467 - April 9, 1968

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At the great house of Collinwood,

Victoria Winters has returned to her life

from her strange and haunting adventure into the past,

but the terrible events she lived through there

are beginning to change not only her life

but the lives of others around her.

For this night, one man,

afraid of what she might have discovered in ,

has taken her away with him,

but the end of their journey was a hospital

and the unexpected attention of a strange doctor.

Where my clothes?

Mr. Collins, I want you to lie down.

What time is it?

Nearly four.

Please, I want you to call Collinwood

and ask them to send a car for me immediately.

Mr. Collins, I have been trying to tell you.

I have given you many injections

of new and in some cases experimental drugs.

I have no choice but to use them.

Now, it is naturally vital that we have a chance

to study your reactions to them.

- Vital to you. - Only one thing is important to me.

That you'll be home before dawn?

Why do you ask that?

Why?

What do you know about me?

I know that you're not going to leave this room.

I will take whatever chance I must.

You and I must talk, Mr. Collins.

No. No, not tonight.

Tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow.

After dark?

Then come to Collinwood.

You don't understand what's happened to you.

You don't know.

I can waste no more time.

You are too weak.

It is vital that you stay here.

No, no.

What are you doing?

Mr. Collins, it is four o'clock.

Yes, but in the afternoon..

Argh!

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Close it before I die?

Please! Do you want to k*ll me?

Come.

Look at the sun, Mr. Collins. Don't be afraid.

No, no.

Come, Mr. Collins, you've been so brave up to now.

Come. Look into the light, Mr. Collins.

Come, Mr. Collins. Look into the light.

How warm the sun is, I've forgotten.

Why do you stare at your hands?

The moment it will grow old, I will see the flesh wither.

No, Mr. Collins. You have changed.

You know what I am.

I know what you were, Mr. Collins.

Do you mean that?

This is not some monstrous joke.

It is true?

Yes, it is true.

Why?

How?

I wish I knew how.

Yes, there is still a faint pulse beat.

Can it all be over?

Can the curse be finished?

Ah, so a curse was responsible.

No, Angelique, will not let it happen.

You're wrong, doctor.

This will end as it did with Dr. Hoffman.

You are wrong, Mr. Collins.

I have given you an injection to avoid

what happened with Dr. Hoffman.

Then I can live as any other man.

Yes.

For now, I see no reason why not.

For now--

How often have I - I want to give a year for an hour

to be as I was just to step into the light.

I only dreamed.

I've forgotten the beauty of the day,

the colors and the light, the green of the grass,

the leaves, the trees,

the blue of the sky.

I am alive again.

How long will it last?

How did you do it?

We did it by chance,

but fortunately we know what we did

if there is a regression.

I may go back?

We are dealing with the unknown.

Yes. Yes, I understand that.

However, fortunately, I have an excellent record of what I did

and I'm sending my notes on to Dr. Hoffman

so that if unavailable she will be able to treat you.

I'm not sure I like that.

Dr. Hoffman has your best interest at heart.

She told you about me, what I am?

No, she did not.

Actually, she refused to tell me,

but I suspected right from the beginning.

And then when she insisted that the room be dark

and then it was that I knew.

Now, Mr. Collins, how long have you been as you were?

Almost years chained in a coffin until last year.

Who besides Dr. Hoffman knows?

No one.

What about this woman, Angelique,

that you mentioned that is preventing your cure?

What about her?

Please, Mr. Collins, you must tell me.

- I must know what I'm fighting. - She was witch.

I married her before I realized who she was and what she was,

and her course made me as you found me.

Oh, if I could only find someplace

where I can hide from her spirit.

Mr. Collins, perhaps in the mastery of science,

in the mastery of modern medicine

you will find your best hiding place.

- She will fight you. - No.

I will defend you, Mr. Collins.

Doctor, how can I express my gratitude to you?

What can I do for you?

For now, nothing.

Your feelings are enough.

I will make a vow.

If ever you want me to do anything for you,

I will do it without question, whatever it is.

Thank you.

I shall remember that.

I want you to lie down now.

I shall the curtains removed, Mr. Collins.

Begin a new life,

the most exciting thought that a man can have.

I am learning that, too.

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Hello?

Hello?

Gone.

Roger, why didn't you answer the phone?

It might have been the hospital.

Roger?

Roger, what's wrong with you? Can't you hear me?

- Of course, I can hear you, Naomi. - What?

Who could avoid hearing your senseless prattle.

Roger Collins?

Roger indeed.

Your sherry has not only gone into your brain

but to your tongue as well.

I will not have this senseless drinking.

Roger, what's the matter with you?

- Look at me. - I have no desire to look at you

in the condition you're obviously in.

I'm worried about you.

I have never given you cause to worry

during the entire we've been married, Naomi.

Married?

Roger, stop staring at that portrait and turn around

and look at me, and I mean it.

Use that tone of voice with me again, Naomi.

Look at your hair! Look at it!

What's wrong with my hair?

- And your hand, it's shaking. - With rage.

Rage, indeed.

You have the effrontery to be enraged in my presence.

- Go to your room! - What?

And stay there until your health and disposition improves.

- Do you understand me? - No, I do not.

- Naomi. - Will you stop calling me that?

I have never laid a finger on you

but unless you do what I say

- I will be forced-- - Stop it, Roger!

What?

Liz, you hit me.

And I'm sorry, Roger, but you're behaving incredibly.

- Incredibly? - Well, you weren't yourself at all.

- Surely, you must remember. - What?

What you said to me.

I'm not aware that I said anything to you.

Roger.

When did you come in the room?

When you didn't answer the phone.

My dear sister, you're making this up.

I am not.

Now, you don't expect me to remember

that I forget what I say.

I have admirable memory from own conversation.

Roger, when we go to the hospital this afternoon,

- I want you to see a doctor. - Nonsense.

It's time you have a checkup.

- I'm all right. - No, you are not!

At least, I think I am.

Besides this afternoon, at the hospital,

I have other things to do.

What?

Why do you stare at that so?

I don't know.

Do you have any idea how much time you spent looking at it?

It fascinates me.

Liz, I wonder who she really is.

Is?

This picture is an antique.

Whoever posed for it is dead.

You're wrong.

You're very wrong.

Sometimes I hear her voice.

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How thoughtful of you, Elizabeth.

I remember you said you like them.

I was just thinking I must do something about

the gardens at the Old House.

I've always been fond gardens.

I don't know why I didn't do it before.

You look well, Barnabas. Doesn't he, Roger?

Well, if I do, I owe it to the care I received here.

- Come, sit down. - Thank you.

You don't know what a panic I felt

when Dr. Hoffman told us.

Oh, both Vicki and I are very lucky.

Well, she is an excellent driver.

I don't understand how it happened.

Well, there was a man standing on the side of the road.

He tried to hail us and--

Well, Vicki simply lost control.

- Have you seen her yet? - No.

We want to see you first, then we will.

Wouldn't you be more comfortable sitting down, Roger?

- What's wrong? - He's not feeling well.

I'm trying to get him to see a doctor.

Oh, I'm sorry. You have visitors.

- I'll come back later. - Oh, no, no, Dr. Lang.

I would like you to meet my family.

This is my cousin, Elizabeth Stoddard.

Dr. Lang.

- How do you do, doctor? - How do you do, Mrs. Stoddard?

He saved my life.

And Roger Collins.

How do you do, Mr. Collins?

I'm sorry to intrude but actually all I wanted

was just to leave off this medicine

and also to check and see if you're feeling as well

as you seemed to be this afternoon.

Oh, yes, yes. Touch wood.

I haven't done that in years.

It brings us luck so nothing will change.

Doctor, how long do you think my cousin

and Miss Winters will have to be here?

Well, I'm not quite sure, Mrs. Stoddard.

Well, doctors don't like to commit themselves, Elizabeth.

Well, I should think Miss Winters should be

released tomorrow and Mr. Collins probably in a day,

er, two to three days.

Oh, how I long to leave. I have so many plans, Elizabeth.

Barnabas, your reaction to your accident is marvelous.

I've never heard you talk about making plans before,

you've been such a recluse.

Doctor, I must congratulate you.

The next time, I'm depressed; I'm going to ask you

to give me the same medicine you gave him.

Well, as long as you don't feel that you must have an accident

I should be delighted to treat you, Mrs. Stoddard.

I'll look into you later.

- I'm very pleased to meet you, Mrs. Stoddard. - Thank you.

Mr. Collins.

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What a charming man.

Yes and brilliant. I'm deeply indebted to him.

Roger? You didn't say a word to him.

- No. - That was extremely rude of you.

I must get back to Collinwood.

Now? We haven't seen Vicki yet.

- I'll have a car sent back for you. - Roger?

It is not this easy.

I beg your pardon.

I must go.

What does he mean?

I don't know.

He seemed so remote.

There is no reason for him to.

He is very fond of you.

Something is happening to him.

I - I don't know what it is. I just don't know.

I brought it.

It is his.

His name is on it.

I don't know if I can do what is in my mind,

what you must have put in my mind.

There is no reason for me to think of it myself.

None.

But I will try.

I will try.

Ah. Ooh.

- What is it, doctor? - Ah. Ooh.

I don't know.

A beginning of a headache possibly,

but I'm sure I'll be all right.

Yes. Now, tell me, Mr. Collins,

about the witch, Angelique.

Now, you said she came originally from the West Indies.

Yes. She came to my father's house

as a servant to my fiancée, Josette.

Ah!

Doctor, what's wrong?

- Oh, my head. - I'll get something.

My head, my head.

Wait, wait, wait.

It's all over.

It's very peculiar.

Yes, very peculiar.

Very, very peculiar indeed.

I've never had anything like that before.

I don't imagine you have.

What do you mean?

Well, if it starts again very quickly

I may know the cause.

Well, I hope it doesn't.

So do I. Even more than you.

Ah!

Doctor?

I - I - I can't see.

- Doctor! - I can't see.

- Nurse! - I'm blind. I can't see.

Everything is going dim!

Dim!

Help me! I can't see.

Why?

Why do you tell me to put it in the fire?

Why do you tell me to do that?

What am I doing?

I will.

I don't care what happens to him.

I - I cannot!

I don't know what it means

but I cannot, not even for you!

Mr. Collins? Mr. Collins?

Wait. I'm all right now.

- What? - Yes, it's all over.

I can see.

There is no more pain.

I don't understand.

Angelique.

The witch, Mr. Collins?

You don't know her powers.

But she wouldn't come after me.

But she has.

She would go after you.

Perhaps she cannot now.

But that is true, then do no more for me,

- that you revert to what I was. - Absolutely not!

You must or she will k*ll you.

She will destroy you.

Her revenge on us for your curing me.

Your payment, doctor, will be death unless I stop it.

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