740 - April 24, 1969

[bunniefuu]

[ eerie music ]

The time is ,

and Collinwood is a place of intrigue and fear,

for the strange events which happen here

are beyond the comprehension of most.

But Barnabas Collins, on a mission to save a boy's life,

knows more than the others,

and as he tries to piece together their story,

he endangers his own survival.

[ loud clock chimes ]

You should leave here tonight.

I am not permitted to tell you what to do, am I?

What do I care what you do.

Why should I leave here tonight?

I should not have said that.

I should go and talk to Sandor and say,

Let us hitch up the wagon and go.

But you have taken Sandor from me.

When they find you in your coffin down in the cellar.

Who will find me in my coffin?

Who?

Did you think you would always get away with it?

[Barnabas] Get away with what?

The girls in the village.

I can understand how you think you could get away with that.

Tell me what is happening and tell me now.

Charity Trask.

They have found the marks on her neck, your marks.

[ dramatic music ]

[ eerie music ]

Who has discovered the marks?

Her father.

Judith.

You wanted them to know, didn't you?

You think I did this by choice?

I don't expect you to understand.

No one could.

My only mistake is my unwillingness

to give up what life I have.

Can I be blamed for that?

Well, what did they say?

They sent for a doctor.

Did he connect it with the attacks in the village?

Mysterious animal, he said.

But Judith, she don't believe that.

She will question Miss Trask.

She will learn nothing from her.

You are very confident.

I am more certain about her than I am about you.

I will not say a word.

You know that.

But when they come to find you, and they will,

what will they do to us?

We have helped you.

And been paid for it.

Not enough.

You have taken Sandor from me.

BARNABAS: I will return him in good time.

No.

No, I see no end to it.

There will be an end.

I swear there will be.

MAGDA: Not the one you want.

My time here will end as I want it.

It must.

A boy's life, a man's fate, depend on it.

Sandor did not stumble upon me.

I summoned him to my coffin.

If you continue to see Charity Trask,

other people will be summoned to your coffin,

and they will come with a stake and a hammer.

You're right.

We must act quickly.

Go to Laura Collins.

Make some excuse, but spend the evening with her.

Were you here when Laura Collins first came here?

And you know nothing about her?

Only what everyone knows.

Does everyone know about this?

When did she have that painted?

When I was a boy, she posed in this room.

I sat over there, watching,

talking with her, laughing.

The evil here follows you always, doesn't it?

The evil here never stops.

What's wrong with that?

You always look at the bad side.

You have your orders for the evening, madam.

I do not like orders unless I understand them.

You do not need to understand them.

Now go.

So you have met an old friend.

Your master has uncovered another secret at Collinwood.

What is this?

What are you going to do?

I am studying death, Sandor, and means to defeat it.

There is no means.

You can tell that to anyone but me.

Now, I want you to go to the cemetery.

What are you talking about?

Look for a gravestone marked Laura Stockbridge Collins,

died .

Wait a minute.

If I'm correct, they buried her in the crypt

underneath the old meetinghouse.

Look for her first there.

Find the tomb.

I must know the truth about Laura Collins.

I have this fear that she will defeat me

unless I find out.

[ dramatic music ]

Tell me.

Doesn't it take a great deal of effort

to go on hating me so?

Well, perhaps you have to,

to keep yourself from feeling something else,

something stronger.

Love?

You did love me very much Edward, remember?

I remember.

I also remember the provisions under which

I let you re-enter this house.

Do you?

Of course.

Then why are you living here?

I gave you the cottage.

The cottage needs work.

Oh, you're concerned about your comfort now.

Did you think of that when you ran away from here?

Did Quentin keep you in luxury?

It still bothers you.

I want you out of this house by morning.

Edward.

By morning!

That's impossible.

It is not. [ loud knocking ]

Oh, it is you, good.

I want you to help Mrs. Collins.

She is to move to the cottage tonight.

There.

It's settled.

Make the best of it.

[ dark music ]

[ dramatic music ]

Well, Quentin is going to mind my being here

just as much as I do.

We're going to have to find another place

for his rendezvous, and his little games.

Magda, I want you to go through all the drawers.

Take out everything that belongs to Quentin,

put it in a box and return it to him.

You can do that now and unpack later.

I want nothing in this house to remind me of him.

The place itself is enough.

Who does he meet here now?

Is it the governess?

She's very pretty.

Or Beth, he was always interested in Beth.

What are those?

Tarot cards.

MRS. COLLINS: Did you teach him to read them?

He does not need me to teach him.

He has his own ways.

Yes, you needn't tell me that.

No one here knows what an obsession

it all is with him.

Hmm.

A doll without pins in it.

How unusual.

He must be saving this for someone special.

You perhaps, madam.

No.

No this is not for me.

He has done everything to me he possibly can.

And soon, I shall return the favor very soon.

Will luck be with me?

Read the cards.

You do not believe in them.

What does it matter whether I do or not?

All I want is a sign that things will go as they must.

Oh, I know I don't have much time.

But I will get my children.

They will come with me, and Quentin.

Is he to come, too?

No.

No, Quentin is not to come with me.

I have other plans for Quentin.

Read the cards and tell me if I'll be successful.

Death.

MRS. COLLINS: Start again.

You can't start with that card.

MAGDA: There must be a reason for it.

MRS. COLLINS: You didn't shuffle the cards.

MAGDA: Is that enough?

Yes.

MRS. COLLINS: Death again.

You're doing this deliberately.

Why would I?

You asked me to read your cards.

Why are you so terrified of death in this house?

But there is no death here.

Then there will be.

Yes.

Yes, perhaps so.

Right here, right in this room.

Oh, that would be justice, wouldn't it?

Right in his own sanctuary.

Well, tell me when this death is going to come.

It has already taken place.

What?

Magda, you've lost your touch.

You have no second sight anymore.

You can't help me.

Pick up the cards and return them to him.

Let it be his death.

Yes!

Let it be his.

I'm not a man much given to asking favors.

BARNABAS: Anything I can do, Edward.

Judith insists that Reverend Trask move the school

to the estate.

BARNABAS: Here?

Yes.

Well, at least you'll be in closer contact

with the children.

But I'm not the only one who can.

That is the trouble.

No, no.

It is not a good idea to have the school here at all.

I think I need not say anything more.

You surely understand.

I'm sorry, but I don't.

It's Laura.

I believe that's the first time

I've heard you mention her name.

I wish it were the last.

How well do you know Laura?

BARNABAS: Well, I can't honestly answer that.

You've met her.

You find her charming, I'm sure.

Yes, but I'm far too old to trust

first impressions completely.

EDWARD: You want to know about Laura?

Yes.

It's been so long since I've spoken abut her.

But now the time has come when I must.

She ran off with Quentin.

Well, she followed him, really.

She might just as well have left the same night.

I imagine Quentin can be most charming.

If you don't look too deeply, he is, and she doesn't

look too deeply.

That's what I don't understand.

Why she wants the children.

She's determined to take them.

And you can stop that.

I have never been able to stop her

when she sets her mind to anything.

There are certain women I

do not know how to fight.

I never have.

BARNABAS: Where did you meet her?

Here.

Is her family from here?

I know it sounds strange.

She never liked me questioning about her family.

But surely you know where she was born.

She says New York.

BARNABAS: Where she went to school.

She said that she had attended an eastern college.

But you don't really believe that?

I know she didn't.

After she left me I wrote to the college.

She had mentioned an aunt living somewhere

in the middle west, a guardian, so to speak.

I wanted the address of this

aunt, for reasons of my own.

The college replied that they had no records

of a Laura Murdoch who had ever attended their school.

So in effect she appeared here one day from nowhere.

Surely you can see that she's not the sort of person

who should be around the children.

Do speak to Judith.

She respects you.

Tell her that it's not a good idea to have the school here.

Excuse me.

I will be with you in a moment, Sandor.

Of course, I will talk to Judith.

Thank you.

I appreciate anything that you can do.

Well, I won't detain you any longer.

You know, it's strange.

I dreaded coming here.

I thought it would be so embarrassing

going into all of this.

But it hasn't been at all.

Thank you, Barnabas.

I found it, in the crypt.

Good.

You must find something to open it with.

But, Mr. Barnabas.

Please do as I say.

Now, I'll be with you at midnight.

First I must pay a visit to an old friend.

[ dramatic music ]

[ loud knocking ]

Quentin.

He must have heard I moved in.

Would you mind?

Good evening, Magda.

I have brought something here for Mrs. Collins.

Mr. Collins, do come in.

I hope I'm not disturbing you,

but I'd heard that you were living here now

and I had something for you, so I thought this

would be an ideal time.

Thank you.

A picture.

These old walls can certainly use one.

I found it in the attic of the old house.

I was so surprised.

Surprised?

Wait till you see it.

It's incredible.

Magda, come and look at this.

Well, I might have sat for this myself.

Yes, you might have.

You must have had a near relative living in these

parts years ago.

Either that or many women look like me.

BARNABAS: Oh, I don't think that's true.

Though many regret it.

Thank you.

Look at this, Magda.

Isn't that incredible?

However, the more I look at it, the less I think it

really favors me.

Is my chin really that pointed?

They look the same to me.

In a moment, Mr. Collins, you will have me thinking we are

one and the same.

Of course, we know

that isn't possible.

Well, I shall take this as an omen,

a good omen.

Thank you very much.

BARNABAS: I could hardly resist giving it to you.

Of course not, I understand.

BARNABAS: Well, I won't disturb you any further.

Oh, please do stay.

Well, I have a late appointment in the village.

We'll see each other soon.

I hope so.

I do need friends here, Mr. Collins.

I hate being lonely.

I will do everything I can to see that

that doesn't happen.

Thank you again.

[ eerie music ]

Put it in the closet.

But don't you want to hang it up?

I don't ever want to see it again.

But Barnabas will wonder.

At what?

The curious fact that we have

different tastes in paintings?

I told you put it away.

Now, do it.

SANDOR: I don't want to open it.

BARNABAS: You must.

You don't believe in the spirits.

I do.

It's dangerous to open a tomb, to disturb the peace,

the rest.

I'm sure that no spirits will be disturbed here

tonight, Sandor.

How do you know that?

How?

Because the woman who is buried here walks

at Collinwood tonight.

Now, start opening it.

Go ahead.

Now!

[ loud hammering ]

The bedroom is all ready.

Magda, what were you doing in there?

Oh, I simply made the bed.

No, no, no.

That noise, what is it?

[ loud hammering ]

MAGDA: I don't hear anything.

But you must.

Sounds like chipping stones.

It's getting louder.

You should try to rest.

[ loud hammering ]

Oh, God!

Where are you going?

Leave me alone. Leave me alone!

[ calm music ]

If the body is here, we will pay for this.

We will be punished.

Open it.

Open it!

[ soft creaking ]

[ dramatic music ]

[ eerie music ]