520 - June 24, 1968

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NARRATOR: It is morning at the great house of Collinwood.

A night has passed that requires many hard find results

for those who live here.

For a witch hunter came back from the dead

to right an ancient wrong,

and during his exorcism,

the devils flew from the witch.

And now her husband, innocent and blameless waits.

[BELL TOLLING]

Good morning, Roger.

Such a beautiful morning,

I decided to go for a walk before breakfast.

Julia, have you seen Cassandra?

Not this morning.

Last night then?

No, Roger what is it?

Where could she be?

The last time I saw her was in our room last night.

Oh, perhaps she's visiting her friends in Rockport.

I'm sure the door will open and she'll walk right in.

No, I've got this feeling.

- Perhaps you-- - Well, I shan't bore you with it.

Pay attention to the feeling.

You think so?

Definitely.

But it's so formless, I...

I don't know why but I have a feeling

that something is going to happen, I just do.

Let's be logical, who saw Cassandra last?

Vicki.

She left Cassandra at nine o'clock alone,

then she came back, Cassandra had gone.

Vicki thought nothing of this.

I went to bed, I haven't been sleeping well

so I took a sleeping pill, it's something I seldom do.

Well surely you can tell whether she's been in your room,

the clothes she was wearing.

They aren't there.

Julia she's disappeared, something has happened.

I'm going to call the police.

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[CLOCK CHIMING]

[KNOCKING]

Barnabas, thank goodness you're here.

Oh? Good morning, Julia.

I wanted to talk to you before the police came.

The police?

Yes, Barnabas, Cassandra has disappeared.

- When? - Last night.

I don't believe it.

It's true.

Roger's convinced that something's happened to her.

You know he wouldn't call the police unless he was.

I can't believe it.

So used to thinking you're never going to escape.

It is a fact of my existence, Julia.

But you have escaped her, I feel that.

If she has disappeared,

and if it's possible for me to live out my life...

No, no, I just can't feel it.

In a moment she'll come through that door

with some absurd excuse.

If she's disappeared,

then the Reverend Trask is responsible, Barnabas.

He's finally gotten his revenge.

He took his revenge on me.

But he stopped.

For all we know, he's...

He's gone back to that other world.

Until he finishes with Cassandra,

he can find no peace, you know that.

I wish I did.

If there was only a way we could know,

why doesn't he appear to us?

Doesn't he understand

that we want to know what has happened to him?

That he has completed what he came here to do?

If only there were some sign.

Barnabas, Barnabas the skeleton.

His skeleton.

When his ghost materialized, the skeleton disappeared.

Don't you see?

Don't you see, if he's taken Cassandra,

if he has ended it all,

then the skeleton will be hanging

back in the place that it was.

He will be at peace at last.

And then we'll know, Barnabas, Barnabas,

if the skeleton is there then you will be free.

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[WIND HOWLING]

[FOOTSTEPS]

Julia,

if the skeleton is not there,

then perhaps Trask will not rest in...

Until he finishes me, too.

- Oh, Julia... - Barnabas.

I am almost afraid to look.

If she is gone, and the skeleton is there,

then you will be free.

Barnabas, look.

It is true.

He has done what he came to do,

and Angelique is no more.

Dare I say without expecting her to appear,

to hear her laughter.

If you still exist, Angelique, let me see you.

No, she will never appear.

Her cruelty will want me to hope.

You must hope, Barnabas.

Yes.

Yes.

I must.

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There are absolutely no clues.

That sheriff kept inferring that Cassandra and I had fought,

that's ridiculous.

There's absolutely nothing wrong between Cassandra and myself.

I'm sure you convinced him of that.

Oh, what is it about this family, Julia?

We seem to attract trouble, tragedy, even.

And this has to happen when I'm so concerned about Elizabeth.

Vicki said that you didn't even recognize Joe Haskell,

she thought he was Lieutenant Forbes.

Her obsession about death, some kind of foreboding.

Roger.

There is no need to stop talking

- because I'm here, Joshua. - Joshua?

I know whatever secrets you and the countess may have.

Liz.

What did you call me? Liz?

What kind of a name is that?

I'm used to your neglect Joshua,

but I never thought the day would come

when you'd forget my name.

Mrs. Stoddard--

Oh, you've both been plotting I see,

you are determined to drive me mad,

- is that what you were talking about? - No, Liz.

You think if you lock me in a room

that I'll forget about Barnabas?

No, Liz.

You want to lock me in a room like Millicent.

Millicent, these people are all dead!

Dead?

Yes, that's what you'd have me believe,

that Barnabas is dead.

I believed you once, but not any more,

my son has been seen.

Barnabas is not your son.

You expect me to forget my own son?

You ask too much.

You have no son, Liz.

You are cruel.

Is he not?

When Joshua says something,

for a moment I almost always believe him,

he speaks with such authority.

Countess, when you came to our land,

I had a son named Barnabas.

Mrs. Stoddard, I am not a countess.

My name is Julia Hoffman.

You've been living in this house for months.

I know who you are.

Why are you doing this to me?

I'm not doing anything.

I've been very kind to you, Countess.

When Josette died, my heart was as heavy as yours.

- You will stop this. - No, it is you who must stop.

Liz, what has happened, what?

You must tell me that.

Why are you keeping Barnabas from me?

Lieutenant Forbes said that he had seen him,

that he is not dead,

and that you know where he is.

- What are we going to do? - I don't know.

- We've got to stop her. - Yes, yes we must.

You are whispering again.

We are worried about you, Liz.

Is that why you won't tell me where Barnabas is?

He is at the Old House, very likely.

That is true, Mrs. Stoddard, I've just left him there.

Oh, so you both admit it.

Let me see him, I will go to him.

- No you can't. - I must.

Liz, it is our Barnabas who is there.

Our cousin from England.

Oh, so that is the story now. Well, I will see for myself...

JULIA: No.

I must, you can't stop me.

I don't care what he is, I love my son, even if...

Even if...

JULIA: Even if what?

Even if he is one of the living dead.

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What did you say?

That Barnabas is one of the living dead?

She doesn't know what she's saying.

Well what else could he be?

I was with him when he died,

and yet he still lives.

Oh, Liz, for my sake, for Carolyn's sake,

please try to think clearly.

Please.

The Barnabas you talk about died years ago.

So that has what our marriage has become,

lies and deceit.

Marriage?

Mrs. Stoddard, why don't you go to your room and lie down?

You can say that to me in my own house?

Even you can order me about?

I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to order you.

I am held in such little regard here.

That's not true.

He is silent.

Well, I will show you, Joshua, you will see,

- you will miss me. - Liz.

Stop calling me that name, my name is Naomi.

Have I nothing left, have you forgotten that, too?

Oh, Liz.

Go after her.

Yes.

Agree to anything she says.

But what is wrong with her?

I don't know,

but perhaps you should consider putting her

- in the hospital for observation. - Julia!

Clearly she does not know what she's saying.

I could never put my own sister in an institution.

Then I think you will wish that you had.

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[THUNDER RUMBLING]

She thinks that she's Naomi Collins?

She actually said that I was one of the living dead?

Julia, how can this happen?

How can she reenact something that happened so very long ago?

And what...

What if she takes one step further?

What if she makes a connection between the living dead and--

And vampire.

What if she tells Roger?

But you are not a vampire any more.

What am I going to do?

I don't know, nothing,

I told you just because I thought you should know.

Yes, I should know.

If Roger starts putting everything

that she's told him together...

Then he will know that she is mad.

No, Roger knows more about the family history than she does

and she is actually telling it as it was.

And she's saying things that no one else knows,

and Cassandra is making her.

Barnabas...

You still think that she is gone,

that the curse is over, don't you?

I don't know.

You want it to be and so it is!

Not very scientific thinking.

I suppose it isn't.

How else can all this be explained?

Angelique, in this very room not three hours ago

I said to you that if you are alive

let me hear your laughter.

And for your own reasons, you remain silent.

You remain silent for reasons.

You don't know that, Barnabas.

Who else?

Who else could've taken her mind

and put it back two centuries ago?

What a fool I was.

Roger says he's been worried about Mrs. Stoddard,

that she's been acting very peculiarly.

Now perhaps, Cassandra started and then...

Whenever Trask took her away,

perhaps this is simply the result.

No, she is still very much alive

and she will not be satisfied

until Elizabeth says the word vampire.

You must go to the house.

And give Elizabeth a chance to accuse me?

Perhaps if she sees you.

No, what about me seeing her?

What about my reliving that night?

That terrible night when my mother...

Barnabas, what happened to Naomi Collins?

She took her own life,

rather than face what I had become.

Then you must go.

Think that Elizabeth might...

Yes, yes, unless you go.

But the sight of me might...

Might bring her back to reality

unless you give yourself away.

Yes I...

I must be careful.

Just remember one lie Barnabas,

that that Barnabas Collins no longer exists.

And in a way it's true, the vampire is dead,

only the mind lives.

Come with me.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[WIND HOWLING]

[THINKING] Why are you doing this?

Why?

You must go to the desk now.

Yes.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

Barnabas.

Oh my Barnabas.

Now I can face you as you are.

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[DOOR CLOSES]

There's no one here.

Barnabas,

Barnabas, no matter how painful it is

you must tell me everything that happened

that last night when your mother died.

- Julia. - Step by step, it's very important,

now where were you?

In the tower room.

- She came there? - Yes.

- At night? - Yes,

it was about the same hour,

there was a storm that night, too.

Thunder and lightning stronger than I've ever heard it.

You don't know what Naomi Collins did

- just before she came to-- - No, not for certain.

But in the long nights that followed

I put the pieces together.

She had written a note to my father

just after the poison.

Barnabas, look.

"To Joshua", in her hand.

Quickly, the tower.

[THUNDER RUMBLING AND WIND HOWLING]

Barnabas.

Let me in, please.

I must see you once, please, Barnabas.

[DOOR CREAKS OPEN]

Barnabas, where are you?

Lieutenant Forbes told me if I came here after nightfall,

for some reason you'd be here.

Barnabas.

Oh no.

No, not until you see him, no.

Elizabeth, what has happened?

Barnabas, hold me hold me, my son.

Elizabeth, I am not your son and you are not Naomi Collins.

You would have me even deny myself?

Elizabeth you are under a spell.

No, not I.

You, Joshua said you were dead but you still live,

tell me what is true.

I am not under a spell Elizabeth,

now tell me.

Why won't you tell me what happened to you?

Nothing has happened to me,

but I am afraid for you, now you tell me.

- I only did what I had to do... - Oh, Elizabeth?

I have no life here, she told me that.

- Elizabeth we must get you to a doctor quickly... - No, no seeing you is enough.

It isn't. Now, Julia!

I'll keep your secret.

Tell me what you took.

I don't know, it was in the drawer,

where I put it so long ago.

Oh, Elizabeth.

Oh, it's too late, hold me.

Elizabeth.

Julia, do something!

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