827 - August 25, 1969

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[ eerie music ]

NARRATOR:Collinwood is a place where many

are struggling to save themselves from destruction.

And on Widow's Hill near the Great Estate,

a frightened gypsy fights the ghost of Sandor

sent to destroy her.

[ thunder rumbles ]

Odelle who makes the earth grow

bear witness that this gypsy not be allowed

to walk the earth.

Guide this spirit back to death.

[ eerie tones ]

You done good Magda.

JOHNNY: You got rid of Sandor.

You got rid of them all!

But there ain't nothing you can do about me is there?

Or about Istvan either.

Are you sure you want to go that way?

It's a long way down.

The game is over Magda.

And you lost.

[ theme music playing ]

All right, Magda, which will it be?

The rocks down there or this?

You ain't going nowhere except where King Johnny sends you.

Let her go.

MAGDA: Barnabas!

Let her go.

JOHNNY: Istvan.

Istvan, k*ll him.

BARNABUS: He is not going to k*ll me.

What do you mean?

You'll see what I mean unless you let her go now.

You'll see what I mean, and you will not like it.

JOHNNY: No, I'm not going to let her go.

BARNABUS: Go, Istvan.

You put a spell on him, but King Johnny'll take it off.

Istvan, go no further.

Let her go, or he will.

JOHNNY: No!

Istvan, listen to me!

Obeying the devil is sending you there.

Do not go!

Do not go!

[ screaming ]

Now, let Magda go, or I will send you after Istvan.

You must be Barnabas Collins, ain't you?

The one they found in the mausoleum.

You ain't sending King Johnny nowhere, are you?

You ain't got no power over King Johnny.

With this cross in front of me,

you can't even come closer, can you?

All right, that's settled.

Now do you want me to send you after Istvan?

Do that, and you will never bring

the hand of Count Petofi back to your people.

The hand of Count Petofi?

You brought it to him.

You helped her k*ll Julianka.

Neither Magda nor I k*lled Julianka, but I know who did.

That person now has the hand of Count Petofi.

He's only a few miles from where we're standing now.

JOHNNY: Where?

BARNABUS: That you won't know

until you've released Magda,

and told her she is completely free.

How do I know I can trust you?

How do I know you will help me get the hand back?

BARNABUS: The hand has caused a great deal

of pain and misery to all who have touched it.

It belongs to the gypsies.

I'm only sorry that Magda ever brought it here.

Now, you told me what's in it for the gypsies.

What's in it for you, Mr. Barnabas?

The man who has the hand now has caused

great unhappiness to everyone I cared for.

None of my family is safe until his powers

are taken away from him, and I want you to take

those powers away.

The choice is yours.

k*ll her, if it's more important to you

than getting the hand back.

Oh, Johnny.

Johnny, he's telling the truth.

He's telling the truth. He can help you.

Put the cross away.

[ thunder rumbles ]

All right, the house is empty.

We must figure out precautions.

Our safety is in doubt, thanks to the man

who has the hand.

All right, I forgive everything.

Just tell me who has the hand.

I'm afraid you'll find this difficult to believe,

but you must, for all our sakes.

You tell, I'll believe.

The hand is now again with Count Petofi.

Count Petofi has the hand?

BARNABUS: Yes.

And he's here in this place?

Yes.

So, I will finally see him,

the owner of that hated crest.

His crest was on Julianka's forehead

when I found her dead.

Petofi k*lled Julianka?

BARNABUS: Yes.

Why didn't you say nothing?

He put a spell on me so I couldn't betray him.

I could not say his name when I wanted to,

no matter what you did to me.

He ain't going to put no more spells on my gypsies.

He ain't going to k*ll any more of my gypsies.

King Johnny will see to that.

BARNABUS: You shouldn't go after him alone.

It is dangerous.

Not for me, it ain't dangerous.

What do you mean?

I can't tell you that.

Count Petofi will know.

Where can I find him?

A few miles from here, you said.

So he is, but I will tell you no more

until you agree to one last condition.

When you find the hand,

you must use it on Quentin Collins.

The one who's cursed?

BARNABUS: Yes.

He's not a gypsy.

I can only use it on gypsies.

But he married a gypsy,

and his children are part gypsy.

You will be using it against your own people

unless you cure Quentin.

All right, I ain't got time to horse trade.

There's something more important I must do.

I'll be back.

BARNABUS: Where are you going?

I must start something that must be done.

It takes time to do it right.

Wait for me.

[ thunder rumbles ]

Well, he's been gone a long time.

Are you sure you didn't tell him

where he could find Petofi?

How could I after what Petofi did to me?

Well, I don't understand.

I just don't understand it at all.

[ knocking ]

Who is it?

JOHNNY: King Johnny.

King Johnny.

How do you like me in these robes?

Magnificent, ain't I?

Where's Barnabas?

Here.

You thought I tricked you when I ran off?

Tell the truth, that's what you thought.

I was afraid you had.

You have no reason to be afraid.

I said I could cure this Quentin of yours,

and I am going to do so.

Have him here by dawn.

I will have him here, but I won't be here myself.

Now, I want to know where he is.

Tell me now.

There is an abandoned mill

at the end of the north road.

You think you can find it by yourself?

I can find it.

I'll take care of things as soon

as I take care of Count Petofi.

What's that for?

The golden scimitar of the Romano tribe.

A hundred years ago,

it severed Count Petofi's hand from his wrist.

It has always been sacred to the gypsies.

Tonight, it'll be more sacred.

So that's how you're going to get it back.

Oh, it's going to do more than that, Mr. Barnabas.

It's going to do much more than that

with King Johnny behind it.

What do you mean?

You want to know too many gypsy secrets.

You just leave it all to King Johnny.

Suppose, suppose he don't find Petofi.

Why wouldn't he?

I don't know

He's too smart to just sit and wait

for the gypsies to find him.

Suppose he is gone.

He ain't here.

Or is he?

The History of the Collins Family.

JOHNNY: [ heavy breathing ]

Am I what you expected, Petofi?

You was expecting me, wasn't you?

Every time you k*lled a gypsy, you was expecting me.

I had no idea what you would be like.

No, you didn't.

So every gypsy filled you with terror.

Any one could have been me,

the humblest, the greatest, the most magnificent.

There was no way of telling, was there?

Was there?

No.

JOHNNY: But I ain't a disappointment, am I?

I am worthy of you.

Put that down, Petofi.

It won't do you no good and you know it.

I was so close to escaping from you forever.

That's over and done with.

There is no escape for you now.

To all the other gypsies, you was a legend.

To me, you was a legend, too,

until my grandfather Matteo died.

Nine days after he died, I had a dream.

He came to me in that dream

just like his Uncle Zargo came to him.

He told me like his Uncle Zargo told him,

that I was now the keeper of the hand.

He told me that I was the only gypsy in the world,

that Count Petofi had no power over,

and you do fear me, don't you?

Yes, yes, I fear you.

JOHNNY: You tell me why.

Because you are the one gypsy in the world

I have no power over.

The one gypsy who has power over you.

Listen to me, Johnny Romano.

Let me talk for five minutes.

My name is King Johnny.

You call me that.

No, I won't call you that.

You're no real king.

A king doesn't wear tawdry robes.

He doesn't have bits of glass, tinsel ornaments,

bright handkerchiefs.

No, a real king has rubies, diamonds,

real rubies and diamonds.

He has furs, beautiful women to wrap them around.

He has palaces full of treasure,

so much you can't count it all.

I could make all that real for you, Johnny Romano,

all that and more.

PETOFI: This could give it to you.

I know the true powers of this hand.

You gypsies don't.

You can't gain from it as I can.

You think King Johnny is some kind of fool?

You think I'd leave this room with my pockets

stuffed with diamonds,

and leave that hand and you roaming the same Earth

as those gypsies?

You think I would give up that hand

for all the treasures in the world?

But I won't be roaming the same Earth

with you, Johnny Romano.

What's that supposed to mean?

I have a friend with exceptional powers.

He's going to take me to the future,

to a time almost years from now.

With that much distance between us, Johnny Romano,

we'll never meet again.

You'll never find me there.

It'll all be over between Petofi and the gypsies

when Barnabas Collins takes me to the future.

[ laughing ]

Barnabas Collins.

Barnabas Collins ain't your friend.

Barnabas Collins ain't taking you to the future.

He told me where I could find you,

where I could find the hand.

What are you going to do?

You know what I am going to do,

what was done to you years ago.

Take my hand.

Is there no hope, no mercy?

The same mercy that you showed the slaughtered gypsies

in the Forest of Ozhden,

the same mercy that you showed any gypsy

unfortunate enough to cross your path.

That's the mercy I will show you.

Then there's nothing more to be said.

There's only this.

I remember the firelight,

how the knife gleamed as it came close to my hand,

the agony as it was severed from my wrist.

It was a hundred years ago, and I still remember.

I don't want to remember.

JOHNNY: This time you won't have to remember for long.

I'm going to cut off your hand, Count Petofi.

It'll happen like it did a hundred years ago,

but there's gonna be one thing

that's gonna be different.

What one thing?

After I've taken the hand,

I'm gonna take your life,

and there's nothing you can do that can stop me.

Nothing!

[ thunder rumbles ]

Why ain't Johnny here yet?

Suppose Petofi was gone?

I don't think so.

Petofi went to a great deal of trouble

making that false hand and setting you

up as a scapegoat.

I think he wants to stay here for some time.

Then where is Johnny?

Why ain't he here?

Magda, he will succeed in his mission.

So why don't you go to Collinwood,

and get Quentin and bring him here,

and wait here until Johnny returns?

I have a feeling this will be the most important

day of his life.

It may well be the most important day of all our lives.

JOHNNY: I've waited for this moment

a long, long time.

You've waited for it too long.

You've thought about it too long.

Think about yourself instead.

Think what you could gain if you let me go.

You're a sensible man.

We both are.

There must be some arrangement we can make,

something I could give you.

I swear I could give you things

beyond your expectations, beyond your dreams.

What I want I'm going to take right now.

I don't need no arrangement to do it.

Nine sacred candles, all burning, all ready.

Matteo, Zargo, all you of the Romano tribe

who bore the honor and the glory

and the power to stand up against our hated enemy,

wherever you are, see this moment

and make it your triumph, too.

King Johnny Romano alone of all the men of his tribe

has found Petofi.

King Johnny Romano alone is going to do...

What must be done.

[ thunder rumbles ]