When Hans walks over the unstable beams from the wreckage of the fire, he falls through the collapsed floor and splashes into an underground millpond/cistern below.
Hans' Wife: No! Hans. Hans! Where are you? Hans! Are you all right?
The creature's hand and arm first appear from behind a wooden beam, and then the Monster steps fully into view from the shadows.
We see grotesque electrodes at the neck a flat, square head, and a face scarred by the fire. Hans is held under the waist-deep water and drowned by the Monster. A sleepy-looking owl witnesses the murder.
Hans' Wife: I hear you. Here, give me your hand, Hans.
Han's wife reaches into the wreckage for her husband's extended hand, not realizing that she is pulling the Monster from the debris. The resurrected Monster kills the silly farm wife by heaving her down into the mill (again watched by the owl), and stalks off into the countryside.
Soon, he comes up behind Minnie who turns, sees him and becomes panicked, hysterical and crazed at the sight of the Monster.
Screeching, she turns and runs off in fright, leaving the bewildered Monster standing there. News of Henry Frankenstein's demise is brought to Henry's fiancee Elizabeth (Valerie Hobson) at Castle Frankenstein. After his seemingly-lifeless form is carried in a procession into the gothic castle on a stretcher, Minnie rushes in and wails to a co-worker . . .
Minnie: It's alive! The Monster! It's alive! I saw it. It ain't turned to no skeleton at all. It lived right through the fire.
She is not believed, denounced as an "old fool," and told: "We don't believe in ghosts." Spiteful of everyone's disbelief, Minnie introspects to herself . . .
Minnie: Nobody will believe me. What? I'll wash my hands of it. Let them all be murdered in the beds.
Henry's "corpse" is brought into a spacious castle chamber.
Elizabeth: Speak to me, Henry.
Minnie: Oh, milady, he'll never speak again.
Elizabeth: I was foretold of this. I was told beware my wedding night.
The worst is feared until Minnie shrieks when she notices Henry move.
Minnie: Look, milady, he's alive!
Elizabeth: Henry, darling.
Henry: Elizabeth.
Later in the evening, Henry recuperates in his candelabra-lit bedroom chamber in the castle, tenderly cared for by Elizabeth. The ordeal of the horrible experience has made it difficult for him to put the past behind him.
Elizabeth: You'll soon be better.
Henry: I feel almost myself again.
Elizabeth: When you're strong enough, we'll go away and forget this horrible experience.
Henry: Forget? If only I could forget but it's never out of my mind. I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of Life. Perhaps death is sacred and I profaned it. For what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of - the formula for life. Think of the power to create a man - and I did it. I did it! I created a man, and who knows, in time, I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race. I might even have found the secret of eternal life.
Elizabeth: Henry, don't say those things. Don't think them! It's blasphemous and wicked. We are not meant to know those things.
Henry: It may be that I'm intended to know the secret of life. It may be part of the Divine Plan.
Elizabeth: No, no! It's the Devil that prompts you. It's death, not life, that is in it all and at the end of it all.
Elizabeth experiences a bizarre fit that reduces her to hysterical tears.
Elizabeth: Listen Henry, while you've been lying here, tossing in your delirium, I couldn't sleep. And when you rave of your insane desire to create living men from the dust of the dead, a strange apparition has seemed to appear in the room. It comes, a figure like Death, and each time it comes more clearly - nearer. It seems to be reaching out for you, as if it would take you away from me. There it is. Look!
She points into the room.
Elizabeth: There!
Henry: I see nothing, Elizabeth. Where? There's nothing there.
Elizabeth: There! There! It's coming for you! Nearer! Henry! Henry! Henry! Henry! Henry!
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