The plot thickens. Tybalt, Juliet's hot-headed cousin (played by Taylor Mantzke, another inspired acting job!) kills Mercutio, and Romeo (who has just married Juliet) freaks out, chases Tybalt down, and in a huge fight scene kills Tybalt. The Contessa shows up, everyone splits the scene and Romeo heads for the hills under banishment. On the way he stops to talk to Friar Lawrence (in these days, the Church was considered "sanctuary" and would have been the first logical place Romeo went after such an evolution!) In the meantime while Juliet and the Nurse wail in their chambers, Lord Capulet and Paris strike up a friendship, and (being a father in a dysfunctional household and not having a clue about what is really going on!) Lord Capulet decides Juliet should marry Paris. After some verbal abuse from her father, Juliet runs to Friar Lawrence herself, and the plot to "act dead" is cooked up by those two.