Aired: Friday March 30, 1972
Kathryn Leigh Scott's voiceover: "It is a dark night at the great estate of Collinwood, where that darkness covers plots and treachery against those who live at the great house. A last chance has been given by the master of all darkness to Brian Miller, who plans to save himself by sacrificing others. But as his plot unfolds, little does he realize how wide and how far his plotting will affect the Collins family, and its ultimate destiny...."
Angelique and Julia race through the woods after Barnabas, knowing they must find Brian to stop him. Suddenly, Angelique stops and holds her head as if in pain. Julia asks her if she's all right, and Angelique says "Yes...I think so...I... I....." Suddenly, her eyes open wide and she says "Julia! I'm having a vision! I see Barnabas!" Julia asks where he is, and Angelique says "Oh my God, Julia! No! No!" Angelique screams as Julia shouts "Angelique! Angelique! What is it?"
After the titles, Angelique is nearly out of breath and says "I know where Brian is taking Barnabas, and I know what he's planning!' Julia asks her how she knows and what did she see, and Angelique answers "I saw Barnabas.... and Maggie Evans!" Julia asks what Maggie was doing, and Angelique answers grimly "Holding Barnabas' hands as they both plunged off the cliff at Widow's Hill! That must be what Brian intends for them.... the shadows in my vision tell me that these events have not happened yet!" Julia says "We must get to Widow's Hill then! Why would Brian kill both of them? What would he have to gain?" Angelique answers "He must have concocted a new bargain with my master. After attempting to cheat him of his own soul by stealing Quentin's immortality, he had to promise him others in exchange, no doubt. And with Josette's soul awakened inside of Maggie, getting her and Barnabas together would give Diablos what he always craves..." Julia realizes the answer and says "Love...he would destroy souls in love and take them as his own!" Angelique says (with some jealousy) "Exactly! He came to me as well, threatening Barnabas unless I provided him..." Angelique stops talking, and Julia shakes her head. "No.... you didn't! You didn't promise Diablos Maggie in order to save Barnabas!" Angelique snaps "Julia, I had to make a bargain or else Barnabas would be destroyed! I can't let that happen! I can't ever let that happen! Even when he suffered under my curse, I watched over him....knowing someday, with enough time...he'd understand my true feelings." Julia tells Angelique that she "can't destroy Maggie! Barnabas feels such responsibility for her because of what he did when he was first freed from his coffin...he'd never forgive you if he knew it was you who caused her destruction!" Angelique says "We're wasting time. We must go to Widow's Hill!" Meanwhile, at Widow's Hill, Maggie walks to Barnabas and helplessly, he takes her hands as Brian watches, still wounded.
Barnabas takes Maggie's hands and they stand together near the edge of the cliff. Maggie looks around and shudders. "Why...why am I here?" Barnabas frets "It's my fault. Everything is my fault. I cannot help myself! I am under his control!" Maggie looks over towards Brian as the wind howls and whips through her hair and robe. Barnabas looks at her tearfully. "How like Josette you are....here...here at the saddest spot I have ever known...." Maggie thinks a moment and says "Josette...." Barnabas continues "I've tried so many times to make up for the pain I've caused you...and it's all led to here... to our deaths, deaths I can do nothing to prevent!" Maggie looks at Barnabas and says "Josette! You wanted me to be Josette... you gave me her music box, locked me up...locked me up in that room! You tried to kill me!" Maggie tries to pull away but cannot. Barnabas shouts "Yes...yes, I did all those things! I am willing to die for it all now if it meant saving you! I cannot live with the guilt any longer... knowing everything I did when I was under the control of that horrendous power that poisoned my very soul... the only shred of humanity I had left was my love for Josette....Josette who had run from me and chosen to die by jumping from this very cliff so long ago.... I could not face eternity alone." Maggie looks over Barnabas as he begins to weep, and she starts to feel sympathy. "But then you were no longer as you were. Somehow, you began to walk during the day.... and you helped me.... saved me from Roxanne... you risked your own life for me again and again...." Barnabas answers "I had to. I had no other choice." Maggie says "Because you still thought of me as Josette?' Barnabas answers "No. Because you are Maggie Evans." Brian steps into the picture and says "Confession is so good for the soul, is it not?" Barnabas looks at him angrily and shouts "I will find a way back from the grave and destroy you, Miller!" Brian laughs through his pain and says "This is the one place on Earth that I'd take such a threat seriously." Barnabas replies "You want to kill me to save yourself. I know that. But spare this girl, I beg of you! Spare this girl and let her be!" Brian fakes a pout and says "Oh, so gallant to the end, aren't we? It so happens I need this girl... I need her for a very special purpose before I finish with my plans." He takes the herbs from his pocket and tells Maggie. "You must eat these herbs if you wish to leave her tonight, Miss Evans." Maggie scowls "Why should I trust you?" Brian snickers and says "Because you have no other choice." Barnabas nods at her, and Brian feeds her the herbs.
Angelique and Julia continue to race through the woods when suddenly Angelique stops. Julia asks her "What is it now? Are you seeing anything else?" Angelique says "No...but I sense something... something is happening. We must hurry!" They run off as we cut back to cliffside. Maggie finishes eating the herbs and starts to blink a bit. She goes into a trance. Barnabas says angrily "What have you done to her?" Brian answers "Nothing harmful, Barnabas...actually, it's something quite extraordinary. If only I was going to let her live to fully experience the wonders I have just given her." Barnabas shouts "You monster! If only I could get my hands free...." Brian snickers. "Yes, caught in the grip of such a lovely creature....how ironic that all your strength cannot free you with my powers at work." Brian grimaces and holds his bloody side as he sits on a rock. Barnabas says "You're weakening, Miller. You're losing too much blood. If your evil master hadn't arrived to save you, you'd have died by now." Brian says "Ah, but my master wanted me alive because he knew I wouldn't disappoint him with you both. I need to regain more of my strength before I can restore Josette's spirit to Miss Evans." Barnabas, confused, says "Then what were those herbs for, if not to transform Maggie into Josette?" Brian says "A very special mixture, Barnabas. One that can only work under certain conditions..." Maggie suddenly snaps out of her trance and gets her bearings. "What happened?" she asks. Barnabas tells her about the herbs, and Maggie says "Yes...I remember. I also remember everything you said." Barnabas nods and says "I'm sorry. I wish you didn't have to remember that in your last moments." Maggie smiles at Barnabas, who is surprised. "Just like now...like the both of us... you were under a power beyond your control. You've gone beyond any sort of atonement..." Maggie takes a deep breath and says "I forgive you." Barnabas smiles in disbelief and says "That means...so much to me. You have no idea." Brian smiles and says "Excellent, Miss Evans. Excellent." Barnabas and Maggie wonder why he's so happy.
Brian says "Maggie's forgiving spirit was the catalyst my formula needed... it has now transformed her into someone quite special." Barnabas says "What are you talking about? She's still the same Maggie!" Brian answers "Quite true in some ways, but not in a very important one. Those herbs, when properly initialized by the proper emotional state, can bring about healing powers most astounding... and when Maggie forgave you for all of your past crimes against her, Maggie indeed transformed herself. A combination of a simple touch and her will alone are now enough to heal. And I don't need to remind you who controls her will, do I?" Barnabas realizes. "Your wounds... you need to heal your wounds before you can evoke Josette and complete your unholy bargain!" Brian answers "Exactly. And now, Miss Evans can perform that simple service, once I command her to." Maggie says "I won't! I won't help you!" Brian struggles to take a step closer and says "You have no choice, Miss Evans!" Maggie suddenly frees one of her hands, and Brian moves closer to her as she can't help but move it towards him. He's about to get close enough when Angelique shouts "Brian Miller! Get away from her!" Brian turns to see Angelique and Julia standing only a few feet away from him in the howling wind. Angelique scowls a hateful scowl as she walks towards him. "And get away from my husband....." Brian tries to move closer to Maggie's outstretched hand as Barnabas gasps....
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Episode 1504
Aired: Thursday March 29, 1972
After a replay of Wednesday's close and the titles, Quentin repeats his question to Harrison, who tells him that "You couldn't do anything for him now. His fate lies between two opposing forces greater than any of us." Quentin tells Harrison to "stop speaking in riddles." Harrison tells Quentin that Barnabas' fate is in Angelique's hands, and "I don't need to remind you what she is capable of." Quentin nods, but says "But I have to know... will he be all right?" Harrison thinks a moment and says "That depends on many things... mostly it depends on Barnabas himself..." We dissolve back to Barnabas beginning to stir in the laboratory with Julia at his side. He apologizes to her for "causing all of this trouble." Julia tells him that it wasn't his fault since he was "under Brian's monstrous control." Barnabas says that he "still feels Brian out there.... Brian must still be alive....I can feel his pull on my soul, Julia! I can feel it!' Julia tells Barnabas that he'll be all right "Once we find Brian and destroy him." Angelique comes back in and tells Julia and Barnabas that Brian escaped into the woods.
Julia tells Angelique that they must find Brian, and Angelique says that she knows. "Brian was hurt and bleeding... perhaps he won't last very long out there," Julia says. Angelique answers that "I don't know... he was freed for a reason. And I think I know what that reason was." We cut to Brian staggering through the woods, holding the wound at his side. He stumbles and falls to the ground. Brian examines the herbs he grabbed before escaping and smiles a little as he puts them into his pocket. "Only one way...." he gasps. He closes his eyes and begins to chant "Maggie...Maggie Evans... hear me, Maggie Evans...." We see an image form above Brian showing us how he sees Maggie...lying asleep in her bed at Collinwood. The more Brian calls her, the more she begins to stir. "Yes Maggie.... you must come to me again....you must come to me here in the woods.... I have a task for you." Maggie sits up awake and walks to the window. "I must go..." she says before putting on her robe and leaving her room. The image fades as Brian catches his breath and says "It won't be long now... now you will save me..... as your final act." At Collinwood, Maggie comes downstairs as if in a trance. Quentin and Harrison see her from the drawing room and Quentin says "Maggie? Where are you going?" She doesn't answer him and continues on towards the door. Quentin starts after her, but Harrison stops him. "Again?" Quentin snaps. "You know why she's here and where she's going?" Harrison says "Yes. She's fulfilling her own strange destiny." Quentin tells Harrison that he doesn't care "whatever supposed to happen if it means Maggie will be harmed." Harrison says "Don't worry... Maggie will not be harmed," though he says it ominously as Maggie walks out the front door.
In the woods, Brian continues to call for Maggie as he holds his bloody side. "I must...stay conscious...I must keep my mind about me..." he says. A small glowing light appears and then bursts into a ring of fire. Brian shields his eyes but sees a dark hooded figure step from the flames. "Have you forgotten your master so soon? Diablos says as he steps closer to Brian. Brian crawls backwards, afraid. "No, of course not..." Brian says. "It was I who allowed you to escape from the laboratory...who has kept you alive... have you not wondered why?" Diablos says, stepping closer to him. "If you're going to kill me, go ahead and do it," Brian says. "But you'll be depriving yourself of what I have planned for you." Diablos laughs. "Your plans are always so interesting. Trying to cheat your way out of our original bargain by obtaining immortality, stealing it from Quentin Collins...quite an original idea, I must say. But do you really think that I would allow that when you have promised me your soul?" Brian says "I can deliver more to you than just my soul." Diablos asks how, and Brian says "I control two souls that you desire more than mine. I control Barnabas Collins through my powers, as well as Josette DuPres through the vessel of Maggie Evans. I can give them both to you in exchange for my own...." Diablos says "I will not heal you in such an exchange. You are close to death, Brian Miller. If ye shall die on this night, I will still take your soul. However, if ye deliver Barnabas Collins and his precious love Josette to me while surviving this night, I will consider our bargain completed." Brian smiles and says "Done." Diablos says "Done," and steps backwards into the ring of fire before it and him vanish into a glowing light. Brian closes his eyes and begins to concentrate "Barnabas.... Barnabas Collins, hear me...." We cut back to Barnabas, who becomes more awake and starts to groan. Julia asks him what's wrong, and Barnabas says "Brian! He's...he's calling me!" Barnabas starts to get up.
Barnabas tries to stand as Julia tells him to "fight Brian." Barnabas insists that he "can't" and that he "must go." Angelique commands Barnabas to stop, and Barnabas says "Please... Angelique...I cannot fight his power over me! Don't you understand?" Angelique says "I understand, but my power is greater than his..." she puts her hands up and begins to cast a spell to keep Barnabas in his place, but he protests "No... don't....(and in his best James Dean impression shouts) you're tearing me apart!" Angelique continues her spell, but Julia shouts "Stop! You'll damage him!" Angelique snaps "How much more damaged can he be, while he's slave to Brian?" Barnabas shouts and tries to break free, knocking over some shelves. Julia shouts "You can't do this to Barnabas! We need to get to Brian and stop him somehow!" Barnabas smashes some test tubes on a desktop, and Angelique must raise her hands to block herself from the flying glass. When she does, her spell (and its accompanying music!) stops. Barnabas runs by her and out the door. Julia gets to Angelique and asks her if she's all right. Angelique says she's fine, but that they must follow after Barnabas "since he'll lead us right to Brian." They leave quickly, and we cut back to Brian calling for Barnabas. At the edge of the woods, Maggie appears and Brian sees her. He smiles. "Ah, Miss Evans..." he says. "You couldn't have come at a better time." She stands there innocently.
After a replay of Wednesday's close and the titles, Quentin repeats his question to Harrison, who tells him that "You couldn't do anything for him now. His fate lies between two opposing forces greater than any of us." Quentin tells Harrison to "stop speaking in riddles." Harrison tells Quentin that Barnabas' fate is in Angelique's hands, and "I don't need to remind you what she is capable of." Quentin nods, but says "But I have to know... will he be all right?" Harrison thinks a moment and says "That depends on many things... mostly it depends on Barnabas himself..." We dissolve back to Barnabas beginning to stir in the laboratory with Julia at his side. He apologizes to her for "causing all of this trouble." Julia tells him that it wasn't his fault since he was "under Brian's monstrous control." Barnabas says that he "still feels Brian out there.... Brian must still be alive....I can feel his pull on my soul, Julia! I can feel it!' Julia tells Barnabas that he'll be all right "Once we find Brian and destroy him." Angelique comes back in and tells Julia and Barnabas that Brian escaped into the woods.
Julia tells Angelique that they must find Brian, and Angelique says that she knows. "Brian was hurt and bleeding... perhaps he won't last very long out there," Julia says. Angelique answers that "I don't know... he was freed for a reason. And I think I know what that reason was." We cut to Brian staggering through the woods, holding the wound at his side. He stumbles and falls to the ground. Brian examines the herbs he grabbed before escaping and smiles a little as he puts them into his pocket. "Only one way...." he gasps. He closes his eyes and begins to chant "Maggie...Maggie Evans... hear me, Maggie Evans...." We see an image form above Brian showing us how he sees Maggie...lying asleep in her bed at Collinwood. The more Brian calls her, the more she begins to stir. "Yes Maggie.... you must come to me again....you must come to me here in the woods.... I have a task for you." Maggie sits up awake and walks to the window. "I must go..." she says before putting on her robe and leaving her room. The image fades as Brian catches his breath and says "It won't be long now... now you will save me..... as your final act." At Collinwood, Maggie comes downstairs as if in a trance. Quentin and Harrison see her from the drawing room and Quentin says "Maggie? Where are you going?" She doesn't answer him and continues on towards the door. Quentin starts after her, but Harrison stops him. "Again?" Quentin snaps. "You know why she's here and where she's going?" Harrison says "Yes. She's fulfilling her own strange destiny." Quentin tells Harrison that he doesn't care "whatever supposed to happen if it means Maggie will be harmed." Harrison says "Don't worry... Maggie will not be harmed," though he says it ominously as Maggie walks out the front door.
In the woods, Brian continues to call for Maggie as he holds his bloody side. "I must...stay conscious...I must keep my mind about me..." he says. A small glowing light appears and then bursts into a ring of fire. Brian shields his eyes but sees a dark hooded figure step from the flames. "Have you forgotten your master so soon? Diablos says as he steps closer to Brian. Brian crawls backwards, afraid. "No, of course not..." Brian says. "It was I who allowed you to escape from the laboratory...who has kept you alive... have you not wondered why?" Diablos says, stepping closer to him. "If you're going to kill me, go ahead and do it," Brian says. "But you'll be depriving yourself of what I have planned for you." Diablos laughs. "Your plans are always so interesting. Trying to cheat your way out of our original bargain by obtaining immortality, stealing it from Quentin Collins...quite an original idea, I must say. But do you really think that I would allow that when you have promised me your soul?" Brian says "I can deliver more to you than just my soul." Diablos asks how, and Brian says "I control two souls that you desire more than mine. I control Barnabas Collins through my powers, as well as Josette DuPres through the vessel of Maggie Evans. I can give them both to you in exchange for my own...." Diablos says "I will not heal you in such an exchange. You are close to death, Brian Miller. If ye shall die on this night, I will still take your soul. However, if ye deliver Barnabas Collins and his precious love Josette to me while surviving this night, I will consider our bargain completed." Brian smiles and says "Done." Diablos says "Done," and steps backwards into the ring of fire before it and him vanish into a glowing light. Brian closes his eyes and begins to concentrate "Barnabas.... Barnabas Collins, hear me...." We cut back to Barnabas, who becomes more awake and starts to groan. Julia asks him what's wrong, and Barnabas says "Brian! He's...he's calling me!" Barnabas starts to get up.
Barnabas tries to stand as Julia tells him to "fight Brian." Barnabas insists that he "can't" and that he "must go." Angelique commands Barnabas to stop, and Barnabas says "Please... Angelique...I cannot fight his power over me! Don't you understand?" Angelique says "I understand, but my power is greater than his..." she puts her hands up and begins to cast a spell to keep Barnabas in his place, but he protests "No... don't....(and in his best James Dean impression shouts) you're tearing me apart!" Angelique continues her spell, but Julia shouts "Stop! You'll damage him!" Angelique snaps "How much more damaged can he be, while he's slave to Brian?" Barnabas shouts and tries to break free, knocking over some shelves. Julia shouts "You can't do this to Barnabas! We need to get to Brian and stop him somehow!" Barnabas smashes some test tubes on a desktop, and Angelique must raise her hands to block herself from the flying glass. When she does, her spell (and its accompanying music!) stops. Barnabas runs by her and out the door. Julia gets to Angelique and asks her if she's all right. Angelique says she's fine, but that they must follow after Barnabas "since he'll lead us right to Brian." They leave quickly, and we cut back to Brian calling for Barnabas. At the edge of the woods, Maggie appears and Brian sees her. He smiles. "Ah, Miss Evans..." he says. "You couldn't have come at a better time." She stands there innocently.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Episode 1503
Aired: Wednesday March 28, 1972
In the foyer at Collinwood, the doors open and David enters. He looks around and then gives Quentin an all clear sign. Quentin enters carrying his covered portrait. He carries it upstairs as David stands near the drawing room doors to make sure they don't open. Once Quentin is upstairs, David steps away, and the doors open. Burke sees David and says "David! You're back!" Burke grabs David's shoulders and says "What happened? Where's Quentin?"
After the titles, David tells Burke that Quentin is "fine" and went upstairs for a minute. Burke asks David what happened, and David says "I'd rather tell you some other time, Burke." Burke is surprised, and says "I didn't know we were going to keep secrets from each other, David." David says "I'm sorry, I don't mean to. It's just that.... well.... there was someone who was trying to hurt friends of mine...." Burke says "This Brian Miller. I've heard a little about him." David says "Yeah. But he won't bother us anymore." Quentin comes downstairs as Harrison comes out of the kitchen with a piece of cake. Harrison smiles at Quentin and says "You're back. And with David, I assume?' Quentin smiles back. "You knew, didn't you? You knew everything that was going to happen, didn't you?" Harrison takes a bite of the cake and nods. "You told me all about it," he says with his mouth full. David and Burke come out of the drawing room and see Harrison and Quentin. Quentin says "Yes, David was an enormous help to all of us tonight." David looks at Harrison and says "Where'd you get that cake?" Harrison says "Mrs. Johnson made it this afternoon. There's plenty of it in the kitchen, no one has been around here all night." David excuses himself and runs into the kitchen. Burke laughs a little and says "Still a kid in some ways, I guess." Quentin nods and says "Becoming a man in others. That boy saved my life tonight, Burke. He also saved Chris Jennings and Lori Slater as well." Burke asks if they should call the police to go after Brian Miller, "if he was threatening your lives." Quentin says it won't be necessary. "Brian also made an enemy of Barnabas Collins, which means he'll be facing the wrath of someone much worse than the police." Burke, a little suspicious, asks "How dangerous is Barnabas Collins?" Quentin says "I'm not talking about Barnabas, I'm talking about his wife." Burke smiles at that and he and Quentin go into the drawing room with Harrison for drinks.
At Lori's lab, Lori looks over samples of Chris' blood as he paces, alternating between happiness and edginess. "Tell me, Doctor," he says. "Tell me I'm really cured! Tell me the next time that moon rises that the whole nightmare won't start over again." Lori says she's "nearly totally positive" that it won't since "your blood is now completely normal. All the chemical differences I noted when you were suffering have all totally vanished." Chris says "If only you could bottle unicorn blood, doctor, you'd have your miracle cure." Lori says "There's only one thing... I'll also need to test your sister in Boston." Chris says "Amy? Why?" Lori says that since the curse would cause any sons of Amy to also be "afflicted" she'd have to be tested, but since David had read that the unicorn blood would "end the curse" Lori says "I have a theory that Amy's blood should also be back to normal as well.... she should no longer be a carrier, as it were." Chris says "That means Quentin too.... he's no longer living under the curse." Lori says "Yes... the portrait will no longer change with the full moon, but it will still have its overriding effect on his mortality. If only that secret could be harnessed for science...." Chris raises an eyebrow and says "Trying to harness that secret is what drove Brian Miller to commit his evil acts. Maybe we should leave well enough alone." Lori wonders about that.
At Collinwood, Burke, Harrison and Quentin are in the drawing room drinking together when Roger comes in from outside. Quentin, a little tipsy, calls Roger in so that everyone can drink a toast to him. Roger wonders why "all the joviality" and Quentin says "Because of a wonderful thing you did, Roger. Having your son!" Roger snickers, and says "Oh dear, tell me. What's he done now?" Quentin says "He saved my life tonight, Roger! Something for which I'll be eternally grateful. And when I'm eternally grateful, I do so mean eternal...." Quentin staggers a bit, and Roger says "Oh, I do think you've had quite enough" as he leads him to the sofa. "Burke, what is he on about?" Burke tells Roger that Quentin said David had saved him and others from Brian Miller. Roger can't quite believe it, but Harrison says "He's not quite a boy anymore, really." Roger takes a drink and says "Yes, I know. It's hard for me to think of him in any other way, but I suppose I'll get used to it. Strange, really... I used to find so many of his childlike ways annoying at times, wishing he'd grow up. And now that it seems he is, I miss the child." Burke tells Roger that "everyone changes over time." Roger says "I suppose you're right. Perhaps we should drink to that." As they drink, Lori enters the house and finds the men in the drawing room. Roger says hello and tells her that Alan isn't around, but Lori says she hasn't come to see her father, but to see Quentin. Harrison leads Burke and Roger to the study as Lori closes the doors. Quentin looks at her and says "They'll talk.... knowing you and I are in here together." Lori says that she's come to say goodbye. Quentin says "What?" Lori tells Quentin "Not permanently, but for a while, at least. I want to go with Chris to Boston so I can run some tests on his sister." Quentin says "Oh, is that all? You don't have to make a big production out of..." Lori says "...and I might stay there. I'm not sure yet." Quentin raises an eyebrow and says "Oh?" Lori says "I... I don't know if I can stay with you, Quentin. I'll grow old through the years while you won't... it's just not what I had planned for my life." Quentin says "I...I don't know what to say. But I don't want to say goodbye." Lori says "I don't either," but runs from the room in tears.
In the study where David has finished telling Roger and Burke what happened that night. Roger tells David that he might have been killed, and David says "I had to do it. I knew Brian would underestimate me." Burke tells David "that was good thinking." David thanks Burke, and Burke tells him "After all, if I'm going to marry into this family, I'd better get used to treating you more like a man, right?" David says "You're going to marry Vicky?" Burke nods, and David hugs him. We dissolve to Quentin standing alone looking sullen when Harrison comes in. "She's gone, left," Quentin says. "But I suppose you knew that, since you know everything that's going to happen to me." Harrison tells Quentin he's sorry. "I know you're hurting now." Quentin manages a smile, and says "You must know everything I'm going to feel for years to come. I don't even need to live through any of it, all I need to do is ask you!" Harrison tells Quentin to "get control of himself." Quentin says that "there's no hope for me. I'll go on, living like this, unable to love anyone. Watching everyone I care about grow old and die while I stay here, year after year. Maybe I don't want to anymore!" Harrison tells Quentin "Don't talk like that. No one knows better than me that you will find a purpose to your strange existence, and you will find happiness, Quentin! I cannot tell you more than that, but you must trust me!" Quentin says "I knew you'd say that. See? I know the future too! Let's drink to it!"? Harrison sighs, and says "Quentin, Lori Slater left here to go to Boston, just as I knew she would. But you're forgetting someone." Quentin turns to him and says "Who?" Harrison says "I'm sure that by telling you, I won't be affecting anything. You're forgetting Joanna Slater. The one that reminds you of Beth Chavez." Quentin thinks a moment and says "Yes...she does. She went back to Boston as well." Suddenly, Quentin thinks a moment and says "How did you know she reminded me of...." Harrison smiles at Quentin. Quentin humphs, smiles and says "I'll take your word for it and just let things happen from now on. So now tell me... should I go back out there and try to help Barnabas?" Harrison thinks a moment.
In the foyer at Collinwood, the doors open and David enters. He looks around and then gives Quentin an all clear sign. Quentin enters carrying his covered portrait. He carries it upstairs as David stands near the drawing room doors to make sure they don't open. Once Quentin is upstairs, David steps away, and the doors open. Burke sees David and says "David! You're back!" Burke grabs David's shoulders and says "What happened? Where's Quentin?"
After the titles, David tells Burke that Quentin is "fine" and went upstairs for a minute. Burke asks David what happened, and David says "I'd rather tell you some other time, Burke." Burke is surprised, and says "I didn't know we were going to keep secrets from each other, David." David says "I'm sorry, I don't mean to. It's just that.... well.... there was someone who was trying to hurt friends of mine...." Burke says "This Brian Miller. I've heard a little about him." David says "Yeah. But he won't bother us anymore." Quentin comes downstairs as Harrison comes out of the kitchen with a piece of cake. Harrison smiles at Quentin and says "You're back. And with David, I assume?' Quentin smiles back. "You knew, didn't you? You knew everything that was going to happen, didn't you?" Harrison takes a bite of the cake and nods. "You told me all about it," he says with his mouth full. David and Burke come out of the drawing room and see Harrison and Quentin. Quentin says "Yes, David was an enormous help to all of us tonight." David looks at Harrison and says "Where'd you get that cake?" Harrison says "Mrs. Johnson made it this afternoon. There's plenty of it in the kitchen, no one has been around here all night." David excuses himself and runs into the kitchen. Burke laughs a little and says "Still a kid in some ways, I guess." Quentin nods and says "Becoming a man in others. That boy saved my life tonight, Burke. He also saved Chris Jennings and Lori Slater as well." Burke asks if they should call the police to go after Brian Miller, "if he was threatening your lives." Quentin says it won't be necessary. "Brian also made an enemy of Barnabas Collins, which means he'll be facing the wrath of someone much worse than the police." Burke, a little suspicious, asks "How dangerous is Barnabas Collins?" Quentin says "I'm not talking about Barnabas, I'm talking about his wife." Burke smiles at that and he and Quentin go into the drawing room with Harrison for drinks.
At Lori's lab, Lori looks over samples of Chris' blood as he paces, alternating between happiness and edginess. "Tell me, Doctor," he says. "Tell me I'm really cured! Tell me the next time that moon rises that the whole nightmare won't start over again." Lori says she's "nearly totally positive" that it won't since "your blood is now completely normal. All the chemical differences I noted when you were suffering have all totally vanished." Chris says "If only you could bottle unicorn blood, doctor, you'd have your miracle cure." Lori says "There's only one thing... I'll also need to test your sister in Boston." Chris says "Amy? Why?" Lori says that since the curse would cause any sons of Amy to also be "afflicted" she'd have to be tested, but since David had read that the unicorn blood would "end the curse" Lori says "I have a theory that Amy's blood should also be back to normal as well.... she should no longer be a carrier, as it were." Chris says "That means Quentin too.... he's no longer living under the curse." Lori says "Yes... the portrait will no longer change with the full moon, but it will still have its overriding effect on his mortality. If only that secret could be harnessed for science...." Chris raises an eyebrow and says "Trying to harness that secret is what drove Brian Miller to commit his evil acts. Maybe we should leave well enough alone." Lori wonders about that.
At Collinwood, Burke, Harrison and Quentin are in the drawing room drinking together when Roger comes in from outside. Quentin, a little tipsy, calls Roger in so that everyone can drink a toast to him. Roger wonders why "all the joviality" and Quentin says "Because of a wonderful thing you did, Roger. Having your son!" Roger snickers, and says "Oh dear, tell me. What's he done now?" Quentin says "He saved my life tonight, Roger! Something for which I'll be eternally grateful. And when I'm eternally grateful, I do so mean eternal...." Quentin staggers a bit, and Roger says "Oh, I do think you've had quite enough" as he leads him to the sofa. "Burke, what is he on about?" Burke tells Roger that Quentin said David had saved him and others from Brian Miller. Roger can't quite believe it, but Harrison says "He's not quite a boy anymore, really." Roger takes a drink and says "Yes, I know. It's hard for me to think of him in any other way, but I suppose I'll get used to it. Strange, really... I used to find so many of his childlike ways annoying at times, wishing he'd grow up. And now that it seems he is, I miss the child." Burke tells Roger that "everyone changes over time." Roger says "I suppose you're right. Perhaps we should drink to that." As they drink, Lori enters the house and finds the men in the drawing room. Roger says hello and tells her that Alan isn't around, but Lori says she hasn't come to see her father, but to see Quentin. Harrison leads Burke and Roger to the study as Lori closes the doors. Quentin looks at her and says "They'll talk.... knowing you and I are in here together." Lori says that she's come to say goodbye. Quentin says "What?" Lori tells Quentin "Not permanently, but for a while, at least. I want to go with Chris to Boston so I can run some tests on his sister." Quentin says "Oh, is that all? You don't have to make a big production out of..." Lori says "...and I might stay there. I'm not sure yet." Quentin raises an eyebrow and says "Oh?" Lori says "I... I don't know if I can stay with you, Quentin. I'll grow old through the years while you won't... it's just not what I had planned for my life." Quentin says "I...I don't know what to say. But I don't want to say goodbye." Lori says "I don't either," but runs from the room in tears.
In the study where David has finished telling Roger and Burke what happened that night. Roger tells David that he might have been killed, and David says "I had to do it. I knew Brian would underestimate me." Burke tells David "that was good thinking." David thanks Burke, and Burke tells him "After all, if I'm going to marry into this family, I'd better get used to treating you more like a man, right?" David says "You're going to marry Vicky?" Burke nods, and David hugs him. We dissolve to Quentin standing alone looking sullen when Harrison comes in. "She's gone, left," Quentin says. "But I suppose you knew that, since you know everything that's going to happen to me." Harrison tells Quentin he's sorry. "I know you're hurting now." Quentin manages a smile, and says "You must know everything I'm going to feel for years to come. I don't even need to live through any of it, all I need to do is ask you!" Harrison tells Quentin to "get control of himself." Quentin says that "there's no hope for me. I'll go on, living like this, unable to love anyone. Watching everyone I care about grow old and die while I stay here, year after year. Maybe I don't want to anymore!" Harrison tells Quentin "Don't talk like that. No one knows better than me that you will find a purpose to your strange existence, and you will find happiness, Quentin! I cannot tell you more than that, but you must trust me!" Quentin says "I knew you'd say that. See? I know the future too! Let's drink to it!"? Harrison sighs, and says "Quentin, Lori Slater left here to go to Boston, just as I knew she would. But you're forgetting someone." Quentin turns to him and says "Who?" Harrison says "I'm sure that by telling you, I won't be affecting anything. You're forgetting Joanna Slater. The one that reminds you of Beth Chavez." Quentin thinks a moment and says "Yes...she does. She went back to Boston as well." Suddenly, Quentin thinks a moment and says "How did you know she reminded me of...." Harrison smiles at Quentin. Quentin humphs, smiles and says "I'll take your word for it and just let things happen from now on. So now tell me... should I go back out there and try to help Barnabas?" Harrison thinks a moment.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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.
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.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Episode 1501
Aired: Monday March 26, 1972
In a repeat of Friday's close, Quentin bangs on the door of the old house and then enters, looking for Barnabas, who isn't there. Quentin calls for him a couple of times, and there is no answer. Quentin notices something on the stairway, and a closer look reveals a few drops of blood. "Blood...." Quentin thinks. "Barnabas is in trouble too... I must find Angelique or Julia.....or else I'll have to face Brian alone...." Outside, Brian points towards the house as Barnabas, powerless and shaking with near tears in his eyes, walks towards the front steps holding a gun....
After the titles, Quentin comes out of the old house and closes the door behind him. He sees Barnabas, and calls to him. "Barnabas! What's happened?" is all he can say before he sees the gun. Quentin grows concerned and sees Barnabas looking fretful. "What's wrong with you? Put that gun down!" Barnabas struggles to say "I....cannot! I must take you with me..." Quentin snaps "You don't have to do that, Barnabas! If Brian is making you do this somehow, you must fight him!" Barnabas cries "I cannot! Don't you understand? I've....I've been bitten...." Quentin gasps "Barnabas, no! We need to find Julia! Or Angelique! They can help you!" Barnabas moans "There is no help for me now...not anymore. You must come with me. Please, Quentin, don't resist! I cannot have any harm done to anyone on my conscience!" Quentin asks where they are going, and Barnabas says "I can't tell you...I'm sorry." Quentin says "It's okay, I think I know. And when I get there, believe me Barnabas, I'll do whatever I can to free you from this!" As they walk off, we see Brian watching and snickering before following them out of sight. A moment or so later, David steps out of the woods, after watching what has happened. "Brian has control of Barnabas somehow," we hear him thinking. "And now he wants Quentin too... I've got to do something!" He hears someone approaching and runs out of sight. It's Julia, who passes him on her way to the old house. We cut to the old house door being opened and Julia entering. She calls for Barnabas and then sees the blood on the stairway. "No...dear God no!" she says as Angelique enters. "What's happened?" Angelique asks. "What we've feared...what we've always feared..." Julia answers. Angelique grabs her and says "What are you saying? Are you telling me Barnabas is dead?" Julia says "No... but Brian has taken him." Angelique gasps.
Angelique wonders aloud if Barnabas has been turned back into a vampire, but Julia thinks a moment and says "No... how could Brian gain from that? Think about it... Barnabas as a vampire means Barnabas would have great powers independent of Brian's control." Angelique nods and says "Yes, you're right. But not as a slave of the bat Brian became, which would give Barnabas no control. Julia, we must free him!" Julia agrees, and Angelique gets some fire in her eyes when she says "And the only way to do that will be to destroy Brian Miller...something I shall take great pleasure in." We cut to Barnabas marching Quentin up the steps of Rose Cottage. "Somehow I knew we'd be coming to Brian's lab. I only wish I knew why. But I suppose you won't tell me his plans, will you?" Barnabas says "I don't know them...I only know what I must do." He leads Quentin inside, and we cut to Chris and Lori locked in the cell with Quentin's portrait as they hear footsteps. The door to the lab opens, and Quentin is marched in by Barnabas, holding the gun on him. Quentin sees them and calls out to both of them before running to the bars. "Are you all right?" he asks Lori, who nods, answering "Brian has gone insane!" Brian enters and laughs. "Not quite, my dear. Barnabas, you've done well. With Chris Jennings, Quentin Collins and that wonderful portrait all together in one place, we shall soon see the fruits of my genius. And you, my dear Dr. Slater, will witness that genius in your last moments on this Earth!" Barnabas shudders and says "You can't kill her! You can't kill any of them!" Brian says "You're in no position to think for yourself anymore, Barnabas. And get used to that feeling! I only need to prepare things just a bit..." Brian walks up to Quentin and slides a knife blade across his cheek. Lori shrieks and Quentin pulls away, but Brian says "Calm yourself, my dear. I've done him no harm. Remember what effect that portrait has on our friend." Quentin feels his face, which is not bleeding, but we see that some blood has begun to run from the old decaying face in the portrait. "Your immortal blood, now fresh upon that portrait....and with Mr. Jennings as the other end of your curse serving as the catalyst for mixing the two together, I shall have the means to transfer the power of that portrait into my own veins." Quentin snarls "What are you talking about?" just we see David approaching the door to the lab from outside, where he can listen in. Brian continues "As long as Jennings mixes your blood with the shreds of paint from that portrait after the moon rises and he is transformed, the resulting mixture could give me your everlasting life if transfused into my own blood." Quentin says "Lori's right, you are insane!" Lori thinks a moment, and says "No, Quentin... it could be possible! Especially if he's prepared himself with some sort of herbal treatment to prepare his blood for the shock." Brian snickers "Exactly right, doctor." Barnabas shouts "But if that portrait is shredded, then Quentin will revert to the rotting corpse it depicts! He'll die!" Brian says "A necessary sacrifice for my enduring existence. And with Lori Slater in the same cage, at least he'll die with someone he cares for, right Mr. Jennings?" Chris snarls "I'll kill you when I get the chance, Miller." Brian smiles and says "I don't think so," and removes some silver bullets from his pocket and drops them on the table. "Because once I get what I want, you are no longer of any use to me."
Brian orders Barnabas to get Quentin into the cell. As Barnabas begins to unlock the door, David sneaks into the lab and is seen by Chris and Lori as he sneaks under a table towards where Brian keeps his herbs. Barnabas opens the door and holds the gun on Quentin when suddenly, David bumps the table and it makes a noise. Barnabas and Brian are distracted, and Quentin grabs Barnabas' arm and begins to struggle for the gun. "Barnabas, don't fight me," Quentin says. Barnabas struggles with Quentin and with himself, saying "I...cannot help myself...." Quentin pushes Barnabas away and the gun flies out of his hand. Brian takes a step towards it, but Quentin grabs him as Lori runs out of the cell. She calls for Chris, but Chris says "No... I can't! The moon is about to rise!" Quentin throws Brian into the cell, and he hits the wall hard. Quentin slams the cell bars shut as Barnabas goes for the gun. When he gets there, a foot steps on it and when Barnabas looks up, it's David. "David!" he gasps. David says "Fight it, Barnabas!" Barnabas grabs the gun and tries to get it out from David's foot as Brian gets up and yells "Kill him! Barnabas, I order you to kill David!" Barnabas gets the gun out from David's foot and stands pointing it at him as Quentin yells "Barnabas! No!" Chris lunges at Brian and begins to strangle him. Meanwhile, Julia and Angelique are moving quickly through the woods towards Rose Cottage. Julia says "I thought I saw David going in there a moment ago." Angelique asks "Why would David be there?" Julia says "He's been insisting on helping us...reading about herbs and shamanism... he said he came across some things that could help." Angelique says "He's young... but he's no longer a child. Perhaps he will be able to help." Back at the lab, David shudders as Barnabas points the gun at him. From inside the cell, Chris chokes Brian as he manages to say "Kill him! Quickly!"
Barnabas' hand begins to shake as Brian continues to order him to shoot. Quentin tells Barnabas to "keep fighting it" and David says "Barnabas.... you can't....remember our gentleman's agreement.... we're always there to look out for each other..." Barnabas gasps as he suddenly jerks away from David and fires off to the side. "Quentin.....stop me! Quickly! Before I turn back!" he yells. Quentin runs over towards him and says "You asked for it," before decking him and knocking him out. Quentin shakes his punching hand from the force of the blow and says "I know you'll forgive me, old friend..." Chris suddenly drops a gasping Brian and falls away, groaning in pain. "It's happening!" Chris yells. We cut to a shot of the moon beginning to rise. Brian backs away in terror. "He's transforming! Get me out of here!" Quentin begins to laugh, saying "How perfect for you, Miller, to get torn apart by the very force you thought would give you everlasting life!" Lori says "No, Quentin! Your portrait is still in there! It'll get torn apart too!" Quentin realizes this, and says "But if we open that door, Brian will get away!" Brian grabs ahold of the portrait and says "It's your choice, Quentin" with an evil smile as Chris continues to groan, suddenly holding up a hairy wolf's paw instead of his own hand....
In a repeat of Friday's close, Quentin bangs on the door of the old house and then enters, looking for Barnabas, who isn't there. Quentin calls for him a couple of times, and there is no answer. Quentin notices something on the stairway, and a closer look reveals a few drops of blood. "Blood...." Quentin thinks. "Barnabas is in trouble too... I must find Angelique or Julia.....or else I'll have to face Brian alone...." Outside, Brian points towards the house as Barnabas, powerless and shaking with near tears in his eyes, walks towards the front steps holding a gun....
After the titles, Quentin comes out of the old house and closes the door behind him. He sees Barnabas, and calls to him. "Barnabas! What's happened?" is all he can say before he sees the gun. Quentin grows concerned and sees Barnabas looking fretful. "What's wrong with you? Put that gun down!" Barnabas struggles to say "I....cannot! I must take you with me..." Quentin snaps "You don't have to do that, Barnabas! If Brian is making you do this somehow, you must fight him!" Barnabas cries "I cannot! Don't you understand? I've....I've been bitten...." Quentin gasps "Barnabas, no! We need to find Julia! Or Angelique! They can help you!" Barnabas moans "There is no help for me now...not anymore. You must come with me. Please, Quentin, don't resist! I cannot have any harm done to anyone on my conscience!" Quentin asks where they are going, and Barnabas says "I can't tell you...I'm sorry." Quentin says "It's okay, I think I know. And when I get there, believe me Barnabas, I'll do whatever I can to free you from this!" As they walk off, we see Brian watching and snickering before following them out of sight. A moment or so later, David steps out of the woods, after watching what has happened. "Brian has control of Barnabas somehow," we hear him thinking. "And now he wants Quentin too... I've got to do something!" He hears someone approaching and runs out of sight. It's Julia, who passes him on her way to the old house. We cut to the old house door being opened and Julia entering. She calls for Barnabas and then sees the blood on the stairway. "No...dear God no!" she says as Angelique enters. "What's happened?" Angelique asks. "What we've feared...what we've always feared..." Julia answers. Angelique grabs her and says "What are you saying? Are you telling me Barnabas is dead?" Julia says "No... but Brian has taken him." Angelique gasps.
Angelique wonders aloud if Barnabas has been turned back into a vampire, but Julia thinks a moment and says "No... how could Brian gain from that? Think about it... Barnabas as a vampire means Barnabas would have great powers independent of Brian's control." Angelique nods and says "Yes, you're right. But not as a slave of the bat Brian became, which would give Barnabas no control. Julia, we must free him!" Julia agrees, and Angelique gets some fire in her eyes when she says "And the only way to do that will be to destroy Brian Miller...something I shall take great pleasure in." We cut to Barnabas marching Quentin up the steps of Rose Cottage. "Somehow I knew we'd be coming to Brian's lab. I only wish I knew why. But I suppose you won't tell me his plans, will you?" Barnabas says "I don't know them...I only know what I must do." He leads Quentin inside, and we cut to Chris and Lori locked in the cell with Quentin's portrait as they hear footsteps. The door to the lab opens, and Quentin is marched in by Barnabas, holding the gun on him. Quentin sees them and calls out to both of them before running to the bars. "Are you all right?" he asks Lori, who nods, answering "Brian has gone insane!" Brian enters and laughs. "Not quite, my dear. Barnabas, you've done well. With Chris Jennings, Quentin Collins and that wonderful portrait all together in one place, we shall soon see the fruits of my genius. And you, my dear Dr. Slater, will witness that genius in your last moments on this Earth!" Barnabas shudders and says "You can't kill her! You can't kill any of them!" Brian says "You're in no position to think for yourself anymore, Barnabas. And get used to that feeling! I only need to prepare things just a bit..." Brian walks up to Quentin and slides a knife blade across his cheek. Lori shrieks and Quentin pulls away, but Brian says "Calm yourself, my dear. I've done him no harm. Remember what effect that portrait has on our friend." Quentin feels his face, which is not bleeding, but we see that some blood has begun to run from the old decaying face in the portrait. "Your immortal blood, now fresh upon that portrait....and with Mr. Jennings as the other end of your curse serving as the catalyst for mixing the two together, I shall have the means to transfer the power of that portrait into my own veins." Quentin snarls "What are you talking about?" just we see David approaching the door to the lab from outside, where he can listen in. Brian continues "As long as Jennings mixes your blood with the shreds of paint from that portrait after the moon rises and he is transformed, the resulting mixture could give me your everlasting life if transfused into my own blood." Quentin says "Lori's right, you are insane!" Lori thinks a moment, and says "No, Quentin... it could be possible! Especially if he's prepared himself with some sort of herbal treatment to prepare his blood for the shock." Brian snickers "Exactly right, doctor." Barnabas shouts "But if that portrait is shredded, then Quentin will revert to the rotting corpse it depicts! He'll die!" Brian says "A necessary sacrifice for my enduring existence. And with Lori Slater in the same cage, at least he'll die with someone he cares for, right Mr. Jennings?" Chris snarls "I'll kill you when I get the chance, Miller." Brian smiles and says "I don't think so," and removes some silver bullets from his pocket and drops them on the table. "Because once I get what I want, you are no longer of any use to me."
Brian orders Barnabas to get Quentin into the cell. As Barnabas begins to unlock the door, David sneaks into the lab and is seen by Chris and Lori as he sneaks under a table towards where Brian keeps his herbs. Barnabas opens the door and holds the gun on Quentin when suddenly, David bumps the table and it makes a noise. Barnabas and Brian are distracted, and Quentin grabs Barnabas' arm and begins to struggle for the gun. "Barnabas, don't fight me," Quentin says. Barnabas struggles with Quentin and with himself, saying "I...cannot help myself...." Quentin pushes Barnabas away and the gun flies out of his hand. Brian takes a step towards it, but Quentin grabs him as Lori runs out of the cell. She calls for Chris, but Chris says "No... I can't! The moon is about to rise!" Quentin throws Brian into the cell, and he hits the wall hard. Quentin slams the cell bars shut as Barnabas goes for the gun. When he gets there, a foot steps on it and when Barnabas looks up, it's David. "David!" he gasps. David says "Fight it, Barnabas!" Barnabas grabs the gun and tries to get it out from David's foot as Brian gets up and yells "Kill him! Barnabas, I order you to kill David!" Barnabas gets the gun out from David's foot and stands pointing it at him as Quentin yells "Barnabas! No!" Chris lunges at Brian and begins to strangle him. Meanwhile, Julia and Angelique are moving quickly through the woods towards Rose Cottage. Julia says "I thought I saw David going in there a moment ago." Angelique asks "Why would David be there?" Julia says "He's been insisting on helping us...reading about herbs and shamanism... he said he came across some things that could help." Angelique says "He's young... but he's no longer a child. Perhaps he will be able to help." Back at the lab, David shudders as Barnabas points the gun at him. From inside the cell, Chris chokes Brian as he manages to say "Kill him! Quickly!"
Barnabas' hand begins to shake as Brian continues to order him to shoot. Quentin tells Barnabas to "keep fighting it" and David says "Barnabas.... you can't....remember our gentleman's agreement.... we're always there to look out for each other..." Barnabas gasps as he suddenly jerks away from David and fires off to the side. "Quentin.....stop me! Quickly! Before I turn back!" he yells. Quentin runs over towards him and says "You asked for it," before decking him and knocking him out. Quentin shakes his punching hand from the force of the blow and says "I know you'll forgive me, old friend..." Chris suddenly drops a gasping Brian and falls away, groaning in pain. "It's happening!" Chris yells. We cut to a shot of the moon beginning to rise. Brian backs away in terror. "He's transforming! Get me out of here!" Quentin begins to laugh, saying "How perfect for you, Miller, to get torn apart by the very force you thought would give you everlasting life!" Lori says "No, Quentin! Your portrait is still in there! It'll get torn apart too!" Quentin realizes this, and says "But if we open that door, Brian will get away!" Brian grabs ahold of the portrait and says "It's your choice, Quentin" with an evil smile as Chris continues to groan, suddenly holding up a hairy wolf's paw instead of his own hand....
Friday, March 5, 2010
Episode 1500
Aired: Friday March 23, 1972
After a replay of Thursday's close and the titles, Barnabas sits on the stairs looking very depressed as Brian stands over him. "You understand, now, don't you Mr. Collins?' Brian says. Barnabas only nods weakly. "Once again, you have underestimated me, and now you have lost your will as a result." Brian sneers. "How ironic it must feel for you, Barnabas, after all the others you've put into the position you are in now. A mindless servant, powerless to do anything other than my bidding." Barnabas gasps "But I don't understand! You are not a vampire! You only changed yourself into that....that creature!" Brian laughs. "How right you are! And it gives me great advantage to lack the vulnerabilities of a true vampire, yet possess much of the power associated with one. True, I can't dematerialize at will, but like a vampire who possesses one such as yourself, as long as I live you will do my bidding." Barnabas snarls "You're mortal... as long as you live might not be as long as you think." Brian replies "I am making great effort towards those ends. Even now, my plans for achieving true immortality are coming together. And not only is there nothing you can do to stop me, you are going to help me, whether you like it or not!" Brian laughs as Barnabas cannot fight him. Meanwhile, Roger enters the drawing room and finds Vicky. She tells Roger she's been waiting for him, and Roger wonders why. "Because someone very important to me has returned, and I wanted to tell you first, so that you wouldn't be shocked or react badly." Roger can't figure out why Vicky is acting this way, and says "Why are you being so absurd? Who could possibly have that effect on me?" Burke enters the room and says "I suppose I could, Roger." Roger drops his glass to the floor almost as fast as his jaw. Burke smiles and says "I'm back!"
Roger gasps "How? It's been years! How did it...." Burke says "It's a long story, and I won't bore you with it. Suffice to say that once I knew Vicky was here, I couldn't stay away." Roger snarls "Well, I cannot tell Vicky who she can and cannot be fond of, and though I must admit I'm happy for her that you're still alive, I..." Burke cuts him off and says "Charming as always. Roger, relax. Don't think of me as an enemy, please. I don't think of you as one." Roger says "I find that hard to believe, almost as hard to believe as you standing here right now." Burke says "Roger, I've been through a lot. A lot of things that made me really look at the value of life and death. And our arguments, our problems with each other, well, they don't really stack up against some of those things. Our fight seems so petty next to some of the things I've discovered are truly valuable. I don't care about those five years in prison, that's all in the past. I only care about the future. A future for Vicky and me, and whether or not either of us like it, you'll be part of that future. Maybe we might only be able to tolerate each other, but that'll be a start, don't you think?" Roger looks him over as Vicky takes Burke's hands. Roger sighs. "You certainly sound different. I never cease to amazed at what the passage of time can do. I don't want to fight with you anymore." Burke smiles and says that pleases him greatly, and Vicky thanks Roger since she was worried about how he'd feel about Burke returning. Roger says "Does he know all about you? Who you are?" Burke says "Yes, and I intend to marry her anyway." Roger knew it was coming, but still doesn't like hearing it.
Vicky is with Liz, asking her how she's feeling. Liz says she's fine, only she was shocked at what she saw in the west wing room. "It was like a strange dream....I saw myself and my father....only things were different..." Vicky says "A strange thing is happening in the west wing where our dreams and wishes become real for a few moments. Harrison says it's like that strange room in the east wing that Barnabas discovered." Liz says "I'd hate to have to close up that part of the house again. Poor Quentin, we'd have to move all of his things..." Vicky says that "Harrison thinks he might be able to stop the phenomena from happening. He's....studied such things." Liz is surprised and says "I wonder how you study such things. Maybe I shouldn't be asking. Carolyn wants to study the same kind of strange things in Europe. I hope she gets that scholarship. It would be such a good thing for her." Vicky says that Carolyn seems to know what her future will be. Liz says "And you? With Burke returned? What of your future?" Vicky says "You're a step ahead of me. I wanted to tell you before I told anyone else because I wanted your blessing. Burke has asked me to marry him." Liz tells Vicky "that's wonderful" and gives her a hug. "I wasn't sure how you'd react," Vicky says. Liz shrugs and says "There was a time when I hated him and he wanted to destroy this family out of revenge....there was even a time when it wouldn't have been my place to give such a blessing...but a lot of time has passed. And now, I think of the irony....that a man who considered himself my enemy will be marrying my.... daughter." Vicky says "It is strange." Liz says "Right when you were growing interested in how the business operates...I suppose now you won't pursue that...." Vicky says "I'm not sure. After all, someone will need to oversee any combined business operations of the Collinses and Burke Devlin. Why not Mrs. Burke Devlin?" Liz smiles at Vicky. In the west wing, Harrison has told Quentin why he has returned. "I sympathize with your problems, Harrison," Quentin says. "But we have some of our own here, now. Barnabas and I have an enemy who has been making trouble, a man named Brian Miller, who possesses some strange powers." Harrison nods, and says "I see...." Quentin thinks a moment, and says "Wait a moment. If you're from my future, you should know what happened between Miller and me. You could tell me what I need to do!" Harrison says "No, I'm afraid I cannot. If I got involved, I might alter what must happen in order to protect the world I live in." Quentin says "I know that's true, but it's still not the answer I want!" Harrison says "All I can tell you is that I cannot become involved. Things must happen the way they are meant to." Quentin nods, and then smiles. "Well, dear cousin, you came back in time to save us all once before. I'll assume that if you don't need to this time, we'll do all right by ourselves." Before Harrison can answer, there is a knock at the door. Quentin opens his door, and sees Burke. "Quentin Collins?" Burke says. Quentin says yes, and Burke introduces himself. "Harrison mentioned you," Quentin says. "A friend of Vicky's." Burke says "More than a friend. We're engaged." Quentin says "Well, that calls for celebration! We should go downstairs for a round of brandies." Burke says fine, and then says "I'm sorry to intrude on the two of you, but David insisted repeatedly that I meet you, and he's tough for me to turn down. He was very sure that we'd become good friends." Quentin grows curious. "David?" Burke says "Yes, David and I were very good friends before I went away long ago. I'm amazed at how big he's gotten. How much he's changed. Roger was never crazy about David's fondness for me, but there you are." Quentin laughs a little and says "I think David might have been right about us getting along. Let's go have that drink." The three of them leave Quentin's room, but as they head down the hallway, Quentin notices the door to the attic is open a crack. Harrison asks him if he's coming, and Quentin says "I'll be with you in a minute. Go on, I need to see something." Quentin runs up the staircase into the attic and sees the portrait gone. He looks around the empty room frantically.
Downstairs, Harrison and Burke are having a drink, wondering where Quentin is. Quentin runs down the hallway in a panic when David peeps out of his room. David asks Quentin what's wrong, and Quentin says "Nothing, forget it" but David follows him. Quentin runs down the stairs and grabs his coat. Burke asks him what's going on, and Quentin apologizes. "Something very important has come up, I have to go." Before Quentin can leave, Burke says "Can I help with anything?" Quentin stops and turns, and says "Thank you, but I really shouldn't involve you in this. Not after what Vicky went through to get you here. I can handle my enemies, and I promise you we'll be having that drink.... and many others together." Quentin goes out the door just as David comes down the stairs. "Where did he say he was going?" David asks. Burke says "He wouldn't say. But he seemed like he was in some trouble." David says "I'd better follow him." and gets his coat. Burke says "Whoa, David! Whoa! Quentin didn't want us following him, I think he wouldn't want you to be in any danger either." David says "You don't understand! I know how to help him, if it's what I think it is!" David runs out as Burke shouts for him to stop. After David is gone, Burke tells Harrison "Come on, we'd better go after David and bring him back here." Harrison puts his hand on Burke's shoulder and says "No, we shouldn't do that." Burke says "What are you talking about?" Harrison says "Vicky told you enough about me and my knowledge of time. You must trust me. David must go after Quentin. It's his destiny." Burke looks at Harrison and then at the doors, wondering what Harrison means. Meanwhile, at the old house, Quentin bangs on the door and then enters, looking for Barnabas, who isn't there. Quentin calls for him a couple of times, and there is no answer. Quentin notices something on the stairway, and a closer look reveals a few drops of blood. "Blood...." Quentin thinks. "Barnabas is in trouble too... I must find Angelique or Julia.....or else I'll have to face Brian alone...." Outside, Brian points towards the house as Barnabas, powerless and shaking with near tears in his eyes, walks towards the front steps holding a gun....
After a replay of Thursday's close and the titles, Barnabas sits on the stairs looking very depressed as Brian stands over him. "You understand, now, don't you Mr. Collins?' Brian says. Barnabas only nods weakly. "Once again, you have underestimated me, and now you have lost your will as a result." Brian sneers. "How ironic it must feel for you, Barnabas, after all the others you've put into the position you are in now. A mindless servant, powerless to do anything other than my bidding." Barnabas gasps "But I don't understand! You are not a vampire! You only changed yourself into that....that creature!" Brian laughs. "How right you are! And it gives me great advantage to lack the vulnerabilities of a true vampire, yet possess much of the power associated with one. True, I can't dematerialize at will, but like a vampire who possesses one such as yourself, as long as I live you will do my bidding." Barnabas snarls "You're mortal... as long as you live might not be as long as you think." Brian replies "I am making great effort towards those ends. Even now, my plans for achieving true immortality are coming together. And not only is there nothing you can do to stop me, you are going to help me, whether you like it or not!" Brian laughs as Barnabas cannot fight him. Meanwhile, Roger enters the drawing room and finds Vicky. She tells Roger she's been waiting for him, and Roger wonders why. "Because someone very important to me has returned, and I wanted to tell you first, so that you wouldn't be shocked or react badly." Roger can't figure out why Vicky is acting this way, and says "Why are you being so absurd? Who could possibly have that effect on me?" Burke enters the room and says "I suppose I could, Roger." Roger drops his glass to the floor almost as fast as his jaw. Burke smiles and says "I'm back!"
Roger gasps "How? It's been years! How did it...." Burke says "It's a long story, and I won't bore you with it. Suffice to say that once I knew Vicky was here, I couldn't stay away." Roger snarls "Well, I cannot tell Vicky who she can and cannot be fond of, and though I must admit I'm happy for her that you're still alive, I..." Burke cuts him off and says "Charming as always. Roger, relax. Don't think of me as an enemy, please. I don't think of you as one." Roger says "I find that hard to believe, almost as hard to believe as you standing here right now." Burke says "Roger, I've been through a lot. A lot of things that made me really look at the value of life and death. And our arguments, our problems with each other, well, they don't really stack up against some of those things. Our fight seems so petty next to some of the things I've discovered are truly valuable. I don't care about those five years in prison, that's all in the past. I only care about the future. A future for Vicky and me, and whether or not either of us like it, you'll be part of that future. Maybe we might only be able to tolerate each other, but that'll be a start, don't you think?" Roger looks him over as Vicky takes Burke's hands. Roger sighs. "You certainly sound different. I never cease to amazed at what the passage of time can do. I don't want to fight with you anymore." Burke smiles and says that pleases him greatly, and Vicky thanks Roger since she was worried about how he'd feel about Burke returning. Roger says "Does he know all about you? Who you are?" Burke says "Yes, and I intend to marry her anyway." Roger knew it was coming, but still doesn't like hearing it.
Vicky is with Liz, asking her how she's feeling. Liz says she's fine, only she was shocked at what she saw in the west wing room. "It was like a strange dream....I saw myself and my father....only things were different..." Vicky says "A strange thing is happening in the west wing where our dreams and wishes become real for a few moments. Harrison says it's like that strange room in the east wing that Barnabas discovered." Liz says "I'd hate to have to close up that part of the house again. Poor Quentin, we'd have to move all of his things..." Vicky says that "Harrison thinks he might be able to stop the phenomena from happening. He's....studied such things." Liz is surprised and says "I wonder how you study such things. Maybe I shouldn't be asking. Carolyn wants to study the same kind of strange things in Europe. I hope she gets that scholarship. It would be such a good thing for her." Vicky says that Carolyn seems to know what her future will be. Liz says "And you? With Burke returned? What of your future?" Vicky says "You're a step ahead of me. I wanted to tell you before I told anyone else because I wanted your blessing. Burke has asked me to marry him." Liz tells Vicky "that's wonderful" and gives her a hug. "I wasn't sure how you'd react," Vicky says. Liz shrugs and says "There was a time when I hated him and he wanted to destroy this family out of revenge....there was even a time when it wouldn't have been my place to give such a blessing...but a lot of time has passed. And now, I think of the irony....that a man who considered himself my enemy will be marrying my.... daughter." Vicky says "It is strange." Liz says "Right when you were growing interested in how the business operates...I suppose now you won't pursue that...." Vicky says "I'm not sure. After all, someone will need to oversee any combined business operations of the Collinses and Burke Devlin. Why not Mrs. Burke Devlin?" Liz smiles at Vicky. In the west wing, Harrison has told Quentin why he has returned. "I sympathize with your problems, Harrison," Quentin says. "But we have some of our own here, now. Barnabas and I have an enemy who has been making trouble, a man named Brian Miller, who possesses some strange powers." Harrison nods, and says "I see...." Quentin thinks a moment, and says "Wait a moment. If you're from my future, you should know what happened between Miller and me. You could tell me what I need to do!" Harrison says "No, I'm afraid I cannot. If I got involved, I might alter what must happen in order to protect the world I live in." Quentin says "I know that's true, but it's still not the answer I want!" Harrison says "All I can tell you is that I cannot become involved. Things must happen the way they are meant to." Quentin nods, and then smiles. "Well, dear cousin, you came back in time to save us all once before. I'll assume that if you don't need to this time, we'll do all right by ourselves." Before Harrison can answer, there is a knock at the door. Quentin opens his door, and sees Burke. "Quentin Collins?" Burke says. Quentin says yes, and Burke introduces himself. "Harrison mentioned you," Quentin says. "A friend of Vicky's." Burke says "More than a friend. We're engaged." Quentin says "Well, that calls for celebration! We should go downstairs for a round of brandies." Burke says fine, and then says "I'm sorry to intrude on the two of you, but David insisted repeatedly that I meet you, and he's tough for me to turn down. He was very sure that we'd become good friends." Quentin grows curious. "David?" Burke says "Yes, David and I were very good friends before I went away long ago. I'm amazed at how big he's gotten. How much he's changed. Roger was never crazy about David's fondness for me, but there you are." Quentin laughs a little and says "I think David might have been right about us getting along. Let's go have that drink." The three of them leave Quentin's room, but as they head down the hallway, Quentin notices the door to the attic is open a crack. Harrison asks him if he's coming, and Quentin says "I'll be with you in a minute. Go on, I need to see something." Quentin runs up the staircase into the attic and sees the portrait gone. He looks around the empty room frantically.
Downstairs, Harrison and Burke are having a drink, wondering where Quentin is. Quentin runs down the hallway in a panic when David peeps out of his room. David asks Quentin what's wrong, and Quentin says "Nothing, forget it" but David follows him. Quentin runs down the stairs and grabs his coat. Burke asks him what's going on, and Quentin apologizes. "Something very important has come up, I have to go." Before Quentin can leave, Burke says "Can I help with anything?" Quentin stops and turns, and says "Thank you, but I really shouldn't involve you in this. Not after what Vicky went through to get you here. I can handle my enemies, and I promise you we'll be having that drink.... and many others together." Quentin goes out the door just as David comes down the stairs. "Where did he say he was going?" David asks. Burke says "He wouldn't say. But he seemed like he was in some trouble." David says "I'd better follow him." and gets his coat. Burke says "Whoa, David! Whoa! Quentin didn't want us following him, I think he wouldn't want you to be in any danger either." David says "You don't understand! I know how to help him, if it's what I think it is!" David runs out as Burke shouts for him to stop. After David is gone, Burke tells Harrison "Come on, we'd better go after David and bring him back here." Harrison puts his hand on Burke's shoulder and says "No, we shouldn't do that." Burke says "What are you talking about?" Harrison says "Vicky told you enough about me and my knowledge of time. You must trust me. David must go after Quentin. It's his destiny." Burke looks at Harrison and then at the doors, wondering what Harrison means. Meanwhile, at the old house, Quentin bangs on the door and then enters, looking for Barnabas, who isn't there. Quentin calls for him a couple of times, and there is no answer. Quentin notices something on the stairway, and a closer look reveals a few drops of blood. "Blood...." Quentin thinks. "Barnabas is in trouble too... I must find Angelique or Julia.....or else I'll have to face Brian alone...." Outside, Brian points towards the house as Barnabas, powerless and shaking with near tears in his eyes, walks towards the front steps holding a gun....
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Episode 1499
Aired: Thursday March 22, 1972
After a replay of Wednesday's close, we get to see why Liz is gasping - she looks inside the room and sees the aged Jamison (Keith Prentice) talking to young Liz (Alexandra Moltke). Young Liz gushes and thanks her father for his blessing in her marriage to Alan Slater. Jamison says he's got high hopes for the young man, "given he keeps his promise to complete his medical studies." As Jamison takes a step leaning on his cane. "Perhaps if he had been there in the Great War, I'd still be able to run the mile, eh?" Outside, modern day Liz can only say "Father.... how can you still be alive in there?"
After the titles, we are in Burke's world, where Vicky looks at her own portrait waiting for him. He enters the room and says he's ready to go. She sees that he only has one small bag to carry with him, and asks him what he needed to do about his business before leaving. "A problem that had a simple solution, actually. I just sold everything," he says. Vicky asks him if the bag is stuffed with cash. Burke laughs. "No, the amount of cash would be far too bulky. I converted it all into something small, easily transported and extremely valuable." He opens the bag and Vicky is stunned to see the amount of diamonds it contains. "I'll sell them when we get you your world, to see what sort of businesses I can restart." Vicky says she's never seen so many diamonds in her life. Burke turns her to face him and reaches into his pocket. "Tell me what you think of this one," he says as he puts a ring on her finger with a large diamond on it. Vicky tells Burke tearfully that she loves it, and he asks her to marry him. "Oh yes, Burke! Oh yes!" she says as she grabs onto him. "Don't let go of me Vicky," he says. "Hold onto me and undo that necklace. It's time to go." She smiles as Burke picks up the bag. She holds Burke's hand with one hand and undoes the necklace with the other. It drops to the floor, and suddenly she and Burke are standing in the dark empty room of Vicky's time. Burke looks around in amazement. "That's fantastic! The entire room just....changed!" "Of course it did, Mr. Devlin," says a smiling Harrison, who is also standing in the room. Burke turns to him and says "Who are you? We haven't met." Harrison answers "No, we haven't, I'm sorry. I'm Harrison Collins. I helped Vicky in knowing how to, well, use this room, shall we say?" Vicky says "Harrison! I didn't know what happened when I came back here without you!" Harrison says "A small mistake, but no matter. We are all here now." Burke says "And I'll stay here? I won't suddenly pop back?" Harrison says "Not unless you want to. You'd need to use that necklace, though I intend to close off the pathway forever. I'm assuming that's not a problem?" Burke puts his arm around Vicky and says "No problem at all." Suddenly, we hear Liz gasping outside and a thud. Vicky, Harrison and Burke run into the hall and find Liz has fainted in front of the other room. Vicky says "She's fainted! Harrison, get some water!" Harrison looks into the room and says "She fainted from seeing this.... from deep inside her own thoughts..." He runs off as Burke looks into the room and sees Jamison and the young Liz inside and is amazed.
Carolyn rushes to Liz's side and says that she heard the noise. Vicky says she's only fainted and should be all right. Burke looks at Carolyn and smiles a big smile. "Burke!" she says, giving him a big hug. "Vicky was right! She could bring you here! Oh, I'm so happy to see you!" Burke says "Not as happy as I am to see you!" Harrison returns with a towel and some water and begins to dab Liz' forehead with it. "She should wake soon," he says. Burke asks Harrison "What's in that room? I tried to enter, but couldn't." Harrison says "Another world, another reality. Something triggered from Elizabeth's mind." Burke and Carolyn look inside and see a calendar dated 1946 and hear the young Liz and Jamison talking about Liz' upcoming marriage to Alan. As Liz begins to stir and awaken, the room suddenly goes dark again. Burke steps inside, and says "Gone...it's just gone! Vanished!" Harrison says "The hole in time closed as soon as she regained consciousness.... I know this sounds strange to you, Mr. Devlin, but it all makes perfect sense." Liz says "Where am I?" Carolyn looks at Harrison who gives her a signal to keep things calm. Carolyn tells Liz she had a bad dream. "I must be overtired from my trip," Liz says. Vicky leans over her and asks her if she's all right. Liz smiles and gives Vicky a hug. "I'm fine...I'm so happy to see you, I was worried..." Vicky says "Don't worry about me. I've....got someone else here who wants to see you. Someone we thought was gone. But he's not, he's back! " Liz wonders who, until Burke steps back out of the room and says "Hello, Liz. It's been a while." Liz is first shocked, but then smiles as Burke takes Vicky's hand. "Burke!" she says. "You're alive!" He smiles back at her.
Liz is overwhelmed by everything she sees and says she wants to rest. Burke and Vicky take her back to her room as Carolyn and Harrison follow. "Harrison!" Liz says. "I didn't even see you! How long have you been back?" Harrison tells her he "just came back for a short visit. I'm so glad it turned out to be when you got back from your honeymoon." We dissolve to Burke closing Liz' door, telling Vicky that she's gone to sleep. Vicky says that Carolyn and Harrison are downstairs. "Roger and David must be asleep," she adds. "I'm almost tempted to wake Roger up and tell him I'm a bad dream," Burke says. "I can't wait to see Davey... or is it David now? Now that he's five years older?" Vicky says "You'll have to ask him." Burke says "That room Liz was looking into. I saw a little of it before it went dark. I recognized the man in there, it was Jamison Collins, Roger and Liz' father. And then I realized who the young woman in there was. Elizabeth, only when she was much younger." Vicky says "Yes, Harrison told me. We see what our subconscious minds want us to see whenever other worlds become visible. That's why I saw a world where you needed me. Elizabeth saw a version of her own past, because of whatever was on her mind." Burke nods, and says "I had never noticed it before I looked into that room, but you look a lot like Elizabeth did when she was younger. I guess beauty tends to blend together after a while." Vicky takes Burke's hands and says "Actually, there's a much better reason for the resemblance than that. There's something else I need to tell you about myself in this world....who I am. I finally know." Burke raises an eyebrow. Downstairs, Harrison has told Carolyn why he has returned. "That makes a weird sort of sense," she says. "That we would see things repressed in our minds in those rooms. I saw a different world in one. One where my husband was still alive." Harrison says that "The most common thing would be for us to see something a part of us wishes for." Carolyn says "But this was different. He was dominating, didn't listen to me. I saw myself in that other world, but it wasn't who I am, or who I want to be." Harrison smiles and says "You got to see what the reality actually was, of something you thought would bring you happiness but actually wouldn't. Our wishes don't always bring us happiness, after all. Your mother saw a world in which she wouldn't have given up Vicky as a baby against her will, right when she was searching for Vicky and worrying about her. It all makes perfect sense." Carolyn says "How will you close those holes in time?" Harrison says that once he locates the source of "all the rifts" he can close it. "And it must be somewhere in this house." Carolyn asks "What would you see if you looked into one of those rooms?" Harrison shrugs, and says "I don't know." Carolyn says "I know what I'd see now, since I know what I want." Burke and Vicky enter the room as Carolyn continues "I'd see myself in the future as an accomplished author and professor. And I won't have to look inside that room to see it either, all I have to do is live my life and see it for real." Burke says "You sound so different than I remember you, Carolyn." Carolyn says "I've been through a lot, Burke. I'm not the teenager making a fool of herself over you." Burke says "Good. Don't be anyone's fool, ever." David walks in, saying "I couldn't sleep with all the talking, what's going...." and then he sees Burke and gasps.
"Hello, David," Burke says. David can't believe it, and asks Burke if he's a ghost. "No ghost, but it's an interesting story of how I got here," he answers. David runs up and hugs him, and tells him he doesn't care how he got there, as long as he's back. Vicky tells David she'll explain it all to him, and Harrison says "That might be the best idea." David sees Harrison and says "Cousin Harrison! When did you get back?" Harrison gleams at David a moment, then says "I was just passing through again, and thought I'd drop in for a little while. How have you been, David?" David says fine, and then marvels that he can't believe Burke is back. "Does my father know you're back?" David says. Burke laughs and says "Not yet, or we'd hear the screaming. But your Aunt Elizabeth knows, and Carolyn here. I'm interested in meeting Alan, too." David says "And Quentin, you should meet my cousin Quentin!" Vicky tells Burke that Quentin and David are very fond of each other, and Burke says "Then I'd be very happy to meet him." Carolyn says "We'll also have to tell Barnabas you're back. Oh, Vicky! Barnabas will be so happy for you!" Burke says "Yes...Barnabas. I'd very much like to see Barnabas again...." We dissolve to Barnabas, blowing out candles in the old house, getting ready to retire with that happenin' smoking jacket on. As he turns to climb the stairs, he suddenly faces Brian. "How dare you come in here!" Barnabas bellows. "Now, now, Barnabas," Brian says. "You should know by now that I can go anywhere I please. And your lovely, shall we say bewitching wife isn't here to protect you right now, is she?" Barnabas picks up a heavy candlestick and says "I can protect myself quite well, thank you." Brian says "Not against me. Not ever again." Barnabas swings the candlestick at Brian, who spins out of the way. When Barnabas turns around, Brian is gone. Barnabas looks around frantically for him, when he hears a familiar and horrifying noise - the beating of wings! Barnabas backs up towards the stairs, and then a large bat appears, flying closer and closer to him. He picks up his cane and swings it at the bat, yelling "I'll kill you in whatever form you take, Miller! Die!" He misses with a swing and the bat lands on his arm. Barnabas screams in pain and terror.
After a replay of Wednesday's close, we get to see why Liz is gasping - she looks inside the room and sees the aged Jamison (Keith Prentice) talking to young Liz (Alexandra Moltke). Young Liz gushes and thanks her father for his blessing in her marriage to Alan Slater. Jamison says he's got high hopes for the young man, "given he keeps his promise to complete his medical studies." As Jamison takes a step leaning on his cane. "Perhaps if he had been there in the Great War, I'd still be able to run the mile, eh?" Outside, modern day Liz can only say "Father.... how can you still be alive in there?"
After the titles, we are in Burke's world, where Vicky looks at her own portrait waiting for him. He enters the room and says he's ready to go. She sees that he only has one small bag to carry with him, and asks him what he needed to do about his business before leaving. "A problem that had a simple solution, actually. I just sold everything," he says. Vicky asks him if the bag is stuffed with cash. Burke laughs. "No, the amount of cash would be far too bulky. I converted it all into something small, easily transported and extremely valuable." He opens the bag and Vicky is stunned to see the amount of diamonds it contains. "I'll sell them when we get you your world, to see what sort of businesses I can restart." Vicky says she's never seen so many diamonds in her life. Burke turns her to face him and reaches into his pocket. "Tell me what you think of this one," he says as he puts a ring on her finger with a large diamond on it. Vicky tells Burke tearfully that she loves it, and he asks her to marry him. "Oh yes, Burke! Oh yes!" she says as she grabs onto him. "Don't let go of me Vicky," he says. "Hold onto me and undo that necklace. It's time to go." She smiles as Burke picks up the bag. She holds Burke's hand with one hand and undoes the necklace with the other. It drops to the floor, and suddenly she and Burke are standing in the dark empty room of Vicky's time. Burke looks around in amazement. "That's fantastic! The entire room just....changed!" "Of course it did, Mr. Devlin," says a smiling Harrison, who is also standing in the room. Burke turns to him and says "Who are you? We haven't met." Harrison answers "No, we haven't, I'm sorry. I'm Harrison Collins. I helped Vicky in knowing how to, well, use this room, shall we say?" Vicky says "Harrison! I didn't know what happened when I came back here without you!" Harrison says "A small mistake, but no matter. We are all here now." Burke says "And I'll stay here? I won't suddenly pop back?" Harrison says "Not unless you want to. You'd need to use that necklace, though I intend to close off the pathway forever. I'm assuming that's not a problem?" Burke puts his arm around Vicky and says "No problem at all." Suddenly, we hear Liz gasping outside and a thud. Vicky, Harrison and Burke run into the hall and find Liz has fainted in front of the other room. Vicky says "She's fainted! Harrison, get some water!" Harrison looks into the room and says "She fainted from seeing this.... from deep inside her own thoughts..." He runs off as Burke looks into the room and sees Jamison and the young Liz inside and is amazed.
Carolyn rushes to Liz's side and says that she heard the noise. Vicky says she's only fainted and should be all right. Burke looks at Carolyn and smiles a big smile. "Burke!" she says, giving him a big hug. "Vicky was right! She could bring you here! Oh, I'm so happy to see you!" Burke says "Not as happy as I am to see you!" Harrison returns with a towel and some water and begins to dab Liz' forehead with it. "She should wake soon," he says. Burke asks Harrison "What's in that room? I tried to enter, but couldn't." Harrison says "Another world, another reality. Something triggered from Elizabeth's mind." Burke and Carolyn look inside and see a calendar dated 1946 and hear the young Liz and Jamison talking about Liz' upcoming marriage to Alan. As Liz begins to stir and awaken, the room suddenly goes dark again. Burke steps inside, and says "Gone...it's just gone! Vanished!" Harrison says "The hole in time closed as soon as she regained consciousness.... I know this sounds strange to you, Mr. Devlin, but it all makes perfect sense." Liz says "Where am I?" Carolyn looks at Harrison who gives her a signal to keep things calm. Carolyn tells Liz she had a bad dream. "I must be overtired from my trip," Liz says. Vicky leans over her and asks her if she's all right. Liz smiles and gives Vicky a hug. "I'm fine...I'm so happy to see you, I was worried..." Vicky says "Don't worry about me. I've....got someone else here who wants to see you. Someone we thought was gone. But he's not, he's back! " Liz wonders who, until Burke steps back out of the room and says "Hello, Liz. It's been a while." Liz is first shocked, but then smiles as Burke takes Vicky's hand. "Burke!" she says. "You're alive!" He smiles back at her.
Liz is overwhelmed by everything she sees and says she wants to rest. Burke and Vicky take her back to her room as Carolyn and Harrison follow. "Harrison!" Liz says. "I didn't even see you! How long have you been back?" Harrison tells her he "just came back for a short visit. I'm so glad it turned out to be when you got back from your honeymoon." We dissolve to Burke closing Liz' door, telling Vicky that she's gone to sleep. Vicky says that Carolyn and Harrison are downstairs. "Roger and David must be asleep," she adds. "I'm almost tempted to wake Roger up and tell him I'm a bad dream," Burke says. "I can't wait to see Davey... or is it David now? Now that he's five years older?" Vicky says "You'll have to ask him." Burke says "That room Liz was looking into. I saw a little of it before it went dark. I recognized the man in there, it was Jamison Collins, Roger and Liz' father. And then I realized who the young woman in there was. Elizabeth, only when she was much younger." Vicky says "Yes, Harrison told me. We see what our subconscious minds want us to see whenever other worlds become visible. That's why I saw a world where you needed me. Elizabeth saw a version of her own past, because of whatever was on her mind." Burke nods, and says "I had never noticed it before I looked into that room, but you look a lot like Elizabeth did when she was younger. I guess beauty tends to blend together after a while." Vicky takes Burke's hands and says "Actually, there's a much better reason for the resemblance than that. There's something else I need to tell you about myself in this world....who I am. I finally know." Burke raises an eyebrow. Downstairs, Harrison has told Carolyn why he has returned. "That makes a weird sort of sense," she says. "That we would see things repressed in our minds in those rooms. I saw a different world in one. One where my husband was still alive." Harrison says that "The most common thing would be for us to see something a part of us wishes for." Carolyn says "But this was different. He was dominating, didn't listen to me. I saw myself in that other world, but it wasn't who I am, or who I want to be." Harrison smiles and says "You got to see what the reality actually was, of something you thought would bring you happiness but actually wouldn't. Our wishes don't always bring us happiness, after all. Your mother saw a world in which she wouldn't have given up Vicky as a baby against her will, right when she was searching for Vicky and worrying about her. It all makes perfect sense." Carolyn says "How will you close those holes in time?" Harrison says that once he locates the source of "all the rifts" he can close it. "And it must be somewhere in this house." Carolyn asks "What would you see if you looked into one of those rooms?" Harrison shrugs, and says "I don't know." Carolyn says "I know what I'd see now, since I know what I want." Burke and Vicky enter the room as Carolyn continues "I'd see myself in the future as an accomplished author and professor. And I won't have to look inside that room to see it either, all I have to do is live my life and see it for real." Burke says "You sound so different than I remember you, Carolyn." Carolyn says "I've been through a lot, Burke. I'm not the teenager making a fool of herself over you." Burke says "Good. Don't be anyone's fool, ever." David walks in, saying "I couldn't sleep with all the talking, what's going...." and then he sees Burke and gasps.
"Hello, David," Burke says. David can't believe it, and asks Burke if he's a ghost. "No ghost, but it's an interesting story of how I got here," he answers. David runs up and hugs him, and tells him he doesn't care how he got there, as long as he's back. Vicky tells David she'll explain it all to him, and Harrison says "That might be the best idea." David sees Harrison and says "Cousin Harrison! When did you get back?" Harrison gleams at David a moment, then says "I was just passing through again, and thought I'd drop in for a little while. How have you been, David?" David says fine, and then marvels that he can't believe Burke is back. "Does my father know you're back?" David says. Burke laughs and says "Not yet, or we'd hear the screaming. But your Aunt Elizabeth knows, and Carolyn here. I'm interested in meeting Alan, too." David says "And Quentin, you should meet my cousin Quentin!" Vicky tells Burke that Quentin and David are very fond of each other, and Burke says "Then I'd be very happy to meet him." Carolyn says "We'll also have to tell Barnabas you're back. Oh, Vicky! Barnabas will be so happy for you!" Burke says "Yes...Barnabas. I'd very much like to see Barnabas again...." We dissolve to Barnabas, blowing out candles in the old house, getting ready to retire with that happenin' smoking jacket on. As he turns to climb the stairs, he suddenly faces Brian. "How dare you come in here!" Barnabas bellows. "Now, now, Barnabas," Brian says. "You should know by now that I can go anywhere I please. And your lovely, shall we say bewitching wife isn't here to protect you right now, is she?" Barnabas picks up a heavy candlestick and says "I can protect myself quite well, thank you." Brian says "Not against me. Not ever again." Barnabas swings the candlestick at Brian, who spins out of the way. When Barnabas turns around, Brian is gone. Barnabas looks around frantically for him, when he hears a familiar and horrifying noise - the beating of wings! Barnabas backs up towards the stairs, and then a large bat appears, flying closer and closer to him. He picks up his cane and swings it at the bat, yelling "I'll kill you in whatever form you take, Miller! Die!" He misses with a swing and the bat lands on his arm. Barnabas screams in pain and terror.
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