Star City

Tanya?

Tanya?

Comrade Colonel.

This was used at the exit gate yesterday afternoon.

- Was she alone? - It appears so.

The form bears Baranov's authorization stamp,

but he denies doing it.

No, he's correct.

The form is genuine, but the signature has been forged.

The Americans must be helping them.

And very likely someone inside,

someone with the necessary access to steal the form.

Within the security division?

Yes. First, we find Mironova, then we will find who's helping her.

Where have you been?

My apologies, Comrade Colonel.

- What happened? - They've gone. Fled together.

The wife, surely his accomplice.

You listened to them. Did they ever say anything about leaving the country?

No.

I doubt she was involved.

As I'm sure you're aware, the marriage was deeply troubled.

There was an alienation of affection.

Well, in my experience, small problems divide people, and big ones unite them.

How can we be sure that the wife fled with Mironov and not from him?

Because we have a recording of the wife,

insisting a guard fetch Mironov from the training center.

And very shortly after, they disappear from Star City.

She warned him?

And fled with full knowledge of her husband's treason,

which makes her guilty of treason also.

Comrade Colonel,

Operations Directorate is ready for whatever you require.

Expand the search area, Salamov, immediately.

We need to find them before they cross the border.

And get me the dossiers

on all suspected foreign operatives in Moscow from counterintelligence.

One of them might be their handler for the Americans.

And you,

I need you to list every place she might have gone.

Parents, friends, friends of friends.

We find her, we find him.

Right away, Colonel.

It's Kozlov here. Get me the Comrade Colonel.

Give me that.

This is Colonel Raskova. Proceed.

We've just been informed by a source at Baikonur

that there was an unauthorized launch, Comrade Colonel.

You better come to Ground Control.

Quite the view, eh, Valyush?

You're quiet.

What's going on?

Nothing. I'm fine.

Please. I can smell the morosity oozing out of you.

Yeah, well, I can smell your feet. You wanna trade places?

Everyone we've ever cared about,

ever known,

they're all down there.

Listen to you. Pushkin himself.

I'm glad you're here, Valyush.

There's no one I'd rather have as co-pilot.

Who says I'm co-pilot?

Star City to Venera 7 ,

are you reading?

We hear you, Star City.

How are my Eagles feeling

now they've broken away from their mother's gravitational bondage?

"We're free birds in truth.

It is time, Comrade, it is time."

If only the feeling would last forever.

Chief,

Valya's been hit with an odd wave of philosophical waxing.

Comrade Chadha's unfortunately been hit

with the usual kind of wave for a first-timer.

She's been sick all morning.

I'll be fine.

Maybe in a few days, you will be.

If it's any consolation,

you're faring much better than Valya's first mission.

Didn't you set the record for the most fluid volume emitted?

I'm pretty sure that was you in one of your zero-g training flights.

Comrade Chadha, I'm sorry you're feeling poorly.

Are you joking? I wouldn't trade a second of this.

I'll remind you of that when you've been up there for a few months.

Now to some business. Sergei.

Trajectory is on track for Venus.

No need for course correction. All our systems...

Chief Designer. Colonel Raskova is coming this way.

Cease transmission.

That's all for now, Venera. Over.

Chief Designer.

Comrade Colonel.

Explain yourself.

I don't need to explain myself to you.

Well, you will to the Central Committee

once they find out that you've launched an unauthorized mission.

You see, I was waiting to tell you in person after the mission was a success,

but now you're here, I'm pleased to tell you you're witnessing a piece of history.

Venera 7.

The first manned mission to Venus.

Manned?

Interesting.

You sent six Venera probes,

all of them melted in Venus's atmosphere within seconds of trying to land.

And you send humans? It's a suicide mission.

We're not going to the surface.

And the entire Central Committee ran like scared sheep

of my plan from the moon landing

until Khrushchev got excited.

- I didn't steer us wrong then, did I? - That was then.

Now, the military want a moon base,

not a nine-month journey to a far-off death trap.

Think of what the moon landing did for the Soviet Union.

This will have an even greater impact.

Who's on the crew?

Cosmonauts Sasha Polivanov,

Lakshmi Chadha,

and Valya Mironov.

- Valya Mironov. - Yes.

Out! Everybody, out!

- All of you, now! - Wait a minute.

- They can't leave their posts! - Fine!

You and you can stay.

Understand this mission is a state secret of the highest order!

- What do you think you're doing? - Anyone found talking about it will

- be arrested. Move, move, move, move. - Don't leave your posts. Any of you.

Seal the building. No one gets in without my authorization.

- You and I need to talk, now. - This is madness.

I don't believe it. It's impossible. Not Valya.

The evidence against him is incontrovertible.

- He is a traitor. - Like Yana was a traitor?

Ugh, not this again.

Yana Akhmatova confessed to a duly authorized representative of...

Spare me. We all know how you secure a confession.

You are in no position to cross examine me!

You flouted a direct order from the Kremlin,

you have wasted millions of rubles,

you have lied to me for months,

allowing an enemy agent to take control of what is not yours,

but the Soviet people's spacecraft, you arrogant, arrogant man!

When the Central Committee hear of the amazing feats

this crew will accomplish for the glory of the Soviet Union...

What? You really believe that Brezhnev is going to care about your beautiful mission

when he finds out that there is a mole on board working for the enemy?

Valya Mironov is no more of a spy than I am.

One of your Eagles, Pavel Fetisov,

beaten, tied up, hidden in the basement of building 18.

Still so sure?

Recording for Polivanov apartment.

I've written down the date.

Comrade Raskova.

Apologies for the unannounced visit.

Please have a seat.

What brings you out here to our little town in the forest?

Well, I'll be brief, as I'm sure you'll appreciate.

The Second Directorate is concerned

about the lack of progress in the hunt for Mironov.

We're dedicating all our resources into finding him.

Your resources are limited.

Always managed before.

The Second Directorate will be taking over the search.

That's not necessary.

Well, it's not up to you what is necessary or not.

Have you had any signs as to his whereabouts,

or any leads with the active foreign operatives?

No, not as of yet.

My people are downstairs.

They'll require all the information you have. Please assist them.

I can handle it.

And yet you have not.

And who cooks dinner?

Is this what you came here to talk about?

No.

- Excuse me, Comrade. - I saw him with a woman.

Who?

Valya.

Excuse me, Comrade. Comrade?

I know you.

We both grew up in Rublyovka.

You went to Lomonosov with my cousin, Zinaida Petrovskaya.

You're Radyusha?

Sorry, I shouldn't speak with such familiarity. It's just...

she would talk about you all the time.

It's just nice knowing I'm not the only one

from our neck of the woods in this wilderness.

Yes. Yes, it is.

And I'm sure I'll see you again.

I and my team will be assisting in the search for Valya Mironov and his wife.

That's just... That's wonderful news.

We'll find them, don't worry.

Anyway, keep up the good work.

Sorry to make you wait. It was necessary to make sure you weren't followed.

He told me how to reach you.

Why? Has he been arrested?

Not that I know of.

He said...

that I could trust you. That you could help me.

Get me out.

Come with me.

Going for a walk.