['Love Will Have It's Sacrifices' Theme]
As entertaining as it to watch you do your best impression of Rochester’s wife,
Maman dragged me here from Morocco to get your head on right, so you might as well surrender to the inevitable.
C’mon. This campus is replete with terrified teenagers.
Let's have one, or two, or twenty, and have a grand ol' time.
I'll let you have the pretty ones.
Did you know?
Did I know about what?
Did you know what she was doing to them?
All those years. All those girls.
Trusting me...
Thinking I was their friend -
Now that's the kind of talk that leads to being buried alive.
Well at least this time I deserve it.
Urgh. Kitty cat, you can't keep beating yourself up over your latest lost Lenore -
It's Laura!
You barely knew her!
Yes, I know.
And yes, she was young and, and...
naive and entirely too trusting. But...
Mattie she listened to me.
She listened to my sad tale and she didn't flinch away.
She didn’t believe I would give her up, even when it was happening.
I know, and I...
I thought it would be better, would have made her stupid, but -
but even the little part of her that was left shone through.
It was like...
She could change the horrible story we live in...
And I know it's foolish. I know, I know it's foolish.
And I know it's sentimental, but...
Maybe mother was right.
How could a girl like that ever believe in a girl like me.
But I did.
No.
No-no-no-no-no-no-no.
You are dead. You are dead. You are not real. You are not real. You are just a dream floating through a stone wall.
I-I'm here.
No!
I'm real. Alive. See?
Heartbeat and everything.
But how can you be?
Well, I'm me but from a... parallel universe. One where you saved me.
Laura, Laura. I didn’t know about the monster under the bed. I didn't know until it was too late.
Hey.
One broken thing can’t save another.
Hey!
It's okay.
It's okay. I know you didn't mean it.
And do you forgive me.
Of course.
Ahem.
As fascinating as this Vampire Saviour schtick is-
Those of us who are less than blindly infatuated with you are wondering what in the Holy Hell is going on?
Yes. Mattie. Hi.
My friend sent me here to save Silas from an unspeakable fate?
Oh sweetie. Silas is an unspeakable fate.
The Dean is going to open the gates of hell!
What?
The Dean - I don't know exactly how in this universe - but she's gonna open the Gates of Hell.
Which will definitely involve killing the Board members and also, be pretty bad for the rest of us.
And I know you don't know me. But I know you, and I'm willing to bet you don't want to trade in your haute couture and tickets to the Bolshoi for a pit of fire—
Because, yeah, you’re evil, but you're not immolate the planet evil.
Say I did believe you.
Maman is definitely up to something, and concern for collateral damage isn’t really her style.
But why shouldn’t Carm and I wrap you like a box of Knipschildt Truffles and hand you over to save our own skins?
I won't let you hurt her, Mattie.
Let?
Well look at you, kitty cat.
You’d pick a fight you couldn’t possibly win for this preschooler.
That’s more fight than I’ve seen in you in... ever.
Alright, Time Warp, explain to us how you mean to save us from Maman’s nefarious plans.
...and so we’ve found this magical spell to stop her, but we’re missing a... key ingredient.
And if you can get your hands on it, not only will Maman be unable to unleash her Hell on Earth-
but you could stay here with Carm, and keep her all sane and happy?
Which would mean I could be back in Rabat before tomorrow’s dinner service at Dar Naji?
Uh...Sure.
Well then, let’s rustle you up that ingredient.
That's the thing.
The ingredient, is sorta kinda...
Baron Vordenberg's heart.
So, what you’re saying is, in order to save the world, you'd have to brutally rip an organ out of doddering, harmless old man?
Seems so.
Oh, this is going to be so much more fun than I thought.
Can I do it?
Would you?
[Growl]
You're doing it again. The growling.
Well you aren't reading fast enough.
You know what doesn’t help anyone read faster? Growling.
She’s been gone for more than half a day, and you still don’t have any idea-
Well, maybe if you stopped acting like a research slave driver and actually helped out, as the only member of the party actually fluent in Sumerian?
Thank you.
[Montage Time!]
[Boy, do we love montages!]
[Nice music, eh?]
URGH!
[Throws book]
You know in general, research goes better when the books remain landbound.
This isn't getting us anywhere!
Books on Tesseracts! Books on the Hellgate in Pennsylvania! Books on the “alternative properties” of those stupid Talismans-
URGH! None of these tell us what the Library did with her!
It’s research. You can’t just expect -
Wait. What did you just say?
None of these -
No, no. Before that. About the "alternative properties"...
You don't think they could help us track her?
Do you?
No...
No. I- I don’t think this helps Laura at all.
I think you just found another way to save Perry...