727 - April 7, 1969

[bunniefuu]

[Carolyn narrating] - Collinwood in

and the strange and terrifying events of that year

are being gradually unveiled to Barnabas Collins.

Tonight, he is confronted with a new and dangerous evil,

an evil that appears masked in a cloak of mercy.

- I beseech Your help

in finding this troubled, lost lamb.

The devil has been with him

and looked upon him with favor.

The devil must be vanquished!

The lamb must be cleansed.

Let You and Your infinite wisdom

show him the light

and guide him to the safe harbor

that I can provide for him.

I ask not for myself

but for the poor, miserable, misguided youth,

so in need of Your divine guidance.

Amen.

- Perhaps, I should have prayed with you.

- It would have been wiser

than searching the woods, Mr. Collins.

You did not find him, of course?

- If I had found him,

I wouldn't have delivered him to you, Trask.

Now, you cannot take that boy to your school

until his father comes home.

- I shall not discuss this with you!

- But even you should see that this child is so unwilling to!

- He will enjoy it when he gets there!

- But there is no need for him to go to school at all!

- There is the evil in this house!

- You see it? - And you do not?

Perhaps, Mr. Collins, that is because

you are so intimately involved with it!

- What are you accusing me of?

- You have been against me ever since

I walked through that front door! Why?

- Because I do not trust you!

- You cannot trust anyone

because you lack the belief necessary

for trust to start.

Stay out of this, Mr. Collins, for your own sake!

Leave Jamison to me!

- And if I don't?

- I don't think it will matter.

I will get the boy, Mr. Collins, tonight,

tomorrow, at the latest, but I will get him!

I know that!

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- What do you intend to do with Jamison

when you get him?!

- I shall make him see the error of his ways!

- My sister asked me to tell you,

that your rooms are ready, Trask.

- How very kind of Ms. Collins to insist

we stay until the boy is found.

I shall be in my room, meditating.

When my daughter arrives,

will you see that she is brought directly to me?

She is an enormously shy child

and quite ill at ease socially.

- Yes, sir! Anything you say, sir!

If Worthington Hall is as pleasant as its Master,

Jamison and Nora are in for a joyous winter.

What kind of power does he have, do you think?

- None!

- And how do you explain me,

yesterday, a creature walking the earth without a heartbeat,

today, the same old lovable Quentin as before?

Surely you have an explanation for that, Barnabas.

- Coincidence. - Oh?

I don't believe it's a coincidence.

No, no, no, there is more to that man than that.

- Perhaps we should have them investigated, Quentin.

- You do it.

- I will, if those children go to that school.

You seem remarkably casual

about Jamison's disappearance, I must say.

- Oh, merely my manner.

We, Collins, are taught not to give way to panic.

- That must be very easy when you know where the boy is.

- You said that, I didn't.

- Well, for once, we agree.

I would have hid him myself if he had come to me.

- Are you expecting a confession, Barnabas?

Frankly, I don't trust you enough to give you one

and if you keep on,

I shall be forced to search the woods

and in my delicate condition,

I don't think that would be wise.

- I don't think so either.

But it is comforting to know the boy is not lost somewhere,

that he will show up at the appropriate time.

I cannot believe my cousin

would have his boy go to that man.

I am going to find out everything I can

about that school.

- Do you need to ask anything about it,

bread and gruel and a switching

for every lesson unlearned.

- Again, we agree.

- But we mustn't make a habit of agreeing, Barnabas.

- Oh!

No! No!

Oh, Quentin!

- Can you blame me for wanting to carry you away again?

- You're all right!

How?

- When Barnabas told me

that I had taken you from the house,

I was quite impressed with my taste.

- Now, how can you joke?

- Because I was frightened,

frightened that every time you look at me

would be with fear in your eyes,

in your lovely eyes.

Oh, I've gone too far as usual.

- I just don't understand.

- No one does.

I had a spell put on me.

That's my explanation, at least.

Do you believe in spells?

- I don't know.

I certainly never did before I came here.

- Well, we're guaranteed to -

to make you believe that they exist.

Our entire family can be explained in no other way.

Rachel, I'm sorry.

- Well, you weren't responsible, obviously.

But you mentioned something about a spell.

Were you serious?

- Couldn't you tell?

Can you ever with me?

Perhaps I'll have to take care of that, won't I?

Yes, it was a spell.

- Who put the spell on you?

Quentin, I want to know! - Why?

- It's just that so many strange things

have happened to me lately

that I tend to believe that there is a presence,

that perhaps I have an unseen, unknown enemy.

Perhaps I'm being just too imaginative

or maybe you simply started it

that first night that I came here. - How?

- Do you remember,

we were standing out on the terrace

and I thought I saw a light in the tower room

and you told me it was haunted.

Well, I kept seeing that light

and I began to believe that somebody lived there.

Well, I was right.

- That's where you were attacked.

- Yes.

And it wasn't by a prowler or one of the gypsies,

I know that!

Someone does live in that tower room!

Where are you going?

- Perhaps you found the person I've been hunting for!

[knocking on door]

- Rachel Drummond.

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Aren't you going to let me in, Rachel?

- Charity, what are you doing here?

- More to the point, what are you?

What a splendid school this house would make!

You haven't conquered that very bad habit, I see.

I've asked you a question and you haven't answered it.

- Charity, I don't have to answer your questions.

Unfriendliness is a character fault. - As you should know!

- As my father had said so many --

- I'm not interested in your father. - You should be.

He is in you.

- I work for the Collins now.

- Do they know about you?

Well, that's a question you need not answer,

your face has done it for you.

Servants must be very hard to find these days.

- I am the governess!

- Well, there is some justice, isn't there?

If father were a man given to amusement,

that would appeal to him.

- What do you mean, Charity? I - I don't understand.

- Will you take me to him or is that someone else's job?

- The Reverend Trask is here? - Didn't you know?

They've sent for him. - Why?

- "Something must be done with the children of the house!"

But then you must know that.

- Oh, I beg your pardon, you - you must be Ms. Trask?

- I am, sir.

- Your father was beginning to be concerned about you.

- Would you be so kind as to take me to him?

Ms. Drummond does not seem to know where he is.

- Of course.

I'll take you to - I'll take you to your room

and then, I'll go and get him.

- Father will look forward so to his reunion with you.

[thinking] - I can't just run out of the house!

Not again!

If they're here, I must face them,

without fear.

But how?

How can I do that? How?

- Well, there's no one in the tower room.

No sign of life.

Except for a doll with one eye missing

and that's hardly a sign.

Whoever was there has been moved.

- You're not like the others.

You do believe that someone was in the room.

- I know there was.

- Do you really?

How can you be so sure?

- And I'm going to find out where they moved her to.

- The lost lamb has been found, Father,

the lamb for which we had despaired,

the lamb so in need of saving.

As I have so often heard you say, Father --

- You saw Rachel Drummond in Collinsport?

- Not in Collinsport, Father.

- Where?

Do you know where she lived? Did you find out?

- Yes, Father. She is here.

Rachel Drummond is the governess.

- Here in this house, now, this minute?

- Yes, Father.

- We must pray!

We must give thanks

that she has been delivered back to us!

- But I knew there was something wrong,

the moment I saw you and Ms. Trask.

- How did you know?

- The look in your eye, the expression of your mouth.

- Do we really know each other that well?

- Yes.

- In just so short a time.

- Does that frighten you?

- A little perhaps.

- Are you so determined to keep a secret to yourself?

You can trust me.

- I know! - Then?

- Perhaps, I - I just feel that if I don't talk about it,

it won't seem so real,

it'll all just fade away

and I won't think that they're upstairs.

They're here for those children.

Oh, Barnabas!

You can't let them take Nora and Jamison

back to that school! For their sake!

- I agree with you.

Not even knowing Worthington Hall.

- I know it.

Oh, how I know it.

- You went there?

- I was about Nora's age when I was sent there.

I had a foster aunt who just couldn't -

couldn't be bothered with me.

I was looking forward to it really.

I'd never - I'd always looked forward

to being with other children.

But the Trasks separate the children,

they still keep the children apart!

It's as if they were afraid that -

that the children will stand up to them!

While I was there, I had a special friend.

His name was Tim.

We used to - to meet secretly.

He would help me with my - my schoolwork.

But they found out

and they locked Tim up in a cupboard for days.

I was beaten and starved

until I promised I would never see him alone again.

I was there for another years.

So was Tim.

And perhaps that time,

we didn't even dare to look at each other.

It is so impossible to explain that fear,

the constant threats, the cruel punishments!

- It still can't be like that.

- Why can't it be?

Does something evil change for good for no reason?

- But it's such a successful school!

- Because the children are -

are there because nobody wants them!

They're boys and girls, whose parents pay money

to get rid of them!

Children are sent there for reasons

that have nothing to do with learning!

Barnabas, I know!

I even taught there.

- Knowing it was like this, why would you?

- Barnabas, do you think that I would

if that had been my choice?

The last year that I was going to school there,

my foster aunt passed - passed away

and Reverend Trask told me

that my tuition was still owed.

There wasn't enough money in the estate to cover it.

So, Reverend Trask offered me the opportunity to -

to teach, to pay it off.

I was afraid not to accept it.

- He intimidated you that much?

- You can't understand that, can you?

Yes, they intimidated me.

They kept on intimidating me until one day,

Tim Shaw and I escaped.

I have to use that word, "escape"!

But we went away, leaving all those children,

those poor children that we tried to help.

We left them knowing that we couldn't help them!

- You must tell my cousins all this

as soon as Edward returns!

- Tears, Ms. Drummond?

Of repentance, perchance!?

If you will excuse us, Mr. Collins?

- No, I will not!

There's nothing that I can't hear that you tell Rachel.

- Isn't there?

Are you sure that's what you want, my dear?

- Barnabas, you'd better go.

- Rachel.

- I suggest you do as she says, Mr. Collins.

It is not wise to know her too well.

- I'll be in the study, if you want me.

- Come to me.

Come to me!

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What beautiful hair you have,

that is what I remember so well.

When I thought badly of you, as I was often tempted to do,

I thought about how you look that last day in my office.

You stole money from me!

- That was my salary!

- Who will believe that?

- But you know it's true!

You said you were holding it for me.

- You left before you could fulfill your contract!

- You made me sign that paper!

You said that I owed more money than I did!

- Any court in this great land

would say you owe me six months of your life.

I want you to come back! - No!

And I won't allow you to take those children back either!

- And how will you stop me?

- By telling them! - What?

What could you possibly tell them that they would believe?

Your word against mine?

- I won't come back.

- Your friend did.

The young fellow you ran away with?

Did you run away with him because he was handsome?

- You know that's not true!

- Will Ms. Judith Collins believe that?

He is at school now, fulfilling his contract!

- I don't believe that!

Tim would never go back!

- You have much to learn, my dear.

How fortunate for you that we are waiting to teach you.

I shall be in my room when you have changed your mind.

[knocking on door]

- Who is it?

- Your father.

- Come in, Father.

- The lamb, you need not worry,

she will return to us.

She will return.

- There must be something I can do.

- No. There's nothing.

- I will help you.

- No, please don't. You'd only regret it.

- Tomorrow, when my Cousin Edward comes back,

we'll go to him, the two of us.

What's wrong?

- I can't talk to them about the school.

- But why?

- I can't! - Rachel!

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[bat squeaking]

- [gasps]

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