Searching for Volckert in the reed marsh, Tom gets stranded as his raft is stolen. Snuf gets home and leads captain Brandenburg, who was already worried, but is shot at. In town, more criminally shed blood is found, feeding the terror. The captain finds a meeting of surviving robbery victims, obviously liars, one of which owns the gun abandoned in the marsh by Volckert, as suspicious as the mayor's uncooperative attitude to his request to consult municipal archives, which the town clerk eagerly but illegally grants the handsome man.