Episode 1474

Aired: Thursday February 16, 1972

David Selby's voiceover: "The great house at Collinwood has a long history of the eerie and macabre. Dark and forbidding secrets are contained within its walls. On this night, a most terrifying secret of one member of the family will affect the course of events at the great estate, and will only in turn lead to more terror...."

Brian and David return to Collinwood and find Carolyn. Brian tells Carolyn that David will "work out just fine" in his research, and asks her if she wants to "go grab a quick bite." Carolyn says she's not that hungry "since a mystery is bothering her." Brian asks "Anything I can help with?" Carolyn thinks a moment, and then says "That depends. How much do you know about time?" Brian is interested.

After the titles, Carolyn and Brian are in the west wing. She opens the door that Vicky had shown her, and they look inside the room. Fearless, Brian enters and looks over the dusty junk inside. "She said the room was totally different?" he asks. "What a strange, strange thing." He notices the corner of a portrait on the wall is new and doesn't match the rest of the old dusty picture. "Fascinating..." he says. Carolyn pleads with him to "get of the room before something happens!" He hesitates a moment and then leaves. "I wonder.... what it would be like to find oneself in a different band of time. What if I met whoever I was in that universe?" Carolyn says she thinks the existence of it "has to do with Vicky, not you. I don't think it's a coincidence that she was the one who saw the glow, and then a portrait of herself." Brian agrees, and starts to wander the hall. "How many rooms are in this old abandoned part of the house?" he asks. Carolyn says "I've lost count. Quentin is the only one of us who lives up here, he restored his grandfather's old room, I think." Brian smiles. "Really?" He thinks a moment. "As long as you have your mother's key ring, I'd like to see some other rooms. I'm wondering if the same phenomena Miss Winters witnessed manifests itself in other places." Carolyn says okay, and they start down the hall. At one door, Brian and Carolyn are searching for which key when Quentin comes out of the door, and is shocked to see anyone there. "Quentin!" Carolyn says. "What are you doing in there?"

Quentin locks the door behind him and says "I was checking on some things. I use that part of the attic for....storage." Brian asks "Did you notice anything odd up there?" Quentin gets defensive. "No, there's nothing up there. What are you two doing anyway?" Carolyn says that they are investigating a strange phenomena Vicky saw in another West wing room. Quentin insists the West Wing is abandoned and "there's nothing of interest here. Nothing at all." Carolyn tells Quentin what Vicky saw in the other room, and Quentin stops to think a moment. "Like the east wing..." we hear him think. "What's your interest in this, Miller?" Brian smiles and says "I'm interested in any sort of strange scientific phenomena." Quentin tells him "Curiosity can be a dangerous habit, though, can't it?" Brian snickers. Carolyn tells Brian they should go to lunch. Quentin tells them "Good idea." After they leave, he goes to the room Vicky had looked into and doesn't see anything, but then notices the strange corner on the portrait. "What is that..." we hear him think. "Probably nothing...." He turns, and then sees a strange glow coming from under a different room's closed door. "That light...it wasn't there before...." he thinks. He goes to the door and tries the knob, but it doesn't open. The light suddenly vanishes. Quentin thinks "What is going on here?"

Downstairs, Angelique enters the house and goes upstairs. In the hallway, she checks to make sure no one has seen her, and then enters a room. She gets inside, and goes to the dresser. "What I need must be here...." she thinks. She picks up a hairbrush and takes some hairs from it. "Ah..." she says. "Something personal and precious....part of you, Maggie. Part of your body." She takes a small clay doll out of her handbag and puts the hair on it. "All I'll need to fight you...." she says, but stops when she hears voices and footsteps. She steps behind the door as Carolyn and Brian walk by. After they've passed, Angelique follows behind them carefully. Downstairs, Brian and Carolyn enter the drawing room and Carolyn puts the key ring back in the desk. Angelique sneaks downstairs and goes out the front door and then pretends to come in again as Carolyn and Brian see her. She says hello and asks if Maggie is around. Carolyn says she hasn't seen her. Brian asks "Who is this lovely lady?" as he sees Angelique. She introduces herself as Mrs. Barnabas Collins, and he kisses her hand saying "Then I can certainly appreciate the taste of Mr. Barnabas Collins." Carolyn cattily says "I thought I was your lunch date." Brian looks at her and says "Forgive my poor manners." Carolyn looks at him skeptically and says "Somehow I doubt you think of that as poor manners," before turning to Angelique and saying "He charms every girl he meets, I think." Angelique thinks about this as Brian says good-bye and leads Carolyn out. Suddenly, Angelique starts sneezing, and Brian asks her if she's all right. Angelique says "it must be some allergy. Do you have a handkerchief, though?" Brian reaches into his pocket and says "Here, please borrow mine." Angelique takes it and thanks him, and then Carolyn leads him out through the door. Angelique smiles as she holds the handkerchief. "He charms all the ladies, I'm sure, Carolyn. But now I know a lady that will charm him as well...."

Quentin is up in the attic looking at his portrait covered with a cloth. He looks out a dusty attic window at the full moon and says aloud "Chris....where might you be out there? I only hope you're safe..." He hears a door close and gets concerned. He moves quickly down the stairs and comes out in the west wing to find Lori. "I looked for you in your room and then I heard a noise this way," she says. He closes the door behind him and tells her "This part of the house hasn't been used in years. I was...just checking on some things in the attic for Carolyn." Lori asks him what things would those be, and he snaps "You always seem to have questions for me, doctor, don't you?" She looks at him coyly and says "Doctor? We're being so formal. Has my sister's return affected you?" He turns away from her and says "Perhaps it has. Perhaps I should have nothing to do with either of you." Lori says "You know you don't really feel that way." She reaches out and starts to caress him. "I know some of your secrets, Quentin...I want to know the rest." He turns and gives her a passionate kiss before pushing her away. "No, no! There are some things you shouldn't know! Ever!" She has gotten by him and has opened the door to the attic. "Such as what is up here?" He yells for her to stop, but before he can reach her, she has run up the attic stairs. In the attic, she looks around, and then sees the portrait on the easel as Quentin arrives. "Get away from that! Get away from this room!" he shouts. She looks over the cloth covering the painting. "This is it, isn't it? The portrait by Tate that I read about...." He grabs her and yanks her away from it. "Don't you understand? There are things about me you must never know!" He tries to push her away, but they wind up kissing again. "Show me that portrait, Quentin! I must know what Tate did to you if I am to help people with the science behind it!" Quentin laughs. "Science? You're crazy! Science had nothing to do with it, it was sorcery! It was a curse! A curse!" Lori replies "I don't believe in curses!" Quentin sneers "You don't, do you? Well then doctor, take a look at what you just kissed!" He pulls away the cloth, and Lori screams when she sees the painting - it's of a half-decayed and rotting white haired werewolf with one eyeball missing....