the next morning, hutter takes a coach to a high mountain pass, but the coachman declines to take him any further than the bridge as nightfall is approaching. a black-swathed coach appears after hutter crosses the bridge and the coachman gestures for him to climb aboard. hutter is welcomed at a castle by count orlok. when hutter is eating dinner and accidentally cuts his thumb, orlok tries to suck the blood out, but his repulsed guest pulls his hand away.