Here is your room, miss.
- Who sleeps in there? - No one.
It was the maestro's study.
It's been closed since the day the died.
If you need anything, call me.
I sleep upstairs, near the attic.
You'll find candles on the table.
Excuse me, I couldn't sleep.
I don't think these books are suitable bedtime reading.
I haven't slept well for months, maybe years.
Insomnia is real affliction.
What interests you about occult sciences?
It's the only way to solve the mystery of life...magic.
- I don't know what you mean. - Death.
The moment when the soul separates from the body.
The soul, what the theosophists refer to as "the astral body".
We have to grasp that moment to analyze it.
But to do this we must be capable of killing with our own hands...
...so that no breath of life escapes us.
- Don't you think? - You'd commit murder to do that?
I think so.
There certainly was something demonic.
If not, where could such a timid, sensitive boy
have found the strength and hatred to kill his own father?
After the murder, he was examined in the clinic by Prof. Treuberg.
The professor told me that
certain types of people are the most unpredictable and dangerous.
I remember he made a very revealing comparison.
He described a peaceful hill
covered with trees, gardens and ﬂowers.
Suddenly, a terrible force erupts inside
and the peaceful hill becomes a volcano,
sowing death, desolation and destruction all around.
They are beings overwhelmed by a demonic force.
- What are you thinking about? - I was following your words.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to dredge up these memories.
Please, don't tell Michael we discussed this.
He'd never forgive me.
Don't worry.
I'm going for a stroll in the grounds.
Will you be up when I get back?
Do you believe in reincarnation?
It's the only way to explain
the moral and material unhappiness of mankind
and his bestial, degrading past.
Why do you ask '?
Just a question.
Goodnight, Mr Schwartz.
Believe me, it was a pleasure to meet you.
If it wasn't for you and your film,
Michael wouldn't have come back.
Thank you.
Maybe it's not the right moment, but...
I wanted to tell you that the chainsaw is missing.
But...