826 - August 24, 1969

[bunniefuu]

[ mysterious music ]

NARRATOR:The walls of Collinwood

are thick and high,

but they have not kept Magda Rakosi

safe from Gypsy vengeance.

Now Magda is a prisoner hoping desperately for freedom.

Before the night is out, she will learn that freedom

can be far more terrifying than her chains.

Let me go, Gypsy.

Have pity on me.

Your brothers took away your tongue.

Don't you hate them for that?

Oh, if you untie me, I will hide you.

I got friends they will take you

anywhere you want to go.

You'll be safe, I promise.

[ muffled talking ]

[ laughing ]

JOHNNY: Did you really think you could get away

from King Johnny?

[ theme music playing ]

Untie her, Istvan.

Why'd you bring me here?

This is where the trouble started,

ain't it?

This is where you found Barnabas Collins.

Barnabas Collins, how do you know?

You'd be surprised at what King Johnny knows.

All there is to know about a lion, a ring,

a door, where that door leads.

Who told you?

Sandor.

I bet you tortured him a lot to make him tell you that, huh?

Your Sandor was a nice fellow.

I hated to see him die.

MAGDA: You k*lled him.

You made me do it.

You made me put a knife in his back

when you stole the hand.

[ door opens ]

Here, this is where it all started,

opening a door you should have left closed.

And this is where it is going to end.

You're gonna go on trial, Magda, right now.

Here?

But I thought you was gonna take me to Boston.

JOHNNY: You thought wrong.

But where's the jury? Nobody else is here.

There is your foreman.

I'm gonna be the prosecutor and I'm gonna be the judge.

That ain't fair.

Open the door, Magda.

Open the door, Magda, and see what you find this time.

[ door creaking ]

But where's the jury?

They will be here in time.

But, you remember Andras the Gypsy

who strangled his wife years ago?

And you know about Marco who k*lled his brother.

They are your jury.

But they're dead.

Yeah, they're dead.

The whole jury, Andras and Marco

and three others just like them.

Murderers all, they're what you deserve.

They're what you're gonna get.

Black as the night, as death, as the wings of the raven,

shape of the bat.

Cat that howls in the night, black as the depths of hell

where your souls are condemned

to pain and punishment forever.

Let these candles light your way back to earth.

Andras!

Marco!

Stephan!

Faregor!

Sergio!

Murderers all, and all of them condemned to death

by our people.

Take your place, Istvan, the trial is gonna begin.

Gentlemen of the jury, meet one of your own.

A thief, she stole the hand of Count Petofi.

Our most precious possession to use on a gadjo, an outsider.

No, it wasn't just for Quentin, Johnny,

it was for Jenny's baby.

Silence!

I'm talking now, not you.

She stole my hand, charge one.

Charge two, she m*rder*d Julianka.

I didn't, I didn't.

Julianka was no ordinary Gypsy.

She had the power, she had the touch,

she had the sight to see into people.

And Magda Rakosi did not respect these gifts

and she went ahead and m*rder*d her.

No, no, I didn't.

I didn't, you got to believe me.

She left her tribe alive and now she dead, ain't she?

Yeah, but I didn't k*ll her.

I say you did.

And the jury here is going to decide

which of us is telling the truth.

k*lling Julianka was bad enough,

but when Magda Rakosi k*lled the infant,

you'd think anyone would have mercy on a helpless infant.

I swear, Johnny, when Julianka,

when she put the curse on me,

that everybody I love would die,

I did everything I could,

I tried every way to keep those babies alive.

Liar!

One more charge, when I come looking for the hand,

she tried to fool me with a false hand.

She tried to pull the bajour on me, on me!

No, I didn't.

Alright, now the case is closed.

How are you going to vote?

I don't even, you can't close the case yet.

There's got to be somebody to tell my side of it.

JOHNNY: You want a witness?

Who?

Well, Barnabas Collins who sent me to Boston.

You can't have nobody who ain't a Gypsy

at a Gypsy trial, remember?

But there ain't no Gypsies that can testify for me.

Sandor, Jenny, they're dead.

JOHNNY: And if they wasn't, which one would you call?

My beloved Sandor.

You trust your life to him?

MAGDA: I trust my life to Sandor.

Maybe you will have your chance.

Istvan, bring me the lantern.

Put out all the lights.

The ring of light will penetrate the darkness.

The warmth of light will drive away the chill of death.

And when this ring of light has completed its journey,

you, Sandor Rakosi, will make yourself visible to me.

I order it.

Sandor, my Sandor.

JOHNNY: Let go of her, Istvan, light the candles.

Sandor, Sandor, tell me, is it all right for you?

JOHNNY: Raise your hand.

Swear on the graves of the slaughtered nine.

Swear on the honor of the Romany children.

Swear to tell the truth.

I swear it.

You may question him.

You have the time this candle burns to do it.

Sandor, who k*lled you?

JOHNNY: The jury already knows you m*rder*d him.

If you let him answer, he'll tell you that I didn't do it.

Don't try to put words in the witness' mouth.

Ask him a different question.

Who k*lled Julianka?

JOHNNY: How should he know?

He was in Boston when she died.

Ask him something he knows.

But what can I ask him?

Tell me, Johnny.

Who wanted Julianka here when she died?

Who was that, Sandor?

Magda Rakosi.

JOHNNY: Next question.

Sandor, Sandor tell them why I wanted Julianka here.

Yes, I wanted her to cure Jenny's children.

JOHNNY: Cure them of what?

The curse.

JOHNNY: Who put the curse on those

beautiful Gypsy babies, Sandor?

Name her.

Magda Rakosi.

JOHNNY: Louder!

SANDOR: Magda Rakosi!

Johnny, Johnny, you ain't letting me

ask the witness nothing.

Your time is over, anyway.

MAGDA: You said I had until candle burned.

JOHNNY: The case is closed.

Sandor, your time is over now, too.

Go back to your grave.

No, Sandor, not yet.

[ winds gusting ]

JOHNNY: Now it's time to decide whether you live or die.

Anyone got anything to say for her

on her behalf that she's not guilty?

How do you like that?

Istvan has spoken.

He says you die.

No!

What's the matter, Magda, you surprised?

I get, I get the feeling that there

ain't too many surprises in King Johnny's court.

Tell me, Johnny, how are you gonna do it?

We're going to play a game.

MAGDA: What kind of a game?

It's called hunt the weasel and you're the weasel.

Where are you gonna hunt for me?

Wherever you go, wherever you can go.

Let her go, Istvan.

You mean you're gonna let me go free?

What kind of trick is this?

No trick, just a game.

But, Johnny, what if I hide and you can't find me, huh?

Then you win the game, you are free.

What if you find me?

You are dead.

Simple game, ain't it?

How much time before you come after me?

You'll find that out later, won't you?

Now run, Magda, run.

The game is about to begin.

[ thunder rumbling ]

[ laughing ]

Now it's time for us to the play the game, too.

[ gasps ]

Sergio, Sergio, go back to hell where you belong.

You don't belong here, not on this earth.

Sergio Kodash, son of Alex Kodash

m*rder*d by fire, m*rder*d by you.

Your crime is best kept in the dark.

When this light goes out go back to the dark.

[ screaming ]

I did it, I got rid of him.

[ Johnny laughing ]

JOHNNY:But you ain't got rid of me.

Johnny.

Johnny, where are you?

JOHNNY:The game is to find you, not me.

I like the way you got rid of Sergio.

If you get rid of the others, maybe you can win.

Get moving, Magda.

Got to keep the game going until it's over.

[ Johnny laughing ]

MAGDA:No, no, it can't be.

I've been running in a circle.

Two of them backed me in like a rat into a trap.

I got to hide, hide somewhere.

If I only--If I only knew how you died,

maybe I would know how to banish you,

but I don't know nothing.

Nothing.

And there ain't nothing but death by me.

[ crying ]

In the name of the Gypsy woman who wept for you

and for your crimes I order you to go back,

back to sleep without ending.

Back to death before the tears are dry on my cheek.

Go, walk the earth no more.

[ thunder rumbling ]

[ Johnny laughing ]

Johnny, Johnny, please stop the game!

Johnny, it ain't a game!

Johnny, stop the game.

JOHNNY:Keep going, Magda, keep running.

The game ain't over.

I'll tell you when it is!

[ laughs ]

Magda.

Sandor, Sandor, help me.

I come to help you, Magda.

I come to take you back with me.

No, no, Sandor.

No, Sandor.

I can't go back with you, you're dead.

Got to, Magda.

There ain't no other place I can hide you

where they won't be able to find you.

No, Sandor, I don't want to die.

SANDOR: I miss you, Magda.

We should be together.

Sandor, you belong to the dead, Sandor.

Oh, death who makes the earth grow,

bear witness that this spirit

may no longer walk the Earth.

Guide this spirit back to the dead.

You done good, Magda.

You got rid of Sandor, you got rid of them all.

But you ain't got rid of me.

There's nothing you can do about me, is there?

Or about Istvan, either.

Are you sure you want to go that way?

It's a long way down.

Alright, Magda, the game is over.

And you lost.