Episode 1373

Aired: Wednesday September 29, 1971

Julia is walking in the woods, waiting, when she hears some steps. She moves towards them, and it turns out to be Harrison. "I had no idea you were also taken by walks in the woods," he says to her. Julia lies that she comes out there to think. "You came towards me as if you were expecting someone," Harrison adds. Julia turns to him suddenly and asks "Why do you think that?" Harrison, confused, says he meant nothing by it, only "usually when a woman hears strange footsteps in the woods, she'd back away instead of move towards them." Julia smiles and says "Perhaps I am no ordinary woman." She stares at Harrison's ring, and he looks at her strangely.

After the titles, Harrison offers to walk Julia back to Collinwood, but she refuses, saying she'd rather "stay out here a little while longer. I haven't quite enjoyed the night enough yet." Harrison asks "Are you feeling all right? Your eyes look very tired..." Julia turns away from him, saying "I...I haven't slept well lately. That's all." Harrison remarks "Well, I hope you get some rest. You are a doctor, I suppose you must have drops or something for that redness." Julia answers "Yes, I do, back in my room. Perhaps before I go to bed." Harrison says goodnight and walks away. He stops a moment to look back towards Julia and thinks a moment, and then continues on. Meanwhile, Angelique is putting on her coat and getting ready to go out at the old house. Vicky and Barnabas are sitting while Vicky consoles Barnabas about his all too brief encounter with Sarah's spirit. Barnabas asks Angelique where she is going, and she only says "out...for a walk." Barnabas says "You shouldn't feel responsible for what happened. I was the one who broke the circle. Perhaps Stokes is wrong about how Sarah feels." Angelique forces a smile but leaves anyway. Vicky comments to Barnabas how much she thinks Angelique has changed. Barnabas is happy to hear her say that, and comments that "without her powers to corrupt her, her best womanly qualities have all come forward." Vicky feels a little guilty for having doubted her, but Barnabas tells her "No one doubted her more than myself. It took me a long time to see what the truth was. There is no shame in that." Vicky tells Barnabas she will go after Angelique to bring her back and tell her. Barnabas leads her to the door and after she leaves, looks sadly at the spot on the floor where Sarah vanished.

Julia still waits in the woods, and this time Nicholas finds her. "I got your note after meeting with the master," he says. Julia smiles and says "I hope the master explained everything to you." Nicholas says "Only in riddles. Something about producing chaos in Barnabas Collins' life by removing love." Julia laughs and says "Yes. I must undo something I did long ago, something that served me at the time but must be undone now." Nicholas asks "What do you mean?" Julia smiles and tells Nicholas to hide. "Quickly! I sense she will be here soon....simply watch." Nicholas, wondering, moves behind a tree and some brush. In a moment, Angelique approaches the area and sees Julia. "Julia!" she says. "I didn't expect to find you out here." Julia lies again that she came out to "look at the stars and enjoy the night air." Angelique lies and says the same thing when Julia asks her why she is out there. "Is everything all right with Barnabas?" Julia asks. Angelique turns away, and lies "Yes... everything is fine. You needn't be his keeper anymore, Julia. I am his wife now." Julia answers "I was only wondering. You seem upset." Angelique says "I am not upset. I am sorry, I only wish to enjoy the night air....alone. Like you." Julia says "Then I'll go on with my walk. Goodnight." Julia walks away as Angelique moves in the opposite direction. Julia comes to Nicholas and shushes him before he can say anything. "Simply watch," Julia says. Angelique walks and she starts to hear a faint voice calling her. At first, she shrugs it off, but the voice gets louder and louder in the wind, calling "Angelique.....Angelique......" Angelique asks "Who is there? Who is it?" The voice only repeats her name, and when Angelique demands to know who is there, suddenly a hand appears floating before her, pointing an accusatory finger. Angelique steps away from it scared, demanding to know who it is, but all the voice says is "Angelique....you shall pay.....you shall die...." Angelique is growing more terrified as she looks closer at the hand and sees a large diamond ring on it.... it's a woman's hand. Angelique starts to run, but she finds herself at the edge of the cliff at Widow's Hill. She turns to escape, but from out of the shadows, she sees the pointing finger approach...and from out of the darkness steps the ghost of Josette, in her wedding dress! Her veil is lowered, and she points her finger at Angelique saying "You brought me here to die....and now you shall pay..." Angelique yells "No! No! Get away!" as the spirit moves closer. Julia and Nicholas are watching and smiling as Josette, moving closer to Angelique, adds "And this is what awaits you down below, among the rocks.....", lifting her veil to reveal her horribly disfigured face. Angelique, backed up against the edge of the cliff, screams as Josette moves closer.

Nicholas tells Julia that "We are not to kill Angelique this way!" Julia shushes him, and says "I have confidence in Angelique. After all, someone with her powers should be able to find her way out of this situation quite easily." Nicholas snaps "Her powers are limited! They are..." and then he thinks a moment. Julia smiles and says "She will soon be consumed by the powers I have restored to her, but for now, they may save her." Josette moves closer and closer to Angelique, who slowly raises her hands and says "Spirit of Josette, begone! I command you to rest! I command you to return to your grave!" Josette stops moving, but does not vanish. Angelique thinks a moment and we hear her think "I felt something... something I have not felt in a long time...the power! I have the power again!" Suddenly, Angelique is more confident, and says "Spirit of Josette, I command and control you now. You cannot and will not harm me. You will tell me things I need to know." Julia and Nicholas get nervous, and Julia says "I'd better see to this." Angelique continues "Spirit of Josette, you must tell me of your former master. Who sent you to me and why?" Before Josette can answer, Vicky steps out of the woods, saying "Angelique! I heard you scream, why...." but then she sees the disfigured Josette and screams herself. As Angelique is distracted by Vicky, the spirit of Josette vanishes. Angelique, frustrated, yells "No! You cannot go without telling me what I need to know!" But Josette is gone. Angelique runs to Vicky and tries to calm her down. "What was that?" Vicky asks. Angelique answers "A ghost from my past. It seems there are many spirits whom I have wronged." Vicky looks at Angelique and says "You sent the spirit away. I heard you. Angelique, you have more power than you've admitted to Barnabas!" Angelique doesn't know what to say. Nicholas looks at Julia and says he understands. Julia smiles an evil smile and says "Her powers will turn her to hate as they did in the past. It will be only the beginning of the end for the Collins family. And then, I will have my revenge upon her as well."

Angelique argues with Vicky over whether or not she has her powers back. Vicky insists that she'd better be honest with Barnabas about what has happened, since "those powers must have come from something evil." Angelique answers "Perhaps not. Perhaps they returned to me when I needed them most, to save my life." Vicky answers that "the black arts have never done anyone any good around Collinwood." Angelique answers "Vicky, there were times when I had my powers that I tried to help Barnabas. I tried desperately to help him and others." Vicky answers "But more often you only tried to help yourself. You hurt others around you. Power corrupts, Angelique, don't you see? You must tell Barnabas and renounce them." Angelique answers "I cannot do that." Vicky wants to know why, and Angelique answers "Because if they came from Nicholas, as I suspect they might have, I will need them to fight for Barnabas. They may be our only defense." Vicky thinks this over, and says "What could you use those powers for in order to help Barnabas?" Angelique looks at Vicky and answers "I think we both know one answer to that." The two head out of the woods. Meanwhile, Julia arrives back at Collinwood and finds Harrison up having a drink. "Are you feeling better, Doctor?" he asks her. She says she does, but Harrison remarks "You still look tired. Perhaps you should go to sleep." Julia says "Yes, it's been quite an evening.....I think I will turn in." As Julia goes upstairs, Harrison walks to Barnabas' portrait and begins to stare at it. He looks upstairs for a moment, and then back to the portrait. Suddenly, his mouth gapes open as he says "Those eyes!"