<P> The travellers pass the condemned young woman again, now tied to a stake and awaiting burning . Block asks the woman again to summon Satan, so he can ask him about God . The girl claims already to have done so, but the knight cannot see him, only her terror . As her execution fire is lit, the knight gives her herbs to take away her pain . Jöns and Block watch, grimly, as her sentence is carried out . </P> <P> Further along in the journey, Raval reappears: dying of the plague, he pleads for water . The servant girl attempts to bring him some, but Jöns stops her, and Raval dies alone and uncomforted . Jof tells his wife that he can see the knight playing chess with Death, and decides to flee with his family while Death is preoccupied . </P> <P> After hearing Death state "No one escapes me", Block knocks the chess pieces over, deliberately distracting Death while Jof's family slips away . Death places the pieces back on the board, then wins the game on the next move . He announces that when they meet again, the knight's time--and that of all those traveling with him--will be up . Before departing, Death asks if the knight has accomplished his one "meaningful deed" yet; Block replies that he has . </P> <P> Block is reunited with his wife, Karin (Inga Landgré), the sole occupant of his castle (all the servants having fled). The party shares one "last supper" before Death comes for them . The knight prays to God, "Have mercy on us, because we are small and frightened and ignorant ." </P>

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