[1] Within an old dilapidated and seemingly automated theater, human-sized marionettes perform a production of the Don Juan legend without the aid of puppeteers or an audience.

Outraged by this, Don Juan murders his own father backstage and heads over to the garden where Maria and Philippe were planning to meet.

Demanding that she return his feelings or face the consequences, he chases after Maria but is stopped by her father, Don Vespis, who now realizes Juan is unfit to marry his daughter and threatens to have him arrested.

The man turns out to be the spirit of Maria's dead father, who warns Don Juan that his soul will be dragged to Hell at midnight.

As in the traditional Czech puppet plays, Juan urges children not to commit evil deeds like him.