400 - January 5, 1968

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[Victoria narrating] - A séance has been held in the great house of Collinwood,

a séance which has suspended time and space

and sent one girl on an uncertain

and frightening journey into the past

back to the year .

There each of the Collins ancestors resembles

a present day member of the Collins family,

but the names and relationships have changed

and Victoria Winters finds herself a stranger

in a sea of familiar faces.

Within this nightmare of forces not of this earth,

evil, malevolent slowly plot her impending destruction.

- Ah.

It's been a long time, hasn't it,

since I have worked for you.

You must see each other face to face

and watch that each of you obeys my least command.

You will hear the impotent cries and incantations

of an idle fraud

of his common search of a witch,

but he is a fake,

but he is a worthless chant whenever reach you.

But with his help and your yours,

I will rid this house not only of an enemy,

a young and beautiful enemy.

But I will rid it of all suspicion

that might in time be aimed at me.

Mr. Trask, the so called reverend will find his witch,

she will come running to him.

You are the halls of her room;

you are the place where she is lying now.

She is enclosed within my power,

stand fast, keep watch, the moment is almost here.

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- Reverend Trask is coming here to this house?

- He'll be here any minute.

- You're not going to turn me over to him, are you?

- Now, how could you think such a thing?

- Well, I don't know what to think.

I don't know what to do.

Why is he coming here?

- I've decided to let him go through with his

so called right of exorcism.

- What do you mean?

- I intend to give him free rein

knowing that he will go headlong to his own undoing.

Let him perform his exorcism.

Let him go through with this mumble jumble

from beginning to end

and when it fails to produce a witch,

then this nonsense will be over with once and for all.

- Well, just the thought that he'll be here

in this house frightens me.

- You have nothing to fear.

- Well, I wish that were true.

- But you are being protected by me.

- Yes. That's true.

- I'm sorry, I - I just feel so lost here,

trapped in the past,

I have no way of getting back to my own world.

- Are you sure that your mind isn't playing a trick on you?

This idea that you've come from a year almost

years in the future.

- I do come from a time that's different,

you've got to believe that as difficult as it may be.

- I believe you.

- May I say something?

- Yes, what is it?

- Your descendant, the Barnabas from my time,

he is a kind and gentleman too.

- Is he?

And is he free of the trials and awful things

that our family is troubled with now?

- No. Not completely.

- Even at the end of almost two centuries,

the Collins family will be plagued.

- But they're good people. They really are.

- Well, that's one consolation anyway.

- I better get back to the room that Sarah hid me in.

- But why?

- Well, if - if he comes here,

Reverend Trask will find me in his room

even before he begins his... whatever it is.

Nonsense, he will not come upstairs.

- But if he has to perform this ritual.

- As I understand it, it is done at the threshold.

According to the superstition, all - all witches

are forced to cross the threshold

at the cl*max of the exorcism,

so he needn't come anywhere over the threshold.

And if he will not do it.

- Uh, I'm afraid.

I know he'll do something terrible to me.

- Don't you understand, once he's completed this quackery

and nothing happens to you,

you'll be completely safe and completely free.

- Safe?

- Even my Aunt Abigail will have to face the results.

Now, believe me,

in a very short time your difficulties will be over.

- [gasps]

- What is it?

- Didn't you feel it?

Sudden coldness in this room.

- No.

- Oh, I'm suppose it's because I'm so frightened.

- Now, remember, you are completely safe.

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- At first the chilling cold and then the fire,

that room is here completely within my power.

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- Surrender the witch to me.

- As far as I know, Mr. Trask --

- Reverend Trask.

- All right Reverend,

if that's what you want to call yourself.

As far as I know there is no witch in this house.

- Ms. Collins has convinced me

that Victoria Winters is hiding in this house

and you know where she is.

I must repeat,

surrender her to me before I am forced to capture

and expose her.

- Come now,

you wouldn't want to have your little exorcise ruined,

now would you.

- The right of exorcism is a terrible and painful act.

It is a direct encounter with evil itself.

Now, for the last time, hand over the witch.

- There is no witch in this house. - Then you leave me no choice.

I must proceed with the rite.

- You will not go past this room.

- There is no need.

From the doorway, my power

touches the utmost reaches of this house.

The next mortal to cross this threshold

shall be known to hold the power of evil.

I proclaim the power of goodness

and I announce its presence to this entire house.

- If you'll excuse me,

I've got more important things to do.

- I give warning to the powers of darkness

that the powers of light are at hand.

Yield yourself to their command

and spare yourself their awesome force,

which is about to strike your very soul.

Victoria Winters.

Victoria Winters,

the powers of light have come to do battle

with the powers of darkness.

Your destruction is at hand.

[Reverend Trask] Victoria Winters.

Victoria Winters.

Come forth.

Surrender yourself to the powers of light.

Victoria Winters.

Let the witch come forth.

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- I call upon the heart of fire

that burns within the heart of ice.

The fire that freezes and does not consume itself.

I summon the eye of fire

that burns within the icy eye

that watches over all things evil.

I call it to this room of my own creation.

Heart of fire, heart of ice,

fiery eye of coldest evil... burn.

I command you to come and burn, burn, burn.

[Reverend Trask] - Victoria Winters.

Let the witch come forth.

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Victoria Winters.

The dust now knows your name

and the earth shall proclaim it to the sky.

Come forth to this threshold.

Cross from darkness into light

before the burning fires of goodness

drive you forth in terror and in fear.

- Eye of fire, heart of fire,

I summon you from the evil, icy waste of the world beyond,

burn, burn, burn!

[Reverend Trask] - Victoria Winters.

Victoria Winters.

- Why doesn't he stop?

[Reverend Trask] - Answer the summons of the powers of light,

answer.

Come forward, answer.

Surrender yourself before the consuming fires

of goodness drive you forth.

- No, no, it can't be.

No!

[Angelique] - Heart of fire.

Heart of fire that burns in the heart of ice.

- Angelique.

[Angelique] - Heart of fire.

Fire that burns in the heart of ice.

[Victoria] - Help! Help! Fire.

- Miss Winters. - [Victoria] Help! Help!

- Eye of fire.

Heart of fire, burn!

Burn! Burn...

- Victoria Winters.

Victoria Winters, your name is now known to fire,

surrender yourself, come forth,

you will be consumed, you will be consumed.

[Barnabas] - Miss Winters, what is it?

Miss Winters --

- Evil show thyself.

The powers of darkness are conquered now,

come forth, come forth.

You are summoned by the forces of everlasting light.

[Victoria] - Help! Help! Fire!

Fire! Somebody help!

Everybody run! Help!

- Oh! - The powers of darkness are conquered now!

- Let me go, please! - The powers of light have triumphed!

- Please, let me go! - Down witch.

Down on your knees.

Down! Down! Down to the dust!

- I have the witch! - Barnabas!

- I have the witch! - Please, no!

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- I don't understand.

I just don't understand.

- What happened?

Where's the Reverend Trask?

- Gone.

Oh, well then the whole foolishness is over with it.

- But Miss Winters is gone too.

- Miss Winters?

Isn't she in her room?

- No.

- Well, where is she?

- Well, I heard her calling fire.

- Fire?

- But when I got to her room, she wasn't there.

- And the fire?

- No fire.

There was no evidence of any fire

and now I can't find her anymore.

- Oh, she must be somewhere in the house.

- She isn't.

You don't think --

Oh, well no, that's impossible.

- What?

- We both know there's no such thing as a witch.

However, we do know so little about the girl

except that she's strange.

That's no indication that she's a witch.

- It's all so confusing. - Yes.

- So much has happened that can't be explained.

I - I mean that sudden choking you experienced,

for instance.

- Yes and Sarah's sudden illness.

- Not to mention your father's disappearance at that time.

- I just don't believe in witches.

- Of course you don't, neither do I.

- It would explain everything so easily.

Miss Winters a witch?

I wish I knew exactly what happened just now.

- Well, it seems as though Reverend Trask's little ritual

had some effect on her after all.

- Did you hear her shouting fire?

- No.

No, I was at the other side of the house

in the sewing room.

- Sewing room?

- Yes. Yes, I couldn't hear anything from -

or see anything from that side of the house.

- But I thought I heard someone,

a voice coming from your old room.

- My old room?

Why should I go in there?

- Well, I don't know, but I thought I heard a voice.

- Oh, no, that's impossible.

No, I was in the sewing room.

What is it Barnabas?

- Nothing. I --

I thought I heard a voice coming from your old room,

but I must have been mistaken,

so many things have happened so fast,

nothing is very clear.

All has come as such a shock.

- Yes, it still does seem very hard to believe.

- Yes, very hard.

- We're both exhausted,

I think I'll go upstairs and rest for a while.

- All right.

- Try not to be too upset.

- I'll try.

[thinking] You're lying.

I searched the sewing room

when I was looking for Miss Winters,

you were in your room.

Your strange words I heard you saying,

heart of fire burns in the heart of ice.

Why did you lie to me?

Is it possible that--?

No, I can't believe that.

Not my wife.

Strange girl who says she's from another time.

I could believe it about her.

A witch, yes, but my wife?

Oh, not my wife.

- You did your duty well.

We heard the Reverend, didn't we?

"I have the witch.

I have the witch."

[thinking] - "I was sent by the witch."

Ben said it when he was caught in Aunt Abigail's room.

Does he know who she is?

Can he tell me?

Ben, do you know?

I've got to find out, there is a witch.

I know it now.

But who?

Who is she?

- Miss Winters is the witch,

even Barnabas believes it now.

Perhaps some of the old customs can be revived.

We all know what the fate of a witch should be,

ashes, ashes, ashes.

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