596 - October 6, 1968

[bunniefuu]

♪ [EERIE MUSIC]

NARRATOR:The people who live in the great house of Collinwood

rest unaware of the drama which is taking place

in another house on the great estate.

For an experiment is ending, an experiment which,

in a previous attempt, this night,

has already caused great suffering.

An experiment which, if successful this time,

will provide a mate for one man

and remove his perilous threat

to the entire Collins household.

- She's dead. - No.

JULIA: I can't look at what we've done.

Why did you do that? What is happening?

JULIA: It's over, Adam, and we failed.

ADAM: You mean she will never live?

JULIA: No.

I should k*ll you both.

- We did all we could. - I don't care.

[WOMAN ON TABLE MOANS]

Eve?

BARNABAS: How is it possible?

JULIA: I don't know.

I want to see her. I must see her.

JULIA: Be careful, Adam.

I will be careful.

Her eyes are open.

[GASPS] JULIA: Barnabas.

ADAM: She is alive.

She is alive!

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ADAM: She doesn't look like Carolyn.

Adam, we told you she wouldn't.

But she is beautiful.

Julia, you mustn't blame yourself.

Please.

We've k*lled a woman, a woman who did nothing.

But she wanted to take part in the experiment.

- But why? Why? - We'll never know.

But she did say that she was ill,

and she didn't have long to live.

But the experiment caused her death.

Her eyes, they don't look at me.

She doesn't move, why?

JULIA: Adam, there's no need to panic.

I don't think she hears, either.

You've no way of knowing that.

You worry about a dead woman when she should be your concern.

Something is wrong with her.

We don't know that yet.

I know it.

I wasn't like that.

You can't expect her to have your reaction.

Adam, your reactions were different from hers.

Perhaps her reactions are what Dr. Lang expected.

There must be some trauma in being brought to life this way.

She's possibly simply in shock.

Let me examine her.

Adam, no.

What are you going to do?

JULIA: I'm going to test her sensations.

You don't think she has any.

No.

I'm not being sadistic, Adam,

I simply want to find out if she can feel the prick of a pin.

You will not hurt her.

Adam, we must let Julia do what she thinks best.

She's only half alive. Now, we must find out.

No. I will make her talk.

There are other ways than Dr. Hoffman's.

Stand away.

If you can, I'd be delighted if you would try.

ADAM: Eve, I am Adam.

I will not let them hurt you.

You and I, we are the same.

I came to life on this bed, but I struggled.

Eve, can you hear me?

I know you don't understand words yet,

but if you can hear my voice, you must know.

You must know there is something in my voice

that makes you want to answer.

Eve, answer me.

Move your eyes to mine.

Tell me by moving your eyes.

You must.

She breathes, but that is all.

You made a mistake.

JULIA: I did everything exactly as it was outlined.

Adam, we could never guarantee success.

ADAM: You must do more.

Well, how can I when you won't even let me touch her?

Let her, Adam. She will not hurt her.

I promise.

Alright.

I will watch every move you make, doctor.

Barnabas, would you unstrap that?

You are free now.

You can stand.

It should not be like this.

What is the pulse?

Pulse is normal.

What does it matter if the pulse beats,

if the blood is running through her body,

if she can do nothing?

JULIA: Her heartbeat is normal.

What else can it be?

Perhaps her mind.

If we could measure her brainwaves.

But we'd have to take her to a hospital to do that.

JULIA: Well, I could call Windcliff

and have them send an ambulance.

No, she will stay here.

I will make her alright.

How? How?

[EVE MOANS]

- Did you hear that? - Yes.

Eve.

Eve, make that sound again.

Make it again.

Her fingers.

[EVE GASPS]

I have been asleep for so long.

She can speak.

She can speak!

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Of course I can speak.

I couldn't.

Listen to her, she can speak.

Why are you so surprised?

Who are you?

I am Adam.

How appropriate.

The first man I see is named Adam.

Where am I?

What is all this?

Who are they?

Dr. Hoffman.

Barnabas Collins.

Why are you staring at me?

We were concerned. You were still for so long.

It has been a long journey from another time.

BARNABAS: Another time? What do you mean?

From another place.

What place?

Answer me.

- I... I cannot. - But you must.

I don't know why I said that.

- You must have some idea. - No.

No, I don't.

- Barnabas, stop it. - We must know.

Don't let him talk to me that way.

He will stop.

I cannot help it that I do not remember.

Do you remember opening your eyes

for the first time in this room?

And do you remember hearing our voices when we spoke?

I heard voices,

but the voices were so far away.

But you didn't answer.

No.

I couldn't see clearly.

It was as if I were watching a dream.

You know about dreams?

Of course.

Barnabas, how can she? How can she speak?

How can she know everything that she does?

Why do you ask me?

You brought me here, you know who I am.

Tell me.

BARNABAS: We cannot.

We don't understand ourselves.

You never lived until now.

The voices were so far away.

I was so tired.

It was as if I could do nothing.

Where did I come here from?

Tell me!

BARNABAS: If you have a memory,

you couldn't have lived up until now.

But I have.

Only where, when...

You know. You must!

- You know, you brought me here. - Julia, give her something to calm her.

- No! - Please, Julia.

- This will only... - How could I have not have lived until now?

I am fully grown.

I know you are men. She is a woman.

I know this is a basement.

How could I know all these things?

Why can't I remember how I learned them?

JULIA: Now listen, this will only hurt for a second.

No!

I know about pain.

You will not touch me.

I am doing this for your own good.

No, stay away!

Don't come near me. Stay away.

[EVE SCREAMS]

ADAM: She cannot stand.

[DOOR CLOSES]

Someone is upstairs.

Who would come here at this hour?

I don't know.

If anybody came down here now...

The door is locked.

[KNOCKING]

It's someone that knows we're down here.

[KNOCKING]

Who is it?

Timothy Stokes.

TIMOTHY:Hope I'm here in time.

BARNABAS:What is wrong?

Yes, I am.

You haven't started the experiment yet.

ADAM: You are wrong, professor. The experiment is over.

- She's alive. - Yes.

Here.

She's fainted.

ADAM: I'll do that.

[EVE MOANS]

I must speak to you at once, alone.

ADAM: What do you have to speak about, professor?

TIMOTHY: It's rather a personal matter.

BARNABAS: It is no concern of yours.

ADAM: It concerns her, doesn't it?

Then it concerns me, too.

BARNABAS: Take her where she'll be comfortable,

up to Josette's room.

She can rest there.

We must go to the drawing room.

I left my proof there.

Proof? What proof?

You will see, before he comes back.

I'm not sure I care about what you've discovered.

She's alive and she's Adam's.

She is no concern of mine.

I think what happened,

happened because she stood quickly for the first time.

There seems to be nothing wrong.

ADAM: Julia.

I'm coming with you.

EVE: No. No.

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Curious, the uses these letters have.

I bought them to teach Adam,

but they're being educational for me now,

although he doesn't know it.

BARNABAS: I'm in no mood for your games, professor.

Yes, Mr. Collins, but this game will teach you something, too.

Is Adam coming?

Not immediately, I don't think.

You both recognize this name.

JULIA: Leona Eltridge.

BARNABAS: The woman who died downstairs.

TIMOTHY: Did she?

Well, not for the first time.

BARNABAS: What do you mean?

Watch my hands.

BARNABAS: Danielle Roget.

Who is she?

Don't you know?

I'm surprised.

She was the most evil woman the th century produced.

Completely Immoral.

She m*rder*d at least men in her lifetime.

She was finally hanged here in America

after she had escaped from France.

BARNABAS: That's all quite interesting, professor.

Mr. Collins, I'm disappointed in you.

BARNABAS: And I am disappointed in you for wasting my time.

Don't you understand what I'm saying?

Surely you do, Julia.

Who is Leona Eltridge?

Where did she come from? Who knows anything about her?

There are no answers, are there?

But if Nicholas Blair found out about the experiment...

Oh no, that's not possible.

We don't think it is.

But if Blair provided a life force for Adam to bring here,

where did he find such a life force?

From the depths of hell he conjured up Danielle Roget.

BARNABAS: Professor, you have a vivid imagination.

I have a vivid sense of reality, Mr. Collins.

Barnabas, suppose he's right?

I don't believe it.

Professor, we have to have more proof than an anagram.

If you wait for proof, you'll be making a grave error.

If that woman upstairs has the spirit,

the life force of Danielle Roget,

then no one in this village will be safe.

Well, what shall we do?

My advice is to destroy her, now, tonight.

♪ [DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Feeling all right now?

Will you leave me?

I should go downstairs.

I should.

They are simply talking about me.

What do we care what they say about me?

I care.

You shouldn't.

Come here.

Let me look at you.

You are kind.

You don't like my face.

Oh, I did not say that.

Yet you are strong.

Kiss me.

BARNABAS: Professor, I do appreciate your sincerity.

Sincerity is not something I prize, Mr. Collins.

I'm afraid I simply cannot accept

your suppositions to heart.

There are too many ifs.

I did not think you were such a practical man.

I've learned to be.

Oh, I don't know.

Perhaps I just want to end this all.

I want Adam to take Eve and leave this house.

ADAM: I am ready, Barnabas.

As soon as she has rested, we will go.

No, you can't. You have no place to go.

I will find a place.

I won't let you.

Barnabas, please.

Make him understand that he cannot be alone with her.

Why?

Why not, professor?

Finish what you started.

Adam, you know the affection I feel for you.

ADAM: I expect you feel the same for Eve.

I cannot.

You have not even spoken to her.

TIMOTHY: I have an intuition about her.

A feeling that she is cruel.

- That she is not the woman for you. - She is!

I do not know where you found the woman

- who provided the life force for the experiment... - That is not important.

But my feelings are

and they are based on some research,

that woman is evil.

ADAM: Professor, I don't understand.

- She has just been alive less than one hour. - Adam, listen to me.

Professor, she has done nothing.

TIMOTHY: I have reason to believe...

I have reason to believe that you are no longer my friend.

Adam, that woman upstairs is the reincarnation

of the most evil woman who was ever born.

She lived in the th century.

She was the most feared woman in the world.

She committed every crime.

Stop it!

You are talking of someone else, not her.

[TIMOTHY] I am very seldom wrong.

This time you are wrong, professor.

I know it.

[WIND BLOWING]

[DOOR BANGING]

[WIND BLOWING]

[DOOR BANGING]

[CHANDELIER TINKLING]

I remember you.

Yes, I do.

You have come after me.

No.

No, mon petit, I will not go back with you.

I am alive. I am alive.

I will never go back.

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