that he didn't kill anyone. His testimony was a joke. According to the identikit, compiled 5 years ago, they are looking for a criminal. The police are watching Chikatilo, who looks like the one they are looking for.

Yevgeny Nikolaevich leaves and asks to let him know when the criminal is caught. Finally, he said that the wanted killer is a traveler, a person who constantly travels on business trips, and he is not limited to one area. Vitaly and Irina travel to neighboring regions, where, as it turns out, unsolved crimes have also been committed with the same signature of the criminal they are looking for. A friend of the boy who was killed six months ago confessed to Vitaly Innokentevich that on the day of the murder they skipped classes and walked near the trains, where a man in a hat approached them, allegedly having lost his puppy. Seryozha left with this man, but his friend did not dare to go. But he was also afraid to tell anyone about this before, because he did not want to admit that they skipped school. Chikatilo is caught stealing a battery from work. Although he himself claims that he was asked to keep, he did not know that the thing was stolen.

Another body has been found. The underline of the murder is like a blueprint. Those who were in the park on the day of the murder cannot say whether or not they saw the person from the identikit, and anyone could be wearing such glasses and a hat. Chikatilo is waiting in the director's office to announce the promotion. Later, Chikatilo celebrates his 50th anniversary with the team. Despite the new responsibilities, he takes on additional work and gets a job as a combatant to help the police. He assures that for the sake of the children and for the sake of the motherland, he will cope with everything. And on the very first day, he will have to comb the park and look for a citizen in a hat and glasses.