396 - January 1, 1968

[bunniefuu]

[Angelique narrating] - A séance has been held in the great house at Collinwood,

a séance which suspended time and space

and sent one girl on an uncertain

and frightening journey into the past

back to the year .

There, each of the Collins ancestors resembles

a present day member of the Collins family,

but the names and relationships have changed

and Victoria Winters finds herself a stranger

in a sea of familiar faces

in a house where nightmares have become realities,

a woman who has used her powers to contact the land of the dead

is suddenly aware that she may have plotted

her own distraction.

- What do you want?

Why are you appearing before me?

I did not summon you.

I have no further use for you.

Go, return to your grave and rest.

I told you to go.

Why don't you obey me?

You are not to appear unless I summon you.

Go!

I tell you to go.

You obeyed me before.

Why won't you obey me now?

Return to your grave and rest.

Well, at least speak to me.

Who has brought you here?

How has the power to make you appear?

Why don't you answer me?

[man laughing]

Why are you laughing?

Why?

Why won't you speak to me?!

Why are you laughing?! Why are you here?!

Leave me alone, please!

Leave me alone!

[laughing continues]

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[man laughing]

Leave me alone!

Please, leave me alone!

[laughing continues]

[laughing stops]

Are you still in this room?

Can you hear me, Jeremiah Collins?

You are never to appear in this house again

unless I summon you.

Never!

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

[door opening]

- Angelique.

Angelique.

- Oh!

Oh, Barnabas.

- Has something happened Angelique?

- No, no. Why do you ask that?

- Well, you're looking so pale and you're trembling?

Why what's wrong?

- Nothing.

- Something has happened.

- No, no, I'm behaving very foolishly.

Have you sent for the minister?

- Yes, he'll be here very soon.

- Oh.

Well, in that case, I'd better go and get dressed.

- Are you sure you're all right?

- Yes.

But Barnabas.

- What was it?

- Must we live in this house after we are married?

- Why do you say that?

- There's been so much unhappiness here.

Wouldn't it be better for both of us

if we started out our marriage somewhere else?

- My mother gave us this house as a wedding present.

It will seem ungrateful if we didn't accept it.

- I just feel that we'd be happy somewhere else.

- Are you sure that you're not afraid?

- No!

- Well, you seem to be afraid of something.

- No, I'm not afraid.

[door opening] - Angelique.

- Mr. Barnabas? - Yes, Ben.

- They told me I'd find you here, I -

I got to speak to you.

- I - I'll go and get dressed.

Call me when the minister arrives.

- I will.

- Minister?

- Yes, Ben.

Angelique and I are going to be married tonight.

- Married?

I see.

Well, I - I wish you happiness, sir.

- Thank you, Ben.

So, what is it you wanted to see me about?

- It seems, sir, that Reverend Trask. - Trask?

- He's on the property again,

I caught him snooping around the stable.

- Well, did he see Miss Winters?

Did he find her?

- No, no, I got rid of him, but it was close,

I got a feeling he'll be back.

Miss Winters better find some other place to hide.

That stable ain't safe anymore.

- You'd - you'd better bring her here.

- Here?

- Yes, she'll be safer here than anyplace else.

This is my house now

and if she's here and he comes here to look for her,

I won't let him in.

- You'll be living in this house,

you and Miss Angelique?

- Oh, what difference does that make?

It's a large house, there's room enough for all of us.

- Aye, but

Miss Angelique will know about Miss Winters.

- She will be as protective of her as I am.

- Yeah. I guess, both you will.

- Well, now, bring Miss Winters here.

- Yes, sir.

- And after that I want you to be here

for the wedding ceremony.

- Me, sir? - Yes.

I'll need a witness

and I want you to be my witness.

- You do me honor, sir. - Not at all.

Now, go and come back.

- Well, I - I hope this wedding will put an end

to all your troubles, sir.

- What do you mean by that?

- Nothing, I --

it's just my way of saying

I hope you and Miss Angelique will be happy,

very happy.

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- In here. Quick.

Here she is, sir.

- Miss Winters, are you all right?

- Yes.

- Did anyone see you coming out of the stable?

- No one. I made sure of that.

- Good. Are you hungry?

- Yes, I'm starving.

- How long has it been since you've eaten?

- Well, since - since yesterday.

- Yesterday?

Well, Ben, find some food for Miss Winters

and take it up to her room.

You look exhausted?

Have you had any sleep?

- I was afraid to sleep.

Once I - I feel asleep and then when I woke up,

I heard a voice.

- Trask's?

- Yes.

Mr. Collins, he was so close by.

He - he was so close I didn't dare to breathe.

- Oh, you poor child.

- I'm afraid.

I'm afraid of - of what he'll do to me

when he finds me.

- You mustn't be, you'll be safe here.

- But I can't stay here forever.

- You can stay here until you're safe.

This house belongs to me now.

- You're so kind to me.

- Well, I don't like fanatics

who seek out victims to persecute

and that's all Trask is

in spite of what my Aunt Abigail thinks.

- But how do you know that what they say about me

isn't the truth?

- Because I don't believe in witchcrafts

and even if I did

I wouldn't believe you capable of committing

the crimes that they accuse you of.

So, you, I saw you with my sister Sarah when she was ill.

I know how concerned you were about her.

There's a great deal about me you don't know.

Who I am, where I came from,

no one knows that

and yet you can still trust me.

- Yes.

- Why?

- I'm not sure.

Call it intuition, but I do trust you.

Then I think that you should know the truth about me.

I think that you should know who I am and where I come from.

- What is the truth?

- That I come from another place,

another time.

- Another time? - Yes.

Before I came here.

I was living in the year .

- What?

- I was working as a governess for the Collins family

who will one day be descendants of yours.

I know it sounds incredible, but it is the truth.

- Well, how did you get here?

- There was a séance at Collinwood.

The last thing I remember

is losing consciousness

and then I - I must have been transported back through time,

I don't know how or why, but I found myself here.

- That is incredible.

- And do you remember the first day

that I came here and - and we meet out there

and I thought I recognized you.

- Yes.

- It's because I knew someone who looked just like you,

a man who will be your namesake Barnabas Collins,

that's why I thought I recognized you

because you looked exactly like Barnabas.

- I see.

- Do you still believe that I'm telling you the truth?

- Yes.

- Well, now you can see why I couldn't tell that

to anyone else.

- Well, I certainly can understand that.

- I fixed a tray for Miss Winters, sir.

I put it in her room.

- Thank you, Ben.

You better go to your room now.

- You look very disturbed.

You are shocked by what I've told you,

but I had to speak the truth.

- I'm glad you told me.

Now, go to your room and have some dinner and rest

and remember you're safe her.

- I hope someday that I can repay you for your kindness.

- I'm glad to do what I can.

Now sleep well.

- I'll try.

- It's lucky we've got Miss Winters out of that stable.

Reverend Trask would have found her, for sure,

I know he suspected something.

- Ben.

- Yes, sir.

- Is it possible she could be a witch?

- Why do you say that?

- She told me something - something so incredible,

I don't know what to believe.

- I - I don't care what she told you.

She's - she's no witch.

- What makes you so sure?

- Well, I just am.

There's no evil in that girl. I'd stake my life on it.

- Why are you so certain?

Do you know something that I don't know?

- No, sir, of course not.

I - I just mean that -

I don't believe what they are saying about her.

- Are you sure that's all you mean?

- Yes, sir. That's all I mean.

I better go and see if she's got enough food.

- All right, Ben.

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Oh, Angelique,

there's something I must tell you.

What are you doing? - I'm packing.

- Why?

- Because I want to get out of this house.

I want to be married somewhere else.

Collinsport, anywhere,

we can be married as easily in town as here, can't we?

- But the minister is already on his way.

- I don't care.

I just want to get out of this house.

- Why?

- I don't know. I just do.

- You're behaving very strangely this evening.

What's the matter?

Now, don't tell me it's not because I won't believe you.

I must know what's going on.

- I'm frightened.

- Of what?

- I'm not sure.

- Now, that's no answer.

There must be something that's frightening you.

- I have a strange feeling ever since

I came into this house this evening,

that there's - there's some kind of evil present here.

- Evil?

- I can't explain anymore.

All I can tell you is that I'm frightened

and I don't want to be married here.

I want to leave and be married somewhere else.

Can't we do that?

Well, it can't make any difference to you.

- Well...

What's this?

- Sarah's doll?

- Well, what's it doing in your suitcase?

- I don't know, there was nothing in that suitcase

but my clothes.

- There's are no clothes here, only the doll

and a few pins.

- Pins?!

- They were lying beside the doll.

What does it mean? - I don't know.

- The doll and the pins, it must mean something.

- It means that something very strange is happening

in this house,

something that neither of us understand.

That's why we must get out of here now.

[knocking on door] - Come in.

- Mr. Barnabas.

- Yes, Ben.

- The minister is here, he's waiting downstairs.

- What should I tell him?

- Tell him to go away.

Tell him that we're going to be married in town.

- All right.

- No, wait.

No, don't tell him to go.

I want to be married immediately. Now.

- But you just said that you would be frightened to -

to be married in this house. - I know it.

But the sooner I'm married,

the sooner I'll stop being afraid.

- No, I don't want to wait. I want to be married tonight.

I don't want to wait another minute.

- Are you sure that you won't be afraid?

- Tell the minister to wait.

I'll be down as soon as I - as soon as I fix my veil.

- All right. If that's what you really want.

- Yes.

Yes, I'm sure.

What was that?

Barnabas?

Barnabas?

Who locked this door?

Who locked this door?!

There's something in this room with me.

I can feel the presence of something.

Who is it?

Who are you?

Who?

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What - what do you want?

Why are you haunting me?

Why?

Why?!

Can't you speak?

- You summoned me.

- No, I did not summon you and I do not want you here.

- You summoned me. - No!

- You summoned me from my grave.

You disturbed my rest.

- I did not summon you tonight.

- You called to me.

You disturbed my rest.

- That was before

when I needed you to do my bidding.

I do not need you now.

Return to your grave and rest.

- You robbed me of my rest,

I was at peace until you called to me.

- I do not need you now, can't you understand?

Go back to your grave, rest!

You can find peace.

- Not now.

My rest has been disturbed by you.

You brought me back from the land of the dead

and you must be punished.

- Punished?

- For disturbing the dead.

Those who disturb the dead must be punished.

- What do you mean?

- You must learn what it is to live in the land of the dead

and know no peace.

- I - I don't understand.

- You will understand after you have looked on death.

- No!

No, please, no!

- You showed me no mercy, I will show you none!

[clock chiming]

- I'm sorry to keep you waiting, reverend.

- That's quite all right.

- I can't imagine what's holding Angelique.

She only said she was going to fix her veil.

- You want me to go up and see what's keeping her?

- No, no, she'll be all right.

She'll be down in a moment.

[sinister laughing]

- Angelique, open your eyes, awaken.

- What?

- You are lying in my grave.

- Grave!

- I was at peace in this place until you summon me.

Now, you will know what it is to reside

in the land of the dead. - No! No, please!

- And know no peace.

In a moment, you will understand what you did to me.

You will learn what it is to be one of the living dead.

- No. No!

[eerie music] ♪♪