Erynie

1938. Commissioner Edward Popielski is thrown out of the Lviv police. At the moment he has to work as a Latin language tutor. His minor son Jerzyk and cousin Leokadia Tchórznicka are also forced to lower their standard of living. Meanwhile, astrologer Luba Bajdykowa is murdered in the city. At the victim, the police find Hebrew characters arranged in a strange code. Soon Popielski will be needed again. And it plays a double role.

Impatient with the lack of police progress, her son joins Bajdykowa's case. Engineer Bajdyk is a rich and eccentric oilman. He offers Popielski a large salary for finding his murderer's mother. "Łysy" accepts the money and promises to deliver the murderer to the client. With the help of a young Jew and Leokadia, he realizes that the Hebrew code is a mathematical sequence with each letter assigned to a number. At the same time, she begins an affair with Renata.

Bójko informs Popielski that Renata is sleeping with him and is related to Bekierski. The mistress's translations, justified by brutal violence and extortion, do not bring results. Edward doesn't believe it. Renata runs away in desperation. The fight, fearing for his life, reveals the secret of gematria and magic squares to 'Bald'. These are Charon numbers that make it possible to predict the date of death of any person.

Two thugs from Lviv, Zygmunt Hanas and Mosze Kiczałes, are trying to find the kidnapper of Elżbieta Hanasówna, Zygmunt's handicapped daughter. Elizabeth is in the hands of a pervert who enacts ritual rape scenes, showering the victim with white flower petals. Edward gets a message from Hanas that Lodz is in his hands and he must find the pervert or she will share his daughter's fate, only that the perpetrators will be his thugs. Edward agrees to work with Hanas.

It turns out that Anielka is only characterized as a child, and in fact she is older. Popielski asks her for information about other clients who like entertainment with girls. In the course of further investigation, Popielski receives information from Dr. Pidhirengo that the murderer is probably allergic to the flower identified on Elżunia's body. At the same time, thanks to Zaremba's investigation, Edward goes to Mrs. Bodnarowa's flower shop, from where he obtains information that Jasminum is ordering a nondescript Count Niezawitowski.

Lviv on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. The tension of the approaching annihilation spreads through the inhabitants. A child, Henio Pytka, is murdered at the back of the Jewish pharmacy. Anti-Semitic sentiments are emerging in the city. After the trauma of the previous case and the threat to his family, Popielski wants to leave the police. After Kocowski's persuasion and a guarantee of safety for the family, he agrees to lead the case again. Together with Moshe Kiachales, the Jewish king of the underground, they try to find the killer who is always one step ahead of them.

Popielski, tormented by remorse after the murder of Małecki, goes to a mass for little Henio Pytka. Unfortunately, a second victim appears. The murderer writes a telegram to Popielski, inviting him to play. Popielski suspects that his son Jerzyk may be the victim. There is a confrontation with the murderer, Edward recognizes his face and calls him Herod.

Herod is not idle, he kidnaps Popielski's son. The situation is getting out of control. You failed, Lodzia did not take care of Jerzyk, Popielski swears revenge on Herod and the whole world. Herod meets Popielski at a closed swimming pool, in his mouth he hid an ampoule with the address of Jerzyk's detention. Popielski kills Herod, but the ampoule is empty. Someone taunted him.

Popielski lost Lviv, strength and health. Together with a group of repatriates, he goes to Wrocław. There he meets Eberhard Mock, head of the criminal police in Breslau. Edward knows him from the Minotaur case. Now, however, Eberhard has to flee Poland, along with a wave of German refugees. Edward decides to exchange Lewicki for Lodzia, Mock suspects the ruse, but "Łyssy" has nothing to lose.

Wrocław in 1946 is the world after the apocalypse. Everyone seems to be tainted by evil. And yet, in Popielski's poor apartment, someone special appears. Professor Stefanus, a man who absolutely believes in human evolution towards good. He comes to Popielski with a job offer. The detective is to discover who, among the students of Stefanus's secret philosophy course, is the informer. Circumstantial evidence indicates that one of the three girls is a spy.

Lodzia, after the torture chamber of the UB, ends up in the hospital, she is very ill, and Edward takes care of her with great care. Following her tip, Popielski goes on the trail of three Soviet soldiers. There, his paths cross with Captain Mikhail Chernikov, who, looking for Soviet stragglers, tracks Popielski. The result of this cooperation is the capture of one of Koldashov's rapists and his public execution.

During the investigation, Popielski finds a trail of a strange Russian - Boroszwili, who hangs around Murawski's house. Following him, he ends up at Szaberplatz, where Boroszwili is doing business with Colonel Bogdylov himself. Now everything is starting to come together. Edward notifies Chernikov, who launches an internal investigation into the case of Boroshvili and Bogdylov.