415 - January 26, 1968

[bunniefuu]

[Carolyn narrating] - A séance has been held in the great house of Collinwood,

a séance which has suspended time and space,

and sent one girl on an uncertain

and frightening journey back into the past,

back to the year .

There, each of the Collins ancestors resembles

a present day member of the family.

But the names and relationships have changed,

and Victoria Winters finds herself a stranger

in a sea of familiar faces.

And on this night,

a promised storm threatens Collinwood,

and a child who has unknowingly

discovered the most terrifying secret she will ever know.

[gates clinking]

- Who's there?

- Sarah?

- Barnabas! I've been waiting and waiting.

- You should be home.

- I feel asleep.

- You must go home.

- Take me home.

- Sarah --

- Please carry me home. I'm so sleepy.

- Sarah, listen to me. I can't.

- Why?

- You must tell no one you've seen me.

- You aren't, Barnabas! You aren't!

- I am. I am.

- No!

- Sarah!

Don't go!

There's so little time.

Sarah!

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[eerie music] ♪♪

[door opening]

- Have they found her?

- No. No.

Cousin, Naomi, they will soon.

Nathan swears that just as soon as it's light --

- I'll never see my daughter again.

- If I had thought that,

I would have never left the search.

- I'm sorry.

But I - I just don't understand it.

How can Sarah be lost on our own property?

She knows every inch of Collinwood.

- But the fog - it was so heavy in the forest,

I was nearly lost myself.

- I keep thinking of what Ms. Winters said.

- You mustn't. - Wouldn't you?

If you've been told your child would die?

- If that's someone who told me, well, Ms. Winters --

- She is not a witch.

- How do you know that?

- I know that because she warned me about Sarah

and that isn't being vicious.

- I think it is.

- Well, you're wrong.

- Why didn't she warn you when you could do something about it?

Why did she drag you into town

and tell you at the very moment Sarah disappeared?

- I don't know.

- I'm sorry, Cousin.

I - I shouldn't have said that.

I'm so used to saying everything I think.

I'm still learning it's usually a mistake.

Please, forgive me.

I don't want to add to your unhappiness.

- I know that.

It's just about dawn.

I wish it would hurry up and get light.

- It will.

It - it will.

- And then, what will they find?

Will Sarah be all right?

- Sarah.

Sarah, I didn't mean to frighten you.

I will take you home.

Sarah, do you hear me?

[Ben] - Sarah.

- Sarah Collins! - Ben.

- What are you doing here?

- Trying to find her, too.

- Are you crazy? - Ben, please.

- You want Lieutenant Forbes or Riggs to find you?

- Ben, it's my fault.

She's lost because of me. She - she followed me.

- Followed you? - From Collinwood.

- You went to the house?

- Only because I had to see Josette.

Just see her.

- Did anybody see you besides Sarah?

- No, I didn't go in.

- Sarah saw me from a window and she ran out. - Where to?

As soon as - as soon as she saw me,

I turned and ran.

- Where did you go?

- Well, I -- - Did she follow you to the mausoleum?

- I don't know.

I went out there, but I didn't go in.

- Where did you go?

- I went to the village.

Don't turn away from me, Ben.

I'm not responsible for what happened to me.

- I know that.

You best go back to the mausoleum.

It's - it's getting light.

- Light.

She knows me well, my wife.

To put a curse on me that I must live eternally by night.

Live.

What a mockery I make of that word.

For I am dead, and nothing lives,

except the hatred inside me.

- I'll take you back.

- No.

- You won't go without me, I know that.

- I want you to keep continuing to look for Sarah.

The storm is getting nearer, where can she be.

- I'll find her.

You take care of yourself. It's almost dawn.

- Promise you won't stop until she's all right.

- Aye, that's a promise.

Sarah!

Sarah Collins!

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[stick breaks]

[gate squeaking]

♪♪

Sarah!

Sarah Collins!

Sarah.

Sarah. It's me, Ben!

I'm so glad to see you, Sarah.

Oh, your mother is going to be so happy!

You ain't afraid of Ben, are you, Sarah?

Do you remember that doll I whittled for you?

I'll start in on another one this afternoon.

I don't want to hurt you. I just want to carry you home.

Now, tell me what happened.

[mouthing words]

I'll take you home. It will be all right.

It will be all right.

[thunder rumbling]

- What was that?

- Just the thunder.

- Oh, the storm.

- Yes, it's finally begun to rain.

- How long did I rest?

- Not very long. An hour at the most.

- You shouldn't have let me.

- You needed to. - Oh, I should go now.

- You've had no sleep all night.

- Oh -- - What is it?

- It's Ben.

And he's carrying Sarah.

- Oh, let her be all right.

Please! Let her be all right!

[thunder cracks]

- Better get a doctor for her, quick. - Sarah.

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- If she could only speak.

- She looks less feverish.

- No.

- Hasn't the medicine helped?

I -- I think it has.

The doctor said the crisis would be around dusk.

She looks to be breathing easier to me.

- Does she? Honestly?

- Sarah, you do feel better, don't you?

[mouthing words]

- Say it again, dear.

- Have your tea. - I couldn't.

- You must. You've had nothing all day.

You have to keep your strength up.

La Grip is very contagious, you know,

especially when one is in a weakened condition.

You must care about yourself for all our sakes.

- I keep thinking I can will her the strength she needs,

help her when she struggles for breath.

The doctor is wrong.

I nursed Joshua and Barnabas through their illness last year,

and it was nothing like this.

The child has pneumonia.

- No -- no. - She has. I know she has.

- The doctor does, too.

Only he just -- he's too kind a man

to bring himself to say it.

But I don't need kindness now. I need help.

[knocking at door]

- The doctor sent these up, Ma'am.

- Thank you, Ben.

- Begging your pardon, Ma'am.

How is she?

- Well, Ben, she's trying to thank you for saving her.

- You're welcome, Sarah.

I -- I thought me finding her might have scared her.

[mouthing words]

- What are you trying to say to Ben, dear?

- She can write it.

- Maybe, she shouldn't, being so weak.

- She wants to.

- Barnabas.

- He's away, Cousin Sarah.

- Yes, he is, dear.

- But he'll be back.

- She's afraid. - Aye.

- Sarah, what's wrong, darling?

What are you afraid of?

You mustn't be afraid. You mustn't.

Her fever has gone up. I can tell it.

Give me the compresses, quickly.

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- Ben?

Ben, come.

I must know about Sarah.

I must know.

Ben!

Ben.

- You must lie still, dear. You must.

The compresses will make you feel less hot,

I promise you.

[dog howling]

- What was that?

- Just a dog howling. That's all.

- You go have your dinner, Millicent.

- Only if you'll promise you'll let me relieve you then.

- Maybe, later.

But I'll be all right. Ben will stay with me.

- I'm begging your pardon, Ma'am.

There's something I got to do. I'll be quick like.

- Can't you wait until Ms. Collins returns?

- If you can't, I -- I won't go, Ben.

Mrs. Collins may need someone.

- I guess it can wait.

It'll have to.

- I won't be long.

[dog howling]

- I wish that dog would stop howling.

- Aye.

- Wasn't it strange

that Sarah should connect you with Mr. Barnabas?

- We're friends, Ma'am.

I don't want to presume on my place by talking like that.

Mr. Barnabas has been real kind to me.

- You said it rightly, Ben.

But I wonder why Sarah was afraid

when Ms. Collins said that Mr. Barnabas was coming back.

- A dream, maybe.

- Yes, that must be it.

A nightmare.

She loved Barnabas.

She loves him.

And she wouldn't be afraid of her own brother,

never.

- Where is he?

I can't wait here not knowing.

But can I go to the house?

Can I risk it?

Ben. Ben.

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[leaves rustling]

Ben, where have you been?

Is she -- is Sarah safe?

- I found her in the graveyard,

hiding behind Mr. Jeremiah's tombstone.

- But is she all right?

Well, tell me.

- She seemed strange, scared.

- Well, she must be over that now.

- There was storm.

We were caught in it.

- What are you trying to tell me, Ben?

Is she all right?

She's alive, tell me.

- Aye, she's that.

- How bad is she, Ben?

- The doctor said that the turning point

would come at dusk.

- Either she get better or -- - Quickly.

- Well, I'm telling you as fast as I can.

She didn't get better yet.

Your mother is praying that she will.

- Sarah is going to die.

And if she does, it's my fault.

- No, it's -- it's that curse.

- If she hadn't seen me, she wouldn't have run way.

If I hadn't frightened her,

if I hadn't been looking the way I was.

- There's nothing you can do about that now.

- What can I do? I -- I must see Sarah.

- No. No. Please don't!

- Don't tell me what to do. - Please, don't.

- She -- she can't speak.

- What do you mean?

- She hasn't said a word since I found her.

- Why not?

- The doctor says there is no reason except maybe fear.

- I'm responsible for that, too.

- I didn't say that. - But who else could be?

- If I go to her,

and if she sees me as she remembered me,

then she knows that she will have nothing to fear.

- Wait.

You'll need my help.

- Thank you, Ben.

- She seems better.

- Then I insist upon your going and having dinner.

- Oh, I think not. - The cook agrees with me.

- You eat nothing when she sends up the tray.

Sarah won't be alone for a second, I promise.

You'll only be downstairs.

- Do you think it's all right?

- I wouldn't suggest it if I didn't.

- Well -- you'll let me know if there's a slightest change.

I won't be long.

- Sarah, do you want anything?

Ben, you frightened me.

- Sorry.

I thought if there was an errand you wanted to do,

I could stay with the child for you.

- Oh?

- You and Mrs. Collins are going to be up all night.

It don't seem fair if we don't all take our turns.

- Actually, I was just wishing I had my stationary.

There's a letter I have to write to my lawyer.

- You go along and do it.

Take your time. She'll be all right.

- I know how fond she is of you.

I'll be right back.

- Sarah,

you're gonna have a visitor.

Your brother.

He wants you to know he's all right.

- Hello, Sarah. - I'll be right outside.

- Sarah, I'm sorry you were frightened.

I'm very sorry, Sarah.

I want you to get better.

Promise me that you will try.

Sarah, please. Forgive me. I love you so.

- Hold me.

- Yes, I will.

- I love you, Barnabas.

I always will.

- Sarah, no!

No!

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[eerie theme music] ♪♪