842 - September 15, 1969

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NARRATOR: Another night will soon pass.

And somewhere near the Great House at Collinwood,

a woman is being held prisoner by Count Petofi.

She has been unable to give him the information he needs.

Now Petofi has decreed that Julia Hoffman shall die,

but not in an ordinary way.

She has been made the bait in a fiendish trap.

And now Barnabas Collins...

is about to walk

into that trap.

[ g*n firing ]

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[ running footsteps ]

[ door slamming ]

Aristede, you're a dead man, do you hear me?

I will k*ll you for this!

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[ waves crashing ]

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[ moaning ]

Julia, can you hear me?

Barnabas.

BARNABAS: Can you talk?

Do you feel any pain?

No, no pain.

The b*llet couldn't have missed you.

No, I felt it hit me.

But Julia, there's no blood, there's no wound.

How is this possible?

I--I don't understand.

We can't stay here.

Petofi will be back.

I will help you back to the rectory.

Barnabas, what's wrong?

Look at the back of this chair.

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The b*llet shattered it.

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PETOFI: Ah, my dear, Angelique.

What are you doing here?

PETOFI: I was looking for Quentin, where is he?

How should I know?

PETOFI: You are his fiancée, aren't you?

I don't own him.

But it has occurred to you.

It was nice seeing you again, Count Petofi.

Just a moment.

Since Quentin isn't here, I'd like to have

a few words with you.

About what?

We might discuss the utter absurdity

of your marriage with Quentin.

I find nothing absurd about it.

Tell me, does he know everything

there is to know about you?

ANGELIQUE: Yes.

I see, does he even know that you are not,

shall we say, an ordinary being?

In the first place, that is none of your concern.

You will learn that it is.

ANGELIQUE: What do you mean?

Quentin and I have just made an agreement.

Under the terms of that agreement,

Quentin has no choice but to do as I say.

If I tell him to call off this marriage,

he must call it off.

Quentin is not a piece of property.

He doesn't belong to you.

In fact, my dear, he does.

I don't believe you.

When you see him again, you can ask him.

In the meantime, you needn't be upset.

I have no objection to this marriage taking place.

How very magnanimous of you.

Provided you understand you are never

to interfere with my plans.

Count Petofi, I will do whatever I need to do.

You don't control me.

Would that I did, my dear.

What a pity we've been at odds for so long.

Has it ever occurred to you what power

we could wield together?

Are you making me an offer?

I'm merely asking you to consider the possibility

of such an alliance.

I am not interested.

I must confess, my dear, Angelique,

your ulterior motives still allude me.

I have no ulterior motives.

Surely you aren't marrying Quentin

merely for the sake of becoming his wife.

You and I have nothing further to discuss.

Good evening, Count Petofi.

[ Petofi laughing ]

What are you laughing at?

At you, my dear, and at myself

for misjudging you so completely.

[ laughing ]

ANGELIQUE: Misjudging me?

I never suspected that your motives

might be so human, so feminine.

You're in love with him, I see it in your eyes.

You of all creatures are completely in love!

Tell me, my dear, what human emotion

will you aspire to next, compassion?

[ laughing ]

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How do you feel now?

I'm still a little weak.

BARNABAS: By all rule of logic,

[ exhaling ]

you should be dead, Julia.

Yes, this I know.

But the b*llet must have passed through you.

We both saw what it did to that chair.

Barnabas, I can think of only one explanation

that makes any sense.

BARNABAS: What is it?

When you came back to the past,

your physical body remained in the future.

The same thing must've happened to me.

But that doesn't account for the fact

that you went unharmed tonight.

I'm still vulnerable, why aren't you?

Because you existed in this time before.

You--

You had a host body here

to receive your essence, I did not.

BARNABAS: Meaning you are here only in essence?

Yes.

JULIA: My physical being is still in the present.

That's incredible.

JULIA: But Barnabas, don't you understand?

This means I'm not in any danger at all from Petofi.

That there's no way he can harm me while I'm here.

But you said yourself that you felt the impact

of the b*llet and it did leave you rather weak.

I'm sure that was all psychological.

I expected to be k*lled when the g*n went off

and I just simply reacted accordingly.

Well, let's hope you're right.

I know I am.

Now come, I have got to give you

a second injection before dawn.

But are you strong enough?

Perhaps we should wait until tomorrow night.

Oh, no, no, we can't.

I've worked out a strict schedule for these thing,

and it's important that we follow this schedule.

But even if the injection does work,

we still have to depend on someone else

to help with my plans.

Who?

The only person who is capable of doing it, Angelique.

Angelique?

- BARNABAS: Yes. - She is here?

BARNABAS: Yes, she put in an appearance

about a week ago.

Just a week after that I arrived from the present.

She's the perennial bad penny, isn't she?

Yes, and it pains me to have to go to her for help,

but I have a feeling this is one time

that she will be more than willing to help.

JULIA: Why?

She's planning to marry Quentin Collins.

[ gasps ] Marry him?

Does he have any idea what she is?

Yes, but she's managed to maneuver him into it.

But now that Petofi is on the scene,

Angelique has a threat from him.

They've already fought twice.

She'll be more than willing to take our offer.

So we must try to get her immediately.

Where can I find her?

At Collinwood.

All right, Barnabas, I'll get a message

to her in the morning.

I'll have the answer for you when you awaken at dusk.

Now, take off your jacket, we've got to get this done.

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[ door clicking ]

So, Charles, you received my note.

Yes, I got your note.

It said that you'd be here to meet me.

I've been waiting for you for two hours.

I had a pressing matter to attend to.

Hasn't Aristede been entertaining you?

Aristede is not here.

How odd, I left him here with a job to do.

Should've finished it and been back by now.

Something is wrong.

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So, Barnabas Collins was willing to risk

his own skin to save his lady friend.

She must be very important to him,

very important indeed.

Well, they will both pay for this

with their lives.

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[ knocking ]

JULIA: Please come in.

Your eyes are not deceiving you, I am who you think I am.

Why, how can you be?

JULIA: You're here, Barnabas is here, why not me?

But you're not like Barnabas and me, you're--

I'm human.

I don't understand.

I'm here, what is there to understand?

ANGELIQUE: Well, how you came here and why?

I came because Barnabas needed me.

Oh, I see you haven't changed.

You're still always ready to help Barnabas

whenever he needs you.

May I simply get directly to the reason

that I sent for you?

Let me give you one word of advice, Dr. Hoffman.

The pursuit of Barnabas Collins

can lead to nothing but misery.

He is a cold, harsh, unresponsive man.

Who made him that way?

All right, tell me why you sent for me.

JULIA: Barnabas needs your help.

Well, that hardly comes as a surprise.

I hope he didn't bring you all the way here to tell me that.

He could've told me himself.

Well, I'm here for another reason.

What?

I will answer that when you give me your answer.

I've told Barnabas many times

that he's a fool not to return to his own time.

He couldn't go back before.

He hadn't finished his work here.

His work will never be finished here.

He's changed history too much.

Will you please help him?

Why, why should I?

JULIA: Because you have everything to gain.

I fail to see how.

Barnabas told me about your relationship with Quentin.

It has nothing to do with Barnabas.

Angelique, if you don't help Barnabas,

you may never get Quentin.

ANGELIQUE: Why, what do you mean?

Something's happened that has placed Quentin

under great obligation to Count Petofi.

Count Petofi will not prevent my marriage to Quentin.

What good is it to be married to someone

who is not really yours,

whose loyalty is to someone else?

Wouldn't you want to defeat Count Petofi?

If I was unable to defeat him,

how does Barnabas expect to?

Oh, alone he can't, any more than you could.

But Barnabas is convinced that with your help,

he has part of a plan and you can help him realize it.

ANGELIQUE: What is the plan?

What is your answer?

I'm sorry, Dr. Hoffman, I must insist on knowing

what Barnabas has in mind before I commit myself.

This is most disturbing.

Aristede is nowhere to be found.

Well, why don't you stop worrying about Aristede?

He's gonna come back, he always does.

It isn't like him to disappear.

Perhaps he's afraid of facing me.

After bungling his job, he's right to be afraid.

I'm most displeased with what happened.

Listen, why don't you just tell me

what you want me to do here.

Am I trying your patience, Charles?--

Yes, you're trying my patience.

Well, we mustn't interfere with your proper rest.

Come here, Charles.

Look at this book, these wands.

Do they mean anything to you?

No, they don't mean anything to me.

You know nothing of the I Ching or how it works?

Nothing.

Think back, Charles, to the days before

I made you so respectable.

Think of the acquaintances you had then.

Rather curious lot of people, weren't they?

Some of them even dabbled in magic

and the black arts if memory serves me correctly.

Yes, yes, they did.

Who among them practiced

this particular form of divination?

I can see you're remembering something, Charles,

and I believe it pains you.

CHARLES: You shouldn't be toying with these things, Petofi.

PETOFI: Why not?

Because if you haven't mastered them,

they could be very dangerous.

PETOFI: How do you know that?

Because I saw them used once in New York

in an artist's apartment.

A woman went into a trance.

Moment she started to...

When she was in the trance, she,

she started to scream.

She screamed that something or somebody

was trying to k*ll her.

And what happened then?

Must've been a horrible nightmare because,

because--

PETOFI: Go on, go on!

Because right in front of our eyes,

her hair turned white and when we finally

got her out of the trance, she was mad,

she was completely mad!

So Dr. Hoffman was telling the truth after all.

I want to thank you, Charles.

I will proceed with my plan to go to the future,

but I must exercise greater caution.

I must find a way to use this I Ching

without placing my life in jeopardy.

Yes, it's a very clever plan, Julia.

One that won't be easy to execute,

but that doesn't bother me.

Then you're willing to help.

Since it may dispose of Count Petofi, yes.

Now, how do you plan to do it?

I am curious about your role in all of this.

These injections you've been giving Barnabas,

what guarantee do you have that they'll be successful?

Well, there's no absolute guarantee,

but the chances are very good.

Then I'm convinced he really is a fool.

If he can be cured, he'll have what he's wanted

for almost years.

He'll be able to go back to the future

and live a normal, happy life.

Angelique, I must ask you

what you are going to use to provide us with what we need.

Angelique, this is no time to be mysterious.

Tell me the answer!

ANGELIQUE: You'll know soon enough, Julia.

Angelique!

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Yes.

Yes, it will work!

[ suspenseful music ]

We must get another message to Angelique

and tell her that it must be done

sooner than we thought.

Why?

We can't give Petofi too much time to maneuver.

By now he probably knows that you are not dead.

- JULIA: But-- - BARNABAS: Means he'll make

another move against you.

Barnabas, you know that there's

nothing he can do to harm me.

I know that.

And I know that he will find out that

sooner than you think.

Then he will change his tactics and harass you

to the point where you'll be unable to help me.

Then the thing for me to do is to stay in hiding.

Yes, that won't keep you out of his thoughts, though.

And now we must go through with this quickly

before he changes his mind

and makes a next major move.

[ light music ]

Having second thoughts?

I had to see the painting for myself.

Well, what do you think?

I don't know what to think.

You still don't believe what I told you?

If you were me, would you believe it?

I guess I wouldn't wanna believe it.

At least you understand how I feel.

Look, Amanda, I never saw you before I did that portrait.

March th, , now that's the first day

that you remember anything.

Please, you've gone all over that before.

I didn't come here to go over it again.

Well tell me, why did you come here?

Just to look at it.

No, you came here to find out if I told you the truth.

If it were the truth,

I wouldn't want to know about it.

The thought that I could be some kind of

an unnatural creature, the figment in someone's

imagination is frightening.

Frightening, don't you think it's frightening to me

to think I've got some kind of a strange power?

Look, I've seen it, I tell you, I've seen it.

And I'll show you.

AMANDA: What are you doing?

I am gonna give you a little demonstration.

You've already done that before and nothing happened.

Look, I can't explain why nothing happened before.

I don't have any more idea about this power than you do.

There is no power at all!

It's just coincidence.

All right, then let me prove it to you.

Now.

Now.

It's almost finished.

AMANDA: What is it you're drawing?

Just a sketch, sketch of a man.

An ordinary man.

No name, no identity.

And no previous physical existence.

There, a man, totally the creation

of Charles Delaware Tate.

[ screaming ]

Oh, I don't believe it.

I don't believe it!

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No, no.

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