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The Princess Bride - Week 9
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Minute 57
Humperdinck suggests
Marriage over suicide
If Westley spurns her
Prince hired Vizzini
Failing he now relishes
Duty to murder
Copse of crooked trees
A secret lies underneath
Hidden knot holds key
Minute 58
Count asks prince to pits
An awkward situation
Humperdinck is swamped
Rugen counsels prince
Descends to Pits of Despair
Where Westley awaits
Count admires machine
Waxes poetic about
Pain and current book
Minute 59
Suction cups attached
Heavy wooden lever raised
Water powers pain
Lowest setting used
Rugen contentedly stares
Westley writhes in pain
Mechanism halted
Calm and cold explanation
One year of life gone
Minute 60
Rugen documents
Westley’s pain experience
For posterity
Security head
Summoned to prince’s chambers
Receives secret news
Killers from Guilder
Plotting to murder princess
Hide in Thieves’ Forest
Minute 61
Buttercup checks in
Still no answer from Westley
Declares that he’ll come
Prince, Yellin discuss
Emptying of Thieves’ Forest
Forming a Brute Squad
Wedding day arrives
Forest inhabitants cleared
Save for a Spaniard
Minute 62
Inebriated
Spaniard leans against hovel
Waits for Vizzini
A mace-wielding brute
Disturbs his drunken musings
Inciting sword thrusts
Brute calls for backup
Fezzik appears and lifts friend
While knocking down brute
Minute 63
Reunited friends
Inigo’s sobriety
Cared for by Fezzik
Fezzik informs friend
Tells of six-fingered Rugen
Inigo face plant
Hot, cold, back again
Water treatment for drunk friend
Instantly sober
Inigo’s ready
To avenge his father’s death
Thirty men stand guard
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