571 - September 2, 1968

[bunniefuu]

♪ [eerie music]

- It is almost dawn at the great estate of Collinwood,

a dawn filled with the promise of death,

for in an old house on the estate,

one woman struggles for her life while one man attempts

a last effort to save her.

- Barnabas.

Barnabas.

- You're going to die.

He left you to die.

- No.

No, Barnabas.

Help me.

♪ [dramatic music]

- You.

There's no time. It's getting light.

A few moments, that's all you have.

[clank]

[groaning]

[thud]

[choking]

It's light.

You haven't got the time.

[choking]

[groaning]

[laughs]

[yells]

[screams]

♪ [theme music]

[rooster crows]

Do you hear?

Do you hear it?

It's dawn.

Unless you get back, you will be dust.

[groans]

[groaning]

[GRAVELLY VOICE] It's light.

It's getting light.

[groans]

[thud]

[panting]

[rooster crows]

[creaking]

[wind whistling]

- The light.

The light.

Cl-- close the curtains.

The Light. The light.

I'm dying. Close it!

♪ [suspenseful music]

[creaking]

- [THINKING] Did someone ever look at me

as I now look at you?

No.

No.

Or I would not be alive now.

I must, if Julia is to live.

I must do what I feared, I've dreaded,

and perhaps even wanted.

[screaming]

[moaning]

- What's the matter?

Are you all right?

Are you?

[thud]

[creaking]

- [THINKING] You can't leave the body here.

Someone will find it.

He must be buried, after dark.

I cannot take the chance in the day.

I must see if Julia's all right.

[creaking]

You

- Are you feeling better?

Don't-- - Mrs. Stoddard?

- Don't try to sit up.

- Bring-- bring me--

bring me a mirror.

- What?

- Please, hurry.

Bring me a mirror, please.

They're gone.

Oh, they're gone!

♪ [dramatic music]

- What's gone?

Why are you fingering your neck?

There's nothing there.

There's no sign of anything.

- I-- I--

I must have dreamt that I--

I had a scar on my neck.

- You haven't.

You haven't at all.

- No.

No, I don't.

- Julia, are you all right?

- Yes, I'm-- I'm feeling better.

- I knew you would be.

Elizabeth, w-- would you leave me alone

with Julia for a moment, please?

- I don't understand.

She seemed as though she were dying,

and now she's so much better.

- It's over.

Tom Jennings will never bother you again.

- Thank you, Barnabas.

- You've saved my life so often that I don't deserve thanks.

[knocking]

- Barnabas?

Loomis!

Oh, Barnabas. - Hello, Roger.

- I'm sorry to intrude like this,

but I had to speak with you.

- Why, you're not intruding at all.

You came about Elizabeth?

- Yes, I--

I don't know what's happened to her.

- Well, actually, she's here.

- How long has she been here?

- Well, she came here late last night.

- And you never sent word?

I find that unforgivable! I've been up all night.

Half the house has been.

- I'm sorry, Roger, but Julia has not been well, and--

and I was concerned about her.

I just didn't think.

- Do you realize how worried we've been?

- You haven't been worried.

You don't care.

You were going to send me back to Windcliff.

- I was only going to do what I thought was best

for your own good, Elizabeth.

- It isn't for my good.

They're going to bury me alive there.

- That is the most ridiculous thing!

- And you're involved.

You and Julia Hoffman.

She has my coffin waiting for me.

- Elizabeth!

- I know she has.

I saw it.

- When did you see it?

- Last night.

I followed her from the house.

- And where was this coffin?

- In the crypt.

- Where are you going, Roger?

- I'm going to the crypt. - Oh, don't be ridiculous.

- It isn't. Let him go.

- I have to go, Barnabas.

If I'm to believe one word that my sister says.

- Well, then I'll come with you. - No, that isn't necessary.

- No, I insist.

Uh, just one moment.

I'll go up and see how Julia is and get my coat.

- You will find, Roger, that I am not out of my mind.

- I would be very happy.

- And once you have seen the coffin, then--

then we will discuss Windcliff.

- If the coffin is there.

- Roger will see the coffin, the body.

- Barnabas, no, he must not.

- I know that, but I don't know how to stop him.

♪ [dramatic music]

- Remember our bargain, Roger.

If the coffin is there, I stay where I please.

- Oh, good. You're ready.

[knocking]

- Excuse me.

- Good morning, Mr. Collins. - Mr. Blair?

- I, uh, wanted to give these flowers to Dr. Hoffman.

- Well, thank you. I'll see that she gets them.

- Oh, I wonder if I might see her.

- Oh, I'm afraid that's impossible.

- Oh, is she worse? She was so much better.

Did something else happen?

- Well, she is better, but--

- I, uh, wonder if you would mind,

Mrs. Stoddard, telling Dr. Hoffman that I am here?

Perhaps she would see me.

- Of course.

- Roger, how good to see you.

- Well, it's nice to see you, Nicholas.

- But I see that you are going out.

Please don't let me interrupt.

- If you wouldn't mind, Nicholas,

there is something I must do that I want to get over with.

Barnabas, are you coming with me?

- Yes, of course.

If Dr. Hoffman wants to see you, please don't tire her.

- I shall make my visit very short.

- Please do.

♪ [suspenseful music]

- If you'll go up now.

- Then she will see me.

Good.

I'm sure I owe it to you, Mrs. Stoddard.

Thank you.

[wind whistling]

- Oh, frankly, I don't know what to do about Liz.

I'm sure there's no coffin in there.

- Why would there be?

Wouldn't it be kinder simply to discuss Elizabeth's problem

with her?

There's no need to embarrass her by-- by exposing a lie.

- You don't believe there's an empty coffin in there

either, do you?

- Well, why would there be?

- Well, there is a chance, however small,

that she actually saw it.

- Why don't we go back to the house?

It would be best for everyone concerned.

- No, Barnabas.

I owe it to Liz to go to the cript.

I told her I would and I will,

either alone or with you, as you choose.

- Well, I won't let you go alone.

- Then come along.

- Thank you for the flowers.

They-- they're lovely.

- I was very concerned about you.

- You shouldn't have been.

- Very concerned.

Good doctors are vital to all of us.

We can't afford to have you sick.

- Well, I feel much better now.

- You still look quite, quite weak.

- I'll probably be out of bed tomorrow.

- And back to work?

- Yes.

- Good.

I imagine you have a lot to do.

- Yes.

The virus did come at a bad time for me.

- Yes.

I can imagine.

- Can you?

I don't believe that you came here simply

to ask about my health, Mr. Blair.

- Really?

- No, I think there's more to it than that.

- Oh, what could there be?

- You tell me.

- Perhaps I'm planning to be ill,

and I want to make sure that you'll

be able to handle my case.

- No, that's not it.

Your health would seem to be extraordinarily good.

I would think that you would be rather indestructible,

as a matter of fact.

- I certainly hope so.

[knocks on wood]

Yes.

Well, I shan't tire you, Dr. Hoffman.

- Mr. Blair, before you leave, tell me one thing.

Did you find out what you came here to see?

- Why, of course.

You are much better.

- Roger, if there is a coffin, there--

there's no need to open it.

It's enough that it's there.

- We shall soon see.

[sighs]

Just as we both thought.

There is no coffin here.

- No, there's not.

[THINKING] What does it mean?

What does it mean?

♪ [dramatic music]

- Roger, the coffin was there.

- It is not now.

- Well, then, it's been moved.

- Oh, Elizabeth, how much do you expect me to believe?

How much?

- Do you think I invented all this?

- I'm afraid I do.

Mysterious men, moving coffins.

Why?

For what purpose?

- Well, ask Dr. Hoffman.

She can tell you it was there.

- I-- I wish you wouldn't worry so much about the coffin.

That's not the important thing.

- It is.

I want Roger to know that he can believe me,

that I'm sane, as sane as you and he.

Go ahead. Ask Dr. Hoffman.

She's awake now.

- If you'll excuse me.

- She won't lie to you.

- I know she won't, Liz.

- Why isn't everything as it used to be?

I-- I don't know when it all began to change.

With Cassandra, I think.

When Roger brought her into the house.

- Yes, it-- it did change with her.

- If I didn't have this terrible fear that I

was going to be buried alive.

I'm all right except for that.

Barnabas, I swear I am.

- Yes, I believe you, Elizabeth.

I believe you.

- Julia, you aren't answering me.

Did my sister see you in the crypt?

Was there an empty coffin there?

- Well, Mrs. Stoddard did follow me from Collinwood.

That-- that part is true.

- And the rest?

- Well, I do believe that something strange happened

to her after she left me.

- She didn't see you in the crypt?

- No.

No, she did not.

- Well, then, we must get her back

to the sanitarium as quickly as possible.

- No!

No, she-- she doesn't--

doesn't want to go.

It-- it won't do any good to send her back.

She won't make any progress there.

- Well, that's a strange way to talk about your own hospital.

- Well, I'm-- I'm talking about that patient, Roger.

If she doesn't want to cooperate, she-- she won't.

Let her stay at home and--

and have a doctor consult her.

Or if you want, I'll see if I can help her,

but don't send her back.

- Roger, Elizabeth's upset.

She thinks that you and Julia are plotting against her.

- Oh, what will I say to her?

- Let her stay at Collinwood where she feels secure.

[sighs]

- You lied?

- Yes.

- You had to.

- Yes.

- Who took that body away, that coffin?

Think, Julia.

We must find out who did it!

- Nicholas.

Why did he come here today?

Would there be any connection?

- How?

Why?

There is only one person who knows about Tom Jennings, one

person besides us.

- Who?

- The vampire who made him what he was.

And tonight, that vampire will be walking the earth.

He is the one that I must find, and soon.

♪ [dramatic music]

♪ [eerie theme music]