I want to make a note about the idea of making Robert a villainous character. For anyone who has seen the Season 3 promo, no. I did not get my idea from there. Nor from Het Huis, if it parallels something from there. I always thought, from the start, that other than simply protecting something, why go through the efforts of making these elaborate riddles and hiding places and everything else? And that worked fine for the Cup of Ankh. But this is something more dangerous, arguably. Why set it up like a game? I mostly did that, as the writer, to play around with the idea of riddles, and it evolved into the idea that, why is Robert doing this? He wasn't a good man. He was, but he had a dark side to him. There's no real reason behind the choice other than that. I mostly wanted to clarify that this was planned out around January or February of 2012, so there's no connection to Season 3.

38: House of Choices

Everyone who was around went to see Jerome, who sealed the room. He still didn't feel comfortable talking about Mr. Wolf, because he wasn't sure if Mr. Wolf really couldn't enter, or if he simply hadn't. He didn't want to take any risks.

"You look terrible," Mick told him.

"I never thought I'd see you like this," Alfie said, feeling for his friend.

"Just give me some good news," Jerome said, "Please."

"Well, we think we found the final answer," Fabian said, "But…"

"But what?" Jerome questioned.

"We have to go into Victor's father's tomb," Fabian said, "There are some things that are crossing a line, and that's one of them."

"And letting me die in here isn't?" Jerome demanded.

"That's right…," Fabian muttered, "You'll die…"

"So go into the tomb!" Jerome said.

"There has to be another way," Nina offered.

"You can spend time looking – I've looked in here, there's nothing – or you can get me out by going into the tomb!" he told them, "Please, just get me out of this place!"

"And Noah's still missing," Nina commented, "We have to go into the tomb."

"It's a terrible idea, but…," Fabian said, "I'm not Smythe. None of us are. He seems like someone who would cross a line like this, but…we're doing it to stop Smythe's work, and to protect his treasure."

"No," Nina said, "We won't protect it."

"What?" was the general question that came from the others.

"We'll destroy the book," Nina said, "Whatever it is, we'll destroy it when we finish."

"That seems safe," Jerome said, thankful for that.

"But what if destroying it causes something bad to happen?" Mara asked, "It's magic, right?"

"Well, we'll take our chances," Nina said.

"That's not safe," Patricia said.

"We could hide it, like the Cup," Amber offered.

"I guess we could," Nina said.

"Well, we have time to figure it out," Fabian said, "I guess for now, we go back to the tomb."

"Please do," Jerome said, "It feels terrible being in here this long. My body feels like it's dying. Well, I guess it is."

"We'll save you," Fabian assured Jerome.

Mara crouched down and hugged him, "Just hold on. We'll save you."

He put his arms around her, "Thank you."

Mick looked at them, "Didn't see that coming."

Joy shrugged, "I don't know."

"Come on guys," Fabian said, standing up, "Let's go."

Jerome was hesitant to let go of Mara, but he did, "I could stay," she offered to him.

"I'd like that…but make sure they do things right," he said, "Make sure they get me out of here. I trust you to do that."

She smiled to him, "Ok," she said, heading out with the others. He held down the button to open the door, then let it close in fear of Mr. Wolf entering again, if even for a moment.

Even if he could only enter for a few moments before Jerome could close it, he still feared if those seconds happened. Mr. Wolf was too frightening, and with Jerome in the state he was, it would be all the worse.

The eight of them headed down the stairs inside of the crypt again, going back to the room where Joy had been deposited. But after spending so much time there, even if she was only conscious for a few hours, Joy didn't want to go back inside. So she and Mick stayed outside.

"Ok, let's look around," Fabian said, "They're looking in the crypt, let's look around here before we open the tomb. It might be hidden somewhere else."

They agreed. None of them wanted to open the tomb, after all.

After spending time searching anywhere, feeling around the walls for holes, looking at the sides of the tomb, even feeling along the tomb for a hidden compartment, they decided they had to open it.

"I got a text from Joy," Patricia said, "Frowny face, 'Nothing here'," she said.

"Then we have to…open it…," Fabian said weakly, not wanting to do this.

"I don't want to look," Amber said, walking back towards the stairs.

"I don't want to smell it," Alfie said, going back, but Patricia grabbed his sleeve.

"You're helping," she told him.

She, Alfie, Fabian and Nina pushed. Mara joined in when that wasn't enough, finally getting it to budge. Amber stayed at the stairs, watching them, disgusted. But they all felt this way. They had to do it, even if they didn't want to.

When it was all the way open, they looked at Victor Sr.'s body. It was mostly gone, skeletal. But some clothing was still intact, at least making it so they didn't have to see too much. The stench was immense, but they kept looking, seeing a small black book resting on Victor's breast.

Fabian reached in with both haste and wariness. He took the book and they went up the stairs to escape the stench, closing the staircase entrance when they were all out.

"Well…we have it," Fabian said, holding out the small black book to all of them.

"But what's inside of it?" Patricia asked.

"I don't know," Fabian said, "Let's open it and find out. But let's all hope this will be what we need."