485 - May 3, 1968

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At the great house of Collinwood,

Victoria Winters has returned to her life

from a strange and frightening adventure in the past.

She has been followed from that year of by a witch,

determined to enforce a curse, and as a result,

a terrible nightmare comes first to one person,

then to another, the same dream always,

but each time carried one step further

towards some terrifying, unknown end.

Oh, why can't I forget that dream?

That dream, that nightmare.

Julia?

What's wrong, Eric?

A dream.

This is exactly like the dream.

You knocked on the door

then you answered and you looked at me

exactly as you are now.

Julia, what's happening to me?

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Eric, I can't tell you what's happening to you.

I can't work, Julia.

Because of a dream about me?

No, no. It wasn't about you.

It was-- it was a nightmare.

Eric.

Eric, what have you done about an assistant?

I mean, you haven't seriously thought of using Willie Loomis.

Eric?

Eric, has something gone wrong?

Something that will stop the experiment?

I must - I must get back to work.

Eric?

You haven't answered my question.

Julia, I only have a limited amount of time.

Time is of the essence and the body will begin

to deteriorate after a certain number of hours.

- How many hours? - Forty-eight at the most.

I simply can't with these interruptions.

Oh, I've had hundreds of dreams before,

I've always been able to get and get back to my business.

What seems to be different about this dream?

- Are you speaking in your analyst voice, Doctor? - Oh, Eric.

You - you knocked on the door

and I went to the door and I opened it,

and you didn't say a word.

You just stood there and you beckoned me to follow you

and I did - I did follow you.

But why did you?

I don't know.

Why does one do anything that one does in dreams?

Then I - I followed you to another door

and you opened that door

and you pointed the way to go in,

and you - you didn't speak a word.

That proves it was a dream.

I - I didn't want to go in the room

but I had no choice and I went in.

The room was dark

and I heard the door slam and the key turned in the lock

and then I heard your voice.

Your voice it spoke a riddle, a senseless riddle.

You still could see nothing?

No. Yes, yes.

The room grew lighter and I was in a room

and it was a room full of doors.

Then I heard a sound of tinkling music

from behind one of the doors

and I went to that door and I opened it

and there was a skull staring at me

out of the blackness of the room,

and I slammed the door shut, and then I went -

I went to another door and a guillotine slammed down

and I closed that door and I went to a third door

and I opened that door and there he stood.

Who, Eric?

My creation but without head.

And then as I - as I stared

at the years I've spent dreaming of this,

working on this,

I suddenly knew the experiment would fail.

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It - It was a dream, Eric.

Yes.

Yes, it was only a dream.

I'm so relieved.

Thank you, Julia.

Thank you, Julia.

Eric, let - let me help you.

I - I don't mean - I don't mean now,

but I have been trained for emergencies.

You don't need my - my medical skill.

No, Julia.

You don't believe in the experiment.

You want Barnabas the way he was before.

Perhaps it's for the best. I don't know.

But Eric, you can depend on me.

Well, if you won't be needing me anymore--

I will be.

I want you take this letter to Elizabeth Collins at Collinwood.

Maybe you ain't as changed as you think you are, Barnabas.

That's very perceptive of you, Willie,

very perceptive indeed.

How odd it is that I should feel the urge

on this night.

Dr. Hoffman would explain it the way psychologically,

I imagine.

A man faced with the unknown.

His last night on earth as himself,

so naturally everything that he has done seems preferable

to what he faces, but is it that?

Or is it that I'm going back and becoming what I was?

No answer?

What do you mean your last night?

- I explained everything to you yesterday. - Well, what about me?

Willie, there will be a Barnabas Collins,

only he will be in a new body,

someone I've named Adam.

And you know who Adam was?

- Yeah, the first man. - Exactly.

And I will be the first of the new breed.

This letter will give me - Adam an entry to Collinwood.

Cousin Elizabeth will know that I am away

for an indefinite period

and in my place is a young cousin from England

- named Adam Collins. - No.

What's wrong?

I don't like it.

That is a shame.

Would you prefer to be here or back at Windcliff?

Well, suppose he don't like me?

He will be exactly towards you as I am

and you will be useful to him.

You don't know that.

You don't know how this is all going to turn out.

You might come out of this all different.

I want you take this letter to Collinwood.

It won't be the same.

And make sure that it gets to no one but Mrs. Stoddard.

Supposed they won't let you live here

then what's going to happen to me?

Trust me, Willie. I am trusting you.

Now, things will be changed at Collinwood as you will see.

There's to be no mistake as to who gets that letter.

Barnabas, will I see you before you leave?

- Very likely not. - Barnabas?

Willie, you will recognize me when I return,

even in that other body, you will know who I am.

I promise.

It won't work.

It will work, Willie,

because it must.

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Who is it?

Willie Loomis.

I work for Barnabas Collins.

Has something happened to Barnabas?

No, ma'am, not exactly. Well, I mean no.

I have a letter for Mrs. Stoddard.

Oh, she isn't here.

She's in town at a meeting. You can give it to me.

No, ma'am, I can't.

Did he tell you not to?

I don't even know who you are.

Oh, I'm Mrs. Roger Collins.

Oh, I didn't know he was married.

See, I've been away.

Oh, well, you know when Mrs. Stoddard will be back?

Very late.

I'll come back then.

No, wait.

Maybe it won't be so late after all.

Why won't you come in and talk to me?

I've been here all alone all evening.

Come in.

It's so absurd of Barnabas not to have a telephone.

Well, one would think he would be living in the th century.

Have you known him long? Worked for him long?

Yeah. On and off, just about.

You must know him very well then.

Yeah.

I can tell that you do.

We don't see very much of him up here.

I think he avoids us.

Well, you know, he never did go out much.

Just stay inside that house all day long.

He doesn't anymore.

Oh, where does he go?

He goes to see Dr. Lang a lot now.

Yes.

Yes, I know they see a lot of each other.

One would almost think that they were working together.

Though, that's impossible, of course.

Um, did you work for Barnabas before his accident?

Oh sure.

Was he very different then?

Yeah.

Of course, sometimes he -

he is almost the same though.

Is he?

Oh, that's very interesting.

Willie, I know you have a lot to do.

Just leave that here with me.

I'll see that it goes to Mrs. Stoddard's bedroom.

No, ma'am, I can't do that.

Now, what can be that important?

I don't know but he told me not to.

You see, he is going away.

- He is? - Yeah.

- Where is he going? - I don't know.

Look, I've got to talk to him about - about Roger.

It's very important.

Surely, you know some way where I can reach him.

I'm not sure.

I will think of something about Dr. Lang's--

- Yes. - That's all I know.

There - there's Mrs. Stoddard's car.

Excuse me.

Good night, Willie.

See ya.

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Julia, the body is easily assembled.

The heart can be started.

Breath can be put into the lungs quite easily

but no one ever

has been able to transfer the one thing

that makes life possible, truly possible,

the soul, a life force.

It's all written here, the steps I shall take.

Your job will be to take Barnabas' pulse,

his heartbeat.

Will - will Barnabas be in pain?

I though you weren't going to be emotional.

I want to know.

He will be unconscious after the first phase.

I am ready, doctor.

So, this is how I will look.

There'll be certain alterations in the face

but they can be done later.

I don't care how I look.

All evening I've been having those old desires

coming back to me.

Barnabas, would you lie down here, please.

If you will tighten the straps, doctor.

Would you check the oxygen mask, doctor?

Barnabas, we are ready now

and I'm as confident as I can be.

I am, too, Eric.

Julia, I'm glad you're here.

Thank you, Barnabas.

Take pulse reading number one, doctor.

You are in my hands, Eric Lang,

as much clay as this figure I hold here,

and I have as much power over you

as I have over this.

I can break off an arm

and your arm will be broken.

I can touch this with my finger

and wherever I touch this clay figure

you will burn,

for my power was given to me by the devil himself

and you will know it soon.

Pulse is normal.

Good.

Ah!

Give him something.

His heart beat is slower.

The pain will begin here, doctor.

Not enough to trouble you,

just enough to make you wonder.

- Check - check the other pulse. - Eric? Eric?

Check the other pulse now. Now!

There's - there's no sign of life.

The pain is worse now.

Not bad enough to stop you

but when the pin goes in deeper, doctor.

Ah!

Eric!

Barnabas.

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