364 - November 16, 1967

[bunniefuu]

[Victoria narrating] - There has been a homecoming in the great house at Collinwood

and those who have returned

have found that very little has changed.

We still live within a ring of fear,

a fear that is generated by the one who lives in the old house

where, on this night, a kind of madness prevails,

a madness that will lead to the threat of m*rder.

- I haven't given you all the news.

There is one more thing.

- Oh?

- Yes, I -- I spoke to someone the other day,

someone that you might be interested in.

- I don't think so. - I do.

- Very well -- with whom did you speak?

- Sarah Collins.

- You spoke to -- - Your sister Sarah.

Yes, I saw her.

- Where?

- At the mausoleum.

Don't bother going there, Barnabas.

She won't appear to you.

- You didn't talk to her. You're lying.

- No, I'm not lying.

- Why should she want to talk to you?

- She's lonely, very lonely.

She will talk to anyone -- anyone but you.

- Don't you talk to me that way.

- Anyone but you.

- No more words, Doctor -- - Oh! No!

You have done too much --

[choking] [wind howling]

[chandelier tinkling]

Sarah. My dear little Sarah.

You've come back to me.

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I missed you so terribly, Sarah.

Why didn't you come to me sooner?

You knew how much I wanted to see you,

didn't you?

But it's all right now.

You're back with me now

and you're going to stay with me, aren't you?

We are going to be all right

and everything will be just fine, won't it?

What's wrong, Sarah?

- I'm -- I'm very -- very, very angry.

- Angry?

With me?

But what have I done?

- You've hurt people.

- Only when it was necessary.

No, Barnabas, that's not true.

I know that's not true.

So do you.

- All right, Sarah, that's all over and done with.

Everything is going to be fine from now

on as long as you are here with me.

- No, Barnabas,

you're not through doing bad things.

Do you remember the rhyme you taught me

when I was learning how to write?

- Yes.

I remember how proud I was of you.

- Say it for me now.

- But I'm not sure I remember the exact words.

- Say it for me now.

- That evil is -- - Wicked.

- Wicked is well understood.

The wicked are punished, so you must be good.

- You see, Barnabas, you must be good --

or you will be punished.

- Then punish me, Sarah.

Do whatever you want but stay with me now.

- No, I will not stay here.

I will go away and never come back -- never!

That will be your punishment.

I know there's good and there's evil

because I learned it from you,

but you have forgotten it, Barnabas,

and you have to learn it all over again.

I'll never come back until you do.

Goodbye, Barnabas.

- No, Sarah.

Please don't leave me.

I forbid you to leave.

I beg you to stay.

Sarah.

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- Barnabas. Barnabas.

- Don't touch me.

- She -- she appeared to you, Barnabas.

Barnabas, what -- whatever else happened,

that's the important thing.

- What is that?

- It doesn't matter that she was very angry.

She won't always be angry, Barnabas,

if you listen to her.

If you -- if you don't want what you shouldn't.

- And what is that?

You think I'm jealous of Vicki, don't you?

Well, I'm not. Not at all.

- Doctor, I don't want to discuss

any more of these things.

I want to be alone.

- Vicki is back from Boston.

You didn't know that.

You see, I'm not jealous of Vicki.

If I were, I wouldn't have told you that, would I?

I only know that you can hurt her

and that she can hurt you

and that Sarah will be very angry.

- Doctor, if you mention yourself and Sarah

in the same breath again,

I shall forget that she was here.

She is angry with me.

She is angry with me because I hurt people.

Yes, I have.

I have k*lled people

and I have cared no more about it than I would

if I had crushed a moth,

because there are times when it is necessary to k*ll --

when there is no other way, Doctor.

You mean very little to me.

Do you understand that?

Do you really understand it?

- Yes. - I hope so.

I hope so, Doctor, and now, good night.

- But -- - I said, good night.

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- I watched his behavior very closely

while we were in Boston,

and on the whole, I think that the trip was a success.

Mrs. Stoddard?

- Yes?

I have done nothing but talk about the trip

and answer your questions,

and now, I'd -- I'd like to ask you a question.

- Of course.

- Is there's something that you want to tell me?

- I'm afraid there is.

- You've had news about Burke, haven't you?

- I should have told you the minute you came home,

but somehow I -- I couldn't bring myself to do it.

- Told me what?

[sighs] - I had a call from the airline yesterday.

They received word from the authorities in Brazil.

Burke's plane has been found.

- And did they find Burke?

- All they found were bodies --

the who had been onboard the plane.

- No.

No, there must be a mistake!

- No, Vicki. There's no mistake.

After I finished talking to the airline here,

I called the authorities in Brazil.

There is no mistake.

- Oh I'm -- I'm sorry to dash all your hopes like this.

I should have called you in Boston yesterday,

but somehow, I couldn't bear the thought

of telling you on the telephone.

- I -- I understand.

- And more than that, I --

I wanted you to have him one day longer.

At least until you came home.

- Now I've come home.

- Vicki, at least -- at least you know now.

The waiting is over.

I know how terrible it can be to wait.

I waited and lived with fear for years.

I know that nothing can be worse than that.

- Oh yes, things can be worse.

Knowing that Burke is lying dead in a jungle somewhere,

thousands of miles from here.

- Vicki, let me get you something to calm you.

- No, I don't want to be calm.

I want to be just as I am --

so that I -- I can think about things until I know for sure.

- But we do know for sure.

- No, I'm, I'm not going to believe that.

I'm not going to believe that --

until I've seen him for myself.

- No, Vicki, No!

The bodies were burned beyond recognition.

All they -- they know is that there were of them.

of the people who were on the plane.

That's all that was left.

- It's not very much, is it?

- Oh, I'm so sorry, Vicki.

Is there anything I can do? Anything at all?

- Yes. You can stop telling me that Burke is dead.

Maybe someday, I'm going to have to believe that,

but until then, I don't want to believe it.

- I don't want to. - But you have to.

- No.

No -- I -- I'm going to believe that,

that Burke will come back.

I -- I'm going to pray for a miracle

because that's all I can do.

That's all I have left, isn't it?

I'm going to go to my room now.

- I'll go with you. - No.

No -- there's no reason for that.

We loved each other for such a short time.

We had so many plans.

No -- no, we have so many plans.

I have to go on believing that.

Because the minute that I stop believing it,

he will be gone from me forever.

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[knocking on door]

- Well, Barnabas, come in.

- Good evening, Elizabeth.

I hope I haven't called at a bad time.

- No, of course not.

- But it was such a lovely night that I thought --

are you all right, Elizabeth?

- Yes, I'm fine.

You look disturbed about something.

Oh, I -- I'm just tired I guess.

Well then, I won't stay long.

I stopped by because I had heard that Vicki

and Cousin David had returned from Boston.

- Yes.

- I hoped, perhaps, that I might say hello to Vicki

and welcome her back.

- Oh, I think that's impossible right now.

- Is she not here?

- She's in her room.

You might as well know now as later.

- What is it?

- It's Burke Devlin.

He's dead. - Dead?

I see.

Have you told Vicki?

- Yes.

- How is she taking it?

- She's grieving of course,

but she's hoping for a miracle.

I'm afraid a miracle won't happen.

- Well, in a way she's right, you know.

- What do you mean?

- Well, we must believe that death is not the end.

- She can't go on loving a dead man

for the rest of her life.

- That's been known to happen.

- I won't let it happen to Vicki.

I won't.

- Neither will I.

We must both see to it

that she is distracted from her thoughts.

- That's very thoughtful of you, Barnabas.

- Thank you. - Not at all.

It is my pleasure.

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- I came back, David.

- Sarah.

It's nice to see you.

- Are you angry with me?

- No -- yes, I am.

Why do you always disappear in the middle of our conversations?

You wouldn't like it if I did it to you.

- I had to go, David.

- You said you had something to do at the old house.

Did something happen?

- Yes.

- What?

- It didn't happen, so there's no need to talk about it.

- What was it?

- But it still could happen --

if everyone isn't watchful.

- Watchful for what?

- Their anger. They're very angry.

- Who is?

- Those who were here before.

- When, before?

- A long time ago --

those who were here before have come back

and they're angry,

and there's someone in this house they want to destroy.

- Who?

- I can't tell you.

- Someone in this house? Is it me?

- No.

- Is it -- is it Vicki?

Is it my father?

Is it Aunt Elizabeth?

- Who? Tell me, Sarah, please!

- I can't tell you.

- All right then,

then at least, tell me who it is that

wants to destroy someone in this house.

- I've already told you too much.

I have to go.

- No, don't leave, not until you --

not until you tell me more.

- All right, David, the dead!

The dead, they are angry

and they want to destroy someone in this house!

- The dead?

What do you mean, Sarah?

Sarah, don't go.

Sarah! Come back.

Tell me more.

Sarah, come back! Come back!

Come back, Sarah, please come back!

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Come back, Sarah! Come back please!

- David, what is it? - Come back!

- Is he all right?

- David, what happened? Tell me.

Who are you shouting at?

- Sarah.

- Sarah?

- She was here?

- Yes.

She came to warn me.

- Warn you about what?

- About the dead. - The dead?

- Yes.

The dead have come back and there's someone in this house

that they want to destroy.

- Is that what she came here to tell you?

- Well, yes but --

but not exactly -- not that way.

She said, "Those who have been here before

have come again."

I didn't understand, so she --

so she finally said the dead.

- David, that doesn't make sense.

- Well, it made sense to Sarah.

That's why she's so upset.

- But the dead --

- It's all right, Mrs. Stoddard.

- David, the dead have gone.

They can't hurt us or destroy us.

- They can.

Sarah said they can, and they will,

unless we do something to stop them.

- David, did Sarah say

who they wanted to hurt in this house?

- No, she -- she wouldn't say.

- David, whatever you, whatever Sarah said

or whatever you think she said,

believe me, no one is going to hurt you.

So don't be upset.

- I'm upset because Sarah was upset.

Something terrible is going to happen

and she's trying to stop it.

- Well, then, why wouldn't she tell you

who in this house might be hurt?

I don't know.

David, when you were in Boston,

did you think of Sarah a great deal?

- Well, I thought about her sometimes.

- He was fine in Boston. Really he was.

- Aunt Elizabeth, believe me,

everything I have said was true.

And -- and when Sarah comes back,

I'll make her tell me more

and then you'll have to believe me.

- David, I don't think that Sarah is the answer

to what is wrong.

- Ms. Hoffman.

- I -- I -- I heard the child screaming.

- Oh, I'm sorry if we disturbed you.

- I -- I -- I wasn't in my room.

I came in downstairs a few minutes ago.

I have been standing here, listening.

- Ms. Hoffman, is anything the matter?

Do you feel all right?

- There -- there is nothing wrong with the boy.

- What do you mean?

- Everything he has told you is true.

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