Анну начинает преследовать призрачный человек, играющий с ней в шахматы. Тем временем в полицейском участке за решеткой погибает карточный шулер Ферзь, с которым Штольман ночью играл в шахматы.
Anna sees a dream: a ghostly man playing chess with her, who says: "Where I shell go, I'll kill somebody there." Meanwhile, in the police station, the cardsharper Ferz, with whom Shtolman played chess at night, is murdered. Suspicions fall on the detective himself. Anna understands that now she not only can help Shtolman reveal the crime, but also save him from prison .