539 - July 18, 1968

[bunniefuu]

[narrator offscreen]: Darkness begins

to fall on the great house of Collinwood,

a darkness that brings new mystery

and deeper secrets to those within it.

For tonight, the forces of evil will begin a deadly game

while its innocent victims cling to life.

In the darkened and deserted wing of the mansion,

a young girl leads a man whose existence

is the key to a mystery of which she knows nothing.

- No one saw us.

This will keep you warm.

No, just one.

Someone might see it from the outside.

There now, you'll be safe here for a while, Adam.

I'll be back later with some food.

- No.

No.

No.

♪ [eerie theme music]

- Please.

Adam, let me go.

You're choking me.

- No.

Don't go.

- Please.

- You stay.

Now.

- Adam, listen to me. I have to leave.

They'll wonder where I am.

- No.

No. - Ssh.

Be quiet.

Someone might hear you.

Adam, you've got to be quiet.

Try and, try to understand.

You're in danger.

They want to find you and hurt you.

- Hurt me?

- Yes.

Hurt, Adam.

Others.

That's why we have to hide you.

Hide you.

So that they won't be able to find you and hurt you.

- Hurt?

Why hurt?

- Because they're afraid of you.

They didn't know what you're like.

I do.

Do you see, Adam?

I'm your friend.

Adam?

- Yes.

I know.

- And friends help each other.

I want to help you to keep you safe.

But I can't do it if I stay here.

They'll come looking for me, and they'll find you.

That's why you have to stay here alone.

- Alone?

No.

Not be alone.

- Adam, you'll be all right.

Yes, I promise you will be.

But you must stay here.

And you must be absolutely still.

Please trust me, Adam.

Please stay.

- I stay alone.

- Trust me.

Friend.

- Friend.

I trust.

Alone.

- Time.

Time.

It's not on my side anymore.

How could the curse have failed?

There has to be an explanation.

But what is it?

Something is interfered or someone.

Whoever it is, he will pay.

He will pay.

- Who will pay?

- David?

How dare you sneak up on me like that?

- I didn't sneak up anywhere.

I was standing right there.

You just didn't hear me.

- What do you want?

- I just need a little help. - What's wrong?

- Oh, nothing's wrong.

It's just the tape recorder that Doctor Hoffman gave me.

- Well, if it's broken there's nothing I can do about it.

- It's not broken.

You see Dr. Hoffman gave it to me.

And I tried to work it, and I guess I busted it.

So Carolyn sent it out to be fixed.

And it just came back.

- Well, if it's not broken, why are you bringing it here to me?

I really haven't time--

- I just need someone to show me how to work it.

So I don't bust it again.

- I'm sorry David, but I'm busy.

And I'm not very good with mechanical things anyway.

Why don't you take it and show it to your father.

- He's too busy.

Everybody's too busy.

- Bring it back to me in a little while.

And I'll try to show you how it works.

- But it will just take a minute.

- David, please.

I have a terrible headache. - But the tape it just won't--

- David, please.

- Oh, all right.

There has to be a key.

What is it that went wrong?

I must find out before Nicholas discovers I've failed.

What will he say when he knows? What will he do?

Remember the bargain.

Our bargain.

Oh, I must win.

I will win.

And Barnabas, you will die.

- Carolyn.

- David, I thought you were downstairs?

- I was.

I was trying to get my step-mother to help me

with the tape recorder.

But she's too busy.

- I wish I could help you with it, David,

but I'm a little tired right now.

- Carolyn?

- Yes.

- What were you doing in the West Wing?

- What?

- Well, what were you doing in the West Wing?

You just came from there.

- What makes you think that?

- Well, I just saw you locking the door.

- David, let's go into your room.

- What were you doing in that part of the house?

- I was just looking for something for Vicki.

She's so interested in the family's history,

I was trying to find some old family pictures.

- They why were you so careful about locking it?

- Because of you for one thing.

You know your Aunt Elizabeth doesn't

like you prowling around the deserted part of the house.

It's very dangerous.

Since your curiosity is so difficult to control doors

have to be locked.

- Where are they?

- Where are what?

- The pictures.

- I couldn't find the ones I was looking for.

- Uh, David, bring the tape recorder over here.

I bet I can make it work for you.

- I thought you said you were tired?

- You've regenerated my spirits.

Come on.

Bring it over.

Don't you have to plug it in? - No.

runs off batteries.

- Oh.

Oh, let's see.

Uh, all right, you push this switch to turn the motor on.

And these two buttons to play the tape.

See this one says play, and you push this one to rewind it.

- Well, can you play the tape that's on there now?

- Sure.

I doubt if there's anything on it.

- No, there is something on it.

- What makes you so sure?

- Well, I heard part of it once, it's music.

But I never got to hear the whole thing.

- Oh.

All right. Shall we play it?

- That's the music.

Maybe if we wait there might be something more interesting

on after it's finished.

- Like what?

- Well, I don't know.

Maybe something spooky.

- There goes your imagination.

Poor David, you're really a victim of your surrounding.

- What does that mean?

- Nothing.

I'll leave you to your Mozart.

- Well, aren't you going to wait and hear it to the end?

Then after that, we could record something.

- No thanks, David.

As I said before, I really am a bit tired.

And uh, I have something to do.

Good night, David,

- Good night.

[voice on recording] - Julia, when,

when you do the experiment again if, if both Barnabas

and my creation live, if they both live,

Barnabas will be free and healthy as long as Adam lives.

Adam will drain Barnabas' affliction from him.

But will not suffer from the disease itself

because he lives.

But if Adam dies, Barnabas Collins

will be as he was before.

[music playing]

- Oh, Maggie, it's all right.

Of course, you had to tell us.

Someone had to.

Thank you.

Bye.

Oh, Barnabas.

- Have you seen my sister? - No.

No.

She went out two minutes ago.

- Do you know where?

I see.

Would you care for some brandy, Ms. Winters?

You seem to be quite upset.

- Something terrible has happened.

- Oh.

A shame that such a beautiful girl to be upset.

What is it?

- Barnabas.

- Barnabas?

What about him?

- He's dead.

- Dead?

Why that's-- that's awful.

How did it happen?

- I don't know.

Maggie Evans just called.

All she knows is that he's dead.

- I'm terribly sorry.

Of course, I hadn't gotten to know Barnabas at all well.

But I've so often heard my sister speak highly of him.

- Casandra?

- Yes. in her letters and since I've been here.

- Oh, really.

- Well, Ms.Winters what's the matter?

- Nothing it's just--

- Well, go on.

- It's just that I find that a little hard to believe.

Forgive me, but I do.

- Oh?

Oh, why.

- Well, she's your sister.

You should know what--

should know what I mean.

- I should.

- You're her brother.

You should know that she's the greatest enemy this family ever

had.

Even though she may have married into it.

She's been its greatest enemy for a long, long time.

- Ms.Winters, you must be delirious.

- I'm not delirious.

You know what she is.

- Well, yes I do.

A charming creature easily hurt by others.

She was a very sensitive child.

- How long ago was that, Mr. Blaire?

- I don't give away women's ages, Ms. Winters.

- Just what is your interest in this family?

- Well, you said it.

My sister married into it, so I'm

concerned about her well-being.

- I think there is more to it than that.

- Is there?

- I thought I heard someone talking.

Vicky, what's the matter?

- Oh, Carolyn.

- What is it?

- It's Barnabas.

He's dead. - What?

- I'm afraid Ms. Winters is quite upset.

- Barnabas dead?

Maggie is wrong.

It's, it's, it's not possible.

I don't believe it.

- Carolyn, what are we going to do?

- No, no. I would have known.

I would have heard.

- May I pour you a brandy, Ms. Stoddard?

- How did you--

where did Maggie hear?

- [inaudible]

- Well, it can't--

there, there, there is some kind of mistake.

I would have heard.

- I believe this Loomis works for--

worked for Mr. Collins.

Surely he would know.

- No.

Willy isn't, isn't reliable.

Vicky, I'm going to the old house.

- But Carolyn, well, there's no good going over there.

- There's something terribly wrong, Vicky.

I'm going to find out what it is for myself.

Ms. Collins.

- Casandra, something terrible has happened.

Ms. Winters has just heard that Barnabas Collins is dead.

Do you know anything about it?

- Dead?

Well, no, that's not true.

He quite alive.

- Barnabas is not dead after all.

What a relief to everyone.

- Thank God.

- I told you Willy was not to be trusted.

- Where could he have gotten such an idea I wonder?

- I don't know.

He told me the same thing.

But I saw Barnabas afterwards, and he's quite well.

- Would you excuse me, young ladies.

I'm sure this is a great relief to you.

And to us all.

You'd probably like to be by yourselves.

And I would like to have a little talk with my sister

alone.

- All right, let's go upstairs, darling.

- Why don't we go into the drawing room, Casandra.

There's a lovely fire there. - Nicholas--

- In the drawing room.

Now.

It's that a beautiful blaze, my dear?

- Nicholas--

- Such an art to making a good fire.

- Nicholas, Because I've been trying to figure out--

- The flames, yellow and red.

It's the most attractive thing in the world.

It almost makes you feel at home.

- I don't know what went wrong.

I just don't know.

- It's perfectly obvious what went wrong.

You failed.

After all your assurances, your insistence on going it

on your own, you simply failed.

- Something happened.

- No my dear sister.

Something didn't happen.

[whispers] And I want to know why.

- Something got in the way.

The curse, the dream, it should have worked.

Willy told me that it had.

- Apparently, Willy is not to be trusted by anyone.

- I thought it was all over.

And then there was Barnabas taunting me.

I don't understand.

- That's obvious.

It is also obvious that you're an amateur, Cassandra.

And that sort of thing cannot be tolerated.

- Nicholas, please.

- There are no pleases about it.

It's gotten to be too big a game for you.

It's time it was taken out of your hands.

- No.

you can't do that.

This is mine.

And I intend to finish it.

There's got to be some intervening force.

There has to be a key, and you've got to let me find it.

- My dear Cassandra, you're beginning

to sound almost human. Such emotion.

Nicholas, please let me find out what when wrong.

- I suspect that might be your problem, my dear.

How do you really feel about your victim?

- I hate him. - You sure?

- Yes.

- You sure you don't still love him?

- What? - You heard me.

- That's absurd.

- I'm not so sure.

That could be weakening your power as well as your intent.

- How could I love him now? How could I?

- Well, you did once.

Does a speck of that remain?

- No.

No.

- Well, you'll have to prove it, Cassandra.

And prove it quickly.

- What do you mean?

How?

- Do a little detective work.

Find that intervening force as you put it.

Now for someone of your talent that should be child's play.

I'll give you till midnight.

- Wait, that's That's not nearly--

- You are to call me when you discover why

your idiotic plan went wrong.

If I don't hear from you, I'm afraid our little bargain,

our pact is off.

I will have to dispense with your services.

- Oh.

- Oh, yes my dear.

You've had so many chances and all of them bungled.

You're nearing the end, Cassandra.

Till midnight.

That's all the time you have.

- But if I can't--

- Would you like a little taste of what's in store for you,

Cassandra?

A little taste of what failure will bring you?

A little taste of the hour of midnight?

- Nicholas, please.

Please.

[laughing]

- Look at your hand, my dear.

Look at your hand.

[laughing]

[screaming]

- Oh no.

No.

No.

♪ [eerie theme music]