649 - December 18, 1968

[bunniefuu]

- Evening at Collinwood, and as darkness

begins to enshroud the great house,

there is one inside it who is prepared to combat

the powers of darkness.

She has come to Collinwood to exorcise the house

of a spirit who will not rest.

In doing so, she has been lured to a strange room

in the deserted west wing.

She will try to combat the spirit who exists there,

and in the process she will risk her own destruction.

- I can sense your presence.

Someone, now dead, lived in this room.

Who are you?

Who are you?

Why-- whoever you are, you're trying to keep me here.

Why?

Why do you haunt this house?

What do you want?

Who are you?

Who?

I know you exist here.

But you must make your presence known to me.

You must make your presence known.

[music playing]

[theme music]

- You're here.

That music.

It...

It must have some special significance.

But what?

Whoever you are, I'm here to help you.

Do you understand?

I want to help you.

Why did that music stop?

I contacted you for a moment.

You want my help and you need it.

Allow me to help you.

Hmm?

Allow me to help you rest, to give you peace,

to return to your grave.

You need my help.

You want peace.

I'm here to give you peace.

Well, if you won't let me help you,

allow me to leave this room.

Allow me to leave.

Why do you keep me here when you'll not accept my help?

What do you want of me?

Are you trying to frighten me?

I am not afraid.

Someone lived in this house.

And someone died here.

I-- I can sense...

Oh!

The cold.

This...

This is where you died, whoever you are.

Darkness.

You exist in darkness.

And you want me to exist in darkness.

All right.

I'll wait for you.

But you must appear to me.

Appear!

To me!

[clock chimes]

- Mrs. Stoddard.

- Oh, Julia.

- Did I startle you?

- No, I'm-- I'm just a little on edge.

So many strange things have been happening.

- I know.

- How's Roger?

- He's resting comfortably.

- Is he going to be all right?

- Yes, yes.

He has some bruises, but he'll be fine.

- Then he'll be able to leave for London tomorrow?

- Yes. I see no reason why he can't.

- My.

I wish he didn't have to go, but I'm

grateful that he's all right.

- He told me something rather odd.

- What?

- He told me that someone tried to k*ll him.

- Yes.

He's convinced of it.

- But who would do that?

- Well, he insists that there was a wire across the stairs,

that he tripped over it.

But there wasn't any wire.

That's what I don't understand.

- Perhaps, Madame Findley can help us all

understand everything that's been happening.

- I hope so.

Julia, I'm worried about her.

She's been gone for so long.

- Wasn't she going to investigate

every room in his house?

- Yes.

- Mrs. Stoddard, this is a huge house.

- Yes, but she's been gone for hours.

- I wouldn't worry about her.

I'm sure she's all right.

- Why don't you appear to me?

Appear to me!

Why do you keep me here?

Why do you want me to stay in this house?

[creaking]

Oh.

There was a child.

Whose child?

[ringing]

Oh!

A telephone!

Hello?

Who is it?

I know there's someone on the line.

I can hear you breathing.

Well, why don't you say something?

Say something.

Why don't you say something?

- I'm going to find her.

- Didn't she ask you not to disturb her?

- Yes.

She told me not to bother her or not to break her concentration.

- Well, then, should you? - I think I should.

She's been roaming around this house for hours

and nobody's seen or heard from her.

I believe I should find her.

Excuse me.

- Are you trying to contact me?

Why don't you speak to me?

Speak to me.

No.

No.

That scent...

Perfume.

A woman spirit exists in this room.

Who are you?

Who?

[telephone ringing]

I won't answer you this time.

If you want to contact me, appear to me.

- I can't find her. - You can't?

- I've looked every place she could possibly be.

- Could she have left?

- Without saying anything?

- That does seem odd.

- It's very odd.

I cannot imagine where she-- what could have happened.

[ringing]

- Stop it!

Why don't you leave me alone?

What?

No.

I'm not going to die.

My will is stronger than yours.

- That girl in the bar.

That girl.

Every time I think of her.

Tomorrow night the moon will be full.

I can't let it happen again.

I can't.

Who is it?

- It's Joe.

- Hey, Joe.

Come on in.

- How are you, Chris?

- I'm fine, thanks.

- Are you really?

That's a little bit hard to believe,

the way you keep yourself cooped up in this place all the time.

- Oh, I like to be alone. You know that.

- Yeah.

Now, why don't you get yourself a different room?

This place is dismal.

Look, It's got bars on the windows even.

It's like a prison.

- I don't know. I like it.

- Well, you've got strange taste.

- You came by to criticize my taste, huh?

- I'm sorry. Now, don't get mad.

- I'm not mad.

I just thought you might have a more substantial reason

for coming by.

- I do.

I wanted to tell you that I--

I may be leaving town soon.

- Leaving town?

- That's right.

- For good?

- Probably.

- Why?

- Well, it's because of Maggie, mostly.

You know how I feel about her.

This is such a...

Not such a small town, where we keep

running into each other all of the time.

I just thought it might be better for both of us

if I just went someplace else.

- Where?

- Boston, maybe.

I-- I've applied for a couple of jobs there.

- Joe, you sure you want to go?

- Yeah, I think so.

Too much has happened here in these past two months and I--

I just want to leave it all behind.

- I'm sorry to hear that.

I-- I was hoping maybe you and Maggie could, you know,

get back together.

- I don't think that's possible, not the way she feels about me,

not after all the things I did to her.

- I don't know what to say, Joe.

- Nothing to say.

Oh, listen, I saw little Amy this afternoon.

- Oh, did you?

- She misses you, Chris.

- Yeah, well, I try to--

try to get over there as much as I can, see her.

- You know, you really ought to try and get up

there more often.

- I will.

I... I will.

- You know, when I was up there this afternoon,

up at Collinwood, something sort of weird happened.

- Oh, yeah? What's that?

- Well, there's this--

this woman up there, this kook, really.

She thinks of herself as a-- a medium.

Anyway, she told me that I was going to die soon.

- What?

- That's what she said.

- Well, what's she want to go and say a thing like that for?

- I don't know.

It was because of something that Amy saw or imagined she saw,

I guess.

- Amy?

- Have you ever heard of the--

the sign of the pentagram?

- Pentagram?

- Yeah, it's a--

it's a star.

It's supposed to be the sign of a sudden death.

Well, at any rate, Amy says she saw it in my face.

- It isn't possible.

- Oh, yeah. I know.

I don't believe that kind of thing.

Amy probably heard the old woman talking

and just repeated some of her mumbo jumbo.

- Yeah.

Yeah, I bet that was it.

Yeah.

That's-- that's exactly what happened.

- Well, I'm not going to waste any time worrying about it.

- No, I wouldn't if I were you, Joe.

Look, I've got a lot of work to do.

I don't mean to be rude but I'm going to have to kick you out.

- That's OK.

I just came over for a moment anyway.

Listen, I'll see you in a couple of days.

- Yeah. Take it easy.

Tomorrow night.

I can't let it happen, not to him.

I've got to do something.

I've got to do something.

- All right. Thank you.

- And what did Professor Stokes say?

- He hasn't heard from Madame Findley.

He's tried to reach her but he's been unable to.

He can't imagine what's happened to her either.

- She probably had to go out.

I'm sure she'll be all right.

- I hope so.

- Silence.

Why is it so silent?

I've got to get out of here!

Why do you want to keep me here?

Why?

Why?

Help!

Help!

Help!

I've got to get control of myself.

I can't be frightened.

I-- I can't.

Are you here?

Are you in this room?

[music playing]

Why do you want that music to play?

What does it mean to you?

No.

No.

No!

No!

No!

No!

[knocking]

- Mr. Jennings. Come in.

- Hi, Mrs. Stoddard. Hi, thank you.

- If you've come to see Amy, she's in bed.

- No.

I wanted to see Dr. Hoffman. Is she here?

- She's in the drawing room.

Dr. Hoffman, Mr. Jennings wants to see you.

- Hello, Mr. Jennings.

- Doctor.

- I'm going down to see if Madame Findley's car is

at the gate. I'll be right back.

- All right.

What did you want to see me about, Mr. Jennings?

- Well, Doctor, I--

I need some medical help.

- Oh, what's wrong?

- Well, I'm having trouble sleeping and I--

I was hoping you'd give me some pills.

- Well, you can get some sleeping pills

without a prescription.

- Oh, I know, but they're-- they're just too weak.

I need something strong.

I've got to have something to knock me out for,

well, hours at least.

- Hours? - Yeah.

More than that, if possible.

- Well, why do you need to sleep all that much?

- Insomnia.

I've got insomnia, a very bad case,

and it's interfering with my work.

- Well, Mr. Jennings, if you stay awake all night

then you'll sleep the next night.

Would you like some tea? - No.

No, thank you.

Doctor, tonight I have to sleep.

It's vital that I sleep tonight.

- Is it?

- Well, yes.

You see, there's some work.

I've got to finish it.

I just-- I can't do it without sleep.

- You look rested, Mr. Jennings.

- Well, what I look like and the way I feel

may be two different things.

Doctor, I'm desperate to get these pills.

- When someone is desperate for sleeping pills,

I hesitate to give them.

- You think I'm going to do something foolish, huh?

- It's always possible.

- Doctor, I'm not about to do anything like that.

I just want to get some sleep.

- All right.

I have something, enough to give you the sleep that you need.

- Oh, would you mind getting them for me?

I hate to trouble you but it's really very important.

- All right.

- Madame Findley's car is still there.

She must be somewhere in the house.

- Well, there she is.

- Madame Findley.

Madame Findley, we've been so worried about you.

Where have you been?

Well, why don't you answer me?

[screaming]

[theme music]