![]() ![]() Inspector Cameron knew Alice as a child, and seeing Paula sparks his interest in Alice’s cold case. His plan almost succeeds, but during a chance encounter at the Tower of London with Inspector Brian Cameron of the Scotland Yard, things take a turn for the better for Paula. Gregory plans on driving Paula crazy in hopes of being able to institutionalize her, and then ransack her home to find the jewels without any interference from her. Paula’s kleptomania is actually Gregory using his sleight of hand to fool her. Those footsteps Paula “imagines” are actually his, and the flickering lights Paula witnesses is from him turning on the attic lights causing a bit less gas in the downstairs lights. All the weird goings on in the house is due to him rummaging through Alice’s items in the attic to find them. He planned all along to seduce Paula so he could steal Alice’s jewels. What Paula doesn’t know is that Gregory is in fact, Sergius Bauer the man who murdered her Aunt Alice. In reality, Gregory spends his time flirting with Nancy, and then convincing Paula she’s just paranoid about the woman. Paula also has a young maid named Nancy, and Paula soon becomes convinced that Nancy hates her. This leads Paula to believe she really does have a problem, and she now doesn’t want go out in public. When he miraculously finds it in Paula’s handbag, she freaks out, so Gregory takes her home. Once when Gregory takes Paula to a friend’s house, he shows Paula his watch chain where the watch has mysteriously disappeared. On top of that, Gregory is very jealous of the attention other men give her. He claims her nerves are making her a kleptomaniac, and she’s going crazy. Gregory doesn’t believe her, and does his best to convince her it’s all in her imagination.īy now, Gregory has isolated Paula from everyone and everything in the world…for her own good of course. Paula also claims to see the gaslights in the house brighten and dim for no real reason. One other time, Paula hears footsteps coming from the attic, but Gregory sealed it, so nobody could be up there. Gregory accuses Paula of taking it, but Paula doesn’t remember doing it at all. One of the pictures in her house mysteriously disappears from the wall. She loses a brooch from her handbag that Gregory gave her. Odd things begin happening to Paula once she’s settled in. Gregory is infuriated with her discovery, but claims his outrage is due to frustration watching Paula experience all these bad returning memories. ![]() As they do, Paula finds a letter from a Sergius Bauer addressed to her aunt. To quell any of her misgivings, Gregory suggests they move all of Alice’s furnishings to the attic. He stubbornly insists she return with him to London where she doesn’t know anyone, and live at her Aunt Alice’s long abandoned townhome. She marries Gregory Anton after only knowing him for two weeks. Years pass, and Paula is now a grown woman. Alice raised Paula ever since her own mother’s death, but with Alice dead, Paula heads to Italy to learn to be an opera singer as well. Alice’s 14-year-old niece, Paula interrupts the murder, so the killer leaves without stealing Alice’s jewels. Gaslight begins with the murder of the world-famous opera singer, Alice Alquist at her home on No.9 Thornton Square. ![]()
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