Character Relationship Map: Solvent

Characters

• Gunner S. Holbrook (played by Jon Gries) — protagonist

  An American contractor, former soldier, and founder of a private recovery firm, Holbrook leads the investigation of Zinggl’s abandoned farmhouse. After a pipe in the cellar links him psychically to Zi...

• Krystyna Szczepanska (played by Aleksandra Cwen) — supporting

  A Polish historian who hires Holbrook to investigate the abandoned farmhouse, Szczepanska joins the team’s exploration. Touching a cellar pipe triggers a psychotic episode in which she accidentally ca...

• Ernst Bartholdi (played by Johannes Grenzfurthner) — supporting

  Zinggl’s grandson and owner of a PR company, Bartholdi shares some of his grandfather’s horrible beliefs and wants to use the investigation as a reputation-building stunt. He tries to remove incrimina...

• Cornelia Dunzinger (played by Jasmin Hagendorfer) — supporting

  A research assistant on the farmhouse investigation team, Dunzinger explores the property with Holbrook, Szczepanska, and their associates. When Szczepanska touches a pipe in the cellar and suffers a...

• Richie Fischvogt (played by Ronald von den Sternen) — supporting

  A local fixer who joins Holbrook’s investigation, Fischvogt lends him a car for his return to the forests near Egelsau. Holbrook’s obsession leads him to ignore returning it and mock Fischvogt’s gener...

• Fredi Weinhappl (played by Roland Gratzer) — supporting

  A conspiracy-minded neighbor who had been close to Zinggl, Weinhappl knows the farm’s routines and leads the investigation team to a nearby wine cellar. He later catches Holbrook returning to investig...

• Kyle Edward Boll (played by Peter Plos) — supporting

  A technician who joins Holbrook’s team during the investigation of Zinggl’s abandoned farmhouse. He is part of the group exploring the property alongside Szczepanska, Fischvogt, Dunzinger, and Barthol...

• Nazi (played by Tim League) — minor

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Ernst Bartholdi → Cornelia Dunzinger (Professional Mission Stakeholders) — Dunzinger's death directly damages Bartholdi's professional ambitions.

  Bartholdi is part of the investigation group, and Dunzinger's death causes the mission and his planned public-relations project to collapse.

• Gunner S. Holbrook → Kyle Edward Boll (Professional Technical Teammates) — Boll contributes technical support to the initial recovery mission.

  Kyle Edward Boll is identified as the team's technician who joins Holbrook and the others during the farmhouse investigation.

• Gunner S. Holbrook → Krystyna Szczepanska (Romantic Former Lovers) — Their former romance becomes a source of emotional support and later painful separation.

  The plot states that Holbrook and Szczepanska were formerly a couple and briefly rekindled their fragile bond in Warsaw.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Nazi → Gunner S. Holbrook (Conflict Death Threat) — Holbrook's disclosures provoke direct retaliation from the extremist network.

  After Holbrook leaks information about neo-Nazi networks and the cellar, an extremist leader calls and threatens to kill him.

• Fredi Weinhappl → Ernst Bartholdi (Alliance Local Collaborators) — Weinhappl initially cooperates with Bartholdi to restrict Holbrook's access.

  Weinhappl alerts Bartholdi when Holbrook tries to re-enter the cellar, and they later corner Holbrook together.

• Ernst Bartholdi → Krystyna Szczepanska (Conflict Abuser) — He uses violence against Szczepanska as leverage in his conflict with Holbrook.

  Bartholdi breaks into Szczepanska's Warsaw apartment, threatens her, and assaults her to pressure Holbrook.

• Gunner S. Holbrook → Cornelia Dunzinger (Alliance Mission Teammates) — Their shared investigation is destroyed by the cellar incident and its legal consequences.

  Dunzinger joins Holbrook's investigation team, but dies after Szczepanska's episode causes an accident in the cellar.

• Gunner S. Holbrook → Richie Fischvogt (Social Former Associates) — Their practical cooperation collapses when Holbrook refuses to return the borrowed vehicle.

  Fischvogt helps the team as a local fixer and lends Holbrook a car, but later attacks him and reclaims the keys.

• Gunner S. Holbrook → Fredi Weinhappl (Alliance Uneasy Allies) — Weinhappl shifts from surveillance and suspicion to becoming Holbrook's only local ally.

  Weinhappl first alerts Bartholdi to Holbrook's return, but later offers support and supplies materials and cookies.

• Gunner S. Holbrook → Ernst Bartholdi (Conflict Adversaries) — Their struggle combines physical intimidation, competing agendas, and opposing attempts to control the evidence.

  Bartholdi bans Holbrook from the property, later confronts him in the cellar, and attempts to obtain or delete his recordings.

Story Analysis

A haunted investigation turns into a struggle against historical violence, extremist secrecy, and an inhuman psychic contamination.

Plot Progression

1. The Farmhouse Investigation — Holbrook leads a team into an abandoned Austrian farmhouse at Szczepanska's request. Local testimony directs them toward a hidden wine cellar and its unexplained pipe.
2. A Mission Destroyed — Contact with the pipe triggers Szczepanska's psychotic episode and Dunzinger's accidental death. The investigation collapses under guilt, lawsuits, and professional damage.
3. The Yellow Connection — Holbrook returns alone and discovers a living eye and yellow liquid underground. Drinking the substance binds him psychologically to the force represented by the pipe.
4. Evidence And Corruption — Holbrook's behavior becomes increasingly aggressive while he gathers documents, records confessions, and studies the pipe. Weinhappl remains his only local source of support.
5. The Last Disclosure — Holbrook resists the psychic union, extracts information about mass graves and extremist networks, and publishes the evidence. He collapses after giving Szczepanska his notebook, while the cellar's th...