557 - August 13, 1968

[bunniefuu]

♪ [eerie music]

- It is now hours since Victoria Winters

was abducted in the woods by the man named Adam.

While Jeff Clark and the police continue the search for her,

a confrontation took place in the old house

on the Collins estate.

A confrontation to determine whether Victoria Winters

will live or die.

- Adam! Adam, wait!

Come back!

[wind howling]

You say you are holding Vicki as hostage,

but how do I know you're telling the truth?

- You know she is missing.

- Does that prove that you know where she is?

- You recognized her ring.

Isn't that enough for you?

- Yes, it's enough.

- Then what is your answer?

Your answer is yes?

- I-- I can't give you an answer now.

- You love Vicki, don't you?

- You know I do.

That's-- that's why you took her.

But don't you understand what you're doing is monstrous?

- What I am doing is fair!

You love.

You can be loved.

I want no more than that for myself.

Just think of what your life would be like without love.

Think of being alone and lonely and not wanted by anyone.

Then think of Vicki, Barnabas, and you

will give me what I want or you will never see her alive again.

♪ [dramatic music]

♪ [theme music]

[door opens and closes]

- Barnabas, you-- you look exhausted.

- I've been up all night.

- Were you out with the search party?

- No.

- You've been sitting here all night?

- Julia, I thought that when we were rid of Cassandra

our troubles were over, but apparently they--

they were just beginning.

- Barnabas, tell me what's-- what's happened.

- Adam was here again last night.

- Why?

- Why do you think?

He was here to confirm our worst fears.

He said--

- He knows where Vicki is.

- Knows where she is and is prepared to k*ll her if we

don't give him what he wants.

Oh, we have no choice, Julia.

We must give in to him.

- No, we cannot do that.

- We can't let Vicki die either!

- Barnabas-- oh, Barnabas, I know how you feel,

but it isn't a matter of simply giving in to him.

Another experiment is out of the question.

- But is it?

You were able to do it before. - No, Barnabas.

I completed an experiment that was already

started after Lang had done the most complicated part--

the construction of the body-- before he died.

I simply carried out his instructions

and-- and brought it to life.

- But you have his journals.

Everything is there-- his knowledge, his methods.

- Barnabas, even if I was capable of conducting

such an experiment from the beginning, I would not do it.

- Why not?

[sighs]

- 'Cause look at the damage we've already done!

Look what Adam has become!

The thought of a mate for him is frightening.

Do you realize we'd be responsible for creating a--

a race of monsters?

- Then you are willing to let Vicki die?

- No. - Then what are we going to do?

- Well, first, we have to find out who put him up to this.

If we can get to that person, we might have a chance.

- But who is that person?

- Well, there are two strong possibilities.

There's Stokes and-- and Nicholas Blair.

- Do you really think that Stokes could do something

like this?

- When you stop to think about it,

Barnabas, how much do we really know about him?

- Very little.

- We do know that he took Adam in, he protected him,

and he taught him how to read and write.

What we don't know is why he did that.

Now, I think it'd be worth our while to pay

a visit to Professor Stokes.

- Yes, I do too, but I'll go alone.

- Why?

- Because I want you to finish some other problems

that we have here.

I went to the hospital last night.

I went to see Tom Jennings.

- Who is Tom Jennings?

- He was the man who was attacked the night before last.

- Barnabas, I wish you'd stop worrying about that.

- Julia, I won't be satisfied until I see the man

and have looked at the wound on his neck.

- I thought you said that you saw him last night.

- I said I went to the hospital.

Apparently, he wasn't allowed to see visitors.

That can only mean one thing.

- It can mean a great many things,

depending on who the attending physician is.

- Julia, I know what that man is suffering from, and so do you.

We both heard the howling of the dogs the other night.

- I don't see how it's possible.

The-- the thought of a vampire--

- Is too frightening to contemplate?

And that man, when he dies, he will be a vampire,

and that will be two of them.

And then no one living in this town will be safe.

- Oh, Barnabas, I can't accomplish any more

at the hospital than you can.

- You're a doctor.

Surely they'll let you see the man.

When you see his neck, Julia, you'll

know at once whether or not I am right.

Now, I want you to go and be back

before I get back from Stokes.

[loud knocking]

- Mr. Collins, I have to talk to you right away.

- I'm afraid we don't have time.

- Well, you better make time, because what I have

to talk to you about is Adam!

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The name "Adam" does ring a bell, doesn't it?

- Yes, of course.

What about him?

- Do you mind if I come in? - Not at all.

Julia, I'll stay here with Mr. Clark.

You go on.

- No, I'd like Dr. Hoffman to stay.

What I have to say concerns both of you.

- Dr. Hoffman has some business to do immediately.

- It'll just take a minute.

- Very well, then.

What's on your mind?

Well, why are you staring at us like that?

- I just wondered when you were going to ask me about Vicki.

- Well, I think we both assumed that if there were any news,

you would have told it to us right away.

- I see.

Well, there is some news, but it may or may not

have to do with Vicki.

- What do you mean?

- Well, early this morning, actually before dawn,

one of the sheriff's men saw someone running

through the woods near here.

The man swears that the person that he saw

resembled a man named Adam.

- But that's impossible.

- Let me get to my point, Mr. Collins.

I have heard about this man Adam,

and I've heard about some of the things that he's done.

Now, I don't know, maybe I thought

it was too fantastic to think about,

but it has occurred to me now that this man

Adam could possibly be Dr. Lang's creation.

- Why does it occur to you now?

- Because there are two good reasons.

The man that Dr. Lang was making was supposed to be superhuman,

and from all I've heard, this man Adam is superhuman.

- And your other reason?

- Well, when Lang died, there were no accounts

in the papers of a strange body being found in the laboratory.

Now, either someone got away with the body,

or someone finished the experiment for Dr. Lang

and made his creation come to life.

- I take it you suspect Dr. Hoffman and me?

- You both were involved in the experiment.

I know that for a fact.

- We won't deny it.

- All right. [sighs]

And when Lang died, you finished the experiment for him,

didn't you?

- No, we didn't.

- Mr. Collins, if you're not telling me the truth,

you're making a big mistake.

Because if Adam is the creation of Dr. Lang

and he's hiding in the woods near here,

he may be the reason that Vicki's missing.

And if he is, you're responsible.

- I'm sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Clark,

but it happens that your first theory is the correct one.

Isn't that right, Julia?

- Yes.

Out of respect for Lang's memory,

we disposed of the body.

- How?

- We buried it.

- Where?

- In an unmarked grave.

- And it doesn't seem strange to you

that this man Adam fits the description of the man

that Dr. Lang was making?

- Well, in view of what I just told you,

I've had no reason to give it any thought.

- Well, start thinking about it now,

because Adam has escaped from jail!

He's also survived a g*nsh*t wound and a leap

off Widow's Hill.

He's k*lled Sam Evans, and he's nearly k*lled Joe Haskell.

Now, that's quite a track record,

isn't it, for someone who's an ordinary human being, huh?

- Whatever he may seem to be to you,

he is not Dr. Lang's creation.

That's all I can tell you. - All right!

All right.

I don't have any choice except to believe what you're saying.

- But you don't really believe us, do you?

- Well, I didn't say that.

- But by the tone in your voice, is quite clear.

- Mr. Collins, all I'm interested in is funding Vicki,

and I'm not ruling out any possibilities until I do.

And there's only one way, one way

that I'll ever know that Adam is not Dr. Lang's creation.

- And what is that?

- By seeing him myself.

All I need is one good, close look, and I'll know.

Believe me, I'll know.

Good night.

♪ [dramatic music]

[knocking]

- Go away. Go away.

There is no one at home.

[loud knocking]

Damnation!

- Good day, Professor Stokes.

- Mr. Collins.

- May I come in?

- I expect you will, even if I say no.

Hereafter, Mr. Collins, I suggest you avail yourself

of the nearest telephone.

I detest unannounced visitors.

- I'm sorry, Professor, but we need your help.

- How unpleasantly familiar that phrase has become.

Well, what is it now?

- Vicki Winters is missing.

- Missing?

- Yes.

You seem genuinely surprised.

- Did you expect me to give three rousing cheers?

- It's just possible that you know what's happened to her.

- It's also possible that you've taken leave of your senses.

- Come now, Professor.

Isn't it about time that we brought everything out

into the open?

- What are you talking about?

- Vicki has been abducted and is being held a prisoner by Adam.

- I can't believe you're serious.

- I have never been more serious.

- Why, in heaven's name, would Adam do a thing like that?

- I was hoping that you would tell me.

- Well, I'm not a clairvoyant, Mr. Collins.

How could I possibly answer a question like that?

- Very easily!

You could be behind all this.

You could be the one person who has been poisoning Adam's mind.

- Poisoning his mind?

- Well, you can't deny that you've

been hiding him and protecting him from the police,

and you began teaching him things.

- No, I won't deny that.

I felt sorry for him.

More important, I had faith in his potential for learning.

His progress under my tutelage has more than

justified that faith.

But my aim was to broaden his mind, not poison it.

- Then it was not through you that he found out

about his origin?

- What do you mean?

- He has somehow found out that he is

an artificially created human.

This has disturbed him greatly, and he will not rest

until he's been given a mate. - A mate?

Good heavens.

- And he expects me to provide that mate for him.

- You?

- He's under the mistaken impression that I created him.

- You call it a mistaken impression.

There must be some logical basis for it.

- There is, but it is far too long and complicated to explain

now.

- I found that's usually true in matters concerning you.

You're very miserly with your information, Mr. Collins.

- The point is, Professor, that he has abducted Vicki

and has threatened to k*ll her if I don't meet his demand.

- I see.

I never anticipated anything like this.

- What do you mean?

- I'm afraid I am partly responsible for all this.

- Just partly?

- Mr. Collins, I did not set out to mastermind

some kind of evil plot as you seem to think,

but I am the person who told Adam

the truth about his origin.

I told him because--

because I thought he had to know.

- But why?

- I'm afraid I can't tell you that.

- I think you'd better tell me.

- Considering the cooperation I've

received from you and Dr. Hoffman in the past,

it seems rather ungracious for you

to demand answers from me now.

- Professor, do I have to keep reminding you

that Vicki's life is in danger?

- You don't not!

I'll do everything possible to see

that the girl is not harmed.

- How?

Do you know where Adam is? - Yes.

- Where?

- I won't tell you that.

- But I must see him!

- No, Mr. Collins.

I must see him.

I have a far better chance of getting through to him

than you do.

- How soon can you do it?

- As soon as you leave here. - All right, then.

I'll go back to the old house, and I'll wait for you there.

- Mr. Collins, bear in mind that if you and Dr. Hoffman

were the only ones involved in this,

my inclination would be to let you stew in your own juice.

I've agreed to help only because Miss Winters is in danger.

For her sake, I'll do the very best I can.

But let me warn you, if the situation has gotten too far

out of hand, my best may not be good enough.

♪ [dramatic music]

[knocking]

Adam?

Stokes.

- What do you want?

- I must talk to you at once, Adam.

Please, open the door.

- What is it, Professor?

- I want you to tell me where she is.

- Who? - The young woman.

Victoria Winters.

- I don't know anyone by that name.

- Adam, it's useless to waste time.

I know about everything that's happened.

I know what you want.

I-- I know what you've done to try and get it.

Now, please, tell me where she is.

- I don't know.

- I taught you that it was wrong to lie, Adam.

Why are you lying to me now?

- I am not lying to you.

You don't believe me?

- What I don't believe is that Barnabas Collins

would fabricate such an incredible story.

- You spoke to Barnabas?

- Yes.

And he told me everything.

- Then Barnabas will be sorry!

- Adam, hurting innocent people is not

the way to get what you want.

It's all wrong!

- Oh, I get what I want is not important.

- The end justifies the means.

I never taught you anything like that.

- Professor, there are many things you didn't teach me

and many things you did not tell me.

- Adam, you must tell me where Miss Winters is.

- No.

- At least tell me if she is safe.

- She is safe.

- Adam, listen to me.

You can't get away with this.

Sooner or later, the police will find her.

- Professor, are you going to go to the police?

- Use your head, Adam.

- Professor, I don't want to hurt you!

But if you go to the police, I'll--

- I said, "Use your head," Adam.

Try to remember some of the things I've taught you.

You'll know I can't possibly go to the police.

I'd only be placing the girl's life in more danger

than it is now.

- Yes.

That is true.

Now leave, Professor.

There's nothing more to say.

- Yes, there is.

Adam, you've undergone a most remarkable change

since I saw you last.

I want to know what caused it.

- You caused it by what you told me!

- No.

I might have caused you to become depressed or--

or even embittered, but I know you well,

and I don't believe that what I told you by itself

was enough to turn you into a cynical, scheming person.

No.

Someone else has been guiding you,

telling you things that will only harm you in the end.

Who is it?

- I have talked to no one but Carolyn.

- You're lying again.

- Goodbye, Professor!

- Adam, I sympathize with your feelings.

Perhaps what you want from Barnabas is right.

I can't pass judgment on that.

But what is wrong is using an innocent person to get it!

Adam, Victoria Winters had nothing to do with this!

She's not responsible for the loneliness and desperation

you feel.

- Victoria Winters is loved by Barnabas,

and he will give me a mate because he is afraid of what

will happen to her.

Yes.

If it is wrong to hurt innocent people,

then why did Barnabas hurt me?

Once I didn't exist, then he gave me life.

And I do exist, and I am nothing!

Nothing!

And I want to be something!

I want to be loved!

And I will have a mate, and she will love me,

or Barnabas will be punished by seeing Vicki die.

♪ [dramatic music]

♪ [eerie theme music]