Guardians of the Fatherland (Стражи Отчизны)
Matryoshka Nesting Dolls (Season 1, Episodes 1-2)[edit | edit source]
Andrei Krasnov (Vorobyov) wakes up in a hospital and finds himself the target of a deadly hunt by a terrorist group. He manages to escape, using combat skills he wasn't aware that he even had.
Meanwhile, the beautiful Anastasia (Kristina Ubels) is kidnapped, drugged, and hypnotized by Doctor Heinsbrugger (Yuri Utkin). Heinsbrugger and his partner Manson (Alexander Lazarev) plan to brainwash Anastasia into committing a terrorist bombing at an international Psychology Conference in Latvia, in order to pin the blame on Russia.
Andrei travels to a bar to meet Vladimir (Lavrov); the same terrorist group, linked to Manson, attack them.The two men escape and Vladimir discovers that he also has excellent fighting skills. The two men learn from General Vavilov that they are all that remains of a 1990s special forces team. When they retired, they were hypnotized into forgetting their former identities and skills. They are recuited to stop Manson from carrying out his plans.
Manson's men collect the fully brainwashed and programmed Anastasia, intending to let her recover for a day so that her disheveled condition will not attract attention, but Andrei and Vladimir ambush them and kidnap her.
With Anastasia out of action, Heinsbrugger improvises. He kidnaps Yana (Landa), a beautiful doctor who is also attending the conference, and quickly hypnotizes her into carrying out the attack using a bomb planted in a video camera. Andrei and Vladimir disguise themselves as EMTs and manage to knock Yana unconcious and carry her- and the bomb-laden camera- awy from the conference.
Goons drag Anastasia into a classroom at her University
She is drugged
The drug puts her into a highly suggestible state
The doctor's team prepares to go to work
Anastasia is in a hypnotic trance
A doctor asks her to take his hand
"Yes doctor, I can hear you very well."
He points out a coffee mug and asks her to retrieve it
She looks at the mug
And mindlessly obeys his command
Manson arrives to check their progress
Anastasia in a trance
Manson gives Anastasia a quick order to slap him.
Again, she obeys immediately
At the conference, Yana is having breakfast
She invites the doctor to sit with her and chat
To her delight, he gives her his business card
Anastasia is hypnotized with a swinging pendant
She is in a deep trance
A quick neck massage sends her even deeper
And a brief, faint smile
She is ready for her final programming
Manson tells her what to do
"I will do anything you ask of me."
She is ordered to go to the conference and set off a bomb at an important session
The doctor recommends letting her recover a bit so that she'll look healthier
Andrei and Vladimir arrive just in time
They make short work of Manson's goons
Vladmir rescue the still-mindless Anastasia
The men decide to kidnap her and take her out of the equation.
At a safehouse, Anastasia repeats her orders over and over
The two men argue about what to do
Manson orders the doctor to "take care of this"
Luckily, he has the perfect subject in mind
He lures her to his hotel room
On the pretense of looking at some new publications
He uses a neck pinch to incapacitate her
She collapses, helpless
The team begins to drug and hypnotize her
"Our client will be pleased," declares Manson
Vladimir solves the problem of what to do about their brainwashed assassin
When Anastasia comes to...
...she's not too happy about it
Meanwhile, the hypnotized Yana arrives at the conference
She tries to enter the session as ordered
But she does not have permission to enter
The doctor has programmed her for this possibility
As he watches
She bluffs/threatens her way in
And sets up her rigged camera
She waits patiently
Andrei and Vladimir spot some EMTs
The old "knock em out and steal their clothes" bit
Vladimir spots Yana at the session
She is acting very suspicious
He reaches for the video camera
Hmmm... that doesn't look right...
Yana doesn't have much to say about it
Yet another neck pinch
Yana is knocked out
Andrei arrives with a stretcher
The doctor watches helplessly as his assassin and her bomb are taken away
Yan wakes up in the getaway ambulance
She flashes back to being hypnotized
And programmed to kill
Later, Yana takes on the job of bomb disposal
"Some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb!"
At the last second,she dumps it in a park pond
Eh, good enough.
