Episode 39:
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Quito enters the mansion carrying a barrel. Reverend
Dawson watches as he carries it to the crypt. Seeing something on the floor he
bends down to check it out. "Sand. What are they doing down there now burying
the dead," Matt says then walks over to the entrance to the crypt.
In the crypt Raxl is checking the gauges of the cryonic
capsule. Vangie stands in the crypt behind Raxl. "You must eat Vangie." "Yes, the Conjure Woman needs new
strength." says Vangie. Raxl leads
her to the stairs of the crypt. Quito walks down carrying the barrel of sand.
"Fresh sand, washed by the sea?" Raxl asks. "Untouched by death?" Vangie asks. Quito
nods his head. "Yes." says Raxl
running the sand through her fingers. She looks at Vangie. "Come, you must eat
now." They start up the stairs when they see Matt’s shadow. "Remember Quito no
one is to disturb the capsule where lies our Mistress in peace. If any should
try our Master says the price is death." Quito nods then looks away. Raxl and Vangie climb the stairs, Matt
rushes up before them.
Walking into the Great Hall he approaches Jacques
portrait. "The dead possessing the living, sick minds, sick souls or truth?"
Matt asks aloud. "You know Raxl it
sucks all the power of the mind and the body. Vangie is saying to Raxl as they
come from the crypt. "The body will
be nourished, restored and the mind alert. The Master has ordered another
séance." Raxl says. "Raxl! Vangie!
Another séance! Why? To make sure this time someone will die or all!" Matt says
angrily. Vangie and Raxl glance at
each other. Holly walks down the staircase. "Jean Paul Desmond has ordered the
séance Reverend Dawson, he will contact his Erica. He must!" Raxl tells
Matt. "It was only through the
blessing of God we lived through the first one!" "Or the blessing of the Great
Serpent." "I thought when we
survived that falling chandelier with some sanity intact we wouldn't take any
more chances." Matt says walking towards Vangie and Raxl. "It was loosed by the devil." Raxl
says. Matt shakes his head. "This
certainly is a delusion of mind and soul. I heard you Vangie talking to Jean
Paul Desmond discussing a three hundred year old man as a disruptive spirit at
the séance." "I was in a trance, I
don't recall." Vangie says to Matt.
"Don't you recall how sick you were after the séance." Holly asks as she
walks down the stairs. "Doctor Carr said you were in a cataleptic trance." "Was it Jean Paul Desmond that the
Conjure Woman spoke to or the devil?" Raxl asks taking a few steps towards
Jacques portrait. "The curse of Maljardin Jacques Eloi Des Mondes." "Yet you go blindly playing with these
terrible forces." Matt says walking behind Raxl. "Because you do not believe we must
fear?" Raxl asks turning towards the Reverend. "Vangie there can be no séance if you
refuse. You are the only medium here. Don't do it. Or else the prophesy might
come true." says Matt. "That I will
die on Maljardin? What the spirits have decreed can not be changed." "My prophets have also spoken! They have
sown the wind, they shall reap the whorl wind." says Matt. Vangie puts her hand to her head. Raxl
walks over to her. "Excuse us." Raxl leads Vangie away. Matt takes a few steps after them. Then
he turns towards Holly. "Holly, we must do something!" "I don't want to. I'm scared Well who
knows maybe they are right." Holly says walking past Matt she walks through the
Great Hall. "Holly please listen to
me. Don't be a fool, I know you're tying to escape from this Island." Matt says
following her. Holly turns towards
him. "Did Tim Stanton tell you that? So it's true you can't trust anybody on
this Island." Holly walks over to a chair and sits. "You've got to trust somebody." Matt
says. "I know Dan Forrest and Tim are planning it, Tim wants to take you
along." "Well Mr. Desmond agreed to
let us all go free, so why should we try to escape?" Holly asks. "He no sooner said it then he changed
his mind." "What!" "Jean Paul Desmond’s moods are as
upsetting as the witchcraft on this
Island."
Raxl lays a plate of food in front of Vangie. "No Raxl I
can't force it down." says Vangie.
"The body has suffered much. You must be strong. Reverend Dawson is right
about the changes in which he doesn't believe in. It would be better if we can
make the next séance safe." Raxl says as she sits at the table next to Vangie.
"Safe for the Master, safe for the spirits he wishes to contact and for his
loving Erica. But the devil can intrude again to destroy either of them or both.
What can we do to protect them from this evil?" Raxl asks. "You know Raxl. There is only one way."
says Vangie. "Find the hidden
conjure doll and the silver pin with which to pierce its temple and imprison the
devil on Maljardin. Quito and I have searched everywhere." Matt is standing next to Holly’s chair.
"Dan Forrest says we must all work together. He's right." Matt says walking to
the fireplace. "I agree with
that but I don't want anyone to betray Mr. Desmond’s secret." Holly says
standing and walking to Matt. "About his wife I mean." "I can't vouch for the others but if we
are to save ourselves it's not to physically escape. That treacherous channel is
sure death." "But there is no other
way." Holly says. "We can start
trying to restore our sanity, by trusting one another." "It would be good if we could but what
of the rest of them? I don't want to feel like that but I just can't help
it." "And I can't help sensing that
somebody wants to harm somebody here. I only hope who ever it is doesn't set you
up all over again." Raxl stares at
Vangie. "Does the Conjure Woman imply that it's just not an evil spirit that
could bring us harm?" "I know it
Raxl, as you do to. Just as we both knew that it also may bring death." Matt and Holly walk towards the Dining
Room. "What's the matter?" Holly asks.
"She can not eat." Raxl says.
"Who can around here. I don't even know why we even try." Holly says as
she sits next to Vangie. Matt sits
across from Vangie. "Try to eat something Holly." "Oh I can't" "Why can't you eat?" Vangie asks. "My stomachs churning around all the
time." Raxl pours Holly a glass of
juice. "From fear of the conjure Woman?" asks Raxl. "When you were in the cafe on the Main
Island I offered to help you. I would hardly harm you now." "I don't know who I'm afraid of." Holly
says. "We all have great fears. To
much happens that is unknown," Raxl says.
"Or is caused to happen. Raxl do you work for Jean Paul Desmond or does
someone work for you? Someone who causes these things to happen." asks
Matt. "Raxl knows no truth If you
know..." Raxl tells Matt. "All I
know is I'm asking you is not to let Vangie conduct another séance! Every time
something strange happens here it happens to the tune of witchcraft. There is
somebody real here trying to kill real people! And making it look like spirits
or devils are causing it!" "Miss
Abbott don't cover up for whoever it is with another séance. You're just going
to give him or her another chance to hurt somebody again." Holly says
upset. Vangie looks down. Holly
rushes from the room. Matt gets up and follows her. Holly sits on the stairs
near the Great Hall.. Matt stands next to her. "We finally agree Holly." "Are we ever going to get out of here?
Holly asks.
In the Dining Room Raxl talks to Vangie. "Ignore them
Conjure Woman, the Master's will must be done. He will contact his Erica. No one
can change his need for that." Raxl says.
"In a way they could be right. Perhaps the devil is working through
everyone here." says Vangie. "Then
that would mean even greater danger."
"Especially to Jean Paul." says Vangie as she looks up at Raxl. "If the devil were banished no one would
be in harms path." "There might be
a way.' Vangie says coming to her feet.
"No, you must eat first." "I
can't." Vangie says then walks away.
Raxl grabs her hand. "But if you are without strength at the séance you
might die." "I will die when I die.
Come."
Down in the crypt Quito stands guard over Erica's capsule.
He hears someone coming. Turning he brings his hands outward, then he sees Raxl
and Vangie. Lowering his hands he walks over to them. "The freshly washed sand , is it
prepared?" Raxl asks. Quito nods.
"Between the two of us it may be possible to obliterate all evil!" Raxl
says to Vangie. Turning to Quito. "Remember Quito no one is to interrupt. Not
even the Master himself." Raxl and Vangie walk over to the box of sand. Quito
crosses his arms and stands guard.
"Freshly washed sand untouched by the hand of the devil." says Raxl. "Which might perhaps destroy him!"
Vangie says as Raxl runs her fingers through the
sand.
Holly is sitting on the steps in the Great Hall as Matt
paces in front of her. "Destroy the devil. That's what they are trying to do."
says Holly. "While we just go on
wondering about spiritual superstitions.. Psychologists might have other words
to describe the illness that permeates this place." Matt tells Holly. "Whatever words you use it's still
scary." "Raxl and Quito yes, even
Vangie believes in the devil. It made me wonder, I almost did myself. That's the
real sickness here on Maljardin. If we can somehow cure that the devil and the
danger will suddenly evaporate!" Matt tells Holly. "I'll buy that gladly."
Raxl is
running her hand through the sand. "When you were in the séance you did not
know. You were in a trance. You did not know that the spirit warned us that
there was an evil presence at that séance. But it was written here." Raxl looks
at the box. "In the ancient
language?" asks Vangie. "You read
it so well, I know so little. They spoke of the conjure doll and the silver pin
which would destroy the devil and return him to the eternal flame. Where they
were hidden I could not tell. I could not read!" "Do you remember the symbols?" asks
Vangie. Raxl looks at her. "Try to write them." "May the Great Serpent guide my hand
well." Raxl says as she draws in the sand.
Quito stands with his arms crossed, then glances at Raxl and Vangie. "First I remember." Raxl says as she
draws a figure in the sand. "A
man." Vangie says watching Raxl. "Not a real man, a doll an effigy, an
instrument." She says as Raxl continues drawing. "Symbols have many words but one
meaning." Raxl tells Vangie. "A
piercing instrument but not a weapon. The silver pin!" says Vangie. "The first message was left to us by a
friendly spirit who came to the séance to save us all." "What spirit? I don't remember. I
felt only the devil." "What spirit,
perhaps Erica Desmond." Raxl says turning towards Vangie. "Who we so sought to
summon. Who at the next moment might have spoken had not the devil
interfered." "Yes Erica might have
well been there within a hands touch of the husband who sought to call on her
through me with such agony and grief. I've never felt such vibrations of such
love and sorrow. There would have to be a response, Erica would be compelled to
reply. Raxl, now write the symbols you could not read." Vangie says to Raxl.
Raxl concentrates on the sand. "Why
didn't you preserve them. Then there would be no doubt." Vangie says to
her. "That was my will." Raxl tells
her. "What changed your will?" "I don't know, I carefully covered the
symbols but still they vanished."
"Who came near the box?" "I,
Quito and the Master." "Unless he
was controlled by a force stronger than himself. Raxl you must remember those
other symbols if the devil is to die."
Matt is still pacing in front of Holly. He glances at the
entrance to the crypt. "Stop pacing
so much and forget all that mumbo jumbo." Holly says to him. "That's what I'm trying to do." He stops
next to Holly. Holly stands. "Well
forget about saving souls too. I mean for real, pretend you're an engineer or
something." "I am. I was a
minister." "Forget it, try
imagining something else." Holly says as she steps forward. "Try to imagine a
way out of here." "Like restoring
every ones sanity especially Jean Paul Desmond. It would serve more
realistically and rapidly." Matt tells
Holly.
In the crypt Raxl asks Vangie. "Can you read it yet?" Vangie shakes her head no. She
then takes the stick from Raxl. "Perhaps it was like this." she says drawing in
the sand. "I can not tell." "That would be fire an all consuming
fire.' "From hell, but that
would destroy us all." Raxl tells Vangie.
"No, no that makes no sense. We must be wrong, we must try again." Raxl draws again. "NO, Raxl no!" "It was like this!" "A vessel of the sea, a great vessel
with weapons. A ship that destroys.' Vangie says. "The pirate vessel of Jacques Eloi Des
Mondes when he seized this Island centuries ago." "The conjure doll that doomed him would
not be on the ancient ship of Jacques Eloi Des Mondes. Wait a minute." Vangie
grabs the stick and starts adding symbols into the sand. "Was it perhaps like
this?" "Now think Raxl because if
this was the symbol we may hold the séance in safety. Think Raxl! Concentrate,
was this the symbol?" Raxl closes
her eyes. "I wish it to be!" "No
Raxl no! It must be! Think!" "It
its the symbol I saw!" "Or is it
the wish of a deceiver Raxl?" "The
devil!" Vangie nods. "He seems to
be everywhere. He may even be here." Raxl and Vangie make a sign to the Great
Serpent. "Read it, let us destroy
the devil who would destroy us all." Raxl says. "A vessel without wind, without oars.
Guided by a faithful spirit through all dangers. If that is the true
symbol?" "Faithful spirit?" Raxl
says. "Quito." Vangie
whispers. "The vessel?" "The supply boat!" Vangie says. "Yes the supply boat. We will search it
again!" Raxl and Vangie rush to the stairs. Raxl stops and looks back at Quito.
"Quito remember the Masters warning. No
intruders."
Holly walks away from Matt. "I told Tim I might know a way
to escape from here." says Holly.
"Your imagination again Holly, and it could be a danger." "You saw Raxl disappear down into the
crypt, she had to go somewhere. I imagined a secret tunnel and I imagined it
leading out of here." "Holly I will
do anything I can to help you. But even if you find..." "Find what Reverend? " Holly asks. "So I
was right there is a secret way."
"I give my word not to reveal it. But I can tell you even if you found
the secret door it leads to further imprisonment nor freedom." Holly walks away from Matt. "Well so
that's the end of that little routine. Funny Reverend I've even tried to imagine
you as a man." Raxl and Vangie rush through the room. Matt calls out to them.
"Vangie there's something I want to ask of you.' "No, not now please. The devil has had
his own way with us long enough. Let him feel terror for a change." Raxl says as
they stop, then they walk out the front door, Matt turns and looks at
Holly. After stepping outside Raxl
tells Vangie. "If we can only find the hidden conjure doll and silver pin. We
will hold in our hands the means and the power to destroy that devil who has put
a curse on this house and the Master of it!" Raxl sadly puts her head down.
Vangie puts an arm around Raxl's
shoulders.
"Follow them Reverend, some things happened and maybe this
time we will find out what it is." Holly tells Matt. Matt heads for the door.
Holly glances at the crypts doorway and runs towards it. Entering she runs down
the stairs. She walks towards Quito.
"Hello Quito." Quito shakes
his head no pointing back towards the stairs. "No, I wont go away! I came to see
you." "Quito reaches out for
Holly. "Quito no!" She ducks and
runs behind Erica's capsule. She turns and looks at Quito. "You have to help me.
Quito everyone says you like me, almost as much as Erica Desmond." Quito signals for Holly to leave. "I wont go! I can't be afraid of you.
Quito you've got to help me!" Holly says backing away. Quito again signals Holly to leave. "No, you wont hurt me you can't. Quito
you can't!" Quito has both hands
out with his fingers spread.
"Conjure Woman I only wish it were the correct symbol. But
another disruptive force obliterated the reality of it." Raxl tells Vangie
sadly. Matt walks up behind Raxl
and Vangie. Raxl looks at Matt. "Perhaps you , you and your disbelief in our
true beliefs. The boat has been searched many times, nothing is there. Nothing
is ahead for us now, but horror." Raxl says in tears. Vangie leads Raxl back
indoors. Matt follows as he closes the
door.
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Summaries written
by Debby Graham . The
slide presentation is the work of Ron Janick.
~Ron/Bella~
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