Episode 1391

Aired: Monday October 25, 1971

Grayson Hall's voiceover: "The darkness that covers the great estate at Collinwood has been pierced by the light of a fire... a fire that has revealed the face of an enemy of those who live here, an enemy that has taken possession of Julia Hoffman and has tried to kill Harrison Collins through the use of the black arts. On this night, these acts of evil will be uncovered, and a battle to control the future of the Collins family will begin..."

In a repeat of Friday's close, Angelique chants before the fire as Barnabas watches. "Show your face to me.....show your face to me now....." she demands. The fires blur and start to reform themselves as Barnabas watches, fascinated. Slowly, the begin to form an image as Angelique watches. Barnabas suddenly is stunned and says "Oh my God!" We see the image of Judah's head in the fire, laughing. Angelique runs to Barnabas and shields her from the image. "Judah Zachary!" he says. Back at Collinwood, Julia is watching Harrison choke with a smile when suddenly he starts to breathe again. He starts to catch his breath, much to Julia's surprise. She turns to see Quentin standing angrily in the doorway of the drawing room. He lets the scarf roll out of his hand, as he has untied it from the doll. "Harrison is breathing normally again, I assume." he says. Julia says yes nervously. "Well, then it seems I found the miracle cure without even bringing you your bag," Quentin says, sarcastically adding "doctor!" Julia takes a step back as Harrison and Quentin looks at each other.

After the titles, Quentin demands to know "what is going on here." Harrison sits up and says "She's not the Julia Hoffman you know, somehow." Julia glares at Harrison and says "You interfering little snit! I should squash you like a bug!" Quentin angrily snaps "Julia! What's wrong with you? Answer me!" Julia begins to laugh. "And you.... so overconfident in your immortality, or what you think will be immortality! You too will be destroyed, Collins!" Quentin looks Julia over and asks "Who are you? Why have you taken Julia Hoffman?" Julia answers "Honestly, it wasn't my first choice, but I must admit I'm enjoying your reaction. The face of one betrayed by a friend is truly a joy to behold." Quentin takes a step towards her, but she suddenly waves her hand and Quentin grabs his eyes. "I can't see!" he yells. As Harrison moves towards him, Julia waves her hand and suddenly Harrison has been blinded too. "That light....so bright! I can't see anything!" he says. Julia laughs and walks out of the room. As the door slams behind her, Quentin and Harrison start to recover. "The fire....I can just barely make it out," Harrison says. "All I saw was a bright flash," Quentin says. "But I can see again....barely. Looking at the fire helps." As we look at the fire, we cut to the fire at the old house as Judah's head fades away. "How could Judah be here now?" Barnabas says. "I saw that head destroyed back in 1840!" Angelique answers that if Harrison could travel through time and "pluck Victoria Winters from her former destruction" it would make sense that Nicholas could have somehow saved Judah from his final fate. "Judah was always my enemy," she adds. "And he is yours as well, one of my former master's minions sent to destroy the Collins family." Barnabas thinks a moment. "Once in 1693, again in 1840... and his third attempt is now.... we must defeat him, Angelique, we must! Either we will destroy him or he will destroy us." Angelique answers "More than just us, Barnabas. Everyone who bears the Collins name is in mortal danger." Barnabas asks "How will Nicholas use the power in that head?" Angelique says "Perhaps he already has. Perhaps someone has been possessed by Judah already!" Barnabas considers this.

Barnabas is putting on his coat to leave the old house when Harrison and Quentin suddenly enter. "Where is Julia? Did she come here?" Quentin asks. Barnabas says no, and Quentin answers "Thank God." Barnabas asks what has happened, and Quentin answers "There's something wrong with Julia. She's not herself somehow. She tried to kill Harrison!" Barnabas and Angelique look at each other. "How do you know that?" Barnabas asks. Harrison explains how he was choking mysteriously until Quentin found his scarf. "It was choking a doll I found in her room. Since when does Julia Hoffman practice the black arts?" Angelique says "Julia Hoffman doesn't, but Judah Zachary does!" Quentin asks "Judah Zachary?" Barnabas snaps "No! I refuse to believe it! I cannot let myself think that Julia has been possessed!" Angelique tells Barnabas that Julia "had no choice in the matter" and that "Judah's spirit can overpower any mortal." Harrison asks who Judah Zachary is, and Barnabas answers "An old old enemy of the Collins family. An enemy that Nicholas Blair has somehow brought back to destroy us!" Quentin says "By possessing Julia Hoffman?" Barnabas answers "Yes..... someone we all trust. Someone who has complete access to all of us." Harrison says "She knows that we know. She no longer has that access, or that trust." Quentin says "She must have gone straight to Blair. They'll probably move forward with whatever they have planned now that she's been revealed." Harrison asks Barnabas "You've dealt with this spirit before? This Judah Zachary?" Barnabas answers "Yes. Angelique destroyed him, or so we thought. He had taken possession of a friend of the Collins family, and then attempted to destroy the family and take over Collinwood. It is clear we will need to destroy Judah once more, for all time." Quentin asks "What happened to that friend of the Collinses who was possessed?" Angelique and Barnabas look at each other a moment, and Angelique answers "He...died as well." Harrison says "Barnabas...this must be the reason I was sent here. We must stop her." Barnabas answers "I know. But I also know that I cannot let Julia Hoffman die!"

Julia enters Nicholas' house and he asks her what she's doing there. "Harrison is still alive, but not for long," she says. "But he and Quentin know that I am no longer Julia Hoffman." Nicholas asks her "Do they know anything else?" Julia laughs and answers "What does that matter? What could they do even if they did know?" She walks to the mirror and admires herself as she continues "Besides, I want Barnabas and Angelique to know who is about to destroy them. The cat plays with its kill before delivering the final blow, doesn't he?" Nicholas says that they are taking a chance if they don't "move forward" soon. Julia answers "You don't think I've thought of that? I've already made preliminary arrangements for our plan, Nicholas. All we need to is wait for them to make their next move. And then, we can spring our trap." Nicholas asks "Their next move? What would that be?" Julia answers with a laugh "If I read Barnabas right....I think they'll try to save me!" Nicholas and Julia laugh. Meanwhile, Stokes has arrived at Collinwood and is inspecting the doll along with Barnabas. He tells Barnabas that "it certainly could have been used in some incantation." Harrison enters the room and tells them that all of Julia's things "are gone." Barnabas says sadly "No doubt she's gone to Blair's. There must be some way to end this!" Stokes answers that if she's under Blair's control "and he's as powerful as we remember, Julia may be in grave danger." Harrison says that she's not under Blair's control, but "possessed by some spirit named Judah Zachary." Stokes looks at Barnabas and says "Judah Zachary! How could that be when he was destroyed...." Barnabas answers "It's the only answer we have!" Stokes replies "It's not a good answer for Julia Hoffman, I fear. Ending the possession may mean ending her life as well." Barnabas didn't want to hear this.

In the drawing room, Stokes is having a drink with Barnabas, Harrison, Angelique and Quentin. Barnabas insists that Julia must be fighting the possession, and that "she cares for us all too much to passively go along with Judah's control. Gerard Stiles was an opportunist with few loyalties, much easier to control." Stokes answers that may be true, but that Judah's powers may be "too great for Julia's spirit to overcome." Harrison asks Angelique how she destroyed Judah before if he was so powerful. She answers "His spirit was still linked to his remains. His head had been preserved after his execution. It was the source of his power, and was linked to those he possessed." Stokes says "We must find that head, then, since it was obviously used to possess Julia." Quentin says "You told me the head was destroyed. When Gerard Stiles was exposed, Judah's head turned into a skull and crumbled!" Barnabas agrees, saying "I saw that head destroyed." Stokes answers "It seems our Mr. Blair has found a way to restore Judah's power. The only way to free Julia Hoffman may be to find that head and destroy it somehow." Barnabas asks Stokes if that will "free Julia." Stokes answers "I'm sure it will free her of the possession, Barnabas, but I must admit I'm not sure if she will survive. There's no way of knowing."