Episode 1480

Aired: Friday February 24, 1972

Alexandra Moltke's voiceover: "My name is Victoria Winters. Of all the strange phenomena I've witnessed since coming to Collinwood, none have fascinated me more than the recent discovery of a different world inside a strange west wing room, a room where it seems I may be living a different life than the one I live. On this night, an aspect of the life of that other Victoria Winters will alter my life in ways I cannot imagine.... while for others, the house also contains many other secrets, secrets though no matter how carefully guarded, eventually may be revealed. "

After a replay of Thursday's close and the titles, David begins to lift the cloth when Quentin suddenly stops him from behind. "What are you doing here?" Quentin yells. "What is this painting?" David says. "Why is it locked up here?" Quentin tells David he has no business being up there, and "I don't want anyone messing around with my things up here!" David says "This portrait of Quentin from long ago... why is it up here? Why do you have it?" Quentin says "It doesn't matter, now let's get out of here." David grabs the cloth and yanks it away as Quentin yells "David! No! Leave that alone!" Quentin tries to stop him, but their struggle knocks the cloth loose, and the rotting human Quentin is in the portrait. David gasps when he sees it, and is speechless. Quentin covers the painting up with the cloth. "What is that? Why would someone paint him that way?" David says. Quentin says "I don't know. I suppose my grandfather had a sick sense of humor. I don't know why I even keep this thing... it's always been a sick joke for us. I put it up here to avoid embarrassment, David, that's why I didn't want anyone to see it!" David buys the lie and gets apologetic. "I'm sorry.... I'm really sorry. I only wanted to...." Quentin says "Let's just get out of here." David says "I only wanted to ask you about Chris and how you tried to help him. He mentioned something about someone painting a portrait of him. I thought this might have been it until I saw the name at the bottom." Quentin says "Chris told you that?" David nods. "How could a painting help him?" David asks. Quentin thinks a moment and says "Let's go downstairs and I'll try to tell you." David leaves and Quentin thinks "Try is right.... what can I tell you without telling you the truth?" In the west wing, Quentin locks the attic door and starts to follow David when he sees the light coming from under a door. He stops a moment and tells David to go on ahead while "I get something from my room." David goes on, and Quentin manages to open the door. He sees Jamison reading inside. "Jamison..." he says.

Quentin stands at the door watching Jamison. Beth enters the room along with the other Quentin and tells Jamison to get ready for their trip to New York. Jamison goes on and on about how he's never seen New York before, and Quentin tells him what a "grand city" it is. Outside, Quentin gets a little emotional and says "I remember promising you a trip to New York once...and I never took you... I was just thinking about that this morning....this can't be a coincidence..." Quentin struggles to enter the room and calls out to Jamison to no avail. Further down the hall, David hears Quentin calling Jamison and gets curious. He turns back and heads into the west wing. As Quentin watches the inside of the room, David quietly comes up behind him and looks inside. He gasps "Quentin and Beth! They're back! We've got to get away!" Quentin sees him and tells him to calm down. David yells "No! We've got to get away! He tried to kill me! " Quentin grabs him and shouts "David, calm down! They don't even know you're here!" David looks into the room and sees that the other Quentin, along with Beth and Jamison, go on with their business ignoring them. "They can't hear us..." David says. "That boy! He looks exactly like me! What's going on?" Quentin says "He ought to, David. I think that's your grandfather Jamison, at about your age. Along with my grandfather and.... some woman, I don't recognize her." David says "That's Beth. I've seen her ghost! What's going on?" The door suddenly shuts in the room and the light goes out. Quentin opens the door back up, and the room is dark and filled with dusty old furniture. "Where did they all go?" David asks. Quentin says he doesn't know. "It's like the room Vicky saw," David says. "Barnabas told me about it. It's like there's another world going on and we get to see it inside these rooms when conditions are right. Were we really seeing our grandfathers when they were alive?" Quentin says "Maybe." David says "You really look like your grandfather, don't you?" Quentin smiles and says "You do too." David says "I'm glad you're not as mean as he was." Quentin looks a little sad and says "His ghost, you mean? That story again?" David says it's not a story, and says "I hope he stays in that room where he belongs." Quentin tells David they should go downstairs.

Vicky is having tea (and cheese, of course) with Stokes and telling him about the things she's seen in the west wing. Stokes is interested, and tells Vicky that "a long time ago, an eccentric Collins ancestor experimented with time in a basement laboratory. He may have inadvertently opened various rifts in time that manifest themselves at different locations. That east wing room may have only been the beginning." Vicky says "I was returned from the past as well. Maybe that opened up more of these rifts." Stokes says "You catch on quickly, Miss Winters. I have a theory that the passage of people through those planes may in fact open new planes. Though from what you told me, this time the nature of those passageways seems to be different." Vicky asks how, and Stokes continues "The particular timebands that are turning up seem to reflect upon the consciousness of those that see them. Think about it. When you were fearful, the hangman's noose turned up. When you were wondering about your own future, now that you know your identity, you saw a world where your portrait hung at Collinwood, a timeband where that identity seems to be quite important." Vicky says "Does that mean that different people would open doorways into different worlds?" Stokes says "It's quite possible. The doorways could align themselves according to the inner thoughts of anyone who sees the opening. Perhaps they would see worlds that are different based on the choices their own counterparts made, perhaps not." Vicky wonders what it would be like to enter one of those worlds, and Stokes cautions her "That could be quite dangerous, Miss Winters. Especially if your counterpart were there and you would meet. The consequences in such a case could be disastrous. I would stay out of the room you described."

Vicky returns to Collinwood and finds David and Quentin playing chess in the drawing room. David runs to Vicky and tells her what he and Quentin saw in the west wing. Vicky tells them about Stokes' warning about entering the rooms. "Did Professor Stokes say anything about the people in those rooms coming here?" David asks. Vicky says "No, he didn't. Though that's an interesting possibility.." David says "We should hope it can't happen." Quentin says "David is convinced his ancestors will come back to harm him." Vicky says "You used to like ghosts in the attic, David, what happened?" David says "Some ghosts aren't so friendly." Vicky says "Professor Stokes said that he thinks that what we see in the rooms reflects thoughts deep in our minds. It's almost like we see what we want to see, deep deep down." David says "That makes no sense. Why would we see both of our grandfathers then?" Quentin shrugs and says "I'm not sure. It could be that we were together, so we saw them together. Who knows? I just happen to agree with Stokes that perhaps we should keep those doors locked and shut from now on." Vicky says "Maybe...." as Quentin and David return to their chess game. David says "Inside that room... the Quentin in there seemed different from....well, you know. He seemed nicer." Quentin says "Maybe someone's ghost doesn't capture the entirety of their humanity. Maybe they have no control over what they do." David thinks about that. Meanwhile, Vicky goes into her room, but then gives into her curiosity about the west wing. She goes back to the room she saw her portrait in and opens the door. There is nothing there, and she wonders "What kind of a world could there be in there....what am I doing there?" She turns around, and suddenly hears some sounds. When she turns back, the room is once again lit up, and her portrait is on the wall. But even more shocking to Vicky is who stands in front of it, with a drink in his hand. It's Burke Devlin (Mitchell Ryan), looking up at Vicky's portrait with a frown! Outside, Vicky gasps "Burke! Burke is in that other world!" Burke looks up at the portrait and says "A toast to you, Vicky. A toast to you....and to all that's here....all of the great estate of Collinwood.....all mine.... and all worthless!" Burke angrily swigs his drink and than smashes his glass against the wall. The door suddenly slams shut and Vicky cannot open it up. She pounds on the door and yells "Burke! Burke!"