71 HANDMAIDEN (cont . ) Is there another clock nearby? YUN XING TONG Sure … Yun Xing Tong leads the Handmaiden out of the room . INT . YUN ESTATE STUDY DAY This is the study where once Yun Xing Tong, Shui Liu Can and Hua Zhong Ai studied . It is now choked with cobwebs, evident that it has not been opened in years … HANDMAIDEN This is … YUN XING TONG The study, where your Master and I once played the zither and chess and Go … now find what you want . The handmaiden walks over to the huge pendulum clock in the corner, whose face is still shrouded in the dark at this point . As she walks near to the face of the clock we finally see what it is that she has suspected all along . CLOSE UP on the clock that she holds in her hand, the small mantle clock . Then CLOSE UP on the face of the clock that stands in the study . We see that both clocks are indeed, still in the vicinity of 9 . 25 . She looks around at the state of the once - bright study . As a soft night breeze blows through, we notice that some of the cobwebs attached to a table in the study are stirring … apparently this whole place has not been cleaned at all in years . She looks up at the clock again, and sees that indeed the clock has not moved one bit . Then she turns around to look at Yun Xing Tong . HANDMAIDEN Yes, I knew it, all the Western clocks in this house have stopped, why? YUN XING TONG