535 - July 12, 1968

[bunniefuu]

- Another day will soon come to an end at Collinwood.

And when night comes, a frightening moment

from the past will come with it to be

relived in all its horror.

Inside the great house of Collinwood,

Victoria Winters continues to suffer

from the effects of a strange and terrible dream.

She knows now that the fate of one man, Barnabas Collins,

is in her hands.

For this reason, she lives in mortal fear

that the next person who enters Collinwood may be Barnabas.

And she knows if it is, and she sees him,

he may be doomed forever.

- Oh, Julia.

I thought it was going to be Barnabas again.

- It will be Barnabas again, Vicky.

He's on his way to see you.

- No.

But why is he going to come here when

he knows how dangerous it will be

for him if he hears the dream?

- Because he also knows how much you've

suffered to try to protect him.

He's been brooding about that ever

since he saw you this morning.

He feels that the only thing to do

is have you tell him the dream.

- What am I going to do?

- He can't-- you can't tell him the dream if you're not here.

I'll go upstairs with you.

You can pack a few things.

And I'll take you away from Collinwood.

- That's the only answer.

We must go.

♪ [eerie theme music]

- We're going to talk, Vickie.

- No.

- I can't allow you to go on torturing yourself this way.

- Barnabas, please go away.

Go back to the old house.

- Barnabas, you can't go in there.

- Julia, my mind is made up.

- Barnabas, listen to me.

There is another way out.

- You know as well as I do there's no way out.

- But there is.

Let me call Professor Stokes. - No, Julia.

- He was able to put a stop to the dream before.

- Under no circumstances are you to call Professor Stokes.

- Why not? - Because it's too late.

Don't you understand?

If he's brought into this, he'll have

to be told things it's best that he should not know.

- But if he could save you, Barnabas,

what difference would it make what he found out?

- Julia, he cannot say, nor can anyone else.

My fate was sealed the moment that Angelic came back.

I don't know why I ever bothered to fight it.

- Barnabas, no.

- Get out of the way, Julia.

I'm going in.

- I'm Ready.

Vicky.

- No. No!

Barnabas, I'm never going to tell you the dream.

So please go away.

- You've carried this burden long enough.

- And I intend to go on carrying it until Cassandra gives up.

- We both know Cassandra.

She will never give up.

- Neither will I. I told her that yesterday.

Barnabas, please go away.

- Not until you tell me that dream.

- No, you don't understand what it would mean for you.

- Yes, I do.

- How can you?

You don't know anything about the dream,

the way it begins, or ends.

- You saw something that happened to me in the dream,

didn't you?

- Barnabas, please, I don't want to talk about it.

- What was it that happened to me?

- I can't tell you.

Barnabas, I don't want to see you.

- See me what?

- Die.

- You saw me die at the end of the dream?

- No.

- Yes you did, Vicky.

Now, please, tell me everything, from the beginning.

- We can't let her win.

We can't let her go on hurting people.

- Vicky, the evil that has plagued Collinwood

will be over once you tell me the dream.

I am the one that Cassandra wants.

- Why you?

What does she have against you?

- I am a direct descendant of the original Barnabas Collins.

I can only guess that all those who bear his name

are destined to bear the same fate.

- Yes, the history books say that Barnabas Collins

went to England.

But he didn't.

He stayed here.

And he died soon after he married Angelic.

He died in the old house.

That's what the last line of the riddle means.

One door leads to the point of return.

Return to death.

- Something worse than death.

- What did you say?

- Nothing.

- Barnabas, please go away.

I'm so tired.

- And soon you will be asleep.

And the dream will come back.

And it will keep coming back, each time more frightening

than the last, until your whole life is one long,

continual nightmare.

And you will not be you.

I have loved very few things in my lifetime,

but Vicki, I love you.

I will go to my grave before I see your life destroyed.

Now...

Now...

sit here, and begin from the beginning.

- The dream begins with a knock on the door.

- She told you the dream.

What are you going to do now?

- I don't know.

She's crying in there.

Go in and try to comfort her.

- But I want to stay with you.

- Go in, make sure she's all right.

- You'll be all right now, Vicky.

You won't feel frightened anymore.

- Isn't there anything we can do for him?

- No, not anymore.

- We can't just let him die.

- There's so little time left now.

It seems as though time has always been his greatest enemy.

Whenever he's needed it most, it's always run out on him.

It's been more cruel to him than any witch could ever be.

- You were very close to him.

Weren't you?

- Yes, yes, very close.

- Julia, I'm so sorry.

- No.

No, don't be sorry.

He was right.

You couldn't go on suffering.

You had to do what you did.

- Vicky?

Why are you crying?

- You'll be sorry that you did that.

- You deserve a great deal more than just a slap in the face.

- You look so calm.

- It's inevitable.

I would like to go quietly, and with some measure of dignity.

- Barnabas, I will give you a pill

that will help you stay awake.

- It's too late for that, Julia.

- Why?

- I have already taken the pill,

one that will put me to sleep

and out of my misery very soon now.

- But why?

Why did you take a sleeping pill?

- I told you. The dream is inevitable.

I just want to get it over with, Julia.

- But as long as you're awake, there's still some slim hope.

- There's no hope, and you know it.

Julia, the pill is beginning to take its effect.

- No.

- I will be asleep in a moment.

So listen to what I have to tell you very carefully.

I've already instructed Willie what to do.

After it's over, he will come here and assist you.

- Assist me?

I don't understand.

- When the dream is over and I revert to what I was,

you must help me.

- Help you? How?

- Willie will bring a wooden stake and a hammer.

And you must drive that stake through my heart.

- No, no, I couldn't do that.

- Julia, do you know what kind of a living hell

I went through?

Alive by night, dead by day, would you

want me to live that life again?

- No, but--

- Then promise me that you will do as I tell you.

Promise me, Julia.

- All right, all right, I promise.

- Thank you.

- Barnabas?

Barnabas!

- I knew it could only be you.

But I expected you as Angelic, not Cassandra.

I no longer fear you, or what is in that room.

Tell me which door it is, Cassandra.

Tell me, and I'll take it, and you will have won.

- Through sight, and sound, and faceless terror,

through endless corridors by trial and error,

ahead a blazing light does burn, and one door

leads to the point of return.

[laughter]

- Ahead, a blazing light does burn.

And one door leads to the point of return,

to the point of return, Barnabas, the point of return,

the point of return, the point of return, the point of return,

the point of return.

- The point of return.

Well, I have come to the point of return.

What are you waiting for?

Bring your beast into the window and be finished with me.

I am ready! I am ready!

Cassandra, for once in your life, be merciful.

I am here.

You have won.

Now, get it over with. Cassandra!

- Barnabas? Barnabas?

Are you all right?

- I don't know.

- Did you have the dream?

- Yes.

- What happened?

- Nothing.

- I don't understand.

- I don't either.

It happened just as Vicky described it,

until I came in that door.

I came into this room.

I was standing here waiting for the end to come,

but it never did.

- And then you woke up?

- Yes.

You never did anything to jar me awake, did you?

- No, no, I never touched you.

I just sat and watched you all the time you slept.

Barnabas, there must be some reason

that this dream was different from all the others.

- Yes, and I think I know what it is.

- Tell me.

- I have won, Julia.

I have won.

I was not meant to survive the dream, but I have.

And now, I am completely free of Angelic.

- Now, wait a minute, Barnabas.

You have survived the dream.

But how can you be so sure that you've won?

- The dream was her way of re-imposing the curse on me.

But something went wrong.

It didn't work. - I don't like it.

It's too easy.

- No, I'm sure it's all over now.

I want-- I want Willy to find out what happened.

Go downstairs and get him.

- I think we should both go.

I don't think you should stay here alone.

- Nonsense.

Go downstairs, and bring him up.

- All right, Barnabas, I'll be right back.

[knocking]

- Who is there?

Who is it?

[bat squeaking]

- No!

No!

[screaming]

[laughter]

♪ [eerie music playing]