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see the museum and indicates he may be interested in buying Burke out when he gets back from Egypt in three months. Growing impatient, Burke suggests burning down the museum to collect its twenty-five thousand dollar insurance money. To Jarrod's horror, Burke then starts a fire, which spreads rapidly, and the duo fight while Jarrod's work is destroyed. Burke gets the better of Jarrod and leaves him for dead as the building explodes.
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the morgue, including Burke and Cathy. She is then confronted by Jarrod, having feigned the disability that required the use of his wheelchair and wearing a wax-made mask to conceal his disfigured face that identifies him as the murderer, and is kidnapped by him, intending to use her body to recreate his long-lost Marie
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The same night, Sue arrives at the museum after hours to meet with Scott, but Jarrod had sent him on an errand when he heard she was coming. Finding the place vacant, Sue’s suspicion is confirmed when she uncovers the horrifying truth that the wax figures are actually wax-coated corpses stolen from
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Wallace receives a letter that indicates Jarrod had miraculously survived the fire, though he is now bound to a wheelchair and his hands are crippled, leaving him unable to sculpt. Jarrod gives
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of historical figures that have met grisly demises. However, his business partner, Matthew Burke, is frustrated over Jarrod refusing to make more sensational exhibits, like those that draw crowds to their competitors, and wants to end their partnership. Wealthy art critic Sidney
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wax figure, as she strongly resembles his earlier one. Believing Cathy's body was used to create the figure, Sue talks to
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wax figure resembles Cathy. Jarrod overhears her and claims he based the figure on photos of Cathy he saw in the newspaper. He then hires Scott, who is a sculpting protégé of
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stumbles upon the murderer. After being briefly chased by him, Sue makes it to safety at the home of her friend, Scott
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