Then the one walking at the head openly took a black Mauser from under his coat, and another beside him took out the skeleton keys. Generally, those going to apartment no. 50 were properly equipped. Two of them had fine, easily unfolded silk nets in their pockets. Another of them had a lasso, another had gauze masks and ampoules of chloroform.

—Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, (Penguin Books, Ltd., 1997), 342.

Moscow’s finest prepare to arrest Woland.