Angelique threatens Sarah, so Barnabas pulls a pistol and shoots her. Before she dies, she curses him to eternal unrest, during which time anyone he loves will die. A window breaks, and a bat flies in. It attacks Barnabas, biting him on the neck. Barnabas cries for help, bleeding from his neck wound.
The Countess notices something wrong with Josette, She says she felt a strange vibration. She feels her throat, and thinks it has something to do with Barnabas. She thinks he's in danger. The Countess says she'll arrange a reading of her Tarot cards to prove there's nothing wrong with Barnabas.
Ben returns to the old house and finds Barnabas unconscious next to Angelique's dead body. He takes Barnabas up to his room.
The Countess doesn't understand the arrangement of her Tarot cards. She says the card of the lover is surrounded on all sides by symbols of death and destruction.
Josette says she was right, and that Barnabas is in danger. The Countess notices that Josette's neck is bleeding.
Barnabas asks how he got into his room, and Ben tells him he found him downstairs. He asks what happened, and Barnabas tells him she put a wicked curse on him. He says she made a bat appear and attack his throat. He says it's too late for a doctor. He warns Ben to watch out for the bat. Barnabas asks about Angelique, and Ben says she's dead. Barnabas asks him if he's sure, as Angelique walks into the room.
She says she's not dead, and she's not going to die. She tells Ben she doesn't want Barnabas to die. Ben says he's delirious. Angelique says she wants Barnabas to know how sorry she is. She asks Ben if Barnabas told him what he did to her. She says she cursed him when she thought she was going to die. She says she'll remove the curse if she can. She tells Ben that no doctor can cure what's wrong with him. She tells Ben he has to trust her, and help her save Barnabas. Ben asks if a bat really attacked him, and she says it's true. She says if he dies, there will never be a way to remove the curse, and something far more terrible will happen to him. He'll become one of the living dead.
The Countess is unable to stop the bleeding on Josette's neck. She says they have to go back to Collinwood immediately to help Barnabas. The Countess tells her they have to wait until morning. The Countess retires to her room and Angelique sits by the fire, unable to sleep.
Barnabas gets up and starts to pack a bag to go see Josette. Angelique comes in and he tells her to leave. She asks what he's doing, and he says he's got to go to Josette. Angelique says only she can help him. If he tells her where Josette is, she'll bring her to him. He says she's safe from her. He finally collapses on the bed.
A bat flaps outside the window of the room Josette is in.
Our thoughts
John: I guess it would have been too easy for Barnabas to just shoot and kill Angelique, though you think she'd be aware of that, too.
Christine: Well, she was in mortal agony and suffering from blood loss, so she may not have been thinking too clearly. I wondered why Barnabas didn't just strangle her before she could curse him, though I realized why when she reappeared, just as Ben was telling Barnabas how dead she was. Angelique has been given the opportunity to redeem herself and lift the curse, though we can be sure that's not going to happen.
John: Nice job on the make-up today. Barnabas was looking particularly pasty, I assume due to a significant loss of blood.
Christine: Yes, he did look rather ill without his usual blush and eye shadow.
John: The sympathy bleeding is an interesting effect, but Josette does not appear to be suffering any of the other symptoms that Barnabas is. Of course, it apparently is enough for the bat to sniff her out.
Christine: Part of the curse was that whoever loves Barnabas will die. Angelique did not offer to lift that part of the curse. Wait—doesn't that mean she's cursed herself to die for loving Barnabas? Or does her survival indicate that she does not really love Barnabas?
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| For the tarot enthusiasts. |
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| I wonder if we'll be visiting The Three Bells often, since they made this nifty sign. |
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