Episode 1431

Aired: Monday December 20, 1971

In a replay of Friday's close, Jamison is walking through the woods with the knife. He stops and waits. Lucy is behind him, and also stops to watch what Jamison is doing. Jamison stands still as the altar appears before him, with the flame burning. He smiles. Lucy can't believe what she is seeing as Jamison holds the blade in the flame for a moment. He suddenly cries out in pain as the hot knife handle burns his hand, but he doesn't let go. Lucy reveals herself by shouting "Jamison! Let go of it!" He turns his head to face her, his eyes filled with hatred, and he yells "You cannot be here! You cannot witness the ritual! You must die!" He turns his body to face Lucy, and moves towards her with the smoking hot knife in his hand.

After the titles, Jamison lunges at Lucy with the knife, but she steps aside and gets behind him. She stands on the altar as Jamison turns to her, his hand still smoking from the burning knife. "You will be sacrificed for my mistress...." he says as he steps towards her. "Jamison, stop! Your hand! It's burning!" Lucy shouts. He hesitates a moment, and Lucy grabs his arm. As he struggles, she manages to whack the knife against the stone altar and knock it loose. When she does, the altar suddenly vanishes and Jamison falls limp in her arms. "Jamison!" she shouts as she watches these strange happenings. "Your hand..." she looks at what was his burning hand and sees that it's perfectly fine. She picks up the unconscious Jamison and walks away with him. Back at Collinwood, Lucy enters carrying Jamison and calls for help. There's no one there, so she carries him into the drawing room and sets him on the sofa. Beth comes in, and asks what happened. "I'm not sure," Lucy says. "But get some cold water and a blanket for him." Beth nods and runs out of the room as Jamison starts coming to. He moans and says "Lucy.... what are we doing down here? I was in my room!" Curious, Lucy says "Your room? You left your room and went outside." Confused, Jamison says "When?" Realizing, Lucy says "You don't remember?" Jamison says he was reading in his room and then woke up in the drawing room. Lucy asks him how his hand feels, and he says fine, and asks her why she asked. Beth comes back with a glass of cold water and a blanket, but Jamison says he's feeling better. Beth asks Lucy what happened, and Lucy says that "Something very strange, but something very interesting as well. I think I may have more clues as to what's been happening around here." Suddenly, Benjamin is standing in the drawing room entrance and says "What has been happening around here, Miss Drew?"

"Jamison, why don't you go upstairs with Beth and get back to your reading if you're feeling all right," Lucy says. He drinks the rest of the water and says okay, but when he passes Benjamin, Benjamin says "I can come by to check on you later, Jamison." Jamison looks confused and says okay, but on the way out, Benjamin overhears Jamison say to Beth "That's funny, Uncle Benjamin never was really interested in me before." Benjamin suddenly looks very concerned, and Lucy closes the drawing room doors. "You must listen to me," she says to Benjamin. "Something very strange just happened with that boy. I followed him to an altar in the woods that vanished before my eyes...it seemed to possess him, but once it vanished, he returned to normal." Benjamin says "Really? Are you sure?" She looks at him incredulously and snaps "I know what I saw, Mr. Collins. And with all the, dare I say, supernatural occurrences at Collinwood lately, I think you should be very concerned about this!" Benjamin says "Oh, I assure you I am. Tell me, is the boy back to normal now though?" Lucy says "It looks that way. But you should have seen him when I followed him into the woods. He had a knife and tried to attack me with it! It was like he was under someone else's control... he said something to me about a 'mistress,' but I don't know what it means..." Benjamin pours her a drink and says "You've been through a horrible experience, Miss Drew. Perhaps you should have a brandy and lie down." Lucy says she'd rather tell Quentin and Edward, "after all, Edward may ignore the boy, but he is his father!" Benjamin gives her the drink and says with a sly smile "Don't worry, I'll be sure to tell them both on your behalf. Perhaps they can get to the bottom of all of this." Meanwhile, Harrison finds Valery in her west wing room and tells her that Quentin has contacted a lawyer in town, and will "reveal the true will soon." Valery says she'll be happy when "all of this is over." Harrison asks her how she thinks Trask will react when it's "final" that he has no chance of controlling Collinwood through her, and Valery says "He'll most likely disappear from my life at that point. I'll only have the rotten memory of my mistake to deal with from then on, besides becoming the possible joke of the village." Harrison tells her he could never think of her as a joke. She asks him what he does think, and he kisses her.

Jamison is reading in his room when Kitty enters again. He says hello and asks her why she came to see him. She says "I was going to bring you those books you asked for," and he answers "What books were those? I forgot." We hear her think "The spell.... it's been broken somehow. What I sensed was right....I no longer possess this one." She smiles and tells him she has many books on ancient Babylonia and takes a step towards him when Rachel enters the room. Rachel asks Jamison how he is feeling, and Jamison says he's fine. Rachel tells Kitty she needs to see Jamison alone, and excuses herself. Kitty leaves them, and then runs into Benjamin in the hall. "I was just coming up here to Jamison," he says. "His mother seems to have beaten you to it," says Kitty. "What could have happened out there?" Benjamin frets. "It may not matter," Kitty says. Benjamin leads Kitty into another room and tells her "But he is no longer with us! And right now, Rachel is plotting to take him away." Kitty pats Benjamin's cheek with a sly smile. "Such a worrier, Benjamin, " she says. "He won't stay away forever, once that other will Quentin claims exists is read." Benjamin says "But Lucy Drew has seen the altar! She might put that together with whatever my Uncle Roderick told Quentin, and expose us!" Kitty frowns and says "You let me worry about Lucy Drew. And you also let me worry about Mr. Edward Collins....who ought to be the focus of our plans now that Jamison is about to leave us for a while..." As she laughs to Benjamin, we see that Beth has been listening outside the door.

Quentin enters the house and finds Lucy, pacing in the drawing room waiting for him. He asks her what's wrong, and she starts to tell him that something happened to Jamison. He grows angry and says "Was it Trask? If he harms that boy, I'll..." Lucy tells him it wasn't Trask, and that it was "something very strange." Quentin is intrigued. Meanwhile, Rachel has helped Jamison pack, and Jamison is once again excited about going to Boston with his mother for a while. "Will Uncle Quentin be coming with us?" Rachel says she doesn't know, and then Quentin and Lucy are at the door. Quentin sees Jamison packing, and asks Rachel if he had changed his mind about going to Boston. Rachel says "it seems so" and asks Quentin if Lucy told her "everything that happened. The sooner I get him away from this place, the better." Quentin says he agrees. Meanwhile, Beth is in Quentin's room looking for him, upset. She thinks "I must find Quentin and tell him what I overheard. I can't believe Benjamin and Kitty would be conspiring to get the money.... what could they have meant about that altar? Only Quentin would know, and he's not here.... perhaps I could leave a note...." She starts to scribble a note, and then hears footsteps. She leaves the half written note on the table and walks to the door, saying "Quentin? Is that you?" When she sees it's Benjamin, she gasps.

Valery is looking out the window with Harrison, and says "This house can be a very beautiful place, I suppose." Harrison agrees, and says "It always seems to hold its magnificence throughout time, yes." Valery asks Harrison why he "says such strange things all the time." He smiles and says he doesn't know. They hear some footsteps and some noises outside. Curious, they go out into the hallway and hear a door slam. "You don't think that's Gregory, do you?" Valery asks. Harrison says "No, I don't think he'd dare come up here if he knew I was here right now." Harrison walks towards the sound, and finds Benjamin. "Oh, I thought I heard someone," Harrison says. Benjamin acts a little nervous, and says "I...I don't usually go in this part of the house, but I wanted to check on Valery." Harrison says she's fine, and Benjamin leads Harrison away from where he was standing. "It's such a tragedy about her father, really," Benjamin says. As he leads Harrison away, we hear a thumping behind a nearby door. Inside the room, we see that Beth has been tied and gagged to a chair while Kitty stands over her with an evil smile.

Episode 1430

Aired: Friday December 17, 1971

After a replay of Thursday's close, Gladstone looks through the book more and we hear him think "All the intended victims are here... but for each year, the handwriting looks different....but in this section, for this year...." He slams the book shut. "It's my own handwriting!" he says aloud, exasperated. "What is this place? What is happening here?" He turns to see the mask begin to glow with an eerie green light. At first, he is scared, but as the mask glows, he puts the book back on the table and stands mesmerized by it. He starts to smile as he looks at the mask. "Yes...." he says. "I understand." He walks to the scimitar and takes it off the wall. He examines it and smiles. "I will....I will!" he says with a strange smile. Back at Collinwood, Valery is alone and sad in a west wing room when Harrison enters. He asks her if he's disturbing her, and she says "perhaps I could use some disturbing. When I think of the mess I've made of my life..." He tells her that "your situation can be easily fixed. Of course, we cannot get your father back, and I'm sorry for that. But as far as this business with Trask is concerned..." Valery says she's afraid to do anything that might hurt the rest of the family "since I have no idea what kinds of papers he tricked me into signing." Harrison tells her that "none of that will matter once the real will is put into place. All Quentin has to do is see to some things first, like protecting you." Valery smiles at him and says "And that's a job you've volunteered for?" He smiles back and says "I suppose I could be persuaded." He takes her hand, and she gets a little shy. "I suppose I'm also rather obvious," he says. She says "I don't know, Harrison Collins. Something tells me you're also a man who has his share of secrets." He's intrigued by her perception.

Trask is looking grumpy and having a drink in the drawing room. Charity enters and scowls at him. He asks her why she is "looking so glum," and then thinks a moment, adding "Ah, perhaps you've talked to Quentin. And about me." Charity says "I've talked to more than just Quentin. And I can't believe what they're saying! I can't believe that you're doing what you're doing! After we've known these people for years! Both our families go back so long!" Trask says "There is no need to remind me. And look how far we've come, from our great grandfather's failing bakery on the waterfront to the halls of Collinwood!" Charity says "This house isn't worth your soul, Gregory! How could you trick Valery into signing away her rights like that?" Trask closes the doors and says "Charity, you've got to trust me." Charity yells that "you aren't trustworthy anymore! And it wasn't only Quentin, it was Carl! I care about Carl! He had no reason to suspect anything until he overheard you and Alice!" Trask tells her to calm down, and that "It's Alice who is really the... oh, never mind." He turns away from Charity, but her curiosity is piqued. "Alice?" she asks. "What do you mean?" Trask says "Nothing, I cannot tell you." Charity faces him and says "You've got to tell me." Trask says "Alice is obsessed with taking over the property. She found out about an old case of mine....from years ago, I didn't think anyone would ever look it up. She knows things that I'd rather she didn't, I don't want to go into details, and...." Charity gasps and says "She's blackmailing you?" Trask gulps his drink and says "Dear sister, what I just told you cannot leave this room!" Charity says "But if there really is a second will, what will Alice do to you? Quentin said the other will leaves you and Valery out!" Trask says "This has weighed heavily on my mind." Charity tells Trask that he'll "have to expose Alice." Trask grabs Charity and says "Not a word! Alice is very unstable! You heard about her violent visions of killers! I don't want to do anything to put anyone in danger! Especially you! Or Carl! Or.... his child! That's why you must leave this to me, and not tell anyone what I just told you." Charity reluctantly agrees and leaves the room. Once she's gone, Trask pours another drink and chuckles to himself. "This is all working out perfectly," he says with a smile.

Harrison enters Jamison's room and finds him reading Kitty's book on ancient history. "I heard you changed your mind about going to Boston with your mother," Harrison says. Jamison says yes, since he "would find it boring." Harrison tells him that Boston is a "fascinating city" and that he should "give it a chance." Jamison says "No, I think it's a boring city. There are much more interesting things in these books, actually." Harrison asks Jamison if Quentin going along would make the trip more interesting, and Jamison answers "Why would Uncle Quentin make any difference? My place is here." Harrison wonders why the boy is so cold when Benjamin enters with another book. "I found the other book you wanted," Benjamin says, excusing himself to Harrison. Harrison tells Jamison he'd like to play some chess with him later since "your Uncle Quentin says you are quite good, " and Jamison keeps reading, only saying "Perhaps." Harrison leaves and Benjamin closes the door. "He can be an annoying man," Jamison says. "We may have to deal with him too." Benjamin says "In due time. We both know there is someone much more immediate that must be dealt with." Jamison nods and says "Yes. My father. He would insist on controlling the estate through me once the real will is read." Benjamin says with an evil smile "Kitty and I have thought of that as well. Wouldn't you rather be with us, and not your father or mother?" Jamison says yes. "After all," Benjamin says. "if anything were to happen to Edward and Rachel, I would have to become your legal guardian, as the next eldest." Jamison smiles and says "And then Miss Soames would also be my legal guardian?" Benjamin says "Exactly. You may even call her mother." Jamison says "Then it must be done. We must do what she wishes." Benjamin says "Yes, we must." He takes a knife from under his jacket. "And we both know what we must do." Jamison looks at the knife and smiles.

Lucy is organizing Jamison's books. Jamison enters the room and asks her what she's doing. She says that she was putting his history books away so that she could prepare his math lessons. He tells her that he doesn't feel like studying math right now, and that he's feeling very tired. Lucy asks him if he thinks he's getting sick, and he angrily says he feels fine, only tired, and tells her to "leave my room. I want to lie down for a while." She tells him to be more polite, and he apologizes, but again says he wants to lie down. She turns out the lights and leaves the room. After a moment, he gets up and goes to the desk. He takes the knife Benjamin gave him from the drawer and sneaks out of his room. Lucy, who was waiting in the hallway, follows him. Meanwhile, Charity walks in on Harrison and Valery, and says she must talk to Valery. Harrison offers to leave, but Valery insists that he stay, adding "anything you want to tell me Harrison can hear." Charity tells Valery not to judge her brother too harshly since "you don't know the whole story." Valery says she knows enough of it, and Charity says "Yes, I thought the worst too, but I've found out some other things.... I can't tell you about them now, but please trust me. I'm going to make things right for you. I promise." Harrison wonders about this. We cut to outside, where Jamison is walking through the woods with the knife. He stops at the spot we've seen before, and waits. Lucy is behind him, and also stops to watch what Jamison is doing. Jamison stands still as the altar appears before him, with the flame burning. He smiles. Lucy can't believe what she is seeing as Jamison holds the blade in the flame for a moment. He suddenly cries out in pain as the hot knife handle burns his hand, but he doesn't let go. Lucy reveals herself by shouting "Jamison! Let go of it!" He turns his head to face her, his eyes filled with hatred, and he yells "You cannot be here! You cannot witness the ritual! You must die!" He turns his body to face Lucy, and moves towards her with the smoking hot knife in his hand.

Episode 1429

Aired: Thursday December 16, 1971

Christopher Pennock's voiceover: "When Harrison Collins arrived in the strange and dangerous world of parallel time in the year 1897, he had no idea that the world he had landed was one of murder and treachery. While one supernatural killer has her designs on taking over the great estate, another has only begun to learn the true nature of his crimes....crimes that he himself has been obsessed with solving...."

Gladstone is looking over Stokes' body (played today by that handy "I'll work for free and save Dan Curtis some big bucks" stand in mannequin) in the woods, but seems far away. Harrison is there as well, asking if there is any sign of "foul play." Gladstone doesn't answer and Harrison asks "Sheriff? Is there something wrong?" Gladstone snaps out of it and says "It looks like his neck was broken when he fell. I don't see any other clues around here. Why do you think foul play may have been involved" Harrison says "There's been a great deal of infighting over the will at Collinwood. I have my own suspicions." Gladstone says "I can't go on suspicions alone...I'll need more evidence than that if you want to prove your Mr. Trask responsible. Besides, he seems to have an air-tight alibi." He looks around the area and then sees another footprint. We hear him think "Another one...the missing toe and the flattened heel... was I here as well? It's impossible... I know exactly where I was when this death took place...unless I had been here earlier and forgot...." His thoughts are broken by Harrison asking "Sheriff? Did you find something?" Gladstone turns to Harrison and says "I'm sorry... I was thinking of another case I'm working on. It's similar to this one." Harrison says "Do you mean the black masked killer?" Gladstone says yes, and Harrison asks him if he's any closer to catching him. Gladstone answers "I may be too close," and Harrison wonders what he means.

After the titles, Harrison has told Quentin about Gladstone's conclusions about Stokes. "Where's Valery?" he asks. Quentin says she's locked herself in "a room in the west wing. She won't stop crying." Harrison remarks on how losing her father and finding out about her husband "must be too much to bear." Quentin says that he'll miss his "eccentric old Uncle. And I hope the doctors can find a way to reach Stanford. Such a brilliant man... it would be tragedy if he lived out the rest of his life as a mute stroke victim." Harrison asks "You don't think Trask had anything to do with it? To keep Valery here?" Quentin pours himself a drink and says "I thought the same thing, but it's impossible. Trask was here in this house the entire time Roderick and Stanford went off into the woods. Though I wonder if this has anything to do with my Uncle's strange theory about that succubus creature...." Harrison says "If it did, wouldn't your Uncle have been killed by aging instead of from a broken neck?" Quentin nods and says "Yes...unless one wanted to avoid suspicion." Harrison agrees, but Quentin adds "I suppose it's grasping at straws to look for foul play in this, but with all the strange things happening around here, I can't chalk it up to mere coincidence." Harrison says "If your uncle was right about a succubus being among us, it may be that the demon is clever enough to cover her tracks. If he knew the most about how to destroy such a creature, it would make sense that he'd be her victim." Quentin says he can't believe Lucy is "some sort of monster." Harrison says "Not Lucy. But someone else." Quentin thinks this over as we dissolve to Gladstone tracking the footprint he saw in the woods. "More of them... off in that direction..." we hear him thinking. "I can't account for my whereabouts last night... when I looked around my room, I found some dirt from these woods I can't explain.... have I become some sort of a sleepwalker?" He sees the footsteps suddenly stop near a pile of branches. "They end..." he says aloud. "How can that be? How can someone simply vanish?" He looks around in vain.

Rachel and Lucy are going over some lessons with Jamison when Quentin enters. He asks to speak to Rachel alone. Jamison asks Quentin if he will play some chess with him later, since "I've learned some new moves." Quentin smiles and says "Maybe later. I have a better surprise for you though, Jamison." Jamison asks what, and Quentin says "Well, let me discuss it with your mother first, and then I'll tell you." Jamison demands to know what it is, and Quentin says "Well, then it wouldn't be a surprise!" He leads Rachel from the room as Lucy wonders. In the hallway, Quentin motions for Rachel to be quiet as he leads her into another room. "Well, this is a rather obvious way to be alone with me," Rachel says. Quentin says "It's not that kind of meeting. I wanted to ask you if you've thought over my idea to take Jamison away from here for a while." Rachel says "And I still want to know why you want this." Quentin says "Because I believe his life may be in danger." Rachel is shocked, and says "Who would want to harm him?" Quentin says "There's another will that my grandmother left behind. One that will supersede the one giving control of the estate to Valery." Rachel snaps "You can't possibly believe that Valery would wish to harm Jamison!" Quentin stops her from leaving, and says "Not Valery, but her husband! Trask has already tricked Valery into signing away control of the estate to him. He's determined to take over the Collins fortunes, and he won't let anything stand in his way! I think Valery is in danger too, but...." Rachel says "This other will... you've seen it?" Quentin nods. "Jamison gets everything once he reaches adulthood. The rest of us only get to live here as long as we want. But if anything happens to that boy, the property could be up for grabs, and Mr. Trask, for all of his deficiencies as a human being, is a very good lawyer! He may find some way of making that other will stick!" Rachel looks concerned. We cut to outside the room, where Kitty stands at the door, listening to every word....

Lucy is still working with Jamison when Kitty enters the room. She asks Jamison what he is studying, and he says "math." Kitty spins a globe on the desk and tells Jamison about how much more he could learn about things if he traveled the world. "Like my Uncle Quentin?" he says. Kitty smiles and says yes. She says that "for example, I've seen many great ancient buildings in Egypt and in what used to be Babylonia... that's where you would see what kinds of great things math can do, for engineers and architects." Kitty apologizes for disturbing Lucy's lesson with "my silliness," but Lucy says "it's all right, maybe it's time we took a break anyway, Jamison." Kitty asks Lucy if she has any books on ancient history, and she says she does, back in her room. Kitty asks Jamison if he'd like to look at them, and he says "Will you show me the things you and Quentin saw when you went to those places?" Kitty says yes, and asks Lucy where she can find the books. Lucy says "Oh no, Miss Soames, I'll get them. I'll be right back." Lucy leaves, and Kitty closes the door behind her, turning and smiling at Jamison, who she is now alone with. He smiles back at her innocently. Outside, Quentin and Rachel pass Lucy and ask her where she's going. Lucy explains that she's getting some books Kitty wanted to show Jamison, and Quentin and Rachel head in Jamison's direction. Rachel enters the room where Kitty and Jamison are sitting together. Rachel asks Jamison if he'd like to go on a trip with her. Jamison says "A trip?" Rachel says "Yes. Your uncle and I thought it would be good for you to take a trip with me...to Boston. For a few days. I can show you many interesting sights there." Jamison looks at Kitty for a moment and then says "No, I'd rather stay here." Quentin says "Jamison, you've always told me how much you've wanted to go to Boston. Look, I'll even join you there after a couple of days. You'll have a good time." Jamison looks at Kitty again, and then suddenly jumps up and yells "No! No! I won't go! I can't leave! Do you hear me? I can't leave now! I can't!" He runs out of the room, leaving Rachel and Quentin aghast. Kitty says "Why is he so upset?" and tries to look innocent.

Lucy is putting some books away in Jamison's room when Beth enters. Beth asks Lucy why she seems upset, and Lucy tells Beth about Quentin and Rachel's plans to take Jamison away. Beth asks if Quentin and Rachel are planning on "going away together," and Lucy says that Quentin seems "worried" about Jamison, and then says "It may be all a waste of time anyway. Jamison is refusing to leave." Beth asks why, and Lucy says she's not sure, only that "I left him alone with Kitty Soames. Maybe the boy has a crush on her." Beth remarks on how "strange" Kitty seems. "Not like the Kitty I remember before she went away," Beth adds. Lucy asks "How?" and Beth remarks on how Kitty would not let Beth clean her room or go near her jewelry box. Lucy laughs and says "You don't think she thought you'd steal from her?" Beth says "No, it wasn't like that. It was like she was protecting something, or guarding it. I don't know, I've never seen her act like that before. All I ever saw in that jewelry box anyway were little medallions and such. She doesn't keep her expensive pieces in there, and...." Lucy cuts her off. "Medallions? What sort of medallions?" Beth says she's not sure, they "looked like letters or symbols." Lucy thinks a moment and says "I think I may have seen one of those." She turns to Beth and says "I want you to keep a close eye on Kitty Soames for me." Beth asks "Why? What are you thinking?" Lucy says "Maybe nothing, but maybe something very important. And if you're watching her, she may not notice you as much as she'd notice me." Beth asks "What will you do?" Lucy says "I think I'll keep an even closer eye on Jamison." Beth thinks this over. Meanwhile, Gladstone is still searching around the area where the footprints end when he sees a rope sticking out from the branches. "What is this?" he says, taking it into his hands. As he pulls on it, the branches clear, and he finds a trapdoor leading down below, into the small hill he stands on. He starts down a rickety stairway. In the shadows, he sees a burned out torch on the wall. He takes out a match and lights it, using it to light the rest of his way as he continues down. He finds himself in an underground cave. There are unlit torches sticking up our of the ground extending down along the walls. He lights them as he goes, and then stops and gasps at what he sees. Along the walls, arranged in pairs, are the skeletal remains of hands. They lead towards a table with a book sitting on it, along with a feathered pen sitting in an inkwell. Hanging on a wall in back of the table is a black cape, mask, and the same scimitar we saw. In disbelief, Gladstone walks towards the table, and then sees the last pair of hands are fresh and bloody. "Oh my God..." we hear him think. "This is the lair of the killer....and my footprints lead here...." He looks at the old battered book, and then opens it. As he turns the pages, he grows more and more fascinated. "It's a catalogue....a listing of all the victims of this killer....I recognize the names from my research... the killer knew the names of all his victims...." He keeps turning pages backwards and then we hear him think "What's this...1792? 1787?" he keeps flipping and then says aloud "These records go back to the 1600s... how can anyone live that long?" He then flips forward towards the end of the book and then gasps in horror. "1897..." he says aloud. "This book lists the victims yet to come!"

Episode 1428

Aired: Wednesday December 15, 1971

After a replay of Tuesday's close, the walking corpse of Evan swats at Stanford from behind, knocking him unconscious. Stokes turns to see, and is terrified. He backs up towards the altar and is trapped as Evan gets closer and closer. We hear Stokes scream. We cut back to Kitty, who suddenly takes a deep breath and seems all right now. She stands before the fire and then smiles at Benjamin. "I can sense it.... our enemy is destroyed!" Benjamin smiles at her and then kisses her hand. We dissolve to Stanford waking up and rubbing his head. The altar is gone. He looks around and calls for Stokes and then finds his body laying in some brush. "Roderick!" he yells as he examines the body. We hear him think "His neck... broken! By the same person who hit me in the head when I wasn't looking. Where did the altar go? What is this place? I must tell someone at Collinwood!" He runs off. At Collinwood, Stanford runs through the door, but only finds Kitty and Benjamin in the drawing room. "Quickly!" he says. "A terrible thing has happened! It's Roderick!" Benjamin feigns innocence and says "Uncle Roderick?" Stanford looks at them both and says "He's dead!" Kitty hides a smile for a moment, and Benjamin fakes some shock. "Dead? How?" he says. Stanford says "We went to the woods....we saw some sort of altar...I believe Roderick was trying to destroy it, and something attacked us!" Kitty loses her smile and asks Stanford "An altar? In the woods?" Stanford "I hardly believe it, since it appears and disappears." Kitty looks quite seriously when she says "But you have seen this altar and stood before it's flame?" Stanford says "Yes, I.... how did you know it had a flame?" Kitty waves her hands and the doors to the drawing room slam shut. Stanford is terrified of her. "You!!!" he says.

"Those who look upon the flame must be consecrated..." Kitty says as she slowly approaches a terrified Stanford. "How did you do that? Benjamin! What is she?" Stanford tries to back away, but Benjamin takes hold of him. "You must obey her, there is no choice!" Benjamin says. Stanford struggles as Kitty laughs while approaching him. "Don't be so afraid, you pathetic old man," she says. "I'm only going to....kiss you...." She gets closer as Stanford struggles in vain. Meanwhile upstairs, Valery is packing when Trask comes in. He asks her why she is packing, and she says "My father wants to take a trip with me. I'll be back in a few days." Trask asks her why she didn't ask him before she decided to go. "I thought that with your work you'd stay here," she says. He takes her arms and says "A wife should stay with her husband." She pulls away, and he notices her coldness. "I don't think you should go," he says. She continues packing, and says "You'll have to take that up with my father." Trask spins her around and says "I want to keep you close to me." She snaps "Why? Keeping a close eye on me? Why is that?" Trask says he didn't mean it that way, and Valery says "I would think you'd enjoy my leaving since then you can spend more time with Alice." Trask gets concerned as Valery continues "That's an interesting reaction. You never felt guilty about being friends with Alice before." Trask angrily says "And I don't now!" Valery says "Tell that to Quentin and Carl!" Trask gets a little scared, and she continues "Yes, I know about all of it, dear Gregory! Now leave me! I have much packing to do!" He grabs her and says "Don't think you can order me around, my dear. Did you look carefully at those papers you signed? They gave me complete control of this house if I so choose. And if I so choose, I can declare you all but incompetent!" Valery yells for him to let go of her as she struggles. Suddenly, Harrison is standing in the doorway and says "Let go of her, Trask. You heard her."

"Stay out of things that do not concern you!" Trask bellows. Harrison walks into the room and yanks Trask away from Valery. "You concern me, Trask," he says. Valery runs from the room and Harrison shoves Trask away from her. "Quentin told me all about you, " Harrison says. Trask sneers. "He told you pipedreams. I will assert control of this house and soon you will no longer be welcome here!" Harrison smiles and says "Somehow, I doubt that. You may have no legal right to this house from what I understand, even though you try to usurp it from Valery." Trask says he'll do "whatever he likes as far as Valery is concerned." Harrison grabs him by the throat and says threateningly "I wasn't sure of the reasons I came here until I saw that girl, Trask. If anything happens to her, I will hold you responsible and you cannot do anything you like as far as I am concerned." Trask tells him he makes empty threats. Harrison tells Trask that "If anyone is going to be thrown out of this house soon, it will be you. Possibly through that window!" Meanwhile, Valery comes downstairs, upset, and finds Kitty alone in the drawing room. She asks Kitty if her father has come back yet, and Kitty says no. Suddenly, Benjamin runs in from outside, carrying a stunned Stanford on his arm. "Help! Somebody help!" Valery runs in and asks what's going on. Benjamin says "Something terrible! Stanford has had some sort of seizure...he cannot speak or understand anything!" Valery looks at the lame Stanford and says "Oh my God..." Benjamin leads him to the couch and lays him down as Kitty pretends to be horrified. Valery asks again where her father is, and Benjamin looks at her sadly and says "I'm sorry, Valery... I'm sorry to be the one to tell you...." Valery demands to know, and Benjamin says "He's dead." Valery is shocked.

Valery is nearly in tears and frantic as she begs Benjamin to tell her what happened. "As near as I can tell, he fell in the woods and hit his head....I think his neck was broke. We need to call for help!" Valery begins to cry in Kitty's arms as Harrison comes downstairs. He sees Stanford and asks what's wrong with him. Benjamin says "A terrible thing has happened!" and fills him in. Harrison asks Benjamin how Stokes may have died, and Benjamin says "It looks like he fell in the woods. Perhaps when Stanford was stricken with this seizure, or even the other way around." Harrison takes Valery in his arms and tells her how sorry he is. Kitty says she'll take her back to her room, and Valery says she doesn't want to go there because she "hates Trask." Harrison tells Kitty to put her "in the west wing, near Quentin's room." Kitty takes Valery away as Benjamin remarks on how "strange" Stokes death is. Harrison says "I didn't want to say it in front of her, but I'm not so sure about his death being so strange." Benjamin looks concerned and says "Oh?" Harrison tries asking Stanford what happened, but he stares into space and says nothing. Benjamin says "I'm afraid he's completely unresponsive. We will need to get a doctor." Harrison grumbles on how "only Stanford knows what really happened. We have to get an answer out of him." Benjamin asks Harrison why he "sounds so suspicious." Harrison says "I may be wrong, Benjamin, but I have good reason to believe Roderick Stokes may have been murdered." Benjamin is shocked and worried. "Murdered?" He turns away and slyly asks "Who would want to murder Roderick Stokes?" Harrison takes a breath and says to Benjamin's delight "I have reason to suspect Gregory Trask."

Episode 1427

Aired: Tuesday December 14, 1971

Alexandra Moltke's voiceover: "After a long night of terror at the great house of Collinwood comes a new day. But on this day in the strange and dangerous world of parallel time in the year 1897, the fighting over who will possess the great estate will take a horrible new turn...."

Alice hangs up the phone at the old house and tells Stanford that she can't find the Sheriff. "No one has seen him in the past few hours. I wonder if that means he's found something?" Stanford says he doesn't know what it means, only that the idea of a sword wielding killer smashing through an upstairs window is "a little too horrible to imagine." Alice says she didn't have to imagine it. There is a knock at the door, and Alice sees that it's Trask when she answers. He says hello to Stanford, and then improvs "Oh, er... Alice, I came to escort you to Collinwood like you asked. I know how you've been fearful of walking alone through these woods." Alice sees that he wants to speak secretly, and she plays along. The two of them start to leave, but Stanford says "Let me go with you. I need to speak to Roderick about some things." Trask then hummada-hummadas (thank you, Ralph Kramden) and says he also wanted to borrow a book from the old house and that he and Alice will catch up with Stanford. "Unless you are afraid of walking alone as well," Trask adds. Stanford says "Mr. Trask, I fought alongside Roderick in the great civil war of many years ago, and I've seen things that would scare you to pieces. I'll see you at Collinwood." He leaves, and Trask closes the door. He looks at Alice and says "We have a problem with more than merely Valery." She wonders what.

After the titles, Stanford enters Collinwood and finds Stokes waiting in the drawing room. Stokes asks Stanford if he had seen the black masked killer, and Stanford says that "luckily, Judith and I were in town when that happened. It must have been a frightful experience for Alice." Stokes agrees, and says that it was certainly frightening when he had seen the same thing. Stanford asks "You saw him?" Stokes answers "I was nearly killed by him the other night. Out in the woods." Stanford asks him what he was doing out in the woods, and Stokes answers "I'm not sure. I believe I was placed under some sort of trance by powers beyond either of our comprehension." Stanford laughs and says "With answers like that, I wonder who would think I was the novelist in this conversation." Stokes says it's very serious, and that "dark forces are at work on this estate. I intend to discover who is responsible." Meanwhile back at the old house, Alice has been told by Trask of recent events. "What will Quentin do?" she says. Trask answers that he doesn't know. "I don't know if there actually is a more valid will, or if he's bluffing. But if there is a new will and Quentin has seen it, he must know who is to inherit the bulk of the estate." Alice asks "From the way he acted, do you think it could be him?" Trask thinks about it, and says "That's a very interesting question. Perhaps by watching Quentin very carefully, we could learn the answer. He seemed to be most protective of Valery..." Alice says "Then she really did inherit the money?" Trask answers "I don't know. He also seemed to indicate that Valery may not own the estate after all." Alice asks "Then who?" Trask nods and says "The sooner we find that will, the better."

Quentin finds Valery in the PT room sewing. He enters, though looking around curiously. Valery asks him why he's acting strange, and Quentin says "Let's just say I'm not always so sure about this room anymore." Valery asks if he's been "seeing ghosts again" and Quentin answers "No, only empty rooms." Valery is confused, and Quentin says not to worry about it, but that there may be something else she needs to worry about. Valery immediately starts to defend her marriage to Trask, but Quentin tells her "It's not only me. Carl overheard Alice and Trask plotting something." Valery can't believe it. "Carl? He wasn't drinking was he?" Quentin says "No, he's been rather sober lately. He followed Alice after she was threatened by that killer Gladstone and he are searching for. And he saw her meet with Trask up on Widow's Hill." Quentin spins Valery around and confronts her. "They talked about taking this estate away from you and possibly even...." Valery pulls away and says she refuses to believe it. "You've got to believe it!" Quentin says. "And you know as well as I do that I'm someone you can trust! I don't care about the estate! I don't care about inheriting the money, all I want is a roof over my head and enough to travel the world on!" Valery smiles and says "And that's all you want?" Quentin says he'd rather not get into "all of that" now. Valery says "I see the way you are with Jamison." Quentin gets nervous and says "Jamison?" Valery adds "You want a family of your own. A son. What man doesn't?" Quentin says "Trask doesn't. He'd have to share the money with him. Valery, he tricked you into signing away your powers. Did you look closely at those papers?" Valery gets confused and says she didn't think she needed to, and Quentin calms her down. "Listen," he says. "Stay strong. I will see to it that nothing belonging to you will be taken from you." Valery says "I thought he belonged to me. I've been such a fool!" She cries in Quentin's arms.

Downstairs, Stokes has told Stanford about his theories and the possibilities of a Succubus at Collinwood. "We saw some strange things in our days in Louisiana at the end of the war. Voodoo, and all that. But this sounds far too fantastic," Stanford says. Stokes says he's convinced "that's what we are dealing with. And if the books I read were right, there may be only one way to destroy it. We must find its sacred altar, where its fire burns. Once destroyed, the monster will also be destroyed." Stanford says that they'd certainly notice an altar in the woods. Stokes says "You follow my thoughts exactly. I believe that's why I was in the woods the other night. I was lured to the altar. And since I remember where I was when I came to, I can assume that the altar is nearby." Stanford asks him how he will find that altar, and Stokes says "There is a ceremony. But I will need your help." Stanford looks intrigued. Upstairs, Valery asks Quentin what she can do, and Quentin tells her that he'll protect her as best as he can. Valery remarks that "My father should know of this. My father can protect me as well." Quentin asks her if she would consider going away with her father "for a while." Valery asks why, and Quentin tells her "It's time you knew. There is another will." Valery gasps "Another will?" Quentin tells her "Yes, grandmother told me where to find it while she was taunting me. Somehow I think she wanted me to be the one who knew her true intentions because she knew I didn't care about the money." Valery says she never cared about it either, and Quentin answers "I also think she wanted someone who would fight off anyone who would argue with it." Valery says that "though I am a woman, that does not mean that I will not fight. You've seen this will?" Quentin says yes, and before Valery can ask him, all he says is "I'd rather not tell you what's in it, in order to protect everyone involved. I'll only say that you won't be angry about it." Valery smiles and says she'll talk to her father about taking a trip.

Valery comes downstairs just as Stokes and Stanford are leaving. She tells Stokes that she'd like to speak to him immediately, and he stops to ask why. She says she wants him to accompany her on a trip to Boston for a few days, and he asks why the "sudden need for travel." She says she'll explain that later, but only for him to "pack enough for a week." Stokes says he'll see to it "once I get back from something else I must do that's equally important, my dear." He and Stanford leave. In the woods, Stokes and Stanford come to the spot where Stokes came to the other night. "Here...or somewhere around here," Stokes says. Stanford says he sees "nothing but woods." Stokes smiles and says "That's why we must see beyond these woods, Stanford." He opens the bag he has been carrying and takes out a bottle. "Is that....blood?" Stanford asks. Stokes answers "Yes. I visited a butcher in town recently... it's all part of the necessary ritual..." He starts to pour the blood into a circle. He takes out the Ankh he had found and places it within the circle. "And now to summon the life essence of that which we seek..." Stokes says as he lights a match. "Hidden spirit of the succubi demon!" he shouts. "I command you to show yourself to me!" He throws the match down, and as a startled Stanford watches, the entire circle of blood lights in flame! Meanwhile, back at Collinwood, Kitty is sitting in the drawing room with Benjamin, and suddenly clutches her chest and starts gasping. "Kitty! My God! What is it?" Benjamin yells. Back in the woods, Stokes searches through the flames and then suddenly points. "There! Stanford! There!" Stanford and Stokes watch as the altar comes into view beyond the flames. Back at Collinwood, Kitty gasps "The altar....the power is being drained from me...we must stop it! We must!" Benjamin says "What can we do? I should run to the woods and kill whoever is behind this!" Kitty stops him, and weakly says "No, no... take me to the fire.... put me near the fire, Benjamin....." He does so, and she stares into the flames until she sees Stokes and Stanford in the woods looking over the altar as their own flames burn. "Guardian of my spirit..." she begins. "Do not let the infidels sully the eternal flame of my power.... as flame is to flame....I command you to rise! I command you to rise and destroy them!" Kitty seems to faint as Benjamin yells "Kitty!" Back in the woods, Stokes and Stanford examine the altar while behind them and unseen by them, a figure rises up out of the flames! It steps towards them with arms outstretched, and we recognize it as the risen corpse of Evan Handley....

Episode 1426

Aired: Monday December 13, 1971

In a repeat of Friday's close, Quentin steps in front of Trask in the woods, holding his gun. "Hold on, Trask," he says. Trask asks him what he's doing. "We're going to try an experiment," Quentin says. "I'm going to ask you about something that Carl told me about that I find very shocking. If you give me an answer that I like, I'll step out of your way." Trask says "And if not?" Quentin cocks the gun and says "Then I'll mistake you for our masked killer and have to defend myself." Trask gets scared. Meanwhile, Alice enters her room, and again, the room goes dark and the door slams behind her. Catherine's ghost appears to her and says "You escaped your fate once tonight, dear Alice, but fate has a way of catching up with you..." Alice becomes terrified and tries to get out of the room, but can't. Catherine begins to laugh as Alice yells and pounds on the door. "Go away! Go away! Stop haunting me!" Catherine cackles about "fate" while Alice buries her face against the door and begins to cry, but suddenly the lights come on again and Catherine is gone. Alice looks around the room, and then begins to laugh, saying "You've gone! And you'll stay away, do you hear? You'll stay away!" Alice continues to laugh, but then she sees a strange shadow by the window. Alice backs away meekly saying "No...no....NO!" Suddenly the black masked figure crashes through the window and stands before Alice with scimitar in hand....

After the titles, Alice stands near the door terrified as the black figure steps closer. Carl is outside, having heard her screams. He yells "Alice! What is it? Are you all right?" Inside, she screams for help, and outside, Carl cannot get the door open. He picks up a nearby chair in the hall and smashes the door open. He enters the room and comes face to face with the black masked killer. He gasps as the killer lunges for him with the scimitar, but Carl is quick enough to block the blade with the chair. The point of the blade sticks into the chair, and Carl pushes the killer back. Alice runs behind Carl as he throws a vase at the killer, who turns and jumps back out the window. Carl runs to the window to see where he went as Alice yells for him to be careful. "He's gone," Carl says, panting. "It was him....it was really him.... the killer Gladstone and I have been hunting." Alice says she's never been so terrified. Carl is getting more excited, saying "He left a ton of clues here for Gladstone. Don't touch anything in here. Find a spare room to sleep in and I'll get Gladstone over here to investigate. We're gonna get him this time, Alice, we're gonna get him!" He leaves and she follows. Meanwhile, in the woods, Quentin holds the gun on Trask. Trask starts to smile. "I don't see how you can be so happy, Trask," Quentin snaps. "And I don't see how you can be so brash, Quentin, especially when you're looking at the new master of Collinwood." Quentin, surprised, says "What are you talking about?" Trask tells him that "Your dear cousin Valery has signed control of the estate over to me. I assure you the paperwork is all neat and legal." Quentin cocks the gun and points it at Trask's face. "You lying blackguard!" he says. "I know what you and my dear cousin Alice are plotting." Trask tells him it's too late. "Go ahead and kill me if you don't believe me, Quentin. Because Valery has signed the estate over to me, and I have already seen to it that if anything happens to me, the property will remain in the Trask family and not the Collins. Go on and shoot if you don't believe me, Quentin! Because then you can be both a murderer and a pauper!" Quentin thinks a moment and then lowers the gun. Trask takes a deep breath and says "It's good to see you come to your senses." Quentin suddenly socks Trask across the jaw and sends him to the ground. "Don't be too sure Valery owned the estate to begin with," he says. Quentin smirks and walks away as Trask wonders what he meant.

Quentin returns to Collinwood with Trask right behind. Charity is there and asks Quentin if he saw anything out there. "No, nothing," he answers. Trask says hello to his sister, but tells her that he needs to speak to Quentin alone in the drawing room. She wonders why, and as Trask closes the doors, she starts to listen outside. Trask immediately asks Quentin what he meant by saying that Valery may not own the estate. "It was left to her in your grandmother's will!" Trask insists. Quentin snaps "Was it? Before you go on plotting, Trask, you may want to know that I know about my grandmother's other will. Her true will." Trask suddenly looks very concerned, enough for Quentin to notice. "I can tell by your reaction that you know what I'm talking about," Quentin sneers. Trask turns to him and says "That's a lie!" Charity, listening outside, seems shocked to be hearing this. Inside, Quentin says "You must have known about her earlier will before you concocted the other! I can tell you're worried that it would turn up." Trask tries to lie "It's true that Catherine changed her will many times, but that doesn't mean that the final one will not stand." Quentin turns Trask around and says "That depends on what it says now, doesn't it? And I know that Valery will have a much better sense of fairness than you will about these things, at least I'm sure of that after hearing what you've been plotting against her!" Trask protests that he's "plotted nothing" and at that moment, Charity comes in, angry. "How dare you accuse my brother of such a thing!" she snarls at Quentin. Quentin says "You were listening outside? Then you might as well know the entire story!" Trask tells Quentin to "shut up, before you upset her anymore." Quentin says "You should know about your brother's neat arrangements, Charity. He's somehow gotten Valery to sign over control of the estate to him. And from what I heard from Carl, my dear cousin Alice seems to figure into all of this somehow." Charity says she refuses to believe it, and Quentin says "Believe what you want, I know what the truth is. I'm going to bed. I'll leave the two of you to each other." He storms out, leaving Charity and Trask looking at each other.

The next morning, Gladstone is examining evidence in Alice's room. He seems excited as Carl tells him what had happened the preceding evening. "I wish you had called me earlier," Gladstone says. "If I could have gotten here last night, I may have been able to trail him through the woods. Still, there's a lot here for me to work with." Carl says "Your men said they couldn't find you last night." Gladstone says "I was home most of the evening, they must have just missed me." He looks over the chair with the sword cut in it and says "You say he was carrying a large sword, a scimitar?" Carl says yes, and Gladstone nods, saying "No doubt why his victim's throats are so cleanly cut along with the wrists...." Carl looks a little sad, and Gladstone says "Sorry, I know this is close to you." Gladstone looks at the floor and says "He tracked a lot of dirt in here...." He examines the dirty footprints more closely, and says "We may have a break here. If I'm right, he wasn't wearing shoes." Carl says he didn't notice, but that the killer "seemed to move silently." Gladstone says he'll need to check outside for something. Downstairs, Alice waits as Gladstone and Carl come downstairs. "Do you think you can catch him?" she asks. Gladstone says he hopes so, and Carl says "After I'm done with the sheriff, I still need to talk to you. And you know about what." Alice doesn't look thrilled at this prospect as Carl and Gladstone head outside. Beneath the windows, Gladstone spots another footprint, this one deeply indented in the soft soil. Smiling, he looks it over with a magnifying glass and says "Yes....definitely.... he was wearing no shoes." Gladstone calls over a deputy and tells him to make a cast of the foot from the print. "I think we may have our first piece of physical evidence on this killer," he tells Carl. Carl asks what can be figured out from a foot, and Gladstone answers "It may nothing, or it may hold some clue to his identity. I can check records and medical records, especially if the foot has any anomalies in it." The deputies come back with plaster and measuring tools.

Gladstone returns to his office and puts his box of clues on his desk. As he examines pieces of things he gathered from the old house, the deputy enters with another box. "The cast is finished," he says. Gladstone tells him to leave it on the desk. We hear him think "All this time and I finally have a piece of you...." as he opens the box and looks at the cast. He takes it out of the box and examines it, but his curiosity soon turns to horror. "No....the second toe....missing! This foot has a missing toe....and...." he thinks as he looks at the heel. "a flat heel...." Out loud, he says "Oh my God..." as he puts the cast down. He paces back and forth saying "No, it can't be, it's impossible! It's impossible!" He jumps into his chair and takes his own shoe off - lifting up his own foot where we see it's a perfect match for the cast.

Episode 1425

Aired: Friday December 10, 1971

After a replay of Thursday's close and the titles, Stokes stands before the altar and the burning flame, under Kitty's spell. There is a knife on top of the altar. The wailing becomes a voice, Kitty's voice - "Roderick Stokes...you are under the power of Isis....you see the blade before you." He says "Yes. I see the blade." Kitty's voice says "You shall take the blade and consecrate the altar with your own blood. Do you understand?" Stokes takes the blade in his hand and says "I understand." Meanwhile, in another part of the woods, Alice is walking back to the old house when she notices Carl is following her. She turns and yells at him "Why are you following me? I had the feeling someone was shadowing me. Why?" Carl glares at her and says nothing. "Do you really think you're going to catch your killer by following me? Because of that stupid vision I had?" Carl sneers that "I may have started for that reason. But now I have a different one. You should be ashamed of yourself, Alice, ashamed! What you're doing is despicable!" Alice asks Carl what he's talking about, and Carl snaps "You know very well what I'm talking about. Or have you already forgotten your secret meeting at Widow's Hill?" Alice gets very concerned as Carl continues. "Yes, Alice! I heard everything! All of it! And let me tell you that I won't let you split this family apart! I don't care if you didn't get a dime from old Catherine! Valery has never done anything to hurt you!" Alice suddenly grabs Carl by the collar and yells "No one has ever done anything for me either! But that's going to change, Carl! That's going to change! And as for you, why don't you go back to the bottle that's replaced your dead wife!" She throws a startled Carl to the ground and leaves as he yells "You won't get away with it! You won't!" before he starts to cry about "my Jenny" again. Alice is moving through the woods quickly, but suddenly she stops short in her tracks and tries to scream, but cannot. The black masked figure with the scimitar stands directly in front of her.

Alice manages to scream as the masked figure slices the scimitar in her direction, barely missing her. She runs and the masked figure, dressed all in black, chases after her. As she is screaming, we cut to Stokes standing at the altar holding the knife in his hands as he hears Kitty's voice say "You shall now open your veins as a sacrifice to me." Stokes begins to say "Yes..." and touches the blade to his neck, but Alice's screams start to snap him out of the trance. Kitty's voice says "You must now sacrifice yourself!" Stokes weakly says "Yes..." over another scream, but then turns away from the altar and seems to snap out of it. "Alice? Alice Collins?" He turns back again, and the altar is gone! A screaming Alice runs by him, and then Stokes sees the black masked figure. "Help! Help!" Alice screams. Stokes notices the knife in his hand, and then waves it at the attacker, who stops. "Get out of here, now!" he commands Alice. Alice runs while the black figure brandishes the sword at Stokes. "I don't know why I'm out here, but I know that you are no apparition," he says. The black figure takes a step back and readies the scimitar, but Stokes throws the knife at it - and the blade finds its mark. The figure screams in pain and runs away as the knife drops to the ground. Stokes runs in Alice's direction. At Collinwood, Alice arrives scared to death. Quentin comes out of the drawing room and asks her what has happened. She tells him that she was nearly killed by a "man dressed all in black....with a sword!" Quentin is shocked to hear this just as Stokes comes running in, locking the door behind him. Quentin says "Uncle, what are you doing outside?" Stokes answers "I'm not sure...but I think I may have just seen the mysterious killer Mr. Gladstone has been searching for." Kitty comes down the stairway asking what all the excitement is about, and then is shocked to see Stokes. "What....happened?" she asks him. "I was very nearly killed tonight," he answers. "Oh my...." she says, and then adds "How?" Stokes looks at her and answers "That may be a much more interesting question than you intended, my dear." She wonders what he means.

"I believe I came face to face with the mysterious killer that killed our cousin's wife so many years ago," Stokes says. "Or at least someone who kills in a similar fashion. The scimitar he bore would match the description of what happened to his victims. I was lucky to escape." Quentin asks him how, and Stokes says "I'm not sure. I'm not even sure what I was doing in the woods. Still, Alice has had quite a scare. We should see to her first, without discussing this further." Quentin says he'll call Gladstone and tell him. We cut to Kitty and Alice drinking tea as Quentin hangs up the phone. "Gladstone had gone home for the night, but I left word with his deputy. They're sending a number of men to fan out through the woods to search for this man." Kitty tells Alice that she's "welcome to stay here at Collinwood" if she's afraid of going home, and then asks Quentin if that's all right. Quentin says "Of course." At that moment, Trask and Valery come through the front door. Trask gets nervous when he sees Alice in the drawing room and Valery says "I wonder what brings my cousin Alice here." Valery walks into the drawing room as Trask follows. Stokes sees Valery and gives her a hug. "Are you all right, father? Your heart is pounding." Stokes says that "I've had quite a night. I'd rather not trouble you with it right now. You should see to your cousin, who had a tremendous fright." Valery asks what is going on and Quentin, all the while glaring at Trask says "It seems there's a killer loose on the estate. He attacked Alice and your father tonight, Valery." Valery is shocked, and Quentin moves closer to Trask while saying "It's getting to be very unsafe here lately. Downright deadly. Isn't that right, Trask?" Trask and Alice look at each other.

Trask glares at Quentin and says "Perhaps it's time for gentlemen to protect the women of the household." Valery tells Trask that they should all be safe at Collinwood, but Alice gets nervous and says she'd "feel safer at home." Stokes tells her she shouldn't go back outside with "that killer possibly out there" but Alice says that Gladstone's men will be there. Quentin offers to escort Alice back and Trask, getting worried, says "Perhaps I too, should go with you." Quentin smirks and takes a gun out of the small desk. "I'm not going out there without this," he says to Trask. "Still think you're needed?" Trask smiles and says "Of course." Valery begs them both to be careful, and then tells her father she'll help him upstairs. Kitty watches Stokes as he leaves the room. Before he leaves, he looks at her and says "Good night, Miss Soames. I hope you will feel safe within these walls tonight." Kitty wonders if he knows or not as Quentin and Trask prepare to take Alice back to the old house. At the old house, Carl is in the living room pacing when Quentin, Alice & Trask arrive. When Carl sees all three of them together, he begins to start in with Alice again, but Quentin shushes him and takes him aside. Trask tells Alice to be "very careful" but Alice says in low tones "Carl knows what we are planning, at least he thinks he does." Trask is alarmed, but Alice shushes him before going upstairs. Carl asks Quentin what he's doing with Trask after what he has been told, and Quentin shows Carl the gun, saying in low tones "I didn't just bring this for the black masked killer, Carl." Carl gasps, but Quentin adds "I'm only going to scare him with it. I want to scare some truth out of him." Quentin shushes a now smiling Carl as he turns to Trask and says "Let's head back to Collinwood, shall we?" The two of them leave. In the woods, Trask remarks how easy it would be for someone to hide themselves in such "thick surroundings" as Quentin steps in front of him, still holding the gun. "Hold on, Trask," he says. Trask asks him what he's doing. "We're going to try an experiment," Quentin says. "I'm going to ask you about something that Carl told me about that I find very shocking. If you give me an answer that I like, I'll step out of your way." Trask says "And if not?" Quentin cocks the gun and says "Then I'll mistake you for our masked killer and have to defend myself." Trask gets scared. Meanwhile, Alice enters her room, and again, the room goes dark and the door slams behind her. Catherine's ghost appears to her and says "You escaped your fate once tonight, dear Alice, but fate has a way of catching up with you..." Alice becomes terrified and tries to get out of the room, but can't. Catherine begins to laugh as Alice yells and pounds on the door. "Go away! Go away! Stop haunting me!" Catherine cackles about "fate" while Alice buries her face against the door and begins to cry, but suddenly the lights come on again and Catherine is gone. Alice looks around the room, and then begins to laugh, saying "You've gone! And you'll stay away, do you hear? You'll stay away!" Alice continues to laugh, but then she sees a strange shadow by the window. Alice backs away meekly saying "No...no....NO!" Suddenly the black masked figure crashes through the window and stands before Alice with scimitar in hand....

Episode 1424

Aired: Thursday December 9, 1971

Jerry Lacy's voiceover: "Collinwood, in the strange and treacherous world of parallel time in the year 1897. Harrison Collins, the mysterious visitor from the future of Collinwood in normal time, finds himself amid a web of intrigue. While members of the family attempt to outmaneuver each other over control of the great estate, little do they know of a dangerous supernatural killer in the guise of a beautiful young woman, who is even now plotting to throw blame on another...."

Quentin is standing over the dead body of Evan and holding the handkerchief when Harrison appears. "I heard the screams," he says. "Is it another murder?" Quentin says "I'm not sure." Harrison looks over the body and says "This man is nearly ancient...yet there's something familiar about him. Those clothes....." Quentin holds the handkerchief and says "I'm not sure of anything anymore."

After the titles, Quentin and Harrison return to Collinwood discussing how "Gladstone will have to handle it from here." Kitty and Lucy are in the drawing room, discussing on what a "fright" it must have been for Kitty to have found that body. Quentin looks suspiciously at Lucy who asks him if they know who it was. Quentin says no, and then stuffs the handkerchief into his pocket. Harrison says that it's similar to another body that was found earlier. "Between this and the mutilated body, we seem to have two mysteries on our hands," Harrison says. Kitty remarks on how "Collinwood was never such a frightening place as it is now!" Lucy replies "That's not how I've always understood it, actually." Lucy says that she'll help Kitty upstairs so she can lie down. After they leave, Harrison asks Quentin why he was "looking at Miss Drew in the most peculiar way." Quentin takes out the handkerchief and says "Because of this. I found this on the body outside. I took it before Gladstone could see it." Harrison looks it over and sees the initials. "It's Lucy's?" What would it be doing there?" Quentin answers "That's what I'd like to know." We cut to Stokes looking up some information in a book in the study. Harrison and Quentin enter, and Quentin tells Stokes that "we may yet have that proof I was told to be terrified of." He hands Stokes the handkerchief and says "I found this on a dead body in the woods." Stokes looks it over and says "Lucy Drew's, I presume from these initials. And the body?" Quentin answers "Aged beyond any recognition, though Harrison seemed to think it was familiar." Harrison says he thought he recognized the clothes, but can't be sure. Stokes takes a deep breath and says "Gentlemen, from the clues we have so far, it would seem that Lucy Drew has a lot more to do with these strange deaths than we originally assumed. At least it seems that way..." Quentin says "Seems?" Stokes answers "Yes. There's something a little too neat about all of this for me to immediately suspect Miss Drew, especially when earlier deaths yielded no clues at all. And from what I've been reading in this book about the black arts of the Isis cult, it may not matter that we know who the succubus is at all." Quentin and Harrison wonder what he means.

Valery returns to Collinwood with a small bag. Benjamin comes downstairs and sees her. "So cousin, did anything eventful happen while I was visiting my brother in Boston?" she asks. Benjamin looks at her and smiles and says "Nothing worth discussing. But I am so happy to see you back here. You are truly becoming the mistress of Collinwood." Valery can't quite figure out this attitude, and says "Well, you've certainly changed your feelings about everything since I've been gone." Benjamin says "I see many things quite differently now, Valery. When one considers the true meaning of mortality, many of the passing fancies of this world seem....insignificant." Valery looks at Benjamin concerned and asks him if he's feeling all right. Benjamin smiles and says "Of course." Then Valery smiles and says "It's Kitty, isn't it?" Suddenly, Benjamin gets nervous and turns away. "Why do you say that?" he says. Smiling, Valery says "It's obvious. Ever since she's come back, you act more and more like a man in love." Relieved. Benjamin smiles and turns back to Valery. "Yes, perhaps you're right," he says. Valery says "Well, I should put away my things before I go into town and meet my husband." She goes upstairs as Benjamin walks towards the study. He stops outside and listens to Harrison, Quentin and Stokes. Quentin asks Stokes why it doesn't matter that they know for sure who the succubus is, and Stokes replies "Because according to this book, we do not need to attack her or attempt to destroy her directly. She draws her power from a sacred fire, burning from an altar hidden by her black magic. If we can somehow find this altar and destroy it along with that fire, she should also be destroyed." Harrison and Quentin are intrigued, as Benjamin listens outside quite concerned. He quickly steps away.

Trask is in his office shuffling some papers when Valery enters. He kisses her and asks her how her trip to Boston was. She tells him that her brother was "very surprised" to learn of the marriage, but "did wish me the best." She asks him why he's working so late, and he says "I had to deal with some of your family business while you were gone." She looks surprised, and says "I don't want you dealing with anything before consulting me." He smiles like a snake and says "Of course, I understand that. I was only preparing some papers for you to look over." She sighs and said she never envisioned herself running aspects of the family business. "I suppose it's not a disaster if I leave such affairs with my cousins." Trask says "Well, that would certainly be possible if you were to sign these auxiliary papers I had drawn up, in case you wished to relinquish those duties." Valery asks him why he drew them up without her asking, and he says "I know you well enough to know what you like and dislike." He adds a kiss to her hand for emphasis, and she says she'll sign them. He grins and gets the stack of papers. As she signs, he lies to her that "this one is for the cannery. It will allow Edward to continue running it" and then lies "and this one maintains your grandmother's wishes that your cousins live at Collinwood if they wish." Valery naively asks "Why do I need to sign papers that maintain things as they already are?" Trask smiles, and lies "The legal world is often an illogical one, my dear." She signs as Trask smiles.

Benjamin enters Kitty's room and tells her that Stokes "may suspect Miss Drew, but he seems to be taking another tack." Kitty asks what Benjamin has learned, and Benjamin said "Stokes has told Quentin and Harrison that the altar and the sacred flame are to be destroyed." Kitty is apprehensive about this, and says "This may require an alteration of our plans. If we cannot divert suspicion onto Miss Drew, we may need to see to it that your Uncle ends his curiosities." Benjamin smiles and says "It will be my pleasure to destroy him for you." Kitty kisses him and says "You're such a sweet sweet boy, Benjamin. But I think we shall take a slightly different approach...." We dissolve to Stokes getting ready for bed when he hears the wailing call again. At first he recognizes it and says defiantly "I know who you are! You will not control me again! You will not!" He tries covering his ears, but the wailing gets louder and eventually he falls into the trance. He gets up and leaves his room. Stokes comes down the stairs in his robe, entranced. The front doors open on their own as he passes through them and out. In the woods, Stokes is still walking, under Kitty's spell. He stops in a spot and then before his eyes, the altar appears, with the flame burning.

Episode 1423

Aired: Wednesday December 8, 1971

After a replay of Tuesday's close, Lucy asks Stokes what he's holding in his hand. He says "It is an ancient symbol of the life force, Miss Drew." She says she's never seen it before and doesn't know what its doing in her jewelry box. "Then you won't mind if I take it and examine it further?" he asks. She gets a little angry and asks him why he came into her room in the first place. He says "I'm not sure. I remember being in my own room and then.....then I simply found myself here." She frowns and tells him to "find himself outside." He leaves the room and looks over the necklace in the hallway. The next morning, Quentin is having some coffee in the drawing room and thinking "What Carl told me last night is almost impossible to believe.... could Alice really be conspiring with Trask somehow? Why would Trask need Alice when he's already married Valery. If he wanted the money, he's already got it.... do I have to protect Jamison AND Valery from Trask now?" when Stokes comes in. He tells Quentin that he must talk to him immediately. Quentin asks about what, and Stokes takes out the necklace and says "About this, Quentin." Quentin asks what kind of jewelry it is, and Stokes answers "It's more than mere jewelry, it is a symbol, a symbol of the life force. And I fear it may be the sign of the monster in our midst." Quentin looks at Stokes.

"Monster?" Quentin asks. Stokes says that the Ankh is the "ancient symbol of the lifeforce from the Ancient Egyptian Isis cult. These were sorceresses who transcended human form to become the creatures known as succubi. A vampire, of sorts." Quentin laughs and says that "vampires are nothing more than idiotic legends of folklore. Next you'll tell me you believe in werewolves as well." Stokes says "This is not a vampire that takes blood from its victims as in the legends you are familiar with. No, this is a she-demon that seduces young men and drains them of their very youth in order to live eternally. I have also read that the spirits of these demons can move from body to body under certain circumstances. But they leave their victims looking as if they died of old age, even if they were young men." Quentin thinks a moment and says "That body Gladstone found? Is that what you're referring to? Why don't you offer him this strange theory of yours instead of me?" Stokes says "Because of where I found this symbol, Quentin. I found it among the possessions of Jamison's governess Lucy Drew." Quentin snaps "Are saying Lucy is some sort of monster? That she will suck the youth out of Jamison or myself? Dear Uncle, if that were true, she's had more than her share of opportunities." Stokes says that Lucy claimed not to know what the piece was doing amongst her things, but adds "I'm not sure what means. She didn't act defensively, but if indeed someone planted it there, it still means that the succubus is among us." Quentin says "Are you saying some spirit has infected Lucy? Or even someone else around here?" Stokes says he's not sure, and "will need more evidence." Quentin says that "for something this fantastic, I'd want definite proof." Stokes tells Quentin that such proof "could prove terrifying."

Benjamin in is Kitty's room looking over Lucy's stolen handkerchief when Evan comes in. Evan snidely asks Benjamin how "the plan" is going. Benjamin says "You'll have to ask the mistress that." Evan sneers "Your mistress now, Mr. Collins? Let me remind you who came first in this little arrangement." Benjamin says "Let me remind you of your place in this arrangement now," and steps away from him. Evan snatches the handkerchief from Benjamin's hands and says "I will help Kitty, and I alone! It is I who has been promised immortality by her! And nothing, do you hear, nothing will stand in the way of that!" Benjamin angrily says "Kitty will decide that and not you! And it is obvious that she prefers me, and what I can offer in return!" Benjamin starts to walk away, but a frustrated Evan twirls the handkerchief, gets behind Benjamin, and begins to strangle him with it. Benjamin chokes and tries to cry for help as Evan laughs. Kitty enters the room and demands that Evan stop killing Benjamin. Evan yells "No! I am the one promised to you, not him! He must die!" Evan continues choking Benjamin, but an angry Kitty waves her hand and Evan begins to choke as well. "Back away from him now, Evan," Kitty says. Evan drops Benjamin and begins to grasp at his throat and gasp for air. "Stop.....stop....or I'll expose you....." Evan says. Kitty scowls and says "Then you have written your death warrant...." Evan's eyes open wide as Kitty moves in towards him. She wraps her hands around his throat and lifts him off the floor as an astonished Benjamin watches. As she holds him, Evan begins to age - his hair turns white and his skin shrivels and wrinkles. He struggles to no avail as Kitty drops him to the floor as a dead, white haired balding old man. Benjamin looks at him a moment shocked, but then Kitty caresses his hair, and Benjamin turns to her as if entranced and says "You have saved me, thank you." She smiles, saying "You are the chosen one, Benjamin," before kissing him.

Kitty and Benjamin stand over Evan's dead body. "Shall I get rid of it?" Benjamin asks. Kitty stops a moment and takes Lucy's handkerchief from Evan's dead hand. "Wait..." she says. "Perhaps we do need a slight change of plans. Evan Hanley, even in his last act of treachery, may prove useful after all...." She looks over the embroidery on the handkerchief as we dissolve to Lucy in the drawing room reading. Quentin enters and acts a little aloof towards her, so she says "Your uncle has been acting rather odd lately, Quentin." Quentin looks at her and says "Oh?" Lucy tells Quentin that she woke up with Stokes in her room finding "jewelry that doesn't belong to me. Is he given to wandering the house through the night?" Quentin says that "He has some strange ideas, I'll give you that." Suddenly there's a scream from outside. Quentin runs towards the foyer, and Kitty runs in, screaming that "there's a body outside! In the woods! Someone is....dead!" Lucy starts to comfort Kitty as Quentin runs outside and into the woods. He comes upon Evan's dead body and thinks "Another old man....impossibly old...." As he looks it over, he spots the corner of the handkerchief under the scraggly neck. He kneels down and pulls the handkerchief from under the body and lets it unroll, where he sees the embroidered monogram LLD. He thinks to himself "LLD.... Lucy Longworth Drew!"

Episode 1422

Aired: Tuesday December 7, 1971

Virginia Vestoff's voiceover: "In the strange and dangerous world of parallel time in the year 1897, Collinwood is a place of intrigue and mystery. With the death of the family matriarch, a battle has begun for control of the estate, a battle that will pit the Collins family against itself, and lead to untold treacheries...."

Carl walks up to the outside of the main house thinking "Alice and Trask....I still can't believe it. How could they be plotting against Valery like that? I don't know how I can tell her, but I have to! I have to! Maybe if there was some other way of warning her about Trask... I wouldn't put anything by my sister as far as money is concerned...and I can imagine what Trask has promised her...." Carl paces by the door without knocking, but it opens anyway. Charity stands there, and happily says "Carl! How did you know I was here?" He looks confused.

After the titles, Carl goes inside and asks Charity if Valery is around. Charity says she doesn't know, she only had come over to give Lucy some books for Jamison. Carl is acting nervous, and Charity asks him what's wrong. Carl says he has "a lot on his mind," and Charity asks him if it's anything she can help with. After a beat, he looks at her and asks "How well do you know your brother?" Charity wonders. We cut to Lucy bringing some books to Jamison in his room, telling him that "these are the ones I think you wanted, they're all about science." Jamison tells her he wanted to read more about science "after talking to cousin Harrison. He thinks the world will be very different when I grow up because of science." Lucy remarks how Harrison is "a strange but interesting man." Jamison asks her if she likes him better than Quentin, and Lucy tells Jamison he should stick to finding answers in his school books. She leaves him and walks down the hall, where she overhears an argument. Quentin and Beth are arguing in Quentin's room about "taking Jamison away." Lucy enters the room and asks "Where is Jamison going?" Beth and Quentin both stop talking.

Lucy enters the room and asks where Jamison is going, and Quentin yells that "everyone who isn't in the family should stay out of the family's business!" Lucy says that Jamison is "very much" her business since she's his governess. Beth says that since Rachel returned, she's been trying to "turn Jamison against his father" and Quentin snaps "That's an easy thing to do! Look at the way he treats the boy!" Beth counters that "a mother who abandoned him" shouldn't be allowed to "steal him away." Quentin says that Jamison "needs to get away from this place, at least for a while." Beth and Lucy demand to know why, and Quentin says "Both of you, listen to me. You know I have the best interests of that boy in my heart." They both agree to this, and Quentin says "Then trust me. Trust my reasons. With everything going on around here, it would be best for him to travel with his mother and be safe rather than here." Lucy says "Safe? What are you talking about?" Quentin answers "That's all I want to say right now. And I don't want anything leaving this room, do you both understand?" They look at each other and agree. Beth leaves, and Lucy stops a moment. She turns to Quentin and asks "Why don't you think he'll be safe here? You've never had secrets from me before." Quentin laughs and says "We both know that's not true." Lucy says she meant about Jamison. Quentin answers "I can't tell you everything, but I can tell you that I'm keeping a close watch on Mr. Gregory Trask." Lucy wonders about this as we cut back to Charity and Carl. Charity is upset, and tells Carl "I don't know how you can say that about my brother! He's always been ambitious, yes, but he'd never.... " Carl says he was shocked to hear what he heard, but adds "between you and me, my sister has a lot of anger and hate inside of her. When you combine that with ambition, you get trouble." Carl apologizes for telling her and "hurting" her, but Charity tells him she knows he means well. "How can you say a thing like that to Valery, though? She just got married!" Carl thinks this over, and says "There's got to be someone I can tell."

Lucy is returning to her room when Benjamin comes out of it. She asks him what he was doing in there, and he says "Only looking for you. I heard you brought some books for my nephew. I was...interested in seeing what they were." Lucy says that she gave the books to Jamison and they wouldn't be in her room anyway. "I thought as much," Benjamin says strangely. "But I wanted to see you to be sure." He walks away, and Lucy wonders why he's acting funny. She shrugs it off and goes into her room. Benjamin turns the corner and enters Kitty's room, where Kitty is waiting. "Did you get it?" Kitty asks. Benjamin smiles and says "Yes. It was all too easy, even though she caught me coming out of her room. I assume this will suffice for our purposes." He hands her a handkerchief with the initials "LLD" embroidered on it. Kitty smiles as she takes it and says "Yes, this should be fine. Just enough to plant the idea in doddering old Stokes' mind that he's hot on the trail of the evil Succubus! You left what I gave you in her room, did you not?" Benjamin answers "Yes. Right where Stokes should find it easily." She laughs and Benjamin kisses her hand. "You've shown me a whole new way of living," he says. She stands and kisses him, and then says "You're such a useful man, Benjamin. Just what I have always needed. And soon, if everything goes according to our plans, this entire estate will be ours, together." Benjamin smiles and repeats "Ours together," and then kisses her again.

Quentin comes downstairs and finds Carl, who tells Quentin he's waiting for Valery. Quentin says he hasn't seen her, and adds "Perhaps she's with that wonderful husband of hers." Carl says he knows she isn't, and Quentin raises an eyebrow and asks Carl how he knows that. Carl takes Quentin into the drawing room and says "I heard something tonight I don't think I should have." Quentin asks what it was, and Carl says "I know you don't hate Valery the way your brothers do, maybe I can tell you." Quentin says "Well, I can't speak for Benjamin but I'm sure Edward qualifies as a Valery hater. He practically hates everyone." Carl asks "Enough to kill them?" Quentin turns to Carl, shocked, and asks "What did you hear? And from whom?" Meanwhile, Stokes is reading in his room when he hears a strange wailing sound. He looks around and asks who is there, but there is no answer. We cut to Benjamin smiling, as he watches Kitty in a trance. She is concentrating and creating the wailing sound as we half-dissolve to Stokes becoming hypnotized by it as we see Kitty in her trance. Stokes drops his book and leaves his room. He wanders down the hallway until he reaches a door. He opens it, and enters Lucy's room, where Lucy is sleeping. He walks to her jewelry box and opens it. He takes out a silver necklace with a large silver Ankh hanging from it. He studies it for a moment, and then the wailing suddenly stops. Stokes comes out of his trance with a start, and he winds up waking Lucy. Shocked, she says "What are you doing in here?" Stokes says he doesn't know, but then holds up the necklace and says "But a much more interesting question, Miss Drew, is what are you doing with this?" She wonders what he means.

Episode 1421

Aired: Monday December 6, 1971

In a replay of Friday's close, Alice goes into her room to get ready for bed when suddenly the lights go out and the door slams shut. She shouts "Who is it? What's going on? when she hears some cackling laughter. From out of the darkness, Catherine's ghost appears laughing. Alice screams "Get away! Get away!" and is terrified. She tries to open the door, but it is shut tight. Catherine laughs and says "Dear Alice...dear sweet Alice....dear sweet murderous Alice...." She laughs more as Alice struggles with the door but cannot get out. Catherine smiles and says "You showed me my death, Alice...and now I am going to show you your own....." Alice screams "No! No!' Suddenly, Alice sees herself appear out of the darkness as Catherine waves her arm and says "Behold...." Alice is wearing different clothes and is standing still. And then, from out of the darkness comes a large figure, dressed all in black and wearing a strange black mask with a leering face on it. The figure lifts a shiny scimitar and approaches that Alice as the terrified live Alice watches helplessly. The black figure slashes at the other Alice with the scimitar, severing her hands and slashing her throat as the live Alice screams and Catherine laughs. "Do you see now?" Catherine cackles. "Behold your own fate!" The other Alice turns towards us with blood dripping from her throat and holds up her handless arms and begins to cackle along with Catherine as the live Alice screams and struggles with the door.

After the titles, the black figure moves towards the real Alice as she screams and struggles with the door. She suddenly yanks it open and Carl is standing there, asking her why she's screaming. Alice cries "Don't you see it? Don't you see it?" Carl steps into the room and turns on the light. There is nothing there. He asks her what she's talking about, and she says "There was a man...dressed all in black! He had a sword and...." she cannot go on. Carl checks the window and finds it closed and locked. "You must be seeing things," he says. Alice protests. "I saw myself... it was like I saw my own ghost!" Carl asks her what she means, and she tells him "I saw myself murdered by the man in black! He cut my throat....cut my hands off..." Carl suddenly perks up and grabs Alice. "Your hands? He cut your hands off? What did he look like? What did he look like?" He shakes Alice, who gets scared. "I couldn't see him, he was wearing a mask. A black mask!" Carl starts pacing and says "You saw some kind of vision of the killer Gladstone and I are looking for. I wonder why....I wonder why you would see it." Alice says she wishes she never saw it and tells Carl to leave her. She says she's all right. Carl tells her not to lock her door and she agrees. He steps into the hallway and thinks. "Alice's vision...I wonder if it's a premonition of sorts. My Jenny had nightmares before she died that she couldn't remember....poor Jenny. Could this be a sign that the killer is after Alice? Maybe I should keep a close eye on her..." He starts to nod. "A very close eye....." We dissolve to the next morning, as Alice comes downstairs and Carl, waiting for her, asks her how she slept. She says she's feeling much better, and that the vision didn't return. There is a knock at the door, and Carl answers it, letting Gladstone in. Gladstone tells Alice he wants to talk to her about her "vision" after Carl called him and told him about it. Alice is apprehensive.

Gladstone asks Alice for more details on what she saw, and Alice says she's already told Carl everything and "would rather not talk about it. I want to forget I ever saw it.' Gladstone pleads with her that if what she saw was "some sort of warning or premonition" that it might be the best lead he has so far in finding this killer. He asks if he can have some of his men follow her "at a distance, of course, so as not to tip the killer off." Alice says she doesn't want "police following her around," and we hear her think "What if they see me with Gregory? They might learn the truth... I cannot allow that! I cannot!" Gladstone and Carl beg her to reconsider since her "life may be in danger" but she refuses, and says what she saw was "only an illusion. How can you assume it's some sort of prediction? It was just a nightmare of sorts, it means nothing, do you hear? Nothing!" She leaves the house, slamming the door. Gladstone wonders why she had such a strange reaction, and Carl says it must be that she's still upset. "I'll try to convince her otherwise," he says. Gladstone says he can't put police around her without her consent "since it's not like she's been accused of anything." Carl thinks a moment and tells Gladstone that the police may not be able to follow her, but that "there's no way she can stop me from doing it if it means catching that killer."

Quentin finds Rachel in the drawing room and tells her he needs to talk to her alone. He closes the doors and she asks him what is so important. He asks her if she intends on taking Jamison away. She tells him that it's "none of his concern" what she intends, and then asks him if Edward told him to try to "plead" with her. Quentin tells her that she misunderstands him, and that he wants her to take Jamison away, "at least for a while." Rachel asks him why he feels that way, and he tells her that "it would be good for him to get away from here while all this fighting is going on." Rachel says she thought the fight was "settled" now that Valery has been identified as the heir. Quentin tells her it's more complicated than that. Rachel says "You're hiding something, Quentin. I can always tell. You forget how well I know you. I always thought it was your love for Jamison that drew you to me in the first place. Why are you so concerned for him now?" Quentin tells her that he simply wants what's best for the boy. Rachel replies that she'd like to know why Quentin thinks it's best for Jamison to leave Collinwood. He has no answer as we cut to Trask waiting at Widow's Hill, looking out over the crashing waves. He hears footsteps behind and gets a little apprehensive, but then sees it is Alice. He smiles and says "You got my message, I see." Alice smiles back.

Trask bares a Grinch-like smile at Alice and tells her what a "wonderfully appropriate meeting place Widow's Hill is for what we must discuss." Alice is still a little shaken up and Trask asks her what's wrong. She says she "had a strange vision" but that "it doesn't mean anything." Trask tells Alice that the "next step in our plan" is to see to it that Valery signs over control of the financial matters on the estate "to me. Who better to handle such complicated things, after all? Only what she will be signing will be much more than that...." Alice turns away from Trask and says she's not so sure about everything now. Trask turns her back around and says "You cannot back out now, Alice! We've both come too far! We must complete our plan!" Alice looks out over the crashing waves and wonders aloud what has made her "so cruel." Trask asks her if "self interest and cruelty are the same thing. Catherine wanted to leave you nothing, Alice. She cared nothing for your entire side of the family. She gave no reason for this hatred, other than a few occasional incomprehensible rants about what they had done to her long ago, or tried to do. Who was your ancestor Morgan Collins, anyway?" Alice shrugs and says that all she knows was that Morgan Collins had gotten delirious after a fever and fell out of a high window, "at least that's what the family history says." Trask tells her that "whatever Catherine's reason, she was wrong in treating you so badly. Don't shed any tears for her or for her family, living in that great house, denying you what is rightfully yours." Alice looks at him and says "Or yours?" He takes her hand and says "Ours, my dear, ours." She puts a smile together and says she'll keep helping him go through with "the plan." As they smile at each other, we pan over towards the woods and see that Carl, who has been following Alice, has heard everything.

Episode 1420

Aired: Friday December 3, 1971

After a replay of Thursday's close and the titles, Quentin is reading the will and looks shocked. Harrison asks him what it says and Quentin hands him the paper saying "I can't believe it.... I don't know whether to be shocked, or happy, or furious. I don't know how to react!" Harrison asks what it says, and Quentin says "She skipped over us all. She saw us all fighting over it and skipped over us all. We all get to live here, just like in that other will. But control of the estate is placed in trust for my nephew Jamison. All of it." Harrison reads it and says "We'll need to gather everyone, and especially Mr. Trask. Do you know any other lawyers in the village? He's sure to fight this." Quentin says "She knew he didn't care about the money and wouldn't do anything to hurt any of us. He was the only one she really trusted." But then Quentin stops Harrison and says "Wait... I thought of something much more frightening. There's a way to fight this that's much worse than lawyers arguing." Harrison answers that Trask may have married for money, but doesn't think he would "kill for it." Quentin says he won't allow anything to happen to Jamison since "he's almost like my own son. Sometimes I think he's the only one in this family I really love, I guess that's why I understand what she did." Harrison says "Well, we can keep this quiet for now, but we should make arrangements with another lawyer so that her wishes can be seen to." Quentin agrees, adding "And with Rachel back here, another complication has been added." We cut to Jamison going into the old house and finding Nora. She asks him if his grandmother's funeral was sad, and he says yes. "But what's worse is how everyone is fighting," he adds. Nora asks what they're fighting about, and Jamison says "What else? The money. When my cousin Valery inherited it all, my father was furious. I think he wanted it all to be able to throw my mother out for good this time." Nora asks Jamison if he's happy his mother came back, and he says yes, and then adds "I'd never do this if I had any money. I wouldn't want to make people fight like this." Nora laughs and tells Jamison that he doesn't have any money. Jamison says "Still, I wouldn't want to treat people like that." Nora asks "What about your Uncle Quentin? Was he fighting too?" Jamison says "Not really, he didn't seem to care that much. He's got the right attitude. I guess if I ever have a son like him, I'll leave him all the money I don't have right now." Nora laughs.

Carl sits at the Blue Whale with some papers and a drink when Charity Trask enters. She invites herself to sit down and tells Carl she was looking for her brother. "Oh, the new master of Collinwood?" he laughs. Charity says "that will take some getting used to." Carl says that he's never seen Edward so angry, "and that's saying a lot." Charity asks Carl if he was worried about the outcome of the will, and Carl shakes his head no, adding "There are things a lot more important than money in this world." Charity asks him what the papers are, and he says they're the evidence he and Gladstone have collected on "the maniac who killed my Jenny. That's what I meant just now about things more important than money. I lost the most important thing I had." Charity says she's sorry, but reminds Carl "You still have Nora. Isn't she the most important thing to you now?" Carl smiles and says yes, and admits "I guess I should spend more time with her. Jenny was always better with her than I am though... it's not easy." Charity thinks a moment and says "Look, forget about finding my brother. Why don't you and I go back and get Nora and take her into town? She must get so lonely stuck in the old house like that." Carl looks over his papers and says "But I really should study this evidence more..." Charity looks at him and says "Carl, you should let Gladstone solve the crimes around here. Stop looking at death all the time and live your life. Come on." Her charms win him over and he puts the papers back into a small bag he has before agreeing to go with her.

At the old house, Carl returns from town with Charity, Jamison and Nora. Nora says she had a wonderful time and thanks Charity for taking them. Jamison thanks her too, and says it's what he needed after "all the sad stuff" that's been happening lately. Carl tells Nora to get ready for bed, and "that means you'd better be heading back too, Jamison." Jamison tells Nora he'll come back tomorrow, and she runs upstairs. Jamison leaves, and Carl thanks Charity for "getting him out of my own little corner of despair." She says she'll do that "anytime" and he stops her before she leaves and says "I hope that's a promise." She smiles. Back at Collinwood, Jamison arrives and Quentin is coming down the stairs. He asks Jamison where he's been all day, and Jamison tells Quentin how he went to town with Charity, Nora, and Carl. "Carl?" Quentin asks. Jamison says yes, and that "Cousin Carl is really very nice. When he's not sad like he usually is, he's very nice." Quentin thinks this over a moment as Jamison says "I'd better get upstairs before my father yells at me." Quentin smiles and says "Look Jamison, I have a feeling that your father won't be yelling too much at you anymore." Jamison asks him why, and Quentin remembers to keep the secret, and only says "Well, er...because now that your mother is here, she won't have any part of it." Jamison runs upstairs as Quentin watches him and thinks "Jamison.... how do I protect you from your own family?" Back at the old house, Alice enters and finds Carl listening to music and acting generally giddily. She asks him if he's drunk again, and he shouts "No, dear Alice! I am as sober as a churchmouse!" Alice says she doesn't believe him and is going to bed, and he says that he's a "new man." Alice goes into her room to get ready for bed when suddenly the lights go out and the door slams shut. She shouts "Who is it? What's going on? when she hears some cackling laughter. From out of the darkness, Catherine's ghost appears laughing. Alice screams "Get away! Get away!" and is terrified. She tries to open the door, but it is shut tight. Catherine laughs and says "Dear Alice...dear sweet Alice....dear sweet murderous Alice...." She laughs more as Alice struggles with the door but cannot get out. Catherine smiles and says "You showed me my death, Alice...and now I am going to show you your own....." Alice screams "No! No!' Suddenly, Alice sees herself appear out of the darkness as Catherine waves her arm and says "Behold...." Alice is wearing different clothes and is standing still. And then, from out of the darkness comes a large figure, dressed all in black and wearing a strange black mask with a leering face on it. The figure lifts a shiny scimitar and approaches that Alice as the terrified live Alice watches helplessly. The black figure slashes at the other Alice with the scimitar, severing her hands and slashing her throat as the live Alice screams and Catherine laughs. "Do you see now?" Catherine cackles. "Behold your own fate!" The other Alice turns towards us with blood dripping from her throat and holds up her handless arms and begins to cackle along with Catherine as the live Alice screams and struggles with the door.