716 - March 23, 1969

[bunniefuu]

[Elizabeth narrating] - Barnabas Collins finds himself

unexpectedly back in time in the year

when Collinwood was filled with intrigue and terror.

A terror that the new governess in the great house

will discover as she finally encounters the secret

kept locked in the tower room.

[thunder rumbling]

- Who is in here?

- [laughing] - No!

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[eerie music] ♪♪

- Who's there?

Where are you?

Ah! No! No!

No! Ah!

Help!

[key clinking]

- Dirk, come in here please.

- Yes, Ma'am.

- Aren't you supposed to be checking the grounds?

- Well, I just came in tonight to see if Mr. Edward

had any special orders for me.

- He has none tonight or any other night.

- Well, if he's expecting somebody,

I - I should leave the gate open.

- In the future, come to me and I will tell you.

- Well, I beg your pardon Ms. Judith,

but don't you think I ought to ask Mr. Edward? - Dirk,

don't pretend you don't know about my grandmother's will.

I know how you gossip about us.

Collinwood is mine now.

You will be wise to remember that.

- Well, if that's the way it is.

Do you have any other orders for me tonight? - Yes.

When you finished locking the gate,

I want you to stay near the house.

I have a feeling all evening

that something is going to happen here.

I can't explain it.

Just - just keep a very careful watch.

- I always do.

Tonight is not like the other nights.

I want you to know -

let me know exactly how you make your rounds

so I can send for you if I need you.

- Well, I - I usually go to the gatehouse first.

And then I look in on the empty cottages

just to see if anybody is hiding out there.

And wound up back in this wing of the house at about,

oh, two o'clock,

just to see if everything is all right.

- Very well. You may start now.

- All right.

- What's wrong with me? What's wrong?

[brush rustling]

- Ah! Let me go.

- No! - Nora!

- No! No!

- Dirk! Dirk!

- Ms. Nora!

- I won't go in the house! I won't.

- You come in here this minute, Nora Collins.

- No!

- Dirk, bring her in.

- Ah! - What's wrong with you?

- All right.

- Oh, I have to see her.

I want to see her when she comes back.

- No one is coming to our house tonight.

- There is!

- Put her down.

Nora, if you don't behave,

I'm going to have to lock you in your room?

I'll take care of her.

Tell me who do you think is coming here tonight?

- I don't want to tell you.

You don't want her to come back.

- Who are you talking about?

- My mother.

- What gave you the idea

that your mother was coming back here?

- I had a dream.

Last night and the night before.

She came. She did.

And she looked just as pretty as she did before.

And she woke me with hugs and kisses. Now Nora --

And don't tell me your dreams don't come true

because they do and so did Jamison's.

He dreams about it, too.

She's got to come back.

- Nora, your mother isn't well, you know that

she's away for treatment.

- People get better.

- Well, she hasn't.

- You got a letter from her?

If you had gotten a letter from her,

then why didn't she write to me and Jamison?

She didn't write anything, the doctor did.

- Did he say that we could come and see her?

- She's not strong enough for that.

- We wouldn't do anything to make her feel worse.

- Well, that's not for me to decide,

your father and I listen to what the doctor tells us.

- Daddy told Jamison, he hadn't heard from her.

- Nora, you and Jamison must forget your mother,

you must.

- We can't.

- But you must try.

- Why won't you at least let us write to her?

- But you can, you have.

- Yes, but you never mailed the letters.

We found them in daddy's desk.

You won't let us write to her

and you won't answer anything that I ask you.

- Nora, when you're older you will realize there are certain

questions for which there is no answer.

Now, I've had enough of this.

You should be in bed.

You have a busy day tomorrow

and you know how ill-tempered you are

when you don't get proper sleep.

Come along!

[Nora] - I won't ever be able to go to sleep.

[Judith] - Of course you will.

You're more tired than you think.

- Couldn't I stay in Rachel's room tonight?

- I don't think that's a good idea at all.

[Nora] - Please, don't make me go to bed.

[Judith] - You must. It's late.

- You never let me do anything I want.

Why is the door to my room open?

It's probably the way you left it?

- No, I didn't.

I remember closing it so that you wouldn't know.

- Well, that wasn't latched,

then draft probably drew it open.

That's all.

Now, Nora, you're not going to be upset with an open door.

There is no one in this house. No one that shouldn't be.

Do you understand that?

- Yes, Aunt Judith.

- Now, get straight into bed.

Have you said your prayers?

- Yes, Aunt Judith.

- Goodnight, dear.

Oh, please,

please, don't leave me, I'm frightened.

- But there's nothing to be frightened of.

- Just stay with me, just for a little while.

- Why?

- I don't know.

If you leave I won't go to sleep,

I know I won't.

- Why are you so upset?

Now, close your eyes. Go on. Close them.

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- I can't go to sleep.

I will have that dream about my mother coming back.

I know I will.

- You mustn't think about it.

Put it out of your mind.

Now, surely you must be able to do that.

You must forget about your mother.

I know it sounds cruel, but it's necessary.

- Why is it necessary?

- I explained that to you downstairs.

- But I didn't understand.

- Well, then nothing I say is going to make any sense to you.

Goodnight, dear.

- Don't leave me.

- But I have something to attend to.

- I'll be back, try to get some sleep.

- Let me out!

Someone, please, let me out!

Help!

[thunder rumbling]

- Nora.

[wind howling]

- Who is it?

Who is it?!

[thunder rumbling]

- Help!

Someone help, please!

Help! Help!

Help! Help!

Please!

[thunder rumbling]

[footsteps approaching]

Help!

Someone let me out of here!

Please, help!

- Who's there?

- It's Rachel.

Dirk, is that you?

- There's no key.

Back away from the door.

[banging on door]

- Oh, Dirk, thank God!

- You're not supposed to be up here.

- What is it? What's wrong?

- Look, you better tell that to Ms. Judith.

I don't want to know, so don't tell me.

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- Your father --

Your father --

- What do you mean you were in the tower room?

- I went there because I kept seeing the light.

- You keep imagining lights, what else did you imagine?

- Ms. Collins, I didn't imagine anything.

I saw -- - Just a moment.

Wait outside, please.

Well, you heard me, wait outside until I send for you.

Now.

- Ms. Collins, I didn't imagine anything.

What happened to me was quite real.

- How can you know?

- I do know.

- How did you get into the tower room?

- Well --

- Well, go on.

- I took a key from the pantry room -- - What?

- Now, Ms. Collins, I know that you're angry with me,

but while we're sitting here,

there's some maniac running lose in the house.

- Nonsense.

- But somebody attacked me. Now, I didn't imagine that.

Now, whoever it is,

it's prowling around this house somewhere.

Aren't you going to do something?

- This person that you think attacked you,

did you see who it was?

- No. Everything happened so quickly.

- The gypsies.

- No, Ms. Collins -- - Yes, that man Sandor.

- Why would he be there?

- Looking for something to steal.

Gypsies do steal, you know.

- But I talked to Magda just before -- - Magda?

Did she know you were going to the tower? - Yes.

But she would have stopped me

if she knew that he was going to be there.

- That gypsy woman never knows where he is.

It's not the first time he's been caught lurking around here.

There Rachel, the mystery is solved.

- But --

- Unless you would intend to keep bringing it up.

- I don't understand why Sandor -- - Are you doubting me?

- I'm sorry, Ms. Collins,

I'm just not feeling very well and --

- Well, you may go to your room.

Tomorrow, I will decide how serious I think

these infractions of your duty are.

Goodnight, Rachel.

- I -- - Straight to your room.

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[thinking] - No!

I've gone this far, I've got to finish it.

Ms. Collins thinks I'm wrong for the job now,

at least I'll find out for myself what really happened.

Well, what are you doing out here?

- You heard Ms. Collins,

she told me to stay out here and wait.

- In this storm?

- Well, the looks of this storm,

it looks like it's going to blow over.

We'll have to see.

- Did you see Sandor?

- Well, yeah, about half an hour ago. - Where?

- Well, at the old house, I always check out there.

- Had he been there all evening?

- I think so, at least the way he and Magda talked.

- Thank you, Dirk. - Why?

- Did she say Sandor locked you in the tower,

is that it, Rachel? - Yes.

I'll explain tomorrow.

- Are you in here?

Are you?

You!

- [laughing]

- Were you in my room?

Did you close my door?

- No, I didn't.

- Someone did.

- Come along Nora, I'll get you ready for bed.

- What are you looking for?

- Nothing. No one.

- Are you expecting someone, too?

- Now, who are you expecting?

- Someone who is not going to come.

Oh, Rachel, why do people disappear?

Why do people die?

No one else here will, will they?

Promise me you won't disappear, promise me.

- Where are you?

Up here, you must be.

You are in this room, aren't you?

[door slams shut]

- [laughing]

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