 With his dying breath, Mitterhaus curses the villagers, vowing that their children will die to give him back his life.The angry villagers force Anna to run a gauntlet, but when her husband intervenes, she runs back into the castle where the briefly revived Count tells her to find his cousin Emil at "the Circus of Night".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.