After meeting with the Dispatcher, Bars realizes with whose tip he was locked up in prison. This is what the assistant dispatcher Gayun tells him about, who sympathizes with Oleg and is ready to side with Barca. After all, now the Dispatcher wants to crush the illegal gold trading business with Bars, and then get rid of his former partner. Meanwhile, with the filing of a guard officer, Balaev, who is in love with Anna Rokhlina, the ring-maker Gnilozuby lures her chosen one Yevgrafov Jr. into the boiler room, where the prisoners scald the young officer with boiling water. The security officer Evgrafov Sr. finds out the circumstances of the incident and brutally beats Rot-Tooth, trying to get the names of the instigators of violence out of him. Oleg, Aleksey and Kvass continue to prepare for the escape - they send news to their acquaintance, the convict Gavrilych, so that he prepares fake documents for them, while Gosha Liver decides to organize a riot in the camp for thieves ...