" Clay believed that Whitney wouldn""t have taken off with her boyfriend, since her cancer-stricken mother had just died - and in addition, she hadn""t attended the funeral, something very unlikely ("That""s not possible").To prepare for the coming disaster, Roddy and Letty took shelter by entering a trap door into the cellar with most of the town""s members, Cora, and the children joining them, while Lige and Sourdough remained on the main floor to brace the doors and windows.Tamara was tossed head-first into her vanity mirror, then stabbed with one of the sharp mirror shards from the broken mirror(# 5 death)(off-screen).However, Frollo dismissed the idea that he foolish Christopher Columbus ("the laughing stock of the court of Spain") had sailed in a western direction to reach the Indies.During a final standoff in the ferocious sandstorm, Mathayus stabbed Thorak in the abdomen, but as he died, he struck back and impaled Mathayus in the left thigh with the venom-dipped arrowhead.