[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Countdown Season 1 Episode 6, “A Needle or a Bullet.”]
Danill (Nikolay Moss) learns the perils of betraying Volchek (Bogdan Yasinski) within the newest episode of Countdown.
After Astapov (Pasha D. Lychnikoff) tells Volchek that with the Individuals closing in on him and asking questions, Belarus would moderately not antagonize their host nation. Due to this fact, he says, Volchek ought to return to Minsk, the place he shall be welcomed again. Volchek handles that “suggestion” by planning to strike Astapov throughout considered one of his routine stops. Nonetheless, when the time comes, Astapov isn’t the place he’s imagined to be.
Volchek gathers his males and explains that he deliberate to select up Astapov and present him he’s not untouchable. He’d been questioning how Astapov knew the place he was going to be to initially discover him and realized he was betrayed. And so he instructed every particular person he was going to seize Astapov at a unique place, so he is aware of who’s turned on him: Danill. At gunpoint, he took Danill’s cellphone and located proof. He then executed him as a result of he has no tolerance for disloyalty and ordered the others to discover a place for him the place nobody will discover him.
Executing Danill like he did was concerning the betrayal itself in addition to to function a warning to everybody else to not observe in his footsteps, Bogdan Yasinski tells TV Insider.
“I might even add the truth that it was Volchek himself validating to himself how far he’s prepared to go, proper? It’s virtually like, ‘Let me show this to myself. Am I critical?’” he provides. “Yeah, I imply, that’s an enormous second I believe for him as a result of it’s like clearly the factor that occurs in Episode 5 [killing his wife], however that is him, self-perpetuating, ‘I’m dedicated to this it doesn’t matter what.’ And naturally, it’s a message to the remainder of the group. It’s not you’re both in or out. It’s you’re in, interval. It’s humorous as a result of the man who performed Danill, I really know him. We’ve recognized one another for a while, so it’s a very cool second. Sorry, Nik.”
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