Plot
In 1939, SS Officer Dietrich arrives at the home of Joseph Von Hammersmark to negotiate the price of Von Hammersmark's latest book, in which he wrote mystical recitations and spells from practices observed in Tibet and Egypt. After Von Hammersmark proves the power of the book's spells, Dietrich agrees to pay a large sum of money. As the officer leaves, Joseph catches his wife Eva eavesdropping and assaults her.
That night, Eva breaks into the box where the book is kept and sneaks away with it. While driving away, she picks up a hitchhiker, Frederick Voller, who holds her at gunpoint and tells her to take him to Kulmbach. After the car gets a flat tire, they stop at a nearby house where they are welcomed by a man named Helmut. Feeling threatened, Frederick becomes aggressive, but he is shot by Eva and Helmut buries his remains in the garden. It is revealed that Helmut is actually Colonel Von Braun. He recovers the book and calls Dietrich, who returns to the Hammersmark residence and executes Joseph.
In 1941, Col. Von Braun tells the story of The Muller Family's execution, the book ending up in Amos Blackwood's possession, the animation of the dolls, and the deaths of Von Avenslaven and his men. [a] He has intelligence that the toymaker is boarding a train and the orders are to board the train at Munich, retrieve the book, and kill the toymaker. Meanwhile, another agency has the same intel, but their directive is to save the toymaker before the train reaches Nuremberg, where the Nazis will be waiting to take the book into possession.
Blackwood boards the train, unaware that he is being followed. It is revealed that he was once married to a woman named Mary and had a family, a son named Hans and a daughter named Agnes. Mary had an affair with an unmarried man and told him she wanted to leave her husband for him, but he rejected her due to not wanting to raise Mary's children. Furious, Mary went home and drowned her children. She returned to her lover, but he rejected her again.
Fuchs, one of the men looking for Blackwood, goes on a murderous rampage throughout the train and finds Amos just as the Nazis find him. Blackwood's toys—which he refers to as his "children"—come to life and fight Fuchs, several of them dying while protecting Amos. As the train stops in Nuremburg and the Nazis board the train for the book, Blackwood awaits with his dolls.
In 2012, in the United Kingdom, Agatha approaches Blackwood to complain that her employers are mistreating her, asking to use the book to hurt them. He refuses, so Agatha leaves and takes Robert with her. [b]
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