Aired: Wednesday December 29, 1971
After a replay of Tuesday's close and the titles, Pansy holds onto Harrison and tells Petofi to keep away from her. "Such a gallant lad, I see," Petofi says. "But I did not bring Miss Trask here to harm her, far from it. I only brought her to convince you not to be so stubborn." Harrison wonders what he means until he takes Pansy's hand and places in on Harrison's. "Tell us what you see of his other world, Pansy Faye..." Petofi says. "Tell us all of your vision of that world...tell us why this man, Harrison Collins, is so needed there...." Pansy refuses, but then Petofi raises THE HAND and threatens her with it. Harrison tells her it's all right, and that she can tell him what is happening "in my world." She closes her eyes and starts to describe the woods, and then says "I see an old farmhouse...it's been abandoned but it's being used...." The image of Valery laying unconscious on the bed inside the farmhouse appears as Pansy continues. "I see someone....it's Angelique! But it's not Angelique....not in this world...." Harrison says "Valery...her name is Valery..." Pansy continues "She's in danger! She's not moving! She's trapped in that farmhouse....she's a prisoner there!" Harrison starts to become very interested now, and shouts "A prisoner? Where is this farmhouse? Tell me! Tell me!" Pansy comes out of the trance, and says "I can't see anything else! It's gone now!" Harrison, angry, walks away in frustration. "It seems you are needed back in your world, Mr. Harrison," Petofi says. "At least now I understand your haste to leave this one. A lady in distress...a lady in distress whom you care for very much....this seems to be your weakness." Harrison looks at Petofi and says "You don't understand! You cannot enter that other world without causing a disruption to the timeflow!" Petofi says "What sort of disruption? You've entered into this world without any catastrophe taking place." Harrison insists that Petofi belongs "here," but must stop short before revealing any more. "I cannot tell him my true origins, " Harrison thinks. "But I also cannot permit my own world to be altered by changing Petofi's actions in 1897....the entire Collins family might be affected." Petofi says he "must escape this world" and that "while I intended no harm to come to Miss Trask, I may have to alter that part of my plan. Or perhaps, we might threaten some of the others at Collinwood, since our guest seems to be so concerned for them. Charles, go see who else is at Collinwood, and...shall we say, invite them over here. I can handle these two myself." Tate leaves as Petofi raises THE HAND....
Near Collinwood, Aristede is trying to sneak in the front door, thinking "I'll find that room if it's the last thing I do" when Quentin finds him. He yanks Aristede away and says "Look at you, your clothes in tatters. What do you think you're doing trying to break in here?" Aristede tries to get by again, saying he "must," and adds "I ought to kill you for what you've done to me! Petofi has sent someone to kill me because of you!" Quentin laughs and says "Well, hooray for Count Petofi!" Aristede lunges at Quentin and the two begin to fight, falling away from the house. As they struggle near the edge of the woods, we hear the rattling chains of Blackwood approaching. Aristede gets frightened while Quentin wonders what the noise is. Blackwood appears, and demands "justice for the criminal." He accuses Quentin of "aiding the fugitive," but Quentin says "I'm not aiding him at all. Here, take him!" Quentin shoves Aristede right at Blackwood, who catches him by the throat with his chain. Aristede gasps "Quentin! No....no....." Quentin watches for a moment as Blackwood strangles Aristede to death, but then runs back into the house. Blackwood walks off leaving Aristede dead, and Tate comes out of the woods to find his body.
Meanwhile in PT, Valery wakes up in the farmhouse, but has no idea where she is or how she got there. She was holding the gun in her hand and when she sees this, she drops it on the bed. She sees that the bed is bloody where she was laying. She gets scared and backs away from the bloody bed and reaches the door. She cannot get out and it is still locked. "I can't remember what I am doing here....I can't remember anything....why does my head hurt so much?" we hear her think. "Who am I?" she thinks. "Why can't I remember? It's like a dream, a terrible dream that won't end...." She stumbles around the place wondering why she is there when she finds another note, this one in an envelope on a small table. She opens it and begins to read, growing more and more horrified. She says out loud "A suicide note....signed Valery Stokes Trask....why does that name sound so familiar? My head....my head is pounding in pain...." She turns and sees a dusty mirror on the wall. She wipes away the dust, and sees her own reflection - there is blood all over the side of her head! She gasps, and in her delirium says "Me! I am Valery Stokes Trask! It was my note! I wrote the suicide note!" She touches her hand to the blood and looks at it on her fingers, saying "And I must be dead now!" She begins to scream. Outside the farmhouse, Trask, with a pail of what looks like blood and a soaked towel, is listening and laughing. Trask laughing becomes part of a smaller image surrounded by another, as we pull back to see that we have been watching another of Pansy's visions. Harrison is beside himself with anger, talking about how he will "kill that man when I get back there." Petofi says "You don't understand, my boy, I can help you if I accompany you back. I can help you get your revenge against that Mr. Trask." Harrison seems to be thinking this over when Tate arrives, out of breath. Petofi asks him why he didn't bring anyone else back with him, and he answers "Aristede is dead! I watched Blackwood strangle him!" Petofi smiles, and Harrison thinks.
Petofi remarks on how he hopes "Aristede died painfully." Tate is concerned that Blackwood is still out there, and wonders why he wasn't destroyed when Aristede died. Petofi says he's not concerned about that. We hear Harrison think "Blackwood! The ghost Petofi conjured up...now I remember! On the same night he killed Aristede, he returned here to Tate's studio and destroyed it, with Petofi inside! That means he's heading back here now....I must get out of here!" Petofi is elated over Aristede's death, and steps to the other end of the room, talking about how "perhaps I will need a new protegŽ now...." As he looks towards Harrison, Harrison motions to Charity to pick up a nearby vase. She gets it quickly, grabs the vase and clocks Tate with it. He goes down, and Harrison makes a break for the open door. Charity starts to follow, but Petofi catches up with her and grabs her arm. "Let go o' me, you bloody swine!" she says, batting at him. He angrily raises THE HAND and says "Calm yourself, Miss Trask," as he touches her with it, knocking her out. "Fortunately, I know exactly where our young friend is going." Back at Collinwood, Harrison comes through the front door in a rush, and we hear him think "I haven't much time," as he heads through the door to under the stairs. As he closes it behind him, Quentin comes out of the drawing room wondering what the noise was. "Judith? Is that you?" he says. When he sees nothing, he walks out the front door and closes it behind him. We pan to the clock, dissolve to about ten minutes going by, and then we see Harrison come out of the door. He's got a piece of the crystal in his hand, and we hear him thinking "This should be enough of it to tap into the timeflow in that room....as long as some of it is left behind for the world of 1971...." He puts it in his pocket and turns up the stairs just as the front door opens. Petofi and Charity enter, with Petofi holding her by the throat with THE HAND. "I see I'm not too late, Mr. Harrison," Petofi says. "Now if you value this young girl's life as much as the one you are rushing back to, you'll show me exactly which room upstairs you're heading for." Harrison freezes.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Episode 1437
Aired: Tuesday December 28, 1971
After a replay of Monday's close, Harrison sits in Tate's studio with Petofi (Thayer David) standing over him. "I'm so sorry my friend Charles had to resort to violence to bring you here, but as you can see, we had no other choice," Petofi says. "Your friend Charles may be a talented artist, but his hearing is poor. I have no idea what he's talking about," Harrison says. Petofi smiles and says "Oh, dear boy, it will do you no good to lie to me. I am quite familiar with some of the theories involving the possible existence of other timebands... if I had stumbled upon one using the I Ching, I may just have taken refuge there already. You see, my boy, I must leave this place, and leave no trace of myself behind. And if there is a portal to another timeband, one so conveniently identical to this one except for the absence of my pursuers, I must find it." Harrison still denies its existence, and Petofi tells him he's a "fool" since "if you are indeed from there, you will have to return yourself. Isn't that what you were attempting when interrupted by Aristede?" Harrison says he can't remember, and "maybe that has to do with being hit on the head from behind." Petofi laughs and tells him "you'll have plenty of time to recover from that, my boy. You're not leaving here unless you tell me what I want to know." Harrison sees Tate guarding the door with a gun. Petofi adds "You seemed to be in quite a hurry to get back to your own world. I suppose one can assume the people there need you for some reason." We hear Harrison think "The will! I still have the will in my pocket! Without it, Quentin has no weapon against Trask!" Petofi sees Harrison thinking and says "Yes....it seems I have discovered your Achilles' heel. As long as you stay here, your own world needs you." Harrison thinks "I must get out of here or Trask may harm Valery!" We cut to the PT Trask smiling and entering Collinwood. He is carrying a small bag. He takes a look into the drawing room and finds no one in there. He closes the doors and brings the bag to the desk. He examines the contents, which look like several different vials of drugs. "Poor sweet Valery...." we hear him think. "If only you knew how these vials contained the seeds of your destruction...."
Valery enters the drawing room as Trask sits and reads. She is about to turn and leave, when he calls after her. He tells her how sorry he is that "things have happened the way they have. I don't know what the future holds, Valery. I don't know where Harrison has disappeared to with this will that Quentin describes. But I only know that once we were friends." Valery is about to leave again, and Trask says "Please, can't we simply try to talk as friends? I mean no harm to this family, I only wanted to relieve you of the burdens of running the family business. If you prefer, we can return those duties to you." Valery asks him why the sudden change of behavior, and Trask smiles and says he only sees "pain and suffering" in any other approach. He asks her if she wants tea. She says okay, and he walks to the teapot and cups conveniently sitting there. Valery doesn't watch him as she talks about the family's need to reconcile, and he pours the contents of a vial into her teacup before handing it to her. She drinks it and hands the cup back to him. She wonders where Harrison could have gone "so suddenly" and how "Quentin won't say anything about it." Trask says "Harrison says he has no claims on any of the property. I see no reason for him to steal any other will." Suddenly, Valery feels a bit woozy and nearly falls. Trask asks her what is wrong, and she says she suddenly feels lightheaded. He says he'll help her to her room. We cut to upstairs, where Trask helps her into her room where she lays down. In a moment, she is out. Trask smiles and says "That was to make you sleep, my dear....the next dose will have a much more....interesting effect...." He picks her up and takes her out of the room.
We are close on Valery as she begins to wake up, but when she does, she's in the abandoned farmhouse we saw Trask checking out earlier. There is a pitcher of water by the bed she is on along with a glass. She is startled by her location, and says "Where am I? What is this place?" She gets up and tries the door, but it is jammed shut. She goes to the window, but it's been darkened and is also jammed shut. She panics a little and begins to pound on the door screaming for help. We hear her think "There's no one out there....where is this place?" She sees there is a note sitting on top of a nightstand near the bed. She picks it up, and it says "You will die here, and Collinwood will be mine!" It is signed only "H." She looks at it and says "H? Harrison? No... it cannot be..." She throws the note down and bangs on the door again, but no help comes. She sees the water pitcher and thinks "If they left me water....they may be back to leave more...perhaps they only want a ransom...." She takes a drink of water, and thinks "I'm trapped.....trapped here!" After a moment, she gets woozy again and passes out, dropping her water glass. We cut to Petofi telling Harrison "You are trapped here until you cooperate...you may as well tell me what I want to know. Perhaps you have a price of your own....perhaps I could help you in what you wish to accomplish back in your world. I helped my friend Charles to become the fine artist he is today. Think what I could do for you." Petofi tells Harrison that what he's "most interested in" is why he wound up in "this world. Was it on purpose, or an accident? I would assume an accident from your desire to get back, but I must wonder why you left this mysterious room in the upstairs on Collinwood to come to the main hall downstairs." Harrison lies that he was "disoriented." Petofi says "An even more interesting thing is how you immediately understood what had happened to you. How do you know all about parallel time, my boy? What are you in that other world?" Harrison sighs and tells Petofi he is a scientist, and had been "experimenting with what you describe. When I found myself here, I went downstairs because I had to be sure. But I knew that if I interacted with anyone here, I'd alter this world, and after Miss Pansy found me, I knew I had to return before I affected anyone else." Petofi thinks a moment, and then nods. "I can only wonder who your counterpart in this world is....the Collins family of this time has no one who resembles you, Mr. Harrison." Harrison says "In my world, I'm originally from New York. Perhaps the Collins family here has a New York cousin who is my counterpart." Petofi laughs and says "It would certainly be interesting if you were to meet him!" Harrison says "Yes, it would. Aren't you worried about meeting your counterpart in my world, Count Petofi?" Petofi smiles and says "No, I don't think that would be possible, Mr. Harrison. I have led a rather, shall we say, unique life in this world." Harrison says he still "cannot risk taking you there." Petofi answers "Your larger risk not doing what I ask, Mr. Harrison. Trust me." Harrison thinks that one over.
Valery wakes up woozy and wonders where she is. She only remembers drinking some of the water, but can't remember anything else. She stumbles over to the note again and thinks "Have I seen this before, it looks familiar....I don't remember.....I just can't remember....." She nudges the nightstand, and the drawer pops open. Inside is a gun. Valery looks at it curiously. Meanwhile, Trask meets with Alice in the woods and tells her that "Valery is completely under my control now." Alice asks how much "longer it will be," and Trask says "She will find the water I left her a tad impure....the chemical will lead to a deepening dementia... she will only be able to seek one way out." Alice smiles. "How fortunate that annoying Harrison has run away," she says. "I suspected he would try to interfere with our plans." Trask nods and says "Yes, it's fortunate he left, though I must admit I wonder where he has gone." We cut to Harrison back at Tate's studio. Harrison asks where Tate has gone to, and Petofi says "He is standing guard outside...unless of course he went on that errand I told him to, while you thought he was outside." Harrison stands and starts to move towards the door, but Tate comes back in. Petofi tells him there's no use trying to escape, and adds "especially when Charles has brought a friend for you to talk things over with." Tate drags Pansy into the room, who runs to Harrison and says "Don't do anything he says! That man is....pure evil, I tell you! Pure evil!" Petofi laughs.
After a replay of Monday's close, Harrison sits in Tate's studio with Petofi (Thayer David) standing over him. "I'm so sorry my friend Charles had to resort to violence to bring you here, but as you can see, we had no other choice," Petofi says. "Your friend Charles may be a talented artist, but his hearing is poor. I have no idea what he's talking about," Harrison says. Petofi smiles and says "Oh, dear boy, it will do you no good to lie to me. I am quite familiar with some of the theories involving the possible existence of other timebands... if I had stumbled upon one using the I Ching, I may just have taken refuge there already. You see, my boy, I must leave this place, and leave no trace of myself behind. And if there is a portal to another timeband, one so conveniently identical to this one except for the absence of my pursuers, I must find it." Harrison still denies its existence, and Petofi tells him he's a "fool" since "if you are indeed from there, you will have to return yourself. Isn't that what you were attempting when interrupted by Aristede?" Harrison says he can't remember, and "maybe that has to do with being hit on the head from behind." Petofi laughs and tells him "you'll have plenty of time to recover from that, my boy. You're not leaving here unless you tell me what I want to know." Harrison sees Tate guarding the door with a gun. Petofi adds "You seemed to be in quite a hurry to get back to your own world. I suppose one can assume the people there need you for some reason." We hear Harrison think "The will! I still have the will in my pocket! Without it, Quentin has no weapon against Trask!" Petofi sees Harrison thinking and says "Yes....it seems I have discovered your Achilles' heel. As long as you stay here, your own world needs you." Harrison thinks "I must get out of here or Trask may harm Valery!" We cut to the PT Trask smiling and entering Collinwood. He is carrying a small bag. He takes a look into the drawing room and finds no one in there. He closes the doors and brings the bag to the desk. He examines the contents, which look like several different vials of drugs. "Poor sweet Valery...." we hear him think. "If only you knew how these vials contained the seeds of your destruction...."
Valery enters the drawing room as Trask sits and reads. She is about to turn and leave, when he calls after her. He tells her how sorry he is that "things have happened the way they have. I don't know what the future holds, Valery. I don't know where Harrison has disappeared to with this will that Quentin describes. But I only know that once we were friends." Valery is about to leave again, and Trask says "Please, can't we simply try to talk as friends? I mean no harm to this family, I only wanted to relieve you of the burdens of running the family business. If you prefer, we can return those duties to you." Valery asks him why the sudden change of behavior, and Trask smiles and says he only sees "pain and suffering" in any other approach. He asks her if she wants tea. She says okay, and he walks to the teapot and cups conveniently sitting there. Valery doesn't watch him as she talks about the family's need to reconcile, and he pours the contents of a vial into her teacup before handing it to her. She drinks it and hands the cup back to him. She wonders where Harrison could have gone "so suddenly" and how "Quentin won't say anything about it." Trask says "Harrison says he has no claims on any of the property. I see no reason for him to steal any other will." Suddenly, Valery feels a bit woozy and nearly falls. Trask asks her what is wrong, and she says she suddenly feels lightheaded. He says he'll help her to her room. We cut to upstairs, where Trask helps her into her room where she lays down. In a moment, she is out. Trask smiles and says "That was to make you sleep, my dear....the next dose will have a much more....interesting effect...." He picks her up and takes her out of the room.
We are close on Valery as she begins to wake up, but when she does, she's in the abandoned farmhouse we saw Trask checking out earlier. There is a pitcher of water by the bed she is on along with a glass. She is startled by her location, and says "Where am I? What is this place?" She gets up and tries the door, but it is jammed shut. She goes to the window, but it's been darkened and is also jammed shut. She panics a little and begins to pound on the door screaming for help. We hear her think "There's no one out there....where is this place?" She sees there is a note sitting on top of a nightstand near the bed. She picks it up, and it says "You will die here, and Collinwood will be mine!" It is signed only "H." She looks at it and says "H? Harrison? No... it cannot be..." She throws the note down and bangs on the door again, but no help comes. She sees the water pitcher and thinks "If they left me water....they may be back to leave more...perhaps they only want a ransom...." She takes a drink of water, and thinks "I'm trapped.....trapped here!" After a moment, she gets woozy again and passes out, dropping her water glass. We cut to Petofi telling Harrison "You are trapped here until you cooperate...you may as well tell me what I want to know. Perhaps you have a price of your own....perhaps I could help you in what you wish to accomplish back in your world. I helped my friend Charles to become the fine artist he is today. Think what I could do for you." Petofi tells Harrison that what he's "most interested in" is why he wound up in "this world. Was it on purpose, or an accident? I would assume an accident from your desire to get back, but I must wonder why you left this mysterious room in the upstairs on Collinwood to come to the main hall downstairs." Harrison lies that he was "disoriented." Petofi says "An even more interesting thing is how you immediately understood what had happened to you. How do you know all about parallel time, my boy? What are you in that other world?" Harrison sighs and tells Petofi he is a scientist, and had been "experimenting with what you describe. When I found myself here, I went downstairs because I had to be sure. But I knew that if I interacted with anyone here, I'd alter this world, and after Miss Pansy found me, I knew I had to return before I affected anyone else." Petofi thinks a moment, and then nods. "I can only wonder who your counterpart in this world is....the Collins family of this time has no one who resembles you, Mr. Harrison." Harrison says "In my world, I'm originally from New York. Perhaps the Collins family here has a New York cousin who is my counterpart." Petofi laughs and says "It would certainly be interesting if you were to meet him!" Harrison says "Yes, it would. Aren't you worried about meeting your counterpart in my world, Count Petofi?" Petofi smiles and says "No, I don't think that would be possible, Mr. Harrison. I have led a rather, shall we say, unique life in this world." Harrison says he still "cannot risk taking you there." Petofi answers "Your larger risk not doing what I ask, Mr. Harrison. Trust me." Harrison thinks that one over.
Valery wakes up woozy and wonders where she is. She only remembers drinking some of the water, but can't remember anything else. She stumbles over to the note again and thinks "Have I seen this before, it looks familiar....I don't remember.....I just can't remember....." She nudges the nightstand, and the drawer pops open. Inside is a gun. Valery looks at it curiously. Meanwhile, Trask meets with Alice in the woods and tells her that "Valery is completely under my control now." Alice asks how much "longer it will be," and Trask says "She will find the water I left her a tad impure....the chemical will lead to a deepening dementia... she will only be able to seek one way out." Alice smiles. "How fortunate that annoying Harrison has run away," she says. "I suspected he would try to interfere with our plans." Trask nods and says "Yes, it's fortunate he left, though I must admit I wonder where he has gone." We cut to Harrison back at Tate's studio. Harrison asks where Tate has gone to, and Petofi says "He is standing guard outside...unless of course he went on that errand I told him to, while you thought he was outside." Harrison stands and starts to move towards the door, but Tate comes back in. Petofi tells him there's no use trying to escape, and adds "especially when Charles has brought a friend for you to talk things over with." Tate drags Pansy into the room, who runs to Harrison and says "Don't do anything he says! That man is....pure evil, I tell you! Pure evil!" Petofi laughs.
Monday, December 7, 2009
Episode 1436
Aired: Monday December 27, 1971
Michael Stroka's voiceover: "When Harrison Collins found himself in the strange and dangerous world of parallel time in the year 1897, he had no idea what twists and turns his journey would take. In a bizarre act of fate, he has been thrown back into his own world, only in the year 1897 as well. Well aware of the events of that time from his friendship with that Quentin Collins, he contemplates his next actions, fully aware that anything he does may irrevocable alter his own world, as well as hurt those he tried to help in the other...."
In a replay of Friday's close, Harrison is standing in the empty PT room and we hear him think "This may be an opportunity...I sat in that room for hours at a time waiting to come back here... down in the basement in the old laboratory is a working crystal to replace this clouded one in my ring...with it I could return to that other Quentin at will.... I must get it." He leaves the room and carefully walks down the hall. It's dark and abandoned, with only some junk along the way. We hear Harrison thinking "If I am here, in my own world...this should be the year 1897 as well... that means depending on what day this is, any number of things could be happening here at Collinwood that would affect my own future...I will need to be extremely careful and discreet...no one here must see me...." He peeks out of a door from the east wing, and sees no one. He moves down a hallway. Next, we see him peek out the door to the main stairway in the foyer. There's no one there. "I'm in luck, this should take no time at all," we hear him think as he starts downstairs. He turns the corner towards the door under the stairs, but suddenly Charity/Pansy Faye comes out of the drawing room and calls to him in her cockney accent "'Ere! Who are you and what are you doin' here?" He freezes in his tracks and has no answer.
After the titles, Pansy repeats her question, and Harrison mumbles a bit before saying "I'm a servant. I just got hired." He turns to go through the door, but Charity grabs him arm and angrily says "No servants 'ave been 'ired 'ere, mate! This 'ouse has been in chaos for the last weeks! Miss Judith ain't 'ired no one!" He tries to break free, saying "Please Charity, let go! If you let me go about my business, you'll never see me again, I swear!" Stunned, she says "Why'd you do that? Why'd you just call me Charity? Everyone keeps calling me that, and my name is Pansy Faye! But who told you to call me Charity?" He only asks her to let go of him again. She grabs hold of his arm stronger and says "I've got second sight, I do...and you're a Collins! I can feel it! I can even see it in your eyes!" He says she's mistaken, but she grabs ahold of his other arm. "I'm seein' other things too...I can see other things when I take 'old of you...." He pleads "Listen, please. People are waiting for me. I must take care of my affairs here, I do not have time for this!" She wonders "How can you be a Collins when I've never seen you here before... you come from some place else....a room upstairs...an empty room....but sometimes it's not empty!" He is intrigued by her. Outside the house, Aristede is out of breath and in tatters. "I gotta find a place to hide," we hear him thinking. "Blackwood will get me sooner or later if I don't...." We hear chains rattling in the distance and hear Blackwood bellowing voice "Where is the criminal? The criminal must be punished!" Aristede runs around the side of the house. Inside, Pansy has led Harrison into the drawing room and says "You're trying to save someone, I can sense it... maybe I can help!" Harrison insists the only way for her to help is to "forget you ever saw me here." She suddenly says "That room! That room is the doorway to another world! A world like this one, only everyone is different... I can see the people there when I touch you...." Harrison looks her over wondering, but we see Aristede is by the window, listening in. Harrison takes a deep breath and says "Tell me what you see."
Pansy holds onto Harrison and tells him she can see what's happening in "that other world." Harrison asks her what she sees, and as she starts to describe it, we dissolve to Quentin standing in the parallel time room wondering where Harrison is. We hear Pansy say "I see Quentin....but it's not Quentin...it's some other Quentin from that other world...he's searching for you! And he can't find you...." Quentin calls for Harrison a couple of times and then we hear him thinking "This room...I saw it change before.... could that have something to do with this? Will the room change again? And does that mean he'll be back? He's got to come back....he was holding the true will in his hand!" Quentin leaves the room in frustration. Downstairs, Hess is pacing in the foyer as Quentin comes down the stairs. "So, have you found this other will yet, Quentin?" he says. Quentin tells him that "My cousin Harrison has it... and now I can't find him." Hess doesn't understand, and says "You went up together. Where could he be? He had no reason to take the will and run away." Quentin says he didn't run away. Hess asks Quentin if he thinks Harrison "met with foul play. After all, we haven't seen Mr. Trask around here..." Quentin says no, and "if I told you what I thought, you'd think me insane. Let's just postpone the reading of this will until I can straighten all this out." Hess tells Quentin that "you can go back into that drawing room and face your family then. I'll be in town if you need me." Quentin enters the drawing room as we dissolve back to Pansy and Harrison. "...they're all there waiting....I see Edward and Barnabas and Angelique....Aristede just left..." Harrison is confused and says "Barnabas and Angelique? How do you know them? And who is Aristede?" Pansy snaps out of her trance and looks at Harrison, wide eyed. "You're Harrison Collins! They're waiting for you in that other world, they need something you have!" Harrison nods and says "Yes, that is who I am and where I am from. A room in the east wing is a doorway through different worlds. You must not tell anyone about this!" Pansy smiles and says "Don't you worry, love, I like this world just fine!" Harrison says "Just as well, I need to get something from this world and then return to that one before...." Suddenly Aristede is standing in the drawing room with his knife out. "Before what, Mr. Collins? Before you can take me with you, back to that other world I heard the lady describe so well?" Aristede begins to laugh.
"Who are you and what are you babbling about?" Harrison says. Aristede introduces himself, and adds "I heard everything.... everything of Miss Pansy Faye's visions! You said there's a room upstairs in this house that's a doorway to another world, one like this one only with different people! I don't know what kind of sorcery you're talking about, but I could use such a world right about now. So, you get what you want from here and then you're going to take me to that room....or else you'll never get back there alive!" Pansy yells at Aristede that Quentin is going to kill him, Aristede says "I don't see Quentin here, do you?" and in that moment, Harrison grabs the fencing foil off the wall. He waves it at Aristede who backs into the foyer. "Aristede.... that name rings a bell...." Harrison says. Aristede waves the knife a little as he backs up. "How do you know me? I don't know who you are!" Aristede says. We hear Harrison think "Quentin told me of an Aristede from this time...a dangerous man who was killed by the ghost of his jailer...there was something else about him though....something much more dangerous..." Harrison waves the foil at Aristede and demands that he leave Collinwood. Aristede says he "must find that room." He tries to run up the stairs, but Harrison slashes at his arm, knocking the knife loose. Harrison comes at him with the foil, and Aristede runs outside. Harrison tells Pansy to "make sure the doors stay locked. I want to make sure he's gone." Harrison runs outside as Pansy closes the door, but as he looks around, Aristede sneaks up behind him and wraps a rope around his neck.
Harrison struggles as Aristede demands "Show me that room! I must see that room!" Harrison, struggling for breath, manages to say "Kill me and you'll never get there.... you can't go into that other world without me!" Aristede throws Harrison to the ground and says "You'd better not be lying to me." Harrison catches his breath and says "I'm telling the truth. You'll never find the room without me, and you won't be able to enter the other timeband without me. You'll just sit in an empty room until your jailer's ghost catches up with you." Shocked, Aristede says "How do you know about Garth Blackwood? Who told you?" Harrison rubs his neck and says "Wouldn't you like to know...." Aristede gets angry and says "It's a trick! It's all been a trick! There is no parallel world inside of an upstairs room at Collinwood! You're just trying to trick me! You must be working with...." but before he can finish the sentence, the sounds of rattling chains begin again. Aristede gets very frightened and yells "No! NO! Make that horrible sound stop! Make it stop!" He runs off. Harrison gets up and starts to head back towards Collinwood when suddenly, he is struck on the head from behind by an unseen foe. He passes out. We dissolve to Harrison coming to, lying on a familiar couch (with an all too familiar blanket, I suppose!). Harrison looks around and says "What happened? Where am I?" Standing over him is Charles Delaware Tate (Roger Davis), who says "You're in my studio. After what I heard you and Aristede talking about, I knew I had to bring you here." Harrison asks "Here? Where is here? And who are you?" Tate answers "I am Charles Delaware Tate." Harrison, still a bit woozy, says "Charles Delaware Tate...the painter? The portrait.... Tate painted the portrait...." Tate answers "You've heard of me? How could that be? You told Aristede you were from some other world, just like this one but with different people. I've been following him, Mr. Collins. Everything he heard you and Charity Trask discussing I heard too. I want to know more about that world." Harrison sits up and says "I don't know what you're talking about." Suddenly from behind him comes another familiar voice - "Perhaps I can refresh your memory of this other world, a world which I must admit I am growing more and more interested in learning about." Harrison turns around and sees who is talking - "Let me introduce myself, my boy. I am Count Petofi."
Michael Stroka's voiceover: "When Harrison Collins found himself in the strange and dangerous world of parallel time in the year 1897, he had no idea what twists and turns his journey would take. In a bizarre act of fate, he has been thrown back into his own world, only in the year 1897 as well. Well aware of the events of that time from his friendship with that Quentin Collins, he contemplates his next actions, fully aware that anything he does may irrevocable alter his own world, as well as hurt those he tried to help in the other...."
In a replay of Friday's close, Harrison is standing in the empty PT room and we hear him think "This may be an opportunity...I sat in that room for hours at a time waiting to come back here... down in the basement in the old laboratory is a working crystal to replace this clouded one in my ring...with it I could return to that other Quentin at will.... I must get it." He leaves the room and carefully walks down the hall. It's dark and abandoned, with only some junk along the way. We hear Harrison thinking "If I am here, in my own world...this should be the year 1897 as well... that means depending on what day this is, any number of things could be happening here at Collinwood that would affect my own future...I will need to be extremely careful and discreet...no one here must see me...." He peeks out of a door from the east wing, and sees no one. He moves down a hallway. Next, we see him peek out the door to the main stairway in the foyer. There's no one there. "I'm in luck, this should take no time at all," we hear him think as he starts downstairs. He turns the corner towards the door under the stairs, but suddenly Charity/Pansy Faye comes out of the drawing room and calls to him in her cockney accent "'Ere! Who are you and what are you doin' here?" He freezes in his tracks and has no answer.
After the titles, Pansy repeats her question, and Harrison mumbles a bit before saying "I'm a servant. I just got hired." He turns to go through the door, but Charity grabs him arm and angrily says "No servants 'ave been 'ired 'ere, mate! This 'ouse has been in chaos for the last weeks! Miss Judith ain't 'ired no one!" He tries to break free, saying "Please Charity, let go! If you let me go about my business, you'll never see me again, I swear!" Stunned, she says "Why'd you do that? Why'd you just call me Charity? Everyone keeps calling me that, and my name is Pansy Faye! But who told you to call me Charity?" He only asks her to let go of him again. She grabs hold of his arm stronger and says "I've got second sight, I do...and you're a Collins! I can feel it! I can even see it in your eyes!" He says she's mistaken, but she grabs ahold of his other arm. "I'm seein' other things too...I can see other things when I take 'old of you...." He pleads "Listen, please. People are waiting for me. I must take care of my affairs here, I do not have time for this!" She wonders "How can you be a Collins when I've never seen you here before... you come from some place else....a room upstairs...an empty room....but sometimes it's not empty!" He is intrigued by her. Outside the house, Aristede is out of breath and in tatters. "I gotta find a place to hide," we hear him thinking. "Blackwood will get me sooner or later if I don't...." We hear chains rattling in the distance and hear Blackwood bellowing voice "Where is the criminal? The criminal must be punished!" Aristede runs around the side of the house. Inside, Pansy has led Harrison into the drawing room and says "You're trying to save someone, I can sense it... maybe I can help!" Harrison insists the only way for her to help is to "forget you ever saw me here." She suddenly says "That room! That room is the doorway to another world! A world like this one, only everyone is different... I can see the people there when I touch you...." Harrison looks her over wondering, but we see Aristede is by the window, listening in. Harrison takes a deep breath and says "Tell me what you see."
Pansy holds onto Harrison and tells him she can see what's happening in "that other world." Harrison asks her what she sees, and as she starts to describe it, we dissolve to Quentin standing in the parallel time room wondering where Harrison is. We hear Pansy say "I see Quentin....but it's not Quentin...it's some other Quentin from that other world...he's searching for you! And he can't find you...." Quentin calls for Harrison a couple of times and then we hear him thinking "This room...I saw it change before.... could that have something to do with this? Will the room change again? And does that mean he'll be back? He's got to come back....he was holding the true will in his hand!" Quentin leaves the room in frustration. Downstairs, Hess is pacing in the foyer as Quentin comes down the stairs. "So, have you found this other will yet, Quentin?" he says. Quentin tells him that "My cousin Harrison has it... and now I can't find him." Hess doesn't understand, and says "You went up together. Where could he be? He had no reason to take the will and run away." Quentin says he didn't run away. Hess asks Quentin if he thinks Harrison "met with foul play. After all, we haven't seen Mr. Trask around here..." Quentin says no, and "if I told you what I thought, you'd think me insane. Let's just postpone the reading of this will until I can straighten all this out." Hess tells Quentin that "you can go back into that drawing room and face your family then. I'll be in town if you need me." Quentin enters the drawing room as we dissolve back to Pansy and Harrison. "...they're all there waiting....I see Edward and Barnabas and Angelique....Aristede just left..." Harrison is confused and says "Barnabas and Angelique? How do you know them? And who is Aristede?" Pansy snaps out of her trance and looks at Harrison, wide eyed. "You're Harrison Collins! They're waiting for you in that other world, they need something you have!" Harrison nods and says "Yes, that is who I am and where I am from. A room in the east wing is a doorway through different worlds. You must not tell anyone about this!" Pansy smiles and says "Don't you worry, love, I like this world just fine!" Harrison says "Just as well, I need to get something from this world and then return to that one before...." Suddenly Aristede is standing in the drawing room with his knife out. "Before what, Mr. Collins? Before you can take me with you, back to that other world I heard the lady describe so well?" Aristede begins to laugh.
"Who are you and what are you babbling about?" Harrison says. Aristede introduces himself, and adds "I heard everything.... everything of Miss Pansy Faye's visions! You said there's a room upstairs in this house that's a doorway to another world, one like this one only with different people! I don't know what kind of sorcery you're talking about, but I could use such a world right about now. So, you get what you want from here and then you're going to take me to that room....or else you'll never get back there alive!" Pansy yells at Aristede that Quentin is going to kill him, Aristede says "I don't see Quentin here, do you?" and in that moment, Harrison grabs the fencing foil off the wall. He waves it at Aristede who backs into the foyer. "Aristede.... that name rings a bell...." Harrison says. Aristede waves the knife a little as he backs up. "How do you know me? I don't know who you are!" Aristede says. We hear Harrison think "Quentin told me of an Aristede from this time...a dangerous man who was killed by the ghost of his jailer...there was something else about him though....something much more dangerous..." Harrison waves the foil at Aristede and demands that he leave Collinwood. Aristede says he "must find that room." He tries to run up the stairs, but Harrison slashes at his arm, knocking the knife loose. Harrison comes at him with the foil, and Aristede runs outside. Harrison tells Pansy to "make sure the doors stay locked. I want to make sure he's gone." Harrison runs outside as Pansy closes the door, but as he looks around, Aristede sneaks up behind him and wraps a rope around his neck.
Harrison struggles as Aristede demands "Show me that room! I must see that room!" Harrison, struggling for breath, manages to say "Kill me and you'll never get there.... you can't go into that other world without me!" Aristede throws Harrison to the ground and says "You'd better not be lying to me." Harrison catches his breath and says "I'm telling the truth. You'll never find the room without me, and you won't be able to enter the other timeband without me. You'll just sit in an empty room until your jailer's ghost catches up with you." Shocked, Aristede says "How do you know about Garth Blackwood? Who told you?" Harrison rubs his neck and says "Wouldn't you like to know...." Aristede gets angry and says "It's a trick! It's all been a trick! There is no parallel world inside of an upstairs room at Collinwood! You're just trying to trick me! You must be working with...." but before he can finish the sentence, the sounds of rattling chains begin again. Aristede gets very frightened and yells "No! NO! Make that horrible sound stop! Make it stop!" He runs off. Harrison gets up and starts to head back towards Collinwood when suddenly, he is struck on the head from behind by an unseen foe. He passes out. We dissolve to Harrison coming to, lying on a familiar couch (with an all too familiar blanket, I suppose!). Harrison looks around and says "What happened? Where am I?" Standing over him is Charles Delaware Tate (Roger Davis), who says "You're in my studio. After what I heard you and Aristede talking about, I knew I had to bring you here." Harrison asks "Here? Where is here? And who are you?" Tate answers "I am Charles Delaware Tate." Harrison, still a bit woozy, says "Charles Delaware Tate...the painter? The portrait.... Tate painted the portrait...." Tate answers "You've heard of me? How could that be? You told Aristede you were from some other world, just like this one but with different people. I've been following him, Mr. Collins. Everything he heard you and Charity Trask discussing I heard too. I want to know more about that world." Harrison sits up and says "I don't know what you're talking about." Suddenly from behind him comes another familiar voice - "Perhaps I can refresh your memory of this other world, a world which I must admit I am growing more and more interested in learning about." Harrison turns around and sees who is talking - "Let me introduce myself, my boy. I am Count Petofi."
Friday, December 4, 2009
Episode 1435
Aired: Friday December 24, 1971
Nancy Barrett's voiceover: "The estate of Collinwood is a place of plots and treachery in the strange and dangerous world of parallel time in the year 1897. Everyone living in the great house plans against one another in pursuit of control of the family wealth. Quentin Collins will try to end the fighting by making his grandmother's true will public. He has entrusted Harrison Collins, the mysterious stranger from another time and another world masquerading as a Collins family cousin, with that will. But on this night, those plans will be upset by a strange twist of fate, one that will place the entire Collins family in more danger than they can possibly imagine...."
Quentin comes into Collinwood with another man, the lawyer Alonzo Hess (Michael Stroka). He tells him to go into the drawing room and make himself comfortable. Harrison comes downstairs and Quentin tells him they should "gather everyone into the drawing room for this." Harrison says he's not sure if Trask is around to hear "the sad news," and Quentin says "Who cares? Let's gather everyone important before we get the will and settle all this." They both go upstairs.
After the titles, we're back in the woods with Charity, Carl & Gladstone. Gladstone is telling them both to "leave these woods and never return!" Carl tells Gladstone that "I know that means you've found something! You must have found something after Beth Chavez was killed last night!" Gladstone looks away and thinks "Beth Chavez... that's who it was....oh my god....what power takes me over when I sleep?" Carl asks him if he's found any clues, and Gladstone says "Nothing yet...but I will stop this killer, Carl! I promise you, I will find a way to stop him!" Meanwhile, back at Collinwood, Kitty and Edward enter the drawing room to find Hess waiting there. He introduces himself and Kitty says "I understand you and Quentin have something very important to discuss with us." "Yes," Hess says. "But I'd prefer to wait for everyone to arrive. Are you Mrs. Collins?" Edward laughs and says no, but that "she's still a very, very special lady." "Indeed?" Hess asks as Kitty looks him over. Valery comes in and says hello to Hess, and tells him that she knows what "this gathering" is all about. Hess asks Valery if "her husband" is here as well, and Valery says "I don't know where he is, and in all honesty Mr. Hess, he won't be my husband too much longer. I'd assume shortly after your new will becomes the accepted document my marriage will, for all intents and purposes, be over." Harrison comes in and asks where Quentin and Benjamin are. Valery says she doesn't know, and Harrison asks her if Trask is there. She says no, and Harrison says "I'm glad for that." Meanwhile, Quentin is upstairs looking for Benjamin, who is not in his room. Quentin enters his own room and says "Benjamin? Are you in here?" He doesn't see him, but before he leaves, he sees the beginnings of the note Beth was leaving him. He picks it up and we hear him reading it in his mind "Quentin, I've discovered something about the evil things happening here. You must know who is responsible, even though it might pain you to know it's your...." He looks for more of the note but can't find it. He holds the paper in his hand and says "Beth's handwriting...she was trying to tell me who was going to kill her..."
Charity and Carl have helped Gladstone back to the old house. Charity tells him she'll get him something to drink. Once she leaves, Gladstone grabs Carl and tells him "Now that she's gone I can tell you....I didn't want anyone else to hear... I think only you will understand.... I don't know why that is, but I do...." Carl asks him what he's talking about. Gladstone tells him that there's an "evil spirit at work here." Carl, excited, asks Gladstone if he's found some clues as to the killer's identity. Gladstone looks very dour, and says "We're dealing with some sort of supernatural force, a spirit that possesses someone and forces them to commit these crimes against their will. They only remember bits and pieces of it, like a bad dream. Apt that it should feel like a dream because the spirit possesses them while they sleep. They wake up in a strange place not knowing how they got there..." Carl starts to back away, realizing that Gladstone is talking about himself. "You? You?" Carl yells. Gladstone shushes him, and says "I don't know! I can't be sure! Like I said, the spirit takes hold of my while I sleep! I am helpless to stop him!" Carl says "That's insane! You weren't even living here when Jenny was killed! You've been working too hard at this! Don't you realize you're confessing to the murder of Beth Chavez?" Gladstone tells him no, because he has "no memory at all of last night" and that "I'll need plenty of coffee to stay awake. I'm sure I can find that cave again... that awful cave! You'll come with me! Maybe we can find a way to destroy this spirit!" Carl asks him what spirit it could be, and why it would take possession of him to murder people. "I don't know," Gladstone says. "But the answers are in that cave. And..." Charity comes back in with a glass of water. Gladstone thanks her, and asks her if its not too much trouble to make some coffee. She says she will, and he thanks her and sends her away again. Carl asks him what else they might have to do. "Not me, you, Carl," Gladstone answers. "I'm going to give you my gun. The last time I went into that cave, I blacked out. I can't be sure of what that means. If I become that killer again while we're there....I want you to shoot me and end this!" Carl can't believe what he's hearing.
At Collinwood, Quentin comes downstairs in deep thought. Harrison comes out of the drawing room and asks him if he "got it." Quentin says "Oh no, I forgot it upstairs. I found this and was distracted, I guess." He hands the note to Harrison who reads it and says "Beth wrote this?" Quentin says yes, and Harrison says "Strange. I wonder what she knew." Quentin says "We may never know now." Harrison adds "Unless whatever frightened her into writing this makes another move. Did you find Benjamin?" Quentin says no, but then Benjamin comes out of the doorway under the stairs and apologizes for being late "for this important gathering." He goes into the drawing room and glares at Edward, who stands next to Kitty. Hess says hello to Benjamin and asks "Are we all here now? Quentin, perhaps we should get this started." Quentin says he'll need to "get one more thing." Harrison says he'll go with him. Valery says "Why speak in secrets, Quentin? We all know you've found another will from grandmother. I'm willing to accept it. There's no need for secrets." Quentin smiles at Valery, as we pan around the room, and hear Kitty think "Yes, no more secrets. Once I control Jamison through Edward and dispose of them both, I will control this estate and use it as I see fit to make my home here, forever..." Edward is thinking "Kitty and I will control everything here once Jamison is made one of us." Benjamin is thinking "Little does Edward know his life will not last too much longer, and I will take his place as Jamison's father, standing at Kitty's side." We're back on Valery and Quentin, and Valery says "As you can see, it seems we're all comfortable with this." Hess says "And where is this will?" Harrison says "I'll get it." He and Quentin head upstairs. They come down the hallway to the parallel time room. Harrison walks in and pops open the secret compartment in the small table. He takes the will out. Quentin comes in and tells him how happy he is to have remembered his "favorite place to hide things when I was a child." Harrison remarks how it certainly came in handy. He places the will in his coat pocket as Quentin watches and says "Let's head back, our oh so happy family is waiting." But just then, right before Quentin's eyes, Harrison suddenly vanishes! Quentin can't believe it, looks at the empty spot yelling "Harrison! Harrison!" We cut to Harrison standing in the same spot in the empty room in 1897 regular time. He looks around and realizes what just happened. "The room...changed but only for me....I'm back in my own world....and Quentin saw me vanish!"
Harrison is standing in the empty PT room and we hear him think "This may be an opportunity...I sat in that room for hours at a time waiting to come back here... down in the basement in the old laboratory is a working crystal to replace this clouded one in my ring...with it I could return to that other Quentin at will.... I must get it." He leaves the room and carefully walks down the hall. It's dark and abandoned, with only some junk along the way. We hear Harrison thinking "If I am here, in my own world...this should be the year 1897 as well... that means depending on what day this is, any number of things could be happening here at Collinwood that would affect my own future...I will need to be extremely careful and discreet...no one here must see me...." He peeks out of a door from the east wing, and sees no one. He moves down a hallway. Next, we see him peek out the door to the main stairway in the foyer. There's no one there. "I'm in luck, this should take no time at all," we hear him think as he starts downstairs. He turns the corner towards the door under the stairs, but suddenly Charity/Pansy Faye comes out of the drawing room and calls to him in her cockney accent "'Ere! Who are you and what are you doin' here?" He freezes in his tracks and has no answer.
Nancy Barrett's voiceover: "The estate of Collinwood is a place of plots and treachery in the strange and dangerous world of parallel time in the year 1897. Everyone living in the great house plans against one another in pursuit of control of the family wealth. Quentin Collins will try to end the fighting by making his grandmother's true will public. He has entrusted Harrison Collins, the mysterious stranger from another time and another world masquerading as a Collins family cousin, with that will. But on this night, those plans will be upset by a strange twist of fate, one that will place the entire Collins family in more danger than they can possibly imagine...."
Quentin comes into Collinwood with another man, the lawyer Alonzo Hess (Michael Stroka). He tells him to go into the drawing room and make himself comfortable. Harrison comes downstairs and Quentin tells him they should "gather everyone into the drawing room for this." Harrison says he's not sure if Trask is around to hear "the sad news," and Quentin says "Who cares? Let's gather everyone important before we get the will and settle all this." They both go upstairs.
After the titles, we're back in the woods with Charity, Carl & Gladstone. Gladstone is telling them both to "leave these woods and never return!" Carl tells Gladstone that "I know that means you've found something! You must have found something after Beth Chavez was killed last night!" Gladstone looks away and thinks "Beth Chavez... that's who it was....oh my god....what power takes me over when I sleep?" Carl asks him if he's found any clues, and Gladstone says "Nothing yet...but I will stop this killer, Carl! I promise you, I will find a way to stop him!" Meanwhile, back at Collinwood, Kitty and Edward enter the drawing room to find Hess waiting there. He introduces himself and Kitty says "I understand you and Quentin have something very important to discuss with us." "Yes," Hess says. "But I'd prefer to wait for everyone to arrive. Are you Mrs. Collins?" Edward laughs and says no, but that "she's still a very, very special lady." "Indeed?" Hess asks as Kitty looks him over. Valery comes in and says hello to Hess, and tells him that she knows what "this gathering" is all about. Hess asks Valery if "her husband" is here as well, and Valery says "I don't know where he is, and in all honesty Mr. Hess, he won't be my husband too much longer. I'd assume shortly after your new will becomes the accepted document my marriage will, for all intents and purposes, be over." Harrison comes in and asks where Quentin and Benjamin are. Valery says she doesn't know, and Harrison asks her if Trask is there. She says no, and Harrison says "I'm glad for that." Meanwhile, Quentin is upstairs looking for Benjamin, who is not in his room. Quentin enters his own room and says "Benjamin? Are you in here?" He doesn't see him, but before he leaves, he sees the beginnings of the note Beth was leaving him. He picks it up and we hear him reading it in his mind "Quentin, I've discovered something about the evil things happening here. You must know who is responsible, even though it might pain you to know it's your...." He looks for more of the note but can't find it. He holds the paper in his hand and says "Beth's handwriting...she was trying to tell me who was going to kill her..."
Charity and Carl have helped Gladstone back to the old house. Charity tells him she'll get him something to drink. Once she leaves, Gladstone grabs Carl and tells him "Now that she's gone I can tell you....I didn't want anyone else to hear... I think only you will understand.... I don't know why that is, but I do...." Carl asks him what he's talking about. Gladstone tells him that there's an "evil spirit at work here." Carl, excited, asks Gladstone if he's found some clues as to the killer's identity. Gladstone looks very dour, and says "We're dealing with some sort of supernatural force, a spirit that possesses someone and forces them to commit these crimes against their will. They only remember bits and pieces of it, like a bad dream. Apt that it should feel like a dream because the spirit possesses them while they sleep. They wake up in a strange place not knowing how they got there..." Carl starts to back away, realizing that Gladstone is talking about himself. "You? You?" Carl yells. Gladstone shushes him, and says "I don't know! I can't be sure! Like I said, the spirit takes hold of my while I sleep! I am helpless to stop him!" Carl says "That's insane! You weren't even living here when Jenny was killed! You've been working too hard at this! Don't you realize you're confessing to the murder of Beth Chavez?" Gladstone tells him no, because he has "no memory at all of last night" and that "I'll need plenty of coffee to stay awake. I'm sure I can find that cave again... that awful cave! You'll come with me! Maybe we can find a way to destroy this spirit!" Carl asks him what spirit it could be, and why it would take possession of him to murder people. "I don't know," Gladstone says. "But the answers are in that cave. And..." Charity comes back in with a glass of water. Gladstone thanks her, and asks her if its not too much trouble to make some coffee. She says she will, and he thanks her and sends her away again. Carl asks him what else they might have to do. "Not me, you, Carl," Gladstone answers. "I'm going to give you my gun. The last time I went into that cave, I blacked out. I can't be sure of what that means. If I become that killer again while we're there....I want you to shoot me and end this!" Carl can't believe what he's hearing.
At Collinwood, Quentin comes downstairs in deep thought. Harrison comes out of the drawing room and asks him if he "got it." Quentin says "Oh no, I forgot it upstairs. I found this and was distracted, I guess." He hands the note to Harrison who reads it and says "Beth wrote this?" Quentin says yes, and Harrison says "Strange. I wonder what she knew." Quentin says "We may never know now." Harrison adds "Unless whatever frightened her into writing this makes another move. Did you find Benjamin?" Quentin says no, but then Benjamin comes out of the doorway under the stairs and apologizes for being late "for this important gathering." He goes into the drawing room and glares at Edward, who stands next to Kitty. Hess says hello to Benjamin and asks "Are we all here now? Quentin, perhaps we should get this started." Quentin says he'll need to "get one more thing." Harrison says he'll go with him. Valery says "Why speak in secrets, Quentin? We all know you've found another will from grandmother. I'm willing to accept it. There's no need for secrets." Quentin smiles at Valery, as we pan around the room, and hear Kitty think "Yes, no more secrets. Once I control Jamison through Edward and dispose of them both, I will control this estate and use it as I see fit to make my home here, forever..." Edward is thinking "Kitty and I will control everything here once Jamison is made one of us." Benjamin is thinking "Little does Edward know his life will not last too much longer, and I will take his place as Jamison's father, standing at Kitty's side." We're back on Valery and Quentin, and Valery says "As you can see, it seems we're all comfortable with this." Hess says "And where is this will?" Harrison says "I'll get it." He and Quentin head upstairs. They come down the hallway to the parallel time room. Harrison walks in and pops open the secret compartment in the small table. He takes the will out. Quentin comes in and tells him how happy he is to have remembered his "favorite place to hide things when I was a child." Harrison remarks how it certainly came in handy. He places the will in his coat pocket as Quentin watches and says "Let's head back, our oh so happy family is waiting." But just then, right before Quentin's eyes, Harrison suddenly vanishes! Quentin can't believe it, looks at the empty spot yelling "Harrison! Harrison!" We cut to Harrison standing in the same spot in the empty room in 1897 regular time. He looks around and realizes what just happened. "The room...changed but only for me....I'm back in my own world....and Quentin saw me vanish!"
Harrison is standing in the empty PT room and we hear him think "This may be an opportunity...I sat in that room for hours at a time waiting to come back here... down in the basement in the old laboratory is a working crystal to replace this clouded one in my ring...with it I could return to that other Quentin at will.... I must get it." He leaves the room and carefully walks down the hall. It's dark and abandoned, with only some junk along the way. We hear Harrison thinking "If I am here, in my own world...this should be the year 1897 as well... that means depending on what day this is, any number of things could be happening here at Collinwood that would affect my own future...I will need to be extremely careful and discreet...no one here must see me...." He peeks out of a door from the east wing, and sees no one. He moves down a hallway. Next, we see him peek out the door to the main stairway in the foyer. There's no one there. "I'm in luck, this should take no time at all," we hear him think as he starts downstairs. He turns the corner towards the door under the stairs, but suddenly Charity/Pansy Faye comes out of the drawing room and calls to him in her cockney accent "'Ere! Who are you and what are you doin' here?" He freezes in his tracks and has no answer.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Episode 1434
Aired: Thursday December 23, 1971
After a repeat of Wednesday's close with Benjamin plotting against Edward & the titles, we find Edward in the study acting rather light headed when Quentin enters. Quentin tells Edward that he's heard from Rachel and that she and Jamison are fine and safe in Boston. Edward says "that's good... very good." Quentin is surprised, and remarks on how he thought Edward would have objected to Jamison leaving. Edward says "No, a boy needs a mother... that is what I've been thinking about. Perhaps it's time I remarried." Quentin snaps "Remarried? Don't you think Rachel would object to that, considering she's still your wife?" Edward says "She doesn't have to stay that way." Quentin laughs and says "I think you might find her more reluctant to leave her son behind now." Edward doesn't seem upset by this and goes on with his work, saying lightly "Things have a way of changing..." Quentin leaves him. In the drawing room, Quentin finds Benjamin. Quentin tells Benjamin that "Edward is acting quite strange lately. I just told him some things that should have set him into a rage, and instead he practically sang a song to me." Benjamin answers "Perhaps Edward is changing for the better." Quentin pours himself a drink and says "If only that were true. If I didn't know better, I'd think he was losing his mind." Benjamin says "I'm sure he knows exactly what he is doing. Perhaps you're still upset about Beth Chavez." Quentin turns to Benjamin and says "Of course I'm still upset by that, but that has nothing to do with Edward." Benjamin says "Of course not. But I was thinking about how precious life can be, and how, perhaps, we should treasure each moment with each other as if it were our last." Quentin laughs a little, raises his glass and says "Because one day you'll be right." Benjamin continues "What was your last memory of Beth? I should hope it was a pleasant one. Did you discuss something ordinary and everyday, or something more profound?" Quentin thinks a moment and answers "I really don't remember. I just remember her." Benjamin smiles and says "Perhaps that is what was meant for us to remember. Excuse me." He leaves and Quentin thinks a moment. We hear him thinking "Benjamin has been acting strangely.... somehow he's acting almost like Edward, in a happy go lucky fashion that isn't like either of them. Edward was always so angry and snobby, Benjamin so overly cautious....I wonder if Harrison is right and something else is going on..." Meanwhile, Benjamin enters the kitchen and takes a large knife out of a drawer. We hear him think "Yes... this should do it....it's designed for cutting through bone....all I need to do is find a way to lure Edward into the woods....and then our maniac will have claimed another victim....at least that's what I'll make it look like..."
Trask is skulking through an upstairs hallway. He peeks inside a room and then enters, turning on the lights. It's Harrison's room, and he closes the door behind him. "It must be here," we hear him think. "Quentin must have entrusted that confounded will to Harrison....the only one without a claim in it..." Trask begins to search through drawers and toss the room when Harrison enters. "Have you taken it upon yourself to clean up my room, Trask?" Harrison snarls. Trask hum-huhs and says he was "looking for a book." Harrison says "Must be a very interesting book for you to search through all my things." Trask tries to leave, but Harrison stops him and says "It's not here, I may as well tell you that before you make more of a mess." Trask says he doesn't know what he's talking about, and Harrison laughs. "The will you're looking for isn't here," he says. "Do you think we'd be that stupid to leave it in a place where you could find it and destroy it?" Trask tries pushing Harrison out of the way, saying "Let me by!" Harrison pushes him against the wall and says "And don't even think of asking Valery for it! If you make any threats against that girl, I swear, I'll...." Trask pulls away and says "You'll what? Hah! You'll do nothing! She is still my wife, Harrison Collins! I am still officially the owner of this house until your supposed will is revealed, and even then, I am sure I can prove it to be a total fraud!" Harrison counters "The only total fraud here is you." Trask lunges at Harrison, but as they push each other into the hallway, they find Quentin standing there. Quentin grabs Trask and throws him against the wall. "Get out of this house," Quentin says to him. Trask yells "I live here! And I am the legal master of Collinwood until you can prove otherwise!" Quentin grabs Trask and shoves him down the hall, saying "You may be the legal master, Trask, but I'm still throwing you out." Trask grumbles and says he has to go into town anyway. Quentin looks at Harrison's messed up room and says "You were right, it was wise not to leave it here." Harrison asks Quentin how much longer they'll have to put up with Trask, and Quentin answers "The lawyer I hired will be here tomorrow. Once we make that other will legal and binding, we should have no problems throwing him out for good."
Trask leaves Collinwood and heads out. Carl is behind him, following. We hear Carl thinking "I don't care what you told Charity...I know you're behind all this...and I'm gonna prove it!" Carl sets after Trask. Trask eventually comes to what looks like an abandoned farmhouse. He goes inside as Carl gets closer, wondering what Trask is doing here. Carl looks for a window to see the inside of the place. Trask lights a lantern inside and we see it's a one room shack. Trask arranges a bed and a chair. He takes a coil of rope from beneath his coat and lays it on the chair. We see that Carl is watching through the window. Trask then walks to a small dresser near the bed and opens the drawer. As Carl watches, wondering, Trask puts a gun in the drawer and closes it. We hear Carl thinking "A rope...a gun? What could Trask be doing here... it must have something to do with his plans....he must be planning to kill Valery! And do it here!" Carl, scared at this, bumps the window. Trask turns, but Carl hides in time. Trask moves quickly to the outside of the house and takes a look around, but Carl is hiding out of sight. Trask goes back inside and we hear him think "I cannot let this place be discovered... it must have just been the wind. This place shall serve me well...." Carl steps further into the woods, thinking "I must go back and get Charity...she'll have to know about this place...." He runs off into the woods.
At the old house, Charity is coming downstairs as Carl arrives. Charity tells him that Nora is safe in bed and that Stanford is doing a little better, though he still can't talk. Carl tells her she has to come with him, and Charity says she's not sure the woods are safe after what happened to Beth. Carl says it's still daylight and "I discovered something you must see, please." He leads her outside, and walking in the woods, he tells her how he followed her brother and about the rope and the gun, and Charity says she'll have to see for herself. "I don't want to think my own brother lied to me over the money, Carl, I just don't want to believe that." Carl stops and looks at her and says "I don't want to turn you against your brother, Charity. But I think he's plotting something wicked, and he must be exposed if it's true." Charity is very upset by this, but Carl takes her in his arms and says "I wouldn't want anything to happen to you, either." She looks at him a moment, and then they kiss. They hear some moaning, and wonder what is it. They move towards it, and find Gladstone laying on the ground, moaning. Carl drops down and tries to revive Gladstone, asking him what's wrong. Charity asks if she should get a doctor. Gladstone revives a bit, looks around, and tells Carl "No, no doctor. No one else should come out here, ever!" Carl asks him what happened, and Gladstone says "I don't remember all of it....but I remember enough.... you must leave this place! Both of you! No one must ever come out here again!" Carl and Charity wonder what he means.
After a repeat of Wednesday's close with Benjamin plotting against Edward & the titles, we find Edward in the study acting rather light headed when Quentin enters. Quentin tells Edward that he's heard from Rachel and that she and Jamison are fine and safe in Boston. Edward says "that's good... very good." Quentin is surprised, and remarks on how he thought Edward would have objected to Jamison leaving. Edward says "No, a boy needs a mother... that is what I've been thinking about. Perhaps it's time I remarried." Quentin snaps "Remarried? Don't you think Rachel would object to that, considering she's still your wife?" Edward says "She doesn't have to stay that way." Quentin laughs and says "I think you might find her more reluctant to leave her son behind now." Edward doesn't seem upset by this and goes on with his work, saying lightly "Things have a way of changing..." Quentin leaves him. In the drawing room, Quentin finds Benjamin. Quentin tells Benjamin that "Edward is acting quite strange lately. I just told him some things that should have set him into a rage, and instead he practically sang a song to me." Benjamin answers "Perhaps Edward is changing for the better." Quentin pours himself a drink and says "If only that were true. If I didn't know better, I'd think he was losing his mind." Benjamin says "I'm sure he knows exactly what he is doing. Perhaps you're still upset about Beth Chavez." Quentin turns to Benjamin and says "Of course I'm still upset by that, but that has nothing to do with Edward." Benjamin says "Of course not. But I was thinking about how precious life can be, and how, perhaps, we should treasure each moment with each other as if it were our last." Quentin laughs a little, raises his glass and says "Because one day you'll be right." Benjamin continues "What was your last memory of Beth? I should hope it was a pleasant one. Did you discuss something ordinary and everyday, or something more profound?" Quentin thinks a moment and answers "I really don't remember. I just remember her." Benjamin smiles and says "Perhaps that is what was meant for us to remember. Excuse me." He leaves and Quentin thinks a moment. We hear him thinking "Benjamin has been acting strangely.... somehow he's acting almost like Edward, in a happy go lucky fashion that isn't like either of them. Edward was always so angry and snobby, Benjamin so overly cautious....I wonder if Harrison is right and something else is going on..." Meanwhile, Benjamin enters the kitchen and takes a large knife out of a drawer. We hear him think "Yes... this should do it....it's designed for cutting through bone....all I need to do is find a way to lure Edward into the woods....and then our maniac will have claimed another victim....at least that's what I'll make it look like..."
Trask is skulking through an upstairs hallway. He peeks inside a room and then enters, turning on the lights. It's Harrison's room, and he closes the door behind him. "It must be here," we hear him think. "Quentin must have entrusted that confounded will to Harrison....the only one without a claim in it..." Trask begins to search through drawers and toss the room when Harrison enters. "Have you taken it upon yourself to clean up my room, Trask?" Harrison snarls. Trask hum-huhs and says he was "looking for a book." Harrison says "Must be a very interesting book for you to search through all my things." Trask tries to leave, but Harrison stops him and says "It's not here, I may as well tell you that before you make more of a mess." Trask says he doesn't know what he's talking about, and Harrison laughs. "The will you're looking for isn't here," he says. "Do you think we'd be that stupid to leave it in a place where you could find it and destroy it?" Trask tries pushing Harrison out of the way, saying "Let me by!" Harrison pushes him against the wall and says "And don't even think of asking Valery for it! If you make any threats against that girl, I swear, I'll...." Trask pulls away and says "You'll what? Hah! You'll do nothing! She is still my wife, Harrison Collins! I am still officially the owner of this house until your supposed will is revealed, and even then, I am sure I can prove it to be a total fraud!" Harrison counters "The only total fraud here is you." Trask lunges at Harrison, but as they push each other into the hallway, they find Quentin standing there. Quentin grabs Trask and throws him against the wall. "Get out of this house," Quentin says to him. Trask yells "I live here! And I am the legal master of Collinwood until you can prove otherwise!" Quentin grabs Trask and shoves him down the hall, saying "You may be the legal master, Trask, but I'm still throwing you out." Trask grumbles and says he has to go into town anyway. Quentin looks at Harrison's messed up room and says "You were right, it was wise not to leave it here." Harrison asks Quentin how much longer they'll have to put up with Trask, and Quentin answers "The lawyer I hired will be here tomorrow. Once we make that other will legal and binding, we should have no problems throwing him out for good."
Trask leaves Collinwood and heads out. Carl is behind him, following. We hear Carl thinking "I don't care what you told Charity...I know you're behind all this...and I'm gonna prove it!" Carl sets after Trask. Trask eventually comes to what looks like an abandoned farmhouse. He goes inside as Carl gets closer, wondering what Trask is doing here. Carl looks for a window to see the inside of the place. Trask lights a lantern inside and we see it's a one room shack. Trask arranges a bed and a chair. He takes a coil of rope from beneath his coat and lays it on the chair. We see that Carl is watching through the window. Trask then walks to a small dresser near the bed and opens the drawer. As Carl watches, wondering, Trask puts a gun in the drawer and closes it. We hear Carl thinking "A rope...a gun? What could Trask be doing here... it must have something to do with his plans....he must be planning to kill Valery! And do it here!" Carl, scared at this, bumps the window. Trask turns, but Carl hides in time. Trask moves quickly to the outside of the house and takes a look around, but Carl is hiding out of sight. Trask goes back inside and we hear him think "I cannot let this place be discovered... it must have just been the wind. This place shall serve me well...." Carl steps further into the woods, thinking "I must go back and get Charity...she'll have to know about this place...." He runs off into the woods.
At the old house, Charity is coming downstairs as Carl arrives. Charity tells him that Nora is safe in bed and that Stanford is doing a little better, though he still can't talk. Carl tells her she has to come with him, and Charity says she's not sure the woods are safe after what happened to Beth. Carl says it's still daylight and "I discovered something you must see, please." He leads her outside, and walking in the woods, he tells her how he followed her brother and about the rope and the gun, and Charity says she'll have to see for herself. "I don't want to think my own brother lied to me over the money, Carl, I just don't want to believe that." Carl stops and looks at her and says "I don't want to turn you against your brother, Charity. But I think he's plotting something wicked, and he must be exposed if it's true." Charity is very upset by this, but Carl takes her in his arms and says "I wouldn't want anything to happen to you, either." She looks at him a moment, and then they kiss. They hear some moaning, and wonder what is it. They move towards it, and find Gladstone laying on the ground, moaning. Carl drops down and tries to revive Gladstone, asking him what's wrong. Charity asks if she should get a doctor. Gladstone revives a bit, looks around, and tells Carl "No, no doctor. No one else should come out here, ever!" Carl asks him what happened, and Gladstone says "I don't remember all of it....but I remember enough.... you must leave this place! Both of you! No one must ever come out here again!" Carl and Charity wonder what he means.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Episode 1433
Aired: Wednesday December 22, 1971
After a replay of Tuesday's close, Beth climbs down the lattice and closes the window behind her. The door opens, and Benjamin enters the room. When he finds Beth gone, he looks around the room to see where she may have gotten away to, and then goes to the window. When he opens it and looks outside, he sees that Beth has reached the ground and is running away. We hear him think "I must stop her! I must!" He leaves the room in a hurry. Outside, Beth is out of breath a bit, but is making her way back to the front door. We hear her thinking "I must tell Quentin what's going on! Kitty and Benjamin are both dangerous... what's happened to him? Something she did...she must have some unearthly powers like Lucy said!" Inside, Harrison and Quentin are having drinks in the drawing room when they see Benjamin running downstairs in a hurry. Quentin asks him what's wrong, and he hummada-hummadas a moment before saying "I must run a quick errand." Quentin shrugs and goes back to the drawing room as Benjamin starts towards the front door. Outside, Beth gets closer to the front door, but it opens and Benjamin comes out! Beth takes a step back and gasps, as Benjamin smiles an evil smile. He closes the door behind him and commands "Stop right there, Miss Chavez... you will stop!" Beth turns and runs, and Benjamin follows. Back in the drawing room, Quentin says "I thought I heard something outside," and walks towards the front door. Harrison follows, but when they open the door, no one is there. Quentin closes the door and says "That's strange...Benjamin certainly took off in a hurry." Harrison says "Like I was telling you, it seems as if he is not himself lately." Quentin thinks about this as we cut to Beth running through the woods with Benjamin following her. "You cannot run forever, Miss Chavez," he calls out. "You are nearing the realm of my mistress... and you will pay heed!" Beth, terrified, keeps running. But as she turns a corner, she runs smack into the large Black masked figure with the scimitar (we now recognize him as Gladstone). She freezes in her tracks and screams. Benjamin hears the screams and wonders what it could be as he calls out "Miss Chavez! Miss Chavez!" The Black masked figure seems to walk toward us and slashes away with the huge blade. We hear Beth screaming.
Benjamin reaches a clearing in the woods calling for Beth, but finds her laying dead with her throat slashed and her eyes wide open. He is shocked and turns away from her corpse. "Oh my God!" he says aloud. From behind him, he hears some thrashing in the bushes, and he steps behind a tree. It turns out to be Quentin and Harrison, who find Beth and are also shocked. "Beth! NO!' Quentin screams, dropping to his knees next to her. Benjamin steps out from behind the tree, and Harrison says "Benjamin! What are you doing out here? Why were you hiding?" Benjamin thinks a noticeable moment, and says "I heard Beth scream, and I came over here and found her, dead. When I heard your steps in the woods, I thought it might be the killer, so I stepped behind that tree." Quentin agonizes over Beth and how he should have protected her. Harrison says "Nothing could have protected her from this. Her hands are gone. This is the work of that insane killer Mr. Gladstone and your cousin Carl are obsessed with finding." Quentin stands and angrily says "They're not the only ones now. I'll find that maniac and when I do...." Benjamin tells Quentin to come back with him to Collinwood, so that they can "call the police immediately." The three men leave the scene, with Benjamin looking back a moment and almost smiling. Back at Collinwood, Benjamin leads Quentin into the drawing room while Harrison dials the phone. He asks for the police. In the drawing room, Benjamin gives Quentin a drink and tells him that the police "will surely find this killer." Quentin says even if they do, it will be too late for Beth. Benjamin says "I know she was only a servant here, but you were quite fond of her, weren't you?" Quentin nods, and says they were very close. Benjamin asks "Did she often tell you her secrets?" Quentin says she did, but then adds "That's an awfully strange question to ask." Benjamin says he's still "in shock" from what he's seen, and was only trying to create a conversation "as a distraction." Harrison comes in and says that the police will send their investigators, and will try to reach Sheriff Gladstone at home. We dissolve to the cave filled with bones as Gladstone, in his black mask and cape, enters. He places the two bloody hands of Beth atop the long shelf with all the others, at the end, though we see there is enough space for more pairs. He takes off the mask and we see the same glow as before. Gladstone stares at it and says "I have served you once again! Behold!" He turns and points the mask at the bloody hands with a smile.
Benjamin enters Kitty's room and tells her that "Beth is dead." Kitty, shocked, gets up and slaps Benjamin's face, saying "You idiot! You had no right to dispose of her before we found out what she has told anyone!" Benjamin pleads that "She escaped from the west wing and ran into the woods.... the same murderer that Carl and Gladstone have been hunting seems to have killed her! Her throat was cut and her hands were...severed from her body." Kitty thinks a moment and then says "Well, while she won't be able to speak to anyone now, we still need to know what she has already told them!" Benjamin seems to resent this treatment by Kitty, feeling his face where she slapped him, but then he turns to her and says "I tried asking Quentin. He would be the one she'd most likely turn to. He seemed to know nothing." Kitty smiles at Benjamin and says "Well, let's keep it that way, shall we?" She walks by Benjamin and puts her hand on his shoulder, saying "You've done well. But I have other business to attend to now." She leaves the room while Benjamin seems to brood. Downstairs, Edward is at the front door speaking to a police constable who is about to leave. "You must catch this man if he is on our property," Edward says. "I will not allow my family to live in fear!" The police constable leaves, and Edward continues to complain about the "bumbling efforts" of the police in catching the killer until Quentin tells him to "shut up already. Can we at least show some sorrow for Beth before we complain about the incompetence of others?" Edward grumbles, but tells Quentin he's sorry, and that he knows Quentin "cared for Beth more than you should have, perhaps, but there you are." Edward leaves the drawing room and starts to head upstairs when he finds Kitty coming down. She feigns fright and asks Edward "Are we safe? I've heard the awful news about Beth...Edward, I'm positively frightened! I'm petrified! What could be going on? Edward, I....I....I don't understand!" Edward tells her to calm down, but she throws herself into Edward's arms and says "I just want to feel safe again, Edward. You'll make sure of that, won't you?" He tries to pull away, still frightened of her, but she looks at him again, this time more commanding and confident and says "Won't you?" He seems to fall under her spell as his expression changes and he says "Of course I will." At the top of the stairs, Benjamin watches and seethes.
In the cave, Gladstone places the mask back on the wall and then bows down to it as it continues to glow. "I have entered her into the book," he says. "And now, ye who taketh me from my sleep shall return me?" The mask glows more and we begin to hear laughter. "I possess thee!" a booming voice says. "You will continue to do my bidding...I must have my revenge!" Gladstone says "I will continue to do thy bidding....when I sleep, I belong to thee." The voice booms "Go! Go back to your own world now! Until thou sleeps again..." He turns and walks out of the cave. We see him climb out of the trapdoor in the woods and close it, moving the brush atop the door again. He takes a couple more steps and then collapses. Meanwhile at Collinwood, Benjamin paces in Kitty's room when Kitty enters. He asks her how her "other business" went. She says "Everything is working out according to my plans." Benjamin snaps "And do those plans include me or Edward?" Kitty looks at him angrily and says "How dare you question me?" Benjamin says "I am the chosen one, not Edward!" Kitty tells Benjamin that "Edward is Jamison's father. It's necessary to have control over Edward if not Jamison once Jamison is declared the heir." She walks to Benjamin and condescendingly pats his face where she slapped him earlier. "There'll always be room for you in my plans, dear Benjamin, please don't forget that. But never question my actions again." He smiles at her, and repeats "I am the chosen one." She says "Of course. Now leave me, I am tired." He kisses her hand and leaves as she smiles to herself. Outside, we hear Benjamin thinking "I know I am the chosen one, not Edward...but I will not make the mistake the Evan Hanley did.... I shall rid myself of Edward in a much more clever way...."
After a replay of Tuesday's close, Beth climbs down the lattice and closes the window behind her. The door opens, and Benjamin enters the room. When he finds Beth gone, he looks around the room to see where she may have gotten away to, and then goes to the window. When he opens it and looks outside, he sees that Beth has reached the ground and is running away. We hear him think "I must stop her! I must!" He leaves the room in a hurry. Outside, Beth is out of breath a bit, but is making her way back to the front door. We hear her thinking "I must tell Quentin what's going on! Kitty and Benjamin are both dangerous... what's happened to him? Something she did...she must have some unearthly powers like Lucy said!" Inside, Harrison and Quentin are having drinks in the drawing room when they see Benjamin running downstairs in a hurry. Quentin asks him what's wrong, and he hummada-hummadas a moment before saying "I must run a quick errand." Quentin shrugs and goes back to the drawing room as Benjamin starts towards the front door. Outside, Beth gets closer to the front door, but it opens and Benjamin comes out! Beth takes a step back and gasps, as Benjamin smiles an evil smile. He closes the door behind him and commands "Stop right there, Miss Chavez... you will stop!" Beth turns and runs, and Benjamin follows. Back in the drawing room, Quentin says "I thought I heard something outside," and walks towards the front door. Harrison follows, but when they open the door, no one is there. Quentin closes the door and says "That's strange...Benjamin certainly took off in a hurry." Harrison says "Like I was telling you, it seems as if he is not himself lately." Quentin thinks about this as we cut to Beth running through the woods with Benjamin following her. "You cannot run forever, Miss Chavez," he calls out. "You are nearing the realm of my mistress... and you will pay heed!" Beth, terrified, keeps running. But as she turns a corner, she runs smack into the large Black masked figure with the scimitar (we now recognize him as Gladstone). She freezes in her tracks and screams. Benjamin hears the screams and wonders what it could be as he calls out "Miss Chavez! Miss Chavez!" The Black masked figure seems to walk toward us and slashes away with the huge blade. We hear Beth screaming.
Benjamin reaches a clearing in the woods calling for Beth, but finds her laying dead with her throat slashed and her eyes wide open. He is shocked and turns away from her corpse. "Oh my God!" he says aloud. From behind him, he hears some thrashing in the bushes, and he steps behind a tree. It turns out to be Quentin and Harrison, who find Beth and are also shocked. "Beth! NO!' Quentin screams, dropping to his knees next to her. Benjamin steps out from behind the tree, and Harrison says "Benjamin! What are you doing out here? Why were you hiding?" Benjamin thinks a noticeable moment, and says "I heard Beth scream, and I came over here and found her, dead. When I heard your steps in the woods, I thought it might be the killer, so I stepped behind that tree." Quentin agonizes over Beth and how he should have protected her. Harrison says "Nothing could have protected her from this. Her hands are gone. This is the work of that insane killer Mr. Gladstone and your cousin Carl are obsessed with finding." Quentin stands and angrily says "They're not the only ones now. I'll find that maniac and when I do...." Benjamin tells Quentin to come back with him to Collinwood, so that they can "call the police immediately." The three men leave the scene, with Benjamin looking back a moment and almost smiling. Back at Collinwood, Benjamin leads Quentin into the drawing room while Harrison dials the phone. He asks for the police. In the drawing room, Benjamin gives Quentin a drink and tells him that the police "will surely find this killer." Quentin says even if they do, it will be too late for Beth. Benjamin says "I know she was only a servant here, but you were quite fond of her, weren't you?" Quentin nods, and says they were very close. Benjamin asks "Did she often tell you her secrets?" Quentin says she did, but then adds "That's an awfully strange question to ask." Benjamin says he's still "in shock" from what he's seen, and was only trying to create a conversation "as a distraction." Harrison comes in and says that the police will send their investigators, and will try to reach Sheriff Gladstone at home. We dissolve to the cave filled with bones as Gladstone, in his black mask and cape, enters. He places the two bloody hands of Beth atop the long shelf with all the others, at the end, though we see there is enough space for more pairs. He takes off the mask and we see the same glow as before. Gladstone stares at it and says "I have served you once again! Behold!" He turns and points the mask at the bloody hands with a smile.
Benjamin enters Kitty's room and tells her that "Beth is dead." Kitty, shocked, gets up and slaps Benjamin's face, saying "You idiot! You had no right to dispose of her before we found out what she has told anyone!" Benjamin pleads that "She escaped from the west wing and ran into the woods.... the same murderer that Carl and Gladstone have been hunting seems to have killed her! Her throat was cut and her hands were...severed from her body." Kitty thinks a moment and then says "Well, while she won't be able to speak to anyone now, we still need to know what she has already told them!" Benjamin seems to resent this treatment by Kitty, feeling his face where she slapped him, but then he turns to her and says "I tried asking Quentin. He would be the one she'd most likely turn to. He seemed to know nothing." Kitty smiles at Benjamin and says "Well, let's keep it that way, shall we?" She walks by Benjamin and puts her hand on his shoulder, saying "You've done well. But I have other business to attend to now." She leaves the room while Benjamin seems to brood. Downstairs, Edward is at the front door speaking to a police constable who is about to leave. "You must catch this man if he is on our property," Edward says. "I will not allow my family to live in fear!" The police constable leaves, and Edward continues to complain about the "bumbling efforts" of the police in catching the killer until Quentin tells him to "shut up already. Can we at least show some sorrow for Beth before we complain about the incompetence of others?" Edward grumbles, but tells Quentin he's sorry, and that he knows Quentin "cared for Beth more than you should have, perhaps, but there you are." Edward leaves the drawing room and starts to head upstairs when he finds Kitty coming down. She feigns fright and asks Edward "Are we safe? I've heard the awful news about Beth...Edward, I'm positively frightened! I'm petrified! What could be going on? Edward, I....I....I don't understand!" Edward tells her to calm down, but she throws herself into Edward's arms and says "I just want to feel safe again, Edward. You'll make sure of that, won't you?" He tries to pull away, still frightened of her, but she looks at him again, this time more commanding and confident and says "Won't you?" He seems to fall under her spell as his expression changes and he says "Of course I will." At the top of the stairs, Benjamin watches and seethes.
In the cave, Gladstone places the mask back on the wall and then bows down to it as it continues to glow. "I have entered her into the book," he says. "And now, ye who taketh me from my sleep shall return me?" The mask glows more and we begin to hear laughter. "I possess thee!" a booming voice says. "You will continue to do my bidding...I must have my revenge!" Gladstone says "I will continue to do thy bidding....when I sleep, I belong to thee." The voice booms "Go! Go back to your own world now! Until thou sleeps again..." He turns and walks out of the cave. We see him climb out of the trapdoor in the woods and close it, moving the brush atop the door again. He takes a couple more steps and then collapses. Meanwhile at Collinwood, Benjamin paces in Kitty's room when Kitty enters. He asks her how her "other business" went. She says "Everything is working out according to my plans." Benjamin snaps "And do those plans include me or Edward?" Kitty looks at him angrily and says "How dare you question me?" Benjamin says "I am the chosen one, not Edward!" Kitty tells Benjamin that "Edward is Jamison's father. It's necessary to have control over Edward if not Jamison once Jamison is declared the heir." She walks to Benjamin and condescendingly pats his face where she slapped him earlier. "There'll always be room for you in my plans, dear Benjamin, please don't forget that. But never question my actions again." He smiles at her, and repeats "I am the chosen one." She says "Of course. Now leave me, I am tired." He kisses her hand and leaves as she smiles to herself. Outside, we hear Benjamin thinking "I know I am the chosen one, not Edward...but I will not make the mistake the Evan Hanley did.... I shall rid myself of Edward in a much more clever way...."
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Episode 1432
Aired: Tuesday December 21, 1971
John Karlen's voiceover: "The Collinwood of parallel time in the year 1897 is filled with treachery and lies as different members of the family and even some nefarious outsiders grapple over the future of the estate and its wealth. On this night, the lies will do more damage and the innocent, as they always do, will suffer...."
In an old house room, Stanford sits looking completely out of it as Judith tends to him. She tells Carl how she "doesn't understand" how such a healthy man could have "such a devastating stroke." Carl says that the doctor said there was a chance of recovery, but Judith leads Carl outside and says "I don't know, I just don't know. I hate to see him this way." Carl agrees, but says there's nothing they can do. Judith says that Stanford had such an active mind that he'd hate to wind up in such a state. Carl says that the doctor thought Stanford's mind may still be active, but that his powers of speech and muscle coordination were affected. Judith says "that must be even worse, to be imprisoned within one's own mind." Stanford sits helplessly in the chair staring at them through the slightly opened door, and we hear him thinking "I...must....be.....able to...speak....I must warn them....Kitty.....Kitty Soames...."
After the titles, Judith remarks to Carl that he's spending more time with Charity Trask, and Carl says that he likes Charity a great deal "though I can't say the same for her brother." Judith says she still doesn't understand what Valery sees in him, and Carl says "It's easy to understand what he sees in Valery." Downstairs, Charity comes in with Nora, and asks Nora if she had a good time shopping in town. Nora says yes, and asks when they can do it again. Charity says "you'll have to ask your father that" as Carl comes downstairs. Nora tells him how much fun she had shopping in town, and Carl says "I've taken you shopping before, Nora, wasn't it the same?" Charity answers that Nora "needed a woman's touch." Nora giggles, and Carl sends her upstairs to get ready for dinner. Charity tells Carl what a wonderful daughter he has, and Carl says it hasn't been easy raising her alone. "She was so young when her mother.....well, I'm sure she doesn't remember too much of that." Charity tells Carl "I talked to my brother." Surprised, Carl asks her what happened. Charity says that she thinks Carl has it all wrong about what's going on, and Carl says "How can you say that? What kind of lies did he tell you?" Charity gets angry and says that "Maybe you should ask your sister Alice that!" Carl says "Alice? I've tried confronting her, and she won't tell me anything. Besides, after that maniac nearly killed her, she hardly ever leaves this house anymore." He turns to Charity and says "I don't want us to fight about this. I know Alice is my sister, but in all honesty, I wouldn't doubt her plotting something against my cousins." Charity tells Carl that while that might be a terrible thing to believe, it "seems true. My brother also told me that she's the one making him do these things." Carl is surprised. "Making him? Are you suggesting she's blackmailing him?" Charity says that's what her brother told her, and she's willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Carl says "I have a lot of doubt, Charity. I still think they're in this together, and he'll say anything to deflect the blame." Charity says "If they're in this together, why would he blame her? It's like he's turning on her!" Carl answers "Why wouldn't he turn on her? It's Valery who has the money." This sounds true to Charity, but she still doesn't want to believe it. "And we both know that it's Valery who is young and beautiful," Carl adds. Charity says she can't believe her own brother "could be that evil." Carl says that money can do evil things to people. "Something we can both do while you decide about your brother," Carl adds, "is to watch Alice very very carefully." Charity agrees.
Quentin enters Collinwood and finds Harrison in the drawing room. Harrison asks him if Rachel and Jamison got off allright, and Quentin says "the train to Boston was running on time for a change. So much for step one in the master plan." He pours himself a drink. Harrison remarks on how Trask will be very disappointed once the "real will" is revealed. Quentin says he's hoping he'll be disappointed enough to "leave," but he wonders "how much trouble" he'll be for Valery if he doesn't. Harrison says that he'll do anything to help Valery, and Quentin smiles at him knowingly and says "I thought as much." Trask comes out of the kitchen and hears Harrison and Quentin talking about the will, Valery, and Jamison's departure. He stops before the door and eavesdrops. We hear him think "If Quentin has enlisted Harrison in this fight, perhaps that's where this other will is hidden...I must find it and destroy it if my plans are to go forward..." He slips upstairs just as Quentin and Harrison come out of the drawing room. Harrison says "There's something else I wanted to mention to you, it may be something, it may be nothing." Quentin, curious, asks what. Harrison says "Your brother Benjamin. He seems different than before. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it seems to me he's acting strangely." Quentin laughs and says "Harrison, I'm surprised at you. Of all the men not to notice how a man changes behavior when his lady love is so close by." Harrison says that he has noticed a change in Benjamin since Kitty's arrival, but "it seems he's changed quite differently." Quentin says he's "always thought Benjamin was a mysterious character anyway," but then asks Harrison if he's seen Beth. Harrison says no, and Quentin says that Rachel had told him that Beth had wanted to talk to him about something, but he can't find her. Meanwhile, Beth is still tied up and locked in a room with Kitty.
At the old house, Judith is sitting with Stanford upstairs when Carl, Charity and Nora enter. They tell Judith that dinner is almost ready, and Judith says she's not hungry. Charity implores her to eat, and that she's doing all she can for Stanford. Judith insists he'll be able to speak as long as people are around him. Nora tells Stanford how much she liked shopping with Charity that day to see if he'll react. Charity tells her to "show your Uncle Stanford the hat we bought you." Nora runs out of the room to get it. Carl and Charity take Judith aside and bring her up to date on Alice and Trask. Judith agrees with them about Alice, and tells Charity she'd rather not say anything against her brother "unless I was absolutely sure." Judith says she'll also keep an eye on Alice, but that "my husband dominates all of my time now." Nora runs back in with her hat and puts it on, and while they all admire it, Stanford shows no reaction. But then Nora says "It's very pretty isn't it? It's just like the one Kitty has!" Stanford starts to groan and mumble at the mention of Kitty's name, and gets more and more agitated. Charity takes Nora from the room as Stanford struggles to speak to Judith and Carl.
Kitty paces around Beth, telling her how much she'd like to "snuff you out like a flickering candle flame" but that she can't until she finds out how much she's told "the others." Beth looks hatefully at Kitty. Kitty wonders where Benjamin is, and says "I'd better find out about Quentin and Edward myself. Never send one of your drones to do the work of a lady. I'd dispense more advice to you, Miss Chavez, but you'll hardly find yourself in a place where it will be useful. I'll be back." Kitty leaves the room and locks Beth in. As soon as Kitty leaves, Beth begins to struggle with her bonds, and after tipping the chair over, she manages to free herself. She tries the door, but it is locked. She tries opening the window, and after a struggle, manages to get it open. She's very high up, but there is a lattice next to the window. We hear her think "No one will hear me if I shout...I must get out of this room somehow...but there must be a better way than this..." The knob on the door begins to turn and Beth starts to climb out of the window and onto the lattice.
John Karlen's voiceover: "The Collinwood of parallel time in the year 1897 is filled with treachery and lies as different members of the family and even some nefarious outsiders grapple over the future of the estate and its wealth. On this night, the lies will do more damage and the innocent, as they always do, will suffer...."
In an old house room, Stanford sits looking completely out of it as Judith tends to him. She tells Carl how she "doesn't understand" how such a healthy man could have "such a devastating stroke." Carl says that the doctor said there was a chance of recovery, but Judith leads Carl outside and says "I don't know, I just don't know. I hate to see him this way." Carl agrees, but says there's nothing they can do. Judith says that Stanford had such an active mind that he'd hate to wind up in such a state. Carl says that the doctor thought Stanford's mind may still be active, but that his powers of speech and muscle coordination were affected. Judith says "that must be even worse, to be imprisoned within one's own mind." Stanford sits helplessly in the chair staring at them through the slightly opened door, and we hear him thinking "I...must....be.....able to...speak....I must warn them....Kitty.....Kitty Soames...."
After the titles, Judith remarks to Carl that he's spending more time with Charity Trask, and Carl says that he likes Charity a great deal "though I can't say the same for her brother." Judith says she still doesn't understand what Valery sees in him, and Carl says "It's easy to understand what he sees in Valery." Downstairs, Charity comes in with Nora, and asks Nora if she had a good time shopping in town. Nora says yes, and asks when they can do it again. Charity says "you'll have to ask your father that" as Carl comes downstairs. Nora tells him how much fun she had shopping in town, and Carl says "I've taken you shopping before, Nora, wasn't it the same?" Charity answers that Nora "needed a woman's touch." Nora giggles, and Carl sends her upstairs to get ready for dinner. Charity tells Carl what a wonderful daughter he has, and Carl says it hasn't been easy raising her alone. "She was so young when her mother.....well, I'm sure she doesn't remember too much of that." Charity tells Carl "I talked to my brother." Surprised, Carl asks her what happened. Charity says that she thinks Carl has it all wrong about what's going on, and Carl says "How can you say that? What kind of lies did he tell you?" Charity gets angry and says that "Maybe you should ask your sister Alice that!" Carl says "Alice? I've tried confronting her, and she won't tell me anything. Besides, after that maniac nearly killed her, she hardly ever leaves this house anymore." He turns to Charity and says "I don't want us to fight about this. I know Alice is my sister, but in all honesty, I wouldn't doubt her plotting something against my cousins." Charity tells Carl that while that might be a terrible thing to believe, it "seems true. My brother also told me that she's the one making him do these things." Carl is surprised. "Making him? Are you suggesting she's blackmailing him?" Charity says that's what her brother told her, and she's willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Carl says "I have a lot of doubt, Charity. I still think they're in this together, and he'll say anything to deflect the blame." Charity says "If they're in this together, why would he blame her? It's like he's turning on her!" Carl answers "Why wouldn't he turn on her? It's Valery who has the money." This sounds true to Charity, but she still doesn't want to believe it. "And we both know that it's Valery who is young and beautiful," Carl adds. Charity says she can't believe her own brother "could be that evil." Carl says that money can do evil things to people. "Something we can both do while you decide about your brother," Carl adds, "is to watch Alice very very carefully." Charity agrees.
Quentin enters Collinwood and finds Harrison in the drawing room. Harrison asks him if Rachel and Jamison got off allright, and Quentin says "the train to Boston was running on time for a change. So much for step one in the master plan." He pours himself a drink. Harrison remarks on how Trask will be very disappointed once the "real will" is revealed. Quentin says he's hoping he'll be disappointed enough to "leave," but he wonders "how much trouble" he'll be for Valery if he doesn't. Harrison says that he'll do anything to help Valery, and Quentin smiles at him knowingly and says "I thought as much." Trask comes out of the kitchen and hears Harrison and Quentin talking about the will, Valery, and Jamison's departure. He stops before the door and eavesdrops. We hear him think "If Quentin has enlisted Harrison in this fight, perhaps that's where this other will is hidden...I must find it and destroy it if my plans are to go forward..." He slips upstairs just as Quentin and Harrison come out of the drawing room. Harrison says "There's something else I wanted to mention to you, it may be something, it may be nothing." Quentin, curious, asks what. Harrison says "Your brother Benjamin. He seems different than before. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it seems to me he's acting strangely." Quentin laughs and says "Harrison, I'm surprised at you. Of all the men not to notice how a man changes behavior when his lady love is so close by." Harrison says that he has noticed a change in Benjamin since Kitty's arrival, but "it seems he's changed quite differently." Quentin says he's "always thought Benjamin was a mysterious character anyway," but then asks Harrison if he's seen Beth. Harrison says no, and Quentin says that Rachel had told him that Beth had wanted to talk to him about something, but he can't find her. Meanwhile, Beth is still tied up and locked in a room with Kitty.
At the old house, Judith is sitting with Stanford upstairs when Carl, Charity and Nora enter. They tell Judith that dinner is almost ready, and Judith says she's not hungry. Charity implores her to eat, and that she's doing all she can for Stanford. Judith insists he'll be able to speak as long as people are around him. Nora tells Stanford how much she liked shopping with Charity that day to see if he'll react. Charity tells her to "show your Uncle Stanford the hat we bought you." Nora runs out of the room to get it. Carl and Charity take Judith aside and bring her up to date on Alice and Trask. Judith agrees with them about Alice, and tells Charity she'd rather not say anything against her brother "unless I was absolutely sure." Judith says she'll also keep an eye on Alice, but that "my husband dominates all of my time now." Nora runs back in with her hat and puts it on, and while they all admire it, Stanford shows no reaction. But then Nora says "It's very pretty isn't it? It's just like the one Kitty has!" Stanford starts to groan and mumble at the mention of Kitty's name, and gets more and more agitated. Charity takes Nora from the room as Stanford struggles to speak to Judith and Carl.
Kitty paces around Beth, telling her how much she'd like to "snuff you out like a flickering candle flame" but that she can't until she finds out how much she's told "the others." Beth looks hatefully at Kitty. Kitty wonders where Benjamin is, and says "I'd better find out about Quentin and Edward myself. Never send one of your drones to do the work of a lady. I'd dispense more advice to you, Miss Chavez, but you'll hardly find yourself in a place where it will be useful. I'll be back." Kitty leaves the room and locks Beth in. As soon as Kitty leaves, Beth begins to struggle with her bonds, and after tipping the chair over, she manages to free herself. She tries the door, but it is locked. She tries opening the window, and after a struggle, manages to get it open. She's very high up, but there is a lattice next to the window. We hear her think "No one will hear me if I shout...I must get out of this room somehow...but there must be a better way than this..." The knob on the door begins to turn and Beth starts to climb out of the window and onto the lattice.
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