560 - August 16, 1968

[bunniefuu]

- Morning Collinwood and the residents of the great house

are vastly relieved, for Victoria Winters

has returned after a mysterious disappearance.

But for the one who lives in the old house on the Collins

estate, her return will force him into action.

For it means he must begin a dangerous experiment,

an experiment that will either save or destroy

the entire Collins family.

- Barnabas?

- Yes, Julia?

- Good morning.

- I sent Willie to Dr. Lang's house to get Lang's journals,

in case we have to go ahead with the experiment.

- About the experiment.

- What about it?

- I don't know if I can do it.

I don't know if I can ever fully understand

the process Eric went through when he created Adam.

Besides, creating a human being out of a dead body--

- Well, at least we don't have to think

about it until Adam keeps his end of the promise

and releases Vicky.

- He has. - What?

- Vicky returned to Collinwood last night.

- Is she all right?

- She was frightened, of course, but physically she's fine.

- Thank God.

Where was she?

- All she remembers is leaving this house.

After that, her memory is a blank.

- At least she's safe.

That's more important than anything else.

- You know what that means, of course?

- Yes.

It means that we have to go ahead with the experiment.

We must create a mate for Adam, now.

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♪ [eerie theme music]

- So Vicky is safe.

You can't imagine the number of times

I thought that I might never see her again.

- I just don't know.

- Know what?

- If I can go through with this madness.

- Julia, your promise.

- I know what I promised.

- But you can't break that promise.

Think of the consequences.

If we don't go through with this thing,

Adam will k*ll Vicky and every member of the Collins

family, one by one.

- I know.

- Then think about Vicky.

Think about Elizabeth.

Do you want her to die, or Carolyn, or David?

- No.

- Then, Julia, for the sake of every member

of the Collinwood family.

- All right.

- Then you will go through with it?

- Yes, reluctantly.

- Julia, I find the whole idea of this experiment

as frightening as you.

But we must give Adam what he wants.

We have no other choice.

- I suppose not.

- I got the books you wanted.

I put them down in the basement.

- Thank you, I suppose I'd better

go down and start to study.

- Julia, wait, Willy, come here.

I want to talk to you.

We'll need his help. - I suppose we will.

- My help doing what?

- You know what Adam has threatened to do?

- I know he's threatened to k*ll Vicky if you don't go ahead

with that crazy experiment.

Knowing Adam, he's probably k*lled her already.

- No, Vicky is safe.

- She is? - He let her go.

She returned to Collinwood last night.

- I'm glad to hear that. I was worried about her.

- Now that Adam has kept his part of the bargain,

it's up to us to keep ours.

- We're going through with the experiment, Willy.

And you must help us.

- What can I do to help?

I don't know anything about the experimental,

or whatever it is you call it.

- What you must do is not complicated, only unpleasant.

- I don't like the way you say that.

You've got a funny tone to your voice.

- To do what must be done, we will need bodies.

- Bodies?

- Dead bodies.

- I don't think I want to hear anymore.

- You will listen to us. And you will do as you're told.

You will get those bodies, Willy.

- You're asking me to rob graves?

- Yes, vile and frightening as it may seem,

it is necessary for the experiment.

- I'm not going to rob graves for anybody,

no sir, not for anything or anybody.

I'm not going to do it.

I am not going to do it.

- You know you must do what you're told.

Now, there's no way out for you.

- What are you saying?

Are you saying you're going to send me back to Wind Cliff?

- Yes, that's right.

Julia will commit you this time, permanently.

Won't you?

- Yes.

- OK.

You go ahead and do it.

- Willy, you know you don't want to spend the rest of your life

in a mental institution. - That's right.

I don't.

But I'd rather go back there than mess around

with dead people.

I won't do it.

I won't do it.

- You know what your life was like at Wind Cliff.

Now think, you will change your mind.

- Oh, no, I won't.

I've done a lot of things in the past.

But now you're asking too much.

I can't.

And I won't.

I won't.

- How can I get Willy to cooperate?

- I don't know.

I'd better get down to the basement and start to study.

[knocking]

- Are you expecting someone?

- No, it might be Vicky.

- Possibly, I'll be in the basement, if you need me.

- All right.

- Haskell?

- Hello.

- Come in.

I didn't expect to see you out of the hospital.

- I just got out yesterday.

The doctors released me a couple of days early.

They said I was well enough to go home.

- Well, how are you feeling?

- Well, still a little bit shaky, but otherwise OK,

thanks to you.

- Me?

- I understand that you and Willy Lumus

were the ones that found me in the woods

and got me to the hospital.

- Oh yes, we heard some shouting out in the woods.

And so we went out to see what it was.

Luckily, we found you, but Adam had gone.

- If you hadn't found me, I would have died out there.

Look, if there's anything I can ever

do to repay you for what you did for me, just let me know.

- You owe me nothing.

Please don't think of it that way.

- I do.

I feel the same way about Lumus.

I'm grateful to both of you.

And I just wanted you to know it.

- Thank you.

- By the way, Mr. Collins, how much do you know about a man

named Nicholas Blair?

- Blair?

Actually, I know very little about him,

except that he's Cassandra Collins brother.

- Do you know what he's doing in Collinsport?

- I can't imagine why he's staying here so long.

Originally, he came here to see Cassandra.

But when she left and met Roger, I

can't imagine what it was that made him stay.

It's a mystery to me.

But why are you so curious about him?

- Well, I got sort of a strange note from him.

- A note from Blair?

- Yeah, I met him last night up at Maggie's.

And, frankly, we didn't exactly hit it off.

I didn't like him.

And the feeling seemed to be mutual,

which makes this note very, very strange.

- What does it say?

- He wants me to come to his house at : this evening.

He says he wants to talk.

- What about? - It doesn't say.

It just says, please come to my house at :.

I can't imagine what he wants to see me about.

- Are you going to accept the invitation?

- Yeah, I guess so, out of curiosity, if

for no other reason.

- Will you do me a favor?

- What's that?

- After you have seen him, will you come back here

and tell me what happened?

- Sure.

You must be as curious about him as I am.

- Yes, I am very curious about him.

Very curious.

- Julia?

- Come and help me sort these papers and journals.

- Are you and Barnabas going to go ahead with this?

- Yes.

Yes, I don't want to, but I must.

- But what you're trying to do, it's crazy.

- Willy, I never thought I'd be involved in anything like this,

but I am.

- I mean, putting parts of dead people together,

I mean it isn't only crazy.

It's wrong.

I no longer know what is right or wrong.

I only know what is necessary.

- You've got to talk Barnabas out of this.

You've got to do it.

- I can't.

Too much is at stake.

- But you could refuse to help him.

He can't do it alone.

- I can't refuse.

I've already agreed.

And I will.

- There's no way of stopping this from happening?

- No.

- Then I'm going to have to get out of here.

I'm going to have to leave.

- Leave?

- Yeah, I can't take it.

I can't be any part of this.

I gotta get out of here now.

- All right. - All right?

- Yes.

I could insist that you go to Wind Cliff.

But I won't.

You can leave.

Where will you go?

- I don't know.

I just know I can't stay around here

while this thing is happening.

I mean, I can't watch it.

It's too horrible.

I mean, it's just too horrible.

- So I'll stop by around : or :.

- Fine. - Barnabas?

Oh, it's you.

- Hello, Willy.

Let you out of the hospital?

- That's right, I just came by to thank Mr. Collins

for getting me to the hospital. I want to thank you too.

- Don't thank me.

I don't want your thanks.

- Just the same, I'm grateful.

- And, look, about that fight that we had, it was my fault.

And I apologize.

You accept my apology?

- Yeah, I guess so.

- You want to shake on that?

- Barnabas, I'll see you later.

- All right.

- I wish you left him to die. - I can't do that.

And neither can you.

- If I had my choice, he'd be dead by now.

Well Well, fortunately, you didn't.

- Suppose he and Maggie will be getting married.

- Probably.

- I suppose that's what's going to happen.

- You're still infatuated with Maggie, aren't you?

- I don't want to talk about it.

I'm clearing up.

- Are you?

- Yeah.

Yeah.

I can't take what's going on around here,

this crazy experiment and all that's happening.

- You can't leave here.

And you know it.

- Yes, I can, if I want to.

- You were allowed to leave Wind Cliff under the custody

of Julia Hoffman.

If you were to leave here now, Julia

would have you returned to Wind Cliff.

- No, she wouldn't.

She said I could go, if I wanted to.

- Did she?

- Yeah, she said, she don't--

that you don't need me anymore to look after you.

I mean, you got her.

And Haskell's got Maggie.

- Did you ever stop to think what might happen

to Maggie if you were to leave?

- What do you mean?

- What if Adam found out that you refused

to help with the experiment.

He would be very angry with you, very angry.

And he might take out his anger on Maggie.

- Why would he do that?

- Why did he kidnap Vicky?

Why did he threaten to k*ll her?

Because he knew how I felt about her.

And he might do the same thing to Maggie

if you angered him by leaving.

- Look, he doesn't know anything about Maddie and me.

- He saw you together, didn't he?

- Yeah.

- And didn't he once try to k*ll Maggie?

- Yeah.

- Well, if he tried to k*ll her once,

he could try to do it again, if you angered him.

- You really think Maggie would be in danger if I left here?

- I think it's quite possible.

- I never thought of that before.

- Isn't it time that you did think about it?

- Well, I wouldn't want anything to happen to Maggie.

- Willy?

- Did you find anything?

- Yes, the journal that describes the initial steps

of the experiment.

I think I understand how to proceed.

- Then we must start now.

- We can't start without a cadaver.

- Willy, will you help us?

- I--

- Think of Maggie, Willy.

Think of what what will happen to her.

And then decide.

Now, will you help us?

- I guess I got to.

I wouldn't want anything to happen Maggie.

I'll do what I have to do.

But I don't like it.

I don't like it.

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- Have I got the right house? Does Mr. Blair live here?

- Yes.

Yes, come in quickly, quickly.

You're Joe Haskell, aren't you?

- That's right.

- I knew you were coming.

That is, I knew Nicholas had sent for you.

- Isn't he here?

- He had to go out for just a few minutes.

But he'll be right back.

- Who are you?

- My name is Angelic.

I'm supposed to be Nicholas' secretary.

- Aren't you?

- No, not really.

- Who are you then?

- If I tell you the truth, can I trust you?

- Yeah.

- Let me look at you.

Yes, you have an honest face.

I think I can trust you.

- Look, why do you need to trust me?

- Wait.

- What are you doing?

- I'm looking to see if Nicholas is coming back.

He's not.

We've just a few minutes to talk.

- I don't understand any of this.

Who are you?

Why are you pretending to be somebody that you're not?

- Nicholas is forcing me to pretend.

- Forcing you?

- Yes, I need your help.

I need it desperately.

Are you willing to help me?

- How?

- I've got to escape from Nicholas.

And I need someone's help to do it.

- Escape?

- Yes, he's holding me here, a prisoner against my will.

- What? - That's right.

He's keeping me here at his house.

I can't get away from him.

He has an enormous hold over me.

And I can't break that hold without someone's help.

- Why don't you just call the police?

- You don't understand.

It's not that simple.

- That's right.

I don't understand.

Why don't you just tell me who you are and what's going on?

- I don't have time.

He could walk through that door any moment.

If he even suspects that I said anything to you, he'll--

- You're terrified of him.

- I have every reason to be.

- Why, what's he done to you?

- Terrible things.

I can't begin to tell you.

- I think you better begin to tell the Sheriff.

Come on.

I'll take you down to the Sheriff's office right now.

- I can't do that.

Nicholas would be furious.

He'll try to harm me.

Would you protect me?

- Sure, if it comes to that.

- Am I really going to escape?

Am I really going to be free?

- Look, don't cry.

- I can't help it.

It's such a relief, knowing that someone is willing to help me.

- Blair is not going to harm you.

We'll just keep him away from you.

- I'm so relieved.

You have no idea.

I know I'm acting very foolish.

But do you mind if I just put my head on your shoulder?

- Of course not, if it will make you feel better.

- You're kind.

You're so very kind.

- Just stop crying.

You're going to be all right.

- Yes.

Yes, I am going to be all right, now.

- No harm is going to come to you, not if I

have anything to do with it.

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♪ [eerie theme music]