Rodion Meglin

Rodion Meglin is the main character of the Russian detective-psychological series The Method. He is a top—level investigator who solves the most complex murders. He was used to working alone, not revealing the secrets of his method. He always finds and catches murderers, often executing them right when they are detained. Esenia Steklova's partner.
He was played by Konstantin Khabensky.
== Biography ==
=== Background ===
When Meglin was about 5 years old, a maniac broke into his house and killed Rodion's father, as well as severely beat his mother. Meglin did not see these scenes, hiding under the bed all the time with a knife in his hand. But the criminal noticed him, and forced him to finish off his own mother. The hero had to do it. The police, who found him next to the corpse of a woman, promised that the fanatic would be found and shot. After 10 years, justice was done, only by the hands of Meglin himself. In addition to the direct killer of his parents, the guy took the lives of several other criminals. He was convicted and sentenced to the death penalty. And then suddenly he was released so that he would work in investigative agencies and be the very hand of justice when, according to the law, there is not enough evidence to punish a criminal.
=== Season 1 ===
Meglin figures out Vladimir's killer right at the party, but before being arrested, he says "You won't catch me," which hints that Meglin has a new enemy with such a nickname. Next, Meglin has a new partner - a young investigator, Esenia Steklova, who began to work with him also in order to find her mother's killer. They begin to find various serial killers together, whom Meglin most often killed during detention, which at first confused Esenia. Over time, their relationship became very close, and Esenia herself had already gained experience from Meglin. Together they also defeat the dangerous serial killer Alexei Anufriev, who was specially released by Esenia's father. In the end, Esenia finds out that Meglin killed her mother, but did it because she was a serial killer. Esenia barely finishes Meglin off in the bathroom, plunging a knife into his heart.
=== Season 2 ===
It's been 6 years. Esenia married Yevgeny Osmyslovsky and they had a daughter. Esenia continues her work as an investigator, but she did not succeed very well, after which her father and Colonel Bykov reveal to her a secret: Meglin did not actually die, but went crazy. He is taken out and, despite his madness, he successfully helps Esenia stop various serial killers. But in the meantime, TMNP continued to hunt for them, and he even brainwashed Yevgeny into becoming a violent maniac. He also kills Esenia's father and frames Meglin for it. But later Esenia and Meglin manage to kill Yevgeny, but he did not turn out to be a TMNP. The real TMNP turned out to be psychologist Igor Samarin, who brainwashed the mentally ill and turned them into serial killers in order to take revenge on Meglin, whom he had held a grudge against since childhood. Samarin first frames Meglin and Esenia, and then kidnaps Esenia's child and forces her and Meglin to come to the same place. There he forces them to fight to the death. And Meglin fakes Esenia's murder, after which they take Samarin by surprise and kill him, saving Esenia's child. After that, Esenia and Meglin stayed together.
== Trivia ==
* Each episode of The Method begins with a quote from Rodion, which briefly describes the plot of the episode.
* According to Milana Kasakina, she and her husband, Dmitry Ivanov, came up with the character's last name. Meglin is from the name of Lake Meglino, where the couple bought a house while working on the script. But the authors of the idea borrowed Yesenia's name from their son's classmate.
* Meglin's appearance is very similar to Sherlock Holmes from the Soviet TV series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson".
* Meglin also resembles Will Graham from the TV series Hannibal in many ways.
* Konstantin Khabensky received the 2017 TEFI Award in the category "Best Actor in a Television Movie/Series" for his work in the series "The Method".
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