383 - December 13, 1967

[bunniefuu]

[Maggie narrating] - A séance was held in the great house of Collinwood.

A séance which send Victoria Winters back

on an uncertain and frightening journey to the past,

back to the Collin's family who lived in the year

where strange, haunted honeymoon follows a marriage

which cannot logically be explained.

- Jeremiah, I'll never forget this room,

this inn or you.

Oh, do you remember?

- What?

- When this mark was the only sign

that we belong to each other,

how angry and frightened you were that first day

when you saw it.

Do you mind if I say that you are frightened.

- I never mind you telling the truth.

- Oh, we're both afraid.

So, afraid that everyone would notice that we share this mark.

Jeremiah, my darling, why did we care?

- Because we were going t live by the rules.

You and I are going to fight what we felt.

You are going to marry because it had been planned.

- And instead, I married you, oh.

- Which was not planned.

Do you regret it?

- Oh, Jeremiah, no.

If the rest of my life

could be as happy as the last few days.

- Two and a half days since the ceremony.

Do you have a bad memory?

- I do not.

Oh, Jeremiah, will we ever be able to go back?

- If we want to.

- What would you do if we didn't?

- Well, there's a shipyard in every town in the coast.

I'd have no trouble.

We'll go wherever you'll go on being happy.

- Oh, then we'll stay in this room forever

and we'll never leave

and we'll raise a family and we'll grow old and --

- All in this room?

- Yes.

- But why?

Why do you say that?

Are you so afraid of what might happened?

Are you so frightened of what would happen if we --

if we left this room?

- Yes. - But you mustn't be.

- We'll never be the same anywhere else.

- But of course, we will.

- It won't be.

We can't be.

- Dearest.

- Darling, don't try to tell me anything anymore.

Once we return to our ordinary and daily lives,

you'll miss your home and I'll miss mine.

- We'll make it up to each other.

- Will we?

Will we be able to?

- Yes.

Yes.

I promise you.

♪♪

[eerie music] ♪♪

♪♪

[André] - Not sleeping, Josette?

- Father?

[André] - Why have you treated us this way?

I raised you to be honest.

Why didn't you come to me?

How could you leave without telling me?

- No. No, Papa, please.

[André] - We don't understand.

You loved Barnabas so much, did you?

[Barnabas] - You said you love me?

- I did.

Oh, I did.

Barnabas.

[Barnabas] - You didn't, did you?

- I did.

I did.

[Barnabas] - Oh?

You love Jeremiah, too.

- No.

No.

[André] - You ran away.

You do not fight yourself so you choose Jeremiah.

- Josette?

Darling, what is it?

- We must go back.

- Go back?

- To Collinwood.

We must return.

- What has happened?

- I'm so foolish.

So foolish to think that we could stay away

and never go back.

- Darling, I know.

I don't know what's upset you but --

- I think of my Aunt and my father.

- Write to them tonight.

- Write them?

Will a letter make up for what we've done?

- We fell in love, they'll understand.

- Oh Barnabas. If only I told him before I'd left.

- We both knew that --

we both knew that if we told them

they'd stop us from going.

You had as much to do with that decision as I did,

you know that.

- Please, don't remind me of that.

- Well, obviously, I must.

Oh, darling, stop tormenting yourself.

We couldn't help what we did.

- We didn't even try.

- But that's not true.

I would have left Collinwood

if it hadn't for Joshua's disappearance,

you were the reason I was leaving,

you know that, Josette.

Darling, we've been so happy.

- Don't touch me.

- Josette.

- Please, don't even try to touch me.

- But you and I are married.

And now, what is going wrong?

I want to know what happened.

- Nothing.

Nothing happened.

- You expect me to believe that when one hour ago

you were in my arms?

Darling, I can't help you if I don't know what's wrong,

please, please, stop crying.

I hate to see you suffer.

- Take me back.

- All right.

All right, tomorrow.

- No, not tomorrow, now.

We must leave tonight.

- But that's impossible.

The roads are difficult enough by day.

- Go downstairs and get a carriage.

- Be sensible.

- We've got to get out of here as soon as we can.

- Not without a reason Josette, I mean it.

Now, you changed so suddenly this maybe just - just a mood.

You'll be over it tomorrow. - It isn't a mood.

- How do you know that?

- Jeremiah.

Think of the unhappiness that we caused.

It didn't occur to me before.

And tonight I heard voices. - Whose voices?

- My father's and --

- And Barnabas?

- And Barnabas.

- Josette.

I regret the unhappiness as much as you do,

but will our going back now change it all?

- We have no right to be happy.

- But we had. We have.

Josette, we love each other.

- Jeremiah, do you really love me?

- Yes.

- Then you will go downstairs and arrange for a carriage.

- All right, Josette,

you have to go back and face what we have done.

I can understand that.

I can even admire it,

but you must never forget that we love each other,

never.

- It's gone.

Look, it's gone.

♪♪

- Good afternoon, Barnabas.

- Good afternoon, Mr. duPrés.

- Oh, come, come, come.

Well, there's no reason for the two of us

to be so formal with each other.

We're both embarrassed, we know that.

- There's no need for us to discuss it.

- Oh, but there is.

- Josette will come back as father did.

- It's a possibility I have given a great thought to.

But what about Jeremiah, hmm?

You see,

I am determined to clean the air completely

and clear it.

Now, everybody in this household

seems to have secret thoughts,

something I do not find healthy.

Now, what if they run away together.

- Well, that's impossible.

Jeremiah is my friend, I won't think of it.

- You are.

You did the first day in the forest when we hunted them.

- Perhaps.

- Well, you even think you were wrong

in believing that she loved you.

- You are a wise man.

- If I were truly wise,

I would know where she was this moment.

You know, she loves you,

I know that and I want you to know that.

- I believe you.

I began to think that she had romanticized me. - No.

- That when she arrived

I was not the person she remembered.

- Oh, nonsense.

When she first came in this house,

she came running into my room,

she had to tell anybody.

How you'd not changed

and all she wanted in her life was to marry you.

- Well, thank you.

Then something unbelievable has happened,

something I don't understand.

- You're quite right, my boy.

More right perhaps than you realized.

- Good afternoon, Mr. duPrés. - Hello, Mr. Collins.

- How do you know I'm right, father?

Have you heard any news?

- Of them? No.

- Oh, you sounded so definite.

- I have reached a decision,

a decision about their disappearance.

- Oh, tell us, Mr. Collin. - Please do.

- You will perhaps think me absurd,

they are the victims of witchcraft.

- You're quite right, you are absurd.

- It was not an easy realization

for me to come to, Mr. duPrés.

- Well, I trust it will be an easy one for you to forget.

- Your sister.

- Oh, yes, yes, of course.

Natalie, she's fond of witches than of people.

- Your sister, sir and my sister.

- An unlikely combination, I must admit.

- Unlikely or not

and I'm not sure that I want to understand that remark.

They have discovered what seems to me concrete enough evidence

to turn the matter over to someone who is qualified

to decide.

- What evidence, father?

- In Miss Winters' room. - Miss Winters?

- She's the one we suspect.

- You're wrong. - Can you prove it?

- Well, if I had any judgment at all,

I can vouch for her, yes.

- I do not desire to imply

that your judgment is bad, son.

- You have no desire nor any reason.

If you don't go to Aunt Abigail and have this stopped,

than I shall.

- You shall?

There is only one thing that you are going to do.

You are going to stay out of it.

If we are wrong about Miss Winters

then the Reverend Trask will find her innocence.

- Reverend Trask? - Yes, from Salem.

He has been remarkably successful

in finding out witches.

It's much easier to find a witch

than to prove someone is not one.

- That is quite true, I'm afraid.

The world being what it is.

- Father if you don't stop this man from coming here.

- I cannot.

- Then I must protect Miss Winters.

- You will do nothing of the sort, my son.

I am determined to find out what has caused

the strange happenings in this house.

If this is the only way, so be it,

and if you own Miss Winters,

I will regard you as part of the enemy.

Is that clear?

♪♪

[clock chiming]

- Hello, Riggs.

- Mr. Jeremiah.

- Where, uh, where are they all?

- The ladies are gone to the new house.

- And my brother?

- Out walking with the foreign gentleman.

- Find them for me immediately, please.

Oh, Riggs, where is Mr. Barnabas?

- At the shipyard, I believe, sir.

- Thank you.

Hurry, if you will.

I told you to wait in the carriage.

- I couldn't.

- No one is here, I've sent for Joshua.

- No one? - I said, no one.

- Jeremiah, are you frightened, too?

- No.

- I don't know what we shall say.

- That we are married.

That what we have done cannot be undone.

That is all we can say.

- But should we do it this way?

- You were the one who wanted to come back here.

- I don't know.

Jeremiah, help me.

- You wanted to come back and face them,

that's what we're going to do.

- You seem so cold.

- Am I?

Yes.

Yes, perhaps you're right.

I'm tired of the trip.

No, no, that's not true.

It's being back here in this house,

this room.

- You feel differently toward me.

- I wish you'd stay in the carriage.

I see no reason for you to be involved with

what's going to happen.

- But I am involved.

- Yes.

- We both are and we hate it.

It wasn't worth it, was it?

You feel no love for me, nor I for you.

- Josette! - It's true, admit it.

- It's hard to feel anything,

but a certain uneasiness over what's coming.

We - we're both nervous and upset.

We must be kind to each other.

- Yes. We must learn to be kind.

- Josette.

- Papa. Oh!

- It's all right. Now, don't cry.

Please, don't cry, it's going to be all right.

And whatever happened we'll set it straight.

- Joshua.

- The prodigal has returned.

Well, my brother,

what have you to say for yourself?

♪♪

Well, whatever spirit that whisked you away from here

deprived you of your voice,

we're waiting to hear your story.

- No spirits took us, Joshua.

We are married.

- Josette.

- It's true, Papa.

You told me that you would promise me that you would

stay away from your daughter. - I tried to obey your order.

- You knew of this, sir?

- Yes, I knew they had met once, alone.

- Jeremiah.

- We have no explanation for what we have done,

at least none that will satisfy either of you.

Obviously, we are unwelcome here,

understandably.

We will be at the inn in the village --

- You will not, sir. - Let me finish Joshua --

until we decide what we are to do.

- You have no choices what you are going to do.

You are married in the eyes of our Lord,

you will leave here.

- Jeremiah, we can't.

- I will not tolerate the gossip

that you are staying in the village would start.

There would be enough questions asked behind our backs as it is.

We are a family. We will be a united front.

This is the way it must be.

I will have your luggage brought in.

- Josette.

- They're married, Barnabas.

- Married?

- Married.

- No.

You tell me you're married.

Tell me, I must hear from you.

- No, Barnabas.

- Tell me, Josette.

- I am married.

- Why?

Why did you do it?

- Barnabas, please. She cannot.

- I didn't know you.

I was wrong about you.

- If it pleases you to think so, please.

- You - you give me this opportunity now.

And you.

- Barnabas. - How could you?

- I have no explanation.

- You don't know why you stole her?

- I - I thought I loved her.

- But you do not love her now

is that what you're trying to say?

- Oh, no, no.

What we felt for each other we could not fight.

- Then you will fight me.

- No.

- No!

You have your choice of weapon.

- You will not fight.

- Josette, it is between men now.

- I forbid a duel.

- Oh, Barnabas, please don't.

- Once I would have listened to you.

That has changed.

You even lost your right to ask me now.

- No.

We've done enough. We've caused enough trouble.

Please, don't.

You sir, please stop them for your brother's sake. - No.

- For your son's sake. - There will be no duel.

I said that once and I meant it.

There have been enough tragedies in this house,

there will not be another.

- You cannot stop a duel by words father.

We will fight.

♪♪

[eerie music] ♪♪