1177 - December 29, 1970

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NARRATOR:Collinwood in ,

a house besieged by an enemy from within.

For Gerard Stiles, possessed by the warlock Judah Zachary,

is now the master of the great house.

Secretly he carries out the warlock's revenge

on the Collins family.

Quentin and Desmond are both in jail,

charged with witchcraft.

There seems no one to come to their aid,

for Barnabas has disappeared.

But this night, as one woman searches alone

in Quentin's laboratory for evidence that will free him,

she receives aid from an unexpected source.

[footsteps thudding]

Who's there?

Yes.

Someone's coming.

From where?

Someone's coming, who?

Eliot.

[mysterious whistling music]

Oh, Eliot, oh, Eliot!

I don't think I'm half as amazed as you are, Julia.

But then I've been planning to do this.

I've been planning it for some days now.

You couldn't have come for a worse time for you,

but it couldn't be a better time for us.

I have a feeling that what I read in Flora Collins'

journal is the truth.

JULIA: Where did you find Flora Collins' journal?

In the ruins of Collinwood.

JULIA: What did you read that upset you so?

It told of the year .

It said that Barnabas Collins had disappeared.

That he was never heard of again,

that his body was never found.

Was what she wrote true?

How long has he been missing?

A week.

And you have no idea where he might be?

None.

Then, we shall simply have to change the course

of history and find him.

Eliot, we've tried, we've tried.

How did you know about the staircase?

After you left, Barnabas told me about it.

When I decided to come here, I returned to the playroom.

I stayed there for over hours, waiting.

Suddenly a door appeared.

I opened it, I saw those stairs,

and I knew what I had to do.

Well, I hope you don't regret it.

ELIOT: Well, it's an adventure.

An adventure that has ended badly for Barnabas.

And is Gerard Stiles here?

He is the master of Collinwood.

Eliot, there is a witchcraft trial at Collinsport.

Quentin Collins is on trial for witchcraft,

and Desmond Collins has been put in jail.

They have both been accused of being warlocks.

And you think Gerard is responsible?

Yes, yes, we can't prove it, but I do believe it.

We've got to work out a complete history for you.

I'll introduce you as a friend of mine from Pennsylvania.

You're a professor at the college there.

You've not met Barnabas,

but you have corresponded with him on matters

of philosophy of interest to you both.

Now you've come in answer to an old invitation from him.

Does Gerard suspect you and Barnabas?

Oh yes, Eliot, you've got to be very careful.

Now we've got to get you some clothes.

[rattling]

Julia?

Yes, Gerard?

GERARD: This door is locked.

Unlock it immediately.

Yes, I'm coming.

- Are you alone? - Yes.

I thought I heard some talking.

I have a secret vice, Gerard.

When I'm alone and I read, I read aloud.

I find new and fascinating things about you

every day, Julia.

Fascinating.

Are you sure that no one is here?

Yes.

Why would anyone want to hide anyone from you?

What are you doing in this room?

JULIA: Your friend Charles Dawson

He is no longer a friend of mine

since he became county prosecutor.

Yes, but nevertheless, he was the one that found

Judah Zachary's journal in this room.

I wanted to be sure there was no more

evidence against Quentin.

So you would destroy it?

If necessary, yes, wouldn't you?

That is exactly why I am here, Julia.

Well, I've looked everywhere, and there doesn't seem

to be anything that could be incriminating

to Desmond or Quentin.

Tell me something.

Why did you bar the door?

Because I didn't want to be disturbed.

Don't you trust me?

Of course, only if you would return the compliment.

Of course I'll try.

That's good, at least we're starting off

in the right direction.

Although, I'm not really sure I believe you.

Why don't we discuss it upstairs.

And will you see Quentin today when you go into town?

Well, if I have time.

I have some errands to do, very many of them.

Oh, by the way, a friend is coming here,

a friend from Philadelphia.

I just got the letter.

He's arriving tonight.

Oh yes, I know the postal service is quite bad.

Isn't it?

If I don't get back in time, will you make him comfortable?

Of course.

Who is he?

JULIA: His name is Stokes, T. Eliot Stokes.

Ah, a relative of Carrie's?

Yes, yes, as a matter of fact,

that's how we got to be friends.

When I met him at the university in Philadelphia,

and he heard the name Collins, he told me that he had

an uncle who worked for some people named Collins in Maine.

His uncle was Ben Stokes, of course.

Quite a coincidence.

JULIA: Isn't it?

It's so odd that he didn't come to Ben's funeral.

Oh, I wrote him about it, of course,

but he was traveling,

and he just got the letter on his return.

GERARD: Is he also a friend of Barnabas'?

Well, they've corresponded.

He'll be terribly upset about what's happened to Barnabas.

Yes, as we all are.

JULIA: Yes, Valerie, Valerie I want to talk to you.

Yes, of course, Julia.

Well, I will go tell the servants to prepare Ben's room.

Thank you very much.

What is it?

Now listen, listen carefully.

I don't have very much time to explain.

But a man has come through, come down Quentin's staircase.

He's a man from , a friend who can help us.

He knows you.

Knows me?

JULIA: Yes, he knows you're a witch.

Oh, Julia!

In , you called yourself Cassandra,

and you were a student of his at a local college.

He was the one that introduced you to Collinwood.

Only one thing that bothers me though.

I don't know how to explain about

your being married to Barnabas.

Because as far as he is concerned,

Barnabas, in , is just an ordinary man.

He doesn't know that he was born in the s.

Well, we must explain some way that we're married.

The only thing I can think of is to say that you traveled

through time too,

that you have an obsession about Barnabas,

and that you said if he didn't agree to the story

of your marriage, you'd tell everybody

that he came from .

What is this obsession of hers about Barnabas?

It's like starting a whole new life,

with all the disadvantages.

Suddenly I feel afraid.

Afraid of doing the wrong thing,

of saying something to the wrong person.

I'll tell you everything that you need to know.

Yes, well, just seeing Gerard down there

in Quentin's laboratory was enough to

make me realize how very vulnerable I am.

When I came here in , your ancestor, Ben Stokes,

did all the things for me that I'm doing for you.

He's dead now.

He was a true friend.

When I got here, everything was so different

than I expected it to be in .

Well, Gerard Stiles was here.

Yes, but he was living at Collinwood,

he was a friend of the family's.

He had come to tell the details

of Quentin and Tad's drowning.

But you mentioned Quentin.

JULIA: Yes, he's alive, but they didn't know it then.

And how about Daphne?

JULIA: Daphne, oh no

Did she come with Gerard?

No, no, no, she came much later.

No, Gerard was living in this house.

Samantha, Quentin's supposed widow, and Gerard

were obviously in love.

Oh, a whole new complication.

Yes, it was a complication because

the very day that Quentin and Tad

were miraculously rescued at sea,

and the day they arrived at Collinwood was the very day

that Samantha and Gerard were married.

A classic dilemma.

A typical Victorian situation.

is living up to my expectations.

And what did Samantha do then?

Well, Quentin had her make the choice,

and since her marriage with Quentin hadn't gone very well,

she chose Gerard.

Ha, romantic lady.

I expect to like her.

I doubt that.

Gerard was marrying her for her money.

Daniel Collins, Quentin's father, was very ill.

Gerard knew that Samantha would get the fortune.

Daniel was never very fond of his other son, Gabriel.

So Quentin has a brother?

Yes, he's a very embittered man.

Possibly because he can't walk.

He's confined to a wheelchair.

And is Samantha still with Gerard?

No, no, Quentin would not let her have their son Tad.

And so she gave up Gerard for the child.

But Gerard stays on here all the same.

No, no, not here, not at Collinwood.

He is at Rose Cottage with Flora Collins.

Oh, Quentin feels that Gerard is his dearest friend,

and he won't hear anything about him that's bad.

And that's one of the things that makes

everything very difficult.

I don't understand, Julia.

What you've told me is a perfect period piece

of domestic drama.

But where does the witchcraft come in?

There's one thing, one element,

that we never thought of in .

We blamed everything on Gerard Stiles.

Perhaps, we were wrong.

ELIOT: Why?

Whom would you have blamed?

Judah Zachary.

Judah Zachary.

The warlock?

Do you know of him?

How?

Tell me, tell me everything you know.

You might be able to save Quentin's life.

Julia, you forget that occult history

is my academic specialty.

Of course I'm familiar with the trial of Judah Zachary.

Condemned to death for being a warlock in

in Bedford, Massachusetts.

He was beheaded.

His severed head was believed to have strange powers,

but it subsequently disappeared.

Yes, Desmond Collins found it, and brought it for Quentin,

but he never gave it to him, because Judah Zachery

still has control of that disembodied head.

The head possessed first Desmond and then Leticia Faye,

a family friend, and then me.

Now the state charges that Quentin Collins

is possessed by Judah Zachary,

that Quentin is carrying out Judah's revenge.

I think it's possessing Gerard Stiles.

He's changed so much.

He was just an opportunist when I first came here.

He's changed completely.

He's different, I feel it.

Leticia feels it, too, and she knows him well.

What evidence does the state have against Quentin?

A farmer he fought with says Quentin was responsible

for destroying his herd through witchcraft.

A woman was found dead with the mark of Satan

on her forehead.

It's the same mark that Quentin wears as a ring.

Purely circumstantial.

Oh, it is.

Quentin was found kneeling over the body of Randall Drew,

his brotherinlaw.

He had been m*rder*d.

The jailer's wife mysteriously d*ed

right outside Quentin's cell.

A victim of witchcraft very possibly, yes.

But Quentin is not the warlock.

What about Barnabas?

What is his involvement in all this?

Oh, none.

Gerard and Lamar Trask are trying very hard

to involve him.

Lamar Trask especially.

But Barnabas was on his way to testify for Quentin

the day he disappeared.

ELIOT: And you think Gerard and Trask

caused his disappearance?

Oh it must be, it must be true,

but there is no way of finding out.

Now listen, now listen, I'll take you out now

down the side entrance.

I'll take you into the village.

There is a stage that arrives from Boston at nine o'clock.

Now, you be there and hire a carriage and come here.

You will be here about : and I'll be here to meet you.

Julia, one more question.

What about Daphne?

Oh, Daphne's here.

She's the governess, takes care of the children.

ELIOT: She is in love with Gerard, of course?

No, she's frightened of Gerard.

She's in love with Quentin.

Now, let me see if it's clear for you to leave now.

Julia, you have just presented me with the most

complicated crossword puzzle that I've ever heard of,

and I have to solve it.

[clock tolling]

GHOSTLY VOICE:Julia.

Julia.

Roxanne?

Julia.

Julia!

Julia!

He's dying, Julia.

Barnabas is dying.

Follow me, follow me.

Where, Roxanne?

Where?

ROXANNE:Follow me.

Follow me.

Follow me.

Follow me.

Follow me.

Barnabas is dying.

You must save him.

I can't, you must follow.

Follow me!

JULIA: Yes.

Oh, there is so little time.

Hurry Julia, hurry!

You must hurry!

Julia, Julia, wake up.

Julia, wake up.

She was taking me to Barnabas.

You've ruined it.

You've ruined it.

The ghost of Roxanne?

She would have led me to him, I know it.

Oh, it's a sign, Julia.

I'm sure it is.

She said he was alive.

We must go where you were in your dream.

Perhaps we know the place.

Wait, what time is it?

VALERIE: It's nearly : , why?

Because Eliot Stokes is coming any moment.

Well, which is more important, Barnabas or this Stokes?

Barnabas, come darling.

[clock tolling]

[knocking]

Good evening.

Miss Julia Collins, if you please?

GERARD: I'm afraid she's not in.

Really?

GERARD: Yes.

My name is Eliot

GERARD: Stokes, yes of course.

Come in.

You've heard of me?

Yes.

I did expect to find her.

Well, I'm afraid she didn't know

when your coach was arriving.

I'm Gerard Stiles.

How do you do?

I trust your journey from Baltimore was quite successful?

Philadelphia.

Oh, yes of course, Philadelphia.

I'm rather surprised, Mr. Stokes,

that you didn't call for Barnabas Collins

when you knew Julia wasn't here.

Oh, is he here?

I'm most anxious to meet him.

Are you?

Well, I'm afraid you'll be a bit disappointed.

You see, he's not in Collinwood at all.

In fact, we feel that there's been foul play.

How dreadful.

I'm sure Miss Julia Collins must be most concerned.

As we all are.

You know Julia Collins quite well, obviously.

Yes.

Well, perhaps, you could tell me

about her life in Philadelphia?

She seems a bit reticent about it.

I figured someone who knows her as well as you do

might be able to tell me something about her.

She kept telling me to follow her, follow her.

I begged her to tell me where he was, but she refused.

VALERIE: Perhaps it was just a dream.

No, Valerie, it wasn't.

I saw this.

I saw this there.

The dream did mean something.

Why doesn't she appear to us?

Perhaps she can't.

Oh, Valerie, Barnabas is here somewhere, I know it.

Roxanne, can your spirit hear us?

Roxanne, help us, help us to find Barnabas.

Help us please, Roxanne?

Roxanne, come to us.

We will wait, Julia.

We will wait.

Oh, Barnabas.

Why doesn't Julia come?

Why?

You have so little time.

So little time.

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