Episode 1495

Aired: Friday March 16, 1972

Grayson Hall's voiceover: "A dark night has fallen over Collinwood, a night that will bring with it both the plots and counterplots of good versus evil, as well as a deepening mystery of other worlds intersecting with our own. For Brian Miller, an enemy of the Collins family who has unearthed its darkest secrets, this night will be one of a daring gamble. And Victoria Winters, who only recently discovered her counterpart's horrible fate in a parallel world, will find that time is running out on her plans to save a long lost love...."

Quentin is finishing a drink in the drawing room when we pull back to see that Julia has been talking to him. "Herbs...." Quentin says. "Interesting... I think I may have read something about some form of black magic that involved such a thing. I didn't believe it could exist." Julia says "Evidently it does...and Brian Miller has mastered the technique!" Quentin says "I don't know what we could do about it." Julia says "There must be a way for us to use this information." David steps into the room at that moment. "What information?" he says.

After the titles, Julia tells David that "it's nothing for you to worry about." David, annoyed, says "I heard you talking about Brian. I know he's up to something, but no one will tell me what!" Quentin tells David to be patient, and that "we're only trying to protect you by keeping you uninvolved." David says "I'm already involved. He had me working for him for some reason, and now if I'm helping you and Lori to help Chris, well it seems Brian was interested in that too." Julia says that "maybe you shouldn't be involved any more." David snaps "Maybe you should stop treating me like I'm some dumb kid! Quentin, you trusted me before. Trust me now! Tell me how I can help! I mean, if Brian thinks I'm just a dumb kid, maybe I can use that to my advantage!" Quentin smiles. "That might be true, but I don't want to risk anything happening to you. It's my secret that Brian wants. I'd rather he stay focused on me." Julia says "It's also Barnabas he's after, for some reason. But I have to get back to the lab. Lori and I will have much to do before you both leave tomorrow." David wonders "When my aunt Elizabeth gets back, I wonder if things will be different around here." Quentin says "I don't know." David says "I want you to tell me what you were saying about Brian." Quentin says "David, I don't want you getting involved with someone as dangerous as Miller!" David angrily storms out of the room.

At Lori's lab, Chris stands at the door of a barred cage, swinging the door and looking solemn. "Anything from the latest round of bloodwork?" he asks. Lori says no, but says that "you'll be safe inside here tonight." Chris says "It's never me I'm worried about... it's anyone that crosses my path." Lori tells Chris that "sooner or later, Julia and I will find some sort of answer. If not a cure, then some sort of treatment." Chris tells her that the only treatment other than locking him up securely would be "a silver bullet through my heart." Quentin enters, and tells Lori that Julia had "some interesting information about Brian Miller." Chris asks if it could help him in any way, and Quentin says "No... though if we can deal with Brian, that would take care of someone who knows your secret and wants to use it against you." Chris says "After what he did to me... the way he lied and kidnapped me.... whatever you can use against him, do it." Chris locks himself up since the moon will be rising soon, and Quentin and Lori leave the lab, locking the door to the entire room as well. Lori remarks "I never thought my father put me through medical school for this." Quentin says "I wonder what he'd say if he knew about all of this..." Lori says "No! He must never know about any of the kind of work I'm doing here! He'd never understand... he's a very logical man who shuns anything related to the unknown and bizarre!" Quentin says "He certainly married into the wrong family then." Lori smiles, but then says "I'm not sure how we can use that information against Brian yet." Quentin says "I'm not sure what Brian is planning. First he comes after me, then he goes after my cousin. I don't know what his game is." We cut to Brian standing outside Collinwood, looking up at the window. He takes a handful of herbs from his pocket and smiles.

Vicky enters Collinwood holding the necklace. She thinks "If Stokes is right, I might be able to use this to bring Burke back here...but would he want to even come here? He'd leave everything behind... as sad as that world was, perhaps he still belongs there....if only I knew what to do!" David comes downstairs and says hi, but is still sulking about his conversation with Quentin and Julia. Vicky asks him what's wrong, and David says he offered to help a friend out and they refused. Vicky says that maybe they didn't need his help or wanted to do the job themselves. David says "They just don't think I can handle it. I'm getting something to eat." He goes through the door to the kitchen as Vicky heads upstairs. Outside, Brian eats the handful of herbs and closes his eyes. In a moment, we see a large owl where Brian once was, that suddenly lifts off and flies to an upstairs window. Back inside, David is carrying a sandwich as he goes back up the stairs. In the hallway, he heads back towards his room when he hears a tapping sound coming from the west wing. He stops a moment, and thinks "A noise...I wonder if it could be one of those rooms again..." He goes into the west wing and the rooms are dark and empty. He's about to leave when he hears a crash. "What was that?" he says out loud as he moves towards it. The rooms are all dark and empty. After passing the door to the attic, David tries it and sees it's locked before moving on. David bumps into Vicky. "Did you hear a crash?" he asks her. Vicky says no, but that "strange things have been happening in this part of the house. Professor Stokes said we ought to stay out of the rooms here." David says "I wasn't in any of the rooms, I only heard some weird noises." Vicky tells David they should both go back to the main part of the house. As they move along, we cut to up in the attic room. The window has been broken. The owl is perched on a chair right across from Quentin's covered portrait. When we pan back, Brian stands there, smiling at the covered portrait.

In her room, Vicky still studies the necklace and wonders what she should do, when she looks out the window and sees a light go on in the same west wing room. "Burke..." she says. "The room has changed again!" She starts to go there, but then stops herself. "I'm not sure what I should do... I'm afraid to go but I'm compelled to go all at once..." Meanwhile, Brian has taken Quentin's portrait from its easel and is carefully carrying it down the stairs and through the hallway door, which he carefully and quietly closes behind him. Confident, he takes the portrait with a smile down the hallway when suddenly he hears footsteps. He ducks around a corner with the portrait just as Vicky appears. "Vicky Winters..." we hear him thinking. "She couldn't have seen me...what could she be doing here..." Vicky walks away from him and towards a door with light coming from it's crack. "That room... it was dark before... I thought this part of the house was empty..." Brian thinks as he watches Vicky. Vicky opens the door and gasps when she sees the room is suddenly dark and empty again. "Burke!" she calls out in the empty room. "You're so close to me, yet so far away...." Brian is outside listening, wondering what's going on. Vicky starts to cry as Brian shrugs and moves back towards the portrait he left in the hallway. "I must get this treasure out of here... I'll satisfy my curiosity about Vicky Winters later..." he thinks, but his attention is suddenly gotten when the door to the room Vicky was in slams shut and a light appears from the bottom of the door again. Brian grows curious and moves towards it. Inside, Vicky gasps when she looks around. The room is lit up and in use again, only this time the furniture is completely different from what it was with Burke. She sees a different portrait on the wall than her own - the portrait of a man. She takes a closer look, and gasps when she sees the metal nameplate that says "David Collins, 2002." As she looks up at the portrait of the adult David, she hears a familiar voice behind her - "Miss Winters! Oh no, you should not be here!" She turns to see Harrison, standing before her looking worried. "Harrison!" she says. "How...how did you...." Harrison says "It's difficult to explain quickly. But if you're here, you must have crossed over accidentally during my experiments." Vicky says "Experiments? What sort of experiments?" Harrison answers "Experiments in time. It all began back in your time, in 1972. Somehow, the fabric of time itself was torn, and that rip grew and multiplied, opening up enough rifts through different time bands that Collinwood itself will cease to exist in my time unless I find a way to stop the process in yours." Vicky says "All the different rooms in the west wing... each one opening to a different time and place..." Harrison says "Exactly. And all overlapping. Just the way our two worlds are overlapping now, when I tried simply to reach back into your time and close a rift focused on this room. I didn't think anyone would be in here." Vicky says "You're going to close up the world that exists in this room, in my time?" Harrison says "Yes, I must." Vicky says "No! You can't! At least not yet, not until I get back there, one more time!" Harrison wonders what she means, as we cut to outside the room, where Brian has been listening to everything they have said.

Episode 1494

Aired: Thursday March 15, 1972

After a replay of Friday's close and the titles, Barnabas holds a choking Brian by the throat and tells him "How dare you come here and interfere with my business and my life? For Quentin, for Maggie, and for me and mine, I'll extinguish the life out of you!" Barnabas throws Brian to the ground and lifts his cane, but Brian seems to put something into his mouth before Barnabas can bash him. Barnabas suddenly gasps as his cane is raised now over Brian, but above a snarling vicious dog. The dog barks and howls at Barnabas as he swings his cane now in defense. "Miller...I will destroy you no matter what form you take...." Barnabas yells, but as he swings, the dog leaps away and runs through the woods. Barnabas, a bit out of breath, watches helplessly. "How do you fight someone with powers like that...." Barnabas thinks. "Who can turn into any animal at will...even the bat that could destroy me..." Suddenly, Barnabas gets an inspiration. "So then why didn't he become that bat now? Why the dog instead? What could it mean? It must mean something. I must tell Julia.... this has to be significant!" Barnabas moves off.

At Stokes' house, Stokes examines the jeweled necklace Vicky found in the parallel time room. "Most interesting, Miss Winters," he says. "You were able to bring an object back into this time from that one." Vicky says she didn't intend to, but also brought back Burke's handkerchief. Stokes looks that over and says "Such a strange thing, to think that a man who has been dead five years in this world lives on in another." Vicky says "There must have been a reason I was there, Professor! I can't think that it was only a coincidence... not after what Burke told me what happened in that world." Stokes answers that most mysteries of time are often left "unsolved." Vicky says "Burke was so lonely in that world...so embittered by what had happened. I couldn't help but think I was sent there to save him, somehow." Stokes answers "With your counterpart in that world dead, it would be possible for you to exist there, perhaps, but what of this world? It's best not to disturb such things, if you ask me. If you were thinking of returning to that other time on a permanent basis, it could be quite dangerous." Vicky answers "That wasn't what I was thinking at all." She holds the handkerchief. "If I could bring this object back, could I also bring Burke back? Back to this world? Back to where everyone he knew still lives and there was none of the tragedy of that other time?" Stokes says "It could be possible, but it could also be just as dangerous. There might be a balance to different time bands, Miss Winters, where the loss of certain energies on one end must be matched on the other. If someone were to come through the doorway, those energies would have to be balanced somehow, I would assume." Vicky says "But you can't be sure." Stokes says "No, I can't. And I suppose one could make the argument that if this handkerchief could come through without smashing the balance between the doorways, then it would be possible to bring that Burke Devlin to this time somehow. But there's something you must ask yourself, Vicky." Vicky asks what, and Stokes answers ominously "Would he really want to come here, to a world where he's been dead for years?" Vicky has no answer.

At Lori's lab, Barnabas finds Julia working alone. She tells him that Lori and Quentin will leave tomorrow for Boston to meet Liz and Alan, to escort them back to Collinwood. "What a time for them to return," Barnabas says. "With the strange goings on in the west wing and Brian Miller threatening us all!" Julia asks Barnabas is Brian had threatened him again, and Barnabas answers "I nearly killed him tonight." Julia is shocked, and asks how and why, and Barnabas tells her how Brian has been using Maggie Evans against him and Angelique. Julia remarks "It sounds more to me as if he's trying to separate Angelique from you so that he can use her powers against you as well." Barnabas admits that might be possible, but that "Angelique is a different person now than she once was. She will not turn against me, especially not for him." Julia tells Barnabas that Angelique might instead "point her wrath at Maggie" in order to "destroy Josette once and for all." Barnabas tells Julia "Getting rid of Miller will free Maggie and solve the problem! And just now, something very interesting happened. When I attacked him, he transformed himself into an animal, a vicious dog." Julia says "Dear God! You weren't hurt, were you?" Barnabas says "No, I was able to drive him away with my cane. But I couldn't help wondering...why a dog? Why not the bat that he had transformed himself into before? He could have placed his curse upon me then, why didn't he?" Julia wonders. "It's an interesting question. It may have something to do with the way he transforms himself. Think logically... if he didn't turn into a bat when it would have been the smartest thing to do.... then perhaps the transformations are not totally under his control somehow. But that makes no sense!" Barnabas answers "Perhaps. Perhaps there's some other unknown factor to his transformations. Something we're missing that determines just what kind of animal he becomes and when." Julia says "There's one person who might know more about this we ought to ask." Barnabas replies "Stokes?" Julia shakes her head and answers "Angelique. If you're right, she should help a great deal." Barnabas says "I know I'm right about her just as I know...." He stops mid-sentence and Julia asks "What were you going to say?" He steps closer to Julia and says "Just as I know I can always trust you to be there for me." Julia smiles, though seems to wonder what brought this on.

Vicky has finished re-enacting her movements in the parallel time room for Stokes. "So... as the necklace fell into your lap, you found yourself back here, in this time," Stokes thinks. Vicky says yes, and that she has no idea what caused her traveling from one world to the other. Stokes holds the necklace and says "There is a theory....associated with objects such as these. If this necklace indeed belongs to that other world, its atomic vibrations would conform to the physical qualities of that universe. It belongs in that world, not in this one." Vicky says "But it's here!" Stokes answers "Precisely! And unlike this handkerchief, which is also here but shouldn't be, the necklace can do something the handkerchief cannot. It can surround you in this world, forming an unbroken circle of those physical qualities associated with the other universe." Vicky asks "The necklace? When I wore it and it wrapped around me, I was in the other world. When the clasp opened and the necklace fell to my lap, that circle was broken..." Stokes finishes her sentence "....and you returned here. Perhaps physically you were always here, and the circle only allowed cross-perception between the two universes. Who knows, for sure? Even though you were only able to see and interact with that other world, holding onto this handkerchief still brought it back. Truly phenomenal." Vicky says "Then if I went back there by wearing this necklace inside that room... I'd be back in that world as long as I wore the necklace?" Stokes says "Inside that room, yes. Outside that room where the two universes intersect, who knows?" Vicky keeps thinking. "And if I held Burke's hand and unclasped the necklace...." Stokes says "He might come to this time, or then again... he might not. It's a huge risk, Miss Winters, and you may be gambling with both your lives." Vicky looks at the necklace and wonders. Back at the old house, Barnabas and Julia have told Angelique about Brian, though Angelique's thoughts seem elsewhere. Barnabas asks her what it could mean, and Angelique says "I'm not sure... I don't know what affect getting rid of Brian would have on Maggie Evans either...." Barnabas repeats how "we must save that girl from his control." Angelique says "I don't understand your fierce devotion to that girl, especially at the possible cost to your own life. What happened in a parallel world visited by Vicky Winters has nothing to do with anything here!" Barnabas answers "It has everything to do with it!" Looking at Julia, he continues "But for a few key elements, that timeline is almost exactly like this one! I must not let Maggie Evans be harmed!" Angelique says she didn't find what she was looking for in Brian's lab before he found her. Julia asks what she was looking for, and Angelique answers "Special herbs used in the form of shamanism I thought we were dealing with." Julia asks "Herbs? What sort of herbs?" Angelique says "There are different rare herbs that, if utilized in proper combinations with rudimentary spells, can produce the kinds of transformations Brian Miller seems capable of. Other than that, the only way he could be doing with would be through traditional witchcraft, which might also be a possibility." Barnabas thinks a moment, and says "No, it can't be witchcraft. If it was, he would have become a bat and not a dog. And he seemed to put something in his mouth after I threw him to the ground!" Angelique says "Into his mouth? Then I was right...he's using herbs. Different ones to become different animals." Julia continues "And since you surprised him, he wasn't prepared with whatever he used to become the bat the first time!" Barnabas says "Yes.... that must be it! So... now we know he may have an Achilles' heel." Angelique says "Don't be overconfident. Brian Miller is still more powerful than any of us had imagined." Barnabas and Julia wonder what she means.

Episode 1493

Aired: Wednesday March 14, 1972

Kathryn Leigh Scott's voiceover: "A day of reckoning has come to Collinwood, a day of payback for all the shadows of the past. For Barnabas Collins, it means confronting the darkest areas of his soul and dealing with the awesome guilt he feels for the pain he has caused. But for his one-time mortal enemy who is now his wife, any feelings of guilt are often in competition with an unusually fierce drive towards vanquishing whatever stands in the way of her desires....and now, that conflict will be further tested by an enemy of enormous power...."

Barnabas tells Angelique that "Miller's control over Maggie must be ended!" Angelique argues that "You shouldn't risk your own life for that girl! Remember Brian's threat...to turn you back into a creature of the night!" Barnabas admits that such a result would be "unmeasurable agony" but "If that happens because of my efforts to free Maggie from his control, then so be it!" Angelique says "And what about me? What about Sarah? What do you tell her, Barnabas? You're so willing to play the white knight and sacrifice yourself....for your precious Josette! That's it, isn't it? Brian has awakened Josette's spirit inside Maggie and you feel you must save her!" Barnabas snaps "No! He is only using Josette to get to me.... it's Maggie I must save! Don't you understand? In what seems like an entirely different life, I nearly murdered her! I cannot let her die, I cannot!"

After the titles, Maggie walks through the woods and eventually meets up with Brian. He tells her that she has done well, and that she should return to Collinwood "as Maggie Evans, until I call upon you again." She nods and walks back to Collinwood, still in her trance. Brian snickers. "Oh yes, my dear Angelique.... you are playing right into my hands...." he says. Back at the old house, Angelique scolds Barnabas about "giving into his guilt" but Barnabas insists that "I cannot let anything happen to that girl because of all the thing I have been responsible for! I cannot go on destroying those I care about!" Angelique says "What about me? Wouldn't you destroy me if you left me for Josette, again?" Barnabas answers "I wouldn't leave you for a ghost. You must believe me. But... if it meant saving those I loved, I....would give up my own life. If that is to be the meaning of the strange destiny that has befallen me, then so be it." Angelique tells Barnabas "I don't understand you... how can you choose the life of a stranger over your own...." Barnabas says "I couldn't live with myself otherwise. Could you live with a man so selfish?" Angelique doesn't answer, and only runs upstairs nearly in tears. Barnabas looks out the window, and his eyes slowly fill with hate. "Miller...." he scowls. "I vow never to destroy the innocent again...and you are not innocent...." Upstairs, Angelique walks down the hallway towards the master bedroom. She opens it and enters, and is suddenly standing in fog. She looks around in confusion as the doors slam behind her. The room seems to go on forever as the fog pours in. "What is happening?" she says out loud. Suddenly, she looks up and sees a familiar robed figure standing before her.

The robed figure says "How soon we have forgotten our master." Angelique scowls. "Diablos....you have no more hold over me! I have forsaken you!" Diablos laughs. "As if that was ever your choice. Even when you last destroyed Judah and Nicholas, you cannot destroy me, nor can you escape me." Angelique turns away. "I have paid you everything I ever bargained with you for. There is no more. Return me from the underworld to my life!" Diablos answers "You have drawn the interest of one of my minions in the physical world, the one who calls himself Brian Miller." Angelique realizes that Diablos must be the stronger power Brian had mentioned to her. "You seek that which he seeks, the secret of immortality," Diablos continues. Angelique lies that she is "perfectly content to live her life as a mortal. Aging and dying along with my husband." Diablos says "You used to be a much better liar. I will provide the immortality you seek for both you and Barnabas given you provide me what will secure the everlasting loyalty of Brian Miller." Angelique says "You're worried about Miller's loyalty?" She laughs. "Why not deal with him then? I demand you return me to my life!" Diablos snaps "You can demand nothing. Brian Miller has been under the delusion that he can best me in his own bargaining. That's where I will require your help. And I can help you. You seek the destruction of the one known as Maggie Evans, who has become a vessel for the spirit of Josette DuPres. Sacrifice her to me, so that I can utilize her to control Brian Miller, and I shall grant you the powers to do with as you will, never to trouble you again." Angelique gasps "Sacrifice Maggie Evans?" Diablos answers "You can destroy Josette once and for all. Do you agree?" Angelique thinks about it.

Angelique says "A part of Barnabas still loves her.... that's what you want, isn't it?" Diablos responds "Her spirit still loves Barnabas... it is that love that makes her soul as valuable as it is to me. Brian Miller knows this and that is why he wants to control such a soul, not only to get what he wants from Barnabas Collins but also to bargain with me. This cannot stand." Angelique says "So, you've come to bargain with me. How desperate you must be." Diablos, angered, shouts "Do not dare to mock me! I can force a bargain if I so choose!" Angelique sneers. "Of course....but you know as well as I do that Barnabas would never forgive me if I destroyed Maggie Evans. He's tortured by his own guilt as far as that girl goes." Diablos laughs. "All the more reason to bargain with you. After what you've done to my previous plans, I shall enjoy seeing you squirm over the possibility of losing your only Earthly love!" Angelique glares at Diablos. "I shall never lose him! Not for any reason!" Diablos replies "Then deliver the soul of his beloved to me... and immortality upon the Earth shall be yours, and yours to share." He holds out a bony hand for her to shake. She at first backs away, but then thinks a moment before weakly taking his hand and shaking it. "Done..." she murmurs. After she takes her hand away, she spits in Diablos' direction, but suddenly finds herself back in the master bedroom. She looks at her hand and then out the window. "Fate is sealed...." she says with a little fear in her eye.

At Collinwood, Barnabas peeks into Maggie's room and sees her sleeping. He looks at her sadly, and we hear him thinking "You will have your own identity back, Maggie. You will have it back if it's the last thing I ever do upon this Earth..." He closes her door and leaves. As he comes down the stairs, he hears a dog howling outside. "A dog..." he says as it howls again. "A sound all too familiar to me...." He hurriedly leaves Collinwood and outside, hears the howling again. He shouts "Miller! I can hear you taunting me! You will not keep that girl! Do you hear me? You will not have her!" Barnabas takes a step into the woods, and suddenly faces Brian. "Mr. Collins," Brian says. "What on Earth are you shouting about?" Barnabas snarls "You will release Maggie Evans from your control. Your quarrel is with me, and does not need to involve that girl!" Brian snickers. "What makes you think I'm involving that girl? Didn't you involve her when you tried to make her into your Josette?" Barnabas says "I'm warning you, Miller. That girl is not to be harmed!" Brian says "Perhaps you've forgotten my warning to you, Barnabas! Think of the existence you'd face under my curse....throughout all eternity!" Barnabas answers "Destroying you would be my first task under such a curse...." He raises the heavy wolf's head on his cane. "Unless I decide to destroy you now, with my bare hands!" Brian is surprised when Barnabas grabs him by the throat. "Get ready to die, Miller!" Barnabas shouts as he begins choking Brian.

Episode 1492

Aired: Tuesday March 13, 1972

After a replay of Monday's close and the titles, Barnabas wonders why Vicky is afraid of him, and he says "Vicky, what's the matter?" She turns away from him and says nothing, but he says he can tell something is wrong. "It has nothing to do with Brian Miller, does it?" he asks. Confused, she says "No, what is it about Brian Miller that you..." Barnabas says "It's better you don't know, Vicky. I only came here to talk to Quentin about it. Suffice to say that it's better not to involve you at all with Miller. It could be dangerous, and I would never forgive myself if anything happened to you." Vicky begins to tear up a bit as Barnabas adds "I could never allow you to be hurt in any way." Vicky bursts out that she's sorry she reacted the way she did when Barnabas entered the room, and Barnabas asks again what's wrong. She tells him "A room up in the west wing... something is happening there, something I can't quite explain. Barnabas, I found myself in a parallel world for a short time." Barnabas gasps. "You went into another world, and came back?" Vicky nods, and says "It was strange.... one moment I was standing in an empty room, and the next thing I knew I was in a different world, one that I had only seen before." Barnabas says "It can be very dangerous. Professor Stokes once told me how other bands of times often contain our counterparts, and if you had met your own counterpart in that world, well...it could be quite dangerous." Vicky answers "There was no chance of that happening, Barnabas. I found out all about myself in that other world." Barnabas (as a change of pace) says "I don't understand." Vicky closes the drawing room doors. "Burke Devlin is alive in that other world, Barnabas, in another Collinwood. He owns it, owns it all." Barnabas remembers. "Devlin....alive in another band of time..." He turns to Vicky. "You.... had strong feelings for him in this world. Did you talk to him? Was his counterpart similar to the Burke you once knew?' Vicky says "Yes, he seemed almost exactly like the Burke I knew...only colored by his memories of what had happened to me in that world.... and of you." Barnabas says "Me? I had a counterpart in that other world? How would that be possible?" Vicky answers "Because in that world, you were very different despite a similar fate.... and you were responsible for the deaths of Carolyn, Roger and me." Barnabas is devastated to hear this.

Barnabas sits in deep thought as Vicky finishes relating the story she heard from Burke in parallel time. "...and then I found myself back here. That must be why you startled me when you came in...I couldn't help but think of what I had heard of in that other world...." Barnabas says "I don't blame you," sadly. "To think of my counterpart, so similar to me, doing all that evil.... before being destroyed by Burke....and a doctor Julian Hoffman....I don't blame you at all for despising that." Vicky pleads "But it wasn't you! It was a different Barnabas Collins, in a different time." Barnabas says "I wonder how different? I once had all that evil raging within my soul, from a curse beyond my control. Or was it beyond my control? Sometimes I shudder to think of the answer to that." Vicky answers "Barnabas, you can't blame yourself here in this time. None of what I told you happened here, none of it your responsibility. Like you said, our counterparts are counterparts because of the different choices they made. You didn't make the choices of that other evil Barnabas Collins. For whatever reason, those choices weren't made." Barnabas looks out the window. "For whatever reason? There are always reasons, Vicky. And from what you've told me about the differences between that world and this one, a very obvious reason for the path I chose in this life back towards humanity becomes all the more obvious." We dissolve to Julia working on Chris' blood along with Lori. Julia takes some and puts it on a microscope slide. Julia tells Lori that she's identifying strange elements in Chris' blood, but has no idea how they are being produced or how to get rid of them. Chris enters, and hears this, and begins to fret about the full moon coming up. Lori tells him that she'll have to keep him confined as they continue their research. Chris is convinced the only "cure for the curse is my death." Julia says there must be an answer, ands Chris tells her that "Curses passed down through the generations can't be cured by science. There's nothing scientific about them." Lori says that she refuses to believe that.

Barnabas leaves Collinwood after saying goodbye to Vicky, and begins to walk back to the old house. As he walks, we hear him thinking. "Another timeband where I gave into my demons... it's all too horrible to contemplate! What if things had gone differently here? Would the same things have happened? Would I really have destroyed so much and so many?" He gets closer to the old house as his thoughts continue. "It was only a matter of chance that it didn't happen as such. What if I had killed Maggie on the beach? What if it was only Woodard and Devlin who had pursued me instead of..." He sees a light on the window and gets curious. Barnabas enters the house and calls "Angelique? I thought you had gone out..." but as he turns the corner, Maggie is there. "Oh, Maggie. This is an odd hour for you to be here, Sarah is asleep..." Maggie walks straight over to Barnabas and says "I came here for you.... you know who I really am..." She tries to embrace him, but Barnabas says "No! It cannot be! Don't you understand? You have to be Maggie Evans!" Angry, Maggie says "You cannot spurn my love, not after all these centuries!" Barnabas turns away and says "I must! " Then, after a moment of thought, Barnabas turns to her and says "I know who sent you here to taunt me. Maggie, you must fight it! You must fight Brian Miller's control over you!" Maggie says "No one controls me.... except your heart....I am your Josette." Barnabas turns away again and weakly says "No... Josette is gone, gone forever..." Maggie turns him around and faces him. "Look at me, Barnabas. Who do you see? Look into my eyes and tell me who do you see?" Barnabas shudders and answers "Josette...." Maggie grabs him and kisses him passionately, and at that moment, Angelique walks in and gasps at the sight.

Angelique shouts "Barnabas!" and shocks him into pushing Maggie away. Maggie sees Angelique and begins to laugh. Barnabas pleads "She is possessed! She is under Miller's control!" Angelique scolds "Do you take me for a fool? I've been in this position far too many times, Barnabas! I won't allow you to lie to me!" Barnabas says "It is no lie! I found her here, to my surprise. She approached me! I tried to purge the possession out of her..." Angelique says "Your method of exorcism is quite innovative!" Maggie continues to laugh and then says "You are a fool, handmaiden! Why do you think he would even consider you?" Angelique scowls at Maggie and takes a step in her direction. "I don't care who's body you occupy, I will destroy your spirit..." Barnabas steps between them and shouts "No! Don't you see what is happening? Miller is using Maggie to drive us apart!" Angelique struggles, saying "I don't care! Get her out of here! Get her out of here before I destroy her with my bare hands!" Maggie sneers and casually walks out of the house. Angelique looks at Barnabas, furious. "Why do you insist on protecting her? Why else except that you still want your precious Josette?" Barnabas says "No. That isn't it... it's much more complicated than that." Angelique pulls away from him as he approaches her. "It's Maggie Evans who I care about. She's the one that I owe so much for what happened in the past. I know all too well what could have happened here." Angelique snaps "It didn't happen! How can you punish yourself and punish me for things that never happened?" Barnabas answers "They did happen, in another band of time! Vicky has been there, she told me. A band of time where I destroyed nearly everyone here I care about, and where I, too, died because of it. Don't you understand? I must save Maggie from being used by Brian Miller! Even if it means....getting rid of him permanently." Angelique says "You might find that difficult, Barnabas. He's more powerful than either of us imagined." Barnabas thinks that over.

Episode 1491

Aired: Monday March 12, 1972

In a replay of Friday's close, Vicky fingers the jeweled necklace in the parallel time world where Burke is still alive. Suddenly it unclasps and falls into her lap. She bends her head down to pick it up, and when she lifts her head, she's standing in the dark and empty west wing room of her own time. "Oh no!" she shouts. "Burke! Burke! Where are you!" Carolyn runs in and shouts "Vicky! Get out of there! Get out of there!" Vicky says "Carolyn! No, I can't! I've been there! I've been to that other world! I've talked to Burke!" Carolyn is amazed. "You have?" Vicky holds the necklace and then opens her hand to see Burke's crumpled handkerchief. "He gave me this....look! It has his initials on it!" Carolyn looks it over and asks "How did it all happen? How did you get back here?" Vicky says "I'm not quite sure...but I do know one thing. I've got to get back there. I know that now. I've got to get back there any way I can!"

After the titles, Vicky looks around the empty room and tells Carolyn how different it was in the other time. Carolyn asks Vicky what Burke was like and how he reacted to seeing her. Vicky thinks a moment and answers "He was...surprised to see me. I'd....been gone for some time in that other world." Carolyn says "You were only gone a few minutes here. I heard you come down the hallway and when I opened the door, this room was empty. I turned away for a second and turned back, and heard you shouting." Vicky is mystified. "Only a few minutes? I was there longer than that..." Carolyn says it doesn't matter and tries to drag Vicky out of the room. "We've got to get out of here before it changes again!" Vicky repeats that she has to get back there as the two get into the hallway and Carolyn shuts the door. Vicky tells Carolyn that "Burke lost me in that other world, and he's miserable. Even after everything that's happened to me, seeing him again....it brought everything back. He still needs me....I feel like I belong with him." Carolyn tells her that she belongs "in this world. If Professor Stokes is right, moving between different times can be very dangerous!" Vicky says it can't be too dangerous if she's moved there and come back again. "I can't help feeling that I belong with Burke," she adds. Carolyn says "And what about mother? How would she feel if you went away again, now that she finally admitted who you are? She and Alan will be back from Europe next week. What am I supposed to tell them if you've vanished into some other world?" Vicky has no answer, and only looks at Burke's handkerchief in her hand.

David is looking at Quentin's portrait in the attic room as we hear Quentin sigh. "It wasn't easy for me to tell you, David," Quentin says. "But it wasn't easy for me to keep it from you either." David looks at the title plate and reads "Quentin Collins, 1897... there's only one of you...the same one that...that..." Quentin faces David. "Not really the same one, David. Barnabas and Julia altered the past. I have no connection to that angry spirit you found in the west wing. I don't know how I ever could have become such a thing. Who knows what happens to our souls once we die, David? How much of ourselves really survives? If my last hours were filled with anger and jealousy and heartbreak, did I carry those emotions with me throughout an eternity that no longer exists? I don't know. But it all changed." David asks "So Barnabas and Julia know?" Quentin says "Yes. Your father and your Aunt Elizabeth don't, and I'd prefer to keep it that way." David snickers. "My father would never ever believe it, and Aunt Elizabeth, well.... even if she did know, she'd probably never say anything about it. She's like that with secrets. I'm never sure what she knows and what she doesn't." David thinks a moment and says "I'm not afraid of you, Quentin. I know you couldn't do the things your ghost once did. You must be a different person than you were back then, especially after all these years." Quentin looks at the image of his true self in the portrait before covering it with the cloth. "I've had a long time to think about how the kind of person I once was led to my strange fate. David says "Petofi must have been pretty angry that he didn't get to complete his plan and live forever in your body. No wonder he came back here and tried to finish the job. It must be amazing to live like you. You'll get to see all sorts of things in the future that the rest of us never will." Quentin nods, but says "Sometimes I'm not so sure it's worth it, David. Seeing everyone else grow old around you while you don't can be very lonely. I've always been afraid to get close to people, knowing that. And though this portrait keeps me going, I still have that infernal curse inside me." David thinks a moment and then says "...and your sons..." Quentin tells David he blames himself for Chris Jenning's "tortures," but David says that there might be an answer in some of the books he's been reading on the supernatural. Quentin says he hopes so. David says "You could never have other children without passing on that curse, huh?" Quentin says no, he can't. "Let's get out of here and away from this portrait already." David says okay, but then stops Quentin and says "Tell me about my grandfather." Quentin smiles.

Angelique is sneaking around the outside of Brian's lab at Rose Cottage. A light goes on, and she hides off to the side of a window. Brian, inside, gathers his coat and then exits the house, not noticing Angelique, who shortly opens the door and enters once Brian is gone. She looks around the living room a moment, and then heads towards the back of the house. She enters the lab with the empty cage that once held Chris. She looks around at some of his equipment, and we hear her think "His secret must be here somewhere.... I must be sure of the method he uses to transform himself...." She moves a chair and is startled by a squeaking rat. She shivers at its sight and turns to leave, then suddenly stops and forms a knowing sneer. She turns around and says "How appropriate a choice for you, Brian. Perhaps your true self has finally risen to the surface." From where the rat was now stands a chuckling Brian Miller. "Always so complimentary, my dear," he says. "And what of your true self? Did you only come here to steal my secrets or for another reason?" Angelique snarls "You are completely deluded about yourself." Brian snaps "I'm not deluded about you, my dear, or what you're after. You're interested in the same thing I am, immortality." Angelique smiles and says that her powers guarantee her the very thing Brian pursues. Brian replies "And Barnabas? You once gave him immortality as well, though not exactly the form that most would prefer." Angelique tells Brian he knows "nothing" but Brian answers "You are so wrong, my dear. I know much more than you think. I also know that your rival Josette is once again a very strong threat to you, no matter what you believe about Barnabas Collins." Angelique angrily says that "Barnabas will never leave me..." Brian says "Or what? What will you do to him this time if he does? Will it be something to get him back, or something simply to punish him, as before?" Angelique snaps "Perhaps I'll punish you instead!" Brian says "If you wish, you may try. But I think you may regret the higher power you'd face as a consequence." Angelique wonders what he means.

At Collinwood, Vicky is on the telephone with Stokes, asking him about her experience. She promises him she won't do anything until he can do more research. She hangs up and looks out the window, thinking. We hear her thinking "Poor Burke....all alone in an identical Collinwood, brooding over all the death and destruction that took place here.... a horrible world, yet so close to this one...." The front door opens and Barnabas walks in. Vicky continues to look out the window and doesn't notice him as he enters the drawing room. "Vicky..." he says with a smile. She turns and sees him, and looks startled. "I was looking for Quentin...but I'm so glad I found you," he says, taking a step her way. She takes a step back and gasps. Barnabas looks very confused. "Vicky...what's wrong?" he asks.

Episode 1490

Aired: Friday March 9, 1972

Alexandra Moltke's voiceover: "My name is Victoria Winters. In a bizarre and terrifying parallel world, I am being told the story of another Victoria Winters and how she died there, told by that world' counterpart of a man I once loved. The other world is eerily like my own, the only differences determined by the choices made by those who live there. For that world's Barnabas Collins, the choices made were choices of evil, and choices leading down the road of destruction. But the more I hear of this haunting tale, the more I am convinced of the reason I was drawn to this strange place, hidden through the waves of time in an abandoned west wing room at Collinwood..."

Burke and Hoffman rush to the door of Burke's hotel room and start to unlock it. Burke yells "Don't worry, David, it's us," before he opens the door and finds a jittery David holding a cross. Hoffman nods and says "Very good, David. You've protected yourself just like I told you. Windows are locked, crosses in place. Good....good..." Burke tells David "We need your help. I saw Sarah." David says "You did? Where?" Burke says "Near Collinwood...David, listen...I don't know how to tell you this but....." David asks "What?" Burke says "Look, you've got to know since you'll find out sooner or later. It's about Carolyn." David gets scared and says "What happened to Carolyn?" Burke says "She's....she's gone, David. I'm sorry." David yells "Gone? What do you mean gone?" Hoffman interrupts and says "Barnabas destroyed the Carolyn you knew, David. He made her one of the undead. But now, her spirit is free." David says "Her spirit? What about the rest of her?" Burke tells David to calm down, but tearfully, David asks "She's dead, isn't she? She's dead!" Burke tells David "You've got to be strong now, Davey. I grieve for her too, but we've both got to be strong or more people are going to die too! If you help me, we can save them! We can save Vicky and everyone else under Barnabas Collins' power!" Hoffman tells David what Sarah told them, and David thinks a moment and says "She never told me where she's from..... where they put her? I don't know what that means." Hoffman says "I think we both know she's a ghost, David. Her clothes looked like clothes from more than a century ago. Where would they have put her body if she's a ghost?" David thinks a moment and then says "There's an older cemetery where some of my ancestors are buried. It's called Eagle Hill." Burke and Hoffman look at each other. "David, you stay here and keep everything locked tight. Let's get up there," Burke says.

After the titles, Burke and Hoffman are searching through the Eagle Hill cemetery with flashlights. Hoffman remarks that they haven't seen a grave for anyone named Sarah. Burke says "I'm wondering about something, doctor. What kind of connection could there be between the centuries old ghost of a little girl and Barnabas Collins?" Hoffman says "Are you thinking what I am? That she once knew Barnabas when he was human?" Burke nods. "I think we ought to be looking for any old graves of the Collins family." Hoffman remarks "There's a large mausoleum over that way. I'd assume a wealthy family would inter their dead in something like that." Burke says "Let's head over." Meanwhile, in the secret mausoleum room, Barnabas smiles at Vicky, who is wearing Josette's wedding dress and listening to the music box. "You look so beautiful.....as beautiful as my Josette," he says. "And tonight, you embark with me on a new life....an eternal life..." She smiles back at him. Barnabas begins "We shall return to the old house, and..." but then suddenly stops talking when he seems to hear something. "What is it, my love?" Vicky asks. "A foolish man," Barnabas answers. "A very, very foolish man." Outside the mausoleum, Burke and Hoffman shine their lights on the name "COLLINS" carved into the top. They move the squeaky gate and enter the mausoleum. Hoffman shines his light on the markers and reads aloud "Joshua Collins...Naomi Collins....Mr. Devlin! Look!" The two of them see the marker for Sarah Collins. Burke looks around and says "This is where they put her, all right...but I don't see anything else here. What could she have meant?" Hoffman looks up and says "Open the lion's mouth... that's what she said...open the lion's mouth. Look at the decorations above the markers." Burke sees the metal lions. They reach up and examine the one over Sarah's marker, and nothing happens. Hoffman sneezes and pats the dust off his hands. "No one has been here in years, it seems," he says. As he says this, Burke notices the ring in the lions' mouth over Naomi Collins' marker. "Doctor, look at that one. There's no dust on it. There's no dust on that ring in the lion's mouth." Burke grabs the ring, and the secret door begins to open. Burke is about to enter, but Hoffman cautions him and says "We need to be very careful here. You'd better let me go first." Reluctantly, Burke lets Hoffman, gun in hand, go into the room first. In the room, Hoffman sees 2 coffins side by side and gasps, right before Barnabas steps out of the shadows behind him and grabs him by the neck. "I had warned you, doctor! I had warned you!" Barnabas sneers. "Now you shall die!" Burke runs into the room and points his gun, but Barnabas moves Hoffman in front on him. "Let him go, Barnabas! There's been enough killing!" Barnabas laughs. "There's never enough killing, Devlin! Never enough until I have my Josette back! You cannot harm me with that crude pistol!" Burke says "The silver bullets in it will!" Barnabas smiles and answers "They must pierce my heart, did the good doctor tell you that? And it seems he's in the way!" Hoffman gasps "Shoot him, Devlin! Shoot him through my body if you have to! And destroy the coffins...the Holy Water in my bag...." From off to the side, Burke hears Vicky say "Burke, don't! Please don't shoot!" Burke turns to see Vicky in the wedding dress. "Vicky!" he shouts. "Come to me, quickly!" Hoffman yells "No, Devlin! Don't turn away! It's a trap! Fire the gun! Fire the gun!" Burke is about to fire the gun when Barnabas, in one movement, snaps Hoffman's neck and dematerializes. Burke fires the gun, but only at Barnabas' cackling apparition, who laughs "You're too late, Devlin, too late!" Burke runs to Hoffman's fallen body, and sees that he's dead. He looks up and shouts "Vicky! Vicky! Where are you?" He looks around the room and then says to himself grimly "There's no other way out of here.....except if...." and when he realizes it, he says "No....oh NO!" He takes the bottle of Holy Water from Hoffman's bag and splashes it on both the coffins, and they begin to smoke before crumbling into ashes. In shock, Burke grabs Hoffman's gun and takes it with his own as he runs out.

Burke barges into the old house with a gun in each hand. "Barnabas!" he shouts. "I know you're here! You've got no other coffin to go to and it's almost dawn! Come out here and face me!" He steps into the living room, and Roger suddenly swings the poker at him, nearly knocking the gun out of his hand. "You cannot destroy the master," Roger says. "I will enjoy killing you, Devlin..." Burke steps out of the way of another swing, and then fires one of the guns at Roger. Roger yells and falls to the floor. As Burke looks over the body, Barnabas suddenly appears behind him and grabs him. "And now, your turn, Devlin...." Barnabas shouts, moving his hands around Burke's neck, but Burke thinks fast and pushes backwards, slamming Barnabas into the fireplace and Burke breaks free of his grip. Burke turns as Barnabas bares his fangs, and fires the gun. Barnabas hollers in pain, but then forms a smile when he says "You missed my heart!" Barnabas lunges at Burke and tries to bite him as Burke pushes the gun right up into Barnabas' chest and says "This won't miss!" and fires a number of shots. Barnabas howls and backs off, holding his chest as Burke watches. He falls to the floor and when his face lifts up, his eyes suddenly lighten and the evil seems to vanish from him as he says sadly "Sarah...oh Sarah....the wicked are punished...." he starts to form a smile as he falls to the floor and then, like Carolyn, dissolves into nothing. Burke takes a deep breath and then says "Vicky!" before running towards the basement. In the basement, Burke sees two more coffins side by side and calls for Vicky, but gets no response. He takes the bottle of Holy water from his pocket and sprinkles it on both the coffins, which begin to smoke and crumble as they did in the mausoleum. Suddenly, Vicky appears and screams. "Noooo! Burke, what have you done?" She moves towards Burke, but he raises the gun. "Vicky, stay back! I had to do that!" Vicky steps towards him, and he begin to back up the stairs as she comes. "There's still time, Burke...still time before the dawn...time for us...." she says as she moves closer. Back in the living room, Burke backs away holding the gun on her as she approaches. Her eyes are dark, but she smiles at Burke seductively. "I can be yours now, Burke...we can have a new life together, a new kind of life that will go on forever..." Burke shouts "Not that life! It's not life, it's death! Stay back! I don't want to shoot you!" Vicky says "Look into my eyes, Burke. You cannot refuse me! We still have time before the dawn to sanctify new ground....but only if you look into my eyes...." Burke turns away and shouts "NO!" Vicky begins to move closer to him.....

Vicky commands "Look at me! Look at the woman you love...." Burke gets a little tearful. "I did love you, Vicky...but you're not Vicky anymore...you're like he was....an evil monstrous creature that must be destroyed! This all has to end! It must!" We hear a rooster crow, and a more frantic Vicky says "Burke! Look at me! You must sanctify a new coffin for me! I command you! Time runs short!" Burke turns towards her and says "I'm sorry....but this is the only way to save you now...." As the room begins to grow lighter, Vicky screams "Nooooo! Help me, Burke! Help me! The light! The light! It burns....." Burke says "I'd hoped to get there in time to save you, Vicky...but when I knew you had dematerialized as he did from the mausoleum, I knew you had become like him...this is the only way." Vicky screams "Noooooooo!" as a sunbeam comes through the window and hits her. Her screams grow louder before her eyes suddenly lighten and she sadly looks at Burke and he at her, and says "I....forgive...you..." He reaches out to her as she begins to vanish, but only manages to grab the end of the necklace he had given her. She vanishes in a terrible painful scream, leaving a devastated Burke only holding the necklace in his hands. He sinks to his knees and can only say "Goodbye, Vicky....goodbye...." We zoom in on him fingering the necklace and then dissolve to Vicky touching it as Burke finishes telling her the story in the west wing room. "And that was it," he says. "Liz took David and left here. She wanted to get as far from Collinwood and the horrible memories it held as she could. I couldn't leave for some reason. I guess I kept hoping you'd come back to me, somehow. I thought it was crazy, but then, here you are...from some sort of different world. What am I in that world, Vicky? You said everyone is there, only doing different things." Vicky tears up and says "You died, Burke. A plane you were on in South America...it..." Burke gasps. "It crashed. The plane I was supposed to be on crashed. I never took that trip, Vicky, I was too distraught over everything that had happened and I canceled all my business for months afterwards." He is overwhelmed by his next thought. "To think that all that horror somehow saved my life..." Vicky says "We never know the outcomes of the choices we make until they happen." Burke says "Vicky, you don't think that you from your world and me from mine...were meant to find each other again? After all this time?" Vicky answers "I don't know..." Burke says "You could stay here with me. We could build a life together...put some happiness back into this house filled with its darkness and shadows (heh, close one there!) Here, wipe your eyes." He hands her his handkerchief and she wipes the tears from her face before crumpling it into her hand. Vicky says "I don't know... I wonder about the people in my world... I wonder..." and as Vicky fingers the necklace, suddenly it unclasps and falls into her lap. She bends her head down to pick it up, and when she lifts her head, she's standing in the dark and empty west wing room of her own time. "Oh no!" she shouts. "Burke! Burke! Where are you!" Carolyn runs in and shouts "Vicky! Get out of there! Get out of there!" Vicky says "Carolyn! No, I can't! I've been there! I've been to that other world! I've talked to Burke!" Carolyn is amazed. "You have?" Vicky holds the necklace and then opens her hand to see Burke's crumpled handkerchief. "He gave me this....look! It has his initials on it!" Carolyn looks it over and asks "How did it all happen? How did you get back here?" Vicky says "I'm not quite sure...but I do know one thing. I've got to get back there. I know that now. I've got to get back there any way I can!"

Episode 1489

Aired: Thursday March 8, 1972

In Burke's hotel room, the sun is just coming up. David tosses and turns on the couch as Burke and Hoffman look out the window. "With the sun up, you think it'll be safe?" Burke asks. Hoffman says it should be, "though the vampire's protectors will still be active. But it will be the only time to get to Barnabas Collins and destroy him." Burke adds "And free Vicky." Hoffman says "Yes... if that's possible." He opens a bag and hands Burke a gun. "I've loaded it with silver bullets," Hoffman says before taking out another gun. "Just like this one. And in the bag are other tools to destroy creatures like Barnabas Collins." Burke takes a look in the bag, and pulls out a hammer and wooden stake.

After the titles, we're back in the west wing room as Burke continues telling Vicky the story. "It was like something out of a movie," Burke says. "A gun with silver bullets, a wooden stake. Hoffman told me how these were the only way to destroy a vampire, outside of forcing them into the daylight. With so many people in the town under his control, we had to move carefully. But the only thing on my mind was finding you before it was too late..." We dissolve to Hoffman and Burke walking in the woods towards the old house. "We may need to overpower whoever Barnabas Collins has guarding him during the day. Considering the control the vampire can exert over such a person, it could get quite violent," Hoffman cautions Burke. Burke holds his gun and says "Silver bullets can stop a man too." Hoffman says "That might be true, but I wouldn't waste any of those bullets, Mr. Devlin. You never know how many you might need when the crucial time comes." Burke says "I'm pretty handy with one of these, Doctor. And if comes to saving Vicky, I'll only need one." Hoffman hesitates a moment, but then says "It might not come down to saving Victoria Winters. As far as we know, we may already be too late for that. You must prepare yourself if that is the case." Burke stops and says that he could never destroy the woman he loves. Hoffman says "You wouldn't be, Mr. Devlin. If we are indeed too late, the woman you love has already been destroyed by Barnabas Collins. She is no longer Victoria Winters, but instead walks the earth by night as an evil creature of the undead." Hoffman moves on as Burke thinks a moment. At the old house, Roger sits in the living room, staring at the fire when he hears the scuffling outside. Hoffman and Burke enter the house before Roger sees them and demands that they leave. "Shut up, Roger," Burke snaps. "And don't interfere with us. Where is he? Where's Barnabas Collins and where is Vicky Winters?" Roger silently sneers back.

Burke sees the basement door and starts towards it. Roger gets in his way and snaps "Where do you think you're going?" Burke snarls "Through you and then through that door!" As the two men argue, Hoffman sneaks behind Roger with a hypodermic needle, but Roger sees him and slaps it out of his hand. "What the devil are you doing?" Roger hisses. Hoffman answers "A mild sedative, Mr. Collins. I always keep a supply of sedatives in my bag. You would go to sleep, and if Mr. Devlin and I are successful, you would have your life back when you awake." Roger snaps "You're not putting me to sleep with that needle!" Burke says "Then I'll use my method!" and slugs Roger across the face. Hoffman looks at Roger and says "Crude, but effective." Burke shakes the punch off his hand and says "Under different circumstances, I might have truly enjoyed doing that. Let's get this door open." The two men begin to work on picking the lock to the basement door when Roger begins to stir a bit. He opens one eye, and then silently crawls towards the fireplace and grabs a poker. He's on his feet and about to bring the poker down on Burke's head when Hoffman sees him and yells "Look out!" Burke steps aside, and Roger bashes the poker into the cellar door. He and Burke begin to struggle. "You cannot go down there! You cannot harm the master! I will not let you" Roger says. They struggle with the poker as Hoffman tries to prepare another hypo. Burke snatches the poker away from Roger, who still lunges at Burke's throat like a madman possessed. Burke swings the poker, hitting Roger in the back and knocking him cold. "I won't take any chances this time," Hoffman says as he sticks the needle into the moaning Roger, who then passes out. Burke bashes the poker into the lock on the basement door a couple of times, and manages to force the door open. "Get your things, Dr. Hoffman," Burke says. "We're going down there." In the basement, we see Barnabas' coffin on its pedestal. Burke and Hoffman come down the stairs, and Burke is taken aback when he sees the coffin. "My God..." Burke says. "I still can't believe what we're dealing with." Hoffman walks to the coffin and tells Burke not to worry, since during the day "the evil that lies within this coffin is powerless to stop us." Hoffman pushes the creaky coffin open as Burke readies the stake and hammer, but then he and Burke are shocked to find the coffin completely empty.

Burke looks at the empty coffin in frustration. "Obviously, Barnabas Collins has made contingency plans," Hoffman says. "There must be another coffin for him someplace, a safe haven...." Burke says "But that doesn't tell us where Vicky is!" Hoffman says that Vicky could be with Barnabas, and then Burke interrupts to say "Or she could be here, to be guarded by Roger." Hoffman nods, and says "We should search this entire house. But we must remember to save enough daylight to look for Barnabas Collins' current sanctuary." Burke says "It could be anywhere if he's made servants of so many townspeople." Hoffman agrees, and the two men head upstairs to look for Vicky. Back in the west wing as Burke tells Vicky the story, he says "Suffice to say we didn't find you in the old house that day, nor did we find Barnabas Collins as we searched the town. I had a theory of my own to check out, however...." We dissolve to Burke storming into Collinwood, and finding Liz. "I suppose it's a waste of time for me to ask you where Vicky Winters is," Burke snarls. Liz tells Burke that she doesn't know what he's talking about. "I'm gonna search this place and take it apart piece by piece if I have to," Burke says. Liz sits down and says "That will accomplish nothing." Surprised, Burke says "You're not defending anything. Does that mean he's not hiding here?" Liz says "No one is hiding anywhere, except for David. We must have David back. David is family." Burke tells Liz that "You're not getting David back until this is over with. Until I destroy Barnabas Collins and end his hold over all of you!" Liz walks to the brandy and pours herself a drink. "Don't you think you're over reacting? Things are quite pleasant now. Perhaps they could be pleasant for you as well." She hands him a drink. "Try to fight it, Liz, try! You're a strong woman! You must know, somewhere deep inside you, that you're all being destroyed by this! Fight it!" Burke throws the drink aside as he yells at her. "Let me pour you another," Liz says passively, but when Burke turns away for a moment, she smashes the brandy bottle down onto him hard. He sinks to the floor and passes out. We dissolve to Burke waking up in the gazebo outside - and it is night. He rubs the back of his head and sees that it's dark out. "Night!" he says. "How long have I been unconscious... what am I doing here?" Suddenly he turns and sees Carolyn. "Hello, Burke," she says. "I've come to help you!" He looks at her with hesitation, and we see that her eyes are unusually darkened...

"Help me?" Burke says, somewhat skeptically. "How?" Carolyn moves closer and says "Look into my eyes, Burke. You once told me how beautiful you thought they were..." He turns away. "No! Oh no, Carolyn...not you! What's he done to you?" Carolyn demands "Look into my eyes, Burke! You have no other choice!" He slowly turns and looks at her. "Do you find me attractive, Burke?" she coos. He nods. "I'll always look like this now...eternally young and beautiful...would you like that, Burke? Would you like to be with me, eternally youthful, forever and ever?" Burke nods, but then turns away and says "No! It can't be like that!" Carolyn shouts "Don't turn away from me! Look into my eyes as I command!" Burke slowly turns back and struggles to say "I....can't.....fight....it...." Carolyn moves closer with a smile. "That's right, Burke, you can't. How different it is than when you took me for granted as a plaything...now you'll be my amusement.....forever and ever...." She opens her mouth and bares her fangs, moving closer and closer towards Burke before we hear Hoffman shout "Get back, Devlin! Get back!" Carolyn turns away towards Hoffman and this snaps Burke out of the trance. He takes a step back towards the railing of the gazebo as Hoffman holds a cross to keep Carolyn at bay. She bares her fangs at him and hisses like a snake. "You'll be destroyed!" she shouts. "All of you!" Hoffman readies his gun and says "You're the one that must be destroyed now, Miss Stoddard. May God have mercy on your soul..." Burke sees the gun and shouts "No! You can't!" Hoffman shouts back "I must! Do not interfere!" Carolyn turns to Burke and innocently coos "Don't let him hurt me, Burke! You're my only hope!" Burke starts to go back into the trance as she opens her eyes wider at him, but Hoffman yells "That's no longer the Carolyn you once knew! Step out of the way, Devlin!" Burke cannot move until Hoffman steps closer with the cross. Carolyn hides her face and screams how she will kill them both, but Hoffman fires his gun at her. She shrieks and holds her middle. "A silver bullet....right through the heart..." Hoffman says. Burke gasps, and as Carolyn screams, her eyes seem to lighten for just a moment as she looks at Burke and seems to tear up. "I'm....I'm free....." she says, but then dissolves into the air. Burke steps where she was and gasps again. "She's....she's gone!" he says. Hoffman answers "Yes... she is no longer one of the undead." Burke says "Vanished...she just disappeared! What did she mean....I'm free?" Hoffman says "An interesting statement....if I were to hypothesize, I'd say that the curse left her a moment before she became truly dead. For that brief moment, she turned back into Carolyn Stoddard, and if there is indeed a spiritual world beyond our own, she has her soul back." Burke looks at the spot where she disappeared and says "That's hardly a consolation." Hoffman says "Oh, but it is, Mr. Devlin. In a way, I saved her. I saved her soul." Burke says "But it doesn't tell us where Barnabas is hiding or where Vicky is." Suddenly, Burke hears what we know as a familiar "Hello." He and Hoffman turn to see Sarah standing before them. "You've got to stop him," she says. "You've got to stop my brother before he hurts someone else. There isn't much time now." Hoffman and Burke look at each other. Burke says "You're Sarah....the little girl David always talked about seeing. What do you know? What can you tell us?" Sarah says "He's got to stop hurting people! It's wrong! It's evil!" Burke says "We can stop him if you tell us where he is. Do you know?" She nods, but looks sad. "That evil is wicked is well understood. The evil are punished so you must be good," she says. "Tell us, Sarah. Tell us so we can stop all the hurting," Burke says. "We can stop the evil and punish it." Sarah looks a little scared. "He's where they put me," she says. Burke asks "Put you? Where who put you?" Sarah only repeats "He's where they put me. You have to go there now! You have to open the lion's mouth!" Burke shouts "Don't speak in riddles! Tell us where he is if you know!" Sarah seems to get scared, and vanishes before their eyes. Hoffman is agape and says "A ghost! She completely dematerialized..." Burke yells "Sarah! Sarah! Come back! Come back!"

Episode 1488

Aired: Wednesday March 7, 1972

Nancy Barrett's voiceover: "While time stands still at Collinwood, Victoria Winters listens intently to a horrifying story of another Collinwood, in another time and place far from her own. A Collinwood occupied only by a lonely embittered man who Vicky lost in her own world. As the Burke Devlin of this other time tells Vicky the story of how the Collins family and she were destroyed, only she knows how eerily familiar many parts of that story are...."

Burke tells Vicky how a terrified David ran from his father "only to discover something even more horrible..." as we fade to a replay of Tuesday's close.

After the titles, as David backs away, we hear the front door open, and Vicky enters. David runs to her and tells her they must "get out of here." Vicky asks him what he's talking about, and then sees Liz and Carolyn coming towards her, with the fang marks clearly on their necks. Vicky shakes her head and says "Oh my God...this isn't happening..." and as she starts to back away, she runs smack into Barnabas. "Vicky.... please believe me when I say I didn't want it to be this way....I wanted you to come to me of your own free will...but there just wasn't time..." he says. She grabs David to protect him, but Barnabas shoves the boy aside. "Look into my eyes," he commands as Vicky begins to go into a trance. David shoves Barnabas and yells "Leave her alone!" Barnabas angrily yells "Elizabeth! Take care of the boy before I destroy him!" Elizabeth goes after David, who tips over the coat rack to block her and then runs outside. Elizabeth says "Barnabas, should I go after him?" Barnabas, looking the entranced Vicky over, says "Why bother? There's nowhere he can go, now. See to Carolyn. Revive her with some brandy. Once I see to Vicky, I shall wish to discuss something with her." Elizabeth nods, and heads back to the drawing room to sit Carolyn back up. Barnabas smiles at Vicky. "You shall know a love like you have never known it.... you shall know an eternal love....after all the centuries, you will be mine again...." Barnabas sinks his fangs into her.

At the Blue Whale, Burke is talking with Hoffman when David comes into the bar. At first, the bartender tries to throw him out, but when he calls for Burke, Burke says it's okay, and brings him over. David is out of breath and terrified, and Burke tells him to calm down and tell him what happened. All David can say is "Barnabas....Barnabas is some sort of...monster!" Burke and Hoffman look at each other. Meanwhile, back at the old house, Vicky wears Josette's wedding gown as Barnabas looks on glowingly. Roger primps her and says "She has never looked so beautiful....she truly is worthy of you, Barnabas." Barnabas says "Thank you, Roger. Indeed she is." He hands her the music box and it begins to play. She smiles. "I understand now, Barnabas," she says. "I understand everything. Now I know why Josette's spirit spoke through me, and why she had protected me....it was to prepare me for you." Barnabas says "Yes. Your spirits have indeed touched, as ours shall. Come with me." He takes her arm in arm and leads her upstairs. In Josette's restored room, he walks her to the mirror. "Everything here is now yours," he says. She holds his hand and says "Everything?" Barnabas pulls her closer and says "Everything I am" before giving her a passionate kiss....and then another bite to the neck. Back at the Blue Whale, David has told Burke and Hoffman everything. "If this boy is telling the truth, we are all in great danger," Hoffman says. David insists he is telling the truth, and Burke backs him up. "How can we stop all of this? What can we do to Barnabas?" Burke says. Hoffman answers "Those like Roger and Elizabeth Collins who have become slaves to the vampire would be freed once the creature is destroyed." David says "What about Vicky? He wants to make Vicky like him, doesn't he?" Burke grabs Hoffman and says "What do we do then? How can we save her before that happens?" Hoffman pulls away and tells Burke not to get so excited, but then adds "We'd better get there before it happens, Mr. Devlin. Or else Victoria Winters will be lost forever." Burke and David look at each other.

Hoffman tells David and Burke they'd better find a "safe place" during the night, "since the best time to go after this creature would be during the daylight hours." Burke insists that they try to save Vicky now if Barnabas has her, and that they should head straight to the old house. Hoffman says that it's "far too dangerous without arms." Burke says "Arms? You're telling me a gun is enough to..." Hoffman says "Not just any gun, Mr. Devlin, a gun loaded with silver bullets is the only..." Suddenly, the doors of the Blue Whale swing open by themselves and the crowd freezes. Barnabas walks in with a burst of fog behind him, and looks at Burke, Hoffman, and David with a smile. "The boy is a Collins," Barnabas says. "Give him to me now." Burke steps in front of David and snarls "You'll never get him, and you won't keep any of the others!" Barnabas takes a few steps towards them and says "Won't I? Victoria Winters is now mine. The Collins family is now mine....as are most of the people you see around you." Burke and Hoffman look at the bar crowd, and see that they are all frozen and passive. Hoffman pulls the collar back from one and sees fang marks. "They are the same as Roger, Elizabeth and Carolyn, " Barnabas boasts. "Their will is gone, replaced by my power. The Collins family has always controlled this town, and now I am the Collins family." Barnabas moves in for the kill, but Hoffman suddenly takes out a bright silver cross and shines it at Barnabas, who turns away with a snarl. "Get back!" Hoffman yells. "Devlin, get the boy and get him out of here, before the vampire commands any of these drones to attack! Go!" Burke hesitates a moment, wanting to attack Barnabas, but instead grabs David and the two of them make it towards the door. Suddenly, a rummy goes for Burke, who slugs him across the face sending him flying. Hoffman keeps Barnabas at bay with the cross as they go, until Barnabas shouts "Run, Devlin! You can't run far! And you, Dr. Hoffman.... I will truly enjoy destroying you!" Barnabas dematerializes before Hoffman's cross, and as soon as he vanishes, the behavior of everyone in the bar returns to normal. Hoffman runs after Burke and David.

Outside Collinwood, Barnabas stands near a lit window. We hear his thoughts calling "Carolyn....I need you....Carolyn....come to me now...." Inside, Carolyn rises from her bed and leaves her room. She walks down the stairs as the front doors open by themselves. She steps outside and smiles when she sees Barnabas. "I heard your call," she says willowy. "Yes," he says. "There was something I saw in your mind when I met you, something that I need from you now." Carolyn says "What?" Barnabas smiles and says "Your, shall we say, fondness for Burke Devlin.....and your hurting at the way he treated you." Carolyn turns away and says "That was in the past. There's nothing I can do about that now." Barnabas turns her to face him and says "Oh, but there is. You can place Devlin under your control and do with him as you wish. Would you like that?" Carolyn smiles and nods. "How?" Barnabas says "When you rise, you will have your will restored....but I know what your heart wishes....and just as I have pursued to possess the one I love, I know you will you. You will possess Devlin." Carolyn pulls the collar of her nightgown down exposing the fang marks as she says "And I will possess eternity as well!" Barnabas gives her a hefty bite.

Episode 1487

Aired: Tuesday March 6, 1972

After a replay of Monday's close and the titles, Willie stops at the edge of the cliff as Barnabas nears him. Willie pleads for his life, and Barnabas snarls "What difference does it make if you live or die when you are so useless to me now? Look there!" Barnabas spins Willie around and holds him at the edge of the cliff. We see the surf pounding on the rocks below in the moonlight as Barnabas continues. "Look at those rocks, Willie...I can still see myself struggling down the side of this awful cliff to hold my Josette for the last time all those years ago, years forever gone with the crashing of those endless waves. After she ran from me and was impaled on those rocks below... I held her bloodless body in my arms while the laughter of Angelique echoed in my mind...." Willie says "Angelique? Who's that?" Barnabas yells "Perhaps you'll see her in hell, Willie....no one will care enough to come for your body once it's down there, mangled beyond all recognition....good bye!" And with Willie's final shrieking, Barnabas throws him off the cliff! He looks over the pounding surf with an evil smile, and then we hear him thinking. "So it always is with traitors. I will need a new protector...one more trustworthy. More intelligent....." and after a moment thinking, he forms a confident smile. "And one more loyal to the name of Collins...." We dissolve to Roger pouring himself a brandy in the drawing room when Liz walks in. Liz asks if there was any news on Maggie's killer, and Roger says "Knowing our inept police department, I strongly doubt her murderer will ever be found." Liz tells Roger not to talk that way, especially with Vicky and Carolyn in possible danger. "Oh, Liz! Maggie associated with a completely different sort of crowd than Carolyn or even Vicky. I wouldn't worry about either of them." Liz looks out the window and says "I don't know, Roger. I just have this overwhelming sensation of something out there...something evil...." Suddenly, we hear the dogs howling, and it startles Liz. Roger frowns and says "Animals roaming the woods...what next?" Liz says she will go upstairs and try to sleep, and Roger wishes her well. He walks to the window and opens it, listening to the dogs curiously. He closes the window and turns to refill his brandy glass and is startled to see Barnabas. "Barnabas! I didn't hear you come in! Would you care to join me in a drink?" Roger says as he walks to the brandy. "No, thank you," Barnabas answers. "I've come about something much more important." Roger asks what that could be, and Barnabas closes the drawing room doors before moving closer to Roger. "You'll understand much more in a moment, Roger....you'll understand more than you've ever understood before..." Barnabas bares his fangs and we hear a shocked Roger yell "What...what are you doing? No! NOOOOO!"

Roger sits passively on the sofa, adjusting his ascot. "You understand now, Roger?" Barnabas says. Roger nods. "You have no free will of your own. You will serve me and protect me," Barnabas adds. Roger says "Yes. I understand, now." Barnabas smiles and says "Good. You will do better than Loomis. You will understand family loyalty. After all, I am the oldest living Collins....this house....everything....was meant to be mine, long ago. That wrong will be corrected." Roger says "Yes, it will be corrected." Barnabas tells Roger to get some sleep, "since you will need all your energies to guard me tomorrow during the day." We fade back to Burke telling Vicky the story in the west wing. "Dr. Hoffman had told me what we were dealing with. After a little more time went on, we began to narrow down who we were dealing with. Roger, of all people, first made me suspicious...." We cut to Burke entering Collinwood as Roger comes down the stairs. "I knocked and knocked and no one answered, so I just walked in," Burke says. "I'm looking for Vicky." Roger doesn't say anything and walks towards the door. Burke asks again where Vicky is, and Roger says "How should I know? I must go now." Burke stops him and says "Roger, are you all right? I'd have least expected you to scream at me for walking in here the way I did." Roger, passively, says "It won't matter soon, Devlin. It won't matter soon." Roger leaves and Burke wonders what to make of it. David comes out of the kitchen door and says hello to Burke, who asks him where Vicky is. He says she's still finishing breakfast. "Thanks," Burke says as he heads into the kitchen. David walks into the drawing room when suddenly he hears a familiar "Hello." He turns to see Sarah's ghost, dressed in her 18th century clothes. "Sarah!" he gasps. "What are you doing here?" She makes a motion for him to be quiet, and says "I've got to tell you the secret!" David asks what secret, and Sarah says "You've got to see it for yourself, before it's too late!" David is skeptical and asks what will be too late, and Sarah says "It'll be too late for everyone! You've got to know the secret! Down in the basement!" David says "Down in the basement? What's down in the basement? Aunt Elizabeth doesn't like anyone going down there." Sarah says "No! Not here! In the other basement!" David thinks a minute and says "I don't know what you mean...." but then realizes. "The old house? The old house basement?" Sarah says "You've got to know the secret, but you have to be very careful! You have to go there now, before it gets dark! You can't know the secret once it gets dark!" David looks away for a minute before saying "Sarah, I don't know what you're talking about..." but when he turns back, she's gone. He calls for her, but then gets his coat and runs out of the house. We cut to David entering the old house carefully. He calls for Willie and Barnabas before heading towards the basement door. When he gets there, it's locked, but he takes a small screwdriver from his pocket and begins to pick the lock. Suddenly, he's grabbed from behind, and winds up facing an angry Roger.

"What do you think you're doing?" Roger snarls. David fibs that he lost something in the basement and wanted to get it back. Roger drags him away from the door saying "Don't you lie to me." David cries that his father is hurting him, and Roger says "You'll stop snooping around here or I'll hurt you worse!" David asks "What are you doing here anyway? Where are Willie and Barnabas?" Roger thinks a moment and says "Barnabas has gone to Bangor for the day and asked me to look after a few things here since he can't find Loomis any place. And I know that he'd be angry to find you snooping around here. We told you that you're no longer allowed to play here, but you just won't listen! And now, I'm going to have to punish you severely! " David yells "No!" and struggles to break free, and when he does, he pulls Roger's ascot off, revealing the fang marks. David is shocked, and says "What are those? What happened to you?" Roger quickly puts the ascot back on and tells David "Nothing... you saw nothing!" David says "Sarah was right! You're hiding something in the basement! She warned me that I've got to know what's down there!" Roger doesn't know what to do, and only says "How does your imaginary friend know....." David says "There is something down there! You just admitted it!" Roger lunges at David, but he darts out of the way. Right before he can get out the door, Roger grabs him. "You cannot leave now, my son.... you know too much already. I shall have to let the master attend to you...yes, the master will know what to do..." David is terrified as Roger begins to tie him to a chair. Meanwhile, back at Collinwood, Burke is telling Vicky about what Dr. Hoffman has theorized about Maggie Evans. Vicky doesn't believe it, and thinks that "This Dr. Hoffman must be half insane!" Burke says he's not so sure about that. "I've seen too many strange things in this town. I'm almost willing to believe that anything is possible. And someone or something drained nearly every drop of blood from Maggie Evans before strangling her." Vicky asks Burke not to talk about such things. "I know who I'd be looking for if I were a detective," Burke goes on. "I'd look for someone new in town, perhaps someone who had a mysterious past and exhibited strange behavior. I'd look at someone like Barnabas Collins!" Vicky accuses Burke of being jealous, and Burke says that "I've tried to look into Barnabas' background. I've had my men check up on him. They can find no trace of a Barnabas Collins living anywhere in England. None of his story checks out." Vicky says that there must be some sort of mistake. Burke replies that "Maggie's death was no mistake. Until I know for sure what we're dealing with, I want you to stay away from Barnabas Collins." Vicky is surprised.

Some times has passed at the old house. David has loosened his bonds as the clock strikes. "Nearly dusk...." Roger says. "And nearly zero hour for you, my son." The room begins to grow darker as Roger lights the candles. "Perhaps there will be mercy for you, perhaps not...." Roger says. David has nearly freed himself when we hear steps approaching us from beyond the basement door. "The master comes!" Roger says. As he steps away, David throws his ropes down and runs for the door. Roger turns to stop him, but this time David gets away. Roger yells at him to come back, when Barnabas appears. "What is it?" Barnabas says. "David!" Roger answers. "David seems to know somehow...he claims his imaginary friend told him! I tried keeping him here, I swear!" Barnabas looks over the ropes and says "You tried, but you failed. Nevertheless, I will be able to see to David. No doubt he's heading for Collinwood now...." Roger says "How could an imaginary friend named Sarah tell him anything?" Shocked, Barnabas says "Sarah? Imaginary friend? What are you on about?" Roger says "David claims to have an imaginary friend named Sarah, who only he can see. A young girl, in a bonnet of all things." Barnabas gasps, and says "Sarah....oh Sarah!" Roger asks "What is it? Who is this Sarah?" Barnabas angrily turns to Roger and says "Don't ever mention her name again! I will see to David." We cut to David running in the woods, when he suddenly finds Sarah. "Stop, David! You can't go back there now! It's too late!" She stands in his way as he tries to get by. "I've got to tell my Aunt Elizabeth! My father's gone crazy!" Sarah says "Don't blame him, David. He can't help it. None of them can!" David asks "Them? Who are you talking about?" Sarah says "He can make them do things, even if they don't want to! You can't blame them! That's why you can't go back to your house now! It's already too late!" David says "It can't be! I've got to tell my Aunt!" He runs by Sarah who yells at him to come back. At Collinwood, Liz and Carolyn are in the drawing room when they hear the front door open. Liz looks to see who it is, but it's not David - it's Barnabas. "Barnabas!" she says. "It's so good to see you. But if you're looking for Vicky, she's not here. You'll have to be satisfied with me and Carolyn." Barnabas smiles and answers "That should be quite satisfactory." He follows her back to the drawing room and closes the door behind him.

David runs into Collinwood and calls for Elizabeth. He opens the drawing room doors and finds her sitting with Carolyn. Both are looking quite passive. David runs to Liz and starts ranting and raving about everything that has happened to him, and she doesn't say anything. "Aunt Elizabeth!" he yells. "Can't you hear me? What's wrong with you?" David turns to Carolyn and yells "You've got to help me! You've got to help me!" She stares passively back, and when he grabs her hand to shake her, she falls over to the side, revealing fang marks on her neck. David screams, and then Liz turns to him, revealing fang marks on her neck, and asks calmly "Why David, what ever is the matter?" David backs away terrified.

Episode 1486

Aired: Monday March 5, 1972

In a replay of Friday's close, Vicky has entered the changing room in the west wing. The room suddenly lights up and Vicky is standing before her portrait, where she also wears the necklace. Shocked, Vicky spins around and says "Oh no! The room changed with me inside! Am I really here.... am I really in that other world?" She starts to look around, and suddenly she sees Burke standing at the far end of the room. He looks at her mystified. She smiles. "Burke! Burke! It's really you!" she says and steps towards him. He steps back and nods. "Yes, it's really me. Vicky. Vicky...I...." he can't speak. Vicky says "There's a lot I have to explain about why I'm here....and how I'm here." Burke continues to stay back and only says "This house....that's why you're here..." She takes another step towards him and he takes another step back. "You seem frightened. Why are you so frightened?" she asks as she steps in front of the window. Burke looks at her. "You really are beautiful, Vicky. The way the light is hitting you...your hair, your eyes....it's been so long since I've seen the real you and not just that portrait. I didn't think it would ever be possible again." Vicky says "It's a long story of how it's possible, I don't quite understand it myself." Burke is still nervous as he says "What's to understand? You know this house, Collinwood. Collinwood and all of its ghosts, you even told me you saw them yourself when you...." Vicky is surprised and says "Ghosts? You....you think I'm....." Burke says "What else can you be? I saw you die, Vicky." Vicky holds her hands over her mouth and gasps "No! It can't be! I don't understand!" Burke says "You must understand, Vicky! Because..... I was the one.....who had to kill you!" Vicky screams.

After the titles, Vicky pulls away from Burke and tells her that she's "very much alive." Burke insists "that's impossible." Vicky answers "No, very possible, in another world filled with different possibilities." Burke asks her what she's talking about, and Vicky tells him how she's from a different time, "a world where I'm very much alive and you..." She stops, and he grows curious. "A different time? Some sort of...parallel?" Vicky tells him yes, and he says "Honestly, I might have thought that a crazy idea if I hadn't seen the things I've seen. But now I'm willing to believe everything." Vicky tells him how she "read a theory that parallel worlds exist, with our counterparts living in them. In each world, each of us can be doing different things depending on the choices we've made." Burke tells Vicky "Then your counterpart in this world is....gone. Perhaps that's why you're here now. How did you get here?" Vicky says she doesn't know, only that something "compelled me to come to this room, in my world, in my Collinwood, where the room is empty and abandoned." Burke says "Most of Collinwood is empty and abandoned here. I'm all alone here, Vicky. Everyone else is gone. Ironic, isn't it, considering how badly I wanted to get all this and see the mighty Collins family in ruins. Losing you was the worst... perhaps that's why you were compelled to come here, to this world! All my wishing, my longing to get you back." He takes a step towards her, but she backs away. "You said you killed me here, Burke....stay away." Burke pleads "You don't understand! I had to... in order to save you. In order to save your soul! In your world, there is a Collinwood? With Liz and Roger and David and Carolyn living there?" Vicky nods and says nervously "What about here?" He tells her to sit and promises he won't come near her while he tells her his story. "It all happened a few years ago...I think I've lost all sense of time since living in this house....it all began after Maggie Evans was kidnapped..." We flash back to the sheriff taking a covered body away on the beach as Burke's voice over continues. "She turned up dead on the beach..... Sam couldn't handle it, so Joe Haskell and I had to identify her. Joe and Sam wound up leaving Collinsport shortly afterwards, too many sad memories for them." Burke watches the van driving away and lights up a cigarette, thinking as we hear "I started wondering about something, though, something that kept nagging at me....about who might have been responsible for what happened to Maggie..." We dissolve to the old house, and when we go inside, Barnabas walks to the stairs and angrily yells "Willie! WILLIE!!" Willie runs down the stairs nervously asking what Barnabas wants. "You disposed of everything connected to the Evans girl as I ordered?" Barnabas says. Willie says yes, and Barnabas grabs him. "Everything, Willie? I know how you have an affinity for shiny jewels..." Willie stammers "No, no, Barnabas! I got rid of everything, just like you said! You know I wouldn't lie to ya, you know that..." Barnabas throws him aside. "Nothing must connect me to her, nothing! Especially now that I know what I must do..." Scared, Willie asks what that is. Barnabas smiles and says "I know now who the true Josette will be....how blind I was before! I saw the image of Josette in Maggie Evans, but I sense her soul in...Victoria Winters. She will be mine, Willie. She will be mine..." Willie doesn't look thrilled at this prospect as we cut to Burke in Dr. Woodard's (Robert Gerringer - hey, why not?) office. "Why did you ask me here, Dave?" Burke says. Woodard tells Burke that he's been looking over slides of "the small amount of blood left in Maggie Evans' body." Burke asks why the amount of blood is so small, and Woodard says "I have a theory...a theory that if true is so terrifying and unbelievable...I hesitate to tell you now." Burke says "Try me." Woodard answers "I think I'd rather let an associate of mine explain it all to you much more. Dr. Hoffman should be here later this evening. I want you to meet us at the Blue Whale."

In the west wing room, Burke continues his story. "That night more questions were answered for me...but I didn't like the answers one bit..." We fade to Vicky standing by the fountain, as Barnabas arrives and startles her. He apologizes, and Vicky tells him how she was "distracted by looking up at the stars." Barnabas tells her "how beautiful the night sky is....the longer you are out here and the more your senses heighten, it reaches a level of beauty one wouldn't think possible..." Vicky tells Barnabas he has a wonderful way of looking at the world. He smiles at her and answers "Beauty in its many forms is always an inspiration" and then kisses her hand. He tells her he has something for her, "something I discovered while restoring the old house." He hands her Josette's music box, which a fascinated Vicky opens and listens to. "Oh...Barnabas! It's beautiful! Oh, but I can't accept this!" Barnabas insists that she does, and that "I hope that you open and listen to its melody whenever you think of me." Vicky asks him who he thinks it belonged to, and he hides some sadness when he says "I'm sure it belonged to someone who was loved like no other. And now, I wish for you to have it." Vicky listens to the box and seems to fall under a trance as Barnabas begins to bare his fangs, but then suddenly we hear Burke calling out. Vicky snaps out of her trance and Barnabas closes up. Burke arrives and says "There you are, Vicky, I went to the house looking for you," adding "Good evening, Barnabas" with a grumble. Barnabas says "Good evening, Devlin." Burke sarcastically says "I'm not interrupting anything, am I?" Barnabas says "Nothing that cannot be continued at a different time. I must be going." Barnabas leaves as Burke watches with a sneer. "Such a strange, strange man.... he certainly seems fond of you for some reason." Vicky tells Burke she thought he was very rude, and that Barnabas had come to see her to give her a "very special gift." She shows Burke the music box, and he studies it for a moment. "Isn't the melody beautiful?" Vicky asks. "Not if it reminds me of Barnabas Collins," Burke scowls. "And now he's taken the thunder out of the gift I brought for you." Burke takes out the necklace that Vicky found in the west wing room and starts to put it around her neck. "I saw you admiring this in the window of that jeweler's the night we had dinner in Bangor. So I got it for you." Vicky runs her hand along the necklace and tells Burke how beautiful it is. He answers "It's only beautiful when it's worn by you," and then kisses her. We cut to Barnabas entering the old house, angry. Willie asks him why he's back so soon, and Barnabas growls "Devlin arrived on the scene. That man has an unusual gift for turning up at precisely the wrong time." Willie chuckles and says "Yeah, I think he kinda likes Miss Winters...." Barnabas snaps "No one asked you what you think. And no one cares. Devlin will have to be dealt with, and I shall deal with him in my own way." Willie panics (surprise!) and tells Barnabas that he "ought to lay low" until the police give up on finding Maggie's killer. "The police will not give up, Willie," Barnabas says. "Sooner or later, some sort of clue will lead them here....unless I act first." Willie humphs and says "Whaddaya gonna do, Barnabas? Get rid of all the police too?" Barnabas smiles and answers "Perhaps the entire town needs to be dealt with." Willie shudders.

Burke sits at the Blue Whale and looks at his watch. We hear his voice over as he continues with the story to Vicky. "That night at the Blue Whale, I met the person who changed my life forever..." Dr. Woodard enters and finds Burke, who asks him if his associate has arrived. "Parking the car outside," Woodard answers. "But I want to warn you, first. Dr. Hoffman is quite eccentric, and specializes in things you might find distasteful." Burke answers "I don't care if he uses voodoo dolls to find Maggie's killer, just as long as we find that maniac!" A tall man suddenly says "I'm not sure about the voodoo dolls, but then again, I have seen some things in Martinique that might surprise you." Woodard introduces the tall man to Burke. "Meet Dr. Julian Hoffman (Chris Pennock, in Cyrus Longworth mode). He's a specialist in the occult." Hoffman shakes Burke's hand as Burke asks "Occult? What is it about this town that makes everyone thing of boogeymen lurking around every corner?" Hoffman laughs and says "Not quite boogeymen, Mr. Devlin, but perhaps some other things only thought to exist in nightmares. Dave has shown me some of the evidence from the Maggie Evans file, and he swears to me that you'd be a much better ally in what we might be facing than the police." Burke looks at Woodard and then back at Hoffman. "What might we be facing?" Burke asks. Hoffman takes a deep breath and says "A vampire, Mr. Devlin." Burke is shocked, and we dissolve back to the west wing room where Burke is telling Vicky the story. "I couldn't believe what I was hearing, Vicky. For a moment I thought the man was crazy, but as time went on, I can only say that I wish he had been. I don't know about the parallel world you come from, but in this one, a vampire was all too real." Vicky turns away and thinks silently.

Burke is waiting for Vicky's reaction to this part of the story, and she tells him that "even though my world is different.... I want to hear the rest." Burke nods. We dissolve back to Willie, pacing in the old house. We hear him thinking "The whole town...he's gotta be kiddin' me.... he can't kill everyone in the whole town...I can't let that happen! I can't!" Huffing and puffing, Willie starts for the door, but then stops. "I can't...." he cries out. "I can't.....he won't let me...I can't....I can't!" Willie paces more and mutters "Vicky....maybe if I just tell her.....I gotta tell her something! I gotta do something!" He goes to the desk and takes out a pen and paper. "I'll write it down.... like I'm telling myself....like it's my diary.....that way, I'm not telling anyone...." He scribbles some stuff down as he rants and raves. With a little laugh, he puts the paper in his pocket and says "Now all I gotta do is leave this where someone'll find it!" He throws the door open and runs out. Near Collinwood, Willie comes up to the front door and is about to stick the paper in the doorknocker when Barnabas comes up behind him. "What are you doing here?" Barnabas asks. Willie fumfuhs and can't say anything and Barnabas notices the paper. "What is that? Give it to me. I gave you no note for anyone at Collinwood." Willie says "It's a note I wrote.....to Carolyn, that's all. It's private!" Barnabas grows suspicious and says "Your will is mine, Willie. You have no privacy. Give me that paper." Willie musters some strength and says "No!" and then builds up some more to yell "You can't see it!" as he tears it to shreds. Barnabas suddenly grabs him by the throat. "You idiot... I can see into your mind...do you think I really need to read what was on that paper? How DARE you BETRAY me!" Barnabas tightens his grip as Willie begs, and suddenly Barnabas drops him. "Run, Willie! Run for your miserable life!" Barnabas says, baring his fangs. "No...NO!" Willie cries as he starts to run through the woods. He hears Barnabas laughing as he runs through the woods, and then every sound scares him, driving him further into the darkness. He turns a corner and stops in his tracks - he stands at the cliff on widow's hill. As he turns back towards the woods, Barnabas stands before him. "How appropriate...." Barnabas sneers. "...that you should come here. That you should die here...." Willie screams "Noooooo!" as Barnabas steps closer.