Stone Eye of the Beholder

**Stone Eye of the Beholder** is the eighth episode of Season 4 and the forty-fourth episode of Escape the Night.

## Episode Description

The Minotaur, a beast of Greek history, has come to the Museum of the Dead, and it’s up to the guests to brave the maze of terror to find the next key to unlock their freedom! However, mythology is in the way of their trail to escape, and they will need to face them off in the arena in order to win. However, dear friends, in the end, there will be a challenge that may help them get closer to their victory, or leaving one of their own’s heart, stone cold.

## Episode Summary

The guests heard the loud stomps of the Minotaur coming, as they then saw the huge beast break through the lounge doors. The guests then fight back, before a satyr comes out and attacks the menacing beast, prompting Jordan Carpenter and the others flee to the Greek exhibit. In the Greek exhibit, the guests come across a garden of statues, before the guests started to search around the garden for clues on the next key. The satyr, named Leonardo, then explained to them that they could find out more on the Curator's past, by searching the gardens for pieces of a stone tablet. The guests soon find various items from a ring to a sword and from a laurel wreath, to a mirror. When Valeria noticed something about a statue of a beautiful woman in the mirror, she placed the mirror on the pedestal, causing them to discover a chunk of the stone tablet.

With the new discovery, the guests then start matching their items to the various statues, and they then eventually succeed to find all the pieces, which included Chris "proposing" to Arthur with a ring. They then find a leather pouch full of coins, which most of the guests manage to gather after the pouch was torn open. The guests then complete the tablet, which revealed the Curator's past as an Athenian woman who was sentenced to be killed by the Minotaur in the Athenian maze of terror. However, the Curator escaped the maze through a magical veil that led her to the purgatory realm, where she gained her powers and produced the museum that they were trapped in. After they discovered the past, they then discover that they must face the Athenian maze and the mythological terrors inside themselves, one by one, to find the next key. The guests then gathered their weapons and got ready to fight the maze.

They then arrived at the maze, where they encountered the ferryman of the River Styx, Charon, who admitted to being the guardian of the maze. He then requested that they pay him twenty Greek drachmas for their entry into the maze, which Jordan, Alexander, Valeria and Christopher manage to pay up, before the guests and helpers entered the maze. As they entered the maze, they then came across the three-headed dog known as Cerberus, before they fight him down to the ground, and Deklan disappears from the group. Remembering that the tablet mentioned "one by one", they continued through the maze, a storm stirring in the dark night, before they encountered the harpies. As they defeat the harpies, Silvano is taken by the terror of the maze, before the guests continued ending up in a vast body of water. The boys are then forcibly lured into the waters by sirens, before the boys are forcibly plunged underwater, potentially drowning if the girls don't save them. The girls then succeed to take down the musical menaces, before Arthur is taken by the maze. As the guests swam or climbed the foliage of the hedges throughout the maze.

The guests then encountered Scythian dracaena, scale skinned woman with serpentine trunks, before the guests fought back, and Savannah attacks the last one before she dissolved away into the maze. They then escape the watery depths of the maze, before they came across cobwebbed passages, and the cursed spider weaver known as Arachne. After the spider weaver trapped Chris in a cocoon of webbing, Valeria and Monica killed the arachnid monster, who took Monica away as they both dissolved. The guests then encountered a woman, who turned Jordan into a gerbil and Payton into a rabbit, before the guests fought back and killed the sorceress, the magic taking her, and the two turned guests, away from the main group. The final five guests then face off against a pack of lycanthropes, which takes Alexander away once they're defeated. The guests then fight off Argus the many eyed giant, which leads to the maze taking Jordan Winchester and Alehandro, leaving Valeria and Christopher behind.

The final duo then face off against a chimera, who attacks them with fire, tooth and claw, before it falls dead from Val and Chris's combined attacks. The surviving two then reached to the center of the maze, where all of their allies were. The guests then encountered the head of the gorgons, Medusa, before she then told them that if they wanted the key, they had to vote for two to enter her challenge. The guests then reluctantly agreed, before Arthur used his immunity gem on Christopher, due to what happened to his fiancé. The guests then voted, before Arthur then drawed Deklan and Jordan Carpenter for the challenge, which prompts the broken Savant to then gift his trinkets to his friends, before the two men then headed to the challenge.

Medusa then ordered the duo to split up and find their own cloth bags full of puzzle pieces, before putting together their own Temple of Zeus puzzle to win. The duo manage to find their puzzle pieces, but as the Savant put together his own puzzle, he then broke in that moment, as tears formed in his eyes. In two quick motions, he then rips the instructions from his own pillar and brushes the pieces off his own pillar. The pieces are pushed off, and they fall and clatter onto the dirt. He then goes to Deklan’s pillar, using his instructions to help the Magician. However Deklan tried to help the Savant by gathering his puzzle pieces, but nothing could fix what Jordan did. No one could clean up the mess he made, letting Colin die in his place in the Arabian exhibit, getting Fiona killed when he beat her to unconsciousness, being his idea that led to Josh’s demise when he gave himself up for his fiancé. He knew in his heart, that Chris was right, it was all on him. His whole life had collapsed like a house of cards, and he wouldn’t let his friends suffer again.

However, the Magician stole a puzzle from his own puzzle, which Jordan notices, before he then steeled with determination to lose, to protect his friends. With a single boot, he then tipped over the pillar that had his own pieces that Deklan was trying to piece together, and like a house of cards, the pillar tips, and it falls along with all the puzzle pieces, like a cascade of playing cards. Deklan then returned the attack by tipping over his own pillar, leaving pieces all over the ground, refusing to let the Savant die. Jordan then gifted the Magician his final accessory, his golden watch, before he hugged Deklan close. However when he hugged the Magician, Jordan used a spool of rope that he had stolen, before he ties Deklan to his own pillar. Despite Deklan's pleas in his tied state, the Savant then finished Deklan's puzzle and the challenge was over. Jordan then got up, before he attempted to attack the gorgon, as the monster turned him into a statue with her glare, the look of determination and a smile on his face. The Savant had gave his life to protect his friends, and he was just as happy to do so in his final moments.

After the Savant's heart was turned stone cold, Deklan escapes his binds, before he tried to kill the gorgon, only for Theodosia to do it instead. Deklan then bided his farewell, before he left the maze corridor with Theodosia. After Deklan returned to the others, Christopher fled the group, prompting Winchester to go after him, as the other guests then headed to the corridor to say their goodbyes to the heroic Savant. Afterwards, they left as the storm continued, and a rain drop fell on the edge of Jordan's eye, drizzling down the Savant's stone cheek.

Back at the lounge, the guests found Akmal injured, only for the Curator to announce her arrival with anger that the guests were ruining her Museum, and that she was vengeful. Just as the guests swore to take her down, a mysterious figure then came out and said that nothing would happen, if she didn't have a say about it.

And the night raged on.

## Characters

* Jordan Carpenter
* Alehandro Mercix
* Monica Castillo
* Payton Hawthorne
* Valeria Pierre
* Alexander Boucher
* Deklan Knox
* Christopher Shaw
* Arthur Rove
* Silvano Lupo
* Savannah Ashworth
* Jordan Winchester
* The Minotaur
* Leonardo Papadakis
* Medusa
* Theodosia
* Akmal Prasetyo

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