514 - June 14, 1968

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NARRATOR: The terror of this night cannot be seen.

It is felt by the mistress of Collinwood

who will go without sleep

as she thinks of nothing but death.

In the old house on the Collins estate,

it will be felt by Barnabas Collins

sealed behind a brick wall and left to die,

his terrible fate unknown to anyone else.

And before this night is over,

it will be felt by a young woman in Collinsport,

for she will respond to the sounds of the long dead past.

Look, Sam's overdue.

I'd better go down to the Blue Whale and get him.

He's probably still talking to Professor Stokes.

Yeah, if Stokes ever showed up to talk to him.

Well, he said he was going to.

I don't know whether you can believe a guy

who had the nerve to swipe something

right out from under your nose.

Joe, we can't be sure of that.

Oh, it had to be him.

You said you took it from Cassandra,

you put it on that table there,

then after that Cassandra left,

and Stokes stayed on for a minute.

He's the only one that could have done it.

But why would he do that? It doesn't make any sense.

Who knows, maybe he thought it was worth something.

Maybe it was.

Oh, I doubt it.

The Collins family is rich, you know,

and when the rich give gifts,

it isn't the expense that counts, it's the thought.

Okay, go on you.

Go down to the Blue Whale and get my Pop.

[MUSIC BOX MUSIC PLAYING] ♪♪

[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING] ♪♪

[ERRIE THEME MUSIC PLAYING] ♪♪

[WIND HOWLING]

[WILLIE GRUNTS]

[DOOR SHUTTING]

[BANGING]

WILLIE: Barnabas, is that you?

Doctor Hoffman?

Hey, hi, Maggie.

Hello, Willie.

WILLIE: Hey, what are you doing out here?

I don't know.

I was in the cottage and I was putting on my earrings,

and I started to think of the old house.

[BANGING] What's that?

What's what?

I thought I heard a noise.

[BANGING] Listen, there it is again.

[BANGING]

Hmm, don't be scared, Maggie.

This house is full of old noises.

It used to keep me awake a lot in the nights,

but not anymore, I'm used to them now.

Well, I guess it's gone now.

Yeah, it was probably just a mouse or something.

I wonder what it is

that makes me keep thinking of this place?

WILLIE: Well, what difference does it make?

I'm just glad you came.

You know it was just like you were reading my mind.

- Sit down. - What do you mean?

Well, you know I was awfully lonely out here tonight,

and I was thinking how nice it would be

to have someone to talk to and, bam, you showed up.

Hey, maybe that means something, huh?

- What do you think, Maggie? - I don't know.

You know I've been thinking a lot about you lately.

- You have? - Yeah.

I remember the last time you were out here you said things

like, maybe you and I could get together some time.

You remember that?

MAGGIE: Yes, I do.

I hope it's gonna be soon.

Well, maybe it will be.

WILLIE: Well, you mean that, Maggie?

Yes.

That makes me very happy.

Willie, you don't seem very happy now.

Well, I am, it's...

Will you do something for me next time you come out here?

- What is it? - Don't wear those earrings.

- Don't you like them? - Oh, I love them,

I mean, it's just that, well, they look kinda valuable.

- Well, they are. - Well, you see I was right,

and you shouldn't even wear them outta your own house.

You wouldn't want to lose them, would ya?

- No. - Well, good,

then why don't you just take them off,

put them in your purse, huh, okay?

- All right, Willie. - Great, then maybe you and me,

we could go outside for a while.

It's a nice night out to take a walk.

We might even go downtown.

- No, Willie. - No, what?

Pop and Joe must be back from the Blue Whale by now,

and they'll be wondering what's happened to me.

- I've got to go, Willie. - Well, you just got here.

I'm sorry, but I've got to leave.

What's come over you all of a sudden?

I don't know.

Well, did I say something wrong?

No.

Hey, Maggie, look, about those earrings,

I don't mind you wearing them,

it's just not around this house.

This house.

I wonder what it is that makes me feel so strange here.

Hey, Maggie, I wish you'd change your mind.

Like I said, I've been alone all night,

and would like...

No, Willie, I've got to go home now.

Good night.

WILLIE: Hey, Maggie, wait, huh?

[BANGING]

♪♪

[WIND HOWLING]

Are the descriptions accurate?

Sheriff, do you think anybody could jump off

Widow's Hill and survive?

Well, neither do I so it must have been someone else.

I see.

Well, how many people have described him this way?

All right, will you let me know the minute you hear anything?

Thank you.

[DOOR OPENING]

ELIZABETH: Barnabas?

Barnabas?

Who's up there?

ELIZABETH: Is that you Barnabas, where are you?

Mrs. Stoddard?

ELIZABETH: Barnabas, are you down there?

No, ma'am, it's just me, Willie.

Willie, where's Mr. Collins?

Well, I don't know, he went out early tonight.

I ain't seen him.

Where'd he go?

Well, you got me.

Do you want me to tell him something for you?

Yes, tell him the police have called again.

Police?

ELIZABETH: The sheriff has had several reports

of vandalism in this area.

And everyone has seen the man who fits Adam's description.

WILLIE: Adam?

But, but, but, that ain't possible.

I mean, Adam is dead.

We both know that, don't we?

Well, don't we, Mrs. Stoddard?

Look, you shouldn't let people upset you like that.

I mean, Carolyn is safe

if that's what you're worried about.

Death isn't always as swift or as certain

as people would like it to be.

Well, I wouldn't know about that

I mean, but I know these people who say

they've seen Adam, they're wrong, that's all.

Sometimes it seems to take forever,

and the waiting becomes unbearable.

Mrs. Stoddard, are you feeling all right?

She told me I'd think of nothing but death,

and she was right.

Who you talking about?

[SIGHS]

How long will it be?

How long before my time comes?

WILLIE: Your time for what?

- Dying. - Dying?

Mrs. Stoddard, what are you talking about?

You ain't gonna die.

Yes, I am.

WILLIE: Mrs. Stoddard, you shouldn't talk that way.

I mean, you got everything to live for.

Everything except the will to live.

Mrs. Stoddard, what's wrong with you?

I ain't never seen you this way before.

[BANGING]

- What's that noise? - What noise?

[BANGING]

It's coming from here,

as if someone were behind the wall.

Oh, no, that can't be. This wall's all sealed up.

- Whoever was there then was... - There's no one there.

Whoever was there was buried alive.

Hey, Mrs. Stoddard.

[GASPS] Oh, I can't bear it.

Why doesn't she k*ll me now and get it over with?

Hey, Mrs. Stoddard, wait!

She ought to see a doctor.

[BANGING]

♪♪

[WIND WHISTLING]

[KNOCKING AT DOOR]

Hi. Hey, where's Pop?

Still at the Blue Whale.

But you were supposed to bring him back with you.

Well, maybe you'd like to go down there and tell him that.

What do you mean?

Maggie, I think you and I had better have

a nice little talk about your father.

Why, what's happened?

Something is gonna happen if he doesn't shape up.

You mean he's been drinking again?

No, it isn't just that.

Well, what is it then?

That man he befriended the other day, that Adam.

He wasn't down at the Blue Whale, was he?

It might have helped matters if he had been.

You know what Sam wanted me to do?

He wanted me to help him get up a search party

and go out in the woods and look for Adam.

Oh, Joe, he's just putting you on.

No, no, he wasn't. He was dead serious.

He said he thought that Adam needed help

and, as a friend of his, can you imagine that,

Maggie, he used the word "friend."

MAGGIE: What's wrong with that?

Well, in the first place,

you haven't seen this Adam character.

In the second place, your Pop couldn't possibly know him

well enough to call him a friend.

Three days ago Adam was a total stranger to him.

Well, you know how outgoing Pop is.

He considers everyone a friend.

There's something very strange, Maggie,

about the way he's been acting.

He was almost hostile to me tonight.

Well, hasn't it occurred to you why?

No, what have I done to him?

Maybe Pop's afraid that we both feel sorry for him.

I mean, you know he wouldn't like that.

And I also know how lonely he's been

ever since he's gone blind.

Maybe this fellow Adam treats him differently.

I don't know, there's something just not quite right about it.

MAGGIE: We've got to be as patient as possible with Pop.

He's got a very difficult adjustment to make

and it's gonna take time, that's all.

Hey, why don't you go back on down to the Blue Whale

and give it another try?

All right, once more into the breach.

If I'm not back with him by dawn,

- you'd better come looking for us. - Oh, I have faith in you.

You'll be back in just a few minutes.

What an optimist you are.

[WIND HOWLING]

Loomis.

Hey, what are you doing? Let go of me.

What are you doing sneaking around here?

I wasn't sneaking around anywhere.

- On your way to the Evans' cottage, weren't you? - So what if I was?

I warned you, Willie, what I'd do to you

if I found you trying to see Maggie again.

This is a free country I got a right to go where I want.

You can't stop me.

You can't go near Maggie.

Why not, she's my friend.

She's terrified of you,

and she's got every good reason to be.

Well, that shows you how much you know.

That's all over with, she likes me now.

Likes you? You must be crazy.

Yeah, she's even been out to the old house

to see me a couple of times.

You are crazy.

If you don't believe me, why don't you ask her.

Go on, get outta here before I lose my temper.

You can't make me leave.

I'm gonna go see Maggie whether you like it or not,

- so you get outta my way. - I'm warning you, Willie, now beat it.

What's the matter, Joe, you jealous?

You afraid of a little competition, huh?

Are you mad because she came out to see me,

or are you afraid you gonna lose her?

[THUD]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING] ♪♪

I told you it would only take you a few minutes.

Hey, what's the matter?

I just ran into Willie Loomis outside.

What did he want?

JOE: He told me to ask you.

Well, what does that mean?

Look, Maggie,

maybe all he was trying to do was to get me worked up.

If that's true, well, he succeeded,

and I'm sorry, but if he was really serious

then you and I have got some serious talking to do.

Well, serious about what?

He tried to tell me that you'd been out to the old house

to see him more than once.

Is that true, Maggie?

[CLEARING THROAT]

Well, is it?

Uh, yes.

Have you lost your mind?

- Listen, Joe... - That man once tried to k*ll you.

- No, he didn't. - Yes, he did.

The police caught him right outside your window.

No, he came here that night to warn me

that I was in danger.

Where'd you ever get that idea?

Well, I don't know, but, well, I know it's true.

But it isn't true. Willie's a potential k*ller.

You had no business going anywhere near the old house.

Whatever made you go out there in the first place?

- Well, I don't know. - You must know!

- You don't go to a place like that with no reason. - Well, I did.

Now listen, Maggie,

he said you went out there to see him.

No, I didn't really go there to see him.

Well, then what was it?

Well, I don't know.

Look now, Maggie, I think that you owe me an explanation.

I want it now.

Well, since when is there a law against

going wherever you want to?

We're not talking about just any place, Maggie,

we're talking about the old house

where Willie Loomis lives.

I'm not interested in Willie Loomis

if that's what you're saying.

I wanna know why you went there.

Now how could I tell you something I don't know.

Well, you just find out a reason, Maggie,

and then let me know.

I'll give you till tomorrow.

Well, now, what is that, some kind of an ultimatum?

If that's what you want to call it, yeah.

Good night.

[DOOR OPENING] [GROANING]

MAGGIE: Oh, Willie.

Willie!

WILLIE: Joe hit me.

You'd better sit down.

WILLIE: Everything went black.

- Are you gonna be all right? - Yeah, just let me sit down.

Hey, look, you just stay right here and I'll get a cold cloth

- from the kitchen, and then... - Okay.

[GASPS]

Willie, bad!

ADAM: Bad!

[SCREAMING]

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[THEME MUSIC PLAYING] ♪♪