New Characters
Pavel Yosifovich: A guard at the currency store.

Summary
As Margarita finishes reading the chapter, Saturday morning has come to Moscow. The police are busy investigating Woland’s appearance. Sempleyarov was called to the investigation headquarters and questioned about the magic show, and apartment 50 was visited more than once to check for hiding places and occupants without finding anything. There is no evidence of Woland’s presence in Moscow. Prokhor Petrovich has returned to his suit but knows nothing about Woland. Rimsky was found hiding in the wardrobe of a Leningrad hotel room and ordered to return to Moscow on Friday evening. Styopa was found to have left Yalta in a plane headed for Moscow, and everyone else but Varenukha has been found. The investigators visited Ivan at the clinic on Friday evening. He answered questions about Koroviev and Berlioz’s death, and the man who questioned him decided that Berlioz was hypnotized when he died. At dawn on Saturday, Styopa disembarked and was greeted by investigators, and Varenukha has at last been found in his apartment. Varenukha, after initially lying, talks about being beaten by Koroviev and a fat man resembling a cat, and Rimsky comes in on the Leningrad train but reveals no information. After more questioning of other witnesses, a company of men arrive at 302-bis on Saturday afternoon. Koroviev, Azazello, Woland, and Behemoth are in apartment 50 awaiting their arrest. The company uses skeleton keys to enter the apartment. They find Behemoth holding a primus on the dining room table. He dodges an attempt to catch him with a net, but is shot by a Mauser blast. Behemoth drinks benzene to heal his wound, takes his Browning out, and opens fire. The ensuing shootout wounds no one, and Behemoth, declaring it “time to go,” uses the benzene to set fire to the apartment. The company of men escapes, and Woland and his retinue fly out of the apartment. Koroviev and Behemoth make their way to a currency store on the Smolensky marketplace, which serves as a department store selling items in exchange for foreign currency. Behemoth transforms himself into a cat-like fat man, holding a primus, when he is told no cats are allowed in the store. They enter, and Behemoth eats some mandarins, a chocolate bar, and three herrings. After a salesgirl calls for Pavel Yosifovich, he arrives and calls for the doorman to blow a whistle. A crowd surrounds Behemoth and Koroviev, who makes a weak protest. Behemoth’s benzene goes ablaze, and the pair escape to the Griboedov House, where a woman asks them for their writers’ identification cards, which are required for entrance, but they have none. Archibald Archibaldovich, the restaurant manager, orders her to let them in, and they, together with Archibald, sit down at the best table in the restaurant. Archibald leaves the pair at their table to look after the preparation of the fillets of hazel-grouse being served them and, as some guests talk about the fires set across Moscow, three armed men enter and open fire at Koroviev and Behemoth. The two vanish, and the benzene sets fire to the Griboedov House.

Analysis
Margarita has endured her trials without suffering damage from them, a sign of her strong and resilient character. Meanwhile, the Muscovite authorities, like Aphranius’ henchman, have trouble finding the men they’re looking for. The parallelism of these searches for criminal culprits cannot be accidental, and seems meant to highlight some underlying similarities between Yershalaim and Moscow. The Moscow investigation leads nowhere, as the earlier successes in exposing currency hoarders are followed by an inability to track...