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| Mark comes to the Orient Express to meet Mason but the restaurant is empty. Mason appears and says that he has booked the restaurant for all the evening. Then he gets the gun and says that the day of reckoning has come. |
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| Mason makes Mark go to the roof of the hotel. The latter does not understand what is happening, as Mason has written that he wanted to make up with Mark. Mason says that he is going to kill him. |
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| Mark says that the police will suspect him, Mason answers that he does not care and he wants Mark to beg for mercy the same way Mary did when he was raping her. Mark denies having raped Mary. |
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| But at gunpoint he finally admits that he has raped Mary because she wanted to be with Mason and she said she loved Mason, not Mark. Mason says he will safe his life if Mark writes the confession of the rape. |
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| Julia receives the letter from Mason with the request to meet him in the courtroom at 9 o'clock. |
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| Mark signs the confession. Mason takes it but he is not going to let Mark free. He says this document will excuse him. Mason hits Mark's face with the gun and shoots. |
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| CC gets the letter from Mason with the request to meet him at 10 o'clock. |
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| Julia enters the empty courtroom. Mason accuses her of hollow sympathy and her decision to protect Mark. Julia explains him that she is not guilty but Mason does not believe her and, when she is about to leave, he points the gun at her. |
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| Julia says he cannot shoot. Mason offers to check it. |
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| Mason appears at the Capwell's house. He points the gun at his father. The lattes says he is not afraid of him. Mason implies that he has killed Mark. He accuses the father of not having allowed him to go to the roof and being indirectly guilty of Mary's death. |
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| CC says it was an accident and it was Mason who made Mary go to the roof. His desire to get Mark imprisoned led her there. But no use accusing anybody. "It was the wind," CC says and goes away. |
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| Mason return to the roof. He is thinking about his father's words and asks Mary to forgive him. |
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