536 - July 15, 1968

[bunniefuu]

- A dreaded night on the great estate of Collinwood,

a night which brought a curse to fruition.

And the man against whom the curse was designed had a dream,

and lived.

- Barnabas, there must be some reason

that this dream was different from all the others.

- Yes.

And I think I know what it is.

- Tell me.

- I have won, Julia. I have won.

I was not meant to survive the dream.

But I have.

And now, I am completely free of Angelique.

- Now, wait a minute, Barnabas.

You have survived the dream.

But how can you be so sure that you've won?

- The dream was her way of re-imposing the curse on me.

But something went wrong.

It didn't work.

- I don't like it. It's too easy.

- I'm sure it's all over now.

I want Willy to find out what happened.

Now, go downstairs and get him.

- I think we should both go.

I don't think you should stay here alone.

- Nonsense. Go downstairs and bring him up.

- All right, but I'll be right back.

[knocking]

- Who is there?

Who is it?

[squeaking]

- No!

No!

[laughter]

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♪ [eerie theme music]

- Adam? It's Caorlyn.

-[groaning]

- Adam?

- What's happened?

What's wrong?

- Hurt, hurt.

- Where? Tell me?

- Hurt.

- Let me see.

Adam, let me see.

[groaning]

- I'm getting a doctor.

I'll be right back.

I'll bring Julie Hoffman.

- No, see Barnabas right now.

- I have to get someone.

I don't know what to do.

Adam, try to tell me.

When did it start hurting?

- Just before you came.

- Was he here?

Did Barnabas do something to you?

Tell me!

- Where he is.

- Professor Stokes will be here soon.

He'll know what to do.

- Barnabas!

- Barnabas!

Barnabas?

No!

- Angelic has won.

- Let me help you into the house.

- The bats.

- Willy!

Willy!

- I'll be as before.

You know what to do.

- Willy!

Willy?

Listen to me.

Barnabas, can you hear me?

- Julia!

- Outside, Willy!

- What happened?

- Luke.

- A bat.

He's going to be like he was before.

He knew it.

He kept expecting it.

- Willy.

- Now we're going to hear the dogs howling again.

And every night, he's going to be out prowling around.

- Willy, stop it.

He's not dead.

He has to be dead before that happens.

And it won't happen if we can just keep him alive.

- We won't be able to.

Every day, he's going to be in that coffin.

But I'll keep them away.

I'll protect him like I did before.

He's going to need me more now.

- Willy, help me get him into the house.

Help me.

- Unless we do what he told us we should.

- Willy, I've got to examine him.

- Just last week, he gave me a stake and a hammer.

He said, if this happened.

- Willy, help me!

- Are you going to do it, Julia?

Are you going to end it?

- Will you help me?

- I can't do it.

I can't do it, Julia. And you can't make me do it.

Nobody can.

You see, he's been nice to me.

I won't do it, Julia.

- Willy, will you help me carry him into the house, now?

- OK, Julia.

I'll do what you tell me.

But remember, I got to do what you tell me.

- Adam.

- Go.

- Will you be all right if I do?

- Go.

- No, you can't.

I'll be right back with a doctor.

- Adam go to Barnabas.

- You can't.

You're too weak.

- Find Barnabas.

- There, there, Adam, don't try to get up again.

[groaning]

- Adam!

- Is something wrong?

- Thank goodness you're here.

- I came as soon as I could.

Has he been hurt? - No.

- He's ill?

- I don't know what happened.

He was fine.

I left to call you.

And when I came back, he was lying on the floor clutching

his throat in terrible pain.

- An attack of some sort, what did he say?

- Nothing, nothing that made any sense.

He keeps talking about Barnabas.

He even tried to leave to go to him.

- Adam hates Barnabas Collins.

- Why?

- There are many unanswered questions about Adam.

- Professor Stokes, what are we going to do?

What?

[music playing]

- He's dead.

There's no heartbeat.

He had to die before he could be the living dead.

Now, what Cassandra wanted has happened.

- Willy, please don't cry.

- I can't help it.

What are we gonna do?

I can't make no decisions.

You know that.

- I know.

- We lived through this before, you and me.

- He said that if it happened again,

no one would be safe, no one.

- You're gonna-- you're going to end it, aren't you?

- I don't know.

- You really could do that, couldn't you?

- When I think of him for all eternity living at night,

prowling, feeling that need for blood, unless we do something.

- Don't you say we.

- Unless something is done, that is

what we are sentencing him to.

And I remember the look on his face

when he begged me to take the stake and the hammer.

- You want me to go for them?

- No.

No, no, I don't.

Oh, but I must.

I must.

- He's dying. - Stop it.

- He's dying.

And we aren't doing anything.

I can barely feel his heart beating.

Help him, professor!

help him!

- Give them to me.

Give them to me.

- I-- I cannot do it.

- I know.

- Yes, you do, Willy.

You do know.

Thank you, Willy.

You know.

I promised-- I promised Barnabas that I would do it.

But I can't.

- He's going to turn into a vampire any minute now.

His coffin is still in the basement.

Or is it the one in the secret room with the mausoleum?

We can take him there.

That's where I first found Barnabas, coffin all

wrapped in chains.

I never should have taken him out of there.

I know that now.

- We can't put him--

we can't put him back there.

- Why not?

- Because too many people know about that place, Vicky, Jeff

Clark, even Angelic, probably.

No.

I promised Barnabas that he would never live as a vampire

again.

I will keep that promise.

- What?

- You will dig a grave in the woods.

We will bury him.

- No.

- He has no heartbeat.

He has no pulse.

He's dead, Willy, face it.

You will go and start digging the grave.

- We'll need a cross.

We can't do it alone.

- Yes we can, Willy.

We can, because we must.

- His heart has stopped.

- No.

No.

- I don't understand it.

- You made a mistake.

- There's no pulse beat.

- How could he die?

He was so healthy this afternoon, so strong.

How could he die?

- I don't know.

I don't believe it.

Somehow, I have a feeling that it isn't true.

That's curious, because I trust my feelings implicitly.

- One of us should go for the police if he's dead.

- Not yet.

- Why?

- Because I'm not yet ready to give up my intuition that more

is happening tonight than is happening here, and more

will happen yet.

We must wait, Ms. Stoddard, a few moments longer.

- We're-- we're we wrong, Willy?

Is this what he really wanted?

- That's what he told us to do.

- Barnabas speak to us.

- He can't.

- We'll never see him again.

- I know.

- I've so often wished I'd never met him.

No, no, that's not true.

Even when we were against each other,

I knew he only did what he was--

what he was driven to do.

- That was all.

- If that curse had been placed on you or me,

how would we have behaved?

- It was so different, ever since I came back this time.

- No, no, not yet, Willy.

- Julia, we're only torturing ourselves.

- We can't-- we can't just bury him like this.

- Well, we can pray for him, Julia.

- Yes, yes, we can.

- I don't understand you.

You say you feel he isn't dead.

But he is.

He is.

A person heart doesn't stop beating and then start again!

- I don't understand my feeling myself.

- How long you going to sit there?

- I suppose I must accept it.

- Professor, where are you going?

- I'll see you home.

- We can't leave him here like this.

- If he is dead, what will happen to him?

- I can't leave him.

He saved my life.

You go for the police.

- Surely, you don't want to answer all their questions,

not until we find out what actually happened to him.

- And who's going to tell us that?

- Julia Hoffman, for one.

Are you afraid to stay here alone with him?

- No.

I owe him that much.

- Good.

I'll return with Julia as soon as possible.

I expect a miracle.

It's strange.

I've never believed in miracles before.

- So, so it is over, the end.

The end.

You'll feel better if you cried.

- I'm past crying, Willy.

If I could imagine life without him, I could cry.

But I can't.

I can't.

- No, neither can I.

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♪ [eerie theme music]