550 - August 2, 1968

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NARRATOR: A gloomy day on the great estate of Collinwood.

And to one girl, it is a day filled with hurt and sorrow,

for she has found out as sad truth.

A good deed done selflessly can cause as much agony

as a malicious act.

[phone ringing]

STOKES [ON PHONE]: Hello?

- Professor Stokes, this is Carolyn Stoddard.

- Oh, Ms. Stoddard. Good afternoon.

STOKES [ON PHONE]: I must see you immediately.

- Has something happened to Adam?

Or can't you talk?

- I'd rather not.

STOKES [ON PHONE]: Is he all right?

- Yes. In a way.

STOKES [ON PHONE]: He hasn't escaped?

- No.

No, it's-- it's something I can't deal with.

- Oh.

CAROLYN [ON PHONE]: I know isn't an imposition

to ask you to drive up here.

- No, no.

It's not.

CAROLYN [ON PHONE]: But I don't know what to do.

You'll have to tell me.

Professor, he can't stay here any longer.

He can't.

- Can't you tell me?

CAROLYN [ON PHONE]: No.

No.

- I'll be right over.

CAROLYN [ON PHONE]: Come to the drawing room.

I won't be in Adam's room.

I can't go there alone ever.

- Ms. Stoddard, are you much given to melodrama?

No, I'll answer that myself later.

I'll hurry.

- Thank you.

Oh, thank you.

CAROLYN [VOICEOVER]: Adam, Adam, I don't know what to do.

ADAM [VOICEOVER]: Carolyn, you will love me.

♪ [theme music]

- Oh, Professor Stokes, I didn't know you were here.

- And no one else does, apparently.

I asked to see Ms. Stoddard minutes ago

and she sent word back I was to have a sherry.

- Well, there's terrible domestic tragedy going on

in the kitchen.

But I'm glad you're here.

I wanted to see you.

- I've heard that so often today.

- I need your help.

- That has a familiar sound, too.

- Professor Stokes, you asked me to keep you informed.

- Well, I shall have to suffer through it, won't I?

- No, you won't. - Oh, come, Ms. Winters.

You'd make a very bad spy if you'd

let an old man's crustiness make you forget your mission.

Please forgive me.

Tell me what it is.

- Well, Cassandra has left Roger.

- He has my congratulations.

- She only left a note.

No one saw her go.

- Cassandra always knows exactly the way to confuse everyone.

- Well, she's done even more than that.

The picture-- the portrait of Angelique-- well,

just after she left, it became so--

so distorted that-- that the figure was unrecognizable.

And then the image, it disappeared completely

from the canvas.

- Oh.

That calls for another sherry.

That's-- that's the best sign we've had yet.

Perhaps her reign of terror has ended.

And her brother's left, too?

No.

He's here?

- He's taken one of the Collins' houses.

The one by the ocean.

He intends to go on living here.

- I can't believe it.

- It's true.

He's living there right now.

What does it mean, Professor?

- It simply means that the queen is dead.

Long live the king.

If the queen is truly dead, which I now tend to doubt.

Most disturbing news.

- Professor, I'm terribly sorry.

- You should be, young lady.

- My mother would never forgive me

if Mrs. Johnson were to leave her.

She's in the hospital.

- I have a late afternoon lecture, Ms. Stoddard.

- Yes, of course.

Vicky, would you mind?

- Secrets?

- Of course, Ms. Winters.

You know me well enough to know I would never

allow anything else.

- Oh, Carolyn, when Chuck comes by,

would you tell him that I'm on the terrace?

Goodbye, Professor.

- And how is our charge?

- Professor, you must take him with you tonight.

- That may not be possible.

- He cannot stay here any longer.

He can't.

- Has he misbehaved?

- It-- it's not his fault.

- Then whose fault is it?

- It isn't mine, either.

I don't know whose fault it is.

Professor, he's changing.

Growing up.

- I should hope so.

- Yes, yes, of course.

It's to be expected, and it's what I wanted, too.

I was right about him.

He's-- he's very sweet and-- and very bright.

And he learns terribly quickly.

- I came in expecting to hear a long list of complaints.

Instead, you've told me nothing but good things about him.

- I know.

I know.

- Then why must he be taken away from you?

What has happened?

- He had locked me in his room with him.

He thinks he's in love with me.

He said he would make me love him.

Professor, help me.

Adam's not a child anymore.

He's a man.

♪ [music playing]

- Vicki, what's-- what's your favorite day of the month?

- Well, I like September.

- Yes, and-- and I need a day.

- Um, the th.

- th.

- Uh-huh.

Why are you writing it down?

- Because it's a very special day.

- It is?

- Yes.

It's the day we're going to be married.

- Married?

- Yes, if you agree.

Well, don't look like that.

Then I think you're going to say no.

I, uh-- I had enough trouble with the effort

just to ask you.

I didn't mean it like that.

I-- I just didn't think I had any right to ask you.

- You do.

- Look, before you say anything, I want you to think.

- I'm thinking.

- I'm willing to point out all my disadvantages--

and, uh I do have them.

- Oh, don't, Jeff.

- For one, I don't know who I am.

- I know.

- And two, I may never know.

- I think you will.

- And I--

I knew you'd say that.

I wanted to wait until I found out something about myself,

but, well, I thought I might be so old when that happened--

- But you've got to keep trying.

- Oh, Vicky, I want you now.

Well?

Who do you love?

Peter Bradford, Jeff Clark, or both?

- I-- I think I love both.

- Oh, I love you.

I love you so much.

And I don't know why you love me,

but I don't want you to ever stop.

And I'm going to change.

- Not too much.

- I want you to have everything.

I want you to have more than things like this.

- Jeff--

- It's not what I wanted to give you.

- It's beautiful.

- You really like it?

- I love it.

- It's-- it's old-fashioned.

It reminded me of you.

- Put it on me.

Third finger of the left hand.

- You know, I have a terrible fear

that something's going to happen.

- Nothing will.

- That I might lose you.

- Oh, you won't.

- Don't let me lose you.

No matter what happens, I never want to lose you.

- I won't let it happen.

♪ [music playing]

- Ms. Stoddard, I think it's best that I see Adam alone.

- Are you sure? - Positive.

I made up my mind what I must do.

- Professor, please don't hurt him.

- Perhaps I must.

A great deal of trouble can be caused by kindness.

Now, if you'll excuse me.

Adam.

It's Stokes.

- Professor, I'm coming.

My good friend.

- Good to see you.

- I keep my handgrip firm like you told me.

I don't forget.

- I-- I can see you don't.

- [inaudible].

I am angry with you.

- I'm sorry I wasn't able to get over here before this.

- You did not teach me right.

- Oh?

Everything I taught you was correct.

- Professor, to be polite, it is not everything.

- If you thought it was, you misunderstood me.

- You agree?

A man must grab what he wants.

- If his hands can hold it, yes.

- No, no, no.

Each man has one chance, Professor, one chance only.

- That is certainly true for most men.

- I am no different.

You think I am different?

- In some ways, yes.

- You are wrong.

- Adam, this conversation we're having--

frankly, I don't know what we're really talking about.

Do you? - Yes.

Me.

- I realize that.

- Professor, do you believe in love?

- For some people.

- Some people should not be in love?

- I would think, on occasion, it is most unwise.

- I am in love. - Adam--

- Oh, Professor, listen.

I love her-- Carolyn.

She does not understand.

You must tell her for me.

Will you do that?

- What should I tell her?

- How love is!

- I'm sure she knows that.

- Then why is she so frightened?

Professor, I don't mean to frighten her.

You must tell her that. Then she'll love me.

- It's not that simple.

- It is not?

- Not at all.

- Then please explain.

- Carolyn Stoddard is a sophisticated girl.

She's led a relatively unusual life for our times.

She has money.

She can do what she likes, see whomever she likes.

She has a great deal of freedom.

- Professor, I want freedom, too.

- Very likely she will marry some young man

with a similar background.

- No, she will marry me.

STOKES: She does not love you.

- She will.

I will make her love me.

- That may not be possible.

You are-- you are quite different from her.

- Professor, I learn fast. You told me that.

- Yes.

Yes, you do.

- Then I will learn everything that she wants me to know.

STOKES: It is more complex than that.

- Complex?

I don't like that word.

You make it simple for me. - I wish I could.

I wish you-- you could suddenly understand

how people are raised.

They're born.

They-- they grow up.

They learn a little at a time.

When they reach maturity, Carolyn's age, they--

they know what they want.

They've made their choices.

- So have I.

STOKES: No.

You are different.

- No.

STOKES: Adam, what is your first memory?

- Barnabas.

- When did you first see Barnabas Collins?

ADAM: Long ago.

- Two months ago.

That is all.

- Where was I before that?

- You tell me.

ADAM: I do not know!

You do.

Professor, you taught me not to lie.

Will you lie to me?

Where was I before?

Tell me.

You know!

- Adam, I--

- Professor, the truth.

- You did not exist.

That is the truth.

I only pray you will mature enough to hear it.

- What do you mean I didn't exist?

I must have existed.

Professor, where did I come from?

Where?

STOKES: You know as much as you need to know.

- No, tell me.

- I don't want to.

- Professor, you tell me now!

- There was a man who had a unique dream.

He believed that he could create a human being.

He believed that his creation would

have the strength of a lion, the mind of a genius.

Two months ago, his dream became reality.

An incredible experiment was performed,

and it was successful.

The result was that you began to breathe.

To live.

Do you understand me, Adam?

Adam, I-- I didn't want to tell you.

Look at me, Adam.

Please look at me.

I will help you.

All of us will, each one as he can.

You understand, Adam?

Adam, answer me.

Please.

Adam, in time you will be indistinguishable from any

of us. You couldn't marry now.

You know nothing of the world.

I am one of the very few people who know how you came to live.

Carolyn does not.

Barnabas and Julia do.

None of us will tell.

You needed to know.

Oh, Adam, speak to me.

- Barnabas knows.

STOKES: What?

- If Adam dies--

STOKES: What did you say?

You have many years to live yet, Adam.

- If both live, Barnabas will be free.

- What's all this about Barnabas and about death?

What are you repeating? - Just go now!

- I can't leave you like this.

- Just go.

Just leave me alone!

You're not my friend!

Now go!

- Adam, I'm truly sorry I had to tell you this.

Don't think badly of me or of yourself.

You won't in time, you know.

- Barnabas.

Barnabas.

If both live, Barnabas will be free of his affliction.

Barnabas.

- What did you tell him, Professor?

What?

- Many things, most of which you need not know.

Most important, as far as you're concerned,

that you could never love him.

That he will grow away from his love for you.

- He's upset.

Don't you think he should leave?

- He wouldn't come with me.

- Because of what you said?

- I am, at the moment, no longer his friend.

- Professor, what am I to do?

Do you think I should go and talk with him?

- Not tonight.

Keep away from him for a day or two-- as long as you can.

Is there someone else who can take his food to him?

- Yes, Mrs. Johnson's son.

- Good.

Let him deal with Adam for the time

being until we know how he reacts.

- Why did this have to happen?

I like Adam.

I feel so sorry for him.

- So do I. More than I ever could have believed possible.

[music playing]

- You're not like other people, Adam.

You were created differently.

That's why Carolyn cannot love you!

Barnabas knew.

Not like other people.

That's why she hates me.

She hates me!