Episode 1478

Aired: Wednesday February 22, 1972

After a replay of Tuesday's close and the titles, Quentin tells David to forget everything he's seen, and that he shouldn't be working for Brian. David asks if Brian wants to hurt Chris somehow, and Lori says "I'm not sure about that, but whatever you do, you cannot tell Brian that you've seen Chris. I need to keep him in my lab so I can try to help him." David says "How can you help him? I've read about what he is." Quentin feigns "What are you talking about?" David says "Don't you know? He turned into a wolf, at least it looked like a wolf. I remember reading about it in one of Carolyn's books on the occult that Sebastian gave her. If someone got bitten by a werewolf and survived, they'd become a werewolf too...that must be what happened to Chris! Unless someone put a curse on him... but who would do that to Chris?" Quentin tells David that "those books can often be wrong about things." David says "Quentin, both of us have seen some strange things since you've come to Collinwood that can only be explained by books like Carolyn's... and besides, look at Barnabas, he's...." David catches himself and then says "he's...he's seen some strange stuff too!" Quentin tells David that the best thing he could do is to stay away from Brian and forget he ever saw what happened to Chris "or else your own life could be in danger." David wonders about that.

Quentin is back in Collinwood, in his room and brooding. He thinks about what David has discovered, and wonders if he could ever tell him the truth about Chris and why he's under such a horrible curse. "Knowing what I've done to Chris besides what I would have done to you as a spirit in this house...how could you ever speak to me again, David?" Quentin thinks as he takes a drink. He hears some voices and the sounds of clinking glasses outside his room and gets curious. He looks out in the hall and begins to follow the sounds. "What was that? Who else is up here..." we hear him think. "It better not be Miller snooping around again..." He turns a corner and sees a light coming from under a door. The noises continue inside, and Quentin tries the knob. He opens the door and is shocked when he looks inside. Inside, he sees himself, only he has the long sideburns and his 1897 clothes. With him in the room is Beth, laughing and drinking along with him. Beth says "Have you ever been happier, Quentin?" In-the-room Quentin says "No, I don't think I've ever been happier... how could I have been without you?" He kisses her as Quentin watches from the hallway fascinated. He cannot enter the room, and says "Like the room in the East Wing...only a time in the past....what's happening here?" Suddenly, Jamison runs into the room and to Quentin. "Jamison!" that Quentin says. "Where have you been, I've been looking all over for you?" Jamison answers "I was outside. I'm sorry you couldn't find me, father." Outside, Quentin is shocked. "Father?" Suddenly the door slams in his face. Quentin tries the knob, but it's locked. He pounds on the door and yells "Jamison! Jamison!"

In the drawing room, Quentin has told Julia what he saw in the West Wing. Julia tells him how it sounds similar to what Vicky saw in a different room, only "Vicky didn't see any clues as to when the world inside the room was taking place... obviously from yours, you saw a world of many years ago." Quentin says "But a different world...one where Jamison was my son...and I can only assume that I was married to Beth Chavez there. It's funny...it's almost as if you had asked me if I could go back and construct the world I'd most want to live in....there it was, inside that room." Julia says "Stokes' theories on parallel time come to mind here. While there was a separate band of time inside that east wing room, Stokes said that there could be an infinite amount of other bands of time, each one different from the other, depending on the choices people made within them." Quentin says "Then are you suggesting that all these different worlds are popping up in different rooms in Collinwood? It sounds like we're living in a bizarre amusement park! Perhaps we should sell tickets!" Julia answers "Both you and Vicky saw different worlds, yet in each case you saw yourselves in that world, or at least Vicky saw her portrait. I wonder if there's any connection." Quentin says he told Julia instead of Stokes, since knowledge of Beth and Jamison "may betray too much of my secret. I've been agonizing over my secrets as it is." Julia asks why, and Quentin brings her up to date about David and Chris. Julia asks if David can be trusted, and Quentin says "We have no other choice, he's seen Chris transform." Julia says "He must have been terrified..." Quentin humphs and answers "Quite the contrary. He lost his fear and suddenly started discussing werewolves and cures with Lori. In an odd way, I was very proud of him for keeping his head. But I don't know how he'll react if what he's learned about Chris leads him to learning about me." Julia says "You've grown very close with him since you've been here." Quentin says "Yes, I have. It's almost like Jamison and my brother Edward all over again, with David and Roger. Oh, Roger isn't nearly as obnoxious as Edward, but it amazes me how my favorite nephew could have raised a son who is so often a total twit....he did much better with Elizabeth...." Quentin takes a drink and Julia says that if David was able to handle the truth about Chris so well, "perhaps he's old enough to know about you." Quentin is surprised by this.

David is showing Lori some books on the occult, and explains to her some legendary cures for werewolves. "These books describe some different cures... something about eating this flower after the moon rises.... here's something else about drinking the blood of a unicorn...." Lori says "David, these are all a waste of time. They're old wives tales and superstitions." David says "People say that about werewolves, and we both know differently!" Lori answers "Perhaps, but I've isolated an element in Chris' blood that is different. Perhaps the legend of the werewolf is actually a medical condition that can be cured scientifically? That's what I'm interested in." David asks how Quentin is helping her, and she says "Quentin is no scientist..." David says "Then how does he know about Chris?" Lori makes up "Well, you know Quentin has traveled all over the world. He'd be familiar with such strange legends, and he found out about Chris quite accidentally. You should ask him about it." David says he will. Later, David is walking through the west wing carrying his book. "Quentin knows more than he's telling me..." David thinks. "Why didn't he want me finding out about Chris? There's got to be an answer..." David comes near Quentin's room, but then hears some voices and noises down the hall. He wonders what the sounds are and follows them. He comes to a different door than before, only it has a light shining from under it. David thinks "What's going on here? This part of the house is never used..." He reaches out and begins to open the door.