442 - March 5, 1968

[bunniefuu]

[narrator] -A séance has been held in the great house at 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 .

Vindictive forces have sought her destruction,

but now another force

with even more terror at its command

has vowed to avenge her.

And at this moment,

a terrifying act of vengeance is about to take place.

- Didn't you hear what I said?

- Why? Why would she come to me?

- Who?

Who came to you? Millicent?

- Millicent.

- Did you or did you not

take my letter to Millicent Collins?

- What letter?

- You said you'd go up to Collinwood with it.

You promised.

- They came to me.

It was a dream, but I - I--

It was real. I--

- I saw them with my own eyes. - What are you talking about?

- It was Abigail I saw and Maude.

- Abigail and Maude?

- Yes, yes, I saw them.

- But you couldn't have,

Abigail and Maude are both dead.

- But they came to me.

I - I saw them with my own eyes.

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- What was Millicent's reaction to my having sent the letter.

- She - she grew very pale when she heard your name.

- She did?

- Yes and when Mrs. Collins tore up your letter

Millicent looked as though she wanted to stop her,

but - but she couldn't.

- Good.

Good. That's very good.

I think you brought me the answer to my letter after all.

- Now - now, please leave me.

- You're still frightened by that dream?

- It was more than a dream.

I saw Abigail.

Somehow - somehow she managed to contact me

from beyond the grave.

She gave me instructions.

She told me to do something that -

that I don't understand.

- Oh, what?

- She told me to go to the old house on the Collins' estate.

- The old house? - Yes.

- Why would she want me to go there?

What could she want me to see?

- Nothing.

Look, it was just a bad dream, that's all.

- Forget it. - No! It was more than a dream.

- I saw Abigail.

You may not believe that, but I do.

- If Abigail Collins appeared to you,

then she couldn't have told you to go to the old house.

She'd never lure you there.

- Lure me? What do you mean?

She's simply told me to go.

- She couldn't have.

- Why not? She--

- Because she'd never tell - tell you or anyone

to go that place.

- You sound almost afraid.

- Me? Afraid? That's nonsense.

- The mere mention of the old house

seems to frighten you.

- I just don't think you ought to go there, that's all.

As a matter of fact, I'll come right out

and warn you not to.

- Why?

- Don't ask why, just stay away.

- I can't. I - I must do Abigail's bidding.

- It was not Abigail you saw, it was just a dream!

- That's not true.

Why are you trying to make me disbelieve what I saw.

- I'm only trying to get you to stay away

from that old house.

- You must tell me why.

- If I were to tell you that to go there,

it would mean your certain destruction,

would you still go?

- What do you mean?

- Certainly you understand the meaning

of the word "destruction."

- Are you sure you're not the one that's imagining things

or is there something you know that you're not telling me?

- All I know is that terrible things have happened

at that house.

I just wouldn't go there if I were you.

- But you give me no valid reason.

- Death is a valid reason.

- Death?

- The people who've lived in that house,

even the people that have gone near it have died.

Beware Trask, if there are forces hiding,

unseen beware.

They maybe tempting you to your doom.

Stay away from the old house.

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- What are you going to do to Mr. Trask

when he gets here?

- Reward him. - Reward him?

- What are you planning to do?

- First, I shall entertain him.

- And then?

- And then the reward.

- You're going to k*ll him, ain't you?

- k*ll him?

Credit me with more imagination than that.

- Can't you tell me what you are going to do?

- He has presumed influence over the powers of darkness

while all the time his darkness

has been the darkness of ignorance and ambition.

Darkness I promise will be his,

but not the darkness of death,

at least not yet.

- Do you have to do this?

- Come, Ben,

build a fire to warm our guest

and other preparations remain.

Take that paper and pen to the room below,

Mr. Trask will have need of it.

- No. He mustn't go there. Not down there.

- Please, Ben,

we have other preparations to make.

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Summon him to his reward.

[wind howling]

[female voice] -Reverend Trask.

Trask. Trask.

Trask.

Reverend Trask.

Come to the old house. Come to the old house...

- Who is it?

Who's there?

-Trask. Trask. -Come.

- Abigail?

-Reverend Trask. - Is that you?

- Are you trying to contact me, Abigail?

-Come to the old house. Come.

-Come to the old house. - Why do you call me?

- Why do you want me to come to the old house?

- What? -Come to the old house.

- What do you want me to see there?

-Come. -Reverend Trask.

- Will you appear to me at the old house, Abigail,

is that it?

-Yes. Yes.

Yes.

- I hear your summons, Abigail.

I will obey.

-Come. Come to the old house.

Come. Come.

Reverend Trask. Trask. Trask.

Come.

Come to the old house.

[wind whistling] Trask.

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[wind howling]

[door creaking open]

- Abigail?

Abigail?

Are you here?

It - it was you who sent for me, wasn't it?

Abigail?

[door slams shut] Why did you send--?

[wind blowing] [chandelier clinking]

Please, don't torment me. I beg you.

Abigail,

if you sent for me Abigail, appear.

"The wind will speak his name

"and the clock will chime the hour,

"but hear it strike again,

"you will know the darkness of the tomb.

"But he will beg for the darkness of death itself.

If you would know his name, listen to the wind."

[wind howling] [chandelier clinking]

[Abigail] -Trask. Trask.

- No!

-Trask. - No!

- No!

[clock chiming]

-Trask. Trask.

Trask.

Reverend Trask.

Trask. Trask.

[heart beating] Trask.

Trask. Trask.

Trask.

Trask.

Trask. Trask.

- Why?

Why have I been summoned here?

-Trask. Trask.

Trask.

Trask.

[heart beating]

- Please, whoever you are, why have I been summoned?

[heart beat continues]

- You have been called at last

to a richly-deserved reward.

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- Barnabas Collins.

But you're dead?

- Yes.

- But - but - but you're here. I don't understand.

- There's no reason why you should.

- No. It must have been a nightmare.

I dreamed of Abigail,

it must have affected my imagination.

- Perhaps you'll be pleased to know that your imagination

is in no way involved.

- No, but - but it must be. I heard--

- Voices calling you? - Yes.

- Telling you to come here?

- How do you know?

- Was it a sound similar to this?

[female voice] -Trask.

Trask. Trask.

Come to the old house.

- No!

- Why did you try to destroy Victoria Winters? - Miss Winters?

- She did no harm to you or to anyone.

- She - she's a witch.

- You know that isn't true. - It - it is.

- You haven't the least idea of what true witchcraft is?

What evils it has at its command.

- She is a witch.

- Only in your feeble mind Trask,

you wanted the witch to prove your own powers,

so you haunted and tormented an innocent girl.

- No, I only did my duty.

- Your so called duty compelled you to destroy,

you would destroy anyone

for the sake of your own ambition.

- No that's not - not true.

- I could have pitied you, Trask.

If you've shown any pity for Victoria Winters, I would,

but you never did.

So, I will show you no mercy.

- What?

What are you saying?

- Look.

- What?

What's that?

- Your tomb.

- No!

- You always had a claim to knowledge

of the unnatural, the darkness.

Well, here's where you will have unending lessons.

- No, no! No, you can't.

- I can and I will.

- No. I - I - please, I--

- I was wrong about Miss Winters. - Were you?

- Yes, she - she isn't a witch.

- Then why did you persecute her?

- The house, I'll see that - that no harm comes to her.

Please, I'll help her, she'll be free, anything.

- Then you admit you persecuted her?

- Yes!

- Perhaps you would like to

submit that confession to paper.

- Yes. I - I'll write it.

- I thought you would welcome an opportunity

to declare her innocence.

- She - she's innocent.

She's not the witch.

My hands, trembling so.

- A few words will do.

- Yes.

- And a signature.

- Yes, a signature.

There I've - I've done it. I've confessed.

She's innocent. I - I signed my name.

- Excellent.

A trifle incoherent, but it will suffice.

- Now, now may - may I go?

- Soon. Very soon.

- Why? Why not now?

- Because your final resting place

is not yet ready.

- No, no, you can't k*ll me. I signed my confession.

- You confessed voluntarily,

I never said I would free you.

- No.

- You wanted Victoria Winters to die in prison

and so shall you a prison of your own making!

- No! No you can't! You can't!

You can't!

[knocking]

[Lt. Forbes] -Trask, are you in there?

Answer me.

Trask, are you there?

[knocking]

- No.

Please, please, no.

Please.

- Are you asleep?

Trask?

Trask?

Trask?

All right, wake up and answer me.

Trask, I have to come all the way back here

just to make sure you wouldn't go--

Trask?

Trask?!

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- Trask.

- I--

- Trask.

- Where--?

- Where are you?

In your grave.

- No, please!

- Look at the light, Trask.

- Light.

- Look deeply into the flame, into the light.

Let it burn itself into your mind,

so you will always remember what the light was like

long after I have consigned you to eternal darkness.

- No, please.

Please, no!

Please, don't.

No!

- Goodbye Trask. - No!

- No! No! No!

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