Good scream--and I mean the scream by JK!
Barnabas tells the others gravely, The symptoms Carl described--the icy hands, the lurching walk, the empty eyes--are all too familiar to me. A a very young man, I traveled to the West Indies. In a remote village in (he hesitates the barest fraction) Martinique, the people were filled with terror because a young man had died and come back just as Quentin has--lurking and unseeing, unfeeling, driven by a mind outside his body. They spoke of him with terror, and with good reason--he was a zombie. A zombie? Judith repeats. Quentin? How could it happen? she asks. Someone very powerful is using Quentin as a mindless clod, he continues. He is able to maim and kill. He knows nothing, and he feels nothing. What sort of creature could make Quentin rise from the dead? asks the horrified Judith. Never mind who, Barnabas replies tersely. We must concern ourselves with undoing it. Is that possible? Judith asks. Barnabas replies, The Martinique villagers found a way. They burned cypress and myrrh beside the empty coffin, and the soothed zombie was brought back to rest. Then they buried the coffin and covered it over with cement. The body couldn’t walk then. How horrible! Rachel exclaims. Barnabas leaves Carl in charge of the ladies while he turns to leave. Where are you going? Judith asks. To the Old House, Barnabas replies. He tells his attentive audience, I want to make sure that Magda "has the myrrh and the whatever, the things that she needs." Carl, take the ladies and lock yourselves in your rooms. I’ll be back later.
After Barn and Carl bury Quentin while Judith supervises, once again Barn has to play beat the clock. Rachel is relieved that a new day is near as the dawn comes up, but Barn barely has time to convince her (rather selfishly) not to leave before he must return to his coffin.
Alone and scared without Barnabas, Rachel finishes turning out the lights in the drawing room. She turns off the foyer lights and starts up the stairs. Suddenly the front doors blow open. Rachel calls to Barnabas but gets no reply. She comes downstairs searching, then walks out the front doors, calling his name. Suddenly Quentin lurches out of the shrubbery behind her. She turns to face him but is too surprised even to scream very loudly. He wraps his hands around her throat, and she promptly passes out or faints. He catches her in his arms in the received zombie style and walks directly toward the camera, his big blue eyes glassy and bright....
