Episode 1479

Aired: Thursday February 23, 1972

After a replay of Wednesday's close and the titles, David tries the door but cannot get it open. He pounds on it, but the noises only continue. Suddenly, Vicky calls to him and asks him what's going on. He tells her that he heard strange noises coming from behind the locked door. When Vicky gets there, the light is gone, and Vicky is able to open the door. The room is abandoned and only contains some dusty old furniture. David tells Vicky he knows he saw a light and heard voices. "You probably don't believe me...after all those times I tried to scare you with stories of ghosts living back here," he says disappointed. Vicky says "No, David, I believe you. I've seen it myself, in another room." David asks "What did you see?" Vicky tells David how she managed to get the door open, but only saw her portrait on the wall before the door closed and the room changed. "How can that happen? How can the room just change?" he asks. Vicky says that Professor Stokes explained it as "different worlds existing in the same place somehow. He seemed to think that there are other timebands..." David seems confused. Vicky says "I don't explain it very well, do I? Maybe we should talk to Professor Stokes, or even Julia or Barnabas. They seem to understand it better." David thinks a moment and says "Barnabas knows about it? Maybe I'll ask him..."

At the old house, Barnabas asks Angelique if she really thinks that Maggie is truly back to normal. Angelique answers that Maggie has been working with Sarah, and that "she hasn't so much as mentioned Josette. When I interrupted them, she acted like her old sarcastic self. It was amusing when she apologized to me when I was actually pleased to hear it." Barnabas tells her he will head up to Collinwood to see David. "He was here earlier looking for me for some reason. I'll be back soon, I'm sure." Barnabas leaves, and Angelique sees that the cat has been sitting and watching them. She goes over towards it. "You've certainly gotten comfortable around here," she says to it, and then sits down to read. The cat stares at her a while and Angelique seems to get uneasy. She looks around, and then looks out the window. We hear her thinking. "What a strange feeling....like eyes...eyes are watching me....I haven't felt this in so long....could it be Josette? Somehow come back?" Angelique says "No! It can't be her!" out loud, getting the cat's attention. Angelique heads upstairs and when we pan back towards the cat, we see Brian sitting and wondering "Why do you fear Josette, my dear Angelique?" Up at Collinwood, Barnabas has been told by David and Vicky about what's gone on in the west wing. "It was bizarre enough when confined to that one room in the east wing," Barnabas says. "What could be happening now? Why does it seem to be spreading?" David says that perhaps Stokes would know, "but I wanted to tell you before I left for Lori Slater's lab." Barnabas asks "You're working for her again?" David says "Well, sort of. I need to bring some stuff over there." He says goodbye and leaves with the books on the occult, unnoticed by Vicky and Barnabas, since Vicky waits for David to leave before telling Barnabas that Julia told her about what Quentin saw. "Strange," Barnabas says. "To think that any room up there could contain an entirely different world than the one we live in." Vicky says she wants to know what kind of a world there could be where her portrait was hanging at Collinwood. Barnabas says "Who knows?" Vicky wonders.

At Lori's lab, David is showing Chris the books and telling him about the legendary cures. Chris is skeptical, and tells David that "nothing I've ever tried has worked. No one who ever tried to help me has succeeded." David asks who has tried to help him, and Chris says "You may as well know, David. Barnabas and Julia tried once, and then even Quentin tried. I don't know why they wanted to, but I didn't ask any questions." David says "I knew it! I knew Quentin had more to do with you than what he told me! Barnabas....yeah, Barnabas wanting to help you makes sense to me....." Chris tells David "Look, this isn't the kind of thing you tell everyone! When you talk to Barnabas and Julia and Quentin, you tell them that I said it's okay if you know about all of that. But I have to swear you to secrecy, do you understand?" David says he does, and then asks how Quentin tried to help him. "Julia probably tried something like Lori is trying, huh?" he adds. Chris says that Barnabas and Julia seemed "stumped," but "Quentin took me to some old artist who could supposedly transfer this thing into a painting...but it didn't work." David asks how Quentin knew the artist and who it was, and Chris says he really can't remember. "I had never heard of something so bizarre, but I wasn't one to ask questions." David says "I'll ask questions, all right. I have some questions for Quentin."

David comes back into Collinwood and goes upstairs. He goes into the west wing, but Quentin is not in his room. David wanders down the hall and comes to the door leading to the attic. "Quentin always goes up here, it seems," he thinks as he tries the door. It's locked. "Where could he be?" David thinks, and heads back to Quentin's room. He starts to write him a note on the desk, and when he opens the drawer to find a pen, he finds a key. "This must be the key to that door," David thinks. He thinks it over a moment, and then thinks "Maybe there are answers up there.... I always wondered why Quentin took this room when he came here....I remember all the times Amy and I used to come here, crawling through the hole in the wall hiding this place......maybe this key will explain something..." He takes it and heads back to the attic door. He tries the key, and the door opens. David heads upstairs into the attic, and looks around. He sighs. "There's nothing but old junk up here!" he says. Then he notices the portrait with the cloth hanging over it. He sees the bottom is exposed, and reads out loud "Quentin Collins, 1897." He gets curious and starts to lift the cloth....