426 - February 12, 1968

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[narrator] -A séance has been held in the great house at Collinwood.

A séance which has sent one woman on an uncertain

and frightening journey to the past

back to the year .

There each of the Collins ancestors resembles

a present day member of the family,

but the names and the relationships have changed.

And Victoria Winters finds herself a stranger

in a sea of familiar faces.

And this night,

a night which began with bright moonlight

has turned dark

and the woman has thrown herself from a cliff,

the victim of a witch's curse.

The agony finally over for her,

but just beginning for those she has left behind.

- Who's there?

What's happened to you?

What's wrong?

Did somebody see you?

What is it then?

- Josette.

- You've k*lled her?

- No.

Not me.

She's dead.

I couldn't stop it.

She stood on Widow's Hill.

I heard the - the ocean pounding on the rocks below.

I called to her.

She looked at me, frightened.

She knew what I had become.

She turned, ran from me.

She died, hating me.

- It was the curse.

- I saw Josette's crushed body on the rocks below.

She is gone from me

and I have eternity without her.

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- Mr. Barnabas, if Miss Josette is dead.

- She is.

- Then she'll come to you.

- No. No. Never.

She choose to die another way.

She could have been with me always,

but she didn't want to be.

She ran from me, I had no power over her.

I will never have power over her again.

- Are you sure?

- No one who loves me will live.

That was the curse.

Angelique made Josette hates me

- and she is here in this room. - What?

- Yes, Angelique is watching me. I can feel her presence.

- I will end your curse, Angelique.

I will find a way to end it.

You will k*ll no one else that I love, do you hear me?

I will go to the house. I will walk in.

My father will see me.

I will tell him what has happened to me.

I will let him do whatever he wants.

- No. No!

- I would rather be lying in that coffin

with a stake through my heart, than be the way I am.

Help me. Help me.

[Angelique laughing]

- She's here.

[laughing continues]

- You stopped me, Angelique. Why?

Are you determined to keep me in this hell

you consigned me to?

Have you no pity?

- I must leave here! - Please, no!

- I must! - No!

- Listen to me, Angelique! Listen!

You will not let me die, I know.

You have robbed me of Josette.

Well, I am through loving, do you hear me?

I am through.

You need no - k*ll no one else.

I will never show love for a human being again.

Your curse is over.

I am what you have made me, I - I know.

But I will never love again.

So go back to your grave.

[gate lock clicks]

[gate squeaks open]

No, do not follow me Ben,

if this is what eternity is to be,

then let it begin.

[Angelique laughing]

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- Hmm. How is Madam duPres?

- She is cried herself to sleep.

- Oh, Joshua. - Now, my dear.

- Oh, I loved Josette from the moment she came here.

She was exactly the kind of young lady

I would have chosen for Barnabas.

- My dear, you must not think about him now.

- It seems there's no name I can mention

that hasn't got grief attached to it.

- You mustn't think of any of them.

Nothing will bring them back.

- Well, you have other things to think about.

- Well, you could, too.

- Oh, Joshua, please give me some time

to try to make sense where there's none.

In a w*r, one would expect to lose one's family.

We're not at w*r.

- Except through the powers of darkness.

- You've been listening to Abigail again.

I will not believe that all of this has been caused

by witchcraft.

- Witchcraft, cousin?

- Oh, Millicent, you have heard.

- I've heard nothing.

I spent the day in my room.

- My dear, Cousin,

we have very, very sad news for you.

Josette... Josette is dead.

- Indeed.

- Well, at least she died still loving Barnabas. - Millicent.

- I should like my last thoughts to be filled with love,

not hate.

I have heard that death is often less frightening that life.

- You may be right,

poor Josette had very little to look forward to.

- And here Cousin Barnabas returned from England

and who knows what he would return as?

Men change and seldom for the better.

- Millicent, what a harsh attitude?

- I have no attitude, just knowledge.

- Millicent, are you feeling well?

- The more one learns, the worse one feels.

I did not realize life is like that,

but probably it's a well known fact

that no one bothered to tell me.

- Is Lieutenant Forbes coming to call?

- Tonight?

No.

No, he would not be welcomed tonight.

- Well, I'm sure Lieutenant Forbes is grieving

for his own loss.

- Yes.

How clever of you to guess that, Cousin Joshua.

- Me, clever, what nonsense,

I merely meant that it seemed only natural.

- Yes, it seemed exceptionally found of his sister.

- Oh, yes.

Yes, he was found of her that I for one

would have thought possible.

Men's minds contain their secrets better than women's,

don't you think?

- Where are you going, child?

- I love the night.

The darkness let's you see only what you want.

- But you mustn't go out now.

- You need see nothing ugly unless you choose.

- But it's not safe.

- Oh, I'm perfectly safe, I have discovered that.

- Joshua, go after her.

- Now, Naomi.

- She's behaving so strangely.

- We're all behaving strangely, my dear,

and there's a reason for it.

Death affects each of us differently.

She'll be in shortly.

- But where is she going and why?

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- Oh, Jeremiah,

I'm glad you cannot see me now.

Even you would not have wished this on me.

Now, Josette will lie beside you,

the husband she did not love.

You will be together as you will never in life.

Again, the choice was not her own

and again Angelique has made you win.

-Barnabas!

Cousin Barnabas, you are back.

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Cousin Barnabas, how glad I am to see you.

I need a favor very much.

-Miss Collins.

- It's Ben.

Oh, Barnabas--

Barnabas?

Where are you?

Where did you go?

- Miss Collins.

- Ben?

- Are you all right?

- No. No, I am not.

- What happened?

- I saw Barnabas, but he run away from me

that was not nice of him.

- You shouldn't be wondering around out here.

You know you didn't see Mr. Barnabas.

He's away.

- He's come back. - No.

- He simply didn't send advance notice.

Or perhaps he did

and no one bothered to tell me about it.

- Miss Collins, I'm going to take you back to Collinwood.

- No. Not yet.

I have not done what I came to do.

- What's that?

- Choose my final resting place.

Will you show me the mausoleum?

You must.

- Aye.

- Not what would I have chosen.

But then I can't think what would be ideal.

Beside Sarah.

Yes, yes, I shall be here.

She left so little, but I only a little more,

so it is fitting that we should lie side by side

throughout eternity.

You will remember that this is the one that I've chosen,

will you not?

And you must see that today's date is put on

- because today is the day I die. - Miss Collins.

- And this is the day I want to be remembered,

no matter how long I may live.

I died this day.

And may Nathan Forbes know that I consider this

the date of my death.

- Do you understand? - No, no.

- Oh, it does not matter, Barnabas will.

He understands what it is like to have to stop loving.

- You couldn't have seen Mr. Barnabas,

he's in England.

- Nonsense.

He heard of Josette's death.

- Miss Collins,

Miss Josette only died a few hours ago.

- Why are you trying to convince me that I did not see him?

- Because you couldn't have.

- Who did I see?

- A ghost, perhaps.

- Barnabas is not dead.

- Or a spirit.

The spirit you should stay away from.

- That was Barnabas.

I need him.

- I'll do anything you want, anything he'd do.

- Why?

You are not a member of the family.

You presume too much,

but then, I have heard that about you.

[Millicent giggles]

- When I tell Cousin Joshua-- - You mustn't tell him.

- About you?

- About anything. About coming here,

about what it was you think you saw.

- Why would you not simply believe that I saw him?

He's mother would believe me, I have no doubt of that.

- You don't want to cause more grief, do you?

- Why should his return cause grief?

Everyone would be delighted to see him.

- They won't see him again, ever.

- Oh.

Oh, I see.

Perhaps you do not want me to know that he's back,

but why?

I had always thought you're loyal.

Though that is a word I vowed never to use again.

I should have known you are not,

you are a man.

- Miss Collins, I'll take you home.

Don't say anything tonight.

I'll find you tomorrow when I--

I'll let you know if he's here or not.

- Why would you tell me what I already know?

Has my reputation for gullibility gotten even to you?

- Oh, the shame of it. - I don't know what you're talking about.

I just know that Mr. Barnabas, if he was him,

he wouldn't have run away from you.

- Unless he thought I was a ghost,

which is quite possible.

- Miss Collins.

- You look feverish to me.

It was kind of you to show me the mausoleum,

but it is quite damp here and it may affect your health.

I would suggest that you follow me home.

At a respectful distance, of course.

Good night, Ben.

- Miss Collins, wait!

Wait!

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- Millicent is not in her room. Has she come in?

- Oh, it's possible, I've been busy working.

I've written a letter to Josette's father in New York.

- Oh, I must add a note, please let me.

Oh, I'm sorry, my dear, it's already sealed.

This is the deposition for Miss Winters' trial.

- Deposition?

- It is simply our view of the facts

that Trask fellow thought that it was important

that it be in the judge's hand

before the trial starts tomorrow.

- Tomorrow? - Now, my dear,

- I haven't told you so as not to upset you

anymore than you already are.

As I see it, our lives will not be affected by this trial.

- It will certainly will.

- Abigail has very kind offered to represent us at the trial.

- Well, I certainly intend to represent us, too.

- No, that is not wise. That is not wise at all.

You know how emotional you get.

- Oh, I should try not to be in the witness box.

- There is no question of your being in any witness box.

- There is no question in my mind I will be.

- It is my wish.

- You mean, your order.

- Well, whatever word you choose

it will not change my decision.

Abigail will be the only Collins at that trial.

- She will not.

- Naomi, my decision is a measured one.

If our family is to come out of this

without any loss of dignity,

we had best leave the entire matter to the court.

We are the injured party, after all.

And if any of us get hysterical

it will be used against us in the future.

- And if Miss Winters dies,

won't we hold that against ourselves in the future?

Oh, Joshua, let's not torment ourselves any longer.

I will testify.

- You are my wife.

You will obey me.

- Where is he? I must see him at once.

He must have told you, he saw me at the graveyard.

- Who saw you?

- Oh, he was so silly. Barnabas, of course.

- Barnabas? - What are you talking about?

- He must have come home.

He wouldn't stay in the cemetery.

- You saw Barnabas? - Why, he's in England!

- You don't want to help me either.

But why?

I should think you would want to see my honor defended.

It is a family affair after all

and Barnabas is the only person who can do it.

My brother is too young.

Barnabas has had duels before.

Are you afraid of him?

Is that why you won't let me see him?

- Child, Barnabas isn't here.

- But I saw him, I tell you.

Why would I lie? I saw him at Jeremiah's grave.

- Jeremiah?

Joshua.

- My Cousin, you have a very vivid imagination.

- Sir, I have none.

Why won't you admit that he's here?

- Naomi, take her upstairs, she is ill.

- Oh, Cousin Joshua, I have been ill all my life,

but I have never been alone, until now.

- Alone, but you're not.

- Yes, you are keeping Barnabas from me

and he's the only person who can defend me,

or don't you care about my honor.

- Of course, we do.

- Exactly what do you mean?

- Barnabas must k*ll Nathan.

Oh, I suppose it has to be in the course of the technicality

- like a duel, but he must k*ll him. - Millicent.

- Nathan is married.

- Suki was Nathan's wife. - No!

- Poor child.

- Oh, please, no pity.

I have quite enough for myself.

But Barnabas must do what my brother would do

if he were older.

- Why Barnabas, Millicent?

- And he ran from me when he saw me.

- Even Ben denied that he was there. - Ben!

- You saw Ben, too?

- Of course, at the mausoleum.

Ben knows that Barnabas is back,

but he lied to me.

You must punish him for lying, Cousin Joshua,

when it is this important, someone must be punished.

- Yes.

Yes, you are right.

- And if you had not seen Barnabas and I have,

then someone must find out why.

- Yes.

I must find out why.

[dog howling]

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