to realize that it is just a rehearsal. Meanwhile, Beria is enraged at Khrushchev for allowing a crowd of mourners to enter Moscow by train because Beria believes that large crowds may start a revolution. After Svetlana refuses to attend her father's funeral, Beria convinces Malenkov to allow Vasily to attend Stalin's funeral as Stalin's only living son. As Stalin's funeral commences, a large crowd of mourners reaches the city. The NKVD guards fire warning shots but the crowd continues to march and begins singing the Internationale while throwing rocks at the guards. One of the rocks hits an officer and he orders the guards to open fire on the crowd. After the carnage ends, the officer shows regret, kneeling in a state of shock. After the funeral, Vasily becomes drunk at the official party, slips into hysteria, and begins yelling loudly that he believes that his father was assassinated. Vasily's commanding officer strips him of his rank and discharges him from the military. Vasily is arrested again for inviting foreign journalists to Moscow without authorization. Beria, fearing for Vasily's life, suggests to Malenkov that they should send him to an asylum to avoid court-martial. As Malenkov walks to his car, Khrushchev shows up and asks for a ride to his dacha. Khrushchev convinces Malenkov to join him in a coup against Beria; Malenkov agrees out of fear that one day Beria will turn on him. Khrushchev, Malenkov, and Molotov have a discussion on Molotov's apartment's balcony, as they know that Beria is using its telephone to listen in on the interior of the apartment. Molotov is enraged at Beria for disobeying Stalin's order to execute Polina and agrees to join Khrushchev's coup, but he demands a total purge of the NKVD, similar to the 1936 Great Purge. Khrushchev suggests that Marshall Zhukov join the coup because Zhukov dislikes Beria and because the conspirators need the army. At an unknown asylum, Vasily's mental condition deteriorates. He continues to believe that he will live under his father's shadow for eternity, and he begins telling Beria about the night his mother committed suicide. Then he becomes unresponsive, and Beria asks the nurse to get Vasily something "strong" before leaving with a sorrowful expression. Three months later, Khrushchev, Malenkov, and Molotov initiate their coup and signal Zhukov to arrest Beria, who surrenders without much resistance. In prison, Beria remarks that he knew this