678 - January 28, 1969

[bunniefuu]

[Chris narrating] - A strange distorted night in the great house of Collinwood,

a night in which one woman wakes and sees

a mysterious weeping figure in her room,

a figure that disappears without a word,

leaving fear in its place.

- Who is she? - I don't know.

- What was she doing in your bedroom?

- I have no idea. Do you see her anywhere?

- Yes, she's over there by the edge of the woods.

- But that's the path to Chris's cottage.

- Julia!

[crying]

Julia,

are you sure she went inside?

- Yes. I saw her open the door and walk in.

- Well, she isn't here.

- Chris!

- What's happened?

Well, is he all right?

- Barnabas, he's dying.

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- Is he alive?

Well, Julia, is he?

- Yes.

- What could have happened to him?

- Barnabas, I - I don't know.

- This can't have any connection with what happens to him.

Whiskey.

Julia, there's something in this whiskey, isn't there?

- Strychnine, I think. - He'll die.

- No. If - if I'm right, we can save him.

I'll have to get some atropine.

I don't have any here at Collinwood.

- We should take him to a hospital.

- Do you want the police involved, Barnabas?

Do you think that's wise?

- No, they can't be.

- I can call Windcliff and - and have it sent here

as quickly as possible.

- I don't blame you.

How often, such a short time ago,

I would sit in the old house

and doubt that I would have the strength to get through a night

and wonder if it wasn't best to die now.

Julia, he's coming to.

- Hello?

Hello, this is Dr. Hoffman.

Let me speak to whoever is on duty tonight.

- Julia.

He must live! He must!

Not only for our sake, but for Amy's.

[Beth] - Amy.

Amy.

Amy.

- Beth?

Where are you, Beth?

[Beth] - Oh, Amy.

What can we do?

- Is it time to play the game, Beth?

- No game.

No game.

- What do you want then?

Where are you, Beth?

- Come to me.

Come to me.

[Beth] Don't come near the window.

Don't come near the window, Amy.

- What's in there you don't want me to see?

Has something happened to my brother?

- [crying]

- Beth, tell me!

Beth!

- This time, he's all right.

- Who? Who?

Are you talking about Chris?

- This time, I saved him.

- From what?

- You must not tell him.

You must not tell him about me.

- Why, Beth?

Why?

- If you love him, as I love --

- I don't believe Chris is all right.

I don't!

Chris!

He's not all right!

Oh, Chris!

Chris! Chris!

Oh, Beth, I'll trust you if you tell me he will be all right.

- This time, this time, but tomorrow,

tomorrow --

- What will happen then?

- He - he will try again.

- Who? Who?

- The m*rder*r.

He's coming.

He's coming!

Stop him! Stop him!

- There's no one there.

Beth?

It's only Quentin, Beth. Come back.

Quentin won't hurt you.

Quentin?

Are you in the room, Quentin?

Where are you, Quentin?

Show yourself.

Have you come to see Chris?

He's all right now.

Ah!

- I tried to stop Quentin. I swear I did, Amy!

I told him that he was wrong.

I never wanted Quentin to do that.

You've got to believe me.

Amy.

I swear to you!

Beth, tell her, please! Tell her!

- He tried.

He did try, Amy.

But Quentin has made up his mind that Chris must die!

That Chris must die!

That Chris must die!

No! No!

Chris can't die!

He can't!

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Chris.

[birds chirping]

- How is he?

- The atropine seems to have worked.

I think he should be all right.

- Thank God.

- Barnabas,

Barnabas, that - that figure that led us here,

she's trying to help him, too.

He would have died without her.

But how did she know to come to - to me,

in my room?

Who is she?

- A friend from his past.

- A ghost?

But not his past. Those clothes.

- A guardian spirit.

She wants him to live.

- Does he know about her?

- We'll have to find that out.

- How did she know about me?

How did she know to come to me?

It was as if she knew all about each of us,

who could help him and who could not.

- And yet, why did she disappear as she did?

- Yes.

She - she could have told us so much.

She could have told us so much more.

- Perhaps she will appear again.

- Perhaps.

So, we're at the mercy of a ghost.

- Her clothes were Victorian, weren't they,

the s?

- I think.

Every detail will help eventually.

- When?

- Julia, if Chris were a werewolf as a result of a curse,

isn't it just possible that - that this figure

has some connection with that curse?

- Chris! - Chris!

- What are you doing here?

- He shouldn't be up, should he?

- Well, he can sit in the chair.

- What happened to me?

- You tell us, Chris.

- How did you find me? Huh? How did you find me?

- Chris, that isn't the important thing now.

If you're well enough to talk --

- Well, I want to know what happened.

- You drank this, Chris? - Yes.

- Now, we're not making any judgment on what you did.

- What I did? What did I do?

- Chris, we know what's in the whiskey.

- The whiskey?

Of course. That's it.

There was something in the whiskey that made me sick.

What was it?

Well, is it some kind of secret that you won't tell me?

What was it?

- Chris, if you want us to help you,

you will have to be completely honest with us.

- I am being honest with you!

- Chris, the whiskey is poisoned. - What?

What?

- The question is, who put it there?

- Wait a minute.

You think I did it?

Well, believe me, I considered that many a time.

Of course I did.

But why would I do it now,

now that I have both of you to try to help me?

- Perhaps because we weren't able to.

- I tell you! I did not do it!

- Chris, was anyone else in the house? - No.

- Were you gone for any length of time? - No, I wasn't.

- Well then...

- Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

Somebody was here. Oh, that's impossible.

He wouldn't have done anything like that.

- Who are you talking about? - David Collins.

- David?! - Yes.

Yesterday morning,

he was here just for a short while, around a.m.

I don't know why. He didn't stay long.

He stayed right beside me the whole time.

- David paid you a visit? - Yes.

But he's a good kid, you know.

He's been so really nice to Amy.

- Yes, he has.

Julia, if you don't need me right now,

there's something I must do,

something which may prove most interesting.

- Of course, Barnabas.

I'll stay here with Chris for a few hours.

- Oh, that won't be necessary. - Well, I think it is.

- Do you still think I did it?

Do you think I did it on purpose?

- No, no, of course not.

We just - are very glad that,

well, that we were wrong about the poison.

It's important that you stay alive. - Why?

Why is that important?

- Now, that should clear up any dizziness.

- You never told me

how you happened to find me, Dr. Hoffman.

- Oh?

- I'd like to know.

- I suppose - I suppose I've avoided it because it -

it does seem improbable.

A ghost led you here.

It's true, Chris.

You have a guardian spirit watching over you.

- How can you believe that?

- Because I saw her.

If you had seen her, you would believe it, too.

You would have died without her, Chris.

Chris, do you have any idea who she might be?

- Idea?

I cannot even believe that she exists.

I'm sorry, Dr. Hoffman.

- Don't be sorry. Be thankful.

[knocking on door]

I'll get it.

You should really go to bed for more rest.

- Doctor.

- Oh.

- You are sick! - Oh, no, I'm all right.

I just had a little upset stomach, baby, that's all.

No! No! It was more than that! I know!

- What do you mean?

- I had a dream.

- A dream?

- I had a dream that something terrible happened to you!

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Oh, Chris! Chris!

- Honey, it's all right.

- No! No!

- I'm telling you, I just wasn't feeling well.

I'm fine. Dr. Hoffman came --

- I don't believe you!

- Why not?

- Amy-- - Honey, are you going to believe some dream

and not believe your own brother?

- What exactly did you dream, Amy?

- Just that Chris was sick.

- What made him sick?

- I don't know.

- Well -- - What --

what else did you dream?

- Nothing.

- Are you sure?

- Yes.

Well, if you're going to be all right now, Chris --

- Yes. I'm fine, honey.

Don't worry about me.

- You are going to be all right.

Nothing else is going to happen to you!

Ever!

Ever!

- Quentin?

Quentin?

Did you hurt Chris?

You mustn't hurt him!

Quentin?

Quentin, why won't you talk to me anymore?

Quentin, are you there?

[knocking on door]

Come in.

- Good morning, David.

- Good morning. You're up early.

I didn't think grown-ups ever got up early.

- Oh, that depends on what they have to do.

I thought I'd enjoy having breakfast with you and Amy.

- Oh, it won't be that much fun.

Mrs. Johnson is always so grumpy in the morning.

- Well, we can ignore her.

- It's very hard.

- I'm sure you and Amy manage.

Tell me, David,

do you enjoy having Amy in the house?

- Oh, sure.

You know, we have a lot of fun.

- Well, that's good.

I was talking with Chris this morning

and he tells me that he's very pleased

with the way you've made her welcomed here.

- You saw Chris this morning?

- Yes, of course. Why do you ask?

- Um, I just didn't know that you two are friends.

- Of course we are.

- Oh, I see.

- Does that surprise you? - No.

- Aren't you and Chris friends?

- Well, I don't know Chris that well.

- But he said that you paid him a visit yesterday.

- Oh, yes.

I was taking a hike through the woods.

- At six in the morning?

- Well, I always like to get up early.

- Chris was very sick last night, David.

- That's too bad.

- Yes.

- Is he better this morning?

- Oh, he's fine now.

- Oh, good.

I'm glad that he's feeling better

because he promised to take Amy and me to the movies.

I guess that sounds pretty selfish of me.

I wish people would never get sick.

Don't you?

- I quite agree with that.

- You know, I've been thinking.

I might become a doctor sometime.

- Oh, Mr. Collins.

- Come in, Amy.

- Are you ready for breakfast yet, David?

- Do I look as if I am?

- Well, why don't you hurry up and get dressed?

I'll go down and ask Mrs. Johnson

to set a place for me.

Come along, Amy.

- I want to stay and talk to David.

- Then how can I get dressed? - Just for a few minutes.

- I will see you at breakfast.

- What do you want?

- You sound just like Quentin.

- I don't mean to.

I don't want to.

- David, I know why Quentin wouldn't let me

play the game anymore.

- You do?

- Why did you let him hurt Chris?!

- I don't know what you're talking about!

- Oh, yes, you do!

He tells you everything he's going to do.

- But I didn't know that he was going to do that.

- David, why don't you admit it?

You even tried to talk him out of it.

- I know that.

Now, why are you lying to me?

- Amy, does Quentin ever scare you?

What are we going to do?

- Are you afraid of him, too?

- Where are you going?

- Downstairs.

- Why?

- To tell Mrs. Stoddard.

- What?

- About the game.

- You can't do that!

- It's the only way to stop it, David!

- Amy, you don't know what Quentin will do to us!

You can't!

You don't know him as well as I do, Amy!

- You can't stop me, David! No one can.

- Amy!

Amy!

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[eerie music] ♪♪