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Henry Alfred Lien turns out to be a ruggedly built and serious-minded man of about 70 . Again hedenies having anything to do with Falko's death or with being a member of any Nazi network.Confronted with the evidence of his own past, Lien claims never to have been an ideologicallycommitted Nazi. He says the only reason he joined the National Unity Party was so that he benefit hisown family - and that they later found it difficult to forgive him.Back in Oslo once more K2 demands an interview with the legendary chief of the security services,the chain-smoking Asle Bryne. Bryne is less than forthcoming. While admitting that Falko's groupwere being watched he refuses to go into detail. He categorically denies that the security serviceshave anything to do with Falko's disappearance or the death of his girlfriend. He does, however, offerto lend K2 a recording of the meeting Marie Morgenstierne attended on the evening of her death. K2listens to the tape with Patricia. The first thing she notices is that Marie Morgenstierne lies when shesays, at the end of the meeting, that she has plenty of time to catch her train and so declines theoffer of a lift in Trond Ibsen's car. Patricia also notes a subdued but evident tension between TrondIbsen and Anders Pettersen, in which Marie Morgenstierne appears to side with the latter. It isKristine Larsen rather than Marie Morgenstierne who seems most preoccupied with Falko and thehope that he might soon return.K2 goes to interview Kristine Larsen and arrives as she is leaving her house. He calls out “Kristine!” –at which she takes to her heels in panic and runs. K2 instinctively feels that she is the killer, runs afterher and following a wild chase catches up with her. In her interrogation she confirms that she wasFalko Reinhardt's lover in the weeks before his disappearance, and that her guilty conscience inregard to her friend Marie Morgenstierne had gradually given way to the suspicion that Marie mighthave had something to do with the disappearance. Kristine Larsen confesses that she wasresponsible for the threatening note found under Marie Morgenstierne's pillow. She also admits thatit was she who followed her on the night of the murder and called out “Marie”. However she denieshaving anything to do with the murder, and claims that she ran away in fear because she had herself6
een living in fear of an unknown killer. Kristine Larsen also says that the other people she saw in thestreet that evening included an elderly man with a stick, a blind woman with a guide dog, and a manbehind her whom she only saw indistinctly. Marie Morgenstierne cast a quick glance over hershoulder before she started running, and it is Kristine Larsen's belief that it was the sight of her thatcaused her to run. But then she had seen a man standing in a side-street, a man whom sherecognised as the vanished Falko. K2 finds this radically revised story of hers less than convincing andarrests her.Day Five: Searching Kristine Larsen's home K2 finds two photographs in an envelope: one showsFalko with his arms around Kristine; the other is a group picture from which the image of MarieMorgenstierne has been removed.K2 calls Professor Johannes Heftye. Deeply uneasy, he now reveals that at his 65th birthday party afew days prior to Falko Reinhardt's disappearance, he had mentioned the content of Reinhardt'sthesis to his nephew, Trond Ibsen, on the assumption that Ibsen was already aware of it. At aboutthe same time Trond Ibsen turns up at the police station claiming that Kristine Larsen's arrest must allbe a misunderstanding – she is a pacifist and incapable of taking the life of any living creature. Ibsenadmits hearing from his uncle about the discoveries mentioned in Falko's thesis, but denies havingdiscussed them with either Falko or anyone else for that matter. K2 studies the report of the taperecording,including the finding of a fingerprint belonging to one of Falko’s group. He drives over tolunch with Patricia, who correctly predicts that the fingerprint on the tape is that of MarieMorgenstierne herself. She suggest that K2 pay another visit to security chief Bryne and demand tosee the agent responsible for setting up the recording.Patricia is now convinced that Falko was at the scene of the shooting and is now somewhere outthere in Oslo. Again she voices her deep unease at what all this means, and why Falko still hasn'trevealed himself, despite the fact that his fiancée is now dead and his lover under arrest. Patricia is7
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