

What's so strange about a young woman in white? M-my wife saw her walking outside the countess' room. Uh.what did your wife mean before, when she said there was evil in this hotel? When, exactly, is this intrusion going to end? Oskar: We need to begin again, Herr Holler. The countess, whenever she became upset or disturbed in some way, she mentioned a girl, Blanka Mar.Īt first, I thought it was just a displacement technique, that the feelings were too painful, so she was ascribing them to someone else, to a- a fantasy character. I never got to the bottom of it, but it might be significant. The killer must be somewhere in her dreams.

There must be something, a scrap of information. I don't know how much longer I can stop my fist from connecting with that grin of his. Get your head out of your backside and provide me with something! Sir- Widow of a Hungarian nobleman, dying under suspicious circumstances! The Imperial Court has been asking questions. She's Hungarian nobility, a family title and estate. Now, this can't possibly be all you have achieved.įrankly. The estate returns to the count's family after his wife's death. Von Bulow: You've called on all of the solicitors? I've always known I wouldn't get her fortune. Whatever you may think of me, Inspector- a fortune hunter, a leech. Oskar: How much will you earn from the sale of her estates in Hungary? Our scientist confirmed she was killed by someone who laced her teapot with strychnine, someone who knew about her precise rituals and her movements, someone who was right next to her on that evening.ĭrag a woman into bed twice your age, and then dispatch her like you wipe some dirt off your shoe? Still, when she died, you were able to claim it and move on to a wealthier woman. This is really why you arrested me, Inspector? Max: Means it was done by someone close at hand, someone right beside her at the table. The infusion is bitter, would have masked the taste of it. The boiling water in the pot-it's the only thing that could have been tampered with.

Lindner: He was lodging with her at the time of her death. Oskar: A woman old enough to be your mother. There is no law against two people becoming acquainted. Max: Gruner prescribed opium for melancholy and depression.Īn appropriate amount of time has gone by.Īmelia: I think that a young doctor can't afford the stain of scandal.
