684 - February 6, 1969

[bunniefuu]

[Carolyn narrating] - A moonless night on the great estate of Collinwood

and a mysterious spirit has led two men

to a desolate part of the forest

which surrounds the ancient house.

There they uncovered a strange secret

that can help them or lead them to disaster.

- It's a coffin. It's a child's coffin.

- It doesn't seem to have any markings.

It was buried in an unmarked grave.

- Who do you supposed it is?

- I don't know, but I think you better open it.

[lid creaking open]

It - it was an infant.

- What's that thing right there?

- A pentagram.

- And with two points downward.

- Someone here long, long ago needed protection, too.

- Protection from a... a werewolf.

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- I don't believe it.

Can it really mean that a werewolf

existed around here before?

- That's all it can mean.

- But surely, we would have heard.

There would have been stories of some kind,

legends, what have we?

- Perhaps the people who knew then

were as quiet as Julia and I are now.

- But if there were another werewolf around here before,

it must have something to do with me.

- Oh, we wouldn't have been here otherwise.

- How old do you suppose that coffin is?

- It's hard to say. Fifty, seventy-five years.

It's certainly isn't the pine box of the earlier period.

- Well, why...

Why was it buried here is what I want to know.

If it has something to do with me,

why is it in on the burial grounds of Collinwood?

- Well, was your family here in Collinsport say

seventy-five years ago?

- Yes, but I don't think they would have know the Collins'.

- How can we find out? We have to find out.

- We shall - we shall clean this,

and perhaps there will be date on it.

If so, we can look up old newspapers

to see if there were stories of any strange

animal attacks at that time.

- Imagine.

Can you imagine a mother buying a pentagram?

- This... this will help us.

- How?

- I don't know but it should.

- If only that woman --

If only that woman could speak.

- Perhaps she can't, perhaps she dare not.

She wants to do everything she can for us.

Of that, I'm sure.

Now, come. Let us put this back in the ground.

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[clock chiming]

- David.

- Oh, it's late. I should be in bed.

Isn't that what you're going to say?

There is no need for me to say anything.

- I just wasn't sleepy.

- What book do you have there?

- Oh, nothing.

I was just looking for one.

Aunt Elizabeth told me that I wasn't reading enough.

- Let me see it.

- I just thought I'd read myself to sleep.

- "Ghosts and Exorcism."

David, why in the world do you want to read this?

- Carolyn, have you ever seen a ghost?

I mean really seen one.

- Why? Have you?

David, what's wrong?

David, is it something to do with this?

- No. I just picked that to get my mind off --

- Off what?

- This is a funny house we live in, isn't it, Carolyn?

- Funny?

- Well, yes. So many weird things happen in it,

like father falling down the stairs

and you being attacked by an animal,

Aunt Elizabeth, too.

Sometimes I just think we should move out of this house.

Sometimes I really think --

- Think what, David?

- I - I better go.

- Go where, David? Finish what you saying.

- I'm just so tired now.

- All right.

But tomorrow, tomorrow we're going to talk.

- Good night. - Good night, David.

- Can you imagine the night that this child was buried

so long ago?

Her mother was probably the woman who guided us here.

- Is there anyway we can find out who this child was?

- I doubt it. - Why?

- Well, anyone who would bury an infant here

would not likely registered the birth or the death.

- Wait a minute. I hate to go.

It seems we must be missing some clue

and that it's got to be around here somewhere.

You don't think she point this out to me

just to find that pentagram?

- I think this should be enough

once we know what we must do with it.

Come.

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[Quentin's theme] ♪♪

- No.

I don't want to do it, Quentin.

Every time that you ask me to do things like that,

something really terrible happens.

No. No.

No.

[Quentin's theme] ♪♪

All right, Quentin.

I'll get the medallion for you.

- David, must you do that in the drawing room?

- I just got it, Barnabas.

- Well, does that mean that you -

you can't play with that up in your bedroom?

- In other words I'm bothering you, right? - Yes. Right.

- What are you doing?

- I'm trying to read the writing on the back of this medallion.

- What does it say?

- "To guide you from Cerberus."

- What's Cerberus?

- Well, now, you should be able to tell me.

- I'm not very good in history.

- Well, Cerberus was a wild dog

who guarded the gates of hell.

- What a cheerful conversation.

Good morning.

- Did he guard it so people wouldn't go in?

- So no one could get out, I think.

That would be more logical.

What started this mythology lesson?

- This medallion.

I found it in an old trunk

in the basement of the old house.

- A five-pointed star.

- It fascinates me.

- May I see it?

The jeweler's mark looks so familiar.

- I thought so, too.

- It's Mr. Braithwaite's.

- Are you sure? - Yes.

- When David dropped that -- - Oh, you would remember that.

- I took it to him to have it repaired.

He said his father had made it for some Collins.

- Thank you, Carolyn.

- For what?

- I'm anxious to know the history of that.

- Really?

- It doesn't look very valuable.

David, you and I are going to have conversation,

today, remember?

- I can't.

- David.

- Carolyn, I really can't.

I've got lots of work to do

and Maggie told me that I couldn't leave

until I finished it all.

- David, you're making up an excuse.

- Oh, Carolyn, what do we have to talk about anyway?

I never even read that book.

All right, David, but I'll talk to you later.

- David, please.

Hello, Braithwaite's.

Mr. Braithwaite, please.

Oh, Mr. Braithwaite, this Barnabas Collins.

- Barnabas Collins you said?

- That's right, Mr. Braithwaite.

- Oh, a pleasure to hear from you, Mr. Collins.

- Mr. Braithwaite,

I just discovered a curious medallion at the old house,

one I think that your firm might have made years ago.

- Oh, I've been in business since ,

made most every piece of silver for the Collins house

at one time or other.

- Well, I'll tell you I'm most curious to know the history

of this particular piece.

Would it be convenient if I brought it over to you

to look at now?

A half hour? Perfect.

You have kept all your - your business records,

I'm sure.

- What I don't remember, Mr. Collins.

We got it written down somewhere. - Good.

I'll see you shortly.

Good bye, Mr. Braithwaite. - Good bye.

- David, how many times do I have to tell you now?

- Well, I've got to do something.

- Well, I agree with that.

I suggest that you what you mentioned to Carolyn.

Oh, I have to wait for Amy.

If I went to Maggie and asked her,

she'll just tell me to go outside,

and I won't be able to play with those outside.

What are you looking for?

- That medallion.

- The one that you put in your pocket? - My pocket?

- Yes. I - I thought I saw you put it there

before you went to the phone.

- I certainly didn't. I distinctly --

- Maybe it fell on the floor.

I'll look.

- Oh, do you see it?

- No.

- I definitely put it in the certain of that desk.

I'm positive.

You didn't pick it up to look at it, did you?

- No. I don't like old things.

- You're not answering my question, David.

Did you touch that medallion?

- No, of course not.

- Well, then if you didn't why isn't it here?

There were just the two of us here alone.

- Well, that doesn't mean that I took it.

- You must have.

- Barnabas, you can search me.

All I have is my allowance and -

and some bubblegum that Amy traded

for a little box of raisins

and I got my pocketknife.

- Well, I'm sorry to have accused you, David.

It's just that I don't understand.

- Lots of things are happening in this house

that no one can understand, Barnabas.

You should know that.

I'm going to go and - and ask Amy

if she can come out and play.

- Yes, yes, of course.

- What a pity you lost it.

It so much easier for me to remember it when I can see it.

My, what an unusual design.

Not the sort of thing

we're accustomed to making, Mr. Collins,

but we've been asked to make some odd things.

I can tell you that.

I remember when I started in this business,

my father, Ezra Julius Braithwaite.

You don't remember him, do you?

I know, of course, you don't.

He died in .

- A little before my time, Mr. Braithwaite.

- Are you sure we made this for your family?

My father always admired the Collins's taste so.

- Well, it had your markings.

I would like to know exactly who in the Collins family

had this made.

It must had been someone from Collinwood

or I wouldn't have found it there.

- Now, wait.

Now wait.

I have a memory.

No. It's gone.

When I was young,

that wasn't anything I wanted to remember. - Mr. Braithwaite.

- But now that I do,

there just doesn't seem to be anything to remember.

- But Mr. Braithwaite, this is vital.

A friend and I --

Well, it means a great deal to us.

I can assure you of that.

- A friend, too?

- Yes. Yes.

Now, could you consult your records?

Just our family accounts.

- Well, they go back a long way.

- But, I'm sure that this is a Victorian piece.

- Would you - would you try?

- It will take some time.

I'll get to it as soon as the shops close.

Only a part-time help now.

People don't seem to care about fine things

the way they used to.

- Well, if you do find it by this evening,

will you call me at Collinwood?

- Why, of course, Mr. Collins.

- I'll be quite glad to drive over at any time.

Do you understand that? - Oh, yes. Oh, yes.

You young people, things are important to you.

You won't remember six months later.

- Oh, I remember, Mr. Braithwaite.

You can be assured of that.

I hope to hear from you later. - All right.

- You aren't do anything terrible with it,

are you, Quentin?

You promised me that you wouldn't.

You did, Quentin. Remember?

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- Champagne, eh.

What's this all about?

- It's an occasion.

- What? It's your birthday?

- No. - What then?

- I've been trying to get you to ask me out

for dinner for weeks.

Haven't you noticed? - Oh, I didn't notice that.

- I begun to think you have what we call "other interests."

Every time the sun went down, you simply disappear.

I'm sorry.

I'm not prying, really.

Cheers.

- Cheers.

I am glad we're having dinner together.

- Good.

I've been meaning to ask you for,

well, sometime now.

- You're very shy.

- It's a nice way of putting it.

- I always put things nicely.

You'll find that out.

- Oh, excuse me. - Come in, Barnabas.

Champagne? - No, thank you, Carolyn.

I just want to get my paper.

- Hey, our reservations are going to be ready

in about minutes. - Oh.

You poor yourself another glass.

I'll get my coat.

Did you hear anything about the jeweler?

- No and I doubt if I'll hear tonight.

- Well, if you do, will you leave a message here,

a note, anything.

- Look, please.

I've curbed my impatience. You must curb yours, too.

- Ready, Chris.

- I hope so.

- Oh, Chris.

Now, I have a mention for this evening,

to find out every one of them.

- Good luck.

Good night.

- Barnabas? - Hello, David.

- What's that medallion that you lost

worth a lot of money?

- No, I don't think so.

- Oh, you seem so upset.

- Well, that means something to me personally.

- What? What could it mean?

- Oh, nothing for you to worry about, David.

Oh, David.

Tell Mrs. Johnson that may be having a call tonight

from Mr. Braithwaite, the jeweler.

I'll be in your father's study,

and tell her to let me know however late the call comes.

- I'll tell her, Barnabas.

[clock chiming]

[phone ringing]

- Hello? - Mr. Collins.

- Oh, no. I'm David Collins.

- This is Ezra Braithwaite. For Mr. Barnabas Collins.

- Oh, I know. He is expecting you.

- I have the information he asked for.

- Oh, I guess, he'll be very pleased.

- Why don't I bring it out there, David?

Dear me. Dear me. Yes, I - I --

I'll pass Collinwood on my way home.

- I'll tell him.

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[Ezra] - I'll bring the ledger, too.

Yes, it has the name of the purchaser.

I don't know how I could have forgotten that medallion.

Why, it was one of the first pieces I made myself.

I'll be there soon.

- You had no right to do that.

No right at all.

What do you want?

I have to -- I have to tell Barnabas.

He is - he is expecting Mr. Braithwaite.

I have to tell him.

What do you want?

What?

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[eerie music] ♪♪