:56:00
Betsy, tell them about the houmfort,
tell them what you saw there.
:56:06
You must, Betsy,
they'll have to believe you.
:56:09
Mrs. Rand was at the houmfort...
:56:11
but there's nothing wrong with that.
:56:13
She's gone there for years...
:56:14
trying to take care of those people,
to help them.
:56:16
I think I understand.
:56:18
I've often talked a little voodoo
to get medicine down a patient's throat.
:56:22
But it was more than that, Doctor.
I entered into their ceremonies.
:56:27
I pretended I was possessed by their gods.
:56:31
But what I did to Jessica...
:56:34
It was when she wanted to go away
with Wesley.
:56:37
That night, I went to the houmfort.
:56:39
I kept seeing her face smiling
because she was beautiful enough...
:56:42
to take my family in her hands
and tear it apart.
:56:46
The drums, the chanting, the lights.
:56:49
I heard a voice speaking
in the sudden silence...
:56:54
my voice.
:56:56
I was speaking to the houngan.
:56:59
I was possessed.
:57:02
I told him the woman
at Fort Holland was evil...
:57:04
and asked him to make her a zombie.
:57:06
Then what happened?
:57:08
I hated myself.
:57:10
On the way home,
I said over and over again...
:57:12
there were no such people...
:57:15
no strange drugs...
:57:19
- there was no such thing as a zombie.
- You were right.
:57:22
I said it, and I made myself believe it.
:57:25
But when I got here,
Jessica was raging with fever.
:57:28
She was raging with fever.
:57:30
A fever with a long Latin name
and a bad reputation for its aftereffects...
:57:35
usually some form of insanity.
:57:37
Dr. Maxwell is right, Mother.
:57:38
You were tricked
by your own imagination, Mrs. Rand.
:57:40
But I am not an imaginative
or fanciful woman, Doctor.
:57:43
As I understand it...
:57:45
in order to turn a person into a zombie...
:57:47
whether by poison or hocus-pocus...
:57:50
you must first kill that person.
:57:53
Is that right?
:57:54
Yes.
:57:55
She was feverish. She was delirious.
:57:59
But I don't remember her dying...