451 - March 18, 1968

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[narrator] -A séance has been held in the great house at Collinwood.

A séance, which has suspended time and space

and sent one woman on an uncertain

and frightening journey into the past,

back to the year .

There in the village of Collinsport,

Victoria Winters has been unjustly condemned as a witch

and the powers of darkness themselves are invoked

to undo the curse left behind

by a cruel and terrifying force.

- Spirit of Angelique, speak to me!

Speak!

- You will die! You will die!

- My spirit is stronger then you!

- No!

- Just as you made his hand cover his eyes

when you saw the cross,

my hand on his heart will make you fly!

- Do not touch me. - I will.

- Your hand will burn if you'll touch me.

- I am not afraid.

- Argh!

- He is dying.

- Be quiet.

Can you hear me spirit of Angelique?

Do not hide from me.

You dare not hide from me.

You are lying.

You are stealing him carrying your curse with you,

but we will not leave until you have left his body.

- Argh!

- Barnabas! Barnabas!

- The light! The light!

- Argh!

- What has happened?

- Oh, a terrible power is here.

She is among us now, but her power is evil.

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- Let us begin again. - Begin again?

- Yes, I had a feeling for a moment

that it is beginning to work.

- Oh, I - I can't.

- What do you mean?

- You - you don't understand the danger.

- I know that this means life or death for my son.

- And for me, too.

It means battle between my spirit

and the spirit of Angelique.

She's dead isn't she, at least to this world?

- Yes.

- Then the combat would take a -

in the deepest recesses of the deepest darkness.

- But you have the power. You have proved that.

- She too has the power.

Certainly, she has proved that.

- You've got to do something to help him.

- No, Mr. Collins, I can help no more.

- Yes, you must.

I will - I will give you anything you want,

money, anything.

- I would help you if I could. - You can!

- I can't - won't!

For the simple reason that I'm terrified

for all my powers, I'm still human remember that.

- So nothing more can be done?

I must go now.

- I see blood.

I see a ravaged countryside.

- The people in danger. The terror. - What did he say?

- Innocent people are made monsters.

I see good men turned to evil.

- And I see - I see-- - Go on.

- And I see the source of evil.

I see the cause of the terror.

- I see-- - Yes?

- I see myself.

- Help him, please, I beg you.

[thunder rumbling]

- We must go to the house of the first curse.

- Then you will try again?

- It is not this place.

It is not this house.

We must journey through some wooded land.

- The old house?

- A house with high cloud columns that is the place.

- Yes. The old house, you will try again there.

- Will you promise that nothing -

can you give me something

that belonged to the living Angelique?

- Yes, I'm sure, I can.

- And you're sure we will not be disturbed?

- Yes, I can promise you that.

- Any disturbance would be fatal.

- Yes, there will be no disturbance.

I will find a way to reward you.

- My - my survival will be my reward,

it will mean the death of an evil spirit.

- And the curse will be lifted?

- It dissolve into the dark, if I am to succeed.

- You will.

- It is my most profound hope.

Go now, take your son. Be seen by no one.

- I told you the house will be entirely empty,

everyone is in town.

- Go to the house of the curse,

find something that belonged to Angelique

and wait for me there.

- Come.

[thunder rumbling]

- Silence.

My spirit, fear not,

the power goodness is yours,

the power of light is yours.

Silence. Silence.

Fear not. Fear not.

- Barnabas,

I told them you were not dead.

I told them.

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- Why does she look at me like that?

- Don't look, son.

- Take care, do not stare too long into the eyes.

- Her eyes.

They're looking into the pit of my soul.

Stop her, please.

- Turn away.

Do not look at her anymore.

Did you find something that belonged to Angelique?

- I think this ribbon is hers, but I can't be sure.

- There is one way to make certain.

Give it to me.

- What is that light?

- It was hers. Now we can begin.

But first I must repeat my admonition,

nothing must disturb my concentration, nothing.

- You have my promise that nothing will.

- If the circle of faith is broken again,

all is lost.

- No one is here, nothing will break your concentration.

- My work depends upon it and my very existence.

- I completely understand.

- Let us begin.

- I thought Millicent was in town with you.

- She wasn't. I thought she was with you.

- I don't know where she is.

- I don't like her wandering around,

you know the state she's in.

- Perhaps she's looking for you.

- Perhaps she's worried, it is rather late.

- With respect Mrs. Collins, I am sincerely distressed.

- I have no doubt.

- I'm going to David's room perhaps I'll see her on the way,

shall I tell her you're here or in your room?

- I'll be here for some time, yet.

- I'm sure.

[Millicent giggling]

- Millicent.

[giggling continues]

Millicent where are you?

- If you would find me, good Lieutenant,

you must search for me.

- So you have been here all along?

- How handsome you look.

Have you brought me flowers?

- No, I haven't.

- Usually, when a gentleman courts a lady,

he brings some token.

- Courts?

- If you hope ever to win my hand,

you must prove the ardor of your hopes

with small, but meaningful gifts.

- Millicent, we are married. I'm not courting you.

- Not courting me?

Then why sir are you here, to distress me forever?

- You are already my wife.

- Wife? - Yes, we are already married.

- Oh, no, that's not possible.

- I think I'd better take you to your room.

- No, you must not touch me.

Consider me my honor.

Yes, yes, my honor.

Who will defend me now? Who?

- I will defend you, I'm your husband.

- No, no, I - I have no need of your defense.

My cousin was here tonight.

- Your cousin?

- Barnabas.

- You saw Barnabas? - Yes.

- And tomorrow, I shall speak with him

and you, sir, will surely come to a bad end.

- Millicent, you mustn't talk like that.

- Oh, my poor Lieutenant, I will pity him.

- I could never marry a man

who is destined for such a bad end.

No, never, never, never.

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- Come Millicent, let me take you to your room.

- Oh, but my Lieutenant has not left.

It would be impolite for me

to leave the room before my suitor.

- Millicent, go with your cousin.

- Yes, tomorrow, I will see my cousin,

my cousin, Barnabas.

- Millicent, you mustn't talk like that.

- Pay no attention to her.

- I should have spoken with him tonight.

- Please, Millicent it hurts -

it hurts me to hear you speak of him.

- Why do you grieve, good lady?

- Come, Millicent, please.

- Go along with her Millicent, now.

- Are you grieving for a son lost?

If so your grief will end.

- Of course, dear, all things will end.

- Perhaps, I will talk with Barnabas tonight

and - and you must come with me Cousin,

so that he dry your tears, yours as well as mine.

Come we'll go together through woods to the old house.

- I think we better go upstairs.

- No. No, he is no longer there.

He was in the tower room.

- The tower room? - Don't listen to her.

- Yes, that is where I saw him.

- First, I saw the lights up there. - The lights?

- All right, now, Millicent, stop.

- Yes, I saw the lights in the tower room

and Joshua keep trying to persuade me I didn't.

- And I went to the tower room and I found Barnabas.

- Millicent?

- Or - or a man who looked like Barnabas.

Or, perhaps it was Barnabas--

- Now you know that isn't true.

- It couldn't be.

- Cousin Joshua has taken Barnabas to the old house.

- The old house?

- And If you will come with me, we'll find him there.

- No, you must stay here.

- Where are you going? - Out.

- You're not going to the old house, are you?

- Well, of course she is, she wants to find Barnabas,

and so do I.

- Now, listen, you can't believe a thing

that she's been saying.

- I don't know what to believe, you better take her upstairs.

- No, I can't let you out of this house now.

I mean, it's not safe for you to be wandering around -

around the woods all by yourself.

- I'm quite capable of taking care of myself, Lieutenant.

Attend to your wife, she's the one who needs you.

- Mrs. Collins. - Why--?

- You have a wife, we can never marry.

I have forgotten,

you have a wife,

I am betrayed.

- All right, Millicent, that's enough.

- I will k*ll you with my own hands,

- I would k*ll you. - Millicent!

- Millicent, stop it.

- [gasps]

Cousin Barnabas, come to me,

protect me, help me.

- Can you hear me, Angelique?

- As I walk, I make a circle of crosses,

which will keep you from doing him harm.

For it is the circle of faith and you dare not enter the -

and the evil that you have put in him

will come out.

Dark, dark, how can it be so dark.

Light. There must be light.

I know you are here and I will find you.

The light will find you and destroy you forever.

But first a final warning,

leave this man from your curse.

Surrender, surrender your power.

- [groaning]

- I will search for you in the dark

and I will find you by the light of your own fire.

I will burn you in the light of your own fire.

- [groaning]

- Joshua.

[knocking]

Joshua. Joshua.

[knocking]

- Mother.

- He's coming out of the trance, get him away, quick.

All is lost.

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- What are you doing here?

- I was about to ask you the same question.

- Leave, now.

-Joshua, what is going on?

- Who's - who's in this house? - No one.

-I heard Voices-- -You heard nothing.

-I know what I heard. -Naomi.

-Don't lie, why?

- Go to Collinwood immediately.

I will explain more later,

but for now, leave, do as I say.

Oh, madam,

she has gone, we can proceed.

- I heard a voice.

I heard my mother's voice.

- Do not listen to anything.

A light, a light, look at the light.

- I can't!

- You must.

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

- The spell is broken.

- You - you can't try to lift it again?

- No, I am defeated.

What will happen in defeat is yet to be revealed.

But I tremble in my heart for what is to come.

I am in great danger.

- Madam, then I, please, I beg you to leave this place.

- Water. - What?

- Something to drink.

- There is no water here, what is it?

- Fire! I'm on fire.

- There is no fire.

- The fires are hers.

[Angelique laughing]

- [screaming]

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