The kitchen shows no sign of Rogers' presence - the fire hasn't even been lit. Lombard wakes Blore up and tells him about the situation. Together they collect everyone else. Armstrong is awake, and almost dressed. Wargrave has to be woken up. Vera is awake and dressed. Emily 's room is empty. Everyone goes downstairs just as Emily walks through the front door, wearing a raincoat.
Blore suggests that she shouldn't be out walking around in this weather, but Emily tells him she was very careful. They check the unlocked dining room, and find that it has already been set for breakfast - but there are only six figurines on the table. After a quick search of the grounds, they find Rogers' body. It is lying in the wash-house where he'd been chopping wood. Someone had snuck up behind him with a small hatchet and killed him.
Blore dusts the hatchet with flour, but can't find any fingerprints. Armstrong checks to see that Vera and Emily aren't around before pointing out that it wouldn't take a strong person to swing the hatchet - any one of them could have killed Rogers. Just then, Vera starts laughing insanely outside.
She asks them if there are any bees on the island. No one understands her. Vera points out the similarities between all the murders and the nursery rhyme, which means the next person will be killed by a bee sting. Vera continues laughing hysterically until Armstrong walks out to the yard and slaps her face.
Vera shakes the hysteria off and thanks Armstrong. She then leaves to collect some would so that she and Emily can prepare breakfast. Blore takes Lombard aside and explains a theory to him. He can't believe how calm Emily is with all the murders going on around her. He's sure that she must be the killer.
Lombard says that if he were the killer, after murdering Rogers he would have gone back to sleep, not gone out wandering on the Island. Blore points out that Emily is quite possibly insane, but, more importantly, no one would go out wandering around the Island alone unless they felt safe - and how could she feel safe unless she was the killer? Lombard agrees that Emily is very suspicious, and he's happy to hear that Blore no longer suspects him.
He asks Blore, since they may not be getting off the Island anyway, if he committed the crime he's been accused of. Blore confesses, telling Lombard that he framed Landor on behalf of a nasty gang.
He'd gotten his promotion: " 'And Landor got penal servitude and died in prison. His, you mean. Because, as a result of it, it looks as though your life is going to be cut unpleasantly short. Lombard doubts his chances. While cooking eggs, Vera chastises herself for getting hysterical. She always thought of herself as level-headed. She remembers when Cyril died, how she swam out after him and got carried away by the current.
Everyone had called her heroic, all except for Hugo. She wonders where Hugo is, what has happened to him Emily snaps her out of her reverie. Vera notes how calm Emily is. After being told by Justice Wargrave the murderer must be one of them, the survivors start to look at each other in a new light.
Vera Claythorne thinks Dr. Armstrong must be the murderer, because he was the one who gave Mrs. Rogers a sedative and he was alone when he discovered the body of General Macarthur.
She thinks he might have gone mad from the stress of being a physician. Meanwhile, Philip Lombard suspects Justice Wargrave, because he as a judge is used to pronouncing judgement on others and the feeling of power might have made him feel omnipotent. In another room Mr. Blore tells Mr. Rogers he has an idea who is behind the deaths, but he will not name names.
The same goes for Justice Wargrave, he tells Dr. Armstrong he has a strong feeling about who is at fault, but again he declines to give a name. Miss Brent is in her room writing in a notebook about the happenings on the island.
The guests all gather for tea and later dinner, trying to act as normal as possible, but Miss Brent comments on the disappearance of two skeins of grey knitting-wool and Mr. Rogers informs the group of a missing bathroom curtain. The two events are dismissed as inconsequential to the matters at hand. The women and then the men all go to bed and make sure they bolt their doors. Rogers makes sure the dining room is locked up so no one can remove any more figurines from the table. The next morning Philip Lombard cannot find Mr.
Rogers in the house. He seeks out Mr. Blore, awakening him to ask him to help look for Mr. Eventually everyone in the household joins in the search for Mr. Rogers, who is found dead in the wash-house. He has been hit in the back of the head with a large chopper, he was using a smaller chopper to cut wood for the household. Once again a figurine is missing from the dining room table, this despite the precautions Mr.
Rogers had taken the night before. Vera Claythorne begins to laugh uncontrollably and is asking about the presence of beehives on the island.
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