In the Empty Courtroom: The Student - The Offices Josef K. returns unsummoned to the court tenement on a Sunday, finds the courtroom empty, talks to the court usher's wife (a washerwoman), visits the suffocating attic law offices, and collapses from physical exhaustion and stale air
First Cross-Examination : Summoned to a preliminary interrogation on a Sunday, K. travels to a run-down tenement in a poor suburb. He launches into a fiery speech denouncing the absurdity, secrecy, and corruption of the court before leaving
Arrest, Conversation with Mrs. Grubach, Then Miss Bürstner : On his 30th birthday, senior bank clerk Josef K. is arrested in his boarding house room by two unidentified guards (Willem and Franz). They do not name his crime. K. speaks with his landlady, Mrs. Grubach, and later has a late-night conversation with his neighbor, Miss Bürstner
The Trial: A Journey Through Guilt and Justice