Cumbre. Lambert and Clare kiss, and Lambert reveals he knows of her history with Spilato. When Clare is alone at the hotel, Cappy violently barges into her room and makes her promise to meet him later on the cable car, where, he claims, they will reunite and run away together, otherwise he will kill Lambert. In the hotel bar Lambert is introduced to the superficially friendly Cappy, who has been using the alias "Mr. Walters" at the hotel. To save Lambert, Clare gives him the slip and goes to the cable car but Lambert finding her room empty follows and catches the car just in time. The car is also being used by local police to transport Vasco, the murderous husband from the previous night, back down to San Cristóbal. On the journey down Clare claims she has simply changed her mind and wants to finish with Lambert though he doesn’t believe her. At an intermediate stopping point on the mountain Cappy is waiting and again threatens Clare who seems to be about to throw herself down the mountain but then faints. She is carried back on board by Lambert and they all continue the cable car journey. High above a deep abyss, one of two main cables suddenly snaps in the middle of the cable car's journey, jolting the car to a halt and sending the car's engineer plummeting to his death. Clare, Lambert, Cappy, Vasco, and several other passengers are left stranded in midair, and the remaining cable begins to fray, threatening to send them all hurtling to their doom. There is a possibility that one of the passengers could swing from the rope to a nearby cliff, and then run back into the town of La Cumbre to send for two emergency lifts. These lifts, which are much smaller than the cable car, can be guided right alongside the car, but they can only carry so much weight; in fact, the conductor calculates that three passengers will have to be left behind and will surely die when the second cable breaks, probably within the next few minutes. Vasco volunteers, and the police officer escorting him allows him to do so because Vasco's young son is in the cable car. Vasco, however, swings into the cliff too hard, causing him to smash into the rocks and perish. Lambert volunteers for the task next and succeeds. He returns with