- Our protagonists disembark at the Zubrowkian Alps, but Henckels, catching a whiff of L'Air de Panache in their abandoned freight car, is hot on their trail.
- Zero and Gustave meet a series of monks at what is either a monastery or a ski resort (or both?).
- Each monk asks if Gustave is H. Gustave from the Grand Budapest and gives him instructions (like entering a cable car, wearing monk's robes, and confessing).
- In the confessional is Serge, who tells him that he only betrayed Gustave when they threatened his family.
- He says that there is a second will that Madame D. made to supersede the other in the event she was murdered.
- This will was destroyed, but Serge made a copy.
- Before he can say where it is or what it says, he's strangled by Jopling, who has somehow tracked him down.
- Zero and Gustave chase Jopling as he skis down the mountain's course, following him in a wooden sled.
- The sled crashes and Gustave is thrown to the edge of a cliff where he hangs. Jopling pounds the surrounding snow with his foot, cracking it so that Gustave will fall to his death.
- However, Jopling forgot about the buried Zero, who comes from behind, pushes him off the cliff, and pulls up Gustave.
- Their troubles aren't over yet, though. Henckels shouts at them with a megaphone from an adjacent cliff. He tells them to surrender and he will personally vouch for their fair treatment.
- After a moment of silence for Serge, Zero and Gustave take Jopling's motorcycle and make a break for it.