Hamlet’s First Draft Statuette

A small, intricately carved statuette that houses Shakespeare’s lost first draft of Hamlet within its hidden compartment. The craftsmanship suggests antique origin, though its true age—pushing back four hundred million years—speaks to Count Scarlioni’s unnatural temporal schemes. The Countess retrieves it with practiced ease, betraying its familiarity within her routines.

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S17E8 · City of Death Part 4

Doctor exposes Count Scarlioni’s disguise

The statuette acts as a mechanical trigger for a hidden compartment in the wall, which the Countess manipulates to retrieve the leather-bound volume. Its artistic pretence belies its true function as a storage mechanism for forged historical artifacts central to the Count’s temporal scheme.

Before: Embedded unobtrusively in the room’s décor, its hidden mechanism undisturbed.

After: Mechanical function intact, now prominently associated with the compromised compartment holding the forgery.

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