506 - June 3, 1968

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NARRATOR: It has been a long, terrifying night at Collinwood.

Marked by the survival of a young woman,

and what appeared to be the self-destruction

of a bizarre and strangely silent man named Adam.

Almost all who witnessed his frightening jump

from Widow's Hill to the rocky shore below,

are convinced that he is dead and gone

carried off by the sea.

[WAVES CRASHING]

DR. LANG: Julia, when...

When you... When you do the experiment again,

if both Barnabas and my creation live,

if they both live,

Barnabas will be free and healthy

as long as Adam lives.

Adam will... will...

will drain Barnabas's affliction from him.

But will not suffer from the disease itself,

because he lives.

But if, if Adam dies,

[PANTING]

Barnabas Collins will be as he was before.

Get that light out of my eyes.

WILLIE: Oh, Barnabas, we're wasting our time.

We will continue searching, Willie.

Listen, now.

A man jumps off the cliffs up there,

he hasn't got a chance.

He's dead the second his body hits the rocks down here.

You know as well as I do that Adam isn't an ordinary man.

I don't care, I still say he's dead.

He's got to be dead.

No, Willie.

I don't know why I feel the way I do,

but call it intuition, if you like.

But I know Adam is alive.

Now, get up, Willie.

We're going to find him.

Adam!

Adam!

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Adam!

Adam!

Adam!

Adam!

Adam!

Can you hear me?

WILLIE: Barnabas, he can't hear us because he's dead.

Now why can't you understand that?

I tell you, he's alive.

Well, he may be badly hurt, but he's alive.

I don't think I've ever even seen you this way before,

you won't even listen to reason.

Willie, we're going to get nothing accomplished

if you keep arguing like this.

Won't you believe what the police said?

I don't care about the police.

They told you his body was washed out to sea.

They told you that, now why won't you believe it?

Let them believe that.

In fact, it's to our advantage

if the sheriff thinks that Adam is dead.

It means he won't come around questioning us.

Barnabas, I've got an idea.

It's too dark out here,

we ain't gonna be able to find anything tonight.

Why don't we come back in the morning,

we'll be able to see something, then.

No, it'll be too late by then.

Well, what do you mean, "too late"?

Willie, we're going to continue with the search.

And we're going to keep at it until we find him.

Well, I just can't do it anymore tonight, Barnabas.

- I just can't do it! - You'll do as I say, Willie.

WILLIE: Barnabas, listen to me,

I got to go back to Collinwood right now.

Collinwood? What for?

'Cause that dream, is driving me crazy,

and Carolyn's come back home now

and I gotta tell it to her.

I forbid you to talk to Carolyn.

Barnabas, I gotta do it. I gotta tell her it.

I'm gonna go crazy having that dream again.

I can't do it, I'm gonna go crazy.

Carolyn has gone through enough of an ordeal already.

I will not have you put her through another one.

Oh, well, what about what I've gone through?

You know, I'd rather go back to Windcliff

than have that dream again.

You don't know what it's like, 'cause you never had it.

I can appreciate what you've gone through, Willie.

But you're forgetting

that if this dream curse goes to its end,

I'll be the one who suffers, not you.

I know that, but I just gotta tell you the way I feel.

Barnabas, I'm scared all the time.

I mean, you don't know how it is, the way I feel.

I mean, every minute of the day, I'm shaking with fear

and I can't stop it.

Willie, I know how you feel.

Then let me go back to Collinwood and see her.

No, you must stay here and help me with the search.

Well, there ain't any sense lookin' for a dead man!

Adam is not dead!

Why do you say that?

We've gone over the whole beach

and we haven't even seen a trace of him.

All the more reason to believe that he may be alive.

Oh, Barnabas, stop it.

I mean, even if he was alive,

every bone in his body would be broken,

he wouldn't be able to get up and walk away.

Yes, that's just what's probably happened to him.

He's intelligent enough to know

that they would come down here looking for him,

and he was afraid,

and he went off somewhere.

Barnabas, I mean, you gotta stop this.

The way you're acting, it ain't healthy.

The question is, where did he go?

He didn't go anywhere, he was washed out to sea.

- The root cellar. - The what?

That's where he took Carolyn,

to the abandoned root cellar at the Taylor farm.

He may have gone back there.

Willie, I want you to go there and see if he's there.

Why don't you go?

I'm going to stay here,

I'm going to continue searching the beach.

Barnabas, please.

Please, it will only take me a minute

to tell Carolyn the dream

and then I'll do anything you want me to do.

Stop harping about that dream.

I told you, we're not going to stop until we find him.

Now, go to the root cellar and see if he's there, Willie.

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[CLOCK CHIMING]

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Come in.

ELIZABETH: How do you feel now, dear?

All right.

You haven't touched your food.

I will, in a little while.

Carolyn, you mustn't be afraid anymore.

You've got to get some sleep.

I'm not afraid.

The police are convinced the man is dead.

They are?

LIZ: The sheriff told me his body probably washed out to sea.

You're in no danger.

Mother, I don't feel frightened.

Please believe me, I'm all right.

Well, you're not behaving as if you're all right.

You're not yourself at all.

I will be.

I just need a little time.

Carolyn, did he hurt you?

No.

Not really.

But he kept you against your will,

he must have had to use force.

Yes, he did.

And yet he didn't hurt you?

He was such a strange,

pathetic sort of man, mother.

Feeling that he was trying, in his own clumsy way,

- to be gentle. - Gentle?

Mother, when you saw him that night,

he was terribly frightened.

He felt trapped.

And so he had to do something desperate.

You sound as if you're defending him.

I guess, in a way, I am.

How can you?

The man who kidnapped you

and held you prisoner for two days,

he k*lled have k*lled you.

No, I'm sure he would never have k*lled me.

I don't know if I can explain this

so that it makes any sense at all,

but in a strange way, I feel very sorry for him.

Sorry for him? Why?

I wish I knew.

Maybe I should be happy that this man is dead,

but I'm not,

because now we'll never know anything about him.

Who he was and where he came from, and...

And what?

There was something about him

that made him seem so different from all other people.

I know this will sound ridiculous to you,

but he was almost like a child.

A child who hasn't learned to talk,

who has never had any experience at all with other human beings.

He could only say a few words

and his instincts were like a child's.

He kept trying to learn things from me

and he seemed really, very sensitive.

He seems to have had a very strange effect on you.

I still say he could have k*lled you,

and probably would've.

Mother, if he were this maniac you seem to think he was,

why did he save my life?

If he had no feelings,

no warmth, no human compassion,

why didn't he let me fall from the rocks at Widow's Hill?

He didn't, he pulled me back up and saved my life.

Why?

I don't know.

I just thank God that you're alive and safe.

That we never have to see that man again.

Now, you must go to bed and get some sleep.

[WATER TRICKLING]

I'll still be up for a little while, if you need me.

No, I won't, I'm very tired.

I'll be asleep the minute I close my eyes.

Goodnight, mom.

Goodnight, dear.

[CLOCK TICKING]

[CLOCK CHIMES TWICE]

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Carolyn?

- [CAROLYN GASPS] - Please don't be scared, it's only me, Willie.

It's only me.

Willie, what are you doing in here?

I gotta talk to ya.

How'd you get into the room?

The window.

You better get out the same way you got in here,

'cause if you're caught...

I won't get caught if you don't say anything.

Willie, I want you to get out of here right now, now get out.

- Please, Carolyn, I gotta talk to you. - I said, get out!

Please don't get mad. I'm not gonna hurt ya.

- Are you gonna leave or do I have to call for help? - No, don't do that,

- I said, I wouldn't hurt you. - Willie, I don't know what you're doing

and I don't care.

I'd hate to see you get into trouble, again.

But if you don't do as I say...

Carolyn, I swear, all I gotta do is tell you the dream

- and then I'll go. - The dream?

Yeah, that's why I came here, to tell you the dream.

You broke into my room to tell me about a dream?

'Cause you're the only one I can tell.

You must be crazy.

I know it sounds crazy, but it isn't.

Please, let me tell it to you.

Willie, I'll give you one more chance to get out of my room,

before I call for hel...

Now, listen, I don't want to do this to you, Carolyn,

but you're gonna make me.

Now, just keep quiet so I can tell you the dream

and then I'm gonna go. Okay?

All right, don't be quiet,

but I'm gonna tell you the dream anyway.

Now, listen to me.

Now, in the dream,

there was a knock on the door,

I didn't wanna answer it, but I had to answer it.

And something started pulling me towards the door,

I didn't know what it was.

But it started pulling me.

And then I reached out to...

[SHOUTS IN PAIN]

CAROLYN: Help! Help!

Help!

Ouch, why'd you have to do that?

- I didn't come in here to hurt ya, I told you that. - Willie, get out of here.

- Don't you understand I had to tell ya, - Just get out!

I was so scared. I had to tell ya.

- Don't come near me, Willie. - I'm not gonna come near you.

[CAROLYN CRYING]

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Can you talk now?

Yes.

Who was the man?

- Willie Loomis. - Willie Loomis?

What was he doing here?

I...

I don't know.

Whatever it was, he won't get another chance.

[WINDOW LATCH CLICKS]

I was afraid Barnabas was making a mistake

bringing him back here.

- What are you gonna do? - Tell Barnabas to send him back to Windcliff.

The man is obviously out of his mind.

Did he say anything to you?

Only that he didn't mean any harm.

He begged me not to scream

and said he just wanted to talk to me.

He could do that almost anytime,

he didn't have to climb into your window

while you were sleeping.

There must be something terribly wrong with him.

He kept jabbering about a dream he had,

and said he had to tell me about it.

He must be having hallucinations of some kind.

He told me something about a dream

when I went looking for you at the old house.

I think what frightened me the most

was the way he talked about the dream.

ELIZABETH: What do you mean?

It must be the most terrifying thing

that's ever happened to him.

He was shaking like a leaf the whole time he was in the room.

He acted like he'd have no peace of mind

until he talked to someone about that dream.

He could talk to anyone, why you?

Carolyn, what's the matter?

He said I was the one he had to tell about the dream.

- Mother, what could he have meant by that? - I don't know.

Think of the risk he took.

The risk?

Breaking into my room like that.

He must have known he would be severely punished

if he were caught.

And yet he had to take that risk anyway.

Why?

Darling, there could be any number of answers to that.

All having to do with Willie's mental state.

He didn't act like a deranged person

when he came in here.

He just seemed terribly frightened.

Well, people who have hallucinations

day in and day out are bound to be frightened,

aren't they?

I believe that Willie really did have that dream

he was trying to tell me.

And that for some reason,

I am the only person he could have told.

I'm sure he's convinced himself of that,

but there's no reason for you to take it seriously.

Now, lock your door after I go out,

you must get some sleep.

No.

I don't want to go to sleep now.

Why not?

Because I'm afraid.

Darling, there is nothing to be afraid of.

No one can possibly get in this room,

you're perfectly safe.

I may not be safe from that that dream.

What are you talking about?

Mother, if I do go to sleep now,

I think I will have that dream Willie was trying to tell me.

That's nonsense.

And if I do have it, I'm afraid I'll die.

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