624 - November 13, 1968

[bunniefuu]

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- The first rays of morning light

fall on the towers of Collinwood,

and in a strange house by the sea

a woman has taken a mysterious journey into the past.

When the clock strikes six, she will return,

and her return will set off a chain

of events that will terrorize Victoria Winters.

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- Almost six o'clock.

Where can she have been all night?

Could she have run away?

No.

No, she wouldn't dare do that.

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Adam.

Why aren't you asleep?

- Couldn't sleep.

I went to Eve's room.

She's gone.

Nicholas, where could she be?

- She, uh, she went out. - Out?

- Yes.

She, uh, had trouble sleeping, so she went for a walk

along the beach. - How long has she been gone?

- Not long.

- I'd better go after her. No!

You'd best go back to your room.

- Why?

- Well, you want Eve to care for you, don't you?

- You know I do.

- Well, she must be allowed some moments of privacy.

There are times when people want to be alone.

This is one of those times.

If you go after her now, you'll only antagonize her.

- She always wants to be alone.

She never wants to be with me.

- Now, Adam, that is not true.

- Yes, it is, Nicholas, I know.

I am not as stupid as you seem to think I am.

- Adam, of course you're not stupid.

But you must realize that it-- it--

it takes Eve time to become adjusted.

- You have said that times.

Eve doesn't care for me, and she never will.

- She will.

I promise you she will.

- How are you going to make her care for me if she

doesn't know one can do that?

- Adam, I promise you that Eve will care for you.

Now, I have always kept my promises, haven't I?

- Yes.

- I will keep this one.

Now, please, go to your room.

Let me handle it.

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- What's wrong?

- Nothing.

Just go to your room.

I promise you, I will call you the moment she comes in.

- All right.

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- Where could she have gone?

If she's run away, if she's gone against my orders,

I will destroy her.

I will handle Adam another way.

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Eve!

- Good morning, Nicholas.

- I didn't hear you come in.

- Oh, didn't you?

- Where have you been?

- Out. - Out where?

- Just out.

I didn't go anywhere in particular.

- Well, I don't accept that excuse.

You've been out all night. - Have I?

Oh, I couldn't sleep, so I took a long walk.

I-- I guess I just lost track of the time.

- Eve, listen to me, you're not talking to Adam now.

He may be gullible enough to accept that excuse,

but I am not.

Now, you've been with Jeff Clark.

- No, I haven't. - You're lying to me.

- No, I'm not.

I-- I haven't been near Jeff.

- If you are not telling me the truth--

- I am!

You simply have to believe me.

- What is that?

- Oh, just a book. - Let me see it.

[music playing]

Why, this is a history of the Collins family.

- Yes.

- Where'd you get this?

- I found it when Adam took me to Collinwood.

- I haven't seen it before.

- Well, is there any special reason why you should have?

- What do you want with it?

- I, uh, I'd like to know more about the illustrious Collins

family.

Is there anything wrong with that?

- You're hiding something from me.

I can tell.

- What would I be hiding?

- I don't know.

But I do know that you'd better begin to cooperate with me.

You know the reason why I've allowed you to live.

- Yes.

- You exist only because of Adam.

- I realize that.

- Well, you'd better realize something else.

Adam must believe that you love him, whether you do or not.

- Well, I'll try to make him believe that.

- You haven't been very successful up to now.

- I'll try to do better.

- Why are you suddenly so cooperative?

- Well, because I--

I know what will happen to me if I don't cooperate with you.

You'll destroy me.

So I have to do what you tell me to do.

I have no other choice.

- And from now on you will concentrate

on making Adam happy? - Yes.

- You'll stay away from Jeff Clark?

- Yes. And Victoria Winters?

Oh, you agree so easily.

I don't trust you at all.

- I'm afraid of you, Nicholas.

That's why I obey you.

It's as simple as that.

- I wonder if you mean that.

I wonder.

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[knocking at door]

- Come in.

- Good morning, Vicky.

- Oh, good morning.

- Couldn't ask for a nicer day for your wedding.

- I know.

What are you doing up so early?

- Oh, I heard you stirring around,

so I came to see how you were.

- I-- I hope I didn't wake you.

My dress for the millionth time.

- You look lovely.

You're going to make a beautiful bride, Vicky.

- I hope Jeff thinks so.

- Well, of course he will.

You look absolutely radiant.

I've never been so happy.

And so am I.

- I haven't felt this way in a long time.

- It's so strange to--

to feel happy and frightened at the same time.

- What do you mean?

- Well, I love Jeff.

I want to make him a good wife.

And I don't want anything to go wrong.

- What could go wrong?

- I don't know.

Oh, I guess all brides are nervous on their wedding day.

- Of course.

You and Jeff are going to be very happy together, I know it.

I'll see you at breakfast.

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- Poor Miss Winters.

I could almost feel sorry for her.

She may think she's going to marry Peter today,

but she's not.

Because my plan is going to work.

That marriage will never take place.

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Oh!

Good morning, Adam.

- Where have you been? - I went for a walk.

- You've been very gone for a very long time.

- Oh, have I?

I lost track of the time.

- Where do you go when you go for these walks?

- Oh, I walk in the woods.

- Nicholas told me you were walking along the beach.

- No, Nicholas was mistaken.

- Well, it seems strange to me.

- What does?

- That when you disappear from this house for long periods

of time, you tell me the same thing,

that you've been off for a walk.

- I like to take walks.

What's strange about that?

- You never ask me to go with you.

In fact, you don't want me to.

- Oh, Adam.

I'm only trying to protect you.

- Protect me?

- Yes.

You're wanted by the police.

If anyone should see you, you would be in trouble.

- Yes, that's very true.

- I can come and go as I please.

If anyone should see me, it wouldn't

matter because no one knows who I am now that Barnabas Collins

and Julia Hoffman have gone.

And I like to get out of this house every once in a while.

Can't you understand that?

- Oh, yes.

- Then what's bothering you?

- Is there someone else?

- What?

- Is there someone else?

Someone who you see when you leave this house?

- Adam...

How can you think such a thing?

- Eve, you're very beautiful.

And many men would want you.

If there is someone else, I want to know about it.

Adam...

I don't know what to say.

- Just tell me the truth.

- Your not knowing the truth about me hurts me.

- I don't understand.

- Then you don't understand very much about women.

- What do you mean?

- Don't you know--

It's difficult to say.

- Just say it.

- Don't you know how I feel about you?

- Sometimes I think you hate me.

- Hate you? - Yes.

That's how you act sometimes.

- I do?

- You seemed so surprised to hear me say that?

- Well, I am, because...

You haven't understood me at all.

- I haven't?

- No.

If I seem irritable at times, it's because, well,

because I've had a very difficult adjustment to make.

Just as you have had.

Can't you understand that?

- Yes.

- My outbursts of temper have had nothing to do with you.

- They haven't?

- No.

I was created for you, Adam, so that we could be together.

I want us to be together.

- You do?

- Of course.

- But when you look at me sometimes...

My scars. I know how ugly they are.

- Not to me.

I don't care about your scars.

I think you're the most handsome man I've ever seen.

- I can't believe you really said that.

- I did, and I meant every word of it.

- You have changed.

So suddenly.

- Perhaps the change wasn't as sudden

as you seem to think it was.

Perhaps it happened so gradually you didn't even

see it happening.

- You really care for me?

- Yes.

More and more every day.

- I so much want to believe that's true.

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- Now do you believe it?

- Yes.

- Are you happy? - Yes.

You make me very happy.

- I'm glad.

I want to make you happy.

- I...

I should apologize.

- Oh, for what?

For thinking there was someone else.

- Don't think about it.

Forget it ever happened.

I have.

- Right now, if there was someone, I think I'd k*ll him.

- Mrs. Stoddard, could I borrow your car?

- Of course, Vicky.

- Actually, I want to go into town for a few minutes

and pick up some things.

- Here are the keys.

What kind of flowers are you going to carry?

Oh, I think roses.

They're Peter's favorite.

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- Mrs. Stoddard, I called Jeff "Peter."

- I know.

- I shouldn't have done that. He's Jeff Clark.

I must never think of him as anyone else ever.

- Vicky.

You haven't done anything wrong.

But if Jeff had heard me call him--

- But he didn't.

Only I heard, so it doesn't matter.

- I wish I could stop remembering what happened

to me, but I can't.

- Vicky, I don't pretend to understand your experience

in the past.

But it's only natural for you to think about it.

- I don't want to.

It upsets Jeff, and it confuses me.

I wish I could just pretend that I made it all up.

- That's what you should do.

- I want to.

I want to think about the present, and the future.

The man I'm marrying is Jeff Clark.

That's all I know, and that's all I want to know.

- Adam, I want to apologize.

- For what?

- For leaving you alone when I go on my walks.

I know it's selfish of me.

Why is it selfish?

- Well, because.

Because I can go out and you can't.

I know how lonely you get.

I've been very unfair.

- You're not unfair.

I know how difficult it is for you

to be cooped up in this house.

I feel the same way.

If I could, I'd leave here.

- From now on I'm never going to leave here.

I'm just gonna stay here with you.

- I don't want you to do that.

- Why not?

- Because I know that you want to leave here sometimes.

And I want you to do anything that pleases you.

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- Oh, you're very sweet.

- I'm very happy.

- If only he knew the truth.

If only he knew how much I detest him.

There's only one man in the world I want,

and I'll have him before this day is over.

Peter will belong to me.

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- Adam?

- Nicholas, it's happened.

- What happened?

- Eve, she cares for me.

- She told you that?

- Yes.

She loves me!

- Well, course she does.

- I-- I just never thought it would happen,

and it happened so suddenly.

- You see? You were worried about nothing.

- Nicholas, did you have anything to do with it?

- Of course not.

- Are you telling me the truth?

- Well, you told me yourself that I

couldn't make Eve love you.

- But you can do so many strange things.

- Yes.

But I have no control over human emotions.

Now, if Eve has learned to love you,

she came to it of her own accord,

as I told you she would.

- I just can't believe it happened.

- Well, you start believing it, because you and Eve

are going to spend the rest of your lives together.

- When are we leaving?

- Soon.

Very soon.

- Nicholas, before we leave, I must learn more

about the world.

I must acquire more knowledge.

I must study and learn.

- Yes, yes, of course.

- I'm happy, Nicholas.

I've never been so happy in my life.

- Adam, I'm very glad to hear you say that.

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- Well, are you satisfied?

- Yes, very.

- You see?

I'm cooperating with you.

- And you'll continue to cooperate.

- Of course.

I told you I'd keep my end of our bargain.

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- Vicky. - Yes?

- Some presents arrived for you while you were out.

- What presents?

I can't believe I've gotten this many.

- Do you want to open them now? - Oh, yes.

- They're over there.

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Oh, it's lovely.

- Oh, this one means so much to me.

I know who it's from without even reading the card.

- Who?

- A nurse at the foundling home, Miss Norris.

She-- she was very kind to me.

I-- I used to admire this necklace so.

It had been in her family for generations.

When I was a little girl, she used

to let me wear it on special occasions.

Now she wants me to have it.

- That's a lovely gesture.

- Yes, it is.

It's so strange, wh--

when I was there at the foundling home,

I used to feel that I was so alone.

I really wasn't at all.

- Vicky, it's pretty obvious from all the presents

you've received there are many people who care about you.

- I know. It makes me so happy.

- What is it?

- This book.

Don't you recognize it?

It's the Collins family history.

It's-- it's the book I took with me into the past.

It's the book I left there.

- That's impossible.

- It's the same book.

Where could it have come from?

Who-- who could have sent it?

- There's a card.

Who's it from?

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