675 - January 23, 1969

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[Julia narrating] - The sun shines fair over Collinwood

and the great estate seems calm.

But the calmness is deceptive

for a lifeless body has been found on its grounds.

The body of an unknown woman

now lies in the Collinsport morgue

shut out from this bright day

because she made the mistake of being in the woods

at the rise of the full moon.

- I'm sorry to put you through this trouble Ms. Stoddard,

but the workmen found the body in the woods near Collinwood.

- I understand, Sheriff.

- There is no identification on her,

but the label in her skirt came from a store in Bangor.

- Bangor?

I - I had a friend from Bangor visiting me yesterday.

- Well, a lot of people from around here

do their shopping in Bangor.

- Donna left just before dark.

- Was she alone?

- No, no. It couldn't be her.

- Are you ready to see the body, Ms. Stoddard?

- Donna!

Donna...

What happened to her?

I can't believe it. She - she left with Chris.

- Who is Chris, Ms. Stoddard?

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- It - it could have been the same animal

that attacked me.

I'm sorry, Sheriff.

- It's quite all right now, Ms. Stoddard.

It's a great shock I'm sure.

- Yes.

Oh, yes.

Thank you.

You want to know all about her, of course.

She knew no one in Collinsport except for me.

She, it was the first time she had ever been here.

She lived with an aunt in the city.

I suppose I should call.

- Well, you can do that later, Ms. Stoddard.

Tell me, how well did you know, Ms. Friedlander?

- I hadn't known her long. We - we met through friends.

She was interested in seeing Collinwood.

She - she was studying to be an interior decorator.

- And who is this Chris she left your house with.

- Chris Jennings.

- Tom's brother?

- Yes.

He lives in a cottage on the estate.

He has for several weeks.

He was driving to Bangor for the evening

and she asked him if she could go with him.

- Did you see the car pull away?

- No.

No, Chris had parked at the gate.

He always does.

- Have you seen him today?

- No.

But I - I saw the car there.

I saw it on the way here.

I just assumed that Chris had gotten in very late.

I'm sure he did, Sheriff.

- Well, we know your friend never got to Bangor

and we have to find out whether Chris Jennings did.

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[thinking] - Oh!

Why don't I remember?

Coming back here,

always knowing I'll find signs that last night --

that last night was no different from the night before!

That girl!

Donna!

[knocking on door]

Who is it?

- Carolyn.

- Come in.

- I tried to phone you, but your line was busy.

- Yeah, something is wrong with the phone.

What is it, Carolyn?

- Donna is dead!

Chris, what happened?

[knocking on door]

That's the police.

I had to come and warn you.

- Mr. Jennings? - Yeah.

- I'm Sheriff Patterson.

- Yeah, what is it?

- I'd like to ask you some questions.

- Well, uh -- - Now.

- Yeah, come on in.

- Well, Ms. Stoddard?

- I just stopped by to tell Chris.

There's nothing ill*gal about that, is there, Sheriff?

- No, there isn't, Ms. Stoddard.

Were you planning to stay for the questioning?

- No. Carolyn, you're go on up to Collinwood now.

- All right, Chris.

- Well, I don't know what Miss Stoddard has told you.

- That her friend is dead.

- Is that all?

Obviously, you didn't drive Ms. Friedlander to Bangor.

- No. No, I didn't.

- Why not?

- Well, I was going to, you know, I intended to.

Then, I got this headache.

I get them, migraines

and I told her just to take my car on,

I gave for my keys,

told her to leave the car at the bus station in Collinsport

and that she should bring me the keys later.

I'd get the car this morning.

She should leave the keys in the car.

- Your car is down at the gate.

Did you pick the car up at the station this morning?

- No, I didn't.

- So, she didn't take it.

- Well, now, she was supposed to.

I assumed she would.

If you say that the car isn't there,

I guess - I guess it isn't.

- Do you live here alone?

- Yes, I do.

- Did you bring that girl here last night

when you had your migraine?

- Why would I do that?

- You tell me.

- No, I didn't.

As far as I know,

she didn't even know where this cottage is.

I - I left her at Collinwood.

- How did you spend last evening?

- I told you, I wasn't feeling well.

- Did you call a doctor?

- No, I didn't.

- Did you see anyone? - No.

- So, you spent the whole night here alone.

- Yes.

- Did you hear anything unusual?

- No.

- You know, I'd -

I'd kind of like to see the rest of your house,

if you don't mind.

Have you got a search warrant?

- No, no I haven't.

But if you've got nothing to hide,

what difference does that make?

- You have to have a warrant, don't you?

You know that.

- All right, I'll go back to town and get one.

You'd better come with me.

- Well, I don't know why. I told you --

- Because there's something here that doesn't make any sense.

That girl was k*lled nearer to this house

than any other house on the estate,

in the woods between here and the main house.

Judging from the appearance of the body,

she put up quite a fight.

Yet, you say you didn't hear anything.

- That's right. I didn't.

- Maybe, you'll remember better in town.

Will you drive your own car or ride with me?

- I don't have my keys. You know that.

- Oh, yes, yes. I had forgotten.

You gave your keys to the girl.

Are you ready, Mr. Jennings?

- Yeah, I'm ready.

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- Frightful.

- I feel so responsible.

- Yes.

- Barnabas, if we hadn't let him take her with him.

Do you think we could have stopped it?

- I don't think so.

I have the feeling that wherever they left

or wherever they went to last night

was Donna's fault.

She must have --

she must have delayed him until the moon was up.

And then, he couldn't help it.

The werewolf does not choose his victims.

- They've taken Chris to the police station.

Sheriff Patterson is making a terrible mistake.

Chris had nothing to do with Donna.

- Are you so positive?

- Julia! Of course, I am.

- Carolyn, where was Chris last night?

- I don't know.

But if he didn't go to Bangor,

he must have spent the evening at home.

He usually does.

He very rarely goes out at night.

You know that.

- Carolyn, Chris was not home last night.

- No, Barnabas and I went to his cottage.

- Why?

Why did you go there?

- We saw that the car was still there.

- And we were worried that something had happened to him.

- When I - when I invited him to dinner,

he was quite insistent about having to go to Bangor.

- You both think Chris is involved, don't you?

- We don't know.

- Well, I do! He is not!

- Carolyn, you are very interested in

Chris Jennings, aren't you?

- What does that have to do with this?

- I simply want to know.

- Why Barnabas?

Are you so afraid that I'll disgrace the family because I --

because I like a man who is being questioned by the police?

- Of course not.

I was merely wondering how much you like him.

I see it's quite a lot.

- If the two of you know something I don't,

I wish you would tell me

because I do like Chris enough,

enough that it's terribly important to me

that I know everything about him.

- I see.

- We don't know any more than you do, Carolyn.

- Then you should want to protect him as much as I do.

I'm going to call our lawyer.

Mr. Garner will know if the Sheriff has any right

to take Chris.

Perhaps, he will even come up here.

- Barnabas, what are we going to do?

That poor girl!

- Well, we can't worry about her.

We must go to Chris' cottage.

- Now? Why?

- Well, if the police are really suspicious of him,

they are going to send somebody over to search the house.

- Yes.

- Well, I want to be there first, that's all.

- The police took him about a half hour of ago, Mr. Garner.

There must be something you can do.

- We will be back, Carolyn.

- No.

No, I - I don't think they are charging him.

They can't! He's innocent!

I'm just afraid that Chris may not know his rights.

I wouldn't in the same situation.

They may get him to say, well, anything.

Will you call the Sheriff's Office?

Tell them you spoke with me.

If you can speak with Chris and he wants to see you,

will you go there?

Thank you. You are very kind.

Please call me back.

Yes, goodbye.

- I don't know why we are here.

- Well, we haven't very much time

and I don't want to spend any of it explaining anything.

- What are you looking for, Barnabas?

At least tell me that. - A sign Julia, a sign.

- Of what? - Guilt.

If I am correct, he probably wouldn't have had time

to dispose of anything incriminating.

I imagine that the clothes he was wearing last night

are still here.

You look around the living room.

- Barnabas?

- This shirt is bloodied.

- Donna's purse.

- Then I was right.

How sorry I feel.

- We must take these things to the Sheriff right away.

- Wait.

- What for?

Barnabas --

- Are you aware, Julia,

that there will be another full moon tonight?

- And he will change wherever they're questioning him.

- Yes.

- We - we must go and warn them.

- But I haven't finished, Julia.

I haven't decided what to do yet.

There are so many possibilities.

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- So, you may have left your house last night.

- I don't know.

- But you said before you didn't leave.

- I can't think right now.

- Well, you shouldn't have told me you were watching television

until you had the programs straight.

- Sheriff, I was sick last night.

I was sick.

I may have gone out, I was not myself.

- I'm beginning to get that impression.

You - you weren't drinking, too, were you?

- I may have a drink, why?

- Just covering all the possibilities, that's all.

Look, I'll tell you what,

suppose I leave you here for a while.

- What do you mean? Am I under arrest?

- Now, don't go jumping to conclusions.

I've got some paperwork I should be doing.

You can use the time to try to remember.

And this time, make it a story

I can't punch holes in, will you?

Call me when you're ready.

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- Hey, Sheriff! Sheriff, what time is it?

- Did you lose your watch last night, too?

- Just tell me the time. - About :.

You've got plenty of time.

[thinking] - I've got to get out of here.

I've got to get out of here fast!

- Julia, the police may arrive here any moment.

- Barnabas, you cannot do what you're planning to do.

It's madness!

- Well, we will discuss it on the way back to Collinwood.

- Barnabas, at least listen to me

and hear my point of view.

- Julia, I respect your opinion,

but this time, I must follow my own intuition

and no one must stop me. Now, come quickly.

[thinking] - How much time has passed?

How much time do I have?

Give up!

Just get it over with!

Go to the door, call him in here and tell him.

Tell him what happened last night.

Tell him what's going to happen again tonight!

Sheriff!

Sheriff, I remember now! I remember the whole thing!

Sheriff!

- Yes - yes, I see, Mr. Collins.

- I can tell you now.

- Well, I'm glad you called.

Yes. - Sheriff!

- Thank you very much, Mr. Collins.

- Sheriff!

I know the whole story.

I remember it. You know?

I remember.

I remember.

- Well, do you, now?

- Yeah, I don't know why I didn't think of it before.

- You know you shouldn't be embarrassed

about having too much to drink.

A lot of people black out when they've been drinking.

You know, you're lucky.

You're lucky you were with Barnabas Collins.

He is about the best alibi you could have in this town.

Well, goodbye, Mr. Jennings.

I'm sorry to cause you so much trouble.

- You mean I can go now?

- Thank Mr. Collins.

He told me you stayed all night at his place.

Look, next time,

drink a lot of milk before an evening like that.

It lines the stomach.

It works. I can tell you.

- Yeah, sure. Thanks.

- I purposely didn't turn on the light.

Good evening, Chris. - Mr. Collins.

I don't know why you did what you did.

- I don't imagine you do.

[clock chiming] - But I'm grateful for it.

I want you to know I appreciate that but,

listen, I'd like to be alone right now.

I mean, I can't - I can't stop to talk about anything.

- No, we don't have much time to talk, do we?

- No.

We'll talk tomorrow.

Barnabas, you've got to get out of here!

- When I leave Chris, you will leave with me.

- Look, you did me a favor.

I appreciate, OK? A big favor.

I don't know why.

- Because I know you, Chris, are innocent.

- Well, thanks.

That's fine but, still, I've got to be alone.

You don't understand.

- Yes, I do.

I do understand.

The most important thing about you.

- I don't understand. What are you talking about?

- That you are innocent.

- I'm innocent.

Barnabas, tell me, what do you mean?

- I know that you are not only Chris Jennings.

I know that you are the werewolf.

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