674 - January 22, 1969

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[Julia narrating] - A strange windless day

on the great estate of Collinwood,

after another night of horror,

a night where the moon shone full

and the wolf, who walks as a man,

attacked again.

And in the morning light, a ghost leaps over it

and sends an innocent girl on a mission

she cannot understand.

- I have done it, Beth,

just the way you told me to do it.

Is that all, Beth?

Can you hear me?

Are you watching me?

- Amy, what is it?

Sweetheart, what are you doing here,

is something wrong?

- No, not now.

- What do you mean, "not now?"

- Well, I've got to go now.

- Why?

- I just got to.

- Now, you listen to me.

Tell me, is something wrong.

- She's calling me. - Who?

- Can't you hear her?

- No.

My shirt.

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Amy!

Amy!

- Why would Jennings lie?

Why would he tell you he spent the evening at home?

- A stupid lie and Chris is not stupid.

- No, but he - he may be desperate.

You say his room is a shambles?

- Yes.

The furniture was overturned

as if there had been a terrible fight.

- And yet, when I went in there an hour later,

everything was straightened.

- Well, he would certainly do that the moment he came in.

- Julia, the animal attacks began

about two months ago, didn't they? - Mm-hmm.

- At about the same times that Jennings came to Collinsport.

- Barnabas! What are you saying?

It's an animal not a man.

- There is one possible explanation.

The man turned into an animal.

Oh, don't be amazed, Julia.

There is a precedent for this, you know.

The first person to be k*lled was - was the clerk

in the Collinsport Inn

where Jennings had been staying.

- Yes. Well, anyone could have done that.

- You, yourself, said that you thought that his attitude

toward Amy was strange.

- Yes, I had to practically force him

to go and see her at Wyndcliffe.

- Would you want to see a sister of yours if you had been

responsible for everything that had happened here?

You see, I was doing some reading this morning

on werewolves.

I am convinced that this is what we're fighting,

a man who, when the moon is full,

becomes a wolf!

- Barnabas, you can't believe it.

- And when he is an animal his

strength is almost superhuman.

No ordinary b*ll*ts will have any effect on him.

But, there is one metal that he dreads.

Silver!

That explains how,

how I managed to stun him with a hit of my cane.

- Carolyn was wearing a silver bracelet

when she was attacked.

- The wolf can only be k*lled by silver b*ll*ts.

There is an irony in that for me.

I remember my nights when they were oh,

so different from what they are now.

When silver b*ll*ts filled me with dread

as they must Chris Jennings now!

- You are positive that he is the one?

Barnabas, the evidence is so - so circumstantial.

We must be sure before there is another m*rder.

- Yes.

And it may not be too difficult.

We should know tonight. - How?

- The moon will be full and the man will become a wolf.

- Barnabas, you could be k*lled.

- I will have silver to protect me.

- Barnabas, after we know, what then?

- One thing at a time.

First, we must be absolutely certain that Chris is this way

and then we will know what to do.

- Chris,

you'e funny.

Why are you standing there looking at me,

frowning at me?

- Well, I was just thinking how,

how grown-up you've become.

- I have?

- Yes, maybe - maybe to grown-up.

- How can I be too grown-up?

- It's possible.

What's that you're reading?

A book Mrs. Stoddard gave me.

About a little girl who lives in the house like this.

It was way back before anyone here was born

before they had electric lights or anything.

Mrs. Stoddard says it was about an ancestor of hers.

Chris, do you and I have ancestors, too?

- Sure, we do.

We wouldn't be like other people if we didn't have ancestors.

I guess we wouldn't.

Tell me about ours.

- I don't know much about them.

- Mrs. Stoddard knows all about hers,

David says more than she tells.

He says that the Collins have so many family secrets.

- Do we have them, too?

- I don't know.

You tell me.

- How would I know them?

- I just thought perhaps that there was something

you might be afraid perhaps to tell me

of everything that you do know.

- Afraid to tell you?

- Amy, listen to me.

If there was something that, that you needed to tell me,

you would come to me wouldn't you and -

and tell me as much as you could,

something that you didn't understand

and needed to be explained?

Well, would you?

- I guess, I would.

- Amy, could there be anything, oh,

right now that you'd like to talk about?

Something about me, maybe.

Oh, I don't know.

I guess I'm just upset about this afternoon.

Your coming to the cottage, building that fire.

Why did you do that?

- It was cold. - Was that the only reason?

- I'm not allowed to play with matches,

but I am allowed to use them.

- Oh, I know that, but there was a shirt in the room.

I found the shirt in the fire.

Why, why did you do that?

- It was all dirty.

- I know. Yes, it was dirty,

but we can't go around burning all our dirty shirts.

- I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.

I just saw it there, so I threw it in the fire.

- Oh, I'm sorry --

- Oh, Chris, are we interrupting?

- No, it's all right.

- Uh, this is Donna Friedlander,

she's spending the day with us.

Chris Jennings.

- Hi, how are you? - Hello.

- And this is Amy Jennings, Chris's sister.

- Hello, Amy. - How do you do?

- I've been showing Donna the house,

although I can't find it all that fascinating.

- Oh, it is. You know it, Carolyn.

I'm studying interior design.

Honestly Carolyn, I have never seen antiques like this before.

This is practically - this house is practically a museum.

- Sometimes I think it's exactly that.

- What's wrong, Chris?

Chris, what's wrong?

Chris, what is it?

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Chris, what's the matter?

- Uh, nothing is the matter, nothing at all.

- Well, there really isn't very much to see in this room.

My Uncle Roger uses it as his office at home.

You will like the furniture in the drawing room.

- See you later, Chris. - Yeah.

We probably shall.

- Amy.

- Wow. He is something.

- What do you mean?

- My type, moody.

- Oh, yes, he is certainly is that.

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- Chris? - Huh?

- I'm sorry about the shirt,

is that what you're mad about?

- I'm not mad, honey. Certainly, not at you.

- Well, you're mad at someone.

- Myself.

- Oh!?

- Can you - can you understand that?

- Of course.

You know, when I left your house,

I was kind of mad at myself for burning that shirt,

only - only -- - Only what?

- Oh, nothing.

- Now, listen what --

who was it that you thought called you out

of the cottage that made you leave?

- Oh, I don't know.

Mrs. Stoddard or Carolyn, David maybe.

- Oh, wait a minute, you said it was a woman.

- Well, I don't know who it was.

I just heard someone calling.

- Well, you must know.

- Sometimes at night, I think I hear you.

- Am I calling to you?

- Not exactly.

- Well, what then?

- Well, I don't know.

- Well, you must know, think very hard

and try to explain it to me.

- Well, one night here,

I thought I heard you just calling my name

and I went to the window

and I looked out and it was so bright out,

almost as bright as day.

The moon was so big and I thought I heard you crying.

Only that silly because boys don't cry.

You weren't crying, were you? - No.

- Maybe you were just unhappy.

- Yeah.

- Why were you?

- Well, it's pretty hard to live your life

without being unhappy sometimes.

- But especially unhappy?

You are sometimes, I know.

- Yes.

Yes, I am.

But Amy, I don't want you to worry about that.

It doesn't have anything to do with you.

It's only me.

And I'm going to be sure

that nothing interferes with you and me.

I promise you that. I promise you that.

[clock chiming]

- I don't believe it, Mr. Collins.

This portrait, you have to have posed for it.

- If I did,

think how old it would make me.

- Will you have some more tea, Barnabas?

- No, thank you, Carolyn.

I can't believe it's getting dark.

It's so early.

- I hate early sunsets.

- Now, what did I do with that bus schedule?

- Do you have time for more tea?

- Oh, no.

I really hate to be going back.

It's a lovely day.

- The next time you come I'm sure Barnabas

would be delighted to show you his house.

He has kept it almost as it was

when the original Barnabas Collins lived there.

- I imagine you would find much too primitive.

Chris!

- Oh, come in, please.

- I - I shouldn't, thank you.

- But Chris, you're - you're always running off.

I was just about to invite Carolyn's friend

over to the old house.

I have it Julia,

why don't we have an impromptu dinner party there?

All of us. Tonight.

- Why not? I think that's a good idea.

- Well, Miss Friedlander?

- Well, I would love to -- - And you Chris?

Are you free? Can you come?

- Actually, no. I can't. - Chris!

- Well, I'd love to some other time, Mr. Collins.

- Barnabas may not be in the mood some other time.

- Exactly.

Now, let's all go now.

- Well, I really can't.

- Oh?

- No, I - I have to go to Bangor.

You see, I have to meet this guy there tonight.

He is flying away in the morning

and I'll be lucky if I can catch him for an hour tonight.

Its business.

It's not the kind of thing that I can easily cancel.

I was just about to leave right now.

- Oh, then could you drive me?

- To Bangor?

- Well, I was sort of dreading the bus trip.

I hate buses. - Oh, of course he will, Donna.

I'm sure he would be delighted to have the company.

- Oh yeah, yeah, I would, but I'm leaving right now.

- Well, I'm ready.

- It is all right with you, Chris, isn't it?

- Oh, yeah, it's - it's, why wouldn't it be all right?

It's a - it's just fine.

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- Goodbye Carolyn it's been a lovely day.

Thank you so much. - You're welcome.

Please come back. - Oh, I will. I will.

Well, where is your car?

- It's, uh - it's just here by the gate,

there's no way to park it down by the cottage.

- Do you live on the estate?

- Yeah, just - just down at the path over there.

- Is it an old and interesting house, too?

- Well, it's - it's old.

- Well, I'd like to see it... sometime.

Is something wrong? - What?

- You haven't been listening to me.

- Oh, yes, I have.

It's just that I got - I got this headache.

You see, I get them all the time,

it's kind of like a migraine, I've just been thinking that

I may not be able to go. - Well, I'll drive --

- No, no -- - You'll be OK by the time we get there.

- Oh, I know these headaches of mine, they just last.

Oh, there's nothing I can do, but try to get through them.

Why don't you just take my car and go on?

- Oh, no, no. - Yeah, it's fine.

You take the car you see, you can leave it at the bus station

and just the put the keys under the seat and it'll be fine,

OK?

- Will you be all right? - Yeah, I'll be fine.

It's just in the morning, I'll be a new man.

- I don't really know her that well.

She's always been nice.

Too nice I sometimes think.

She behaves as though we are the best of friends,

which we are not.

- So, she's driving away with him?

Speculation is a - a dangerous game.

I was almost convinced.

- I wouldn't stop being.

- But, if he's driving her?

Unless, unless - unless he's doing it deliberately.

- He wouldn't be doing it deliberately.

He has no control over what he is doing

when there is a moon.

- Well, then we shouldn't have let her go with him.

- My guess is that he has made his apologies

and he's gone back to his cottage.

- Barnabas, how can you be so sure?

- I saw an expression on his face.

When we were urging him to stay,

he was suddenly aware of all of us looking at him

and his face suddenly registered an instant reflex, panic.

I understand it, Julia.

Even I remember that.

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[knocking on door]

- What do you want?

- I brought your keys back,

I'm not going to use the car, that's silly.

You have to walk all the way to town tomorrow to get it

and you're not feeling well.

- Yeah, well, I feel better you see,

I took some medicine.

- Well, then, why don't you let me in?

- Ah -- - To call a cab.

- Well, I don't mean to be rude

but you can't stay long.

- You know, I - I just don't understand men.

Now, why is a guy like you living in a place like this?

I mean, not that it's not nice --

- The phone is over there.

- Oh, God. - What's wrong?

- You'd better go.

- Why? What is it? - Just get out.

- But let me get -- - Get out!

- But let me do something.

Maybe if I - I call the doctor -- - No!

- Well, I was just going to call for your own good.

I should have known why I was attracted to you,

I mean, I mean, you're crazy!

- Go!

- What!? What? - Go, get out!

[growling] [Screaming]

- The moon is rising.

I'm going to his cottage.

- But, he will have changed, Barnabas,

if you're right.

- But I have this.

The power of the silver wolf's head is legendary.

I subdued him once with this.

I can do it again.

You stay here Julia. - No.

- Yes.

Do as I say.

[screaming]

[growling]

- It's happened. Hasn't it?

And he's is gone.

[dog howling]

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