… coming to the conclusion that it would make much more sense for such an assassin to be on board the waiting train already, before the transfer of baggage.

Scrooge, Havisham and Brooke all smoothly lie their way past the strict Russian customs officer, but ironically, it's Pretorius, telling the unvarnished truth, whose answers trigger the officer's suspicion, and he's led away by soldiers to a side office. The train to St. Petersburg prepares to leave without him …

Scrooge asks whether the women in whose company Arnold travels were the ones who lifted him out of poverty, but he says they're merely acquaintances he met through a benefactor he encountered by happenstance. He says no more about them or the nature of his job in Russia.

Later, as the passengers change trains and go through customs at Wirballen, Brooke studies the transfer of baggage to determine whether an assassin could have slipped aboard the train in the process …