A model's face is disfigured when she puts on the mask of a French executioner. The only ways to get her beautiful face back are if someone puts on the mask so they will be disfigured, or if the curse is stopped by carrying the mask to the executioner's tomb.

Hungary, 1595: In a monastery, Knight Gabriel impales a demon, which then turns to stone. 2001: Nigel and Sydney arrive bearing a letter from a monk, but the abbot claims it is a forgery and shuts them out.