Episode 1255

Aired Friday April 16, 1971

After a replay of the end of Thursday's episode and the opening titles, we are back at the aftermath of the seance after Roxanne has escaped. Barnabas is frantic, demanding that everyone search for Roxanne before she can harm anyone. Julia assures Barnabas it wasn't his fault, and asks Sebastian what went wrong. Sebastian says that once certain dark forces overwhelm one's psychic abilities, anything can happen. "You can catch the devil but you can't hold him," Stokes muses, "but we do know one thing - she must return to that coffin before sunrise or be destroyed." Anderson points out that she may have other coffins out there, as most "in her condition" he says (in deference to Barnabas) often make rather complex arrangements to insure their survival. Barnabas asks how do they find her, and Stokes says that if Anderson is right, it may be impossible.

Refusing to accept Stokes' notion of impossibility, Barnabas presses Sebastian as to any kind of clue he may have found in her belongings. Anderson asks how they knew where to find such things, and Barnabas tells him that Roxanne had been originally trapped among them. Sebastian insists that he found nothing of importance, but Julia suggests that perhaps Stokes would be a better judge of such things. Anderson interrupts and says he would like to see her belongings, since it would finally give him the chance to study close-up the things he has read and written about for years. Anderson offers to go to the psychic shop with Sebastian and search it thoroughly for clues. Stokes defers to Anderson in this matter. Barnabas implores him to take some kind of protection, perhaps the silver cross from Roxanne's coffin, but Anderson tells Barnabas he will need to stop at his office first anyway for some material and can get crucifixes there. "Besides, " he adds "if she does return to that coffin, it would be better to keep the silver cross inside it." He leads Sebastian out as Barnabas sadly looks out the window and hears the dogs howling in the storm.

Julia has returned to Collinwood, and finds an angry Carolyn in the drawing room. Carolyn complains how she has not heard from Sebastian lately, and Julia tries to tell her that he has been busy without revealing too much. Carolyn wonders if thereÕs something about her that scares men away, but Julia assures her that Sebastian will be back.

Anderson and Sebastian enter the psychic shop and turn the lights on. "Show me where it is" Anderson says, but Sebastian snaps back "Don't you already know?" before Anderson slaps him hard across the face, knocking him down. "You did well at the seance, Mr. Shaw," Anderson says malevolently, "pray you don't disappoint me now." Sebastian pleads that Anderson "got what he wanted" and should "leave him alone." Anderson smiles and tells Sebastian he should know how impossible that is, and for Sebastian to fetch what he wants. Sebastian goes into Roxanne's room to get the material he found while Anderson looks around the psychic shop with an evil smile. Sebastian drops the box in front of Anderson, who begins to look through it for a moment, until he finds the album Sebastian had looked through. As Anderson leafs through it, Sebastian simply looks at him and says "How? How did it happen?" As we see the page Anderson has stopped on, we see what terrified Sebastian so much earlier - a sepia toned photograph dated 1909 of Anderson and Roxanne in an Edwardian sitting room. "All in due time, Mr. Shaw, all in due time," Anderson says.

Carolyn is asleep in her room at Collinwood as the storm continues outside. A clap of thunder awakens her, but before she can roll over and try to sleep again, she notices something by the window. There is a growing fog outside her window with moonlight behind it. Carolyn stares at it a moment, and then seems to fall into a trance. She silently gets up out of bed and walks to the window. She swings it open, and from out of the fog, Roxanne appears. Roxanne looks at Carolyn a moment and moves her hair aside before biting her in the neck.