The Princess Bride --Part IX
Westley and Buttercup are captured! Buttercup agrees to go back with the Prince to be married as long as Westley is freed.
Westley isn't returned to the pirate ship but is given to Count Rugen--(The Six-Fingered Man)--to be tortured in The Pit of Despair. Count Rugen has a machine that will suck a year of life away from Westley and intends to use it. An Albino is left to care for Westley's wounds from the ROUS and the fire swamp before he is hooked to the machine. The Pit of Despair is only located by the special limb at the base of a tree. After Buttercup learns that the Prince did not release Westley and calls him a coward, the Prince is furious and runs to the Pit of Despair where he orders Count Rugen to set the machine to it's highest. The Count refuses but the Prince does it himself and Westley suffers horribly as the machine sucks away his life. Fezzik and Inigo hear the tortured screams of Westley and search to find him. They locate the Albino with a wheelbarrow to take Westley's body away but Fezzik knocks him out by mistake before he can tell them where Westley is, so Inigo has to call on his father's spirit to guide him to the Pit's hidden entrance (which is in a tree trunk). They reach the Pit of Despair to find that Westley is dead and now they will need a miracle.