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!"