With her last effort, Zira threw the dead baby overboard, and then stumbled to Cornelius"" side to die lying on top of him on the deck...well, hat I shouldn""t be seen with anybody that collects garbage." She waves goodbye, and then finds her father (Warren Oates) in their backyard painting signs - his profession.The next morning -- Shrek realized he had been transformed into a handsome man (fawned over by eager young milkmaids), and Donkey was now a dashing white stallion." Elster sets up Scottie by asking him (as the camera zooms back):Do you believe that someone out of the past, someone dead, can enter and take possession of a living being?At first, Scottie is comically skeptical and quickly refuses, although Elster believes that his wife is deeply-disturbed or possessed.Swann had served as Honorary Treasurer of the school""s ball, and under suspicious circumstances, almost £100 pounds of ticket money was stolen from a cashbox (and college porter Alfred had been blamed - or framed - for the theft).