The episode opens on Aristede's face with a different reprise. Aristede resists Angelique's hypnotism using an amulet, telling her that if she gave the hand away, then to get it back, and that Quentin has only thirty minutes to live. Julianka prepares to work the cure using the Hand, as the moon descends. She asks if Barnabas still does not trust her. She says something about the hand taking the heart to underside of time. She has to get some herbs in the woods: the stem of the devil's sash and the leaf of the nightshade.