635 - November 28, 1968

[bunniefuu]

- The great house of Collinwood is shrouded in darkness

and all is silent.

Ominously silent.

For this has been a night of violence,

violence that will continue.

On a remote corner of the great estate,

one man has witnessed a terrifying event,

one which will set off a chain of events, all of which

will lead to a single moment of horror and destruction.

- Barnabas, what happened?

Barnabas, tell me.

- I'm all right.

- Thank God.

Well, where's Nicholas?

- He's gone.

- Where?

- He's just disappeared.

- Disappeared?

- Yes.

In a blaze of flame on Widow's Hill.

- Barnabas, what are you talking about?

- I followed him up to Widow's Hill.

The storm was raging around him.

He was calling to someone, someone

who must control his fate.

He was begging, pleading not to be sent back

to where he came from, and then suddenly he seemed to burst

into flames and he was gone.

- Is it possible that he's disappeared forever?

- Yes.

Nicholas Blair is gone.

- Nicholas is gone.

Nicholas is gone!

Then the danger's over!

Oh, Barnabas.

- Yes, they all will die.

And first, the woman Barnabas loves: Victoria Winters.

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- Nicholas gone.

It's hard to believe.

- How's Maggie?

- She'll be all right. - Where is she now?

- She's upstairs. I gave her a sedative.

She'll sleep for the night.

- In the morning, will she remember everything

that happened to her? - We'll see.

- Where's Adam?

- Oh, in the lab.

He was there when I took Maggie upstairs.

- How was he behaving?

- Very quiet, as if he doesn't seem

to understand what's happening.

- We must deal with him.

- Yes, somehow, but I don't know how.

He's so difficult to reason with.

- Well, I'll try.

I'll go and talk to him now.

- I'll come with you.

- Adam?

Adam?

- He's gone.

- He must've left the house when you were up with Maggie.

Is it possible?

- What?

- That he left the house to carry out his threat?

- Where are you going? - To Collinwood.

- Here. Take these.

- All right.

- Vicki, why are you having so much trouble sleeping?

- I don't know.

- Are you nervous about something?

- Maybe. - What?

Jeff?

- Oh, I really can't talk about it now, Carolyn.

Maybe some other day but not now.

- Well, I won't press you for an answer.

I just had the feeling that something happened to you

while I was away.

I wanted to do something to help you.

- Why did you go away so suddenly?

- I felt sort of lost.

I felt I had to get away for a while.

- Lost?

- Yes.

- But why?

- Vicki, if I tell you will you promise

not to tell anyone else?

- Of course.

- Well, I became very attracted to someone and he went away.

- I didn't know you were seeing anyone.

- No one did.

- Who was it?

- I-- I can't tell you his name.

- Were you in love with him?

- No, but I was very fond of him.

- How long has he been gone?

- For a long time.

I think about him often, and wonder how he is.

You're beginning to look very sleepy.

- I am.

I think those pills are beginning to work.

- Good.

- I am exhausted.

- Good night, Vic.

- Good night.

- I'll see you in the morning.

- Don't try to scream.

Don't make a sound or I'll k*ll you.

You understand?

Good.

Now, you're coming with me.

We're going away from this house.

- Oh, where? Where are we going?

- Just do as I tell you.

- Let-- let me get my coat.

It's such a storm.

Please?

Help!

Help!

- Adam!

- Carolyn.

- Carolyn, he's trying to kidnap me!

He's trying to kidnap me!

- Oh, Vicki.

Vicki.

Oh, thank God, she's still breathing.

You could have k*lled her!

- But I didn't.

- What are you doing here?

Have you gone mad?

- No, you wouldn't understand.

- No, I don't understand.

You have no reason to want to harm Vicki.

She's never done anything to you.

- No, someone else has.

- Adam, listen to me.

- No, you listen to me, Carolyn!

I don't want to hurt you. - You'd hurt me?

- If I had to.

- I can't believe you mean what you're saying.

What's happened to you?

Adam.

Adam, look at me.

- No.

- Please?

Just for a moment. Look at me.

Do you remember the day you asked me to read you the love

saga and I read it to you?

- And why do you remind me of that?

- Because that's the Adam I know.

A gentle man, a sweet man, a man capable of enormous tenderness.

- I loved you.

If you had loved me...

- Please, for my sake, for your own sake, leave Vicki alone.

Please? Please?

- Now, I'll have my revenge!

- Revenge for what?

- Never mind.

I'm taking her with me.

- Adam, I protected you before but I can't do it this time.

I'm going to call the police. - No!

- Adam, you wouldn't do anything to me.

You know you wouldn't.

- Carolyn, what it is?

What's happened? - Where is Vicki?

- Adam.

Adam has kidnapped her.

- What?

- I found him here.

Barnabas, he's gone wild.

He's like some wild savage animal.

- Did you call the police?

- No.

I tried but he wouldn't let me.

- I'll call them now.

I've got to find Adam.

I've got to before he kills her.

- Barnabas?

[squeaking]

- Barnabas, is that you?

Who-- who is it?

Who's there?

- Did I frighten you, doctor?

I didn't mean to.

Sit down.

Please?

- You-- you were gone.

Where did you go? - Out.

- Where?

Out where?

- To the woods.

I wanted to be alone and think.

- You were in the cellar, weren't you?

What were you doing there?

- Looking at my bride.

The only bride I ever had is gone.

- Adam, Adam, be honest with me.

What are you planning to do?

- Planning?

- Well, you know, that Barnabas stopped the experiment

and smashed the equipment.

What are you planning to do about it?

- Nothing.

- I find that hard to believe.

- Why should I hurt Barnabas?

- You threatened him a thousand times.

- Yes.

That was when the experiment was still possible

but it isn't now, is it?

- No.

No, it isn't possible.

It will never be possible again.

- Then why should I hurt Barnabas?

Or you for that matter?

What do I have to gain?

- You're simply accepting everything that's happened?

- What else can I do, doctor?

There's nothing, is there?

- Nicholas is gone now.

- Oh, is he?

- Yes, he's disappeared.

Chances are he'll never return.

- Oh.

- Don't you care?

- No.

- I thought you considered him your friend?

- He wasn't my friend.

He made too many promises he couldn't keep.

- Why are you smiling?

- Does it bother you, doctor?

- Well, you keep--

you keep staring at me.

Why?

- Does it make you nervous?

- No.

No, no, of course not. - Where are you going?

- Just to get my bag.

- You don't need your bag now, doctor.

- Oh, you've been--

you've been through a very grueling experience, Adam.

I thought a sedative might help.

- I don't need a sedative.

- But you'd feel much better afterwards.

- No.

Where are you going?

- Why won't you let me leave?

- You will see soon enough.

- What's-- what's happening down there?

- Nothing.

- I don't believe you.

- Don't you?

- No.

Something is going on and I'm going to find out what it is.

[scream]

- Julia? Julia?

[groaning]

- Julia, who did this? Adam?

- Yes. - Where is he?

- The basement.

- The basement?

- He's doing something down there.

I don't know what. - He's got Vicki down there.

- Vicki? - Yes, he's kidnapped her.

We must get to him before he kills her.

He's locked it from the inside.

- What can he be doing there?

What can he possibly be doing?

- Adam!

Adam!

- It's no use.

- Leave me alone, please!

Please!

Please!

Please!

- Adam, leave me alone, please!

Adam.

- Adam, please, for my sake, for your own sake,

leave Vicki alone.

Please?

Please?

- That was Eve.

And you would have been mine!

Look at you now.

Yes, this is what they did to you.

Barnabas will suffer for this!

- Adam!

- You.

- Turn off that machinery or I will k*ll you.

- Will you?

- I mean what I say.

- I dare you.

You won't k*ll me.

- Don't test me.

- Do you know what will happen if I die?

- I know something may happen but I'll take that chance.

Now, turn off that machinery.

- You'll revert back to what you are.

- What?

- Yes!

If I die, you will revert back to what you were.

That's what it said on Dr. Lang's tape and I heard it.

I memorized it.

- You're lying!

You don't know what you're talking about.

- He might be telling the truth, Barnabas.

He's heard the tape.

- Yes.

I don't know what you were but I know you don't want me to die.

Look at her, Barnabas.

Look at her!

Look at her.

Look at the woman you love.

Just watch what happens to her when I pull this switch.

- If he pulls that switch, he'll electrocute her.

- Don't touch that switch!

[g*nsh*t]

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