Maribor, Styria, Austro-Hungarian Empire. Young Nikola Tesla is arrested by the police as a vagrant. He has been in Maribor for a year after moving from Graz, where he never enrolled in his third year of university (despite successfully completing the first two). His father, Miliutin, is summoned to examine him and criticizes his new bad habits of gambling and betting, trying to convince him to resume his studies or return home. Nikola refuses. Miliutin returns home, falls ill, and dies on April 17, 1879 (Julian calendar) at the age of 60. Nikola honors his father’s wishes and enrolls at the University of Prague, taking courses in mathematics, experimental physics, and philosophy.
