Oleg and Gavrilych were transferred to Ozerny. An inflamed tattoo can ruin everything, but Gavrilych finds a way out, although this way out requires Oleg to show willpower. Together, friends have a fight in a prison bath, and Gavrilych deliberately puts a burn on Oleg in place of an inflamed tattoo. The deputy camp chief Rokhlin has his first suspicions of Oleg’s personality. He calls Oleg to himself and finds out that the reason for the conflict is that Oleg’s favorite rosary was taken from him during the search. Finally, the meaning of all the actions of Oleg is revealed: in this colony he is not the only one of the four friends. Among the prisoners of Ozerny, his friend Aleksei Sorokin, who has taken the lowest position in the prison hierarchy — has become a “snitch” is serving his sentence.