 After laying his body in the crypt, she escapes through a tunnel as the villagers blow the castle with gunpowder and set fire to it.Fifteen years later, Stetl is being ravaged by a plague and blockaded by the authorities of neighboring towns, with men ready to shoot any villager who tries to leave.The citizens fear that the pestilence may be due to the Count's curse, though the new physician Dr. Kersh dismisses vampires as just a myth.