Episode 1350

Aired: Friday August 27, 1971

After a replay of Thursday's close, as Julia continues to eavesdrop from outside, Nicholas tells Angelique that he will only restore a portion of her powers until "her information is proven valuable." He tells her that only "a portion" of her former power will be restored, and Angelique answers "Restore my immortality and nothing else for now, then." Nicholas laughs, telling her "No, no, my dear. I will not do that for the simple reason that it's what you want the most. For the time being, I think.... you may have some powers to see beyond mere reality, and that is all..." Angelique begins to protest, but Nicholas tells her that "the rest will be yours if I am satisfied." Angelique sighs, and tells Nicholas that he should "be more interested in Harrison Collins than in Barnabas." Nicholas asks "Oh? And why is that?" Angelique answers "Because it was he who brought Victoria Winters back here somehow. His powers seem centered in his ring. That is all I know." Julia overhears this and thinks to herself "I must tell Barnabas of this....but he may not believe me. He....loves....Angelique too much now, it's blinded him to what she is capable of....I must do something..." Julia walks to the door and pushes it open. Nicholas hears the door and steps out of frame as Angelique goes to see who it is. "Julia! This is a surprise," Angelique says as Julia passes her and walks into the living room. Nicholas is gone. Julia angrily says "Where is he? Did he simply vanish, using his powers?" Angelique plays innocent and asks "Who?" Julia glares at her and answers "Nicholas Blair. I was outside and heard the whole thing. You two are plotting something against Barnabas!" Angelique is agape.

Barnabas returns to the old house as Julia continues to grill Angelique. Angelique sees Barnabas and runs to him, complaining that "Julia's jealousy has driven her to make incredible accusations." Julia tells Barnabas "She's lying. Nicholas Blair was here tonight, offering Angelique her powers back in return for information on Harrison for some reason." Barnabas faces Angelique and says "I warned Blair not to interfere with us. Why did you invite him in?" Angelique says "He doesn't need to be invited." Julia says "See? I told you I was telling the truth." Angelique turns away from Barnabas, but he turns her to face him. "You cannot go back to what you were, I will not have it!" Angelique answers "I'm afraid, Barnabas....I'm afraid of getting....old. I don't want to lose you, not to Victoria Winters..." and then, while glaring at Julia, adds "Not to anyone!" Barnabas answers "So, once again, Blair has preyed upon your fears and appealed to vanity." Angelique answers "Barnabas, there's no way to fight a man like Nicholas with the power he has." Barnabas says "There must be a way!" Angelique gets a sly look in her eye and answers "Perhaps there is, Barnabas, and that's why I've been dealing with him. We must fight fire with fire. The only way to fight Nicholas' power is if I have my powers back." Barnabas, shocked, says "That's out of the question! You know what having that power does to your soul! It will corrupt and twist you, you will be as evil as you once were!" Angelique takes Barnabas' hands and shyly answers "Not if you love me." Barnabas says "There must be another way. There has to be!" Julia pipes in and says that Nicholas has already restored "some kind of power in Angelique" in exchange for the information about Harrison. Barnabas wonders why Nicholas is so interested in Harrison. Julia says that Nicholas must want to know how Harrison brought Vicky back from the eighteenth century. "Why would a man with Nicholas' power care about such things?" Barnabas asks. Julia answers "We may need to find out the answer to that." Barnabas slowly turns to face Angelique and says "If you've gotten some sort of power back from Nicholas, do you think you could use it to find out what his plans are? What I must know is if I can trust you." Angelique hugs Barnabas tightly and says "Of course you can, my love." Barnabas embraces her as Julia turns away, angry.

The next morning at Collinwood, Carolyn and Roger are having coffee in the drawing room as Roger reads the newspaper. Carolyn remarks to Roger how happy she is that Vicky is back, though with Daphne as governess when David returns, she wonders what kind of jobs would be available for Vicky. Roger supposes that he could check in town once he goes "down to the cannery." Carolyn remarks "Well, unless anyone has more children around here, there won't be much demand for more governesses." Roger chuckles at this, and asks Carolyn if she's trying to tell him something about her "future plans." Carolyn answers that she finds Sebastian "interesting" but doesn't "think of him as husband material." Liz and Alan enter the drawing room, and Liz says that she's glad everyone is there. Roger asks why, and Alan closes the doors. Liz says "I have something very important to tell you all." Carolyn gets wide eyed, wondering aloud if the announcement has to do with Liz & Alan, but Liz answers "In a way it does, but I'm sure not in the way that you're thinking, Carolyn." Carolyn asks why, and Liz answers "It's time I told you something about myself. About myself and Vicky Winters. I told Alan the story some time ago, and now I have the courage after all these years to tell you. Especially you, Carolyn. I think you need to know most of all." Carolyn wonders what Liz is talking about, and a shot of Roger suggests he has a hint of what's coming.

Back from commercial, Liz has finished telling the story. Roger insists that Liz "must have proof" before she accepts Vicky as her daughter, but Alan answers "I have the proof, Roger. I took a sample of Vicky's blood and ran some tests. Vicky has no idea what the tests were about yet, but they prove fairly conclusively that Liz and I are her parents." Carolyn is in shock and says nothing. Liz asks Carolyn how she feels, and Carolyn starts to tear up a bit. "I....I don't know what to feel, mother. I don't know how to feel." Roger asks Carolyn if she's all right, and Carolyn angrily says "No! No, I'm not! Mother, how could you hide that for so long? From me, how could you hide that from me! When you brought Vicky here, you knew! You knew the whole time!" Liz tells Carolyn she wasn't sure "and there was a part of me that didn't want to know the truth." Carolyn begins to cry and get hysterical. Roger tells her to calm down, and then snaps at Liz and Alan for telling her, "bringing back all these ghosts of the past." Liz answers that "Vicky is not a ghost! She is my daughter and she will be living here now, as a Collins!" Carolyn shouts "How could you keep this from me all those years? All that time when Vicky was searching for her identity.... all to protect the family name! How could you?" Liz takes Carolyn by the shoulders and asks her to "please understand" and that "We all grew to love Vicky and think of her as part of the family anyway, despite my secret. You may have already thought of her like a sister." Carolyn angrily pulls away and yells "You had no right to manipulate us like that! I don't know what the truth is anymore!" She starts to run out of the room, but after she gets the doors open, Alan tries to stop her. "Please, Carolyn.... give your mother a chance..." Carolyn answers "I gave her plenty....every day I've been living here. And every day she kept this from me!" Carolyn angrily runs past Alan into the foyer just as Vicky is coming down the stairs. Vicky asks Carolyn what's wrong, and Carolyn looks at her for a moment, then back at the group in the drawing room before hysterically crying and running out the front door. Liz shouts for Carolyn to come back. Vicky gets down the stairs and asks what is going on. Liz, Roger, and Alan look at each other and wonder how to tell her.