665 - January 9, 1969

[bunniefuu]

[Ben narrating] - Dusk at Collinwood

and Barnabas Collins soon will rise,

but he will find himself in the Collinwood of ,

for he has been drawn backward into time

to save Victoria Winters from hanging.

He has seemingly failed in that task.

For, at midnight on the previous night,

she was hanged and pronounced dead.

Everyone at Collinwood is mourning her death,

all but one,

the witch who caused that death,

and who even now controls her from beyond the grave.

- Soon they will come for you.

Soon they will bury you never knowing the real truth.

They will place you in your casket

and bury you in the earth.

Then, and only then,

will I release you from my spell.

You will awaken and find yourself in your tomb,

a tomb from which you can never escape.

You will scream and cry out for help,

but no one will hear you.

Then, gradually,

gradually, you will die again,

and this death will be the most terrifying death of all.

But what death could be more fitting

for the woman Barnabas loves.

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[eerie music] ♪♪

[coffin creaking open]

- Are you ready, Ben?

- Aye. I'm ready.

- Good.

- Mr. Bradford, shouldn't you rest for awhile?

- No.

- Well, at least you should have something to eat.

- You will have to leave her sometime.

After she is buried -- - Stop it!

- Millicent --

- Did I say something wrong?

- She's not going to be buried.

I'm not letting anybody take her away.

I won't.

I can't!

- I wish there was something I could say,

something I could do.

- She's dead!

I have to accept it.

There's nothing else anybody can do.

- So, you actually came!

- I told you that I would.

- You betrayed me!

- No, Barnabas, I didn't betray you.

- You let Vicki go to the gallows and be hanged.

- She did have to undergo the hanging, yes.

- Then how come you say you didn't betray me?

- Because when she was hanged,

she was under my spell.

- You are lying. She's dead!

- No, Barnabas. She only seems to be dead.

When I release her from my spell,

she will live again.

- And when will you do that?

- When you and I leave this place.

Together.

- You think that I would go away with you now?

- Yes, to save Victoria Winters' life.

- You expect me to trust you?

- If you refuse to trust me,

she will die the most horrible death imaginable.

- No, Angelique.

- It is you who will face destruction.

- No! - You will die by fire.

- No! - The death you deserve!

- No! No!

Ah!

- Burn, burn, burn!

- No!

Ah!

- Vicki, Vicki.

- Peter? - You're alive.

You're alive!

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- She's gone.

- Aye. Gone forever!

- Hard to believe.

We've been finally able to get rid of her.

Take her ashes, Ben,

and scatter them to the winds

so that every trace of her is gone.

- Aye, sir.

Nothing would give me more pleasure.

- Come.

- Barnabas.

But he's dead.

He's dead.

[gasps]

[coffin creaking open]

- I was dead?

- I saw you hanged.

- But Peter --

- What is the last thing you remember?

The very last thing?

- Standing on the gallows.

Then, the next thing that I knew I was --

I was here with you.

How is it possible?

- I don't need any explanation.

Just the fact that you are here is good enough for me.

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- Vicki!

- Countess, I've been looking all over the house for you.

What are you doing up here?

- I heard -- I heard screaming.

- Oh yes, I heard it, too.

I found it most curious.

- Barnabas --

- I beg your pardon?

- Barnabas, I - I saw him.

He's - he's alive.

- Oh, yes. I know.

- You know?

- I saw him, too.

I told everyone at the time but no one would believe me.

I noticed people pay very little attention

to the things I say.

- But I saw him die.

- Perhaps, he didn't really die.

- But he did.

And this coffin, it's empty.

What is it doing here?

- I have noticed something else about people.

They continually ask me questions I can't answer.

- Perhaps - perhaps, I didn't really see Barnabas.

Perhaps, I - I only imagined it.

- Oh no, no. You saw him.

Others have seen him, too.

My husband saw him.

- Nathan?

- He spoke about Barnabas when I saw him yesterday.

He said the most outrageous things.

I - I began to wonder if Nathan is well,

mentally, I mean.

- What did he say?

- He - he wanted me to destroy Barnabas.

- Destroy him?

- Yes.

He said there was only one way Barnabas could be destroyed,

by driving a stake through his heart.

Does that make any sense to you?

- A stake?

Through his heart?

- That's what he said.

How could he expect me to do a thing like that?

Do you understand it?

- I - I think I'm beginning to.

- A miracle!

I don't know how it happened!

- How did it happen?

- Apparently, she did put a spell on you.

When she was engulfed in flames,

the, well, t he spell was broken.

- And if you hadn't destroyed her -- - Vicki,

don't even think about it.

She's gone, at last.

- Everything is packed. We can leave now.

- Then go.

Go as quickly as possible and as far away as you can.

- I thought we'd head west.

Nobody knows us out there.

We can get married.

- I will never see either of you again.

Be happy. Both of you.

- Barnabas, I want to thank you.

- The fact that Vicki is alive is thanks enough.

Just go.

- Vicki?

- Can I be alone with him, for a moment, Peter?

- Sure.

- You mustn't linger.

The sooner you are gone, the safer you will be.

I just wanted a moment to say goodbye to you.

I just wanted to say one thing.

No matter what happens, no matter where we go,

I'll always feel close to you.

No matter where we are,

I'll always feel that you are somewhere nearby.

- Goodbye, Vicki.

- Goodbye, Barnabas.

- It - it doesn't seem possible.

And yet - and yet, it - it must be.

- I don't understand.

- There are legends about dead men

who walk in the night

and exist on the blood of the living.

Vampires!

- Do you know what you're saying?

- I should have guessed.

Oh, my poor Josette!

Just before she died how - how pale she was.

- Countess, I don't understand.

- He was trying to make her into what he is.

One of the living dead!

That's - that's why she jumped from - from Widow's Hill.

- I - I can't comprehend!

- Barnabas Collins destroyed Josette.

I will avenge her death!

As God as my witness,

I will destroy Barnabas Collins!

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- Mr. Barnabas, you keep on talking about returning.

Where are you returning from?

- Don't ask questions, Ben.

I have accomplished what I set out to accomplish,

and now, I must go back.

- Back?

- Yes.

I told Julia to - to meet me at the appointed place in hours.

- Mr. Barnabas --

- At o'clock, I should be there.

- Where?

- The cemetery, where you found me.

- After all that's happened,

it's no wonder you ain't thinking straight.

- I must go now.

- Mr. Barnabas, there's no point in going out there.

- I'm not going to argue with you, Ben.

- All right, but I'm going with you.

- Where are you going?

- I will follow Barnabas. Come with me.

- Do you really think we should?

- I will not let him out of my sight.

- What if he should catch us?

- He won't, if we are careful.

- But, Countess, I -- - Come.

- This is it, Ben.

This is the place where Julia and I were standing.

- Julia?

Who is Julia?

- There is a great deal you will never understand, Ben.

Will you just do as I say?

- What do you want me to do?

- Whatever happens,

even though you may not understand,

accept it.

Will you do that?

- I'll do anything you want me to, Mr. Barnabas.

- Good.

Julia.

Hear me.

Hear my voice echoing through the centuries.

Hear me and draw me to you.

Draw me forward in time.

Julia, let me return to you.

Let me return to you.

Julia, hear my voice, hear me.

I am here, Julia.

Waiting.

Concentrate.

Draw me to you.

Draw me to you.

I don't understand what's happening.

- Mr. Barnabas,

don't you think we'd better go home now?

- No, Ben.

It must work, it has to.

- What?

- Perhaps,

perhaps, the rest of the past must continue as it did.

- The past? - Yes.

Julia, perhaps she's supposed to find me as Willie found me.

But how will she know? - Willie?

What are you talking about?

- Ben, there is something you must do for me.

Come with me.

- What are we doing here?

- I will not return to Collinwood when the sun rises.

I will remain here.

- Here? - Yes.

- But why?

- I've told you already,

I cannot answer all your questions.

Now, just trust me and do as I ask you to do.

- All right.

- I want you to leave now

and go back to Collinwood and return here tomorrow

to this same place

and put chains around this coffin.

- Chain you? - Yes.

- But Mr. Barnabas -- - Please, do it

and tell my father what has happened.

- I wish I could understand.

- You will never understand, Ben,

but know that I must be destroyed,

and this will be the most merciful way.

Now, leave now and come back with the chains

and chain this coffin tightly as tightly as you can.

Do you understand?

And make sure that no one ever destroys or disturbs my --

my final rest.

Goodbye, Ben.

I'll never see you again.

You've been a good friend.

- Goodbye, Mr. Barnabas.

[wind howling]

- Are you certain you know what you're doing?

- Absolutely.

- Well, I'm not so sure you do.

- Lieutenant Forbes, I had you released from prison

so you could help me.

Do you want to go back there?

- No.

- Then do what must be done.

- All right.

You were telling the truth.

- Of course. Why would I lie?

Open the coffin.

- I --

- Lieutenant Forbes,

you are supposed to be a brave man.

Open it.

[lid creaking open]

You see?

He can't harm you now, can he?

- No.

- Destroy him.

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