Prettyboy turned villain Benedetto's death sentencing. Essentially, he reveals, in court, that he is the son the judge (Villefort) attempted to bury alive at birth. This is struck down by the other members of court, who even excuse Villefort's stupefied reaction, however, it does nothing to stop the villain's descent into what can only be described as insanity.
The culmination of Dantes' plot against Fernand: Haydee's You Killed My Father moment where she forces him to confess his guilt in public.
"Madame, where do you keep the poison that you habitually use?"
Monsieur Noirtier. Just sort of generally. Highlights include saving his granddaughter from an unhappy marriage by informing the groom who killed his royalist father years ago; him, of course, in an epic duel, figuring out not only that the household was being poisoned, but also the method by which he could ensure that Valentine would be immune and other such feats of badassery. All while being paralysed from the nose down.
Albert at his introduction seems like a vaguely amusing Upper-Class Twit. Then we get an inkling of his Hidden Depths when he sends an urgent but still very casual message to his friend Franz to get some money and come get me, as Luigi Vampa is going to kill him in roughly six hours if he does not. We've previously been introduced to Luigi Vampa and his methods of extortion, and we as well as Albert and Franz know that the threat is not idle. So what is Albert doing when Franz and the Count find him? Sleeping. Soundly. And he stillbanters with the man who, for all he knows, is about to murder him.
