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.