307 - August 29, 1967

[bunniefuu]

[Victoria narrating] - It is a special kind of darkness

that the night brings to Collinwood,

a darkness concealing an unknown terror.

Only one person, a young girl,

has known the full secret of this terror.

But the secret has been pushed back

into a dark and forgotten corner

of her troubled mind.

- Well, now, if you're cold,

why don't you close the window?

- It's not the reason why I'm putting my sweater on.

- Well, what is it, then?

- Well, I've got to get out of this house

before I go stark raving mad.

- You know you can't leave the house.

It's too dangerous. - [sighs]

Pop, if you say that once more

I'm gonna scream my head off.

- Maggie, if you insist on being foolish

I have no other choice but to remind you of the dangers involved.

- Being foolish?

I just want to lead a normal, active life again.

I'd like to feel that I still exist.

- Well, it'll be over pretty soon.

It won't be much longer.

- Pop, that's called whistling in the dark.

Now, if everything continues

at the rate that things have been happening

we're gonna spend the rest of our lives cooped up in here.

Well, that's not going to happen to me.

I'm getting out of this house tonight

and you're not going to stop me.

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[waves crashing] ♪♪

- Maggie...

I don't want to have to keep you here by force,

but I will if it becomes necessary.

- You wouldn't do that. - If I have to, yes.

- Pop, why are you doing this to me?

- If you think I enjoy keeping you cooped up day and night, you're wrong.

- Pop, I wasn't planning to go out and stay out.

I just want to go out for a little while,

to see if there's a real world outside and people in it.

- Well, there are people out there, all right.

There's one in particular who's waiting for an unguarded moment

so he can finish the job that he started.

- Pop, please be reasonable.

- I'm being more reasonable than you know.

You don't remember the condition you were in

when you were found on the beach,

but I'll never forget it.

It was though all the life had been drained out of you.

You had a look in your eye, it was the most terrifying thing I ever saw.

You were alive, but after the damage that was done to you

you might as well have been dead.

And now you're recuperated, you're recovered, and you're healthy,

and I'm gonna do everything to see that you stay that way.

[knock on door]

Oh, Joe. - Hi, Sam.

Hi, sweetheart.

Okay, what's the matter?

- The same trouble.

This house and being trapped in it.

- Maggie's a little angry with me.

She started to leave the house and I stopped her.

- Joe, would you please tell my father

that a few minutes in town won't do any harm?

Just a few minutes.

- Maggie, you know I can't tell him that.

- Why not?

- Because there's still too much danger.

- Danger.

Danger. I am so sick of hearing that word.

We don't know what the danger is,

we don't even know what it looks like.

We don't know if it's a man, a woman, a beast.

We don't even know if it exists anymore.

- Until we know it doesn't exist, it exists.

- Why do you always take his side?

- Maggie, this is not a question of taking sides.

- Yes, it is!

No matter what I want or what I say,

the two of you always reject it.

You're both against me and I'm not going to stand for it any longer.

Now I'm getting out of this house tonight

if I have to fight my way out.

- Maggie, where are you going?

- To my room.

[door opens, shuts]

- Why doesn't she understand we're only trying to help her?

- Well, I think if we were in her shoes

we wouldn't understand either. - Yes, I would.

I would if there was someone on the outside trying to k*ll me.

- Ah, Joe.

You forget that she doesn't remember anything.

That's why it's so difficult for her to comprehend what we're trying to do.

- Well, she knows we both love her.

She should be able to understand

that we're only trying to do what's best for her.

- Yeah, well, you can't blame her

for feeling like a prisoner in her own house.

She hasn't set a foot outside.

I don't know. Maybe we made a mistake.

- You're not thinking of letting her go out, are you?

- Oh, no, not alone, no.

Oh, but I don't see any reason why she shouldn't go

into town if we went with her, do you?

- No, I guess that's safe enough.

- Good.

Uh, you go on into town

and, uh, get us a table at The Blue Whale,

and I'll bring her right along soon as I settle her down.

- You sure you don't want me to talk to her?

- No, no, no, no, you were getting a little hot under the collar yourself

for a minute there.

No, I'll, uh, cool her off.

We'll have no trouble with her soon as she finds out

that she's gonna leave the house.

- Okay, Sam, I...

I just hope we're not making a mistake.

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- You alone, Vicki?

- Oh, just for the moment.

Burke should be here any minute.

- All right. You mind if I join you?

- Please do.

- [chuckles] You look about as cheerful as I feel.

Shall we have a drink and spill out our troubles to each other?

- Thanks, but I'll stay with this.

- Hey, Bob, bring me a beer, will you?

- Why are you so depressed?

- Oh, I'm not really depressed, I'm angry.

- Why? - Oh, because Maggie, uh,

she's unhappy about the way Sam and I

have been treating her.

She, uh, refuses to understand

that we're just trying to protect her.

I guess Sam's right, though.

It must be difficult for her to understand that.

I'm also angry because the sheriff doesn't seem

to be making any headway in the case.

- Oh, but, Joe, he's doing everything he can.

- I know.

But I still think there must be something he can do

that no one's thought of yet.

- Well, he can't very well do it

until someone thinks of it, can he?

- If only Maggie could-- could remember something,

just one little thing might break this thing wide open.

- Her memory's still a complete blank?

- Yeah, about all she can do is, uh,

remember a little piece of music.

She can't connect it with anything.

Well, there's that strange little girl

who, uh, paid her a visit,

but that doesn't make much sense either.

- What little girl?

- I don't know, she dropped by the cottage

right after Maggie got home.

She said she had given Maggie a doll

and she wanted it back.

- Had Maggie ever met her before?

- She didn't remember meeting her,

but the little girl insisted that she had.

- I think the little girl was telling the truth.

- How do you know that?

- Because the-- the night that Maggie wandered in here

she was in a state of incoherence and shock.

But she kept saying that she'd been with a little girl.

It was after that that her memory reverted to where it is now.

- Well, did she say she knew the little girl's name?

- Yes. It was Sarah.

- Vicki, what's the matter?

- Well, if you go over everything that's happened to Maggie,

you'll find that this little girl named Sarah

keeps cropping up at the most unexpected times.

She was the one that told Sam where to find Maggie

and-- and about two weeks ago,

when everybody thought that Maggie was dead,

David met a little girl named Sarah

who told him that she was still alive.

- Oh, that's impossible.

Two weeks ago the only people that knew Maggie was alive

were-- were, uh, Sam Evans, Dr. Woodard, and-- and me.

- But David swears that that's what she said,

and then when Maggie showed up

she kept saying that a little girl named Sarah

had come back with her.

- Okay, okay, so a little kid

keeps popping up at odd times and saying weird things.

I still don't see how that could have any connection

with what happened to Maggie.

I mean, after all, the sheriff, Dr. Woodard,

everybody-- everybody seems to agree

that Maggie was kidnapped by someone.

Now, I hope you're not gonna tell me

that it was a little -year-old girl who did it.

- No, of course not.

But I think that this little Sarah,

whoever she is,

might know something that the rest of us don't know.

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- Hi! - Hi.

- Well, I didn't have much trouble persuading her

to come out of the house.

- Feeling better? - Yes.

I'm sorry I blew up at you like that.

- Oh, no, that's all right.

Bob? - How are you, Maggie.

- I'm fine. - Listen, we'll order a round of drinks

and then Vicki and I will tell you the good news.

- Ah? - Really?

- Well, what's the good news?

- I'll take a Scotch over ice.

- I'd like the same, please. - Beer for me, huh?

- And I'll have, uh, my usual.

Now, come on, out with it, Joe.

- Oh, listen, I think that Vicki has come up with something important.

- What is it?

- Well, I'm not sure about this, Maggie,

but I think that this little girl called Sarah

might hold the key to all the answers we've been looking for.

- Sarah?

You mean that strange little girl

that came to see me and asked me to give her doll back?

- Yes.

Maggie, do you remember the way she was dressed?

- Yes. She had on a very long dress.

It was-- It was rather old-fashioned looking.

- Would you say that it's, uh, the kind of thing

that you might wear to a costume party?

- Well, I didn't think about it at the time, but yes.

- That was the same kind of dress

worn by that little girl you made a sketch of, wasn't it, Sam?

- Yes, and her name was Sarah, too.

- And David met a little girl that fits the same description

about two weeks ago and her name was Sarah.

- And she told him at that time

that Maggie was still alive somewhere.

- Ah, she couldn't have known that two weeks ago.

- But she did.

David kept telling her that Maggie was dead

but she insisted that Maggie was still alive.

- Now listen, the question is:

how did a little -year-old girl

know what nobody else in this town knew

except for you, Dr. Woodard, and me?

Now I'm sure none of us told her, so how'd she find out?

- Ah, who's to say she did find out?

You know how kids are.

I mean, you know, she might have just

made it up out of her head.

- Yeah, she might have, but I don't think she did.

Sam, that day you did a sketch of her

Maggie was still missing,

and Sarah told you where to look for her, right?

- Yes.

Yes, but are we sure it's the same little girl?

- Your description of her

coincides with David's and Maggie's.

It has to be the same girl.

- Now how did she know

where to tell you to look for Maggie?

- I don't know.

I've been wondering about that for a long time.

- Maggie, did, uh,

did Sarah say anything to you

about her family or where she lived?

- No, she just seemed very upset

that I didn't seem to know who she was.

She seemed to think that I should know.

- I think if you had your memory back

you would have recognized her.

- Why?

- Because the night that you came in here,

you-- you kept talking about

a little girl named Sarah that you'd been with.

Well, we didn't know what you were talking about,

so Barnabas went outside to see if he could find her,

but she wasn't there.

- Sarah.

Sarah!

- Uh, what is it, Maggie?

- Did you remember something?

- It's funny, but...

just now, for a few seconds,

I thought I heard that soft tinkling music.

It's gone now.

- Well, listen, do you think Sarah has any connection with that?

- I don't know.

- Sam, we've got to find that little girl

and question her.

And I think the sooner we do

the sooner we're gonna find out what happened to Maggie.

- Okay, okay,

I'm in favor of trying anything to help.

But I just don't know where to begin.

- I think David might be able to help us.

- Yes? - He's, uh...

he's seen this little girl several times, you know.

In fact, he saw her today.

- Uh-huh. Where?

- Well, there's the problem.

You see, they have a-- a secret place where they play

and she made him promise he wouldn't tell anyone else where it is.

- Listen, Vicki, do you think it'd be all right

if we came up to Collinwood tomorrow

and had a talk with David?

- Well, it's fine with me,

but seeing as he wouldn't tell me where this place is

I don't know if he'd tell anyone else.

- Well, he might, if we were able

to convince him how important it was to Maggie's safety.

- Oh, hi, Burke. - Hello, everybody.

- Hi. - Hi, Vicki.

- Hello.

- Well, Maggie, it's nice to see you out again.

- Oh, thank you. - Is this some occasion?

- Well, not quite yet, Burke, but, uh,

we hope that Maggie won't have to be guarded for much longer.

- Well, don't tell me you're starting to remember things.

- No, she doesn't remember who kidnapped her yet...

but we think we might know of someone who does.

♪♪

- So we're gonna do our best to find this little girl

and find out what she knows.

- Well, good luck.

If there's anything I can do to help,

just let me know. - Thanks, Burke, I will.

Okay. - Good night, Vicki.

- Good night, Burke. - Good night.

- Have a good time.

- Goodbye.

- And now, young lady, would you mind letting me know

just what's bothering you?

- Not at all. You are.

- Have I done something wrong?

- You've done something more than wrong,

you've done something you should be ashamed of.

- I have no idea what you're talking about.

- I'm talking about your private investigation

of Barnabas Collins.

- Oh, oh, I see.

Well, I guess I don't have to ask you

how you found out about it.

Willie told Barnabas I was asking questions

and Barnabas came and cried on your shoulder

and, uh, you believed his side of it, right?

- You know, a couple of days ago

I was only half-serious

when I said I thought you were jealous.

But now I'm beginning to think you really are.

- Vicki, don't be ridiculous.

Barnabas is the last person in the world

I'd ever be jealous of.

- Then what other reason could you possibly have

for trying to do something that might slander

a man's reputation?

- If his background and his conscience are clean,

then nothing that I will do will slander him.

- What makes you think that his background

and his conscience aren't clean?

- There are a lot of things about him that I find highly suspicious.

- Such as?

- Such as the so-called eccentricities

which I don't think are eccentricities at all.

- Then what are they? - A cover-up for something.

- What?

- Well, that's what I don't know,

but it's something pretty weird, I'll tell you that much.

- You can't tell me anything, Burke,

because you don't know anything bad about that man.

You have a couple of vague suspicions, that's all.

You don't even have enough to justify what you're doing.

- Vicki, have you ever wondered why Barnabas

never talks about his life in England?

- Now why should he talk about it?

- Well, why shouldn't he?

He claims to have spent a lot of time there,

most of his life there.

You'd think he'd mention something about it

sometime once in a while.

- And that's enough to make you suspicious of him?

Burke.

- Last week I tried to get him to talk a little bit

about how he lived in England,

where he lived in England, some of the people he knew.

And the more questions I asked him the more fidgety he got.

Finally he opened up just a little bit

and mentioned the name of Niall Bradford,

a cousin he lived with in London.

Well, I looked up the name Niall Bradford,

and you know what I found out?

- I don't care.

- There was a Niall Bradford,

lived on the outskirts of London,

but he died years ago.

And there hasn't been anybody else

living there since then.

Now what do you make of that?

- It's perfectly simple.

Barnabas was so tired of all these questions of yours

that he just picked any name he could to keep you quiet.

- Vicki, this man's obsession with the remote past is so much

that he could almost be part of it.

The other night, when you announced our engagement,

the look in his eye toward me was one of pure hatred.

He looked at me and muttered under his breath the name of Jeremiah.

- Is this the way it's gonna be after we're married?

- [sighs] I didn't start this on a whim, Vicki,

and I didn't start it because of you.

- Why did you start it?

- Well, the other night I was sitting in my room

and I was thinking about Maggie Evans.

And I was wondering why the police

hadn't been able to come up with a solution.

And then I remembered the night that Maggie Evans came walking in here

when we all thought she was dead.

- What about it? - Well, she didn't recognize you,

and she didn't recognize me,

but then she saw Barnabas

and she said, "No,"

and she screamed and fainted.

- I think you've said just about enough.

- No, there's more.

- I don't want to hear any more.

If you're gonna suggest that Barnabas Collins

had anything to do with what happened to Maggie,

well, I just don't want any part of it.

- Vicki, listen to me.

There is some kind of a connection.

- There isn't any connection.

Now, I've heard just about enough

and you've said just about enough.

I-- I just don't like what you're saying

and if you continue to--

to malign Barnabas Collins in this way...

well, I will never marry you.

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