522 - June 26, 1968

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NARRATOR: Night over Collinwood

and two conspirators must find a missing portrait,

a portrait which will tell whether or not

the witch has died

and while one searches her room,

another waits below for the answer.

No, it's no secret, Julia,

Cassandra hasn't been as happy here as she might have been.

Perhaps we should have left Collinwood,

taken a place of our own.

Did she want to?

Well, she knew that I didn't want to.

Oh, I've been selfish.

My life here is so settled,

it's been difficult for me to realize

that it must be hard for someone new to fit in here.

JULIA: Well, she has no responsibility,

Mrs. Goddard runs the house.

ROGER: Exactly, you can't imagine how active

Cassandra could be.

JULIA: Yes, yes I can.

ROGER: Oh, I see now how she's behaved oddly.

She's done several things that have puzzled me, rather.

One thing in particularly,

do you remember this picture that Vicky bought?

Yes, yes, of course I do.

I haven't seen it in some time.

Well, that's what's so peculiar, neither had I,

and then this afternoon, I found it locked in a closet.

- Something has happened to it? - Yes.

The colors have faded dreadfully.

Do you remember how vibrant they used to be, Julia?

Yes, yes it has faded, hasn't it?

You can hardly see the portrait.

ROGER: It's as if someone had left it out in the Sun,

no one has, of course.

I can't understand why Cassandra would lock it away.

Well, I'm going to take it into town

and see if it can be restored.

Vicky has every right to be unhappy

over its present condition.

[KNOCKING]

Visitors at this hour?

- I'll get it. - Thank you, Barnabas.

Perhaps it's the police.

With news.

Mr. Collins?

Yes.

I should've recognized you anywhere.

You are Cassandra's husband.

Cassandra? No, no, no.

I am Rodger Collins, who are you?

Oh, Mr. Collins, what a pleasure,

I've looked forward to this moment

ever since I first heard of your marriage.

I am Nicholas Blair,

Cassandra's brother!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC] ♪♪

[ERRIE THEME MUSIC PLAYING] ♪♪

ROGER: You are Cassandra's brother?

- Oh, forgive me, do come in, please. - Thank you.

It's quite a surprise.

Quite an extraordinary surprise.

I imagine so.

Oh, excuse me, this is Dr. Julia Hoffman.

How do you do, Mr. Blair?

NICHOLAS: Dr. Hoffman.

My cousin, Barnabas Collins.

Mr. Collins.

How do you do?

Well, shall we go in?

I am glad to see Collinwood,

Cassandra has written me so much about it.

ROGER: Oh, has she?

NICHOLAS: I hope you don't mind my late arrival.

Oh, of course not.

I thought you wouldn't

and it seemed a perfect time to surprise Cassandra.

She isn't asleep, is she?

No, actually she's not.

Could I get you a drink?

NICHOLAS: No, no, no thank you.

Are you sure?

I don't have little vices, Mr. Collins.

Well, that's very wise of you, I'm sure,

I hope you don't mind if I have something.

- Barnabas? - No, thank you.

Julia?

Yes, yes, I'd like a brandy please.

Where are you from, Mr. Blair?

I've just come from Martinique, Mr. Collins.

Have you been there?

Not recently.

NICHOLAS: Really Barnabas, I never knew you'd been there

or you've never mentioned it.

I remember it very well.

Yes, it is a hard island to forget.

BARNABAS: Do you live there now?

I wish I did.

There's no place I call home really,

I'm, what is the expression? A citizen of the world.

NICHOLAS: Oh, Mr. Collins, when you go to get Cassandra,

don't tell her that I'm here,

I do wanna see the expression on her face

when she sees me.

Well, actually, Cassandra is not here.

- Oh, dear. - She, uh...

My timing is bad, isn't it?

When will she be back?

Well, actually that, we have no way of knowing,

you see, Cassandra has disappeared.

Well, how long has she been gone?

- Twenty four hours. - Well, I wouldn't worry about it.

ROGER: I can't understand you, Mr. Blair.

We're all terribly concerned

about what may have happened to her,

the police are looking for her now.

You've involved the police?

Of course, wouldn't you have done?

That's hard for me to say knowing Cassandra as I do.

Someone in this house didn't like her, did they?

- Was it you? - I beg your pardon?

NICHOLAS: Did you like my sister?

Oh, I barely knew her.

In other words, you did not.

Understandable.

Cassandra is not well liked by many women.

And you, sir,

you seem to be a man who knows his feelings.

- You think so? - I know so

by the way you have been watching me.

Did you barely know my sister, too?

- I fail to see what my cousin-- - A pattern, my dear fellow.

Even Cassandra follows a pattern.

This has happened before.

She has felt hostility

and she has reacted to it in a typically feminine way,

she has simply walked away from it.

And she will walk back

when she feels she is able to deal with

whatever caused her to leave.

Well, you must stay with us, of course.

No, I couldn't.

ROGER: Oh, but you must,

if Cassandra returns and finds that I've let you go.

If she returns?

Even after what I've told you, you still have doubts?

Yes, I admit that I do, I'm afraid so,

as everyone else does.

Believe me, nothing has happened to Cassandra

that she has not caused herself.

And I pray that you are right.

And nothing has happened to her that cannot be undone.

[EERIE MUSIC] ♪♪

[CLOCK CHIMING]

Well, we shall have no news of Cassandra tonight, I'm sure.

No, there'll be no news tonight.

I'll have the servants get your luggage from your car

and I'll show you to your room.

I am rather tired,

I hope you forgive me, Dr. Hoffman.

Of course, Mr. Blair.

Goodnight, Mr. Collins.

We shall see each other again, I'm certain.

Yes, I'm sure we will.

This way, Mr. Blair.

Such an interesting house, very European.

I seem to sense all the secrets it must be hiding.

At least, he has...

Angelique has no blood brother.

But, her brother's spirit, her brother devil.

He's come to get her.

He knows where she is, there's no doubt about that.

Barnabas, Barnabas, what are we going to do?

What if he finds the portrait?

Roger took it upstairs, didn't he?

It's so faded,

it's as if Angelique were almost dead.

If only we could get that picture.

How can we?

I don't know.

Call Stokes, tell him everything.

Ask him if we can see him tonight.

He may know what we can do.

I'll just leave this in here and then show you to your room,

it's right down the hall.

I think you'll find that you'll be comfortable there.

I'm sure I will.

Mr. Blair,

Mr. Blair, I--

Nicholas.

Nicholas, I hope that you have not been given the impression

that any member of my family

has been intentionally rude to your sister.

Naturally, it has been difficult for her,

when she first came here, our family is so settled in,

it's not one that's easy to move into, so to speak.

- And my sister is very young. - Yes,

that is one of the charming things about her.

And I'm so glad she found a man like you

who appreciates it.

This portrait, it reminds me of her.

Doesn't it?

Would you believe that a member of our household

found this portrait before I ever saw Cassandra?

Almost a premonition, I'd like to think.

You can't imagine how desperate I am to have her back.

I don't doubt that for a moment.

ROGER: But, I do hope you're right

about what's happened to her.

I've imagined the most horrible things happening to her.

No, no, no you mustn't.

Once I'm here, she will turn up.

We have that effect on each other,

we're more than brother and sister,

we've always been great friends.

And yet she's never mentioned you.

Oh, I am sorry, I don't know why I said that,

but then she's never mentioned any of her family.

That's the way we are,

but it doesn't stop us from being close.

This portrait fascinates me, such a shame it's faded.

A crime really.

Yes, I'm going to take in town,

there's a man who does some restoring.

I do hope he's good.

ROGER: Oh well, he's not really all that--

Then don't let him touch it.

Would you let me try?

I've done a great deal of restoration.

A hobby of mine.

I'm just going over to professor Stokes,

I won't be long.

There's no need for you to walk around

with that g*n in your hand.

I don't like being in this house by myself.

You heard me.

Especially with Adam on the loose.

Adam won't come back here.

Well you say that, but I don't believe it.

Any time he gets in trouble, he comes back in this house.

well this time, I'm gonna be ready for him.

[CAR HONKING]

Coming, Julia.

And if he does come back here, you're to do nothing.

Well, you can't stop me from protecting myself,

you can't do that.

Whatever happens to Adam, we're not to get involved,

now remember that.

And put that g*n away.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC] ♪♪

[LOUD THUD]

Remember that, remember that,

remember that, remember that,

like, I didn't remember everything

Barnabas ever told me.

[CAR ACCELERATING]

[KNOCKING]

Who is it?

MAN: Joe Haskell, Willy.

JOE: Willy, let me in or I'll break in.

What you want, Joe?

JOE: I wanna talk to you.

What do you wanna talk to me about, Joe, huh?

JOE: Let me in, Willy.

Hey, nothing's happened to Maggie, has it?

JOE: Let me in and you'll find out.

Maggie's all right, isn't she?

Yeah, sure, Willy.

Maggie's fine, just as fine as any girl

can be whose father's just been m*rder*d.

Well, I don't know anything about that.

Oh, don't you?

No, I don't.

You know, Sam Evans was k*lled

by someone named Adam, don't you?

Yeah, I heard that, yeah.

Maggie says that you know this Adam better

than you're pretending.

She's wrong.

When he came into the house, you recognized him,

you called him by name.

Why would Maggie say something like that?

Because it's true.

She also says this Adam doesn't like you,

that means he knows you.

Hey, I don't know.

What's the good asking me all these questions?

'Cause I wanna find Adam, Willy.

I'm not gonna sit around and wait for the police to do it.

- And you're gonna help me. - Oh no, I'm not.

Yes, you are, Willy.

Now let's just get this straight,

Maggie is wrong, that's all now, just wrong!

Hey! What're doing that for?

- You're gonna tell me the truth, Willy. - Hey now, Joe!

I'll let you go as soon as you talk.

I'll tell ya the same thing I told the police.

Come on now, Willy, the whole story.

Adam is a bum, I fed him a meal once, that's all.

- Oh, come on, don't give me that. - That's the truth, I swear.

- Why does he hate you, Willy? - I don't know.

Come on, he's only seen you once,

- how come he hates you so much? - He hates Barnabas, he don't hate me.

Barnabas said he'll never come back,

he won't show his face here, believe me!

Now, let me go!

All right, now you got any other questions to ask,

you ask Barnabas, you hear?

You tell Barnabas I'll be back.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC] ♪♪

[LOCKING DOOR]

You've gotten yourself into a mess this time,

my lovely Angelique.

Where are you?

Where?

Whisper it to me if you can, where you are.

Let the wind carry your words.

If you can, whisper where you are.

Was it Barnabas?

Was he the one who defeated you?

Give me a sign that you still exist.

Give me a sign.

[EERIE MUSIC] ♪♪

How shall I find you?

Where shall I start? Here, in this house?

Where?

Where Barnabas lives?

[EERIE MUSIC] ♪♪

[THINKING] Just gives me the willies even being here.

[LAUGHING]

Gives me the willies, that's funny.

Yeah, my whole life's pretty funny.

Even at Windcliff, you didn't have to do jobs like this.

Barnabas, he just drives off with her and says,

"Oh Willy, you brick up the wall."

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR SLAMS]

Someone's up there.

He can't be back, he just left.

Maybe it's Adam.

Or someone else.

Joe Haskell again.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC] ♪♪

You there.

Me?

Yes, didn't you hear me knock?

What?

Come out here.

Tell Mr. Barnabas Collins that Nicholas Blair is here.

I can't do that. I mean, he's not here.

Oh?

Isn't he?

Well, you'll do.

Do? Do for what?

Come closer.

Are you afraid of me?

I don't know yet.

Exactly.

Now, you will do exactly as I say, come here.

I want you to show me through this house.

I can't do that.

Barnabas didn't tell me anybody was coming.

Look at me.

Why?

Because I want you to.

You're very good at following orders, aren't you?

- Yeah, I guess. - Don't take your eyes away.

Do you trust me yet, Willy?

If you trust me completely,

you can tell me your name and take your eyes away.

Willy Loomis.

Good.

Now, you will tell me everything I want to know.

You will forget everything that has happened

and it will be unnecessary for you to tell

Mr. Barnabas any of this,

does that relieve your mind, Willy?

- Do you know Cassandra Collins? - Uh-huh.

Does she come here?

Oh, not often.

You see, she and Barnabas, they fight.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

But, you must have heard some very interesting conversations

about my sister, Cassandra.

[LAUGHING]

What were they? The truth, Willy?

Oh yeah, she's a witch.

[MUMBLING] Stupid she is.

Go on.

Well, they told the ghost that she was at Collinwood.

What ghost?

Downstairs, the one downstairs.

They said that the ghost was to go to Collinwood after her.

You saw this ghost?

- Yeah. - Where?

Downstairs, in the basement, where the skeleton is.

Is the skeleton there now?

Yeah.

You will sit in that chair and you will fall asleep.

You will not awaken until after I have left.

You will remember nothing of what has happened.

Start walking, Willy Loomis.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC] ♪♪

The Reverend Trask, I presume.

Where is Angelique?

Where?

Don't you know I will find out?

Don't you know you cannot defeat me?

You soon will know, reverend,

if you do not now.

[INTENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC] ♪♪

[ERRIE THEME MUSIC PLAYING] ♪♪