The Detective flips them over so that their “Innocent” sides are up. Again, it’s important that their locations remain unchanged. The character tokens, the covered manhole tiles, the lit gaslight tiles are set on the board as shown in picture 1. Seen characters: the characters that are on an illuminated street hex (hex adjoining a lit gaslight) are seen, since they can be seen by anyone in the district, any passer-by. The same rule applies if two characters are on adjoining hexes, even in the darkness. The covered manhole tiles prevent entry to or exit from the sewers at their location. Shut-off Gaslight Hex/lit Gaslight Tile The golden circle indicates when to use the special ability of a character depending on the shape of the circle:

The Detective flips them over to their "Innocent" side, without changing their location. The Witness card remains as it is until the next call for witnesses.

Those two characters are considered as seen since they are close enough to see each other in spite of the shadows.

The character tokens, the covered manhole tiles, and the lit gaslight tiles are set on the board in accordance with the following picture. The detective chooses a character among the four and plays it (he moves the character token and/or uses the character's special ability). The character card is then turned over and placed face down. To use a character, a player can either move the corresponding character token or use the character’s special ability. The character card is then placed face down on the table.Note that as the game starts, four characters are in shadow and the four others are in the light - all the character tokens are set with the suspect side up.