[creepy music plays][wind howling]
[narrating]
- My name is Victoria Winters.
Violent intent has many consequences,
as those discover who commit themselves
to carry out such intentions.
[rock music plays]
This man is prepared to do just that.
- Hello, Maggie.
- Hi, Burke,
- Mind if I join you?
- Oh, please do.
- Bring me a drink.
- Well, I haven't seen you in a long time.
- Oh, I've been around. Where's Joe?
- Oh, wish I knew.
I was about to ask you that same question.
- I told him that sundial wouldn't work at night.
He's gotta buy a watch one of these days.
- So you decided to return to the scene of your victory.
- My victory.
Fighting in barrooms is not something I could be proud of.
- Burke, that wasn't just a fight.
What happened was inevitable.
Did something that we all appreciated.
- Well, thanks a lot, Maggie.
That reassures me that I did right.
- Willie Loomis was a beast.
You dealt with him the only way possible.
It was very effective.
- Yes, well, I'm here to check on the effectiveness of it.
I haven't seen him around.
- Neither have I.
Maybe he left, as per your instructions.
- Well, I hope so.
If he comes back... [knocks on table]
I'll have to throw him out again.
[rock music continues]
[creepy music plays]
[rock music plays]
- I think you'll find out
just how effective you were right now.
- What do you mean?
- Jason McGuire just popped in.
[chuckles] He seems to be casing the place.
- Yes, he's alone.
- Mm
-hmm.
Maybe Willie Loomis did leave.
- I don't know. He's looking around.
I don't think he's looking for me.
Excuse me, Maggie.
- Sure.
- McGuire.
- Oh, hello, Burke.
- Oh, seems to me you were trying to duck out on me.
- Oh, no, I'm not ducking anyone.
Why should I?
- Well, uh,
because you know the question I'm going to ask you.
- [chuckles] Oh, do I?
- There's something we, uh, something we have in common
-
-
your shipmate.
- Oh, yes, yes.
- Yes, I haven't seen him around lately.
- Well, then you must be very pleased.
- Possibly.
- Must be a great load off your mind.
- Well, it's not quite off my mind.
I haven't seen him around, but I'm not sure that he's gone.
- Well then, if you don't see him again,
you may presume he's gone.
- Well, I don't like to presume anything.
I like to know for sure.
Has he gone?
- Look, if I told you he was gone,
would you believe me?
- No.
- Well, then what's the point of my saying anything?
- Where is Willie Loomis?
- I don't know where he is.
- What does that mean?
- Just what I said. I don't know.
- Mr. McGuire, don't play dumb.
- I'm telling you. I'm telling you.
I don't know where he is. I haven't the slightest idea.
- When was the last time you saw him?
- A few days ago.
- What was he doing?
- Licking his wounds.
He was pretty shaken up by that b*ating
you handed him, you know?
- Was he shook up enough to leave town?
- Well, I made sure of that.
He was definitely going.
- But it is possible that he's left?
- Well...
anything's possible.
- Don't be vague, Mr. McGuire.
I would like an answer because it concerns you, too.
- I'm telling you...
he went upstairs to pack.
And when I went up to look for him in his room,
he wasn't there.
And he hadn't packed.
- Would he leave town without taking his things?
- I don't know. Someone took his clothes.
Because a day later, they disappeared.
- Disappeared?
- Hmm.
Willie or someone came back into Collinwood at night
and made off with his clothes.
- So where is he?
- I don't know.
There is... just one thing
that makes me feel he hasn't left town.
- What's that?
- He didn't have any money. At least none that I know of.
- Well, you can't get far without that.
- Well, he could always thumb a ride into Boston
and get a ship there.
But he knew I was going to give him some money.
You know, at least enough to keep him till he shipped out.
- And he's not the type to turn down a handout.
- That's what bothers me.
He knew he only had to wait about five minutes
for me to give him that money.
But he didn't wait.
Or wouldn't wait. I don't know.
Vicki, she was the last one that saw him.
She saw him leaving the house.
I just can't figure it out.
I've checked every boarding house in and out of town.
I don't know where to look next.
- Well, if he comes back here, there'll be trouble.
- There won't be any trouble.
- There will be and I'll make it.
[puts down drink]
[jazz music plays]
[rock music plays]
- Well, everything stands just as it was.
No one knows where the creep is.
- If you can trust a man like Jason McGuire.
- I was considering that while I was talking to him.
The difference between McGuire and his friend is that
it seems that McGuire...
wants to, uh, get on the right side of people.
I don't believe for a minute that he was telling the truth.
But I don't think that he's seen Loomis.
[door slams]
- Hey, there's the long
-lost pride of our sardine fleet.
- I can't wait to see how he's gonna get out of this one.
- [laughs]
- I'm sorry, honey.
- Hi, Joe.
- I was just keeping your chair warm for you.
- Hey, why do you have that expression on your face?
'Cause you're late or because there isn't much of an evening in store for me?
- Oh, no, it has nothing to do with you.
- Well, if you two are gonna squabble,
I'll take my beverage elsewhere.
- Stick around. We may need a referee.
- Sit down, Burke.
No, no squabbles, no referees, just loads of fun.
- Hey, what's the matter?
- Nothing.
- Nothing?
You'd look that depressed if you were gonna tell me
that the boat sank.
- Well, it's not a very good topic for conversation.
- In this place, anything is a good topic.
- It's just
-
- it's not very pleasant.
- Well, we'll tell you when to stop.
- Well, I went out to visit my uncle on his farm today.
- Where's that, Joe?
- Oh, it's just a few miles out of town.
He has... livestock dairy products.
I used to spend a lot of time there when I was a kid.
- You thinking of becoming a farmer, Joe?
- No. No such luck.
Anyway, when I got there, they'd been out all day
searching for a missing calf.
So I joined in with them.
See, my uncle, well, he doesn't lose very much livestock.
He's pretty well fenced in.
- Well, fences have been known to fall down.
- Yeah, these, these were in top shape.
There wasn't a break in them.
No possible place for a calf to get through.
So anyway,
my uncle takes very special care of the young calves,
and this, this particular one he knew was in a place
where it couldn't possibly have, uh, strayed.
He saw it there last night.
Then this morning, it
-
- it was gone.
No traces, just disappeared completely.
- Stolen.
- Well, that had to be the only solution,
but there just
-
- there weren't any tracks.
The police couldn't find anything.
- Did they find the calf?
- Yes, just a short while ago on the other side of town.
It was dead.
- Well, Joe, that's awful.
- What happened?
- That's just the point. Nobody knows.
[Maggie]
- Was it sick?
- No, no, it was a very healthy calf.
Anyway, my uncle had the veterinarian take a look at it.
- What did he find?
- Something very weird.
The calf wasn't actually injured... in any way.
But it had d*ed from a loss of blood.
- What?
- There was not one drop of blood in the calf's body.
[Maggie]
- I don't understand.
- Well, nobody does.
Not only that, there wasn't a drop of blood
in the entire area where the calf was found.
- Well, how could the calf have gotten there
if it didn't have any blood?
- The police think that somebody must've dumped it there.
[Burke]
- How could it lose its blood?
- Well, the veterinarian says
it seems to have been expertly drained.
- Drained?
- Yes, he's examining what he thinks
are two very small puncture marks on the throat.
- Why would anyone want to drain the blood from a calf?
- And...
what would anybody do with it once they had it?
- There has to be a rational explanation for it.
- So far, there hasn't been.
- Has anything like this ever happened around here before?
- No, never, there hasn't been a livestock theft in years.
Why
-
- why go to all the trouble of draining the blood
and then just dumping the most valuable part?
- Well, maybe, whoever it was who did it
couldn't dispose of it the way he'd planned.
- Yeah, that's possible.
- Well, anyone who's gonna steal a calf
knows what he's gonna do with it before.
You don't steal a calf, carry it around,
and then try to unload it.
- Hmm.
Burke.
- I see him.
- Some people just never learn no matter how tough it is.
- Well, then the lesson will just have to be repeated.
- What are you gonna do?
- You want me to go with you?
- No, no, you stay here, Joe.
Loomis?
Loomis!
- What is it?
- It took a lot of nerve for you to walk in here tonight.
You might've known I'd be here.
- I
-
- I didn't think about it.
- Why not?
- I don't know.
- Do you remember the last thing I told you?
- Yeah, I think so.
- What was it?
What did I say?
- You said you wanted me to get out of town.
- You're still here.
- I know.
- Loomis, you didn't believe me
when I said I'd back up my
-
- my words with action?
- I know you will.
- Then why haven't you gone?
- I won't make any trouble.
- You already have.
- I'm sorry.
- You're sorry?
I didn't think you knew the definition of the word.
- I mean it.
- You mean to tell me that you're apologizing?
- Yes.
- I wouldn't have believed that of you.
I believe you'd come back in here swinging or worse.
- Oh, no. I wouldn't do that.
- Loomis?
Are you all right?
- Yeah.
- We were pretty rough on each other the other night.
You are not... hurt, are ya?
- No.
- What's the matter?
- Nothing.
- Why don't you drink your drink?
You haven't touched your drink.
What is it?
- Leave me alone.
Please.
- Sure, yeah.
- What's the matter?
Everything's all right, isn't it?
- No, your pal's in bad shape.
Something's wrong with him.
Something very strange.
- What do you mean, strange?
- Well, his whole personality is different.
He's shaking like a leaf.
- Willie shaking?
- I think you should get him a doctor.
- Why? He's not that bad, is he?
- Well, that fight. Maybe he hurt himself.
Maybe he fell and hit his head when he went down on the floor.
Maybe he has some internal injuries.
- I doubt that.
- Why?
- Because he was perfectly normal the day after the fight.
Except for a few bruises, he was just his old self.
- Well, he's not his old self now.
Go and see for yourself.
- I will.
Well, don't you say hello anymore?
- Jason.
- Where have you been, kid?
- Around.
- I've been looking for you for days now.
Where'd you go?
- Don't ask me.
- I will ask you, Willie.
And you'll answer.
Now, I want to know what you've been doing.
- Nothing.
- What's the matter with you?
You're not like yourself.
- Nothing.
- Willie, you in trouble?
- No!
- Then what is it?
- I don't want to talk about it.
- You disappear off the face of the Earth,
and you don't want to talk about it.
Willie, have you done something so bad,
you can't talk about it?
- No.
- Oh, come on now.
What are you trying to do, play the mystery man with me?
I happen to know one of the places you went to.
- Do ya?
- Mm
-hmm.
You were in the cemetery.
- How do you know?
- You went into the Collins family tomb.
- No!
- Now, don't lie to me, Willie.
I know you were there.
You got a bad habit of leaving cigarette butts
on the edges of things.
- It wasn't me.
- Oh, come on now.
Don't you think I can add a few things together
and come up with the right answers?
All those questions about the Collins family.
Don't you think I know what that's all about?
Are you trying to tell me that you went into a cemetery
at night just to pay your respects?
- Jason, please.
- You went in there to rob a grave.
- No.
- How could you sink so low?
Do a thing like that to rob a stiff.
Willie... [coughing]
Willie, how could you do such a thing?
- I didn't.
- Oh, come on now.
I know what you're up to.
But I've got to put a stop to it.
Look, I've got the $ right here.
I'm going to give it to you,
and you're going to get out of town.
Come on, let's go outside so I can give it to you.
- No.
[whispering]
- Willie...
bucks.
- I don't want it.
- You need it.
- I'll be staying here.
- I don't know what the story is.
All I know is something's happened to him.
- Are you still determined to kick him out of town?
- Well...
I really don't know.
- Hey, Joe, what's the matter?
- Oh, I'm sorry, I just
-
-
I just keep seeing that little calf lying there,
drained of its blood.
- Look, you can't stay here.
- Please, I can't help it.
Now, don't make it any rougher than it is.
- What can't you help?!
- Nothing!
- I don't know. I can't figure you out.
You're in trouble, boy, big trouble.
- Please, will you leave me alone?
- I don't know.
Just don't...
What is that on your sleeve?
- Nothing.
- There are specks of blood on your sleeve, Willie.
Willie...
why are there specks of blood on your sleeve?
[creepy music plays]
[announcer]
- "Dark Shadows" is a Dan Curtis Production.
215 - April 24, 1967
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The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place.
The show depicted the lives, loves, trials, and tribulations of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a number of supernatural occurrences take place.