Orpheus receives a visit from his dead sister's fiancé, who tells him that he has a lot to tell him. It appears the fiancé, desperate after his beloved's death, went into the lowest circles of society to discover who is responsible for her death. He warns Orphe and gives him a pocket watch that Orphe's sister once gave him, but as he drives away he loses control over his car and runs into a tree. The king is due to visit the academy and Lui's network of spies provides him with information that has him believed there's a plot to murder the king then. Orphe is unaware that his conversation with his sister's fiancé was overheard and is caught off guard by Beruze, who shoots him in the chest.