At a volatile family confrontation, Sherly's parents and sister blame Sherly's little daughter Celeste for the clan's repeated losses and call the child a jinx. A visiting master agrees and prescribes a ritual: Sherly must drink holy water while Celeste is bound with an eight-trigram mirror, confined and given holy water daily for forty-nine days to avert calamity. The father declares he will not acknowledge the grandchild. Celeste asks why her father never came. Sherly defends her and warns Stacey to stop insulting the child. The family moves to carry out the ritual, leaving Celeste's paternity and fate unresolved.