Mark dreams of a masked figure coming to his house at night to kill him. He tells her that she would never get what she wants, without directly referring to the witches. Then, Mark tries to think about someone who would hate him enough to have him killed. Then, Mark takes David to his basement and confronts him about paying the witches to have Clemency killed. The three witches are present at Clemency’s funeral and Mark spots David looking at them. Mark dodges the topic by telling her of Clemency’s death.

She has gotten his suit dry cleaned and asks him why he lied about running over a cat and throwing his suit due to its blood. Later, Hermia asks where he went the other night (the night Thomasina died). Osborne points out Mark’s falling hair and tells him that David might have paid the witches to have his aunt (Clemency) murdered so that he could inherit her wealth. She wanted them to do something about Thomasina. “Witchcraft,” she says after admitting to having visited them. Mark visits Thomasina’s stepmother and coerces her to tell him what the three women at The Pale Horse store do. Mark suspects that a trio of “witches” is behind the murders. Apart from that, the aunt of Mark’s godson is also on the list and dies of a heart attack later.

The woman that he had an extra-marital affair with also dies, her name being mentioned on the list. Mark Easterbrook’s name is also on the list. All the people on the list die of natural causes, making one wonder whether their deaths have been orchestrated. A list is found in a dead woman, Jessie’s shoe.

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