664 - January 8, 1969

[bunniefuu]

[Ben narrating] - Night at Collinwood,

but this is not Collinwood as it exists in the present.

It is the Collinwood of .

For Barnabas Collins has been drawn back into the past.

Forces from beyond the grave have brought him here

to save the life of Victoria Winters.

Today, he will succeed or fail.

In returning to the past, he has had to pay a penalty,

he has become what he was and as a consequence,

he must endure wave upon wave of terror.

Terror that will seemingly never end.

- Ben!

Ben!

- Aye.

- Ben.

- What is it Mr. Barnabas?

- It's the girl.

- Girl?

- Come with me.

- What happened? - I don't know.

I don't understand it.

- What are you talking about, Mr. Barnabas?

What girl?

- The one on the docks. You saw her.

- Then you attacked her?

- I couldn't help myself.

- Where are we going?

- To the study. - Why?

- She is there.

- Your father's study? You took her in there?

- No!

- Then?

- I found her there!

- How - how did she get in there?

I didn't see nobody come in.

- I don't know.

- Mr. Barnabas, your father was right.

This has got to end no matter what happens to you.

Mr. Barnabas, is she all right?

- I don't understand.

I don't know what's going to happen!

- Is she all right?

- No.

She's dead!

- Oh, my God!

- We've got to dispose of the body.

Will you help me?

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- Angelique!

- You!

- Hello, Barnabas, Ben.

So, we all meet again.

- I knew you wouldn't just vanish.

I knew it wouldn't be so easy.

That you would come back someday.

- Ben, would you leave us alone?

I'd like to speak to Barnabas.

- Leave us, Ben.

So, it was you.

- Who allowed you to view one of your victims?

Yes.

- Why?

- To show you that I still have all of my powers.

That's something I wanted you to know.

- How did you return to this time?

- I must remain in this century now.

As a punishment for the mistakes I made in the past.

Mistakes that I will never make again.

- How did you find out about me?

- You mean about your return to this century?

Oh, never mind. I found out.

I also know why you returned.

- Do you?

- Yes. You came to save your

precious Victoria Winters from hanging.

- I suppose you are here to stop it.

- No, Barnabas, I am here to help you.

- Help me!?

- Yes.

I have the power to save Victoria Winters.

- So, why would you want to save her life?

You hate her!

- True.

I never was very fond of Vicky.

- Then how did you ever stop to think about it?

- Because I will do it,

if you will make a bargain with me.

- A bargain?

- I am forced to remain in this century.

I am consigned to this time forever

and I want you to stay here with me.

- Stay? - Yes,

and never make any attempt to return

to the century from, which you came.

- But why do you want me to stay?

- Isn't that obvious?

So that we can be together!

- After all that has happened, you still want me.

- I am your wife.

Husbands and wives should be together.

- And you know I can't even pretend to love you.

- I don't ask that you pretend anything.

I only ask that you stay here with me.

- If I stayed in this time I would remain as I am.

- Yes.

That would be quite a sacrifice.

Are you willing to make it for your precious Miss Winters?

- Can I trust you?

- Can you save Victoria Winters alone?

- No.

- Then, you have no choice.

You must trust me.

- Perhaps.

- Will stay with me here... forever?

- Forever?

- I'm waiting for your answer.

- You know what it is.

- Say it! - Yes!

- You made a wise decision, Barnabas.

One that you should have made many years ago

when we first met.

- How are you going to save Victoria Winters?

What is your plan?

- It's simple really.

Very simple.

- What time is it?

- Look, stop thinking about the time.

- It would be midnight soon.

Very soon.

They'll will be coming for me.

- Vicky, it's not going to happen.

- It will!

And we can't stop it. We can't!

- Mr. Barnabas! - Yes.

- Is she gone? - Yes.

- Where are you going?

- I have a few things to do

and I have need of time to do them in.

- I overheard some of the things she said to you.

- Did you?

- If you want to know what I think,

I think you're a fool to trust her!

- I might be.

- She don't want to help Miss Winters.

She never did nothing good.

She never did nothing, but evil in her whole life!

- I know her better than you do.

- Then why did you agree to her bargain

knowing that she probably don't mean a word of it?

- What else could I do?

I can't save Vicky myself.

If there is one chance,

one chance in a million, that -

that I can save her and that I can believe what she says

then I must accept her offer.

- All right Mr. Barnabas,

but you're taking a mighty big risk.

- I realize that.

But I must take that risk.

If I don't save Victoria Winters,

then, I don't know what will happen.

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- It's all so ironic.

- What do you mean ironic?

- I can't expect you to understand because -

because I don't understand it myself,

but somehow I managed to return

to the same period in time as before

and I am reliving it again.

And it's going to happen Peter and we can't stop it!

- Vicky, I don't know what you're talking about,

but just listen to me for a minute.

Now, Barnabas Collins found a way to free me

and he will find a way to free you.

- How can he now? - Look, I don't know.

But you've got to keep thinking that it's going to happen.

- Oh, Peter, I'm trying to.

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- Before, when this happened,

I managed to escape. - What?

- Oh, that was because there was someone else

to take my place.

Now there is no one.

No one!

- Vicky, you say so many things that I can't understand.

- I know, don't listen to me.

- Don't say anything else, okay?

- Okay. - Just let me hold you.

- Peter!

- Don't say anything.

I love you, Vicky.

- Barnabas!

- Where have you been?

- I have no time to explain.

Just listen to me and listen to me carefully.

There's a way of saving your life. - How?

- Just listen to me and follow my instructions.

- All right.

- Go to the gallows. - Barnabas --

- You'll be safe if you do everything I tell you to do.

- All right.

- Now -- - But what do you want me to do?

- First of all, the hangman will give you a mask.

Refuse it.

- But I -- - Don't ask questions.

Now, secondly,

you mustn't panic or ask or be afraid or ask questions.

Because something unexpected may happen

and you mustn't panic.

Do you understand?

- Yes.

- Now, good.

If you do everything I tell you to do,

no harm will come to you.

Do you trust me?

- Yes, I trust you.

[gates clinking]

It's time?

- Remember what I told you.

Remember every word. - I will.

- And remember that I love you.

- You must come with me now.

Remember Vicky, remember that I love you.

And no matter what happens I'll find you,

I'll find you, just remember that.

I love you and I'll find you --

- There's nothing you can do, only I can help her.

- I'll find you, Vicky.

You expect me to believe you now?

Look, you had Forbes confession before.

But you don't have it now.

She is on her way to the gallows.

There is no more time.

- I meant everything I said in there.

- Oh, all right.

All right, if you're going to save her tell me how.

Tell me how, now! Please.

- Angelique will save her.

- Angelique?

- She will be there when we get to the courtyard.

As soon as Vicky is on the gallows,

Angelique will put her under a spell.

Before the noose is placed around her neck,

Vicky will fall to the ground and appear to be dead.

Then we will take her back to Collinwood

and Angelique will release her from the spell.

- No! No, this is insanity!

- It's the only chance we have of saving her!

- But Angelique is the witch, don't you understand!?

She has been persecuting her all along.

Why would she want to save her now, Barnabas?

- I don't know, but she has agreed to it.

- But why? Why now?

- Please, don't ask any more questions.

Look, you'll have to trust me.

[distant drums beating]

- The drums.

- They'll be taking her to the courtyard soon.

Come.

[drums continue]

- Where is Angelique? - I don't know.

- You said she'd be here.

- She promised to be here. - Well, then where is she?

- Stop it, Bradford, she'll be here.

Angelique!

Where are you Angelique?

Where are you?

- I'm not going to let this happen.

- She must be appear. She must.

Angelique! Angelique!

- No. No! No!

Vicky!

Vicky!

Vicky, I love you and I'll find you.

- Angelique!

Angelique!

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- She's dead.

May God have mercy on her soul.

- No one is going to take her away from me.

I'm going to keep her with me.

- You have the right to claim the body,

dispose of her as you will.

- Vicky, dead --

- You failed me and I trusted you.

- I'm willing to take the responsibility.

- I should have taken the matters into my own hands.

- It's too late to think of what might have been.

- Yes.

Yes, I guess it is.

- We'll take her back to Collinwood.

- I'm staying with her.

- I was afraid this would happen.

You never should have trusted the witch.

She planned it this way.

It had to happen.

- Vicky, I did everything I could to save you.

I failed.

I failed.

- What about the witch?

- She is coming here tomorrow.

- Here?

- At sunset.

She expects me to go away with her.

- What are you going to do?

- I'll tell you later.

But we'd better go and find Bradford

to see what's happened to him.

- Victoria Winters.

You are in my power now

and I will never release you from my spell.

For, if you should live, Barnabas would love you

and he will never have the woman he loves!

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[eerie music] ♪♪