wargrave suggests searching all the rooms, and any potentially dangerous items are locked up. lombard's gun is missing from his room. when vera goes upstairs to take a bath, she is shocked by the touch and smell of seaweed left hanging from the ceiling of her room and screams; the remaining guests rush upstairs to her room. wargrave, however, is still downstairs. the others find him seated, immobile and crudely dressed up in the attire of a judge. wargrave is examined by armstrong and pronounced dead from a gunshot to the forehead.