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That night, the creature appears in Ofelia's bedroom, where it morphs into a fairy and leads Ofelia through the labyrinth into a small clearing. There, Ofelia meets the [[faun]] ([[Doug Jones (actor)|Doug Jones]]), who recognizes her as the long-lost Princess Moanna and assigns her three tasks to complete before the full moon to ensure that her "essence is intact".

Ofelia completes the first task - retrieving a key from the belly of a giant [[toad]] - however, she fears for her mother, whose condition is worsening. The faun gives Ofelia a [[Mandrake (plant)|mandrake]] root, which instantly begins to cure her mother's illness. Ofelia then manages to complete the second task - taking an ornate [[dagger]] from the lair of the Pale Man, as she leaves she eats two of the Pale Man's grapes, this awakeswakes him and he bites the heads off two of Pan's fariesfairies. Infuriated by her disobeying his orders, the faun disappears, claiming that she will never return to her kingdom or see him again.

Meanwhile, Vidal becomes increasingly vicious in his methods, torturing a captured Republican and killing a doctor (a Republican sympathizer) who [[euthanized]] the prisoner (at the prisoner's request) after the prisoner began to give Vidal information. Vidal catches Ofelia tending to the mandrake root, and Carmen, desperate to prove to her daughter that magic is not real, throws the root into the fireplace. Instantly, she develops painful [[contraction (childbirth)|contractions]] and dies giving birth to a son.