357 - November 7, 1967

[bunniefuu]

[Carolyn narrating] - The sounds of thunder shake the great walls of Collinwood

and echo across the land.

But inside there is a moment's peace

as in the eye of the hurricane,

but soon to be broken,

for Collinwood is a house with many secrets

demanding to be known,

and the secrets tie enemies together

as well as tear friends apart,

while the ancient clock ticks on,

knowing that time has its secrets too.

- You accepted my apology awfully easily.

- I understood it.

All it meant was that you won't be rude to me

in front of your mother.

- Yes.

Good manners can cover up the most complex of feelings.

It's a game.

- I'm not playing any game.

You are and it's not even your own game.

It's Barnabas'.

- You are jealous.

- No.

- Of course you are.

You love him. - That's not important.

I don't believe that.

- Carolyn, why don't you get away from him?

- I'll never leave him.

- Well, then, if you won't leave him,

then help him.

- But I am.

- Help him by making him start the treatments again.

It's the only reason I am staying here

in the hope that he will realize how important they are.

- He warned me that you might try to make an ally out of me.

- There is no reason we shouldn't work together.

[dog howling]

- Isn't there?

You are the one who should go!

Give me the notebook and leave Collinsport.

- I should go to your mother right now

and tell her what he's done to you.

- I dare you.

Nine o'clock,

my mother is upstairs reading.

Now would be a perfect time,

only you'll have to tell her everything,

everything you know about Barnabas.

[clock ticking]

Go ahead, Miss Hoffman!

It's not striking.

- Carolyn -- - The clock is running,

but it didn't strike the hour.

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- Carolyn!

Eh -- eh -- ev -- ever since I found out about Barnabas,

I have been wishing that someone else knew about him.

- Doctor Woodard knew, he's dead.

- Yes, but -- he wouldn't help us.

You could.

[knocking]

- Mr. Collins, Roger Collins?

- I don't know if he's in.

- He is.

- Well, I'll get him. Won't you come in?

I expect he will want to know your name.

- Peterson, Anthony Peterson.

- Oh, I think you'll be more comfortable in there.

- It's a fascinating piece, isn't it, Miss Hoffman?

The original Barnabas Collins had it made

as a wedding present for Josette.

[laughing]

Oh, you find that amusing?

- Oh, I'm -- I'm sorry --

No, it's just my nerves, the the storm --

and just now the clock didn't strike.

Something is wrong with it.

- Oh, dear, I hope not.

Old Pruitt used to take care of it

but he's dead now, of course.

Whoever bought his shop cares more about selling cheap jewelry

than fixing fine clocks.

It's a sign of the times, I'm afraid.

Carolyn said that there was someone here to see me.

- Anthony Peterson, Mr. Collins.

- Why, I don't think I know you.

- Then you don't look at your telephone messages

or read your mail.

- I like my surprises in books, not life.

Young man, who are you? Why are you here?

- I represent Tim Newley.

- Oh yes, down at the cannery.

But I'm afraid it's past my business hours.

- I've called your office every day for the past two weeks

and I have written you seven letters.

- Now, I intend to -- - Now listen!

There is no need to bore Miss Hoffman with this.

Come into the drawing room

and I will give you exactly five minutes.

Now, this accident, Newley, supposedly --

- This accident Newley had

was a result of your worn out machinery.

As his lawyer, I intend to get him --

- Do you live in Collinsport?

- All of my life. - Yet, I don't know you.

- You will.

Now, Newley hasn't been able to work

ever since the accident occurred.

- Well, I'm sure that he is still on salary.

- Are you sure?

- Well, I assume,

I am not expected to know every detail.

- If I were you, I would.

- You aren't me.

- No, for which fact I am grateful.

- You are an extremely insolent young man!

- Growing up in your town made me that way.

- Contact Phelps at the cannery tomorrow.

- And hear his one line,

"I'll get in touch with Mr. Collins."?

- He will, in due time.

- Meanwhile, my client is using up his savings.

- I'll send him a check.

- Unbelievable!

Pure th-century!

Why don't you send the lady of the house down

with a basket of food?

- This is obviously your first case.

Let me warn you,

other people have tried to make their name

by attacking this family.

They didn't succeed.

They didn't hate you as much as I do.

- Making more notes, Miss Hoffman?

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Give me that book! - No -- no.

- I'll be at your office at o'clock tomorrow morning,

Mr. Collins, and I'll stay there

until we finish this conversation.

- Wait.

Your coat.

- Thank you.

[dog howling]

- Are, are you going to town?

- Why, yes.

- Would you mind taking me with you?

- There is no need for that.

- My car is not --

- I can drive you in, Julia.

- That's not necessary.

If -- if -- if you, if you don't mind,

is it all right?

- Sure.

- Thank you.

- You can't impose on a stranger.

- It's - it's settled, Carolyn.

[clock chiming]

- Well, Julia said it wasn't working.

- It wasn't.

- Well, clocks don't usually fix themselves.

- This one did.

Uncle Roger? - Yes, Kitten?

- Who is Mr. Peterson?

- A most unpleasant young man.

- Aside from that. - So angry.

From my reading, I understood the younger generation

to be obsessed with love.

He certainly didn't get that message.

- What does he do for a living?

- Oh, he is a lawyer.

But he is no one you need to consult.

Why are you so interested?

- No particular reason. - Well, I hope not.

- Is his office in town?

- If he has an office,

I wouldn't be surprised if he operated out

of his briefcase and car!

[chuckling]

Didn't your great-great-grandfather

arrive here with nothing more than a Bible and $?

Wasn't that all?

- No, it was not, he arrived with manners,

if he was any great-great-grandfather of mine.

Come on and play me a game of chess.

- I -- I -- I can't.

- I'll let you win -- once.

- I -- have to drive into town.

- In this weather? Ridiculous.

- Well, I - I have an errand to do for Barnabas.

- I certainly envy the way

he gets everybody to do everything for him.

I wish I knew his secret.

- No, you don't.

He -- he just needs more help than anyone.

- Kitten, is everything all right?

- But, of course, silly,

I'm just on the track of something very special for him

and you know how we Stoddard's are,

we simply have to get what we want.

[thunder rumbles]

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[thunder rumbles]

[dog howling]

- Did -- did you hear that?

- What?

- That dog howling. Did you hear it?

- Why, yes.

- I was beginning to think I was the only one that heard it.

[sighs]

Now -- where do we start?

- Well, I see one logical place.

Why do you think you are the only one who hears dogs?

- That's not funny.

Oh -- I, I can't trust you.

- You started to trust me, Miss Hoffman,

when you got into my car.

[thunder rumbles]

- You -- you hate the Collins -- why?

- I'm that type fellow.

- That's not an answer.

- I grew up without money.

I had to think about every dime.

What was the last time Roger Collins ever thought about it?

I bet it was an original pressing of a first edition

from the Denver mint.

I want what they've got.

- You wouldn't if you knew.

[dog howling]

- Knew what?

- What they have got.

- I'll take my chances.

It would be a great test --

to find out how much sense I've got.

Do I turn into them or do I stay myself?

You never have money, Miss Hoffman,

you don't know how it will hit the blood.

- Stop it.

I'm sorry.

- You aren't too stable, are you?

- That's a very nice way of putting it,

thank you.

No. Not anymore.

- Why not?

Don't you ever answer?

Or is that one of the rules of the game we're playing?

- It's not a game.

- It seems like one.

- It is not a game at all unless death is a game.

That's a safe, isn't it? - Yes.

- One man wants this very much.

- Who?

- No questions.

- What's in it?

- You heard me.

- Forget it, Miss Hoffman.

- He'll -- he'll k*ll me if he gets it tonight.

And he will get it if you don't put it in your safe.

If I walk out of here with this,

he will k*ll me.

- Roger Collins wants it that badly?

[laughing] - Roger --

Roger, no - no --

Oh no, I wish it were Roger -- - Miss Hoffman!

- Oh -- oh -- I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. It's just --

It's just that I -- I -- I just have a -- I --

Oh, I just don't know what to do.

I can't go to the police.

- Well, why not, if you're in danger?

- I'm not --

if -- if this is somewhere where he can't get it.

Please! Please!

- You want to put it in my safe?

- You'll keep it? - Yes.

- But you -- must promise that you won't look at it.

That you won't read it.

Do you have a secretary?

- Yes. She comes in one hour every day

to type my usual letters to Roger Collins.

She also happens to be my aunt.

- Does she have the combination to the safe?

- No.

- No one else?

- The people who made it, I guess.

Your book is safe with me, Miss Hoffman.

I see it has a key. Lock it.

Go ahead.

Then you can take the key with you.

Now, you'll be sure that no one will be sitting up here

reading it during their lunch hour, okay?

- You think I'm being silly. I'm not.

He will try to get it --

not during the day, during the night.

- Well, the building has a night watchman.

- You'll hear so many lies.

- About what?

- Oh, about me and about the book.

No, if, if, if I should die, no matter how,

no matter what papers they bring you with my signature on them,

will you promise to take that notebook

to the police immediately?

Do you understand?

- Yes.

- [sighs]

[chuckles] Thank you.

I feel -- almost -- almost safe.

- Miss Hoffman, let me drive you back to Collinwood.

- Oh, no -- no, no -- that's not necessary.

I, I can get a cab.

As long as I can trust you.

[thunder rumbling]

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- Your door was unlocked.

- Yeah.

- I'm Carolyn Stoddard.

- Yeah?

- You, you know that of course.

- Of course.

- I came to apologize.

Someone should.

- You're right.

I suggest the entire Collins family

take out an ad in the newspaper,

every morning -- "We apologize"

and then all your signatures, one by one.

- I'm not like the rest of them.

- Just born lucky, I guess.

- Well -- I, I notice things --

like Uncle Roger being so silly and stuffy.

That whole scene could have been avoided.

- You're wrong, I caused that scene.

- Oh, you have everything figured out, don't you?

- No.

- You sound as if you do.

You look as if you do.

- You don't know how I look. You never have.

- I just met you.

- Come on --

I was the lifeguard at the beach

the day you wore your first bikini,

and when you learned to play golf I was a caddie --

yours.

- That's impossible.

- Now, you couldn't see me for the golf bag then.

Oh, I may have grown a bit taller,

I certainly shave oftener,

but it's still the same package.

- Maybe I like men who shave oftener.

- Yeah -- and maybe you just like trouble.

You know, you're sitting on some important papers.

- Sorry.

- You didn't want Julia Hoffman

to drive into town with me, did you?

- I liked you even then.

- Go on.

- Well, she isn't the best of company.

- She is suffering.

- You could call it that.

- What would you call it?

- Oh, I, I, I don't know the technical name for it.

She -- imagines people are against her.

She is a very unhappy woman.

She is disappointed in love.

But, there's no point in naming names.

I'm sure she did.

- No, she didn't.

- Really?

- I'm her lawyer, not her confessor.

Why don't you tell me the names.

- What?

Why, I'm, I, I'm, I'm -- sure

she didn't want you to know them.

Do you know what you can do?

- No, what?

- Buy me a drink --

unless it's beneath you to walk into the

Blue Whale with me.

- I have a late date.

You've got about ten minutes left, Miss Stoddard.

- Carolyn, please.

- And I'll tell you how we're going to spend that time.

- All right, tell me.

- No, you're going to tell me.

- Let go.

- No, not until you tell me why you came here tonight.

Not until you tell me the truth.

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