A Stroke of Genius

**A Stroke of Genius** is the fifth episode of Season 4 and the forty-first episode of Escape the Night.

## Episode Description

The Curator has returned, and with much more malice. The Renaissance awaits us in our next adventure! When the famed artist known as Leonardo da Vinci goes missing during his latest painting of the Last Supper, will you paint out the picture of the masterful man's mysterious disappearance... and save him in time? Or will the art of the moment be ruined by dastardly silencers of the era? With the Curator on your trail, you better run before she catches you... with hell to pay.

## Episode Summary

After they heard the Curator's cackles, signalling that she had returned to the museum, the villainess herself appears, and she then told them that they should've stayed in their cages. When the guests refuse, she then told them that they made their choice, before she vanished, and a group of guards led by a Cardinal appeared, the latter telling his guards to get them captured, alive. The guests then escape out of the lounge onto the porch, but not before Jordan Carpenter is captured and taken away. Jordan Winchester then led the guests to a hiding place in the back gardens.

After the group were able to escape to the back gardens, they then find out from the map that they were being hunted by the Spanish Inquisition and that Leonardo da Vinci had been kidnapped, putting the timeline at risk. Jordan Winchester then suggested that they look for disguises to deceive the Cardinal, so they could save the artist and their ally. They then find a large chest with a rectangular hole, which they discovered that they had to find the pieces of the Mona Lisa mural to restore and place in the hole to unlock it. They then discover chests with canvases, and start painting the descriptions of what the canvases needed to unlock the chests. The guests then work together to paint the five paintings on the canvases, unlocking the chests and eventually getting the pieces to the Mona Lisa mural. They then piece the mural together and find the disguises they needed in the large chest. After they dressed in their disguises, they then headed to the Renaissance exhibition.

The disguised guests then enter a chapel, before they then start assuming their roles. The pastors then started to help the innocent citizens that they encountered, as Tyler, dressed in executioner clothes, meets with the Cardinal and his head executioner, believing he was the new apprentice. Tyler is then led to the torture chamber beneath the chapel, where Tyler discovers Jordan Carpenter and Da Vinci in the cells. The executioner then grabs a pickpocket from another cell and asks Tyler how they could be punished. After Tyler suggested that his hand could be cut off so he couldn't pickpocket, the executioner cuts the pickpocket's hand off, allowing Tyler to steal the keys from his belt. After Tyler hides the key in his clothes, the executioner told him to put the pickpocket in a cell and leave him be. Tyler follows the executioner's orders and leaves to find the others.

Tyler returns with the keys, before the others then decided that they needed to come up with a plan out of the Cardinal's eyesight. They then discuss what to do, before they decided that they had to separate into two groups, one of them being the distraction and the other going to rescue their friends. Jordan Winchester then led his group of distractors, and they then headed into the chapel, where they feigned looks of terror, before they lured the guards away. After the guards are lured away by the distractors, who make work of beating the guards down with some swift teamwork. Monica then distracts the half-drunken executioner, while Tyler and the others searched for their friends. They then rescued Jordan and Da Vinci, before Tyler helps the pickpocket get out as well. The guests then fled, Joshua tending to the prisoners' injuries, before Leonardo left with the handless pickpocket as his new apprentice.

Soon after the artist had left, the Curator returned, with the Cardinal and the head executioner, the mistress of the museum then telling them that she hated that they broke her rules in her museum. She then told them that if they wanted to survive, they had to betray one of their own, in exchange for the blood spilt when they disarmed and killed the Cardinal's guards. The Curator then told them to vote, and that Savannah would have to draw the one who would be betrayed, or she would be banished from the realm. The guests then voted, and Savannah then drew Charlie from the stack of votes. The executioner then stepped up to Charlie, before he then slashed and dismembered the betrayed Artist, the guests watching him die. The Curator then told them to run before she changed her mind, prompting the guests and the angels to flee to the lounge.

After the death of Charlie Glitter, the guests then returned to the lounge, with no key. However, the guests then discover a locked box, which Payton lockpicks to open it up. The inventor manages to pop the box open, revealing a key, three gems and a note left in the box. The note revealed that Leonardo had left them the key and the gems to assist the guardian angels to protect one guest of their choosing from the voting pool during the exhibit marked on their gem. Jordan then reads the Artist's final message and journal entry to them, the group respecting Charlie's final words. Payton then puts in the next key, and then the clock chimes midnight as she turned the key in the keyhole, before they then hear some growls.

And then Chinese dragon bearers entered the lounge and surrounded them, with red, orange and yellow flames emitting from the dragons' mouths.

## Characters

* Jordan Carpenter
* Joshua Blackwood
* Alehandro Mercix
* Charlie Glitter
* Monica Castillo
* Payton Hawthorne
* Valeria Pierre
* Alexander Boucher
* Deklan Knox
* Christopher Shaw
* Tyler Bennett
* Arthur Rove
* Silvano Lupo
* Savannah Ashworth
* Theodosia
* Jordan Winchester
* The Curator
* The Cardinal
* The Executioner
* Leonardo da Vinci
* Leonardo's Apprentice

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