519 - June 21, 1968

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NARRATOR: The great house of Collinwood

is a place of many memories.

The past is a vivid thing to many of the people

who live there.

But to one woman, the past has become a curse.

And all she can think of is joining those ancestors

at whose graves she has spent the day.

No, no, of course it'll be perfectly all right,

Vicki, to bring Maggie here.

I insist on it,

and I'm sure Liz would, too.

Oh, wait a minute, she's just come in.

You can talk to her.

Liz, Liz!

Liz?

It's Vicki, she wants to talk to you.

I'm afraid it's rather bad news.

I don't want to talk to anyone now.

Liz.

I'd better talk to her, Vicki,

You tell Maggie that she's perfectly welcome to come here

and she can stay as long as she likes.

Cassandra and I will be delighted to have her,

goodbye.

Well, I gather you've heard.

Well, I must say, it's affecting you rather strangely.

Sam Evans was a friend, yes, but he was hardly that close.

Roger, I went to Eagle Hill today.

The cemetery? Heaven sakes, why?

It's lovely there.

Quiet, lonely, I suppose,

but there's such a feeling of peace.

Yes, well, I suppose so.

I want you to promise me you'll bury me there.

Bury you there?

Really, Elizabeth, I'm quite sad about Sam Evans' death,

but I think that that sort of thing

should be kept in proportion.

Sam Evans?

You don't know?

Know what?

He died this evening.

Well, we all eventually die, don't we?

And I know who will be next.

I will be next, and it will be soon.

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- You frighten me. - I shouldn't,

death is a perfectly natural thing.

Yes, but you're obsessed by it.

Is there something wrong?

Are you ill?

Are you going to make me ask Dr. Hoffman or Dr. Tobias?

Please tell me.

I've not seen either of them.

Someone else then, a specialist?

Something must have caused this depression.

I've just become aware of how much time has passed.

The years I've spent here, not really living.

I never thought I'd hear you feeling sorry for yourself.

I'm simply stating facts.

I'm not interested in the facts,

but what compels you to talk like this.

- You're very shallow, Roger. - Am I?

I think I'm taking Sam Evans' death

more strongly than you are.

You haven't even asked how he died.

I heard about his fight with the monster.

I suppose...

I suppose the night he came into the house

and took Carolyn away was when I started worrying.

That's when it all started?

I began thinking.

It was as if I had a foreboding.

There must be a reason.

Are you sure you're not hiding something from me?

I'm hiding nothing from you.

Then you must see a doctor.

Elizabeth, you are not behaving naturally.

When something is wrong, a reason must be found.

Thoughts of death.

Only the first step, Mrs. Stoddard,

in your last walk.

Soon you will see the world

through the eyes of another woman

who lived in another century,

Naomi Collins.

You will learn what she knew.

And if I choose,

you will die as she died.

By the same poison.

[FOOTSTEPS]

[DOOR KNOB CLICKING] Who is it?

It's Roger.

Just a minute, darling.

Cassandra, why was the door locked?

Oh, David kept coming in.

Well, even so, darling, you shouldn't--

I'm just not in the mood to deal with him.

I keep thinking about that nice Mr. Evans.

- Oh, yes. - Has there been any more news?

Yes, as a matter of fact, Vicki just called from the hospital.

Vicki, was she with him when he died?

Yes, I believe so.

- Alone with him? - No,

his daughter Maggie was there also.

As a matter of fact,

Vicki is going to bring her home for a few days.

I hope you will be nice to her.

Of course.

It's important that you are because

my sister doesn't seem to be herself, really.

Elizabeth?

I just had the strangest conversation with her.

It was all about death, that's all she could think of.

She spent the afternoon at Eagle Hill Cemetery.

Darling, you're such a worrier.

Oh, but you don't know Liz like I do.

This isn't like her at all.

I think I'll talk to Julia about her.

Why, yes, I think you should.

She might have, oh, some views that I haven't thought of.

That's a very good idea.

You know, I never knew when I met you

that you're concerned about your family.

Well, she's my sister, Cassandra.

Will you join us in the drawing room a little later?

Maybe a game of bridge will pick her up.

Very well, give me about half an hour.

That will give me time--

Time for what?

To freshen up a little.

All right.

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Roger?

David?

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[CLOCK CHIMING]

[KNOCKING]

Where is she, Vicki?

Maggie's upstairs, Joe.

I shouldn't have gone to work today.

- Oh, you couldn't have known! - I should've been with her.

She understands.

What room is she in?

Will you go up with me?

No, she's asleep.

Julia Hoffman gave her a sedative.

She loved Sam so much.

I know.

I did, too, he was more than just Maggie's father,

especially since his blindness,

we'd become very good friends.

I'm gonna get that monster who k*lled him!

- No, Joe. - I swear I am!

It won't do any good!

We've had enough violence for now,

and it won't help Maggie.

I'm gonna marry her as soon as I can, Vicki.

I think that's a very good idea.

Maybe we can...

Leave here, start again somewhere else.

Don't do that.

I just can't think of her going back to that house, Vicki.

Sam's paintings, all of his things.

I just wish she didn't have to go back there.

Joe, you know that she's gonna want to go back there.

Oh, I know, I know, that's the terrible thing.

The moment she needed me, where was I?

Up at that cannery.

You were able to do more for her than I could.

Lieutenant Forbes,

what are you doing here?

- Mrs. Stoddard. - You know my name,

you've tried to ruin it often enough.

And you're not welcome in this house!

Will you leave now, or shall I call Ben

and have him put you out?

- What are you talking about? - Don't play the innocent with me!

It might work with Millicent, perhaps--

Mrs. Stoddard, Mrs. Stoddard!

It's Joe Haskell, not Lieutenant Forbes.

Mrs. Stoddard!

I'm sorry, I'm very sorry.

Mrs. Stoddard!

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What was that all about?

It wasn't you, Joe,

she thought you were someone else.

She knows me, how could she mistake me

for someone I've never even heard of?

Who is this Lieutenant Forbes?

Someone from the past.

Look, maybe it isn't a very good idea,

Maggie's staying here.

I'm sorry, Vicki, but if Mrs. Stoddard is gonna--

No, no, please, it won't happen again,

it can't.

Don't say anything about this to Mrs. Collins, please.

Mr. Haskell,

I'm so sorry about Mr. Evans.

It's really unbelievable, isn't it?

Yes.

At least we can all be thankful now

that Carolyn is safe at home.

How's Maggie?

- I was just going up to see. - I'll take you up.

Oh, there's no need for you to, Miss Winters.

Actually, I wanted to talk to you about David.

All right.

Maggie's is the first room to the left up in the hall.

But she won't be awake for a while.

It's all right, I wanna be the first person she sees

when she does wake up.

Excuse me, Vicki.

You wanted to talk to me about David?

Yes, he seems such a frightened child to me.

Oh?

I suppose it's Carolyn's experience,

and now Mr. Evans' death.

You were with him until the last, weren't you?

Yes.

Was he conscious before he died?

Yes, he was.

What did he say?

Mrs. Collins, I thought you wanted to talk about David.

The truth is, David has been asking about Sam's last words.

It seems he's wondering what his own last words will be.

That's a rather macabre game.

I know, I thought so, too.

But I simply decided that whatever Mr. Evans' words were,

David should know them.

His last words were to Maggie and not to me.

But you will tell David if he asks you.

If he asks me, yes.

- And now will you please excuse me. - Miss Winters.

Please, I'm upset, can't you see that?

Not only about Mr. Evans.

I'm worried about Mrs. Stoddard.

Isn't she well?

No, she isn't.

But you wouldn't know anything about that,

would you?

[THINKING] I know more about Mrs. Stoddard

than you do, Miss Winters.

I even know what is going to happen to her.

If David is not frightened by death now,

he will be tomorrow.

Angelique Collins.

That is not my name.

It was when I knew you well.

I do not know you.

The devil has painted your hair, but still,

I recognize you.

No, you're wrong!

You were responsible for my death.

I have never seen you in my life, never!

You let Victoria Winters hang

- when you were the guilty one. - Stay away from me!

Stay away from me.

I have come back to right that wrong.

The Lord has let me return.

You're a ghost!

You will disappear!

We shall see who is stronger, your master or mine.

The eternal battle shall be waged again

here in this house.

I command you to return to from where you came.

You have Satan's words, but I have something stronger,

this.

[CASSANDRA MOANING]

Look at the cross.

Look at it!

[CASSANDRA WHIMPERING]

I thank the Lord for giving me the strength

to battle her again.

I swear that it shall not have been given me in vain.

The devils in you shall be driven out this day!

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What are you going to do to me?

What I should've done when I was alive.

No, you're mistaken.

No, I have watched you ever since I was brought back.

Who brought you back?

You shall not know.

- Tell me! - It would do you no good to know,

for your hours of vengeance are nearly over.

Oh, I have practiced no vengeance against anyone!

Who ever told you that?

Whoever brought you back is wrong!

You will never rest, never!

[SCREAMING]

No matter what I was told,

you yourself have given me the proof I need.

Satan's eyes cannot look upon this symbol of goodness.

Are you prepared to give up your evil?

Leave me alone.

And let Satan use you for his terrible work, never!

You cannot change me.

No, I cannot.

But the power of goodness will draw the devils from you.

No, no!

I command thee,

whoever thou art,

thou unclean spirits which possess her body

to remove yourselves from her presence

and leave her free to become a servant of the true Lord!

You are the devil.

You have the spirit of evil within you!

Hear not her blasphemous cries!

Judge not by what she says!

Give me the power to step upon the serpents

and scorpions which inhabit her!

You were a fool before.

She admits it, she admits she lived before.

I admit nothing!

One devil comes from her,

and the truth can be seen,

but the other devils.

You will drop that.

I command you with all the power within me

- to drop that! - No!

I adjure thee, the old serpent

by the judge of the quick and the dead

that thou depart in haste from this unworthy creature,

that she may return to the bosom of goodness.

Never, never!

He commands thee, he who has the power!

He has no power over me.

He who has the power to root out the devils,

who has the power to command the sea and the wind!

By this same power, flee from her

he who will say to the wicked at the end of time,

depart from me,

says now there for devils, go out!

Go forth!

Stop it, stop it!

Oh, you're k*lling me!

You're angering me.

Devils, rise from her throat!

I can't speak.

Devils, disappear into the air.

Leave her pure, free, blameless,

for Lord God have pity on this poor,

suffering servant of Satan.

I can't [GASPING] breathe.

Let the spirit of wickedness

have no more powers over this poor creature.

Needless of your mercy,

but in dire need of your divine spirit.

Depart from her, ye cursed demons,

into the everlasting fire which burns all evil

and leaves only the ashes of what good

she once possessed.

Devils, be humbled,

shrink in fear at the dark night you must shortly see.

Depart from her,

leaving nothing that is not as pure and innocent

as a child, newly born.

Hear me and go hence from her.

[CASSANDRA SCREAMING]

Her spirit is free.

Go!

[CASSANDRA SCREAMING]

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