The Puppet Master
- The children return to the house, where they're immediately greeted by Cassandra, who tells them she doesn't want them to leave. She reveals that she's known about Clara all this time.
- Then, the door to the room swings open and Grisini walks in, looking terrified. He's obviously afraid and starts calling Cassandra by the name Madama, just like all of the servants and the children do.
- Madama demands to know what Grisini has done to the children that would make them want to leave. She asks Grisini if Parsefall's missing finger is his fault, and Grisini says it was discipline.
- Lizzie Rose stares at him in horror and starts crying, and Cassandra calls Grisini a total monster. Only Parsefall doesn't look disturbed—he's trying to block out the facts. He doesn't want to know what Grisini did to him.
- Grisini says that Madama can have Lizzie Rose and Parsefall if she wants, but he wants to take Clara because he needs her to get the ransom. Madama forbids him from touching the puppet girl, though, and says that she will take his automaton watch—the thing that allows him to cast spells.
- Then, she does some kind of spell that causes Grisini to bleed from the back of his head (gross) and turns to the children to tell them that she is avenging them.
- As Grisini writhes on the floor in pain, Lizzie Rose yells at Cassandra to stop already; it's horrible to torture him in this way. The witch says that she'll only stop torturing him if Lizzie Rose leaves her alone with Parsefall for a moment, and Lizzie Rose reluctantly consents.
- When she's finally alone with the boy, Madama decides to show him the memory that he so desperately wants to avoid—the memory of how he lost his finger.