Janet looked at Brad and Dr. Scott in horror. "We can't let that happen!"
When the three of them had arrived at the castle site, and saw the castle had actually returned, they were stunned. Dr. Scott's impulse had been to turn back – an impulse seconded by Brad – but Janet had been adamant. "If they've returned, we need to know why."
Brad looked at her strangely. "Why do we need to know? What difference should it make to us? Personally, I'm all for leaving and pretending none of this happened."
Janet glared at him. "Okay, I need to know what happened. I need to know if Frank and Rocky are still alive."
Brad glared back at her. "And Columbia, too…right?"
Her response was both embarrassed and a bit defiant. "Yes, and Columbia, too. If you don't want to go with me, just stay in the car and wait."
Seeing there was no hope of reasoning with Janet, Brad and Dr. Scott reluctantly agreed to join her. Even Janet was too nervous to actually try to get into the castle, so they decided to walk around outside it to see if they could find anything – or anyone – out of the ordinary. When they reached the back of the castle, they caught sight of Riff Raff and Magenta, and ducked behind some nearby shrubbery before the siblings saw or heard them. They listened, transfixed, to the conversation between the two of them.
Janet's outburst broke the silence which had taken hold of all three of them after Riff Raff and Magenta returned to the castle. Dr. Scott looked at her sternly.
"It is not our place to get involved. None of the materials I have read so far have indicated what kind of ruler the Queen is. For all we know, a coup d'etat may be a perfectly reasonable course of action to overthrow a ruthless monarch. We don't know who the villains in this situation truly are."
Janet replied quietly, "I think I do."
Brad turned to her. "What do you mean?"
Almost defensively, Janet said, "Look, I admit I don't know anything about the Queen…but I do think I know something about Frank. I saw, well, a different side of him when we were 'together'."
Brad couldn't help himself. "I'm sure you did."
The look she tossed at him in response could have scorched ice. "That's not what I meant. Based on what we'd seen of him, I was afraid he was going to be…rough with me. You know, that when he had sex with me, he wouldn't care about the fact that I'd never done it before. But he wasn't that way at all. He was so careful with me; he made sure everything felt wonderful. I thought at the time it was like he was a totally different person. Now I understand why I thought that. I think, at that point, I was seeing 'the real him', instead of the character. Rocky was sweet, too, but since he seemed to be such an innocent, I wasn't surprised by it."
Brad thought back to his own encounter with Frank. He knew enough about homosexual sex to realize Frank could have done a lot more to him than he did; it was just oral sex. At the time, Brad thought that seemed strange, given Frank's apparent sex drive; now it did seem to make more sense. However, he was still having a hard time seeing Frank as anything other than a charming sociopath.
"Yeah, but there's still the question of what happened to Eddie. If Frank really did butcher him in front of us, that wouldn't exactly qualify him for the "Mr. Nice Guy" award."
Janet sighed. "I know, but I just have a feeling Eddie's still alive. The corpse under the tabletop could have easily been faked, just to give us an additional jolt. I really don't think Frank – the real Frank – would have killed Eddie. Besides, I'm no expert on the taste of human flesh, but I've never heard anything to the effect that it tastes like pork."
Dr. Scott said gently, "Can you not consider the possibility you might be blinded by the fact you enjoyed your encounter with Frank so much? The idea you could have had such an experience with someone who'd just committed cold-blooded murder would certainly be an uncomfortable one for you."
Janet shook her head. "Look, I know I can't prove it, but I totally believe Frank is a decent person underneath everything we saw, and that he wouldn't be trying to look out for the Queen if she were evil. Somehow I have to get into the castle and warn him."
Brad and Dr. Scott looked at her with astonishment; in Brad's case, the astonishment was mixed, in no small measure, with hurt. "You're willing to risk your life for someone – an alien, no less - you really know next to nothing about? He was that good in bed?"
Janet reddened. "We're talking about three people's lives, not just one. Not to mention all the innocent people back where they come from who could be killed. If you don't want to help me, you don't have to." She turned away from him. But before she walked away, she turned back with a defiant expression on her face, staring him straight in the eye.
"And, to answer your question…yes, he was that good in bed."
She stalked off, leaving Brad and Dr. Scott speechless in her wake.