616 - November 3, 1968

[bunniefuu]

[eerie music]

- The Western sky is streaked with red

from the reflected sun.

It has already set on Collinwood and even the fast-gathering

dusk cannot hide the blood- colored stains that announce

the coming of night,

a night not dark enough to conceal a newfound terror,

nor prevent the rebirth of an old despair.

[wind howling]

[suspenseful music]

- I will not go to her.

Not tonight.

It's too dangerous.

I will not go.

[woman laughing]

- I can't let you alone, Barnabas.

- Leave.

- If you won't come to me--

- I couldn't.

The police were here.

- Well, come to me now.

Didn't you hear me?

The police may come back.

- Have you given Joe the medicine?

Is he dead?

- No.

Joe is alive.

Julia-- Julia Hoffman st-- stopped me.

- What?

Then we must finish him now.

- We can't.

The police have him.

He's in the hospital.

- How dare you fail me!

You have not yet learned, have you?

That you must not disappoint me?

No, you are still too much your own person, Barnabas.

I will not have that.

No, I will not.

You must learn that you are mine.

- No.

No.

No.

No.

- Can you hear me, Barnabas?

Now you must know how much mine you are.

Now you must know that soon you will be with me forever.

- Barnabas.

- Stay away from me.

Barnabas, what is it? What's wrong?

- Nothing.

Nothing you...

You can do anything about.

- Barnabas!

Barnabas.

[gasps]

Oh, Barnabas!

[dramatic music]

[eerie music]

Barnabas.

Barnabas, can you hear me?

[dog barking]

Barnabas, tell-- tell me how this happened.

Barnabas, can't you hear me?

Willie!

Willie, help me.

Willie, are you here?

Willie, Willie, please! Willie--

- What's the matter?

What-- what happened?

- Look.

- Oh no.

No!

- We thought he was safe forever but-- but now--

[dogs howling]

- What are we going to do?

- I don't know.

I-- I just don't know anymore.

- Listen, Julia.

Dogs.

- Yes, I know.

- We-- we got to hide him someplace where it's safe.

What good will that do?

When he-- when he's summoned, he'll go.

He'll go to--

- To who?

- To who?

I don't know.

If we only knew.

The-- the-- the one who got Joe?

- A woman.

- But who?

- We-- we can't stop to think about that now, Willie.

We've got to get him somewhere, somewhere-- somewhere where

it's safe.

- The bedroom upstairs!

- No.

No, he'll be able to get-- get out of there.

Or she'll be able to get to him.

No, there's got to be some place.

Downstairs, Willie.

The cell.

Now-- now help me.

We'll-- we'll take him down there, we'll watch over him.

We'll never leave him until-- until--

- Until?

- Willie, we've got to keep him safe.

[groans]

[suspenseful music]

- No.

- Barnabas, this-- this is the only way.

- What are you doing to me?

Why am I here?

- Barnabas, we-- we know what's happened.

- You know nothing.

Let me out of here.

- Barnabas, you got to stay here.

Otherwise something worse will happen.

- Nothing has happened. Nothing.

- Barnabas, we...

We saw the marks.

- The...

Oh, no.

- Barnabas, we...

We want to help you.

- I want no help.

I feel nothing that I don't want to feel.

- That's not true.

- It is.

- Barnabas, don't say that.

- You're only saying that now because you're weak,

and it's-- and it's night.

- Please, I beg you, let me out of here.

- We-- we can't, Barnabas.

Please don't make it worse.

- Willie, Julia, you know what I'm suffering.

Don't keep me here, let me go free.

- We're-- we're trying to let you be free, Barnabas.

We're trying to-- to make you free from-- from whoever

she is.

That-- that's why we-- we put you here.

- Barnabas, we want to help you.

- No, you don't.

All you want to do is t*rture me.

I know I've been terrible to you in the past--

- We're your friends.

- I need no friends, I--

I want no friends.

- You need us, Barnabas.

- Go away, both of you.

Don't look at me. - We're staying.

- I said leave me alone.

- Barnabas.

We can't leave you alone.

We're going to stay here, one night at least.

We're going to take care of you, Barnabas.

We're gonna keep you safe.

- Yes, we want to protect you, Barnabas.

- Get out.

Don't say no more.

- Barnabas, we're your friends.

Try to remember that.

- Barnabas, there's one question I'd--

I'd like to ask.

I know it'll be very difficult to--

for you to tell us who did this to you, but--

but try.

- Oh, Julia, he hasn't got the power to do that.

You didn't, I didn't.

Barnabas, I know that it's a woman.

Barnabas, can't you give us any indication of-- of who she is?

Anything? Anything?

- Julia, please let him rest.

- All right.

Barnabas can rest now.

Willie-- Willie will stay with you until I come back.

[dog barking] You'll be safe here.

[dogs howling]

[eerie music]

- I'm sorry, Nicholas.

I'd completely forgotten that you

were coming over this evening.

Did you wait out there very long?

- No, hardly at all.

As a matter of fact, I would have waited there indefinitely

just to see you.

- Please.

- Maggie, you seem a little upset.

Is there anything I can do?

- No, I guess there's nothing that anyone can do.

- Well now, tell me, what's happened?

- I don't know where to begin.

- Is it something to do with Joe Haskell?

- Yes.

- Well we both know that he has been heading

for disaster for some time now.

I'm sorry to hear it.

- I don't know how I feel.

- Maggie, Joe may have changed considerably in recent weeks

but he was very close to you at one time.

- Yes, he was.

- And I know that his death has been a terrible shock to you.

- His death?

- Well, yes.

- Joe's not dead.

- He's not dead?

- I'm afraid I misunderstood.

- I meant what he'd done to Barnabas.

- Done to Barnabas? What?

I'm getting more and more confused by the moment.

Joe Haskell, the last I heard, was at death's door.

- The whole thing has been such a nightmare.

- Well, now what exactly did he do to Barnabas?

- He tried to strangle him.

- But that's impossible!

- He did, he tried to k*ll him.

I should have known that he would try.

- What are you talking about?

How did you know?

- Well, Joe was convinced that Barnabas

was trying to poison him.

- Poison him?

Why do you say that?

- Well, Joe told me that--

- He told you?

You spoke to-- exactly what did Joe tell you?

Maggie, excuse my curiosity, but you

must admit that that's rather an extraordinary tale.

- Yes, it is.

- For Joe to accuse a man like Barnabas...

Why, that's not reasonable.

- I thought that Joe was delirious,

or I didn't pay much attention.

Joe was convinced that Barnabas was trying to poison him.

- Did he, uh, say how he was to be poisoned?

- No, he didn't.

And the whole thing was so far- fetched

that they couldn't take it seriously.

- Maggie, do you think that Joe was telling the truth?

- Of course not!

Barnabas had just saved his life.

Why would he turn around and try to k*ll him?

- Well, that's true.

If anything had happened to Joe, Barnabas

would have been the least- likely suspect.

- And yet Joe was so convinced that Barnabas

was going to do it that he tried to strangle him.

- Well, you're probably right.

What Joe did, he did, uh, in a delirium.

[scoffs]

Poor fellow.

- I'll never understand how this could have happened to Joe.

- Maggie, when a woman has a man in her power,

there's no telling what he might do.

- If I only knew who she was!

- You're still quite concerned about her, aren't you?

- No, I'm not!

- Joe obviously still means a great deal to you.

- No, he doesn't.

[chuckles]

- Maggie, you almost sound like you mean that.

- I do mean it.

I could sympathize just so long.

But when somebody turns on the one

person that saved their life--

- Oh, now Maggie, that's just a little harsh, don't you think?

- No.

No, whatever Joe does from now on is no concern of mine.

- Well, I suppose it is better, after all,

to be completely free of him.

Now you can get back to making decisions

that you've avoided making before.

- Yes.

Nicholas, would you take me to see Barnabas?

Now?

This evening?

- This evening?

- Please?

Oh, but Maggie, from what you said

Barnabas is in no condition to receive visitors.

- I feel that what's happened is partly my fault.

I could have warned Barnabas.

- That's nonsense.

How could you possibly have taken Joe seriously?

Now, don't you think that after what you've been through,

a quiet evening at home would be a lot better for you?

- Nicholas, I must see him.

- Whatever you say.

I am yours to command.

[dramatic music]

[wind howling]

- Barnabas isn't here?

You mean they took him to the hospital?

- No, no, I mean--

- What she means is that Barnabas is not

at home to visitors.

- Yes.

Yes, yes, of course.

- You mean he's resting?

- Yes.

Yes, resting.

- Maggie, I told you we probably wouldn't be able to see him.

- Can't I just see him?

Are you sure he's all right?

- Oh yes, yes, he's all right.

- You seem rather frightened.

He's not worse, is he?

- No, no, I promise you.

- Maggie, come, it really is unfair of us to insist.

[dogs howling]

- Barnabas, please don't look at me like that.

Say something, anything, I don't care what it is.

[dogs barking]

I know, Barnabas, I hear them, too,

and I know what you must be going through.

But I gotta keep you here, Barnabas, to keep you safe.

- Please, Willie.

Please.

Let me go free.

As your-- as your master, I--

I cannot command you now.

I beg you.

- Oh, Barnabas, please don't.

- I beg you to let me go free.

- Barnabas, I can't.

- Please.

I beg you.

Can you ask for more?

- Barnabas, believe me, if I could

I'd be happy to do your will if that would set you free.

But I can't, Barnabas.

- I beg.

I beg.

- Barnabas, please don't.

[dogs howling]

- Listen.

Listen to them howling.

But the true howling is--

it is in my blood, tearing at my heart.

Please, Willie.

Please.

- Oh, Barnabas.

- All right.

I know Barnabas isn't here.

- How-- how do you know?

- Well, if he were you'd let me see him.

- All right.

All right, he isn't here.

- Then where is he?

- He-- he went out.

- But he couldn't.

- Do I-- do I have to be questioned like this?

- Julia, I'm concerned about Barnabas.

Can't you understand that?

- Of course, I can understand.

That-- that's why I didn't tell you that he had gone out

before because I knew you would be worried, but you mustn't be.

- Then where is he?

- I don't know.

Please, please believe me.

- Now, Maggie, please, there is nothing that we can do here.

- But Barnabas couldn't go out in the condition he was in.

- He's all right.

Believe me.

This very moment, Barnabas, I'm sure,

is getting exactly the care he needs.

[dogs howling]

- There's a way out.

Maggie found it a long time ago.

[suspenseful music]

A loose brick...

A secret passage leading to the sea.

Willie, I'm hungry.

I've got to have some food.

- Julia will bring you some food soon.

- When?

- Soon.

- But I need it now, Willie.

- Barnabas, I can't leave here.

Julia's got the door locked from the outside

and she's got the key.

I couldn't get out of here if I wanted to.

- You and Julia have taken every precaution

to keep me here, haven't you?

- We've got to, Barnabas.

- Willie, there's some water in that--

in that jug.

Surely I can have some water, at least.

- Sure, Barnabas.

[suspenseful music]

[glass shatters]

[dramatic music]

- Well, I'm sorry that I let myself get carried away

like that. I guess we're all a bit upset.

- That's all right, Maggie, I understand.

And you mustn't worry about Barnabas.

- She won't.

I for one am quite convinced that he is perfectly all right.

- Good night.

- Good night.

- I said you were my friend, and how I wish that were the truth,

but I'm past the point when friends are possible.

I'm sorry, Willie.

- Willie!

Barnabas?

Willie.

[dogs barking]

[gasps]

[dramatic music]

[eerie music]