 Having pieced almost all the clues together, he confronts her with his suspicion that she was Orrin's partner in crime and once married to Dr. Lagardie.Still in love with Steelgrave, she wanted to force Wald away from him.Hicks and Clausen were murdered by Orrin because Hicks wanted to take over the scheme for his own profit, and the drug-addicted Clausen was too unstable.