Agatha Christi Murder on the Orient Express Chapter 2

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The Orient Express leaves from the Sirkeci Station in Istanbul and starts on the first route to Belgrade.

We walk comfortably through the restoration carriage and look closely on all passengers present.

Listen carefully to what the passengers at the table all tell. It is 7 o'clock in the evening and time for dinner. On board of the Calais carriage are:

Then we see: Antonio Foscarelli, Edward Masterman, Cyrus Hardman and the couple Count and Countess Andreyi

We go on to Samuel Rachett, Hector MacQueen and on her own is Helga Schmidt.

Colonel Arbuthnot also dines alone and Hercule Poirot has taken care of you, Antoinette.

Antoinette sit at Hercule Poirot's table and Poirot subjects Antoinette to an "observation quiz". Poirot asks Antoinette about the other passengers and each time you get a number of possible answers. All other 13 passengers pass by and Antoinette has to say what she knows or thinks of every passenger.

Poirot starts by asking Antoinette what she knows, or thinks she knows, about: Debenham, Ohlsson and Hubbard. And then follow Arbuthnot, Princess Dragomiroff, Hildegard Schmidt. Then we continue with: Foscarelli, Hardman and Masterman and we end at Ratchett and MacQueen. If you keep using the answers that Antoinette can give you in sequence, then you will not skip anything and Poirot's quiz will automatically end and then ....

Ratchett sends Hector away to handle the correspondence and he himself speaks to Poirot. Ratchett is not a pleasant man. Ratchett therefore has enemies and has received threatening letters. Ratchett wants to hire the services of Poirot and he shows Poirot that he is in possession of a revolver.

Poirot refuses to accept Ratchett's "case". Poirot hates Ratchett. The train then arrives at the station in Belgrade and Chef Klaus is panicking.

Chef Klaus has discovered that his beautiful Bacon has not been loaded. Or Antoinette can take care of hams. Antoinette gets off the train and then stands on the platform.

There is no rush. Unlike in real life, the Orient Express will not leave as long as Antoinette has not stepped in again. This is a great moment to explain the operation of the Inventory screen to you. You can open the inventory screen in two ways: The first way is to click with your right mouse button on the screen. The 2nd way is to move your cursor to the top edge of the screen. At the top of the screen the TRAIN BAR will pop up.

You see the 5 train wagons. Via this train bar you can go from one carriage to the other carriage by clicking on the carriage you want to go to. By clicking the button, that's on the left side, you open the inventory screen. By clicking on the Hat, that's one the right side, you open the Menu screen where you can Save, Load and exit the game. Now open the inventory screen in one of the two ways. The inventory screen always opens with the Items screen. In the right edge, there are 6 buttons below each other. Number them, from top to bottom, 1 to 6. By clicking on these 6 buttons you open another screen of the inventory.

Button 1 = The Items screen. In the Items screen you see all the items you pick up or receive in the game.

Button 2 = Your Magnifying Glass. By picking up an object in the Items screen and clicking it on the Magnifying glass, you see the Item in the Close-up window.

With the "Reverse Eye" you can then turn the item over. Read Antoinette's comment at the bottom of the text window. At the top of the Close-up screen you see the Scroll arrows.

Use the scroll arrows to place the Next Item or the Previous Item in the Close-up screen. So you do not have to click with each item on the Magnifying glass to see it in the Close-up screen. Once you have placed an item in the close-up screen, you can also place all other items in the close-up screen by clicking on the scroll arrows.

Button 3 = the Combine button. This button opens the screen where you can combine multiple items with each other to create one new item. I'll explain how you do that if you have to do that for the first time.

Button 4 = Documents. In the document screen you can view and read all documents, briefs and cards.

Button 5 = Passports. In this screen the Passports are saved and you can view them.

Button 6 = Fingerprints. In this screen you can view and compare the fingerprints. How to do that swill be explained in more detail when you have to do this.

The only item you now have in your inventory is the "Ticket stub". However, in "Documents", under Button 6, you have 3 sub departments and these are: "True Crime Stories", "Time Table" and "Maps".

In "True Crime Stories", Antoinette has a number of articles about some famous moths.
In "Time Table" you can follow the train journey from hour to hour.
In "Maps" you will now find the "Train route map", the "Train plan" and the "Calais Manifesto".
On the "Train plan" you see that the Orient Express consists of 5 wagons: the Baggage Car,
the Restaurant wagon, the Salon wagon, the Calais car and the Athens car.
At the "Calais Manifesto", which Antoinette received from Pierre Michel on departure from Istanbul,
you can read which passengers "inhabit" which compartment.

Close the inventory screen again with your right mouse button. Antoinette is standing in front of the train on the platform of Belgrade station. Walk through the feet at the top left and .....

We see a shadowy person running over the platform to the train and going into the train. A new passenger?

We return to Antoinette on the platform. Walk again through the feet on the top left and Antoinette enters the next screen at the benches and the entrance of the station building. Two men are talking to each other at the fountain. Walk to the fountain. These two men turn out to be Arbuthnot and MacQueen. Talk to Arbuthnot and MacQueen.

Arbuthnot finds it "bloody awful" and according to MacQueen the train has leave soon, if the train wants to get through the passes, which are in danger of snowing. Click on one of the two talk options so that Antoinette presents herself and then use the other options to ask if the gentlemen have seen the Hams of the chef lying around somewhere. That is not the case, however, and both gentlemen disappear back to the train.

Walk down a screen through the bottom of your screen and then continue through the top right corner of the screen.

Look, with your Eye, at the fence. Antoinette says she has seen that the conductor of the Athens / Paris car has come through this gate. Walk down another screen, via the bottom edge of the screen, and Antoinette comes to the locomotive of the train. At the locomotive, Pierre Michel and Tayyip, the train driver, talk to each other. Click with your "Eye" on the two men so Antoinette walks towards them.

Pierre introduces Antoinette and Tayyip to each other. Talk to Tayyip, who is not pleased that the train company has sent a female person as a representative. Talk to Pierre Michel and use all options in the conversation. Pierre knows that Klaus is missing his Ham. An extra passenger has boarded the train here in Belgrade. It is a Greek Doctor. When the conversation with Tayyip and Pierre Michel is over you click with the curved arrow, left / right next to Antoinette, to get out of this screen.

Then move a screen to the left, via the left edge of the screen. Antoinette is standing at a luggage cart full of boxes

Click with your "Eye" on all those boxes / crates that are on the baggage cart. You will then enter the close-up of the cart. Click again with your "Eye" on the boxes. Antoinette cannot read the labels on the boxes because they are written in the Serbian language. Zoom out via the curve arrow, at the bottom of the screen, walk back to the right and then click again with your "Eye" on Pierre Michel. Antoinette walks on to Michel and Tayyip and asks Pierre if he can read those Serbian labels on the boxes for her. Then go back to the cart with boxes and zoom in again.

Michel has come along. Now, from left to right, click with your "Eye" on the boxes again and Michel will tell you what's inside.

The Ham of Klaus is in the second from the right box and Michel will bring the Ham to Klaus in the train ...

Greta has a fear of heights so she wants the bottom bed. Antoinette has no problem with that. Greta then leaves the compartment because she "needs" to relief herself.

Antoinette is standing in the hallway of the Calais car and Poirot tells her to listen at the door of each compartment. To eavesdrop at the doors Antoinette needs a tool. Open the Train bar at the top of the screen. You can see that you can go back and forth between two of the wagons via the train bar. The other 3 wagons are not yet available.

Click in the train bar on the "Salon Car" and Antoinette is then, after the Loading", on the balcony between the Calais Car and the Salon Car:

Walk through the bottom of the screen and then go on another screen to the Bar in the middle of the Salon Car.

Antoinette then stands at the Bar. In the cupboard, behind the bar, you see a row of drinking glasses.

Click with your "Eye" on the drinking glasses and Antoinette walks behind the bar. You are then zoomed in on the cupboard and see the drinking glasses. On the left above the drinking glasses is an ice tongs. There is a drawer under the drinking glasses. The cupboard doors are locked, so you do not get them open. Grab the ice tongs. Then, from the left, grab 5 drinking glasses. You have to do that one by one. You then have 5 "Water Glasses" in your inventory. Open the drawer. Grab the adhesive tape (Scotch tape) and the Paper Napkins from the drawer.

Now we go eavesdropping tat the doors of the coupés. When you place the cursor on the handles of the doors then your cursor becomes an "earpiece" and at the bottom of the screen you can read which section it is and who is inside. Click with your "Earpiece" on the first door. But Antoinette says she cannot hear anything this way. So grab a Glass from your inventory. Close the inventory screen and then click with your "Gear" on the door handle of the coupe. Do this in this way with all coupe doors. Using the glass, Antoinette then listens at the doors and hear the people's conversations in the coupe's

You have to take a glass from your inventory at every door and then click on the door handle with your "gear". So we start with

Coupé 1-2: Masterman-Foscarelli: Antoinette hears Hardman and Foscarelli talk about Masterman.
Coupé 3-4: MacQueen: Antoinette hears MacQueen in conversation with Arbuthnot about politics.
Coupé 5-6: Schmidt and Debenham: Antoinette does not hear anything.
Coupe 7-8: Ohlsson and Antoinette: Now enter here by clicking on the door with your "door handle".
Walk through in the coupe and .... Greta enters and tells that she has given Caroline Hubbard a headache powder.

Leave the Coupe again via the bottom screen and the door. Back in the corridor you walk through the bottom screen. We see Antoinette on her back and she is at Coupe 9. You can also see Pierre Michel sitting in the hallway at the end of the car. Now continue to listen to the sections:

Coupe 9: Poirot: Antoinette does not hear anything.
Coupe 10: Ratchett: we hear Ratchett and Masterman.
Coupe 11: Hubbard: Not present, at least Antoinette does not hear anything.
Walk on to Coupe 12. You will see Antoinette standing in the hallway through the windows of the train.

Coupe 12: Countess Andreyi: We hear the count and his woman talk about a nightmare.
Coupé 13: Count Andreyi: Antoinette does not belong here. The count is with his wife in 13.
Coupe 14: Princess Dragomiroff: We're talking about the Princess talking to Schmidt about one Mr. Snagdby and one Mr. Dickens.
Coupe 15: Arbuthnot: Nothing to hear. Arbuthnot is in 3-4 at MacQueen. Walk through and Antoinette comes to the end at Coupe 16.
Coupe 16: Hardman: Nothing to hear. Hardman is in 1-2 at Foscarelli.

Antoinette is now caught by Pierre Michel in her eavesdropping, but she manages to get out of this difficult situation by telling a lie to Pierre.

Pierre then continues and you see Pierre walking through the windows in the corridor. Your cursor is now the "shadow cursor". QUICK .... Click with the "follow cursor" in the hallway so that Antoinette will follow Pierre.

You do not necessarily have to click with the "follow cursor" on Pierre Michel. If you just click quickly, before Pierre has left the screen again. If you click too late Antoinette will not follow Pierre. Then quickly go via the Train Balk to the dining car, because that is now also accessible via the Train Balk. Walk quickly through the restoration carriage and you will see Michel as well and Antoinette then automatically follows him to the Luggage coach.

Antoinette follows Pierre Michel through the corridor of the Calais carriage to the Restoration carriage. Pierre checks a door and then continues and disappears into the baggage car. Antoinette follows Pierre into the luggage car.

Antoinette is at the front of the baggage car. Click with your feet left or right of the bulkhead to continue. But Antoinette stops here because .....

...... Pierre comes to her and asks if Antoinette followed him. Give Pierre one of the possible answers, it really does not matter which one. Pierre says that Antoinette must go back to the Calais carriage. Well .... let's not make Pierre angry any further. You can not go back via the Train Bar, so click with the feet at the bottom of the screen to return to the restaurant carriage and ..... Pierre locks the luggage coach again and Antoinette goes to her compartment to go to sleep.

The Orient Express continues through the snowy Serbian landscape. It is really bad weather again and then suddenly ..... An avalanche and large chunks of rock and snow gets on the track. However, Tayyip manages to stop the train just in time via an emergency stop. All passengers tumble out of their beds and are complaining in the corridor. Nobody seems to be hurt except ..... Poirot.

Poirot has ended up rather unhappy and has had his ankle weakened or broken. Antoinette offers her apologies for this inconvenience. Poirot will have to stay in his compartment during the rest of the journey to give his ankle rest. There is a loading and after the loading we are at Antoinette and Greta in their compartment.

Greta was startled because she heard someone scream. Reassure Greta by saying "Go back to sleep, Greta, I'm sure it's nothing". There is a small table under the window. On that table is a vase with flowers, a table lamp and a travel alarm clock. View that table. You will then enter the close-up of the travel alarm clock. Click with your "Eye" on the alarm clock and Antoinette tells you what time it is. It is 12:37 in the night.

Zoom out again and click with the feet at the bottom of the screen. Antoinette turns and stands in front of the coupe door.

To the right of Antoinette is the door of the bathroom. On the coupé door you now get the "Peepcurser". Click with the "Peep cursor" on the door and ...

Antoinette peeks into the hallway. You do not see Antoinette but you see Pierre Michel walking to the door of Ratchett. We hear Ratchett shout that everything is alright. Ratchett does this in French. So Ratchett speaks indeed French. Michel walks back to his chair. We see a shadowy person secretly climbing the train and ....... at the coupe of Caroline Hubbard the alarm goes off. Notice that Michel is not in his seat, in the back of the hallway. Antoinette had gone to sleep again but was awakened again by the sound of the alarm and climbed out of bed again.

Zoom in on the travel alarm again to see what time it is now. It is now 1:17 in the night.

Zoom out again and click again with the feet at the bottom of the screen. Click again with the "peek cursor" on the coupé door and ....

Caroline Hubbard is standing in the door of her compartment. She calls Michel who comes to her. Hubbard says that a guy has come into her compartment.

Michel checks the coupe but of course he does not find a guy. Shaking his head, Michel disappears back to his chair at the end of the corridor.

We end up back at Antoinette who is sleeping again but now wakes up from the sound of a hard punch. Antoinette climbs out of bed again. First look at the travel alarm again to see what time it is now. It is now 1:22 in the night. Turn back to the coupé door and click again with the "Peek Cursor".

Now you see how Antoinette peeks through the corridor. You see Michel sitting reading in his chair and ......

...... a person in red kimono walking through the hallway to the salon carriage.

Click quickly with the "Follow Cursor" to follow that person. Antoinette is standing in the hallway of the Calais coach and looking in the direction of the Salon coach. Click with the feet on the door of the saloon car. Antoinette walks to the door but the salon car is locked. Click with the feet at the bottom of the screen to turn Antoinette around. Now go through the bottom of the screen, through the Calais carriage to Pierre Michel who is back in his seat.

Talk to Michel. Antoinette asks if Pierre knows who that woman is in the red kimono. But Pierre has not seen her face either. Then ask Pierre all other questions. Pierre is not sure, but according to him, the red kimono woman came from the Hubbard coupe or from the Ratchett coupe. Pierre has not heard any sound. Go back to coupe 7-8 and go back inside to sleep for a few more hours.

It is the next morning and all passengers are sitting at the table enjoying breakfast. People are rather concerned about the delay and wonder how long they will be snowed in. Antoinette is sitting at the table with Mary Debenham because Poirot, because of his ankle, is confined to bed. Pierre Michel then pops up and summons Antoinette to come to the coupe of Poirot

We are in the coupe of Poirot. Poirot is dressed in bed and also Dr. Constantine is present.

Constantine is the passenger who has boarded in Belgrade and he is the only one in the Athens-Paris car.

Poirot says that Ratchett was murdered. Poirot has instructed to close all the outside doors of the train, except the back door of the Athens-Paris car. After all ... the train must stay on steam. Matteo will inform Poirot if someone tries to leave the train via the Athens-Paris car. Dr. Constantine has examined the body. Antoinette and Constantine fear that if they wait for the police to investigate the murder, everyone can be detained for weeks by the Yugoslav authorities. Antoinette begs Poirot to take care of the matter himself so that, if the train can continue driving again, we can offer the killer on a silver platter. Unfortunately .... Poirot wants to but cannot do much because of his painful ankle. Poirot then challenges Antoinette to investigate the murder herself and to try to find out who the murderer is. Antoinette can always come to Poirot for advice.

You have to choose what you want to do. You now have to choose from 2 options:

Choice 1: "I am honored, I gladly accept your challenge" Choice 2: "I am no match for the foremost detective of our time, I'll be content helping you".

It really does not matter what choice you make. If you opt for Choice 1, then Antoinette is very much on her own , but can always ask Poirot for advice and help. If you opt for Choice 2, Poirot will offer a little more help during Antoinette's research, especially in the form of some hints when solving some puzzles. But do not imagine much of Poirot's help. So just choose Choice 1. Whatever choice you make, eventually Antoinette goes, together with Dr. Constantine, in the coupe of Ratchett. And we have ended up in: