Episode 4

"Episode 4" (originally: "The Happiness of All Mankind") is the fourth episode of Chernobyl. It was written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. The episode first aired on May 27, 2019 on the US pay TV channel HBO.
== Summary ==
While the "Liquidators" must kill all the dogs and cats in the exclusion zone, Legasov wonders how to remove the highly irradiated graphite from the reactor's roof. 
== Plot ==
An old woman refuses to leave the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. She explains that she never fled from previous dangers either. A soldier forces her to go by killing her cow that gave her milk. The conscript Pavel, together with the veteran of the Afghan war Bacho, is assigned to patrol the zone and shoot and collect neglected animals because they are radioactively contaminated. The liquidators' commander, General Nikolai Tarakanov, has lunar landers placed on the roof of the power plant to prepare the roof for the sarcophagus and to clear the radioactive debris. After a West German police robot stops working almost immediately due to excessive radiation, Tarakanov is forced to summon 3,828 liquidators. They have to clear the roof of debris with their hands. Everyone only has 90 seconds once due to the deadly radiation. Khomyuk visits the archives in Moscow and confronts Dyatlov with the accusation that the government is not interested in the truth. At a conspiratorial meeting without KGB surveillance, Shcherbina and Legasov inform Khomyuk that she must testify as an expert witness in the trial of Dyatlov, Bryukhanov and Fomin. Legasov will testify before the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Khomyuk reveals to them a report of a similar but more benign accident at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant in 1975, which was censored by the KGB. She also tells them that Lyudmilla gave birth to a girl who died 4 hours later due to radiation exposure. Khomyuk urges Legasov to tell the IAEA the full truth. Shcherbina advises caution and warns of government retaliation. 
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