2019: Walkthrough by: Louis Koot

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Chapter 4: London: Hobb's Studio:

It is evening and in the courtyard George picks up a Chain from the ground ......At the van there is also a Crowbar on the ground. Take the Crowbar.

Click with your cogs on the front door of Hobbs ...... George knocks on the door again but there is no reaction ..... Open the door of the van and ram click on the horn ....but there is no reaction this time... Hobbs does not appear on the balcony. There is only 1 way for George to get in and that is through the balcony. So we have to climb. To the right in the corner is the drain pipe on the facade. Climb up the drain pipe ....

Above the drain pipe is a Seagull on the Crane and the Seagull pokes George in the nose and so George drops himself down a bit ....

hanging on the rain pipe talk to Nico and ask her if she wants to hit the horn of the van........

Nico does this and the seagull is startled by the noise and flies away ...... Click with your cogwheels on the crane beam and .... George tries to move the crane beam but the thing is stuck ..... In the meantime the seagull also returned, so ask Nico if she can hit the horn again ..... Nico does that again and the seagull flies away .... Quickly .... grab the Crowbar from inventory and click it on the Crane and .......

George unscrews crane and he then swings with to the balcony and enters through the balcony doors and then let Nico in through the front door

Hobbsy is not in and his easel is covered with a cloth ... Click with your eye on the cloth ...

George removes the canvas and puts it in his pockets and discusses with Nico what they see in the painting.

Go up the stairs to the door on top of the balcony ... the door is locked ... Take the chain from inventory and click it on the door and .....

George ties the chain to the door and then lifts up the elevator and ties the other end of the chain to the elevator ....

George then lowers the elevator and ..... the elevator opens the door.

Enter the private room of Hobbs through the now opened door:

Private room Hobbs:

It is a large room and George and Nico initially ends up at the sink. There is a cupboard between the sink and the bench. The cupboard has a door that you can open. In the upper compartment of the cupboard is the telephone .Click on the Phone and listen to the 2 recorded messages .... one message is from Medovsky and the other from Bijou ..... .When this is done, open the cupboard door ...... and then take the Cola Bottle from the cupboard.

Walk further to the right and ...... well  I'm sorry to say...but.... Hobbsy has been killed ....

George and Nico have to find the original "La Malediccio" painting before the murderer returns.

Zoom in on the body of Hobbs and then take the roll of Mints from the pocket of the corpse.

Get out of the close-up. Behind the corpse is a picture Frame on the easel .... View that picture frame ....

A painting is roughly cut out of the frame and George thinks it was a counterfeit "La Malediccio" and he also thinks the real painting is hidden somewhere here. There are paintings and a Pinboard on the back wall. Zoom in on the Pinboard. There is a map of Catalonia pinned on the board.

4 sketches and a Leaflet are stuck on the Map. On the leaflet you see a "human pyramid" and apparently Hobbs has the idea that the "human pyramid" on the photo is done after the example of the "human pyramid" on the bottom right sketch. Click on all 4 sketches and the leaflet with your eye and listen to George's comments ..... 

The top left sketch seems to be a detail from the "La Malediccio" painting. The top right sketch is Hobbs's version of the "human pyramid" that you see on the bottom right sketch .... Nico thinks that the "human pyramid" is important. If you click on the leaflet, George tells that the article is about "Castell dels Sants". On the Catalonia map you see a lot of castle towers ..... On the Catalonia map, find the "Castell dels Sants" and click it with your eye and listen to the comments of George and Nico ....... Castell dels Saints.....Saints is what Tiago has written on his postcard and that card also contains the "human pyramid"

You automatically leave the close-up of the Pinboard. We have to find the original "La Malediccio" painting .... Bijou has said that "the painting is hidden behind her behind"  Well ..... there are various paintings on the walls here and some of those paintings represent women. Walk back to the door. To the left of the door is a painting showing a couple of naked women's buttocks .... View that painting ...... George is not sure and asks if Nico wants to look at the naked buttocks ....... ..Nico then remembers the remark from Bijou that the painting is hidden "Behind her Behind" ....... Take the Crowbar from inventory and demolish the bare butt painting with it and ..... 

we have found the real "La Malediccio" painting and you get into the close-up of it and a conversation between George and Nico follows ..... George then puts the painting in his pocket and then walks back to Hobb's corpse to continue the conversation there and that takes a while ...... but then Nico asks why the building is suddenly on fire .... George runs to the door and. .... well ..... the building is really on fire and we now have to escape from the burning building.

The door is not an option, so walk back to Nico. Above Nico and George you have certainly discovered the Skylight already ..... The skylight is half open. There is a Drip Bucket right under the skylight to catch the rain and the Skylight Mechanism, to open and close the skylight, hangs on the wall  but that mechanism is broken

View the skylight, the mechanism and the bucket. The skylight is the only way out but it is rather high and it is only slightly open. In inventory, combine the role Mints with the Coke bottle ...we all know what happens then. Take the Trembling Bottle from inventory and click it on the skylight and......

George places the bubbling bottle, upside down, in the bucket and it shoots up like a rocket and this makes the skylight go open completely.

Now we can climb up to the skylight ..... But we need a throwing hook ..... Combine the Crowbar in inventory with the Dust Sheet,  that you have taken from  the easel in the workshop. ....... George rolls up the cloth  and then fixes it, like a rope, to the crowbar and we have a Grapple and Line. Then take the Grapple and Line from inventory and click on the skylight that is now open and ........

 See how George and Nico escape from the burning building just in time ....... When we reach the roof, we see that Langham guy in the courtyard .....

George and Nico are trying to attract Langham's attention and that works ...But..... Langham is not going to save our 2 heroes at all ......... Langham is the one that has set fire to the studio ...... Langham is not an Interpol agent but the villain of the story and he is probably also the murderer of Simeon and Hobbs. The fire brigade arrives and George and Nico are rescued and ......They go on their way to Spain and .....we go on in 

Chapter 5: Spain: Hacienda Castell dels Saint

2015: Original Dutch Walkthrough by: Louis Koot

2019: This English translation by: Louis Koot