223 - May 4, 1967

[bunniefuu]

[narrator]
- My name is Victoria Winters.

There is a fog that clings to the cliffs

that mark the edge of Collinwood.

A fog the sun cannot disperse.

There is a man more frightening than the fog, more threatening.

A man who was thought to be gone but still remains.

A man who clings to Collinwood

with more tenacity than the mists from the sea.

A man whose presence inspires more unrest than fear.

More mystery than anger.


- I don't understand.

Why didn't you tell me immediately?


- Well, I knew that you weren't feeling well last night.

I didn't want to disturb you.


- I can hardly be more disturbed than I am right now.


- I'm sorry.


- I told Willie he could never set foot on the grounds again.


- I know.
- Well then, when you saw him,

why didn't you come and tell me at once?


- Because I wasn't sure there was anything

you'd want to do about it.


- Well, there's one thing I would want to do about it

and I'm going to do it right now.

Get him off the grounds.


- But wait
-
- I haven't told you where I saw him.


- Where did you see him?
- In the Old House.


- The Old House?


- Yes, I saw him there when I went down

to invite your cousin for dinner tonight.


- Oh, well, perhaps if he went to the Old House,

he's already gone.

Barnabas Collins knows how to handle a man like Willie.

Maybe we haveseen the last of him.


- No, that's just it.

Willie is staying there, living there!


- What are you saying?


- Willie told me that he's working for Mr. Collins.

He's moved into the Old House with him!

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[waves crashing] ♪♪


- But that's impossible.

Mr. Collins wouldn't want a man like Willie around.

Not even as a servant.


- Well, according to Willie, he met Mr. Collins on the road

and told him that he was sick and needed a job.


- Willie's illness seems to cause him endless convenience.

I better go down and talk to Mr. Collins

and tell him what kind of a man Willie is.


- I've been waiting upstairs in my room.

You said we were gonna do the Southern Hemisphere

right after breakfast.


- I'm sorry, David, but I had to talk to your aunt.

We'll go right upstairs now.


- If anybody calls, I'll be at the Old House.


- Are you going to the Old House?

I'll go with you.


- No, you won't.

You're going upstairs and start your studies.


- But I haven't seen it since Barnabas moved in.


- You can see it some other time.


- Go on, David, upstairs.


- You tell me I can't go alone.

Then when someone's going, I can't even go with them.

I don't understand.

But I do wanna go now.


- Well, you can't go now because

I'm going to have a very special talk with your cousin.

Tell Mrs. Johnson that I'll give her the menu for dinner

when I get home.
- I will.

[door opens and closes]


- I can't go there alone.

I can't go with somebody.

No fair, nobody ever lets me have any fun.


- You can have all the fun you want to outside of study time.

Now you go on upstairs.

I've got to talk to Mrs. Johnson,

but I'll be up in a minute.


- I wonder what my Aunt Elizabeth

wanted to talk to Barnabas about.


- I don't think it's anything that concerns you.


- Hmm, she seemed sort of angry.

Do you think she's mad at him?


- Oh no, I don't think she's mad at him at all.

Go on upstairs now.


- I'm not sure I'm not mad at him.


- Why?


- For moving into the Old House.


- But David, that's where his ancestors lived

when they were at Collinwood.


- Well, that was a long time ago.


- But you can't blame him

for wanting to live where his family did.


- Well, I don't blame him for that.

If I blame him for anything, it's for changing it around.


- But he couldn't live in it the way it was
-
- no one could!


- I know.

That's why I don't want him living there.


- David, that's selfish.


- I know.

I just hope
-
-

I just hope he hasn't changed it.

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[knocking on door]

[knocking again]


- Barnabas?

Barnabas?

[wind whistling outside]

[door slamming]

David!


- I had to see it.

I had to see the changes.


- I told you not to come here.


- It's changed!

It's so different.


- Well, the house may have changed a little

but that's because it's been cleaned up.


- It's
-
- it's
-
- so different.

It has changed.


- Don't be ridiculous, David.


- The only change there is, is...

is the change that you can't see.

The change that you can feel.


- Feel?
- Feel it.

It's a new house.

It's a new place.

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- Well, the house may have changed a little,

but I see it still stimulates your imagination

the way it always has.


- It's not my imagination.

It's all so changed.

The air!


- I think it's still pretty musty.


- Of course! That's why it's so different!


- What are you talking about?
- Over the mantel!


- But there's nothing there.


- That's what I mean
-
- the portrait of Josette's gone!


- I never even noticed.

I guess Barnabas has other plans for that space.


- The painting isn't all that's missing.

The smell.

It used to smell of jasmine.


- Oh now, David, don't start all that again.


- It's true!

That was Josette's special scent.

And this was her house.

And now she's gone!


- David, now do you see why I think

this house stimulates your imagination much too much?

Where are you going?


- I'm going to look for the painting.


- You're not going to do any such thing.


- But maybe it's up in the attic.


- Well, if it's in the attic, then that's where it stays.


- But it belongs over there!


- David, try to realize this is your cousin's house now.

You can't go roaming all around the way you used to.


- All I wanna do is put the portrait back.


- David.


- I know you think I'm just imagining it.

But I keep telling you.

She's gone! She's gone!

She's not watching over us anymore.


- David, stop this.

Stop it immediately, do you hear me?


- [sighing]

I can't help but feel the way I feel.

I can't help but want that picture back.


- David, I'm afraid that isn't possible.

This is Barnabas's house

and I think this is probably the photograph
-
-

the painting that will hang there from now on.

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[Vicki]
- He looks exactly like his ancestor.

The resemblance is very strong.


- Well, I'm not so much interested

in the ancestral resemblance

as I am in the fact that he hired Willie to work for him.


- I don't understand it either.

We all think he did it

because he doesn't know what Willie is really like.


- All you have to do is take one look at Willie

to see what he's like.

Cousin Barnabas doesn't seem too bright.


- Oh no, he's extremely intelligent.


- Well, he certainly doesn't sound like it.

[clock chiming]


- Are you sure that Mrs. Stoddard is expecting you?

She didn't mention anything about it to me.


- Of course she isn't expecting me.


- But when I let you in, you said
-
-


- I said that I had an appointment.

The fact that it wasn't made in advance
-
-


- Oh Burke, why do you do these things?


- Because I want to see her.


- You know she doesn't want to see you.


- Don't kid yourself. Liz loves seeing me.


- It's not true.
- Oh, she loves seeing me

because she likes to have someone

who stands up to her every once in a while.

She finds it invigorating.


- She hasn't been very well lately.


- Oh? What's wrong?


- Nothing specific.

She just hasn't been herself since...


- Since Jason McGuire loomed on the horizon.


- I guess I shouldn't talk about it.


- No, there's no need.

It's obvious that he's had some kind of adverse effect on Liz.


- Well, then, do you have to see her?


- I have to.


- Why?


- Because she's done something very strange.


- Strange?


- Something very unlike Liz.


- What?


- I think I'd better talk to Liz about it.


- Are you sure it's something that concerns you?


- Oh, it concerns me all right,

but what concerns me more is why she did what she did.

It's not like her, Vicki.

Just not like her at all.

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- I guess there's no need to tell you you shouldn't be here.


- I think I should be.
- Why?


- Okay, Liz, I won't beat around the bush.

Why did you sell that seafront parcel of land

just north of town to Hackett?


- How did you know I sold it?


- Oh, come on, Liz.

Neither one of us does anything in this town

in the way of business

without the other finding out about it pretty soon.


- All right
-
- I sold it.


- What business is that of yours?


- You know what Hackett is gonna do with that land.

He's gonna ruin some of the best seafront

on the Eastern Seaboard.


- I repeat: what business is that of yours?


- Why didn't you sell it to me?


- I think the answer to that is obvious.


- No, it isn't.


- I wouldn't sell anything to you.


- Yes, you would if you thought it was the difference

between preserving the land and ruining it.


- I don't want to discuss it.


- Okay, Liz, all right.

So you needed some ready cash.

I would have paid cash.

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- Who said I needed cash?


- It's the only explanation for you selling the land to Hackett.


- That's not true.


- Yes, it is true.

You wouldn't have done it otherwise.

First of all, it's bad business.

And you're too good at the game to make a mistake like that.

Unless someone forced you into it.


- Forced?

No one forces me to do anything.


- No?


- How could a man like Hackett force me to sell?


- Who said it was Hackett who forced you?


- I don't know what you're talking about.


- Yes, you do.

Someone forced you to sell that land.

Or something.

Something that required a lot of cash quick.


- I told you.

Nobody forces me. Now please, I'm busy.


- Can I state my hunches?
- No, you may not.


- Why? Because you think they might be true!


- [exasperated sigh]
- And right.


- Burke, exactly what is it you want?

I told you I wouldn't sell to you.

Now will you please go?


- I told you once that...

That if anyone is gonna do you in,

I want it to be me.


- No one is going to do me in.


- Are you sure?
- Absolutely.


- Not even Jason McGuire?


- I said no one.


- Well, I hope you're right.


- I know I'm right.


- Okay, Liz.

If you have any other land to sell for cash,

I hope you'll keep me in mind.


- I'm not interested.


- I thought we had something of a truce.


- That truce does not include

your prying into my business affairs.


- Or private affairs?

Sometimes they go hand in hand.


- I'm sorry, Burke, but I'm very busy.


- Okay, Liz, I'm going.


- Oh, by the way,

Vicki mentioned that you were talking to your cousin
-
-

What's his name?


- Barnabas?
- Oh yes, Barnabas.

Vicki said that he had hired Willie as a servant.


- Well, perhaps my cousin's thoughtfulness fooled him

for a moment.

But I assure you, knowing Barnabas,

Willie will leave soon.


- Well, tell your cousin

that if he needs any help convincing Willie

of his imminent departure,

I'd be only too happy to help.


- Well, I don't think you need worry.

Barnabas is very self
-sufficient.

And after all, he's a Collins.

A true Collins.


- I see.

Good day.

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Ah, lost your best friend?


- Hi, Burke.


- Oooh, I guess I'd better keep my distance.

You're really mad at someone.


- No, I'm not.


- What's the matter?

Vicki get mad at you for ducking out on your lessons?


- Well, she was sore for a little while,

but she's okay now.

I think I'm mad at my cousin.


- You think? But you're not sure.


- No, not really.


- Well, if you're not really sure,

that means that you're not really mad.

So, cheer up.


- I want to because I really like him.

But he did something that made me not like him.


- Oh, well.

What's your complaint?


- Well, for one thing, he's taken over the Old House.


- Ah, I see.

Your own special domain, huh?


- Well, it's not so much that he changed things, but...

Well, I don't care

if he got rid of some of the spiderwebs and stuff.

But he took down the portrait of Josette.


- Well, maybe he didn't like it.


- Well...

[sighing]

It's not only that.


- What?


- If I told you, you wouldn't believe me.


- I might. Try me.


- You won't think I'm just imagining it?


- I doubt it. What is it?


- I feel that with the picture of Josette gone,

Josette's gone.

One thing that I used to always like about the Old House

was when I was there,

I was with Josette and I wasn't alone.

And there was nothing in the world to be afraid of.


- And now you're afraid to be there?


- Well, no, of course not.

I guess I just wish he didn't take down that picture.


- Well, why don't you ask him to put it back up?


- I think he's gonna fill the space with a picture of himself.

I think Mr. Evans is painting it for him.


- Ooh.

Well, I tell you what, Davy.

If you like that portrait of Josette so much,

maybe he'll give it to you.


- Do you think he would?


- Why don't you ask him?


- That's a good idea. I think I will right now!


- Well, wait a minute, Davy,

I think your aunt mentioned that he was out just now.


- Oh. Well, I'll look around for him.

And for the painting.


- What is it?


- Nothing.


- David, are you afraid to go there alone?


- No.

I'm positive.

♪♪

[doors creaking]
- Barnabas?

[wind whistling]

Barnabas? Are you here?

[wolves howling]

Josette!

I think I'm afraid!

Josette!

Where are you? You're not here!

I know you're not here!

[howling continues]

[doors slamming]

[howling continues]

[howling intensifies]

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