660 - January 2, 1969

[bunniefuu]

[Timothy Stokes narrating] - The great estate of Collinwood,

on a solemn afternoon,

an afternoon in which even grief is momentarily forgotten.

Forgotten because of a seemingly innocent photograph

posed by two adults for the children.

When the film was developed,

the picture showed not only the people,

but something one man knows happened over years ago.

- Julia, it is Vicki. On the gallows.

Exactly as she explained it to me.

When she was in the past, she was hanged as a witch.

Look at her clothes.

I remember her wearing them.

- I don't understand.

- Well, I do. She wants my help.

- Barnabas!

- Well, what other explanation could there be?

Oh Julia, I have lived so long, surely -

surely, for some purpose, surely to save her.

- Barnabas, you mustn't become upset about this.

- Well, what else can I do?

Are you trying to tell me that there is some

rational explanation?

Julia, Carolyn and I

posed outside that front door for David.

And this was what was developed from the film.

- But a photograph?

Barnabas, if Vicki wanted to contact you,

wouldn't there be an easier way?

Couldn't she appear to you? Or speak to us?

- No, she can't.

Oh Julia, what am I going to do?

She went back to be with Peter and that gives me pain enough.

But to think that, she must relive those dreadful days

in that primitive cell on trial as a witch.

When it happened the first time,

there was nothing I could do to save her.

But now, I will!

- Barnabas, you - you can't.

- But I must try. - How?

- By going back there.

- Barnabas.

- By going back.

By, reliving those days when I first lived.

When this house was new.

- You can't.

- I will find the secret to time.

I will banish all those years between then and now.

And I will be with Vicki, at her side tonight!

♪♪

[eerie music] ♪♪

- Barnabas, you can't simply will yourself

back into the past.

- How do you know that?

- Because we're part of the time we live.

It's the only time that exists for us.

- Part of my life is - is being repeated right now.

This minute.

This house stands in another century as well as in this one.

My father walks into this room

calling for my servant, Ben.

I can almost see them, hear them.

- Barnabas.

- Over and over again, they play out their lives.

Only I escaped.

I can thank Angelique for that.

When I am back there,

I will know what happens in the next second,

in the next minute in the next hour.

- Barnabas, what good will it do to get back there?

You can't change history.

- Why not?

- Well, because,

Barnabas, Peter Bradford was hanged in .

He is in the grave in the old graveyard.

- But I can get back there before they are hanged.

Knowing what I do.

- That's insane.

- Is it?

No one else has tried it.

- No one else ever had the opportunity.

- Exactly.

I have.

- Barnabas, even - even if you got there what -

what assurance would you have

that you know what's going to happen.

Perhaps, everything will have to be lived out

the way it was.

- No. No.

- But you can't be sure.

Listen to me!

Talking about - about traveling back years

as if it were as easy as flying to Europe.

Barnabas, it's all a dream.

- I will not let it be.

- Barnabas, may I have the picture back now, please?

- Oh, I - I would like to keep it, David,

if you don't mind.

- Oh, but I just want to look at it again.

You see, I think that figure in the background is Vicki.

- How could it to be Vicki when she is gone?

Where did she really go, Barnabas?

- Well, she had to go away, as Mrs. Stoddard told you.

- But where?

- On a long, long trip.

Now, David, I will give this back to you tomorrow.

- You will? Will you bring it to Boston?

- David, Amy, come here.

I've come to a decision.

We're not going to Boston.

- But Barnabas, you promised we could.

- We are all packed and everything.

- So is Maggie Evans.

- I - I realize that and I dislike putting a thing off.

But unfortunately, nothing can be done about it.

Now, I will send you to Boston in the spring,

I promise.

- But we want to go now.

- Well, it would be very nice

if we could do what we wanted when we wanted.

- Grownups always do.

- It only seems that way, David.

- Well, if we really, truly aren't going to go,

then I guess we might as well go outside and play, David.

- Yes, that's a marvelous idea, Amy.

I will talk to Maggie

and we will think of something special

to do this evening.

Perhaps a movie. That will help you forget.

- Oh, okay.

But I'm not going to forget.

- I'd better go tell Maggie.

Barnabas, don't go back to the past.

Please.

Please!

- We aren't going! We aren't going!

- They never even guessed.

- Maybe, we should go tell Quentin now.

- Oh, he knows.

Barnabas said he would never take us away.

- I guess you're right.

Quentin - Quentin is always right.

- Now, we can go to the room and play the game all we want.

- And nobody can stop us.

Only I'm wondering about that picture.

- Quentin didn't do that, did he?

- You saw me develop it.

- Why did it have Ms. Winters?

- I don't know. It's scary.

- We'll tell Quentin. He'll explain it to us.

- Oh - no, not this, he won't.

- How do you know? - I just know.

No one could explain this.

- Don't be sad, David.

I like mysteries.

Even scary ones.

- Well, so do I except,

Quentin caused so many things to happen

just to stop Barnabas.

Why didn't he cause this one, too?

- What did you tell Maggie?

- Oh, just that the trip was off.

I think she was relieved, actually.

- Good.

- Where are you going, Barnabas?

- Julia, I don't find you particularly sympathetic

to all of this.

It would be better perhaps if you stayed out of it.

- What are you going to do?

- Professor Stokes sent and helped

Peter Bradford back to the past.

He must help me, too.

- I want to come with you.

Barnabas, if you should disappear,

someone must know about it.

- All right Julia. But we must hurry.

I have this feeling that Vicki has so little time.

If I am right, she will hang tonight.

- I know every grave in here.

- It must be funny having a graveyard

practically in your own backyard.

- You know, I like this here.

There is one grave that has the date on it.

- You like history, but I don't.

David, did you ever watch funerals here?

- No.

They don't bury people here anymore.

Not here.

Hey, look at that one.

He died during the w*r of .

- What do you mean they don't bury people here?

- Just what I said.

- Well, what's that?

It's a new grave.

- It couldn't be!

- Oh David, you just made all that up

about this cemetery not being used anymore.

- I did not.

- Peter Bradford. Who was he?

- I heard that name before.

I don't - I don't know where though.

I think Vicki said it once.

Only I don't remember who he was.

But whose grave could that be?

Whose?

♪♪

Who could be buried here?

Whoever it was would have to get my father's permission

or Barnabas' or somebody's.

- Isn't there even a caretaker?

- Yes.

But he is about as old as that gravestone.

- Well, let's find him and ask him.

- Oh, he won't know anything.

- Oh David, of course, he will.

- Oh, okay.

His house is in this direction, Amy.

- I don't like this.

It's too straightforward somehow.

Ghosts are seldom so precise.

- Professor, Vicki is not a ghost.

She left this century alive.

Professor, you must help me get me back to her tonight.

- Do you think I am, Mr. Collins,

some sort of travel agent for time?

- You had an herb which you gave Jeff Clark.

- Which only liberated the spirit of Peter Bradford.

- It did more than that.

- Mr. Collins, naturally, I have devoted a great deal

of thought to that rather amazing evening.

Now, I'm convinced that there actually is a Jeff Clark

roaming about this planet at this very moment.

His body was possessed by the spirit of Peter Bradford.

That spirit returned to his own time.

He returned the borrowed body

to wherever he took possession of it.

I know it is a rather complex explanation,

but I'm sure it's the true one.

- Professor, give me the herbs.

See what happens to me.

If you have no interest in saving Victoria Winters --

- I was very fond of her.

But I believe she left this world of her own free will.

- Yes, she, she is a romantic.

She thought everything would change, but she --

she never planned on -

on being trapped in her own history.

I know her well enough to know that.

But please Professor, give me the herbs.

- It would have no effect upon you.

- How do you know that?

- Because, I have taken it myself.

Mr. Collins, unless you are from another century,

the herb will produce only a mild depression.

- Suppose I am from another century?

- Then it is one of the best kept secrets in Collinsport,

isn't it?

♪♪

- But I don't understand.

If there is a caretaker, where is he?

- I don't know, Amy.

- Well, where are the men who dug the grave?

We didn't even see any shovels.

- Well, maybe, they just took them with them when they left.

- But you said yourself there weren't any tire marks

by the caretaker's house.

- So?

It doesn't mean anything.

They could have parked outside the gates.

- David, look!

What happened, David?

The grave is all filled in.

- Mr. Collins, I'm afraid there is nothing I can do.

Much as I hate to admit inadequacy in anything,

I must.

Peter Bradford was summoned back to his own time.

He heard those he knew calling to him.

- And Peter beckoned to Vicki to come back.

- Exactly.

Who is there in the past, Mr. Collins,

who wants you back there?

Oh, I know you believe Ms. Winters does,

but that somehow she's unable to appeal to you personally.

But who else is there?

- Peter, Peter Bradford.

- Oh, now, why would he want you there?

If he was convinced that I was coming back to help her --

- Oh, but Barnabas,

he would think that you were coming there to

bring her back here which is exactly what you want to do.

- That is unnecessary, Julia.

- Well, let's be - let's be utterly honest

about this mad dream.

- We are not going to bore Professor Stokes

with what is a private affair.

I'm sorry, Professor, that you were unable to help me.

But I must not be discouraged from what I must do.

- But we can't be at the wrong place, David.

The grave is right beside Peter Bradford's tombstone.

Remember? - Yes.

- David, maybe Quentin did it.

- Oh, no.

- It's just like one of his games.

- You know Quentin is not strong enough to leave his room.

He would have just asked us to do it.

Well, I'm just going to pretend we imagine the whole thing.

- You can't do that.

- Well, then what can we do?

- I think we should go find Barnabas.

- Barnabas, I'm - I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have said what I did about your motives.

- Actually, I -- I should thank you.

If I am to get Bradford to come for me,

I must convince him that I am as concerned

about his happiness as well as Vicki's.

- Well, are you?

- Barnabas!

Barnabas!

- David, wait!

It was open, and now, it's filled in!

- What?

What are you talking about?

- There was an open grave in - in Eagle Hill Cemetery.

- Oh, that is impossible.

- It was there.

- Where in Eagle Hill Cemetery?

- Right next to the grave marked Peter Bradford.

- You say, the second time,

the freshly dug grave was completely filled in.

- What are you going to do, Barnabas?

- I'm not sure.

But I know one thing I'm going to do.

And one thing you're going to do.

You are going to go and find Mrs. Johnson

and wash your hands and have your dinner.

- Are you going to the graveyard?

- Can we go with you?

- Now, children, you heard what Barnabas said.

- Barnabas?

Will you wait for us?

- We want to see what's happened now.

- Nothing has happened. Now, go on.

You don't believe that?

- Perhaps, those children have a kind of second sight.

- Oh, Barnabas.

- Well, if Vicki were here to be hung tonight,

her grave would be dug this day.

- It happened nearly years ago.

I'm sorry, I keep saying that.

But where you see second sight,

I see overactive imaginations.

- Well, I'm going to the cemetery.

- Barnabas!

- Will you come with me or not?

- Of course, I will.

- But I must warn you.

You may be coming back here alone.

- I knew he'd go.

- David, what did he mean when he said

that she might come back alone?

- Barnabas knows a lot of things

that he doesn't tell anybody.

We shall just have to watch him.

♪♪

- I know where his grave is. Vicki took me there.

- Oh here, here it is.

Look, there is no sign of freshly dug earth.

The earth hasn't changed in a long time.

- Oh, I believe these children.

It was another sign -

a sign that I must get back to her.

Peter Bradford, she needs my help.

I know you will come back for me.

Will you let me save you both?

- Barnabas, what -- what good does this do?

We can do nothing.

It's up to them to come for you.

Now, come, let's go back to the house.

- Yes, you're right.

It's up to them.

Perhaps, if I - I went for -- - No. No, Barnabas.

- Wait.

- What is it, Barnabas?

- I don't know.

Julia, this gravestone wasn't here before.

- "Victoria Winters."

- "Hanged as a witch in ."

♪♪

[eerie music] ♪♪