570 - August 30, 1968

[bunniefuu]

♪ [eerie music]

- There is a full moon over Collinwood

and the lives of those who live here

seem to be going in directions they have never gone.

A woman who has held the family together

finds herself a kind of outcast, while another

feels the need of a forbidden secret which

can only destroy her.

- You-- you called for me.

Where are you?

Where are you?

- Dr. Hoffman.

- What are you doing here?

- Who-- who's coffin is that?

- You followed me.

You had no right to follow me.

- That coffin.

That coffin.

Is it mine?

- No. Get out of here!

You have no right to be here!

- It is mine.

It is.

- Get out of here!

Get out of here!

- You're lying to me.

- Get out!

Get out!

Get out!

[dogs howling]

You-- you called me.

Why don't you appear to me?

Where are you?

- I'm here, Julia.

[snarls]

♪ [theme music]

[wind whistling]

- Why can't we find Tom Jennings?

Where could he be?

Where could Julia be meeting him?

- I don't know, Barnabas.

We've looked everywhere.

- No we haven't or we would have found him.

I keep thinking that they--

they're meeting in some place I know,

some place I've been overlooking.

- Well, could you destroy him, Barnabas?

I mean, could you really?

- Well, what do you think I've been hunting him for?

Without Julia, we cannot finish the experiment.

- Is that the only reason you're gonna find him?

- Well, what other reason could there be?

Adam may come here tonight, he may

demand to find out how far we've gone with the experiment.

What could I say?

If we do not do as he wants, he will destroy Vicki,

and you know that.

- Yeah.

I just think maybe you got another reason, Barnabas.

- Well, what other reason?

Well, yes, he-- he could k*ll the rest of the family one

by one.

He never threatens unless he is determined to go through

with what he promises.

Why did this have to happen when the experiment is so important?

[laughing]

Well, what are you laughing at?

- Oh, Barnabas, you-- you-- you're talking about all

the people except the one that concerns you the most.

I mean, the experiment, Vicki, Adam.

The one you don't mention much is Julia,

and she's the one you need the most.

- Obviously.

I can't put together the parts of a body

into a human with life and breath.

- Barnabas, you just don't get what I'm saying.

- Are you being profound?

- No, but you-- you're acting like some man who's secretary

is missing, and I know that's how you don't feel.

I mean, Barnabas, you're more than just worried about Julia.

- For a specific reason.

- Well, that's all I'm saying.

- If she goes on seeing him, she will die.

And if she dies, she will be like him.

Well, we must stop him.

We've got to go out again. - Oh, wait.

Where are you gonna go? - Through the woods again.

- Well, he's not there. She's not there.

How could they be?

- Well, we can't stop with nothing done.

- Why, Barnabas?

Why?

- What do you want me to admit, Willie?

That I care for Julia more than I appear to?

All right, I will admit it.

She's been a part of my life for so long, a very important part,

and I must find her.

But where could they be?

Where could he be?

Where could he be at this time of night, so late?

Yes.

The docks.

I remember the docks at night.

Deserted, except for the occasional woman hurrying home.

[knocking]

Answer it.

- Mrs. Stoddard? - Barnabas.

I must see you, Barnabas.

- Elizabeth.

- They have it all ready.

- What are you talking about?

- My coffin.

It's empty, waiting for me.

- Elizabeth.

- You don't believe me?

I've seen it.

You must hide me.

You must.

♪ [dramatic music]

- Elizabeth, why are you talking about coffins?

- You don't believe me either.

- I don't know what to believe.

- Barnabas, I--

I thought you would help me.

- I want to help you very much.

- Barnabas, I--

I can't talk in front of him.

- Willie.

Elizabeth.

- You've always liked me, haven't you, Barnabas?

- Of course.

- Then-- then you mustn't let him do it.

- Do what?

- Roger wants to send me back to Windcliff.

He intends to.

He went to get his car.

I ran out of my house, my own house.

He wants it to happen to me.

- He wants what to happen?

- Hasn't he told you?

Then Julia has.

- No.

- I don't believe you.

- All I know is that you ran away from Windcliff.

Now, Roger would do nothing that wasn't in your best interest.

- That shows how--

how little you know him.

He's determined I go back there, knowing what it means.

- What does it mean?

- It means they're going to let me be buried alive.

[dramatic music]

You-- you don't believe me?

- I don't believe that could have happened.

- Yes.

Yes, it could happen.

It's going to happen.

They're going to think I'm dead, and I--

I won't be.

- No one would make that mistake.

- I came here because I--

I thought you would let me stay.

- I would be perfectly willing to let you stay, if I thought

it was, well, for the best. - It is.

It is.

- There's only one way for you to get rid

of this delusion, Elizabeth.

- I will be all right if I stay here.

- I don't think you will be.

Now, if I come back to Windcliff with you--

- No.

- Now, listen to me, Elizabeth.

If I come back and tell the doctors what you're afraid of,

surely they will be of help to you.

- It will still happen.

- It can't possibly happen.

- It will.

I've told you.

Dr. Hoffman is involved.

- She can't be.

- I thought that too.

I begged for her help.

[sighs]

- Have you seen Julia?

- Yes.

Tonight.

I followed her. - Where?

- To the coffin.

That's how I know.

I just saw it.

- Where did you see Julia and the coffin?

- I'd never been there before.

- Elizabeth, it's very important that you tell me.

- If I do, will you go to her? - Yes.

Yes.

- Will you beg her not to be on their side?

- Of course.

If you will tell me where she is.

Is it far from here? - No.

No, not far at all.

In an empty crypt at the edge of the Collins Cemetery,

the cemetery where I'm going to be buried.

They are hiding my coffin there, in the crypt.

And when she saw me in the doorway,

she screamed at me to get out.

She knew I'd found the secret.

She screamed at me to leave.

- Julia?

Julia!

Julia?

♪ [dramatic music]

[wind whistling]

- What are you doing here?

- I-- I-- I was, uh, just looking for Barnabas,

Mrs. Stoddard. - You're spying on me.

- Oh, no, Mrs. Stoddard. I swear.

[stammering]

I just thought I heard a door slam.

- No one must see that I'm here. - Well, Mrs. Stoddard--

I'll do that, Mrs. Stoddard.

Uh, where did Barnabas go, ma'am?

- I don't know what concern that is of yours.

He's on an errand for me.

If anyone comes to the door, you answer

it and you tell them that I'm not here,

that you haven't seen me.

I don't want to see anyone tonight.

- OK, sure. Don't you worry about it.

I-- I-- I'll do that. [clatter]

- Shh. I think I hear something.

- Willie!

- Barnabas!

Wh-- what happened?

- She's dead.

- Is she, Barnabas?

- Look at her.

She's dead.

- No, she's not dead, but almost.

- I'll get a doctor. - No!

- It's too late for a doctor.

- Well, is it, Barnabas?

Is she gonna die?

- I don't know, but you better get Josette's room read, now.

- You're lying to me.

- Please, Elizabeth.

- She's dead.

- Willie.

- You can keep that from me.

- Willie, I think you better take Mrs. Stoddard

upstairs first.

Willie will look after you.

Tomorrow morning we will decide what to do.

The front room.

- Death, it follows me wherever I go.

- She is not dead!

- No.

Now, go along with Willie.

Take Mrs. Stoddard upstairs.

I'll stay here with--

with Julia.

Julia?

Julia, are you all right?

It's Barnabas.

- Barnabas. - No, don't.

Stay with me, Julia.

Julia?

[dogs howling]

- He calls to me, and I must go.

- Yes. I know, Julia.

Julia?

- I'm-- I'm going to die.

- Julia?

- I-- I know it.

Oh, Barnabas.

- No, rest.

Rest, please.

[dogs howling]

- I can't.

I can't.

- But Julia.

[stammering]

I'm going to help you.

I-- I can.

I-- I will.

I swear I will.

- No.

- Julia?

- Hey, Barnabas, we've got to get her to the hospital.

- What time is it?

- What?

:.

- In half an hour, it will be gone.

- Barnabas, she won't be alive then.

- We must take that chance.

- Barnabas, we've got to get her to the hospital!

Get her a transfusion!

- Will that end it, Willie?

Or will he suddenly appear in the middle of the night

at the hospital bed? No, Willie.

We must settle him.

That is the only way we can save her.

- Barnabas, we've been hunting him.

- I know where he will be at dawn, and I will be there too.

And as he lies in his coffin--

Get me a stake, Willie.

Now.

♪ [dramatic music]

- How is Julia, Barnabas?

- She won't be well until we do what we must.

- How-- can-- how can you be sure of that?

- Because I know.

Time to go.

- You want me to go with you?

We don't want to get there before it's light.

- It won't be light.

- It won't be safe u-- u-- unless he's in the coffin.

- Come, Willie!

[suspenseful music]

- You're dying.

Tonight you were so strong, and now you're dying.

- Mrs. Stoddard?

- They left you alone to die.

All alone.

I forgive you for being involved and not telling me

where my coffin was.

Roger made you do it.

I don't know why, but he made you plot against me.

I'm positive that's right.

And, now, you will be buried before I am.

- Barnabas, it's not light yet.

- Quiet.

- Barnabas, you're taking an awful chance!

[creaks]

Empty!

Barnabas, he's gonna come back any minute!

We gotta get out of here! I ain't staying here!

- Willie. - I ain't staying!

- Willie!

You.

There's no time.

It's getting light.

Just a moment, that's all you have.

[clank]

[groaning]

[thud]

[choking] [groans]

The lights.

The lights.

You're wasting your time with me.

[groaning]

[choking]

[groaning]

[screams]

♪ [eerie theme music]