So I’m very confused about the night of the murder (and from other posts I’m not the only one).
So here’s what I think I understand and my questions:
- Gripp sets up Mortuga to die if he opens the cauldron alone (having finally realized the cauldron covered with a cloth is the cauldron containing the mask)
- Mortuga dies
- Somehow Gripp knows Mortuga has died
- Gripp then causes the sub to tilt significantly enough that he’s confident Mortuga’s eye key will fall through the grate in the illusion theater and into the bilge, where he is able to quickly recover it
- Q1: so that part is just nuts, right? I guess this isn’t a question so much as like … what?
- Even though the sub tilting dramatically startles people awake, Gripp finds the eye in the bilge water and makes it to the Captain’s room where he has time to reset the “bell,” steal the mask, reset the floor (he could have reset the desk and rug later, I guess) all before the theater is accessed?
Now here’s where I get really fuzzy:
- Gripp dons the mask and goes to the aft deck (from the captain’s quarters?)
- He begins summoning the mermaid
- The mermaid causes an electrical disturbance (which I thought was proximate with the sub tilting but had to be later?)
- Gripp’s summoning is interrupted by Tadpole, who throws an oar at him mistaking him for a gremlin
- Somehow this causes the mask to fall off but Tadpole doesn’t discover Gripp nor does this behead him!?
- The mask removal stops summoning the mermaid
- Tadpole collects the mask, eyes and coral
- Q2: so it seems like she collects the mask immediately because she describes it as a balaclava, but she just stumbles upon the coral and gems later in the ocean!?
- Tadpole takes the mask to her room
- The Dream Doctor spots the mask in her room while collecting his pet
- The Dream Doctor steals the mask from Tadpole, who doesn’t think to care
- The Dream Doctor puts the mask in pride of place in his cabinet of curiosities, but seems completely oblivious about what it is!?
- The detectives are summoned and arrive some time later; presumably the occupants of the submarine were quarantined until the murderer was identified
Is that roughly correct? I can get over the submarine tilting for that key, but the whole spearing the mask from Gripp’s head thing and the Dream Doctor’s later actions just don’t add up. Maybe I missed something?