Selby VO, sounding like Quentin doing an incantation. Jamipetison staggers down the foyer steps with the Hand, perhaps after the echoing cry from Nora at seeing the severed Hand has faded away... We see Petofi Prime, flat on his back sans glasses, or am I supposed to say, spectacles? Quentin comes across Petjamifison, collapsing in the woods with his package. Q appropriates it of course.
Barnabas seems to have been hanging out in the cottage and/or carriage house, without our being given any explanation for how he came to be there at that time. While Thayer moves his good hand up and down uncertainly, not knowing where it's supposed to be, or if that's even important at all, Barnabas and Quentin debate whether to give Petofi the Hand in a deal to cure Jamison and solve ALL their problems. I would think, though, that once Petofi kicks it, Jamison recovers.
Barnabas apparently wears out shoe leather walking back and forth between the cottage and the mill, rather than going by way of vamp poofing. I even think he could carry the Hand and still materialize across town with it, since he does so with coffins and the clothes he's wearing. Anyway, the deal is struck, and Aristede says an incantation as he sets the Hand upon Petofi, that includes something about the Hand having touched the face of the Sphinx. How, why?
Barnabas is a terrible waiter. Make him wait and twiddle his thumbs for an hour, and he just can't take it. Making a vampire just wait around, though, that's funny... He blurts out a remark about his "mission"... I think prolonged inactivity would eventually make Barnabas crack, and perhaps blab everything. The tension builds up in him so badly that he's ready to tear someone or something apart... just as he's about to pick somebody or something to do something like that to, we hear a magnificent, triumphant HEH HEH HEH HEH from Thayer David.... He holds up the horrible Hand on the end of his own arm. "It is MINE!! It is MINE AGAIN!!!" End.
I wonder if viewers were surprised at the Hand re-attaching. As foul and dead and decayed as it seems, it seems obvious to me that that was what the search was all about. I never pictured Petofi travelling the globe to find his old Hand, only to keep it in a box by his bedside, or something. In the show, though, it's treated as a devastating surprise, the reattachment. I like it that way, but it's not really that surprising, is it?