Oh, what a clever inspector he is. At least we know he isn't blind. Vlad was beginning to realize that ignoring the voice worked a lot better than replying. As much as he hated to admit it. Dracula might come in handy at some point in the future.
He'd seen this palace before - albeit from the outside only - and by now there was no doubt in his mind when and where they were. "I believe this is Russia in the early 1900s... based on last night's mob, it's probably somewhere around 1916 or 1917." Surely Luther had to know what happened then - the end of the Russian Tsars wasn't exactly a minor event. "We seem to have arrived at an important time in Russian history."