Episode 1256

Aired: Monday April 19, 1971

Joan Bennett's voiceover: "The bright morning at Collinwood after a stormy night. A seance has released an evil force upon those that live here, though the true depths of that evil remain to be exposed." As we see Carolyn adjusting her scarf in the mirror, the voice over continues "One who was once under the influence of a dark force many years earlier finds herself once again a servant to another, powerless to control her actions with her will taken from her. On this day, events have begun that may mean the destruction of the Collins family...."

Liz enters Carolyn's room and comments that she missed breakfast by sleeping so late. Carolyn says she didn't notice, and Liz asks her if she feels all right. "Fine," she answers aloofly, and Liz thinks it's too dark in the room. When she pulls the drapes back to let in the sunlight, Carolyn winces and hides her eyes from it. Liz looks concerned.

After the titles, Carolyn is still standing in the shadows as Liz asks her if she's sure she's all right. She says she's just tired and the bright light hurts her eyes. She takes a pair of sunglasses out of a drawer and says she needs to go into town. As the two head down the stairs, Liz is still wondering if she's feeling all right, perhaps she's been working too hard on her studies. Carolyn assures her she is fine, and then Roger enters the foyer from the drawing room. Liz tells Roger she needs to discuss something with him. Roger asks Carolyn why she missed breakfast, and Carolyn says she guesses she's been working too hard, and leaves. When Roger asks Liz what she wants to discuss before he heads off to the cannery, she simply says "David."

Roger asks her what she means, and Liz says she wants to hire a new governess for David, with Maggie gone. Roger says he hasn't looked for new governesses lately since he's been thinking that David is too old to still be at home, and should go off to boarding school like Hallie Stokes has. Liz hesitates at this idea, though Roger reminds her that he had gone off to boarding school by the time he was David's age, and that it would help David to mature. There is a knock at the door, and it is Barnabas. He is looking for Quentin, who is up in his room, but before Barnabas can go upstairs, Roger asks him into the drawing room for his opinion on David. Barnabas remarks that the house would be a bit lonelier without David around, and Roger scoffs that he should have kept Carolyn there to support his position. Liz remarks that Carolyn didn't seem herself that morning, and Barnabas is concerned.

Quentin is reading in his room when Barnabas enters. Barnabas tells Quentin of the seance and the danger for everyone, and asks him to keep his eye out for anything unusual without tipping off Roger & Liz. Quentin remarks that the only unusual thing he's noticed lately is how familiar Daphne seems to him, yet he has no memory of ever having meeting her. He asks Barnabas if perhaps they met briefly back when Quentin had lost his memory, but Barnabas tells him it maybe more complicated than that. When Quentin asks why, Barnabas tells him it's because the last time Quentin saw her, before he and Julia had changed the history of 1840, she was a ghost.

Back from commercial, Barnabas has evidently explained the 1840 time change to Quentin, but this only confuses him more as to his feelings for Daphne. "Perhaps there are suppressed memories from the other timeline that some people like yourself are more sensitive to," suggests Barnabas. Quentin thinks aloud "So that Daphne married my namesake, Great Uncle Quentin Collins, whom we all referred to as the mad scientist! He lived in New York, we never saw him, I don't think he had much fondness for my father, uncle, or grandmother. I think I only got his name after he died and left them some money." Barnabas feels the resemblance might just be a coincidence, but Quentin tells Barnabas that David seemed to recognize her too. Barnabas decides they must learn more about her, and Quentin says he will help with Roxanne if Barnabas helps with Daphne, since he "thinks he's falling in love with her."