Episode 1260

Aired Friday April 23, 1971

After a replay of Thursday's "closing argument" and the titles, Carolyn answers the door at Collinwood and greets Professor Anderson, who has come for dinner. She brings him into the drawing room where Sebastian is having a drink. Anderson says hello in a menacing way, and Sebastian becomes very docile. Carolyn goes to get Roger and Liz. "You know this is wrong," Sebastian tells Anderson. Anderson grabs him by the collar and tells him that he and only he will decide right from wrong. He drops Sebastian back into the sofa right before Roger and Liz enter the room. Anderson greets them gallantly, kissing Liz's hand while Roger and Carolyn look at each other knowingly.

Barnabas wonders if Sebastian may know where to find Roxanne, since he had once been her servant. He thinks she may have sought him out first. Julia asks Barnabas if he thinks Sebastian had "rigged" the seance to free her, but Barnabas doesn't think so. "With Stokes and Anderson there, it seems unlikely he could have pulled some sort of trick," says Barnabas, but Quentin is suspicious of Anderson. "We know we can trust Stokes, but what about Anderson? There's something about him I just don't like," says Quentin. Julia and Barnabas are curious.

Anderson remarks on how much he enjoyed dinner, and Roger answers that it's "always a rarity when Mrs. Johnson doesn't overcook the fish." Liz tells Anderson that they invited him over to ask him something very important, but before she can finish, Roger then asks Anderson point-blank if he would mind if Daphne was offered a job as governess at Collinwood. "Liz wants to interview her first, of course," says Roger with a strange nod towards Liz. Anderson looks over to Liz, and smiles with "Well, I am sure Mrs. Stoddard will find nothing to worry about."

Barnabas asks Quentin if he knows anything about Anderson, and Quentin says he only has a bad feeling about him. Barnabas asks him if that feeling is jealousy over Daphne, which Quentin angrily denies. Quentin tells Barnabas that he intends to find out everything he can about Professor Anderson, because "I can't help feeling he's hiding something from us, from all of us."

Liz cannot believe how easily Anderson is willing to let Daphne go, but Anderson points out that there are many graduate students available to be assistants to him, and if Roger and the family have "affinity for Miss Hopkins, far be it from me to interfere with an opportunity for her." Carolyn has opened the bay window in the room and is looking outside, when Liz feels a chill. She gets up to close the window over Carolyn's objection - but when she swings it to close, she notices the reflections of people in one of the glass panes - she sees Sebastian, Carolyn and Roger, but not Anderson! She looks back at him talking to Roger, then back at the window. Her terror is growing when suddenly, Anderson pulls the window shut and stands before her. He glides his hand over it, showing no reflection, and coldly stares at Liz. "I'm sorry you saw that, my dear Mrs. Stoddard," he says, "Very sorry indeed," as he opens his mouth baring vampire fangs. Liz screams.