Episode 1466

Aired: Monday February 6, 1972

James Storm's voiceover: "A dark and dangerous night rolls over the great estate of Collinwood, as many ghosts and secrets of the past rise to the surface. Chris Jennings has managed to escape from his mysterious captor, but has fallen under the curse of the werewolf in the light of the full moon. Quentin Collins' secret of immortality is suspected by Dr. Lori Slater, who has other interests in Quentin as well. And for Barnabas Collins, a long buried obsession has returned to haunt him...."

In a replay of Friday's close, Barnabas turns away from Maggie, who is dressed in Josette's wedding gown. He gasps "No! It cannot be! Not now! Not ever! You are not Josette!" She puts her hand on his shoulder and says "Remember the first time you saw me? How shy you were...afraid to talk to me. And then you somehow convinced my father to tutor me in English while your father talked business with him..." Barnabas is dumbfounded. "How did you know that?" She smiles at him. "Because I am Josette. If you thought I was only Maggie Evans under delusions, you were wrong. I am the living spirit of Josette...I have come back to you because I love you, Barnabas. You have always been the only true love for me. Nothing can separate us. Not time, not even death." Barnabas resists, though weakly, as she leans in to kiss him. "We can have it all back, Barnabas," she says. "Everything can be as it was meant to be....you will never lose me again..." He gives in with a hearty "Oh, Josette..." before giving her a passionate kiss. Meanwhile, Angelique has entered the house and innocently begins to climb the stairs....

After the titles, Barnabas and Maggie are kissing when he suddenly pulls away. "No...No!" he says. "It's too late for us now... it's too late!" She moves towards him and says "It's not too late as long as you go with me..." He hears footsteps in the hallway and gets scared. "Angelique! She's coming! He runs to the door and leaves the room, closing the door behind him. Angelique sees him and runs over to him. "Barnabas! There you are!" she says. He looks a little guilty and says "Were you looking for me?" She tells him about the strange howling sounds she heard outside. "Howling? Were they dogs?" he asks. She says it didn't sound like a dog. Barnabas wonders a moment what is was when Angelique says "What's that door doing open? I thought we had closed that room." Barnabas looks behind him and sees the door the Josette's room open a crack. Angelique goes to close it, but he gets in front of her and tells her he'll do it. She looks at him a moment and asks what's wrong, and he evasively says "Nothing." She looks at him skeptically and pushes the door to the room open. Barnabas is terrified, but then sees Angelique enter an empty room. Maggie is gone. Barnabas looks around in amazement, and Angelique says "You were in here, weren't you?" Barnabas answers "That's not important." Angelique tells him that the room must remain locked so that "those bad memories will not return. Unless...." Barnabas asks "Unless what?" Angelique says "Unless the room is redone. Completely. Redone to my tastes and preferences....perhaps that will be the answer." Barnabas says he isn't sure about that when suddenly they hear the howling again. Angelique says "There! There's that sound! That horrible sound!" After hearing it, Barnabas says "More horrible than you imagine. I've heard that sound before." Angelique wonders what he means. He quickly leaves the room and runs downstairs, Angelique following. "You stay here," he commands. "I know who that is out there." Angelique tries to stop him, saying "Are you mad? Going after some wild animal?" Barnabas picks up his cane and studies the silver wolf's head. "Not a wild animal, but a man. A man suffering from a horrible curse....the silver in this cane will protect me. I must find him!" He runs out of the house as Angelique looks back upstairs and thinks.

Barnabas is listening to the howls while searching in the woods. In another part of the woods, Chris the wolf is running and growling. In pursuit with a tranquilizer gun is Brian Miller, who is being careful as he follows in the woods. Barnabas hears rustling in the brush ahead of him and readies his cane - and then sees it's Julia, who says she's heading back to Collinwood. "Did you hear the howling?" he says. There are more howls, and Julia says "You don't think that's....." Barnabas nods. "Chris Jennings. It must be! We haven't heard those horrible sounds in years, since Chris went away. He must be back, Julia! We must find him!" Julia reminds Barnabas that while his cane will protect him, she has no weapons and he is also mortal. He tells her that he'll see her back to Collinwood and safety. Meanwhile, Miller follows a trail with the gun. We hear him thinking "The sounds were from this direction...I must stop him before anyone sees him. The last thing I need is attention..." Barnabas and Julia head through the woods when Julia says "You seem very nervous, Barnabas. Are you sure this is the best way to approach this?" Barnabas says he has "no fear of Chris in that form." Julia says "Then something else is bothering you." He denies it, but she answers "Oh Barnabas, I know you too well. There's something else on your mind that worries you, I can tell." He sighs, then says "Perhaps you're right, perhaps I can tell you that....." but suddenly there's some growling and on top of a large rock behind Julia, Chris the wolf sits. Julia screams (as only Julia can!) as Chris pounces towards her. Barnabas yells "Julia!!!!"

Chris has Julia cornered when Barnabas steps in front of her wielding the cane. He bashes Chris with it, who howls in agony while backing away. Behind them in the brush is Miller, with the tranquilizer gun. He watches Barnabas fight with Chris. We hear him think "Barnabas Collins...and that doctor from Collinwood....how does he know what to do? He has no fear at all....the silver in that walking stick of his...how does he know what he's dealing with?" Barnabas swings the cane at Chris more and more, who cowers and starts to run away. Julia catches a glimpse of Miller before he sees her and vanishes into the woods. Chris runs off. Barnabas asks Julia if she's all right, and she says yes. She takes his hand and says "I don't know what I'd....ever do without you...." He smiles but lets her hand go. "I should get you back to Collinwood. By morning, we'll have to find Jennings, no matter where he's gone to." Julia tells Barnabas she thought she saw someone else in the woods. He asks where, and after Julia points to the spot, he sees nothing. "Are you sure?" he asks her. "If someone else was out here....that means they might know something about Chris Jennings." We hear more howling, and on the howling cut to Quentin and Lori, in her lab. They hear the howling as well, as Quentin looks at the full moon through the window. She asks Quentin why he looks so concerned, and he says "It's nothing. I just wonder whose dog that might be." Lori says "That doesn't sound like any dog I've ever heard." Quentin sees a candlestick on top of a shelf. He picks it up and looks it over. "Silver...." he says to himself. Lori quips "Are you suddenly an admirer of antiques? I suppose that might make sense..." Quentin says "I don't know what I can do to convince you I'm not immortal." Lori answers "Show me that Tate portrait. Perhaps if I examine it scientifically, it will unlock the key to what he wrote in his journals." Quentin pockets the candlestick holder, and says "I have to go" as more howling goes on. Lori stops him and says "At least think about what I said." Quentin says he will, and she adds "And think about this too" before kissing him again. "I've always liked older men," she quips. He leaves, and she notices the candlestick is missing. After another howl, she wonders aloud "Why did he take that...."

Quentin walks through the woods holding the silver candlestick. "I know that howling all too well....it must be Chris Jennings, returned to Collinsport. But why? Why would he come back here?" we hear him think. He hears rustling in the brush ahead and wields the candlestick, but then sees it's Barnabas, wielding the cane. Quentin laughs. "Well, I suppose I don't have to ask what you're doing out here." Barnabas says "You heard it too...those horrible sounds!" Quentin says "Yes. Do you think it's Jennings?" Barnabas answers "Who else could it be?" Quentin answers "We might not want to know that." Barnabas tells Quentin how he fought the wolf away from Julia before getting her back to Collinwood. Quentin reminds Barnabas they might not be able to find Chris before morning, "and even then, what can we do for him?" Barnabas says "I don't know. But there has to be something." In another part of the woods, Chris is rubbing his sore spots when suddenly Miller appears. Chris growls at Miller as Miller points the gun. "Hold still...." Miller commands as Chris growls at gets ready to pounce. Miller is about to fire when he's distracted by the sound of Barnabas & Quentin's voices. He looks away for a moment as Chris swats the gun to the side. Miller reacts, hitting Chris with the gun. Chris howls and retreats. Barnabas and Quentin hear the howling. "Over there!" Barnabas says. Quentin looks scared and says "He's heading towards Lori's lab! Come on!" He leads Barnabas in that direction as we cut back to Lori opening her door and looking outside. "Quentin went after that animal with the candlestick. Why the candlestick...." Meanwhile, Miller goes after Chris with the gun, but hides behind a tree as Barnabas and Quentin pass him. "Quentin Collins too?" Miller thinks. "This is suddenly getting very very interesting...." Quentin sees Lori standing outside her door, and yells "Lori! Get back inside! It's not safe out here!" Lori looks confused, but suddenly Chris appears before her, growling and ready to strike. She backs away terrified as we hear Quentin yell "Lori! NO!"