Episode 1351

Aired: Monday August 30, 1971

In a repeat of Friday's close, 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.

After the titles, Liz asks Vicky to sit down. Vicky asks why Carolyn was so upset, and Liz tells Vicky that "Carolyn is upset with me, I want you to know that first. It has nothing to do with you." Vicky asks what she means, and Alan says "I have to confess that I took a sample of your blood fort a different reason than what I told you. We all had to be sure." Vicky gets a little panicky and says "Be sure of what? What aren't you telling me?" Liz starts to tear up a little and takes Vicky's hands. "We have discovered who your parents are." Vicky takes a moment as this sinks in, and she starts to get excited a little, then curious. "You have? How did you discover this? Why were you even looking?" Liz and Alan look at each other, Vicky looks at Roger, and then Vicky begins to put together the answer to her last question. She starts to tremble a bit, and can't bring herself to ask straight out, and only repeats "Why were you looking....the both of you....." Liz looks at her and smiles. "Yes, the both of us. That's the answer to what you are thinking, Vicky." Liz starts to caress Vicky's hair as she continues "Vicky....my Vicky...." Vicky is in disbelief and asks "How do you know? How long have you known?" Liz answers "I didn't know for sure until Alan returned. I had always wondered, and there was a part of me that didn't want to know the truth, especially after I brought you here the first time. I grew to love you so much that I was afraid you might not turn out to be the child I lost so long ago. I hope you can forgive me." Roger looks at Vicky and says "I never understood my sister's motives in bringing you here, though I must admit I had suspected some things. I have to tell you I'm happy it turned out like this." Vicky laughs and cries at the same time, and then gives Liz a big hug. Liz then looks at her and says "I must tell you the whole story. It's imperative that you know, since I don't intend upon losing you again." Vicky gets ready to hear it.

In the drawing room, Vicky has heard the story of Jamison taking the young Liz' baby to the foundling home and setting up the support fund. Alan tells her "I know I must seem a stranger to you as opposed to your mother. I intend to make up for that." Vicky thanks him, and then wonders "I remember searching for my identity and finding something about someone named Betty Hanscombe, someone who was a servant here..." Alan says he remembers her, but "she wasn't at Collinwood for very long." Liz says "My father needed an explanation for the baby he brought to the foundling home, something to tell the Garmans in any case. He paid Betty to tell the Garmans that you were her baby so that the fund could be set up. I didn't discover this until years later, once the Garmans were working for me and not my father. I instructed them to protect both mine and Betty Hanscombe's privacy in this matter. But none of that is important now, now that you know the truth." Vicky asks who else knows "other than Carolyn." Liz says "I feel terrible about Carolyn. She's so hurt. She feels I've been lying to her all these years. I didn't have a chance to explain." Roger offers to go after Carolyn, but then Vicky answers "Maybe I can. I know she'll listen to me." At that moment, Harrison enters the room. "No one else knows yet?" Vicky asks. Curious, Harrison asks "Knows what?" with a smile.

Liz tells Harrison that she's just discovered "wonderful news" about Vicky. Harrison answers "Oh? And what would that be?" Liz smiles and proudly answers "Vicky is my daughter. The daughter I lost years ago when my father would not allow me to marry the man I wanted." She takes Alan by the hand and finishes "This man, in fact." Harrison is agog at this for a moment, and Vicky says "Well Harrison, I guess that means we're related. " Harrison answers "Yes, I suppose it does." Vicky goes on, in near disbelief herself "I suddenly have a host of new relatives. An Uncle Roger, a sister Carolyn. A cousin David and a cousin Quentin..." and Harrison finishes "And a cousin Barnabas...." Vicky says "Yes. All the people I've always loved....and now I really have a family." Vicky is a little overwhelmed and starts to tear up. Liz hugs her again, followed by Roger, and Liz tells Harrison to pour her a drink. As he turns to pour the drink, we see that he looks like his world is coming apart. Meanwhile at the Blue Whale, Carolyn is also having a drink poured, and from her groggy movement, it must be one of many. She complains to the bartender about "not knowing the people you think you know" while he tries to get her to stop drinking. Sebastian enters the bar, and sits next to Carolyn. "I saw you heading down here," he says. "We had a class tonight, or did you forget?" Carolyn says she didn't forget, that "I never forget anything. But other people can forget anything. Anything they want." Sebastian takes the drink out of her hand and tells her she's drunk. He demands to know why, and she has no answer.

Back at the house, Vicky has composed herself, and says she'd better go find Carolyn since she was so upset. She walks to the foyer to get her coat, and Harrison follows. Harrison offers to help her, but Vicky answers "Thank you, but I really need to do this myself." Harrison asks her how she will know where Carolyn has gone to, and Vicky answers "I'm pretty sure I know where to find her. She always goes to the Blue Whale when she's upset." Harrison laughs a little and says "The Blue Whale, certainly a mainstay of Collinsport, isn't it?" Vicky says she supposes so, and Harrison once again offers to help her "especially if Carolyn is in no condition to get home on her own." Vicky says she'll be fine and leaves. Harrison closes the door thinking "Well, once again your luck has turned against you.... the long lost love of Barnabas Collins turns out to be his long lost relative....there must be another way.....there must be...." As Harrison thinks, we pan over to the portrait of Barnabas.