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.