 Returning to the consulate, Max identifies Horst as an accomplice to the saboteurs, and Horst is arrested.A coroner's report determines Baumer died of poisoning.Reconstructing the event, they discover that he put the poison in the whisky glass for Max, but when something hit the window during the demonstration outside, the whisky glass intended for Max was confused with the consul's own brandy glass, so Baumer mistakenly drank from the glass he meant for Max.