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Template:Epbox Angélique interlopes in the second experiment by biting Jeff in the hopes of ending her curse.
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Nicholas has decided to disclose to Angélique why his plans are failing to progress. Nicholas tells her how her re-curse of Barnabas failed (#535-538): Adam drained the curse from Barnabas by using him as his life force to imbue an inanimate body. He has now developed an immunity to Angélique’s curse. Neither can live without the other. Nicholas plans to provide the experimenters with a ‘Life Force’ in order to completely enslave Adam. Nicholas wants to choose the most evil woman who ever lived--for example, Lucretia Borgia. He tells Angélique he could revive the spirit of evil in order to have her perform the experiment. He already has someone in mind; someone like the Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Angélique becomes disinterested but Nicholas calls her out, noting that she will be UNABLE to be the ‘Life Force’ in the second experiment, a thought which he’s sure has already danced across her mind. He forbids her from participating in the second Experiment.
Stokes visits the lab, purporting to know all about the experiment. It’s one of the few things that Julia has told him in ‘several months.’ Jeff is unenthusiastic about the ‘disgusting’ experiment. Adam gets pissed when he finds out Barnabas is not here; he and Julia have gone to Collinsport. Jeff angrily tells Adam that he robbed graves and the resulting ‘rotten collection of death’ was used by Dr. Lang to put Adam together. Adam is saddened at his filthy roots; Jeff takes a scalpel and lunges at Adam in hopes of undoing his evil work. Adam quickly turns the tables on Clark (after all, he’s not a woman or a child) and holds a knife on Clark. Stokes tries to reason with the monster, arguing that killing Jeff will delay the experiment. Jeff refuses to thank Stokes and goes to Collinwood. Adam weeps as no one would weep for him were he to die. He hopes that his mate will weep for him when he dies.
On Adam’s orders, Stokes goes to Collinwood to order Clark to return. Clark says he’s going on a hot date with Vicki, whom he hasn’t seen in days. Stokes warns that if Clark takes Vicki out, he and Miss Winters would be in grave danger. It’ll only be a few painful weeks more until Adam and his mate skip town together. Clark says they should all think about what would happen if the experiment fails. Clark feels without Lang they are doomed to fail; after all, he set up the groundwork for the experiment which Julia completed by “Pulling the right” levers. When Vicki comes down and greets Stokes, he purports to have been busy preparing for the Fall Term. They chat about Barnabas’ eccentricity. Once Stokes leaves, Jeff sees Adam at the Window and tells Vicki that he’s tired, really shot, and he has to call off their date. This is at least the third consecutive night Jeff has stood Vicki up. They’re scarcely seeing each other. They kiss. He promises to call her in the morning.
Late at night, Angélique leaves Nicholas’ house. She somehow casts a reflexion in a mirror as she stalks Jeff. She claims to be here to help with the experiment and knows he is Jeff Clark from Adam’s description. Jeff (Peter?) recognizes her from somewhere he can’t place (as far as I can tell, Jeff never met Cassandra). When he goes to leave, she bites him.
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Humbert Allen Astredo, Lara Parker, Roger Davis, Thayer David, Robert Rodan, Alexandra Moltke
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- Angelique casts a reflection in the mirror, which vampires normally cannot do.
