Episode 1464

Aired: Thursday February 3, 1972

After a replay of Wednesday's close and the titles, Carolyn and Quentin arrive home, and she's angry at Sebastian. She says he completely embarrassed her. Quentin tells Carolyn she "shouldn't be naive about Sebastian's feelings." Carolyn says she isn't sure what her own feelings are. Quentin shakes his head and says "The day I meet a woman who can actually make up her mind will be the day I know I've died and gone to heaven." He heads up stairs, and before Carolyn can go into the drawing room, Sebastian suddenly comes into the house. She tells him to leave, but he tells her she can't become friends with Brian Miller. Carolyn asks Sebastian what he's got against Brian, and "why were you thrown out of medical school, like he said?" Sebastian says "I'd rather not go into that." Carolyn gets angry and tells Sebastian one reason why she can't "be open" around him is because "you are too secretive about your own past. It's like you don't trust me." Sebastian says it's not like that, and "if there's anyone you shouldn't trust, it's Brian Miller." She accuses him of being jealous. He says he's only looking out for her, adding "I...had a vision that Brian is a danger to you." Skeptically, she says "You're not telling me the truth. You had no such vision." Frustrated, he shouts "Fine then! Don't listen to me! But when you wind up paying the price, don't come crying back my way!" He storms off. She starts to go after him, but when she gets to the door, she stops and simply slams it shut.

The next morning, a ragged Chris awakes inside his cage. He holds his head in pain and says "I've got to get out of here...find Sabrina and Amy...." He looks around, and sees a loose brick on the floor outside the cage. He strains to reach it, and manages to drag it inside his cage. He walks to the lock on the door and begins to bash the brick against it. He hears some footsteps, and hurries to hide the brick under the mattress inside the cage. Miller enters the room through the iron door and asks Chris how he's feeling. "How do you expect me to feel?" Chris says angrily. "Patience, patience," Miller answers. "My experiments with your blood will take time, Mr. Jennings. And you must admit, you're no longer a danger to others and yourself as long as I have you locked up in there." Chris sneers "What a good Samaritan you are." Miller tells Chris that "as long as you're in this condition, the best place for you is under lock and key. Both of us know that. And once I've unlocked the secret of your...affliction....I may even be able to end it. Unless of course, you don't want it ended..." Chris laughs. "Are you insane? Of course I'd want to end this. I've tried before. Nothing works!" Miller says "You'd be giving up one element often associated with lycanthropy, Mr. Jennings. The strength and vitality contained in your other form could give you everlasting life." Chris says "Everlasting life as a monster, Mr. Miller." Miller sneers "That's Doctor Miller. And perhaps not as a monster. In any case, that is the element I am after." Chris taunts Miller. "So, you think you can give yourself everlasting life? And why would you deserve to go on living?" Miller smiles a sinister smile. "It would only add to the powers I've gathered through the years of my studies, Mr. Jennings. I suggest you do your part to help me. During this day, read through these books I've brought you about legends of the wolf. I meant what I said about finding you a cure." Miller drops a few books through the bars and leaves. Chris looks at them a few moments before bashing the lock with the brick again.

Quentin sits in the drawing room drinking coffee when a tired David walks in, still in his robe. David yawns. Quentin says "We're certainly the picture of energy this morning. Your father has already left. He said he come back around lunchtime and get you." David says he must have overslept. "Lori had me working in the lab pretty late last night," he says. Quentin says "What is she working on during such odd hours?" David shrugs and says he's not quite sure "though it seems to be some sort of medicine. She's been testing things out on rats and mice to see if she can get them to live longer or something. I suppose I'll learn more as I go." Quentin thinks this over a moment until David asks him if anything is wrong. "No, no," Quentin says. "I was just thinking about how people always seem to be searching for a fountain of youth of sorts." David says "I don't get it. I've always wanted to be older. People would take me more seriously." Quentin laughs a little and says "I'm older and people still don't take me too seriously. I wouldn't worry about it too much." There's a knock at the door, and Quentin lets Lori in. She says hello, and then returns a few picture albums to David. "I forgot to give you these last night," she says. He looks them over and wonders aloud why she's so interested in "these old pictures." Quentin says he's wondering the same thing. Lori changes the subject by asking David why he's still in his robe. He tells her he overslept, and she apologizes for "working you too hard on your first day. After all, I think your father wanted to work with you today, didn't he?" David says yes, and that he really ought to get dressed and go into town and "into my father's office myself, instead of making him come back here at lunch. I won't get scolded that way." He runs back upstairs and Lori remarks on what a smart boy he is. "Has he been useful to you?" Quentin asks skeptically. Lori smiles and says "Oh yes, so far he's been very useful." Her smile makes Quentin nervous.

Lori is working in her lab. There is the usual assortment of test tubes and bubbling beakers, along with the animal cages left over from the Cyrus Longworth set (!). Lori readies a needle full of medicine and injects it into a rat before taking notes. The door opens and Quentin enters. He looks around in fascination. Lori asks him what brings him there, and he says he has a message from David that he can't work tonight, since his father is giving him a tour of the shipbuilding works. "I think David was bored by the paper pushing, so Roger thinks he might respond more to the construction." Lori shrugs and says "That boy has a natural aptitude for the sciences. I'm sure his father will see that someday." Quentin says that "Roger's vision can oftentimes be rather limited.": Lori says "But not yours?" Quentin says "No, I'm only blind to the realities around me." Lori says "Somehow I doubt that. You strike me as a man with many secrets." Quentin says "It seems you've been quite interested in some of the secrets of the Collins family. Looking through all those albums and such." Lori says she's only interested in her "new in-laws." Quentin asks her if she's found "anything interesting" in those albums. Lori says "I have. I found there was a Quentin Collins who lived here very long ago, in the 1890s." Quentin lies "That was my great-grandfather. He moved to Paris eventually." Lori says "Yes, I read that in the family history. You bear a striking resemblance to him." Quentin says "I've been told that." Lori smiles for a moment and says "Why don't you tell me more about him?" Quentin says he doesn't know that much. Lori says "I would think you'd know all there is to know about the Quentin Collins born in 1870. There's one thing I want to know about him, and I think only you can answer it." Quentin looks at her suspiciously as she adds "I want to know how a man more than a hundred years old can be standing in front of me now." Quentin doesn't know what to say.