high, wide shot of the room, as butterfield approaches the body of nix. it lies on a table, surrounded by bowls of oil. bandages, soaked in oil, are laid over its limbs. beside its head, butterfield's instruments are laid out.
on nix's emaciated mouth. the lips twitch.
on dorothea, eyes wide.
unnoticed by butterfield, who has his eyes on nix, dorothea gets to her feet and creeps away to the door. very quiet
harry pushes open the window, and climbs in. swann follows. he is frozen by the memory of what happened here.
butterfield and swann are locked in a life-or-death struggle. they tumble back against the table upon which nix was resurrected. it collapses under them, and for a moment swann is stunned. butterfield snatches up one of the instruments and stabs at swann, who rolls out of the way in the nick of time.