Episode 1444

Aired: Thursday January 6, 1972

Louis Edmonds' voiceover: "The terror to be found in the strange and dangerous world of parallel time in the year 1897 continues to unfold at the great estate of Collinwood. Count Petofi has found his way into this world, and has exacted property from this timeband's Quentin Collins in return for revealing a horrifying secret.... a revelation that will lead to nothing else but certain death....."

After a replay of Wednesday's close, Petofi tells Quentin not to look away from the vision, but to "look long and carefully at it" instead. Quentin yells "You mean to tell me that Kitty is really that....that thing in the picture?" Petofi restores the normal image on the portrait. "She most assuredly is, my boy, I realized it as soon as I met her. All of your lives are in danger....that is, unless you learn to trust....me..." he says with a smile...

After the titles, Quentin tells Petofi he's "not sure" if he can trust him or not. Petofi laughs and calls him wiser than he looks, "but in fighting a creature of the supernatural, one must have an ally in the black arts to make up for their own mortality." Quentin says "My uncle may have discovered Kitty's secret before he died. He may have been killed because he also discovered how to destroy her!" Petofi tells him "A lot of possibilities....any one of which could not be true." Quentin asks Petofi if he wants money. Petofi says he has no need of wealth, but what he wants is knowledge. "Mr. Harrison trusts you, Quentin. He will tell you what he knows of the strange phenomena in that mysterious room what he doesn't want to tell me. But I must know." Quentin tells Petofi that he won't "spy" against Harrison. "He's only tried to help me since he arrived here from New York, and if that room was what interested him in his Collinsport relatives, than so be it! You have your payment already. I'll find out how to stop her, whatever she is." Happy with his fib, Quentin leaves Petofi. Petofi thinks out loud "It seems you are quite different from your counterpart, Quentin Collins...much more a man of honor.... that is most troubling...." Meanwhile, Carl and Gladstone enter the Collinsport jail (or gaol, as the case may be). Gladstone tells Carl the keys to the holding cell are in the top drawer of his desk. Carl asks Gladstone if he really thinks this is the best thing to do, and Gladstone insists he must be locked up before sundown. "Even if the spirit possesses me, I'll be locked in the cell. Do it!" he insists. Carl locks him in, and Gladstone tells him to start looking through the book. "It's a book of all the victims...but the terrifying thing is...." Carl asks what, and then says "Did you add the new victims into this book when you were under his power?" Gladstone shakes his head and says "Worse...look towards the end.... the victims are already there!" Carl can't believe it, but Gladstone tells him that the book lists victims yet to come. Carl flips through the pages and then is horrified. He gasps "After the page with Alice Collins is.....Charity Trask!"

Quentin is searching through Roderick's books and notes frantically. We hear him think "It's got to be here somewhere...I know that old man was onto something...." He finds a small beaten up old book named "Ancient Demons & Monsters By Dr. Judah Zachary" and begins to thumb through it. He finds a page dogeared and begins to read to himself "Succubus: a demonic spirit that takes the form of a beautiful young woman, luring men to their deaths by prematurely aging them, taking their remaining years and using them to attain immortality....." His eyes open wide as he turns the page. "The Succubus in its natural form appears as an old hag near death, and can only be destroyed by..." He's suddenly interrupted by Edward, who demands "Put those books down." Quentin snaps "Edward, have you lost your mind?" Edward knocks the book from his hand and when Quentin fights back, he realizes "Edward! You're under her control!" Kitty enters the room and says "Yes, Quentin. Edward is mine, just as his son will be, and just as this estate will be." She nods to Edward who cracks Quentin over the head with a vase, knocking him out. "You are protected now," Edward says as Kitty looks over the unconscious Quentin. "I will not be safe as long as he threatens me....he seemed to know something was wrong as soon as I arrived. Take him and follow me." Edward hesitates a moment, and says "Why am I doing this....it's like I cannot help myself...." Kitty caresses his face and says "Do as I say Edward...you have no other choice." Edward seems to weaken and he starts to pick Quentin up. "Quentin....dear Quentin...." Kitty says with an evil smile. "You shall make a fine sacrifice!"

Carl enters the jail carrying a load of papers. He tells Gladstone that he found as much on as many of the names as he could. "Most of them were murder victims, all right," he says. "But the first name in the book....the first name has a very strange history...." Gladstone says "I thought about starting with that, but I blacked out." Carl takes out a very old journal of sorts and begins to read "Listen to this...it's from 1797, a hundred years ago. 'Collinsport authorities report the death of one Peter Bradford, convicted for the crime of witchcraft....he was proven to have taken part in human sacrifices where throats were slit and hands cut off from his victims....the Collinsport authorities were to have hanged Bradford by the neck until dead, but a vigilante mob broke into the prison and exacted a punishment on Bradford fitting to his crimes....witnesses say he laughed as his own throat was slashed and vowed revenge on Collinsport throughout all eternity..." Carl puts the journal aside and says "All the victims killed have been killed the same way....it's his spirit, it must be! That's how he gets his revenge!" Gladstone thinks a moment and says "The voice I heard in the cave.... it had power over me...." Carl tells Gladstone "Now that we know who it is, we can find a way to stop it before....." Gladstone says "Before anything happens to Charity?" Carl says yes, and opens the victim book to say that it doesn't always have to come true, when he suddenly notices something. "There's something different...." he says. "The page after Charity! It was blank before, and now it's not!" Gladstone says "What happened? Not another victim.....but wait...there were always five before the killing stopped...there have only been three so far...the spirit of Bradford will want two more before sleeping for five more years....who is it? Who does it say?" Carl looks at Gladstone slowly and then shows him. "It's you," he says. Gladstone is shocked.

Harrison is looking for Quentin in his room and finds Petofi there, waiting. "Where is Quentin?" Harrison asks, suspiciously. Petofi says that he's done nothing with him. Harrison snaps "You were expecting me to come in here, which means you know something I want to know, and you obviously want something in return." Petofi stands and remarks on what a "smart young man" Harrison is. Angrily, Harrison demands Petofi tell him what has happened to Quentin. "Has Trask returned?" Petofi says "Nothing of the kind. Quentin has managed to get himself into a deadly situation all by himself." Harrison wants to know what "deadly" refers to, and Petofi says he'll be glad to "offer my services in exchange for the secrets you have yet to reveal to me." Harrison says he has no secrets, and Petofi chuckles. "You may also have no Quentin then, which means you will have no friend at Collinwood besides me." Harrison considers that as we dissolve to the altar in the woods. The flame burns strong as Edward lays Quentin on top. Kitty wears the ankh on a headress as she stands over Quentin, who opens his eyes. "Why can't I move?" he says, struggling. Edward stands silently to the side as Kitty leans over Quentin and says "Because you are now under my power, Quentin. And soon, you will be part of my power forever...." Quentin yells "You're not Kitty Soames! I saw Kitty Soames die! You're a demon my Uncle knew about!" He continues to struggle as she holds a knife in the flame. "Your blood will refresh this altar of my power as will my own..." she says. Quentin yells at Edward, who doesn't respond, except to pick up a large club. Kitty says "It's useless Quentin....Edward is mine, forever....as your soul shall be...." She starts to approach with the knife as Quentin cannot move.