Inside Prague’s Zrcadlové Bludiště, Robert Langdon stalls in the first chamber, surrounded by confusing reflections, and realizes Lieutenant Pavel is close behind. Langdon spots a recessed mirror that hides an opening into a mirrored corridor and chooses the left path, suspecting maze designers often punish the first right turn.

To avoid repeated wrong choices, Langdon keeps his hand against the wall and follows it through intersection after intersection, trying to move quietly as Pavel’s breathing and footsteps echo nearby. Langdon enters a larger room of distorted funhouse mirrors where freestanding panels break the wall-following strategy, but Langdon sees a gray glow of daylight that suggests an exit.

As Langdon rushes toward the light, Pavel suddenly appears and fires at Langdon’s chest. The shot shatters glass instead of hitting Langdon, revealing Pavel had been aiming at a reflection; Pavel screams in frustration while Langdon sprints away, finds the real exit, and bursts into daylight.

Langdon flees down the path away from the castle as more gunfire and breaking mirrors erupt behind him. He reaches the Petřín Funicular just as the doors close, slips inside, and rides down, realizing that entering the maze likely saved his life.

Elsewhere, the Golěm prepares his clay disguise, using a shard of reflective glass to etch the sacred word אמת (Truth) into his forehead. He reflects that he had secretly surveilled Brigita Gessner, followed her movements, and then violently interrogated her, forcing a confession that revealed disturbing betrayals, the identities of her influential partners, and details of an underground Prague facility called “Threshold,” run under the authority of an American man named Finch in London.

Enraged, the Golěm vows to destroy Finch’s creation in Prague and then hunt Finch himself. Although Gessner revealed the facility’s location, her key card was not enough to gain entry, so the Golěm plans a better-prepared return to obtain higher authorization; before acting, he goes out masked to draw strength at a cemetery tied to his golem namesake.