460 - March 29, 1968

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A séance has been held in the great house at Collinwood.

A séance, which has suspended time and space

and sent one girl on an uncertain

and frightening journey into the past,

back to the year .

There in the village of Collinsport,

Victoria Winters has been unjustly accused of witchcraft

and on this day she will be hanged by the neck until dead

and another she has known, Barnabas Collins

faces a final and ultimate destruction.

I have to be steady.

I have to aim carefully, very carefully.

No!

Argh!

You didn't hit my heart.

It didn't hit me, Forbes!

It didn't hit me.

Argh!

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- Did Ben, bury him? - Yes.

How will you explain his death?

Well, we will simply say that he left Collinsport,

everyone knows what kind of man he was.

No one will doubt that he deserted Millicent.

And Millicent, what will you say to her?

I've gone to her room to tell her that he has gone away.

She barely remembered who he was.

He doesn't remember him at all.

She remembers that she had a suitor named Lieutenant Forbes.

And that's all.

She remembers that he received her

and she thinks she sent him away.

- She doesn't remember their marriage? - No.

Well, I'm glad of that.

I will have the marriage annulled

as far as history concerned, it will have never happened.

You're trembling.

Am I?

- You have the silver b*ll*ts, haven't you? - Yes.

- You have your p*stol? - Yes.

Then use it.

I can't.

Not here. Not now.

You must or I will go on destroying.

I know that.

But then take out your p*stol and fire the silver b*ll*ts

through my heart and end Angelique's curse forever.

In the morning when you're in your coffin,

I've instructed Ben and Riggs to carry your coffin

back to the secret room in the mausoleum.

At sunrise, I want you to go there--

And then you will do what you must.

Yes.

And I'll know peace, eternal peace.

I don't know what lies beyond the grave,

but I hope you will have some kind of peace.

And what will happen to you?

I'll survive.

And Millicent?

She probably won't recover,

I'm going to take care of her as if she were my own daughter.

- And Daniel? - I intend to make him a legal heir.

I will adopt him.

I - I hope that I will be a better father to him

than I was to you and Sarah.

Oh Sarah.

If only I could undo what I have done.

No one will ever know about you

or about the events that took place in this house

after that curse that Angelique came here.

As far as I'm concerned,

you and Angelique were never married.

But everyone in Collinsport knows that we were married.

History won't.

I'll have every mention of her name

struck from the family record.

Naomi, will have had a natural death

as well have Jeremiah.

There would have been no duel.

How I wish everything you're saying could have been true.

It will be true in terms of history.

All the world will ever know about you

is that you are my son and you went to England,

that is all.

- It will be day light soon. - I know.

I must go in a moment, but before I do,

I must ask you to do two things for me.

What are they?

First of all, free Ben.

Free Ben.

He deserves his freedom, he's a good man.

He has been loyal to me ever since all of this started.

And your second request?

Miss Winters is to be hanged at dusk,

you must do something for her, you're the only one who can,

please try to save her.

I've already tried and failed.

I couldn't get Judge Henley to listen to me.

Then send a note to the governor,

use your prestige,

you might be able to get a stay in the execution

and as new trial.

All right. Everything you ask will be done.

Thank you.

I must go now.

Barnabas.

Yes?

I - I was never known to be able to show much affection.

Well, don't show it now.

Forget that I'm your son

after today, forget that I ever existed.

- I can't do that. - You must.

Goodbye, Father.

Goodbye.

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Mr. Collins.

Stokes.

Did you do it?

I couldn't.

I knew you didn't, I didn't hear a shot.

He was my son. He was my heir.

The heir to everything I've tried to accomplished

all my life.

Whatever has happened to him, I couldn't forget that.

I understand.

But what are you gonna do now?

There is only one thing I can do now since I can't destroy him.

What?

Confined him to his coffin and keep him there forever.

You mean there's a way of doing that?

Yes, I found out when I was in Boston.

If a silver cross is affixed

to the inside lid of his coffin facing him,

Barnabas cannot move.

But if you knew that?

- Why did I even consider sh**ting him with b*ll*ts? - Aye.

Because it would have meant his final destruction.

The alternative is dangerous.

Dangerous?

If anyone should get in this place

and open the lid of his coffin,

Barnabas will be able to roam the world again.

- But that will never happen, sir. - It might.

It's a possibility.

I need your help, Stokes.

What do you want me to do?

I have a silver cross.

I want you to affix it

to the inside of the lid of this coffin facing Barnabas.

All right.

Find chains.

Bind the coffin, bind it securely.

I will.

Now, do what must be done and try to forget.

I will, sir. I'll try.

I want to forget.

So do I.

Let us go to the house and I will get you the cross.

All right.

Stokes must be finished by now.

Goodbye Barnabas, I hope you find peace.

Some kind of peace.

Goodbye, Mr. Barnabas.

Goodbye.

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You wanted to see me, Mr. Collins?

Yes, sit down, Stokes.

Sit down?

I want to talk to you.

I know what you want to talk to me about,

everything you told me to do is done.

The coffin is chained?

The mausoleum is locked?

Aye.

Here's the key.

It will never be opened again until I die

and never thereafter.

Is that all, sir?

No, there is something else.

My son made a final request and I intend to comply with it.

A request?

He asked me to give you your freedom.

My freedom?

Yes. You are to leave Collinwood

to go wherever you choose to go.

Free.

I'll give you a hundred dollars.

You should be able to travel a long way on that.

You are very generous, sir.

No, not generous, you've been loyal, Stokes.

Loyalty should be rewarded.

Thank you.

Aye, thank you.

It was Riggs, sir. He brought this letter.

- He said it was important. - It is.

Is it bad news, sir?

Very.

I sent a note to the governor asking him to stay

the execution of Miss Winters.

And he refused.

Yes.

Then she'll go to the gallows and she is innocent.

I wish I could help her, but there is nothing I can do.

You can go in.

Peter.

I thought I'd never see you again.

They asked me if I had a last request

and I told them I wanted to see you.

Can we be alone?

Yes, until it's time for us to come for her.

To take me to the gallows?

How much time do we have?

Five minutes.

Five minutes?

Peter!

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Vicky. Vicky.

It's alright.

I just can't think about what's going to happen.

It can't happen. Vicky, it can't.

But nothing must happen to you.

Oh, Peter, you've got to convince them

that I was the one that k*lled Noah Gifford,

you've got to.

Don't worry about me, I'll be all right.

I tried to make them believe me.

I tried to tell them, but they wouldn't listen.

Peter - Peter, you can't die

for something that I did, you can't.

Stop. Stop talking about dying and stop thinking about it.

Peter.

Vicky, we have so little time.

There's so many things I want to say to you.

So many things I want to you know.

What things?

Oh, I want to know everything about you.

I want to know what you were like

when you were a little girl.

- I don't know where to begin. - You can begin anywhere.

What's your favorite flower?

What kind of music do you like?

Your favorite color.

What's the best book you ever read?

And what's the happiest time you ever had in your life,

come on tell me.

I don't know which question to answer first.

You don't have to answer, it's so good to see you smile.

Peter, I want to know all those things about you, too.

But we have so little time together.

So little time to get to know each other.

I know, I love you.

And I love you.

That's the first time you've said that.

I was afraid.

You're not afraid now?

Not now.

They're coming for me.

Vicky, listen to me

and somehow you managed to travel through time

and find me.

And somehow no matter what happens,

- I'll find you. - Peter.

Listen, I'll find you, just remember that.

I'll remember.

You'll have to come with me now.

Goodbye, Peter.

Hold him.

Remember what I said, I'll find you.

Remember that.

Do you want a mask?

Remember, Vicky.

Remember somehow I'll find you again,

no matter what happens now, I'll find you.

Remember what I'm saying.

Remember. Remember.

May God, have mercy on your unrepentant soul.

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