608 - October 22, 1968

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NARRATOR: Night over Collinwood.

A dismal night that promises new disasters.

For in a house by the sea,

an ageless drama is being acted out,

and one man has discovered that both sacred

and profane love can leave you completely alone.

I've lost Maggie, my job.

Everything.

All because of you.

All I have left is you.

You don't have me anymore.

I don't want you.

You've ruined my life.

And you don't even care.

Not particularly.

Evil.

Vicious.

I'll k*ll you.

♪ [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

No, you won't.

No.

I ought to, but I can't.

Even now I can't.

Put that letter opener down. You look ridiculous.

I'd rather k*ll myself.

I hate myself.

I hate everything I've... I've become.

Will you please leave?

I don't wanna live.

I wanna die.

I wanna die.

Joe, if you don't leave me, then I'll leave you.

If you knew how much you bore me.

[JOE GRUNTING]

♪ [FRANTIC MUSIC]

♪ [EERIE THEME MUSIC]

Joe.

Joe.

Oh, don't. Don't. Let me die.

I wanna die.

I never thought I'd say that, but I...

I do.

So many rules I've forgotten, broken.

Once I started...

I could never go... never go back.

What happens... What happens to me now?

Let me die.

[GRUNTING]

Nicholas. Help him.

Nicholas.

Joe.

Joe, please get up.

Get out of here.

Barnabas.

Wherever you are, Barnabas, I need you.

You must come to me, Barnabas, you must.

[DOG BARKING, HOWLING]

ANGELIQUE:I need you.

I need you.

You must come, Barnabas.

You have to come.

I don't know what to do.

You must come to me now.

[DOG BARKING, HOWLING]

Now.

Now.

Now!

Now.

You're my sl*ve.

You must come to me.

Hurry. Hurry.

Hurry.

[DOORKNOB CLICKING]

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Barnabas?

Oh, at last.

Won't you ever leave me alone?

You don't ever believe I need you, do you?

And I do.

In so many ways.

Look.

Joe.

Barnabas, he did it to himself.

Why?

- Don't ask me questions. - Why did he do it?

Why?

He's dying.

You shouldn't have been here.

Need I even bother asking?

How long, Angelique?

Barnabas, get him out of here.

How long?

I should have remembered.

Anyone. Anyone.

A stranger passing.

Friend.

An enemy.

It doesn't really matter.

No. Just as long as it's someone.

And that someone obeys orders, Have you forgotten that?

Because you are my someone and you will do as I say.

Now, take him to the woods and leave him there.

But he's dying.

Then you won't have to k*ll him, will you?

Yes, Barnabas. k*ll him.

I want him far from this place

where none of us will be blamed.

Where even Nicholas will not realize

what has happened here tonight.

Barnabas.

Now that I have you, I don't want him anymore.

He couldn't bear it. He...

Is that what you'll do with me when you don't want me anymore?

Will you have someone carry me to the woods and k*ll me?

You would, wouldn't you?

If you had someone beside me.

♪ [DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[WIND HOWLING]

Where did you find him?

- In the woods. - Where is she?

Why won't she come to me?

Where is she?

BARNABAS: He must mean Maggie.

We've got to get him to the hospital.

No.

Barnabas.

Can we risk moving him now?

Well, possibly.

Well, then you must deal with him here.

Well, I could, but it would require

a great deal of attention, Barnabas.

Then you must.

But why are you so determined that he stay here?

I don't want the police involved.

They will be. This is a small town, you know.

BARNABAS: Think of the effect the news would have.

JULIA: But his condition is a fact, Barnabas.

BARNABAS: Then deal with it. We're wasting our time.

Is that necessary?

JULIA: Obviously, I have to clean the wound.

JOE: I have to see her.

She has to come to me.

Perhaps you should go and get Maggie.

Why? What would that do?

Well, there is such a thing as the will to live, Barnabas.

It's not just a romantic phrase.

He says he wants to die,

but he keeps calling for Maggie.

But Joe and Maggie have broken up.

JULIA: Well, that may be what caused it.

A person sometimes uses suicide in attempt to get what he wants.

And he wants Maggie.

[GROANING]

- Barnabas. - Julia.

- You didn't know? - No.

I suddenly thought that's why you didn't want

the police involved.

I'm as shocked as you are.

Julia, we... We can't just keep him here.

Joe.

Joe.

Well, we can't tell the police, of course.

They'll ask too many questions.

- Who knows what will happen. - Exactly.

Barnabas.

Now we have a chance.

- Joe is the vampire's victim. - Yes.

JULIA: There have been no attacks in the village.

BARNABAS: Yes.

The vampire will have to come here to see him.

Perhaps that's true.

We must... We must hope for the best.

We must keep guard.

Oh, God. Where is she?

JULIA: Barnabas, get Maggie.

Why won't she come?

I'm going... I'm going to get Maggie.

I need...

BARNABAS: I'm going to bring her here.

- I need... - She'll be here soon.

She'll be here soon, Joe.

JULIA: Barnabas what if Joe doesn't mean Maggie?

What if it's not Maggie he's asking for?

Well, Julia, Joe loved her very much.

Joe wouldn't commit suicide.

[SOBBING] He wouldn't.

He wanted to die?

He said that?

[SNIFFLING]

How can I ever have thought that I knew him?

He's changed so much.

And still these things must have been in him before,

when we were together.

I never realized.

You couldn't, Maggie.

I couldn't.

You're right about that, Barnabas.

But someone else might have seen these things

that were causing it and stopped it.

Maggie, perhaps... something happened to him.

What?

Well, something you cannot control or help.

We all have our darker side which only comes to light

when under certain circumstances.

- Barnabas, I think you know. - Maggie.

MAGGIE: Julia. How is he?

He's conscious.

I'm very sorry about this Maggie.

Will he live?

JULIA: I think so.

- Can I see him? - Yeah.

MAGGIE: Julia.

I'd like to see him alone.

For a few moments.

He's in the room at the top of the stairs, Maggie.

I hope you can help him get the will to live.

You bandaged his neck?

She thinks that I know why he's changed so.

Perhaps you do, Barnabas. More than you admit.

Hello, Joe.

You don't want to see me, is that it?

I don't want you to see me.

Joe, what's happened?

I promised myself I wouldn't ask that, but...

I don't care what you did.

You've just got to get well.

You must.

Joe,

our lives are so much different

than we ever thought or planned.

They can still be good lives.

You don't believe that.

I know it isn't true.

Joe, have I done something?

Have I?

Well, I must have done something.

Maybe a long time ago.

Something I don't know about or don't remember.

If I did, please tell me.

You did nothing.

MAGGIE: But someone did.

Who?

Was it that girl?

Tell me.

Yes.

Joe.

Joe.

♪ [DRAMATIC MUSIC]

JULIA: He should be all right in a few minutes.

I felt sorry for Maggie so I sent her home.

I found myself wanting to tell her.

But I knew I couldn't tell her anything like that.

That's so impossible to understand.

[SIGHS] You ought to get some rest, Barnabas.

We've got to have a p*stol in this room with b*ll*ts.

Silver b*ll*ts.

Just in case she comes.

She?

Barnabas, it's a woman.

What, what makes you think that?

Intuition.

I even think I know who she is.

I've no logical reason, Barnabas.

- What if Cassandra has come back from the dead? - Cassandra?

Oh, Julia.

I didn't expect you to laugh.

I am sorry, Julia, but I...

I was with her when she died.

You mustn't let your imagination get carried away.

She didn't die because of a vampire.

You've forgotten that I know that subject very well.

I'm sorry.

[SIGHS] I wanna find a solution so badly that I'm...

[SIGHS] willing...

to accept the idea of Cassandra Collins coming back.

BARNABAS: But you were right about one thing.

Now is the time to catch whoever it is.

Joe is here, he can't go to her.

Whoever it is will come to Joe.

We must keep watch. You, Willie, and I.

Now, I'll be first. You get some rest.

I'll call you if there's any change.

[WIND HOWLING]

[CLOCK CHIMING]

Joe.

I'm glad you're awakened.

You feel any better?

Why don't you look at me?

Don't you remember I found you in the woods

and brought you here.

You didn't find me in the woods.

Yes, I did. Near here, lying on the ground.

I know where you found me.

At her house. Angelique's.

You must not mention her name here.

What were you doing at her house?

I went to see Nicholas.

- You're lying. - Don't be ridiculous.

They'd never have let you see her.

They didn't know. I simply walked in.

You.

You're the one she's left me for.

You, you're the one.

You. I'll k*ll you.

I'll k*ll you.

♪ [EERIE THEME MUSIC]