1983 (#19) - The exhumation of the coffin, the marriage to Eve and Max's death

After the ceremony, Eve and Max immediately made sure that no one would suspect them. Max, aware that a possible autopsy could lead the police to incriminate them, incites Eve to oppose the burial of Victor, despite the opposition of Julia and everyone. In the end, Eve and Max secretly dig up the coffin and take it to the ranch, placing the coffin in Victor's bedroom, which in the meantime begins to appear fleetingly to Eve in order to intimidate her. Eve thus begins to believe she is hallucinating and, despite Max trying to calm her down, she begins to become agitated, convinced that Victor's spirit wants revenge. Eve's anxieties reach their top when Julia confides to the woman the suspicion that Victor has been killed and, at the same time, what Eve thinks is the ghost of Victor in a threatening tone. Max tries to reason with the woman about the need to get rid of the coffin by burning it, and Eve asks to be allowed to cremate the body, which is opposed by everyone. In the meantime, noticing that Eve is showing increasing signs of mental instability, Max thinks well of proposing to the woman to marry, which would allow him, in case of a declared mentally incapacity, to inherit half of Cole's estate instead of the woman. Max, in this way, secretly arranged a wedding with Eve right in Victor's room, next to his coffin. The priest, frightened by the strange request of the two, hastily celebrates their union before leaving without too many formalities. During the ceremony, moreover, an amused Victor appears again before Eve's eyes, smiling at her, which triggers the woman's terror, who hastens to marry the man without thinking about it. Having acquired enough evidence of what was their plan, Victor decides to put an end to the mise-en-scène by revealing himself in front of them in the ranch barn. At this point not only Eve, but also Max begins to panic, unable to believe his eyes. The result is a furious fight that mainly involves Eve and Julia, while a shocked Max, petrified and frightened by Victor, stumbles back and falls to the ground, being forked by an agricultural tool. Max dies instantly and the police, called by Julia and promptly intervened, arrest Eve, who is then locked up in a psychiatric centre.