It's before midnight somewhere...

So now... The mother has the girl named valentine in the way of her son gaining her vast fortune from the paralysed father Noirtier, who in turn does not appreciate what the family has been up to in terms of planned marriages and has withfrawn his bill. Meanwhile the count of Monte Cristo has appeared and written a perscription for the mother, whom he reminds that the medcine can also be a poison. Also, during a ball he met mercedes again, who is dropping ints that she knows who he is. During this same ball, the grandmother and grandfather of Valentine both fall ill and quickly die. The local doctor suggests murder as a possibility. Drama, death, love and revenge: the best things from France.