Episode 1328

Aired: Wednesday July 28, 1971

After a replay of Tuesday's cliffhanger and the titles, the chandelier is falling, but Alan grabs Roger and pulls him out of the way just in time. The chandelier smashes to the floor, and with the crash, the ghostly wind and laughter suddenly stop. Alan asks Roger if he is all right, and a shaken and out of breath Roger says "Yes, but barely....." Liz and Carolyn ask Roger if he is okay as Alan helps him stand up, and Roger looks at him and slowly says "Slater... you may have saved my life just now." Sebastian says that the chandelier must have been knocked loose by the "angry spirit." Liz asks him if he really thinks so, and as Alan leads Roger into the drawing room to get him a brandy, Sebastian says "Yes, and I also think that the angry spirit.... is a Collins."

Roger is sitting in the drawing room drinking a brandy as Alan is checking him over. Roger says he was a little bruised, but that the chandelier missed him. Liz breathes a sigh of relief, and Alan says he'll go upstairs and get Roger something for the bruise. Roger grabs him arm to stop him, and says "I've been very unfair to you since you came here, maybe even before that. I don't know what I can say or do to apologize or make it up to you." Alan pats Roger on the shoulder and says "Maybe we can just be friends the way we used to be." Roger smiles and says he can "certainly try to recapture their friendship." Alan tells Roger he really should get something for the bruises. Roger stands up and says he'll go upstairs to his room to lie down and that he'll be fine. Alan says he'll help him. After they leave, Liz says she's happy Roger wasn't hurt, and Carolyn adds that she "must also be happy that Roger and Alan might get along better now." Liz says yes, and that she hopes they really can be friends. Carolyn adds "Again. If they were once friends when Alan worked here, what happened to make Uncle Roger so angry?" Liz turns away from Carolyn and says "It was a long time ago. Your uncle was young, about David's age. I think he resented Alan for going away to medical school when he did." Carolyn asks "How did you feel, mother? Were you close to Alan then?" Liz gets evasive, and leaves the room, wanting to check on Roger. Carolyn looks at Sebastian and remarks on how her mother's reaction seemed odd.

Harrison is coming down the stairs when he sees the smashed chandelier in the middle of the foyer. He looks it over, wondering what happened, when Carolyn and Sebastian come out of the drawing room. He asks them what happened, and Carolyn says there's no time to explain, but that she and Sebastian will go find Willie Loomis at the old house to see if he can fix it. After they leave, Harrison looks in the drawing room and sees its empty, then glances up the stairs for a moment before smiling and exiting through the kitchen. We cut to Harrison coming down a dusty old staircase carefully. He moves out of the way of some cobwebs and reaches the bottom of the stairs. He is in a room that hasn't been occupied in a long time, but there is an old desk and chair in one corner with some dusty old books and papers on it. Harrison blows some dust off the desk and begins to look over the papers. He starts looking through the desk drawers as we hear him thinking "This must be it.... this is the right location...." He looks over to the side where there are some rotted old wood planks leaning against a wall. He moves some of them aside, and we see the remains of a single step from where a staircase used to be. Harrison smiles and we hear him think "Yes...." he goes back to the desk and opens a dusty book. Written at the top in old style handwriting are the words "Theories of Time Manipulation" signed "Quentin Collins, 1833." Harrison looks around and says to himself "Yes.....I have found your laboratory, Quentin Collins."

Harrison is reading through some of the books on Quentin's old desk and then begins to measure paces towards the pile of old rotted wood planks. He sweeps some dust off the floor with his shoes as he begins to survey a spot just in front of the remaining step. He looks it over for a moment, and then looks around the room deep in thought before taking one of the planks and placing it on the spot he has cleared. He steps back and begins to raise his hand with his jeweled ring when he hears footsteps off to the side. He quickly puts his hand down, and sees Daphne coming down the stairs. "Well, hello Miss Hopkins," he says. "It looks like you've caught me exploring the hidden corners of Collinwood." Daphne seems in a daze as she answers "Yes...." Harrison looks at her concerned, and asks her if she is all right. She says yes, and he asks her if she was looking for him. "No," she says. "Then you come down here often? I suppose you've had to find David hiding down here from time to time," he says. She says no, and then adds "I don't know why I've come here." Harrison asks her again if she's sure she's all right, and she only repeats that she has no idea why she came to "this part of the house." She starts to look around the room, and says "I don't know what it is about this room...." Harrison takes her by the hand and tells her that she'd better come back upstairs with him and "collect herself." She agrees, and he leads her out, taking a long last look at the spot he had cleared on the floor.