Von Maus then staked out at the hotel where the Destroyer had recently freed a captured British spy. Growing suspicious of a waiter (who was really Keen Marlow, the Destroyers alter ego posing as a waiter to disrupt Nazi operations at the hotel) Von Maus would tell the waiter that he had just captured the Destroyer, banking on the hope that the true Destroyer would not allow an innocent person be killed in his place. Von Maus's hunch proved correct and upon leaving the hotel, he would be followed by Keen who would change into the destroyer.