a bare bulb shines down on the contents of a shabby hotel room. directly under the blub a man, gennady kasimov, sits in a straight backed wooden chair in his blood-stained t- shirt. there are a couple of thugs and a stray hooker in the room behind him. a legend:
anatoly bends close to kasimov.
back on screen, anatoly places a hand on kasimov's shoulder as if he had just anointed him.