Raskolnikov gives Bucky his most skeptical glare, which, as it turns out, is quite skeptical indeed. He’s about to snap something about how of course he knows where France is, he isn’t stupid, but then thinks better of it. He doesn’t want to disclose just how out of place he is here, but…Agathe also had come from a different time. And this man had said ‘first half of the 20th century’, as though it were foreign. Strange.

Slowly, cautiously, he asks, “what year was it, before you arrived here?”