540 - July 19, 1968

[bunniefuu]

♪ [music playing]

- On this night, terror reigns in the great house

of Collinwood, for a witch's curse

has somehow been thwarted.

And there is one with powers even greater

than hers who is about to evoke a horrifying act of vengeance.

- You ought to call me when you discover why

you're idiotic plan went wrong.

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

our pact, is off.

We shall have to dispense with your services.

- No.

- Oh yes, my dear.

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

You're nearing the end, Cassandra.

Until midnight, that's all the time you have.

- But if I can't find out by midnight.

- 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?

- No, please.

Nicholas, please.

- Look at your hand, my dear.

Look at your hand.

[laughter]

- Oh no!

No!

No!

No!

♪ [eerie music playing]

- I see you've bandaged your hand, my dear.

- I couldn't bear to look at it.

- And, of course, you didn't want anyone else to see it.

- No.

- That's very sensible of you.

And you do so few sensible things these days.

- Nicholas, please.

- Please.

- Don't do this to me, don't.

- You're very lucky, my dear, that I

didn't do a great deal more.

- You can't destroy me.

You need me.

- Do I?

- Yes, you want to stay at Collinwood.

You want to carry out your plan.

That's why you came here in the first place.

- That's true.

- You can't stay here without me.

- Can't I?

- No, Roger only allowed you to stay because he

believes you are my brother.

- Yes, but no matter what happens to you,

he will still think that.

If I decide to destroy you, I will simply

let Roger think he decided to go away again.

And he will allow me, as your concerned brother,

to remain here at Collinwood to wait for your return.

I've been very successful at winning Roger over.

I could remain here at Collinwood

indefinitely if I wished to.

- Nicholas, you can do this.

You can't.

- Oh, but I can.

And I will, if you don't find out what went wrong,

why Barnabas Collins is still alive,

why he didn't revert to what he was.

- You've given me so little time, only a few hours.

- That's more time than you deserve.

- It isn't enough.

You've got to help me.

- No, I won't help you.

I won't do a thing.

- Please.

- Don't waste your time pleading, Cassandra.

You've made far too many mistakes already.

You must find a way to rectify your mistakes.

And you must do it alone, or you are of no further use to me.

- But I don't know what to do.

I don't know how to stop it.

- That, my dear, is your problem.

- There must be some way to find.

I--

- What is it?

- Willie.

- Willie?

- Willie Loomis, the man who works for Barnabas.

- What about him?

- Didn't he tell me Maggie Evans that Barnabas was dead?

- Yes.

- Then he must know what happened.

He must know everything that happened after my dream came--

curse came to an end. - Possibly, he does.

- I'll summon him.

I'll force him to tell me everything he knows.

- Go right ahead.

- You will help me?

- No, my dear.

You must find out what went wrong with your plan.

And you must do it alone.

If you fail to find out, as you have so often failed

in the past, then Cassandra Collins will cease to exist.

[knocking]

- Willie?

- What do you want?

- Is Dr. Hoffman here? - She went into town.

She won't be back for awhile.

- Would you tell her I want to see her then?

- What about?

- It's about this tape recorder she gave me.

- What about it?

- There's something on the tape I want her to hear.

- Look, Dr. Hoffman has better things to do with her time

than talk about tape recorders.

- Then would you at least just tell her I was here?

- Yeah, OK.

- Willie?

- What is it?

- Who is Adam?

- Adam?

- Yes, who is he?

- Hey, look, I don't know any more about Adam than you do.

- Barnabas does.

- What?

- Barnabas knows a lot about Adam.

- Where'd you get a crazy idea like that?

- There's some connection between Adam and Barnabas.

- What connection?

What are you talking about?

- I'm not sure.

- Then you better watch what you're saying.

Barnabas don't know any more about Adam than I do,

which is nothing. - But it's on this tape.

- Look, you go home.

You hear me?

You don't come around this house again pestering people.

- Willie, why are you so nervous?

- I'm not nervous. Now, you go home.

And you stay there! You hear me?

- Willie Loomis?

Willie Loomis, you will hear my voice.

The wind will carry my voice to you, wherever you are.

And you will hear me calling you.

- What's happening?

Somebody's calling me.

Somebody wants me to go somewhere.

I don't understand.

- Come to me.

Come to the terrace at Collinwood.

I'll be waiting for you there.

- But I don't want to go there.

I don't want to go.

- You will hear my voice, Willie.

And you will obey me.

You will obey me.

You have no choice.

Yes, you've heard my voice.

You will obey me.

You will come to me.

Hello, Willie.

- You.

- Yes, hello.

- You-- you wanted me to come here.

- That's right. I did.

- Why?

- Look at me, and I'll tell you.

- No. - Look at me.

Look into my eyes.

- I don't want to.

- Deep into my eyes.

I command you to look into my eyes.

That's right.

Look into my eyes.

Keep looking deep into my eyes.

- Your eyes.

- You will listen to me.

And you will obey me.

Do you understand?

- Yes.

- I want you to tell me everything you

know about Barnabas Collins.

- Barnabas.

- That's right.

Barnabas had the dream, didn't he?

- Yeah.

- And what happened after he had the dream?

- We found him.

- We?

- Dr. Hoffman and me.

- We-- we found him after--

- After he'd been attacked by the bat.

- Yeah, after that.

There were two gashes in his neck.

And he was bleeding.

She listened for his heart beat, but he didn't have any.

- Yes, I know.

And then what happened?

- We buried him.

- You buried him?

- Yeah.

Barnabas told Dr. Hoffman he wanted

to be buried where nobody could find him, if it happened.

- You mean you actually buried him?

- Where?

- In the woods.

I dug the grave myself.

I put the coffin in the ground.

And I covered it up with dirt.

- And then what happened?

- Went back to the old house with Dr. Hoffman.

We were planning to go away.

She was going to give me a job at Wind Cliff.

- But Barnabas, what happened to Barnabas?

- I went back to the old house.

And there he was.

He was alive.

- How did he come to be alive?

- I don't know that.

- How did he leave his coffin?

- I don't know that either.

- He must have told you something.

- He just told me that he managed to escape the curse.

- And that's all?

He must have told you more.

He must have.

- No, he told me not to worry about such things.

I don't want to understand about those things.

They scare me.

- Willie, are you telling me the truth?

- I can't lie to you.

- That's right.

You can't.

All right, Willie, you can go back to Collinwood now.

And when you get there, you will have

forgotten that I summoned you.

Do you understand? - Yeah.

- Go.

I was so certain that he knew something.

I was so certain.

- Well, Cassandra, another failure.

- How long have you been standing there?

- Long enough to witness your little fiasco.

I could almost pity you, my dear.

The moments are ticking by.

And you're unable to do a thing.

And each tick of the clock brings you

closer to your own destruction.

- Nicholas, I didn't fail entirely.

I learned a great deal from Willie.

- You learned nothing.

- I learned that my curse was successful.

Barnabas did revert to what he was.

- Only temporarily.

- I also learned that they buried him.

They actually buried him in the earth.

- Yes, you were able to gain that much knowledge.

- So you can't consider my conversation

a complete failure.

- Why didn't Barnabas revert to what he was permanently?

- I don't know.

- And how did he manage to escape from his grave?

Those are the things you must find out

if you expect me to spare you.

Don't expect me to spare you otherwise.

- There must be some intervening factor.

That's what I've got to find out.

- That is a brilliant piece of deduction.

As soon as I find out, I can remove it.

- Yes. - And then I'll succeed.

Barnabas will become what I want him to become.

- That is true.

- All I need is some time, just a little more time.

- I've told you not to plead with me.

I've told you how much it bores me.

- Please, be reasonable.

- I am perfectly reasonable.

- No, you're not.

How can I possibly find out what I need to know before midnight?

- I must admit, it does pose some problems.

- If only you'd give me a little longer, a day, a week.

- I've been lenient enough already.

- Please.

- Stop it.

- Please, all I need is a little more time.

- I said stop it.

- Nicholas, please, please.

- All right, Cassandra.

- What do you mean all right?

- I've come to a decision.

- What?

- I won't destroy you at midnight

if you are unable to come up with the information.

- You won't?

- No.

Your pitiful pleas have caused me to change my mind.

- Thank you, thank you.

- Don't thank me, my dear.

You yourself are responsible for my decision.

- You're going to give me more time?

- No, I'm going to give you less time.

- Less time?

- You see, my dear, I am quite annoyed with you,

quite annoyed with your constant failures

and your pleas for mercy.

So I'm going to give you one hour

to find out what you need to know.

- One hour?

- It is approximately : o'clock now.

When the clock strikes nine, I shall return you.

If you have been able to-- un--

if you have been unable to obtain the information,

I will destroy you.

- Nicholas, I can't possibly find out

what I need to know in an hour.

- Probably not.

So I suggest you spend the next hour preparing for the moment

of your destruction.

♪ [music playing]

[clock ticking]

- Four minutes to :.

In four minutes, Nicholas will come to me

and destroy me forever.

And there's nothing I can do about it, nothing at all.

- Cassandra?

- Oh,David.

- What happened to your hand?

- I burned it.

- How?

- Never mind.

It's late.

Shouldn't you be in bed?

- People are always telling me to go to bed.

- I'd like to be alone now, please.

- Is something the matter?

- No, just go to bed.

- OK.

But will you do something for me first?

- What?

- Listen to the tape recording on the tape recorder

Dr. Hoffman gave to me. - David.

- I know you didn't want to hear it before.

There's something funny on it, something I don't understand.

- David, I'm in no mood to listen to tape recorders.

- But--

- Just go to bed, please.

- All right.

- Cassandra?

- What? it?

- Do you know very much about Barnabas?

- Why do you ask?

- Well, do you know what his affliction is?

- His affliction?

- Yes, it talks about it on this tape.

- It does?

- Yes, what does it mean?

- I don't know, but I'd like to hear the tape.

- But you just said you didn't. - I know.

I don't care what I just said.

I'd love to hear it.

- Boy, you sure do change your mind awfully quickly.

Let's see if I've got it threaded right.

- Hurry up, please.

- Why are you in such a rush?

- I'm just curious to know what's on the tape.

That's all.

- All right, I'll play it now.

[music playing]

- You have to listen to the music for a while

before the good part comes on.

- I haven't got time to listen to music.

Speed it up.

- I don't know how.

- Push that button.

[tape scratching]

- Julia, when-- when you do the experiment again,

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]

- That's all of the interesting part.

Do you know what it means?

- Adam.

Barnabas.

Of course.

- Do you understand it? What does it mean?

- David, you've got to get out of here.

Go to your room! - But.

- Don't argue with me.

Just get out of here now.

- What's the matter? - Hurry up, leave!

Hurry!

Nicholas!

Nicholas!

Nicholas!

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♪ [eerie theme music]