534 - July 11, 1968

[bunniefuu]

[suspenseful music]

- The dawn of a new day will bring no comfort

to one who lives in the great house at Collinwood.

Victoria Winters has had a terrifying dream

in which she witnessed the death of Barnabas Collins.

And now she fears that if she sees Barnabas and tells him

the dream, she will be responsible for restoring

a -year-old curse.

She does not know that during the night that has just past,

a devious plan has been worked out--

a plan that will soon bring her and Barnabas face to face.

Dearest Barnabas, last night the dream came to me again.

And I cannot bear the horrible agony it brought with it.

So this is to say goodbye to you,

and to thank you for all you've done for me

while you've been at Collinwood.

I find it painfully ironic that all of the qualities I so

admire in you are now the very reasons I must leave,

for if I were to stay, I could only bring you great harm.

I know now that with the passing of each day

the effects of the dream will erode what little courage

and strength I have left.

It's like having an incurable disease.

And I know I would rather die than inflict it upon you.

- No, Vicky, no.

[suspenseful music]

[errie theme music]

[wind chimes and bells]

[knocking]

- It couldn't be Barnabas.

He's never come here this early.

Barnabas!

- Vicky, thank goodness you're still here!

- Don't come in!

- I must speak to you at once.

- Please, go back to the old house and stay there.

- Do you think I can stay there and do nothing

while you destroy yourself?

- I'm not going to destroy myself.

- I knew that the dream could be destructive,

but I had no idea how destructive

until I read your note.

- My note?

- Vicky, I cannot allow you to go through with it.

- What are you talking about?

- The note that you left under my door this morning.

- I didn't leave any note under your door.

- What?

- I haven't been out of the house all day.

- But I know your handwriting.

- Let me see it.

- It's incredible.

It is my handwriting, but--

- But you didn't write it.

- Of course not.

- Cassandra.

She knew that you wouldn't come to me,

so she had to find some way of bringing us together.

She tricked me and it worked.

- No, it hasn't worked.

I haven't told you the dream.

I have no intention of telling it to you.

- Vicky, what are you doing?

- I haven't told him anything, Julia.

- But you will if you stay here.

You can help it.

- Julia, why don't you realize that there is

nothing we can do to avoid it?

- Yes there is, if I can keep the two of you apart.

Now you go in here.

I'll join you in a moment.

Barnabas, why on earth did you come here?

You're making it too difficult for her.

- Cassandra sent me a letter this morning

in Vicky's handwriting implying that Vicky would k*ll herself

in order to protect me.

- Barnabas, Barnabas, you've got to go now.

Now you've got to go to the old house.

- All right, I'll go, but go in there with Vicky

and take good care of her.

- I will but please go now.

[music playing]

[wind chimes and bells]

- Oh, Vicky I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to startle you.

- It doesn't take very much these days.

- Why don't you sit down.

- I don't know if that'll do any good.

- Is there anything I can do for you?

- There's nothing that anyone can do.

I've just got to keep on fighting it.

- I know it won't be any help to you,

but, but for what it's worth, I know what you're going through.

- Was it this bad when it happened to you?

- Well, I had one of the first dreams,

and I'm sure they've gotten steadily worse ever since.

- I've known fear before but never any fear like this.

It's as though my fear is--

it's a living thing that's crept inside

of me, trying to break down my willpower

and get control of me.

- Vicky, maybe you shouldn't talk about.

- I can't help but talk about it.

It's all I can think about.

- Wouldn't it be better if you went off somewhere--

to Windcliff?

- No, Julia, I'm going to stay here.

Cassandra can drive me out of my mind,

or k*ll me, or do whatever she wants to do to me,

but I'm never going to tell Barnabas.

Never.

[suspenseful music]

- Good morning, Julia.

Julia?

- Good morning, Carolyn.

I didn't know you got up.

- I got up very early and went to visit Joe in the hospital.

- Oh.

- Don't you want to know how he is?

- I'm sorry, I'm was thinking of something else.

- Are you feeling all right?

- Yes, yes of course.

Tell me, tell me how is Joe?

- Much better.

The doctors think he'll be able to leave the hospital

in another two or three weeks.

- And after that?

- I guess he'll be as good as new.

- Well, that's good isn't it?

- Yes, of course.

- Then why do you look so disturbed?

- Joe did a lot of talking while I was there.

He told me some things.

I find it very hard to believe.

- What kind of things?

- Julia, do you think it's possible for someone

to jump from Widow's Hill and survive?

- Joe talked to you about Adam then, huh?

- He claims that's who he fought with in the woods but--

- Carolyn, I don't think there's any need for you

to be frightened about it.

- I'm not frightened, I'm astonished.

It never occurred to me that Adam could still be alive.

- The police suspected as much after Sam Evans' accident.

- Yes, that's what Joe said.

Do you mean you knew nothing about Adam's going

to Sam's cottage?

- Yes, I heard something about it.

- Why didn't you tell me?

- Well, for the same reason that nobody else did--

I didn't want to alarm you.

- The police haven't found a trace of Adam

since the night Joe was found in the woods.

Where could he be?

- I have no idea.

- Julia, he has to do something about food

and go somewhere to sleep.

Where would be the logical place?

- I'm afraid he doesn't seem to be a kind of person that

has a logical mind.

He's probably wandering the woods with no idea where he is

or what he's doing.

- If that were true, someone would

have seen him by this time and reported him to the police.

He must be hiding someplace.

The question is where.

- After your experience with him I

should think that would be the last thing you'd want to know.

- Yes, yes, that's true.

I can't help being curious.

- Be careful.

Curiosity may be dangerous. Excuse me.

[suspenseful music]

- Adam, Adam, let me go.

I'm your friend.

You recognize me, don't you?

You know me?

- Yes, I know you.

- Somehow, I knew you'd come here,

and I decided to find out if I was right.

- Why?

- I don't know why.

- What you want?

- I don't want anything.

I thought you might need help.

- What are you doing?

- You bring the police?

- No!

I came here alone.

- You bring the police?

No!

No, I didn't bring anyone!

I haven't even talked to the police.

Adam, please let me go.

You're hurting me!

I came here because I was grateful to you

for saving my life.

I thought maybe I could do something to help you now,

but you've changed.

You were gentle and innocent.

Now you've become what people always

thought you were to begin with.

I swear to you, I didn't come here to hurt you,

but if you're afraid of me, if you don't trust me,

then I'll leave and I won't come back.

- No, stay.

Please, stay with Adam.

- I can't stay too long, but I can

try to find a way to help you, if you want me to.

- Yes, I want you to.

- Well, there's been at least one change for the good

since I saw you.

You are able to say so many more words.

How did that happen?

- Happen?

- You've uh, learned to talk more.

- Yes, Adam learn. - Yes.

- Adam learn very good.

- Ground.

Wall. [happy laughter]

- Shelf, board, outside, inside, feet, clothes, hands, face,

- Shelf, board, outside, inside, feet, clothes, hands, face,

hair.

- It's incredible!

Who taught you all those things?

- Professor.

- Helped you learn to talk?

- Stokes.

- Then Joe was right.

- You were-- you were staying with Professor Stokes?

- Yes.

- Oh, but why are you here?

Why didn't you go back to Professor Stokes' house?

- No, can't go back there.

- Why not?

Professor angry I'm bad.

- Did he tell you that?

- No.

- Does he know you're here?

- No.

- How do you know he's angry?

- Adam knows.

- One thing we're going to have to do

is teach you to say "I" instead of Adam.

- "Hi."

- Adam, when you were staying with Professor Stokes,

were you happy?

- Yes.

- Then let me take you back there tonight.

- No.

- Adam, you can't stay here.

You have no food, and it isn't safe here.

If Professor Stokes was willing to take you

in and try to teach you, then he must understand you.

He must realize that when you ran from his house

it was out of fear, and that means he isn't angry.

- No.

Can't go back there.

- All right, then I'll go and get Professor Stokes

and bring him here and let him tell you himself.

- You stay here at Adam, and don't leave before I come back.

- No, stay with Adam.

- Adam, you need help.

I'm going to get it for you.

- You won't come back.

- Yes, yes I will.

You must believe that, and let me go now.

[music playing]

[knock on the door]

[suspenseful music]

- Barnabas, how do you feel?

- How do you suppose I feel?

How does any man feel waiting for the executioner?

- Oh, you've got to stop talking that way.

- Well, under the circumstances I

find it difficult to carry on a normal conversation.

But why aren't you with Vicky?

- Well, I-- I left her in the drawing room.

She went up to her room.

- Well you should have gone with her.

- I followed her, but when I got there the door was locked.

- Barnabas, I-- I knocked but-- but there was no answer.

I think--

- You think what?

- I think that she probably fell asleep.

- To have the dream again?

And how many more times can she have it

before it destroys her spirit and her willpower?

- I think Cassandra has underestimated

Vicky's strength.

- I know she has, and how much consolation

can I derive from that?

Oh, what a selfish fool I am.

- Oh, no, Barnabas.

- Yes.

What am I proving, Julia?

- It isn't a matter of proving anything.

- Then what am I accomplishing?

Nothing!

Oh yes, Vicky is strong and courageous,

but she also has been tortured slowly to death,

and I am letting it happen.

- Barnabas, she doesn't want to tell you the dream.

- Well, of course she doesn't want to.

It's in her nature to love and not destroy.

Well, there must be something in my nature that's like that too,

that--

that is worthy of what she's doing for me.

And that's why I cannot let it go on, Julia.

- What do you mean?

- I'm going to go to Vicky, and I'm

going to let her tell me the dream.

- No, Barnabas you-- you can't do that.

- I can't do anything else. - You can.

You can wait a little longer.

- I've already waited too long.

- Barnabas, Vicky--

Vicky knows what she's doing.

She knows that she can survive the dream.

- But she doesn't know the full price that she'll have to pay.

- Barnabas, she thinks that if you have the dream

it will k*ll you, and that's bad enough for her.

You and I both know that if you have the dream you won't die,

but something worse will happen.

- Julia, what will it take to make you realize

that there is no way out?

- I don't know.

I refuse to believe it.

- Well, I know there isn't.

You see I didn't tell you, but I went

to see Cassandra yesterday.

- You went to see her?

Why?

- I asked her to release Vicky from the effects of the dream.

- In return for what?

- I told her that I was willing to admit defeat,

that I was tired, that I was willing to restore

the relationship we once had so many years ago.

- Barnabas, I can't believe you were serious.

- I was.

I told her I'd wait here for an answer but no answer came.

I know Julia, that if Cassandra was not

willing to respond to that, she will respond to nothing,

and there is no way of stopping her.

I can no longer bear to think of--

of what Vicky is going through for me.

I must put a stop to it.

- Barnabas, I beg of you, don't do this.

Think what will happen to you.

- I have thought about it, and I'm prepared to accept it.

[suspenseful music]

[errie theme music]