695 - February 20, 1969

[bunniefuu]

[Maggie narrating] - A new day on the great estate of Collinwood

and a dawn different from any other,

for not a single Collins sleeps in the turreted mansion.

For the first time in two centuries,

it is deserted.

All have been driven out,

forced to flee by an evil spirit,

who is determined to claim the children as his own.

And now, the ghostly figures roamed the halls,

reigning over rooms,

where once they were unwelcome visitors.

And in another house on the estate,

Barnabas Collins listens to the children playing

and wonders how long they will be safe in their refuge.

- David, why are you looking out that window?

- You know.

- David, they can't come here.

You know that.

David, we don't have to play the game anymore ever!

Stop looking out the window.

Willie is in the kitchen.

Let's go in there and he'll tell us a story.

David?

- Good morning, David.

Did you sleep well?

- Yes. Thank you, Barnabas.

Come on, Amy.

- Children,

what was that game you were talking about just now?

- It was just a game that Amy and me used to play.

Come on, Amy.

[knocking on door]

- Barnabas, the weirdest thing just happened to me.

- Well, good morning, Chris. - I was on my way here

and there was a man at the edge of the woods

just standing and staring at the house.

- Who was it? - I don't know.

- What did he look like?

- Well, he was tall and he had very long sideburns

and his clothes -- - What about them?

- They were old-fashioned, you know.

He had one of these long frock coats on.

And I yelled at him.

- Did he answer you?

- No.

He disappeared.

- Disappeared? - Yeah. One minute he was there,

and I guess I turned away for a second,

looked back and he was gone.

- So, he followed them here.

He knows where the children are.

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[eerie music] ♪♪

An incredible story.

Now you know as much as I do.

The family is staying here at the old house.

Collinwood belongs to the ghosts now.

- But the woman, the one who tried to help me,

surely she doesn't have anything to do with it.

Why would she want to get everybody out?

- No, I - I don't believe she has anything to do with it.

I've been going through all the records,

trying to find out more clues about her,

who she was and why she was living here.

If we could find out that much, we - we could establish

some connection between her and you.

- No. It's no use, Barnabas!

I'm trapped here.

Trapped.

I don't know why.

I don't know why I ever thought I could -

I could get through this.

- You must, Chris. - But I do.

That's all I do. I just keep thinking.

I can't even - I don't even know one day

what's going to happen to me at night.

I should keep moving.

I shouldn't - I shouldn't stay in one place,

trying to pretend that I'm like other people.

I can't get close to anyone.

I shouldn't even try to know them.

You know, I should keep moving, just keep going,

running, until - until I'm caught.

- You can't, Chris.

- You know that about me, don't you?

Sometimes, I wonder how

and why you know so much about me.

Barnabas, what is it?

- David, outside.

David, come into the house, please. - But, Barnabas!

- You're not supposed to be outside alone.

You know that.

- I've got something that I have to do.

- Only if you're with Maggie and no other time.

Now, your father told you that.

- Barnabas, you just don't understand.

- David!

I've been looking for you!

- It's like a prison in this house.

- For a very good reason. Now, you come on inside.

David, you were supposed to be studying.

Now, I want you to read the fourth chapter in your history.

I'm going to give you a test in about an hour.

You've got a lot to do.

- All right, Maggie.

- Barnabas, he promised me he wouldn't go -

he wouldn't go outside.

- It's important that he doesn't.

Chris said that he saw a strange figure

standing staring at the house,

a figure that looked like he was from another time.

- Quentin?

- What did you say?

- Quentin.

- Where did you hear that name before?

- Well, from David.

I found him lying on the floor in his bedroom.

He said he'd fallen, but I didn't believe him.

And he kept murmuring the name, "Quentin."

- Well, there was a Quentin Collins.

I've read about it last night.

There must be some connection.

Maybe there's a - maybe there's a picture of him.

Now, you people saw him.

Does he - does he look like anything in here?

Now, look through it and see.

- I can't believe it would be the same man.

Why would he want to harm David?

- "Quentin Collins.

Born .

Date of death, unknown." How odd.

- Here he is, right here. - Yes, it is.

Barnabas, look.

- Are you sure?

- I could never forget him, Barnabas,

I couldn't.

- "Quentin just before he left for Paris."

You saw him.

Is - is he any older than that?

- No. - He's about the same age.

- Then he must have died just after he got to Europe.

Why didn't they know this

and why is his spirit haunting Collinwood now?

And why has he decided to - to possess the children?

Why?

Why?

- David.

- What are you following me around for?

- You know you're not supposed to go in there.

Now, David, you said you didn't want to play the game anymore.

- I have to, Amy.

- Why, David? Why?

Quentin is in there. You know that.

He won't let you come out, David.

David, have you forgotten how mean Quentin really is?

Have you forgotten how much you hate him?

- I've just got to, that's all.

- No, David, please don't!

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Don't, David! Please don't!

He'll know you're in there!

- I've got to get it!

- What, David? What?

- Do you remember how we first met Quentin?

- We found the telephone in the storage room.

- Yes. But --

But he didn't talk to us

until after you started playing with it.

- David, you want the telephone again, don't you?

David, we don't want to talk with Quentin!

- We've got to - we've got to get it and break it up!

- David, why?

- Then he can't get to us anymore.

- I don't think you should go in there.

- Amy, last night, I had a dream.

I dreamt that I woke up

and the telephone was right there in my room.

He was trying to get through me through it.

It rang and rang and --

- And you think that that's going to happen?

- Amy, dreams often tell you the future.

You should know that.

- Wait, David.

- I'll go. - No!

- Yes, David.

Beth will protect me from Quentin.

She'll make sure that I'm all right.

- No, Amy. I can't let you!

- Are you here, Beth?

Are you?

Beth, will you help me just one last time, please?

I just had to go to Maggie's room.

That's all.

And get the telephone.

Is that all right, Beth?

- Is she really in there?

- I - I think so.

Now, you wait out there

and don't come inside no matter what happens. - Amy.

- You promise me that you'll stay there?

- Yes, I promise.

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- When I came here this morning,

I expected to find the cottage empty,

but then, I saw this photograph of you and Amy,

and I knew you hadn't gone.

I knew you'd never leave that behind.

The Mysterious Mr. Jennings,

who announces he's leaving for no reason at all,

and then, decides to stay for no discernible reason either.

I think I have trouble reading you.

- Don't try.

- I don't think I heard you correctly -- - I said, don't try.

- Funny. For a day or so,

I thought we had a bit of a romance going.

- You are wrong.

- No, I wasn't. You are being wrong now.

- All right.

We had something going.

Past tense. "Had".

- You're not very subtle today.

- Oh, Carolyn.

Why do you keep on making me do this?

- Chris, I don't intend to.

- Can't you understand that part of the reason

I was going to leave is you?

- But why?

Oh, I forgot.

You're the man who never offers an explanation for anything.

I'm beginning to think there's a mystery about your past.

There must be something

you just don't think I can help you with,

something I can't know,

and that makes it terribly difficult to understand you.

- I know that.

- Well, if you know it,

why don't you do something about it,

settle whatever it is within yourself?

- Carolyn, maybe, just maybe I'm trying to do exactly that,

and just maybe I can only do it alone,

completely alone.

Maybe I couldn't have you do it

even if I wanted you to!

- Do you want me to, Chris?

- Carolyn, I'm going to stay,

but I think as far as you and I are concerned,

we just can't see each other.

I'm sorry. That's the way it's got to be.

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[clock chiming]

[thinking] - Why is she taking so long?

She just had to go to Maggie's bedroom.

She should have been back long before this.

What if Quentin stopped her?

What if --

Amy?

Amy?

Amy, are you in there?!

Amy, where are you?!

- It's gone, David. It's gone!

The telephone is gone!

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I looked everywhere for it, David,

Maggie's room, your room,

I even went to Quentin's room for it.

- You shouldn't have done that.

- But I couldn't find it, David.

What are we going to do?

- I don't know.

I'll figure something out when we get outside.

- I don't think Quentin is in this house any longer, David.

- He's here somewhere.

- But he didn't try to stop me.

- He's here.

- David!

- David? Amy!

- Oh, thank goodness it's you!

- Get out of here immediately!

You know you are not supposed to be in there.

What were you two doing?

- The telephone. - We wanted it.

- It was in your room. - But it isn't anymore.

- Of course it is, Amy. I left it there last night.

- But I looked.

- I want you both to forget about that telephone completely!

Now, you're not to concern yourselves

with anything like that anymore.

Please promise me you won't run off like this again.

Do you understand how important that is?

Well, answer me.

- Yes, we understand.

- Yes, we do, Maggie.

- Maggie, I never want to go in that house again.

- Neither do I, Maggie.

- Oh, it's good to believe you.

Yes, I believe you.

Come on. Let's go to the old house.

- But I promised Chris that I'd come and see him.

Can I go? - All right, Amy,

but make sure that Chris walks you home to the old house.

Neither of you are to be alone.

Do you understand that?

All right. Come on. I'll drop you off.

- Carolyn, all I know to say is that for both our sakes,

we just can't see each other anymore.

Now, please, don't cry.

- Don't worry. I'm not going to.

So long, Chris.

I hope sometime you will find someone you can talk to

about whatever is bothering you.

For a moment or so,

I really thought I might be the one.

- Hello, Carolyn.

- Amy, you're not supposed to be out by yourself.

- Maggie watched me until I got to the door.

What's wrong with Carolyn?

- I don't know.

- She's crying.

Did you make her unhappy, Chris?

- Yeah.

Yeah, I guess I did.

I made myself even more.

[wind howling]

[clock chiming]

- It's astonishing how little information there is

on Quentin Collins.

His life seems to have been very uneventful

up until he went away to Europe.

Of course, family histories are often very inaccurate.

But there's nothing here to indicate,

well, nothing to indicate why he would -

why he would want to drive the family out of the house,

possess the children.

- Barnabas, you must be tired.

Why don't you get some rest?

- Oh, not until I find out something.

Why did he choose David?

He had a brother,

a younger brother about David's age,

Jamison Collins.

That's no reason. Why David?

[Quentin's theme] ♪♪

[phone ringing]

- Beth woke me.

I had forgotten how nice Beth is,

how pretty the music sounds.

[thinking] - Quentin Collins.

When he lived, I lay in my coffin in that mausoleum.

He did not know about me, nor I him.

Now, now, I must discover the secret of his life.

How?

How?

- David?

David?

He's gone.

He's gone!

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