Event
Dmitri's Preliminary Investigation
Also known as The Second Ordeal, The Third Ordeal, The Prosecutor Catches Mitya, The Evidence Of The Witnesses, the preliminary inquiry, the examination of witnesses.
Dmitri's preliminary investigation starts inside Plastunov's Inn as soon as the officials halt the revel and require him to give an explanation. What had been a night of wine, song, jealousy, and confession is turned into formal procedure. The first questions begin to fix Dmitri's words, money, bloodstains, and movements into an official case.
IX-II. The Alarm
The alarm in town supplies the case's frame: Fyodor Pavlovitch is found dead, the envelope is empty, Grigory has been wounded, and Perhotin's evidence sends the officials racing to Mokroe.
IX-IV. The Second Ordeal
The questioning becomes a formal attempt to make Dmitri tell a complete story while he tries to redirect the officials toward his own sense of guilt and shame.
IX-V. The Third Ordeal
The inquiry tightens around the open door, the secret signals, the missing money, and Dmitri's shifting explanations.
IX-VI. The Prosecutor Catches Mitya
The officials search Dmitri and confront him with the gap between the money he carried and the money he claims to have saved.
IX-VIII. The Evidence Of The Witnesses. The Babe
Witness testimony from Trifon, the peasants, the driver, the Poles, Maximov, and Grushenka makes Dmitri's account of the sums look worse.
IX-IX. They Carry Mitya Away
The inquiry ends with Dmitri committed and taken from Mokroe, while the rooms and witnesses are left behind as the first official shape of the case.
XII-VIII. A Treatise On Smerdyakov
At trial, the prosecutor revisits Dmitri's first statements as proof that his defense formed under pressure.
XII-IX. The Galloping Troika. The End Of The Prosecutor’s Speech.
Ippolit Kirillovitch presents the sudden questioning as a trap that exposed Dmitri's contradictions before he could compose himself.
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