Episode 1268

Aired: Wednesday May 5, 1971

The sun rises as Barnabas watches and contemplates having to destroy that which he once was. "Perhaps they are consumed with the affliction as I was," he thinks to himself "hating themselves during every moment of consciousness. How many nights did I long to see a sunrise like this..." He turns from the window looking more determined. "No," he thinks. "Daphne said that Anderson wanted revenge on the family, that he wanted to destroy it. That kind of evil must not deserve any sympathy, it must not!" Julia has gotten her coat and asks if Barnabas is ready to go look for Anderson's hiding place. Barnabas grimly says yes.

After the titles, Daphne is sitting in the old house when David comes downstairs. She calls him over, and he apologizes for running away, though Daphne says she understands. David asks why, and Daphne says that David should stay away from the people at Collinwood until Quentin, Barnabas and Julia "make everything all right again." David proudly says he knows that, and that he will help them. Daphne asks him how he'll do that, and David says he doesn't know, but he'll know what to do when the time comes.

Barnabas and Julia have met up with Stokes, who has Anderson's known address. They are on the way to Anderson's house, and Stokes has brought silver crosses, and a wooden stake & hammer. The sight of these things causes a mixed reaction in Barnabas. He carefully handles the wooden stake and seems to be wondering about all the "roads not taken" as Stokes watches him curiously. "Are you growing fearful, Barnabas?" asks Stokes, jarring Barnabas from his thoughts. "No," he says. "I was just wondering if one is destined to be evil, or makes a choice to do evil." Stokes laughs a little, and says "The time for such contemplations is a luxury when you are battling evil." Julia agrees and says that they should go. Back at the old house, David asks Daphne why Anderson hates the family so much, and she says she doesn't know. She also doesn't know where he is. David says that there must be a way of finding out. "Haven't you ever followed him?" he asks, and she says no. David thinks a moment.

Barnabas, Stokes & Julia have broken into what Stokes assumes is Anderson's house. It looks lived in, but no one is there. They look around and find some things associated with Anderson, and then Julia calls the two men over to look at a small room. The windows of the room have all been painted black and are covered with thick curtains as well. "This must be it" Julia says, but Barnabas says "We are too late" as we pull back to see the marks in the floor that show that 2 coffins were once there, but not anymore.

At night, Barnabas and Julia return to the old house and find Daphne asleep. They ask her where David is, and she says he must be upstairs. When Barnabas calls him, he does not answer. "Where could he be?" says Barnabas, and then Daphne mentions her conversation with David where David mused about following Anderson. Barnabas is not thrilled with this prospect, and takes Julia aside to tell her that if David is put under Anderson's influence, he could reveal where Quentin's portrait is since David knows of the secret room. We cut to David hiding in the woods outside Collinwood, watching Anderson leaving. David begins to follow him and we hear him think "I'll find out where you hide."

David continues to follow Anderson through the woods, until they come to an old abandoned house along the seashore. Anderson heads inside, and David begins to wander around the outside. He finds a side window slightly open, and then sneaks into the house after taking a look. Inside the abandoned house, David follows some footsteps, moving very carefully, but then notices a door off to a large room. He looks inside and sees two coffins, side by side. He gasps, and suddenly he hears Anderson from the other side of the room call "Who is that? Who's there?"