Barnabas hears dogs howling, and asks Jeff if he hears them too. Handyman Tom Jennings pokes around Nicholas Blair's cellar at the house by the sea, making him very nervous and angry when Tom finds a coffin. Nicholas says he found it in the cellar there when he moved in. After Tom leaves, Nicholas laments what now must be. Tom resolves to go to the Sheriff; before he can, he is stalked by someone unseen. Jeff hears Tom's womanly scream and thinks it's Victoria; instead he finds Tom Jennings with some marks on his neck. Nicholas says, "and so it has begun".