414 - January 25, 1968

[bunniefuu]

[Elizabeth 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 family,

but the names and relationships have changed.

And Victoria Winters finds herself a stranger

in a sea of familiar faces.

On this dark, mysterious night,

a child has ran from the house

following her missing brother who must escape her,

by she find out his terrible secret.

- Barnabas, don't you hide.

Barnabas, why won't you let me catch you?

Please, if you're in here, tell me.

[gate slams shut]

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[eerie music] ♪♪

- Thank you very much. - I just wanted --

- I enjoyed the eclipse of the moon very much,

it is something I should tell my children --

I mean, so few people see eclipses,

so few people are up this late,

I mean, people one knows.

I understand that other people stay up later somehow.

Goodnight.

- I'm staying for a few minutes.

- Oh, no, no, you mustn't.

Remember the night when Cousin Barnabas

discovered you here so late.

- Yes, well he's on his way to England now.

- Yes.

An odd fact in itself.

I mean, he never mentioned he's going

and I saw him just a day or two before.

To leave for England in the middle of the night,

wasn't it lucky there was a ship?

- Millicent --

- Well, sir, you really must be going,

my relatives will not think I value myself very highly.

- Oh, yes, they will.

- My cousin, Abigail, if she should find us --

- Would be most jealous that I haven't been

keeping her up this late.

- You do have sense of humor, sir.

I understand that amounts to a character defect

in any serious relationship.

- Oh? Who told you that?

- My lawyer.

He warned me about men who make light of proprieties,

as did my broker.

He went even further -- - Hmm, warned you against all men?

Ah, that's because he wants you

all for himself, I'm sure.

- [giggling]

My broker is over years old.

- What, would that stop his hoping?

- You joke? - Oh, no, when I am ,

I shall fall in love with someone exactly like you.

- Oh, it is not without reason they say men's minds

are so difficult to understand.

I think you frightened me, sir.

- Oh, well, then tell me how and I will stop.

- Oh, no, please don't.

I mean, you make me do things I should not do.

- Like, uh, like watching the eclipse?

- Yes.

I realized, it is not your fault

that eclipses occur late at night.

- Well, I'm glad you do.

- It's - it's what you make me do that frightens me.

It's more than that.

- It's what you I make you think about?

- Yes.

- Don't be so upset about it.

- How else can I be?

- Well, you could be slightly more modern

in your approach to life.

Ah, but then I expect you, you'll learn to be

after we're married.

- Sir?

- Married.

- Sir, I had no idea your intentions were so honorable.

- Yes, well my intentions have surprised even me.

Will you marry me, Millicent? - I shouldn't.

- I know you don't know very much about me --

- Oh, I know everything about you.

- We haven't spend very much time together.

- More than I've ever spent with any other man.

- Well, then why do you think you shouldn't?

- I mean, I --

I shouldn't accept as quickly as I'm going to.

Oh, Nathan --

Oh, no, please.

- Millicent, we kissed before we became engaged.

- Well, but now, now we must behave properly.

- We're properly engaged, yes?

- No, please, oh, I have so much to think about.

Married to you?

We shall be married in New York, of course,

and then we shall return here.

- Here? Why?

- Your position.

- Oh, well, actually, I've been thinking of a change.

- From the Navy?

- Yes, you know, I'm not promised to them to life --

for life.

I am to you.

- To me.

- Oh, that sounds so nice.

But should you leave the Navy?

- Did you want to spend your life following a sailor around?

- It does sound exciting? - No.

Think of - think of all the months I might be on sea duty.

- Oh, I haven't thought of that.

- Yes, and think of all the places

they might send me where you couldn't follow.

- Oh, I should, no matter where

I must make any adjustment you demand.

- No, no, I - I couldn't let you do that.

No, some miserable foreign port,

the filth, the diseases.

No, your constitution has never been strong enough for that,

you can't deny that.

- No, I - I won't, I can't.

- I should like to find something that would

allow me to spend all of my time with you.

I'd work.

I'd work, of course,

you'd never catch me living me off your income,

that's not my style.

- Oh, I know that.

- Well, of course, it - it might take me a little while

to find a position that I could really be interested in.

- Nathan, what if you never did.

- Oh, don't you worry about that.

You just leave everything to me.

Oh, we're going to have such a marvelous life,

you'll see.

[Naomi] - Sarah!

Sarah!

- Cousin Naomi, please go quickly.

- No, we'll tell her, she'll understand.

- No, no, Cousin Joshua will be furious

if we don't proceed according to etiquette.

- Well, he's in Portsmouth.

- Millicent.

Lieutenant Forbes, thank goodness you're still here.

- Cousin. - Well, I shouldn't be really Mrs. Collins,

but I - I took the liberty of viewing the eclipse

from your terrace.

- And I, by chance, was viewing it too.

- Was Sarah with you?

- No.

Isn't she in bed?

- No.

- Well, where is she?

- I don't know. I've looked everywhere,

upstairs, in the servant's quarters, in the attic.

She's gone.

Gone.

- Let me out!

Let me out!

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- I had to go into town

and when - when I got back, evidently just before you,

I went to Sarah's room, and she wasn't there.

The bed was turned down, but she obviously hadn't been in it.

I woke cook and Josette, and no one had seen her.

- Perhaps it was the eclipse.

- Yes, she might have gone out to see it.

- No, she wouldn't do that.

Not alone.

- Are you sure she wasn't in the house?

- Oh, Riggs even search the basement.

- Well, I'll tell you what, let me go outside and look.

I'll get Riggs and - and Ben come along with me,

they can help.

- Would you be kind enough to take charge?

- Yes, of course. - Thank you.

Something has happened. - Now, nothing has, Mrs. Collins,

we'll find her, don't worry.

- Oh, oh, he's so masterful.

- Joshua is going to be furious.

- No, Cousin Naomi.

- I - I shouldn't have gone to town.

I shouldn't have left her, but how did I know.

- You couldn't, Cousin Naomi.

- I got back as quickly as I could.

- No, you mustn't blame yourself.

It's the eclipse, I'm sure.

An adventurous child will always want to see an eclipse.

- No, it's not that.

- You seem so certain.

- I am.

- Well, why?

- Oh, all these terrible things that keep happening to us,

when will they stop.

- Oh, nothing really terrible has happened to Sarah.

- if I could only believe that.

If only Miss Winters --

- The witch.

- She's not a witch.

Witches don't warn people.

- You saw her tonight?

- Yes.

- And she warned you?

About what?

- Sarah.

- What did she say?

- I -- - Cousin Naomi, you must tell me,

with Cousin Joshua, away you have no one else to tell

and sometimes it helps one just to speak.

- No need to upset you.

- When you're this upset, I am too.

- Dear Millicent, Miss Winters warn me,

something was going to happen to Sarah before her birthday.

- But that's only a day after tomorrow.

- I know.

And that we must be very careful or else --

- Miss Winters is very, very cruel.

- No.

Miss Winters was telling me so

we could stop it from happening.

- Stop what?

- Sarah's death.

- You mustn't believe her.

- When I got back here and Sarah was gone,

I - have that growing fear

that Miss Winters does know the future

and she's telling us so that we can save Sarah.

- Save Sarah or herself?

If you were to become sympathetic to Miss Winters,

it would certainly help her at her trial.

- She wouldn't deliberately --

- Cast a spell on Sarah

so that the child is gone when you return?

- Cousin Millicent.

- I think more than most people give me credit for.

- If thought she'd cast a spell...

- Where are you going? - I can't stay here.

- But the men are out searching.

- I've got to go, too.

- It's going to storm, I think.

- Well, let me find her before it does.

- Barnabas!

Barnabas!

Please find me.

Barnabas, why don't you find me?

Please find me.

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- Joe, is that you?

What are you waiting for, Joe?

You ain't Joe.

- No.

- Who are you?

Oh!

Why, it's Mr. Collins.

- You know me?

- Oh, I sure, I seen you.

Oh, what a fright you gave me.

- I'm sorry.

- Oh, well, I mean,

I know I shouldn't be out of here alone,

not after what's happened at some of the other girls

in this town.

You heard about them attacks, didn't you?

- I knew about them, yes.

- You scared me half to death, my heart was beating so fast.

Well, if it isn't Mr. Barnabas Collins himself,

I heard you'd gone to England.

- England?

Well, you can see that that's not true.

- Well, maybe I just heard you were going to go.

- Probably that's it.

- What are you doing down here?

- Just taking a walk.

- Yeah?

You mind if I join you?

There's no fun walking alone, is there?

- No.

- Oh, I never would have thought it.

- What?

- I can't wait till some of the girls in the Eagle

hear about this, me with you.

Oh, what would they say if they could see me now.

Hey, my name is Ruby Tate.

You ever hear of me?

- I don't think so.

- Well, you're one of the few people in this town

that hasn't, believe me.

You know that funny the minister,

the one who looks like a duck?

- Reverend Bland.

- He wrote a whole sermon about me.

- I'd like to have heard that.

- So, would I.

Say, how about you and me going down to the Eagle

and having a drink.

- Ah, I don't think so.

- Why, you're afraid you'd be in the sermon with me?

- No, it's just that -- - I know what it is.

- I really should be going.

- Oh, come on, you don't want to go now, do you?

- Well, it's what I should do.

- Don't - don't do things you should do.

That's the way I live my life, you should try it.

- You are waiting for someone else.

- I... I was.

- He may come. - Not now.

Besides, I was just getting ready to go.

He doesn't matter anyway.

- You're sure?

- Probably he couldn't get away from his wife,

you know?

- I know.

- No, he's not very important, he's just,

someone I met one night when I was out walking.

- Like me?

- Yeah, like you.

Is something wrong?

- No.

- You're looking at me so funny-like.

- You're so pretty.

- Me? Oh!

Wait until I heard the girls you said that.

- Oh, you mustn't tell anyone.

No one.

- I - I won't say a word.

But why are you staring at me?

- Ah, I - I have to be going.

- Uh, no, why? Come on, stay.

- It's late.

- Yeah,

that way there won't be anyone around to bother us.

Come on.

You really don't want to go now, do you?

Honest?

- No.

- Then don't.

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Oh, no!

So, you're the one --

You - you're the one who's been,

who's been - oh!

- Ruby!

Ruby!

[trees rustling]

- Sarah?

[Millicent] - Nathan.

- Millicent.

So what are you doing here?

- Cousin Naomi, she insisted

I finally got her to go back,

but I promised that I'd keep on looking.

We're never going to find Sarah tonight.

- And this fog.

- Maybe she's already home.

No, no, that's just what I wish were true.

Oh, if Naomi is right.

Oh, Nathan, there's a curse on Collinwood

and everyone who lives there.

- Oh, Millicent.

- There is. It frightens me so.

- More than I frighten you?

- Don't joke, please.

I'm so frightened for us.

Everyone at Collinwood who's dared to fall in love,

Josette, Barnabas, even Angelique,

they've all been so miserable.

[thunder rumbling] Why?

What's that?

- Oh, it's thunder, that's all.

- Are you sure?

- Of course, I am.

Why did you think, some kind of monsters?

Now, look you mustn't let what's happened to Josette

make you so upset,

we're going to be all right.

- You're sure?

- Of course, I am.

Now, let's get back.

- No, no, we can't until we find Sarah.

Have you looked over there?

- No, that's the graveyard.

A child wouldn't think of going to a graveyard at night.

They're terrified by them, I'm sure she didn't go there.

- Well, with the woods then,

but let me come with you and let's hurry,

I really feel much less frightened when I'm with you.

[thunder rumbling]

[thinking] - Jeremiah.

Jeremiah, how we laughed at the idiocy of others?

But what fools we turned out to be.

One woman with a primitive power k*lled us both,

left us, left us as we are.

You are more fortunate than I.

Your ghost still walking the night searching rest,

at least you have the hope for it.

I do not.

What have I become?

How can I do things I do?

So, eternity be like this?

Is there no escape?

Ah!

- What was that?

I heard a cry.

[dog barking] It's just a dog, that's all.

- No.

No, it wasn't that.

It sounded so human.

- Who's there?

- Sarah!

- Barnabas, I've been waiting and waiting.

- You should be home.

- I fell asleep.

- You - you must be home, you must go home.

- Take me home.

- Sarah.

- Please walk me home, I'm so sleepy.

- Sarah, listen to me, I - I can't.

- Why not?

- You must not say you saw me.

- Barnabas!

You aren't Barnabas, you aren't.

- I am. I am.

- No!

- Sarah!

Sarah!

Oh, no. Oh, no.

[rooster crowing]

[thunder rumbling]

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[eerie music] ♪♪