I Heard the Bells

In 1941, Georgy Volkov, a captain in the State Security Service, is delivering to the Soviet Union a consignment of emeralds under a trade agreement between the USSR and Germany. Included in the shipment are a number of top secret documents, the value of which is far higher than any precious stones. The war begins, and the train on which Volkov is traveling is attacked by the Germans, and he must flee to the Soviet Union and deliver the important cargo. However, a dangerous enemy is hot on his heels - Abwehr agent Konrad von Bützow. The confrontation between these two strong, highly intelligent, and worthy opponents is the basis for the plot of the trilogy, "Spies Must Die!"

1947. Police captain Aleksandr Ratnikov investigates a series of murders in Leningrad. The trail leads to a technologist at a local fish farm, Pavel Vedernikov. It turns out that technologist Vedernikov is actually the former deputy head of the Nazi concentration camp for children "Grachi" named Gunther Zeiler. Skillfully posing as a Soviet citizen, Zeiler is hunting for his family's art collection, which disappeared during the war. The criminal is ready to walk over corpses, just to get what he wants and go abroad. Ratnikov intends to catch Zeiler at any cost: this Nazi is the only clue in the story of the captain's daughter, who disappeared during the war.

Tokugawa Mitsukuni's youthful success as "the deputy general of the world, Mito Komon". In this drama, Tokugawa Mitsukuni leads a group of boys and girls with talented talents, "Pickers," and hunts down the igniter who caused the "Great Fire of the Meireki", one of the largest fires in Japan. Young Tokugawa Mitsukuni meets an orphan, Ryosuke, who is not in, and is surprised at his wooden sword's deadly swordsmanship and invites him to the covert organization "Human Shu". "Pickups" are orphans with excellent abilities, who used their special abilities to carry out intelligence activities and help catch criminals. With the cooperation of the pickers, Mitsukuni grasps that the leader of the fire gang that caused the "great fire of the Meiji calendar" is Nishiki Hinosuke. And Hinosuke was the son of Unkei (Koji Ishizaka), a Buddhist priest who Mitsukuni admires. Wukei lived to defeat Hinosuke, who had fallen into the wrong path, with his own hands. A fierce battle with Hinosuke aimed to overthrow Tokugawa. Mitsukuni's wife, Yasushi, asks swordsman Yoshisen Yagyu for help.

The war nears its end, but Nazi Germany remains unbroken. German command plans to turn the tide against the Soviet army. Soviet counterintelligence captains risk their lives to thwart German plans behind enemy lines and on the home front.

Counterintelligence Captain Pavel Semyonov and State Security Major Aleksey Ermakov are once again fighting German saboteurs. But now, together with a new partner, Konstantin Lavrov. Lavrov is the son of a diplomat, brave and desperate, intellectual, polyglot. They face new challenges, and the fate of the Motherland and the lives of thousands of people are at stake.

Gou Ji Xiang is a housewife undergoing a huge change after her husband is mysteriously murdered. Determined to expose the murderer(s), she becomes a cop/detective under the wings of Mao Ru Yi.