746 - May 4, 1969

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[ eerie music ]

NARRATOR:The great estate of Collinwood

in the year ,

when Barnabas Collins finds himself

on a mission to save the life of a child in the present.

But this day, the first rays of the sun

have forced him back to his coffin

in the basement of the old house on the estate,

while a mad women escaping

from her locked room

opens a door which

no one should open.

[ dramatic music ]

[ gasps ]

Oh Quentin, they've k*lled you.

Quentin.

[ crying ]

[ hinges creaking ]

Barnabas?

[ dramatic music ]

[ eeire music ]

Jenny?

Jenny, please!

I only want to help you.

If you're hiding, come out Jenny,

I will make it all right.

Jenny, I swear it will be all right,

Sandor and I, we just want to take care of you.

Jenny!

Jenny, my poor frightened Jenny,

where are you now?

Hiding like a mad animal somewhere.

What have they done to you, Jenny?

The loveliest of us all once,

the gayest, the gentlest.

Oh my sister,

how can I help you now?

She must have opened that door,

it could only have been her.

Did she see the coffin?

Did she open it?

Is he all right?

[ hinges creaking ]

[ crying ]

Jenny, Jenny, my darling sister.

Quentin, oh my Quentin.

No, no, you have only me,

Magda and Sandor now.

We must find him, he is searching the woods, come on.

No, no, Quentin.

[ whimpering ]

Come.

Barnabas.

You opened it?

Barnabas is dead.

[ laughing ]

Not Quentin, Barnabas.

Jenny.

I shouldn't have laughed, but I was so afraid

that it was Quentin.

When I see him and tell him.

No, you must not tell him.

Oh, but I must, it will prove how much I love him.

I--I will tell him how I felt

when I saw that coffin,

how my heart stopped beating for an instant.

No, Jenny, no, you tell nobody.

I must!

He told me that if I loved him enough,

everything would be all right.

MAGDA: That was long ago.

Long ago?

I have not known Quentin long.

Why did you and that gypsy follow me to Collinwood?

Why?

Jenny, Jenny, listen to me, you got

to promise that you don't tell nobody about this.

It will be our secret.

No, I don't want to have a secret with you.

Oh, we always had secrets, Jenny,

now we have one more.

You tell nobody about this coffin, Jenny.

But he's dead, everybody will find out.

When one is dead, there is a funeral, I know that.

There won't be no funeral.

But there must be!

Jenny, he is not dead.

Now listen to me, Jenny,

you got to understand,

you got to promise not to tell nobody.

If you tell one person, you will die,

I will die, Sandor will die.

JENNY: But he's dead.

He cannot hurt you.

Remember what I have said, Jenny.

Do not tell nobody what you have seen,

do you understand?

Jenny, you know I only want to help you, don't you?

When you married Quentin Collins,

I did not stop you,

I persuaded Sandor not to tell anyone that

you were one of us.

When I saw you on the street,

I did not speak.

My own sister!

Jenny, I did it for you, to help you,

and now I got to help you different.

You got to promise you won't tell no one.

You will not speak to me now in front of

Judith and Edward, if I promise?

No, no, I won't.

And you will not insult Quentin anymore, if I promise?

No, of course not.

And you will let me leave with Quentin when

he comes back for me?

I will do what is best for you.

Then I have never been

in this room, never.

But uh...

You cannot keep the secret of death

any more than of life.

Come, let me take you upstairs, come.

Barnabas is dead.

He locked me in a room

and then he died.

He died.

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You are back.

I couldn't stay away.

You and your house fascinate me, Magda.

Just walking in the door, one begins to sense secrets.

Yes, I know one.

I'm sure you know more than one.

But I know one important one,

what you did to her!

Oh, so you found out about the secret of the locked room.

I knew you would.

Well, shall we keep on with this together, Magda?

Judith expects a visit from you.

Blackmail.

She will pay for no one to know our little secret.

Shall I tell you how much?

[ groans ]

You think I would sell her?

Let go of me,

this is the way she lived her life, wasn't it?

You are why she is like she is.

Oh, you with your fancy name and your fancy manners.

Oh, and your money.

You turned her into that poor, crazy--

- Where are you going? - To her room.

No.

You haven't the strength to stop me, Magda.

But I have the power, Quentin,

I have the power.

Do you recognize that?

If you go near her,

if you do one more thing to her Quentin,

then you will be cursed.

Cursed!

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Why are you so upset?

Really, Magda, it's not like you.

Now you are seeing me as I really am, for the first time.

Really?

All because of some woman

you've never spoken to in your life.

So, I've never spoken to her, how well she kept our secret.

Secret, what nonsense are you talking about?

You're a very stupid man, Quentin,

you think you know everything about her.

Too much, I should say.

Where was she born?

- New York. - Where did she grow up?

Some village in Virginia.

She grew up in many villages,

she was born in a caravan.

I am her sister.

You're lying.

Now you know why I hate you so much.

You can't be.

She knew you, she was not fooled by you,

she knew you would never marry a gypsy girl.

That's right, that's why

she did it, now she is broken,

torn, and you are responsible.

You did it to her, I will never let you forget it, Quentin.

Never!

What are you going to do, k*ll me, Magda?

k*lling would be too kind.

All my life, I have waited

because I have been prepared to meet an enemy,

at last I have met you.

I know what to do.

Stay away from her, Quentin,

you have seen her for the last time!

If you could only guarantee that.

Get out.

What are you going to do, Magda?

You don't need to know.

Go back, like a good child you are,

go back to your family,

tell my newly discovered in-laws

what you have discovered about us

and then listen to their advice, but do nothing, Quentin,

because you will not be able to fight me.

Now get out.

Jenny should have told me, you know?

It would have made her much more interesting.

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Quentin, Quentin!

Quentin, I'm here, Quentin!

No, no, come back, come back!

I'm here, I'm not dead, he is!

Quentin, come back!

No, Quentin!

MAGDA: Jenny, Jenny, be quiet.

You got in the way, you did!

You told him I was dead!

You made him go away!

I hate you, I hate you!

Jenny, get away from the door.

I hate you.

All I want to do is see him.

He will see you, he will be back,

he will come back, Jenny.

- He will? - Yes, Jenny.

Then I can tell him.

Yes, you can tell him anything you want, then.

There's so much he doesn't know, he couldn't know.

I must tell him myself, yes,

before anybody else does.

Then he will love me,

yes he will, he must,

I know.

Magda?

Sandor?

I am here.

Did you find her?

Yes, I found her.

Is she still up there?

- Yes. - Good.

They wanted to take her away, but I wouldn't let them.

- Good. - Where are you going?

I want to have a talk with her and ask her many questions

I don't want to be disturbed when I'm with her.

Do you understand that?

Yes.

And say I'm out, I'm sure someone

from Collinwood will be here.

You told them that I would be back, didn't you?

Yes.

Then I must hurry.

No, I want to talk to you for a moment.

- This is no time to talk. - It is very important,

that you listen to me,

that you listen to me very seriously.

Please, all I want to do is ask one thing.

What is it?

You must release Sandor

from whatever spell you have him under.

This is no time to talk of Sandor.

It is, it is important,

we must take my sister away from here.

Your sister?

Jenny.

If she stays here, Quentin will k*ll her,

we can take care of her.

I cannot let you go.

You must!

You know why I'm here in this century.

There are two lives that I must save,

two lives that live

years in the future.

Yes, but my sister has nothing to do with that.

She has.

Now, perhaps the time she ran away to this house,

I was not here.

The house was empty except for you,

but I have changed that,

I locked her in her room.

You wouldn't have even known that she was in Collinwood

if it hadn't been for that.

The story must be played out as it did originally,

or I will never be able to save either David or Chris.

Names, names, you talk about their names,

talk to me about Sandor, about Jenny.

I will not let you go.

I will not let you sacrifice her!

If you do one thing to interfere,

there will be a sacrifice, and it will be you.

I want to be in the room when you question her.

No, she and I must be left alone together.

Magda, I will do everything I can to help her.

It will be the first time you have ever done that.

[ knock on the door ]

It cannot be Quentin, he has been here twice.

It must be Judith.

Her majesty, herself.

Oh, it is you, Miss Collins. You have come to talk to me

about my sister, I am sure.

It is nice to see you on equal terms now,

or didn't Quentin tell you the truth?

Barnabas, I want to see you alone.

You could have said that yesterday.

I can say it now.

It will do you no good.

You were being cruel to my sister, you had her in prison.

I did so because she was mad,

because I felt pity for her, because I thought my brother

contributed towards it.

And he did.

JUDITH: No, since learning that she is your sister,

I'm inclined to think that

there is already madness in her background.

Magda, leave us.

Your sister needs you.

All right, I leave you two to talk

while I take care of my sister.

How shaming it is.

You arrived just a short time ago knowing nothing about us,

and now you know nothing but the worst.

My dear cousin, I am not here to make judgments,

I am only trying to help as I can.

Then why did you keep her here?

Why didn't you send her back to us?

Well, at the time, I didn't know the story.

I was trying to figure out what to do,

what kind of a decision to make about it,

but then I was called away.

Judith,

I'm very concerned for this poor,

unhappy woman and her children.

Children?

There are no children.

Well, she talks of them.

She is mad.

What are we going to do?

It isn't so much what you and Edward are going to do,

It's what Jenny is going to do.

She would k*ll us all,

I'm afraid we must face the public scandal.

She must be sent to an institution this night.

I hear his voice.

MAGDA: No, no.

I was a gypsy once, do you know that?

No, no one knows it.

Do you know how much I hated it?

Living in caravans,

nobody liking me,

people crossing the streets when they saw us coming.

They save their money that way.

I was a gypsy once.

You still are one of us.

Are you writing a note to Quentin?

No, to Sandor to tell him to meet us.

Where are we going?

It is spring, the caravans will meet now

to spend the summer together.

We will go there and join them.

Our family will take care of us

until Sandor comes. You will like it this time,

I promise you, you will, I swear it.

We'll be able to do whatever we want, we will be free.

I don't know why you won't agree to let

Jenny stay here for awhile.

I couldn't.

But, with Magda here to help her,

she might improve immeasurably.

My dear cousin, you're an incredible optimist

but we can't bother you.

There's no reason for you to try to right

my brother's mistake.

But I'm interested in the girl.

I can't imagine why.

I'm sorry, but it's

out of the question for Jenny to stay here.

Judith, when I was living in England,

there was several of my friends who

were doing the most amazing experiments

in treating the mentally ill.

But perhaps we can do something to help Jenny.

No, no!

Jenny, you must be in your room.

- Where's Magda? - No, don't come near me!

You're dead, you're dead!

JUDITH: What are you talking about?

The coffin, you were there,

you were there in the coffin!

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