Monday, September 28, 2009

Episode 1386

Aired: Monday October 18, 1971

In a repeat of Friday's close, Angelique has put Harrison under a trance so that he can envision his own time as he has changed it by his trip to 1971. We zoom in on Angelique's eyes and then Harrison's and see what he sees...we are panning across the Collinwood foyer. It is dusty and aged looking, as it did in Harrison's story. We hear Harrison say "I am at Collinwood. It is the year 2045...." Angelique says "Tell me what you see. Who is living in the house?" As we pan to the empty drawing room, Harrison says "There is no one here.... the house has long been abandoned...." Angelique says "You are to tell me the future that exists now, not the one that once existed.... tell me the future as you have changed it, Harrison Collins. Who is living at Collinwood?" As we continue to pan the empty drawing room, with old and rotting 20th century furniture, Harrison says "No one lives here.... they are all dead....all of them....no! They are here!" Angelique says "Tell me what you see." In the middle of the drawing room, a vortex begins to open and within it begins to burn hellfire. "The vortex is locked on eternal hellfire!" Harrison yells. "The spirits are still trapped within it!" Within the hellfire, we see the screaming Carolyn, Elizabeth, Angelique and Sarah.... and then Harrison says "No! There are more!" We now see Vicky, then Alan, then Quentin and then Barnabas burning in the hellfire. Harrison yells "No! Quentin! Barnabas! Vicky! They are all trapped!" And then, from out of the flames the last screaming spirit appears... it is Harrison himself. He screams "NOOOOOOO!" as we cut back to the breakfast table as Harrison screams "I am one of the suffering dead as well! Whatever I have done here..... has destroyed everyone!" Angelique and Vicky look at each other, terrified.

After the titles, Angelique pleads with Harrison to give her more details, but all he says is that the "same faces" keep appearing in the vision of hellfire. Vicky tells Angelique that she "better bring him back." Angelique reminds Vicky that Harrison will have no memory of what he has seen, but Vicky says "Is that a good idea?" Angelique reminds Vicky that Harrison could discover the truth about her identity if he knew she had these powers. Vicky answers "That's a small price to pay considering the alternative. If he knows how his future has changed, he may know how to help us now." Angelique agrees, and starts to bring Harrison out of the trance. "Harrison, you will return to me now. Come back through the waves of time, back to 1971 where your physical body is. But I have a new command for you.... you will remember what you have seen in your own time, as if reliving a vivid dream. You will remember it, Harrison, but you will be able to deal with it rationally. Do you understand?" Harrison nods. Angelique and Vicky return to their original positions and Angelique waves her hand over Harrison's eyes. He comes to as if awakening from a dream, but then is suddenly startled. Angelique takes his hand to calm him, and says "It's all right, Harrison. You're back here with us now." Harrison looks around to get his bearings and asks "Do you know? Do you know what I saw? It was like a nightmare." Vicky answers "Yes. We know. But it hasn't happened yet." Harrison asks Angelique "How did you do that? What kinds of powers do you..." Angelique cuts him off with "I have no time to explain that now. There may be clues in what you saw, clues to help us prevent it." Harrison thinks a moment and says "Perhaps. But I can't be sure that no matter what I do in this time, the results will not be the same." Angelique says "More of us were dead in what you saw, but not everyone...." Harrison starts to recount the names of those he saw, and Vicky figures it, saying "Roger and David were not there!" Angelique says "Yes, just as in the original timeline. But there are more people in this house that are missing from what Harrison saw." Vicky says "Maggie Evans and Julia Hoffman. Perhaps they managed to escape." Angelique thinks a moment, but Harrison says "Julia Hoffman...." out loud and piques Angelique's curiosity.

Vicky walks in on Maggie, who is going over some math with Sarah. Maggie remarks that Sarah is a quick learner. Vicky asks Maggie how she's been settling into Collinwood, and Maggie answers that "it feels strange sometimes" but that she's happy. "I'm especially waiting for David to come back." Sarah suddenly says "Yes! I haven't seen David in so long!" Maggie looks at Sarah and says "Sarah, I didn't think you'd ever seen David. Has he ever been to England?" Sarah answers "I don't know." Maggie tells Vicky that Sarah has an active imagination. Vicky asks Sarah when she saw David, but this time Sarah says "I don't remember. He just sounds familiar. What does he look like?" Vicky answers with a brief description, and Sarah says she can't wait to meet him. "Do you think he'll like me?" she asks. Vicky says of course, and then thinks to herself "especially considering the understanding he and Barnabas have." Vicky and Maggie smile at each other. We cut to Angelique, entering Julia's room carefully. She looks around and then closes the door behind her. We hear her think "It would make so sense for Nicholas to use Maggie Evans in his plans. He cares too much for her. But Julia Hoffman is a different story... there must be some clue in here...." She begins to look through the drawers, but as she turns her back, the door opens and lights suddenly come on, startling her.

Angelique turns to see that it's Quentin, who tells her he thought he heard Julia. He asks her what she's doing there, and she closes the door. Angelique quickly recaps Harrison's new view of the future, and reminds Quentin that this time, it looks like he died in 1971 and that Julia was one of the people missing from the vision. "Just because Julia was absent is no reason to automatically suspect her. There's no way she could have gone over to Nicholas' side," Quentin says. "Never underestimate the anger of a woman scorned, Quentin," Angie answers. "Haven't you seen the change in her since Barnabas married me?" Quentin laughs a little and says "You pay yourself quite a compliment, don't you?" Angelique scoffs at the remark, but Quentin continues "Julia is far too devoted to Barnabas. There's nothing that could make her turn on him, especially to join forces with Nicholas Blair." Angelique answers that Harrison seems to think the "clues point towards Julia" and "no one would know better than him. He comes to this time with no preconceived views of anyone here." Quentin answers "I know, Harrison told me how he thinks Julia may be involved in all this somehow. But he was wrong about Barnabas. You forget what Harrison thought when he first showed up. He turned out to be wrong, and he could be wrong about Julia as well." Angelique answers "Please, Quentin. Help me. If there isn't anything here, I'll admit my suspicions are wrong." Quentin shakes his head, and says "I can't betray Julia like this. I just can't believe it would be her. And if you could put aside your womanly jealousy long enough, you'd see that too." He leaves, and Angelique looks around for a moment before following him.

Barnabas is looking over the talisman that Stokes gave him when there is a knock at the door of the old house. It's Harrison, who comes in urgently and tells Barnabas that "the future has been changed, but for the worse." Barnabas hears a recap of the new vision and has no answer. "All of us are trapped in the hellfire this time?" he asks. Harrison answers yes, "All except for Roger, David, Maggie Evans and... Julia Hoffman." Barnabas asks "Are you suggesting that one of them may be somehow involved?" Harrison answers that he doesn't know. Barnabas says that the new vision must be connected to the old one "somehow" since "the general outcome is so similar, only this time more people suffer. We need to find some consistent set of clues from the vision you just had and the one you remember from your own time before you came here." Harrison agrees, and then notices the talisman. "What is that?" he asks. Barnabas answers that Stokes gave it to him as a protection against Blair's powers. Harrison answers "Perhaps we should both go see Professor Stokes if he is an expert in these areas. Maybe he can help us find those clues we both want so badly." Barnabas agrees, but Harrison adds "And maybe he can help us to figure out who is helping Blair." Barnabas thinks about that a moment.