The blade of the sword had been impregnated with Basilisk venom, from the earlier second film.[In the Chamber of Secrets, Harry had stabbed the monstrous basilisk with Gryffindor""s Sword.He then defeated Tom Riddle/Voldemort by plunging the basilisk""s bloody poisonous fang into Riddle""s diary, an earlier horcrux.Missionary Philip Swift (Sam Claflin) was strung up on he ship""s mast after his capture during a raid.During the drive, Wendy and Jack (who is already appearing slightly metamorphisized and faintly scowling), discuss he historic Donner Party accident - a trapped and doomed group of early pioneers who became snowbound and cannibalistic - a foreshadowing of their own impending doom.He realizes his present state of inactivity, having been in Saigon a week - and fears that he is beginning to go a little crazy.[A similar scene occurred at the conclusion ofThe Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)- was it deliberate or accidental?] A blinding white light intensified until it whited out the image of Taylor""s bloody fingers hanging onto the detonator.