Part II

After waking delirious, Raskolnikov frantically searches his room and clothes for bloodstains and evidence of the crime, eventually hiding the stolen items in a hole beneath the wallpaper.

Nastasya delivers an official summons requiring Raskolnikov to appear at the police station, causing him acute anxiety about whether the police have discovered his guilt.

At the police office, Raskolnikov discovers the summons concerns only a debt owed to his landlady, not the murder, bringing him relief while an officer harasses a German woman.

Raskolnikov encounters a clerk who has been hit by a carriage, arranges his transport to his family's lodgings, and watches as the man dies while his wife Katerina Ivanovna tends to him.

Through the dying Marmeladov's anguished recognition of his daughter Sonia in her shameful dress, Raskolnikov realizes the human cost of poverty and becomes moved by compassion.

The mysterious Svidrigaïlov, a wealthy landowner who pursued Raskolnikov's sister when she was his governess, appears unexpectedly in Raskolnikov's room seeking his acquaintance and offering assistance.

Raskolnikov expounds his published theory that extraordinary men have the right to transgress moral law for their great ends, while Porfiry listens intently, drawing parallels to the recent murder.

Porfiry flatters Raskolnikov's theory while subtly questioning whether he might imagine himself an extraordinary man capable of murder, leaving Raskolnikov deeply anxious.

Pulcheria Alexandrovna and Dounia unexpectedly arrive from the provinces, overwhelming Raskolnikov with their love and creating emotional turmoil within him.

Raskolnikov insists that his sister must break her engagement to Luzhin, whom he views as unworthy, declaring it must be either his sister or Luzhin.

At a family meeting, Luzhin reveals his mercenary and insulting nature; Dounia firmly breaks the engagement despite his wounded protestations about lost expenses and her reputation.

A stooping man with a weathered face confronts Raskolnikov on the street, calling him 'murderer' before disappearing, leaving Raskolnikov in terror and confusion.

Razumihin tries to help by confronting Porfiry and investigating the murder, inadvertently raising Raskolnikov's anxieties about the police suspecting him.