: The pursuit leads to a final confrontation in the woods with the killer, a former army doctor named Vladimir Malevich, and a brutal showdown with Vasili. Leo eventually manages to close the case by framing the killer as a Nazi agent to appease the state, allowing him to be reinstated and lead a new homicide division in Moscow.
: Leo’s refusal to ignore the evidence of murder leads his superiors to question his loyalty. He is soon tasked with investigating his own wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace), who is suspected of being a dissident. When Leo refuses to denounce her, they are both stripped of their status and exiled to the remote mining town of Volsk. Child 44(2015)
: In exile, Leo discovers more dead children under similar gruesome circumstances. Realizing that a serial killer is operating along the railroad lines, he joins forces with a local general, Mikhail Nesterov (Gary Oldman), to conduct a secret investigation into the "impossible" crimes. : The pursuit leads to a final confrontation