All attempts by the Regime and Lamouche to discover the true identity of the Watchmaker fail miserably. However, with a stroke of luck, Orso and Carbone manage to follow Gilda to the house on Via Gluck. Adrian thus forces the two men to come to terms: "Darian" is born, an old and deformed hunchback that becomes the "real" face of the Watchmaker. The only one who is not convinced is Gilda, who considers Darian an impostor and a puppet of the Regime.