As the auction draws to a thrilling close, the Chameleon asks all guests not bidding to leave and the doors are sealed. The team swap in their fake and ramp up the tension until with a final snarling bid, Vladimir Stepanov wins the auction, and goes up to to collect the 'diamond' (which to the great surprise of the replicator team turned out to be a deep reddish black coloured crystal formed of crazy angles).

At this moment, shots ring out from the back of the hall as Father Ferraelle, Mr Montague and Lily Trant pull on black headbands and brandish weapons, shouting:
"Ladies and Gentlemen, remain in your seats. This is an action by the Church of Starry Wisdom. In the name of Enoch Bowen and the Black Pharaoh, we are here as the rightful owners of that gem, here to reclaim the piece that was stolen from us. Hand it over!  FOR THE BLACK PHARAOH! NEPHREN-KA!"

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Shocked, the Chameleon hands them the diamond at gunpoint. Raising it up, Father Ferraelle cries out triumphantly, ”At last it is returned to us!.... Wait! This is not our master's gem! TREACHERY! Where is the real stone!”

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At which point everything pretty much goes out of the players' control. Lygushka draws a wand and shouts out an ice spell that slows time and freezes everyone in the room. Regaining control, Stepanov instructs his associate Anton to search for and locate the real diamond, which he quickly does using his mind-reading skills. Stepanov takes the diamond, and then takes the time to rant at the frozen audience as he summons all his powers, opens a portal and steps through it with the diamond, leaving the rest of his party behind.

The minute he vanishes, the freeze begins to end, the record player starts to play, slowly at first and then gaining speed as the Church of Starry Wisdom and the Russians begin a slow-motion firefight, soon joined by other guests, and accelerated by Liliane Bettencourt's bodyguard and Jock Watson opening fire on each other. Caught in the crossfire, the IMF team defend themselves, as the gunfight speeds up along with the tempo of the music until they find themselves breathless, bleeding and surrounded by bodies in a locked hall, with no sign of Stepanov or the Carcosa Diamond....