Episode 1502

Aired: Tuesday March 27, 1972

James Storm's voiceover: "It is a night of terror for those at the great house of Collinwood. A battle is underway, a battle for control over the power of everlasting life...a life that was given to Quentin Collins by a long vanquished enemy. But now, another enemy has plotted to transfer that immortality to himself, at the cost of Quentin's life, as well as many others...."

After a replay of Monday's close and the titles, Quentin doesn't know what to do as Chris begins to transform and Brian shouts "You have no choice! You must free me or we'll both die!" Quentin shouts back "There isn't enough time! If I open that door, Chris will escape as well!" Brian's eyes turn frantic and terrified, and he runs up to the bars screaming to be let free as we hear low growls coming from Chris. David grabs clumps of different herbs from Brian's array and suddenly jumps towards the cell. "Pass the portrait through the bars," he orders. "Then I'll give you these so you can transform and escape through them yourself! You'll turn into that bat again!" Quentin angrily shouts "David, what are you doing?" David snaps "Getting your portrait!" before turning back to Brian and commanding "Do it! You don't have any other choice!" Brian thinks a moment before another growl is heard, and quickly grabs the portrait and passes it through the bars to David, who hands it off to Quentin. Quentin smirks and says "Let's get out of here!" David says "No, I made a deal! I can't go back on my word!" Lori and Quentin both angrily shout at David how he can't let Brian go, but David insists that he has to go through with it. Brian smiles at first, but suddenly, Chris has turned into the werewolf and stands up, noticing Brian at the opposite side of the cell. Brian screams "David! Give me those herbs! Now!' David reaches his hand out.

As Quentin and Lori continue to yell at him, David hands Brian the herbs right before Quentin yanks David away. David protests "Stop it! You don't understand!" Brian gobbles up the herbs as Chris/Wolf snarls at him. David pulls away from Quentin and says "I read it in the book Stokes gave me! It should work!" Quentin wonders what he means until he sees Brian fade, but not into a small animal that can escape through the bars like the bat - Brian turns into a unicorn. Quentin and Lori gasp at the sight of it. "Oh my God...what did those herbs do?" Lori asks. "A unicorn...a mythical beast..." Quentin says before looking at David in amazement. Chris/Wolf lunges at the unicorn as it helplessly backs against the bars and we cut back to Lori revolted at what she's seeing. She hides her face in Quentin's embrace as he turns away, telling her it's all right. David watches with satisfaction as we hear the sounds of the snarling wolf tearing into the unicorn that's Brian, when suddenly the snarling stops. David yells "It worked! It worked!" Quentin turns, and inside the cell, a panting Chris has turned back into a human again. His face is somewhat bloody, but he is no longer the wolf. Brian is also lying in the cell, bleeding from his side and unconscious. Quentin walks to the bars saying "The legend.... the curse of the werewolf can be ended with swallowing the blood of a unicorn....Petofi told me that once, so long ago...." Quentin looks out the window and sees the full moon high in the sky before turning back to Chris, who stands and asks what happened. Quentin tells him "You're cured.... David found a way to cure you." Chris looks at the window and sees the moon and then looks himself over. "The moon... its risen, but I haven't changed!" He sees Brian laying on the floor and says "Is he dead?" Quentin says "I don't think so, it looks like he's still breathing. But I doubt he'll live very long." David searches through the still unconscious Barnabas' pockets and finds a key ring which he brings to the cell door. He opens the door and lets Chris out, who gives David a hug and thanks him for curing him, "even though I'm not quite sure how you did it." David explains how he read enough in the book on shamanism to know what herbs would transform Brian into the unicorn, "even though unicorns aren't supposed to exist. But neither are werewolves, so I figured it must work!" Julia and Angelique enter the laboratory and see the strange scene. Julia is shocked to see Chris, and Quentin tells her what David accomplished.

Angelique runs to the unconscious Barnabas and Julia tells Angelique that he'll be all right. Angelique says he'll only be all right after Brian Miller is dead. Chris says he wants to go clean himself up, and Lori tells him she'll want to run some last tests on his blood to make sure he's all right. She suggests they return to her lab. Julia tells Quentin that she and Angelique will see to Barnabas, and that he should get his portrait back to a "safe place at Collinwood." David asks what they'll do with Brian, who still lies unconscious and bloody. Angelique says "I will see to him, David. Why don't you go back with Quentin. You've done very well here tonight." David asks if Barnabas will be okay, and Angelique says "Yes. I can assure you that Barnabas himself will thank you for what you've done here." David looks at Barnabas a moment, and then says okay, leaving along with Quentin, Chris and Lori. Julia closes the door and says that Barnabas has been "knocked out mostly from the stress he's under." Angelique looks hatefully at Brian, and says "That stress will be gone once I squash this man like a bug." But when she takes a step towards him, the room suddenly grows dark. Julia gasps "What's happening?" as a flame begins to burn near Brian. Angelique steps back and tells Julia to "Leave here! Quickly!" but Julia refuses as the flame expands and suddenly bursts open into a glowing light surrounding the robed Diablos. "Angelique..." Diablos says. "This one is mine to control....unless you are ready to fulfill your bargain to me." Angelique doesn't say anything as Julia cowers and manages to mutter "It's...it's...." Angelique finishes her sentence with "...my old master, Julia. Come to make his claim."

Angelique stands before Diablos as Julia watches in terror. "I need more time," Angelique says. Diablos sneers and says "Miller thought he could evade his own bargain with me by cheating his way to everlasting life." Julia says "That's why Brian did it... he sold his soul to you for his powers, and then tried to use those powers to make his soul immortal and unavailable to you." Diablos answers "No one can cheat me as he discovered. But I am not through with him yet, for he still controls the one that Angelique has promised to me in her own place." Julia is shocked, and looks at Barnabas. "You promised Barnabas to him? How could you?" Julia is about to scream at Angelique, but Angelique silences her. "No!" she shouts. "I would never promise him Barnabas. I would give myself to save Barnabas!" Diablos says "Brian Miller has taken control of Josette DuPres through the vessel of Maggie Evans. Such a soul is pure and innocent... worth many times the soul of a Brian Miller alone." Julia says "Maggie... you can't let him take Maggie!" Angelique scowls "Julia, stay out of this! It's the only way to save Barnabas! Do you want to see him remain as Brian Miller's slave?" Julia says no, but insists there must be another way. Angelique says "I know you'll never trust me, Julia. I know your feelings all too well. But I must insist on you letting me handle this." She turns to Diablos and tells him that she will need more time, but Diablos says "There is but one way to bring the Evans girl...." He waves his arm and a wall of flame keeps Julia and Angelique at bay as Brian begins to stir. He gets up and holds his bloody wounds in pain, but then sees what is happening. Julia yells at Angelique to stop Brian, and Angelique says that she can't with the flames in her way. Brian manages a sneer and staggers to a different drawer from the herbs David took from. He opens the drawer and takes out another small bag of something before running out the door. As soon as he leaves, Diablos and the flames vanish. Barnabas begins to groan, and Julia says "Barnabas is coming to! But with Brian alive...." Angelique says "He'll still be under his control! Julia, keep Barnabas here. I have to go after Brian. It's what my master wanted." Julia says "But if it's what he wanted..." Angelique smiles and says "You should know me well enough by now to know that I always don't give what is expected of me." She leaves as Barnabas comes to with Julia kneeling next to him. "Julia!" he says. She tells him that she's there, and that she'll make sure he's okay. He takes her hand and smiles.