Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Episode 1483

Aired: Wednesday February 29, 1972

Chris Pennock's voiceover: "A cloud of terror has descended on Collinwood. A stranger with mysterious powers has threatened Barnabas Collins with what he fears more than anything else, a return to the curse that transformed him into a destroyer of those he loved. On this night, unlikely allies will come together in order to protect him from this new and dangerous threat...."

Julia waits at the gazebo for a moment, and then Angelique arrives. "What did you want?" Angelique says. "The same thing you do, for Barnabas to be safe." Julia answers. "Then he told you..." Angelique says. Julia says yes, and how Barnabas thought that combining her scientific knowledge with Lori Slater's would be a way to overpower Brian. Angelique humphs, and says that "Barnabas is too stubborn to admit there's only one way to stop Brian Miller." Julia says "I know. We both know that the only thing that can fight him is your power." Angelique nods.

After the titles, Julia asks Angelique what she plans to do, and Angelique answers "I must learn more about the man to know the extent of his powers. After all, he may have powers stronger than my own." Nervous, Julia asks "What will we do if that's the case? There may be no way to protect Barnabas!" Angelique smiles and answers "In that case, I may not need to be a witch, but a woman. Miller is still only a man, after all." She takes a handkerchief out of her bag and says "This belongs to Miller. I can use it to learn what I need to." She holds the handkerchief in front of her eyes like a veil and begins to cast her spell. "Brian Miller....I hold that which you have possessed, that which still contains your essence. As I look through its fibers, let me see through your eyes....I will see what you see, Brian Miller, as I look into that which is yours....." Through Angelique's eyes, we see a picture forming within the hanging handkerchief. It slowly takes focus, and then we see that it's Sarah. "Sarah!" Angelique says. Julia gets scared. "Oh no, he's not threatening Sarah, is he?" Angelique says "No.... she doesn't look scared." We see Sarah smiling and giggling. "Sarah is happy....even playful," Angelique says as the image grows sharper. We see that Sarah is waving a piece of yarn in front of our view. "Yarn..." Angelique says. "She's playing with....." She drops the handkerchief and the vision vanishes. Julia says "Yarn? What are you talking about?" Angelique starts to rush off. "I think I know....but stay here! I don't want to arouse suspicion!" Julia asks Angelique what she knows, and Angelique says "Stay here, Julia! You must trust me!" Angelique runs off, leaving a confused Julia behind. At the old house, Angelique comes in the door and runs upstairs. She enters Sarah's room, and sees Sarah happily playing on the bed with the cat, who swats at the yarn.

At Collinwood, Vicky stands at the door of the room where she saw Burke, thinking. We hear his voice in her mind telling her he loves her, and that they will get married once he comes back from South America. We hear her thinking how Burke is still alive "inside this room, somewhere, in another time. If only I could see more....what is it about it that compels me to go inside?" Carolyn comes up behind her and says "Penny for your thoughts. Though I bet I know what they are." Vicky tells Carolyn that she can't help thinking that the Burke she saw in "that other world" needs her. Carolyn tells her that Stokes' warnings should be taken seriously. "You could die if you entered that world, or maybe destroy the life of another Vicky Winters living there." Vicky says she knows about Stokes warning, but "he might not be right. After all, he only knows theories about such things." Carolyn tells her that "losing you once was enough. Now that mother has faced the truth, we can't lose you again." Vicky says "Do you think there's another Carolyn Stoddard in there too?" Carolyn shrugs and says she doesn't know, only "I wonder if there's another Carolyn Stoddard somewhere who is happier than I am. There are probably all sorts of different Carolyn Stoddards in all sorts of different worlds, all happily married and in love. And here, there's only me." Vicky tells Carolyn not to be so down on herself. Carolyn says "You lost Burke and I lost Jeb. I guess if you can go on, I can too." Vicky says she'll go downstairs and make them both some tea. Carolyn says that's a good idea. Vicky walks off, and Carolyn thinks about the Burke room for a moment before stepping away. Out of the corner of her eye, she sees a light come on in another room down the hall. She's startled by it, but slowly walks towards the door. She hears a voice inside that sounds familiar, and with tears in her eyes, she opens the door and sees Jeb Hawkes standing inside, only wearing a suit and looking over some papers. "Jeb...." she says through tears. He cannot see or hear her.

Carolyn continues watching Jeb as he sits at a desk with the papers. Outside, Carolyn says "Jeb... you're still alive in some other world....just like Burke...and I can't go in and hold you....Stokes said I couldn't...." Suddenly from the other end of the room, a different Carolyn enters. Carolyn is shocked to see herself. "It's....it's me!" she says, holding her hands over her mouth in shock. The other Carolyn runs up to Jeb and hugs him, but he's indifferent. "I'm alive in that other world, and I'm with him..." outside Carolyn thinks. "It's like I'm seeing the life I could have had....." Inside the room, Jeb pulls away from Carolyn and tells her he's busy. She answers that "you always seem too busy for me." Jeb says "It's only business. Your mother and Roger wanted me to go over these figures. It's nothing you would understand anyway." Carolyn starts to look over the papers and says "Maybe I could understand if you explained it a little." He snatches the papers from her and says "Forget it! None of this concerns you. Taking care of the business is my job now." Carolyn snaps "What if I wanted it to be mine? It's my family, after all." Jeb laughs and says "Do you think they'd trust the family business to a pampered little girl like you? They'd let the lawyers handle it until David was old enough. Why else do you think they wanted to marry you off? They knew I could handle things as well as I handle you." He takes her into his arms, but she pulls away. "Don't talk to me like I'm stupid," she says. "Do what I want," he says, grabbing her again. "Your mother and Roger know what's best for you, and that's for me to be in charge." She resists as he kisses her harshly, and outside Carolyn is surprised to be seeing herself like that as the door suddenly closes in her face. She thinks about what she's seen for a moment and only says "Wow....was that really me?"

Downstairs, Vicky has made tea as a shaken Carolyn slowly enters the drawing room. Vicky asks her what took her so long, and Carolyn says "I saw it, Vicky. I saw another world." Vicky asks her what Burke said and what she heard, and Carolyn shakes her head, answering "No, not in that room. It was in a different room. Jeb was there, alive, just like what we were talking about." Vicky says "Stokes said that our own thoughts might affect what we see inside those rooms." Carolyn says "I saw myself, Vicky. I was married to Jeb. It might have been the life I would've had if...." Vicky gets sympathetic and tells Carolyn she's sorry, but Carolyn stops her. "No, Vicky, there's nothing to be sorry about. It wasn't the life I would want. Jeb was different. He was cold and cruel. He treated me like I was a nothing. I'd hate that to be my life, Vicky, so dependent on a man that I would live as the person I saw in there every day." Vicky answers that maybe there was a reason she saw what she did. Carolyn agrees. "I've always thought I needed to find some man to take care of me," she says sipping her tea. "Maybe I'm better off taking care of myself." Meanwhile, Angelique has returned to the gazebo where Julia asks her why she ran off so suddenly. "I know where Brian Miller is, and what powers he has," Angelique answers. "And if I'm right, Barnabas is in very grave danger. The vampire bat that will attack him won't be something conjured up by Brian Miller, it will actually BE Brian Miller!" Julia is shocked.