Episode 1509

Aired: Thursday April 5, 1972

Barnabas walks through a hallway in the old house carrying a candle. He looks very sad as he turns a corner and opens a door that leads to a stairway. He walks up the stairway, and puts the candle down in a small room with a large bay window. He puts the candle down on a table and blows it out before looking out the window. He's high up in the old house - and the view extends to the sea. At the horizon, the first morning rays of the sun begin to break through the clouds. Barnabas watches emotionless as the sun begins to rise - the sky changes colors, black to purple to reds and oranges.... it's just as beautiful as he had always described it to others, but he watches it without batting an eye. The rays of the sun begin to shine into the window and onto him. He takes a deep breath and only says "I'm all alone...."

After the titles, Barnabas is still sitting in the small room, only now the sun is high and some time has gone by. He hears footsteps coming up the stairs, and then sees Sarah leading Vicky into the room. "I thought he was up here," Sarah says. "He likes to come up here in the morning." Vicky says "Yes, I know. You can see a beautiful sunrise out that window." Sarah asks Barnabas if she can go into town with David, and he says yes. She stops a moment and says "Don't be sad, Barnabas. I don't like when you're sad." He tells her that she always makes him happy, and she smiles before running off. Vicky tells Barnabas "You'll never really be alone while you have her." Barnabas says "Yes, you're right. But... I've felt very odd since my return from Widow's Hill the other night." Vicky tells Barnabas that everyone feels odd during a period of mourning and that "I didn't feel like myself when I'd lost Burke years ago." Barnabas smiles and says "Burke is just as I remember him." Vicky smiles and says "Well, if that's the case, it might not be a good thing, considering how you once felt about him." Barnabas says "Things are very different now. Though I must admit, I can confuse a man's strong self confidence with arrogance. It's a good thing that a lovely woman like yourself provides a civilizing effect on the souls of men." Vicky looks out the window and says "I think he was suspicious of you when he came over here... he was expecting the Barnabas he remembered. He was surprised, to say the least. His attitude towards you will be very different than it was in the past, I think." Barnabas answers "You're inviting him to become a part of our family. We will get along, we must." Vicky says "He and Quentin seem to have taken to each other quite well. I think it's because they're both so fond of David and both so bristly around Roger." Barnabas smiles and replies "Well, I suppose that's something." Vicky tells Barnabas he should come over to Collinwood for dinner after they all see Carolyn off at the station and "stop cocooning yourself. You need people around you at a time like this." Barnabas gets a bit shy at the prospect, but Vicky takes his hands and says "Barnabas, you're a wonderful and fascinating man. You have so much to offer, please don't deny yourself to people." He kisses her hand and smiles. "I'd be delighted to come to dinner," he says.

Barnabas is downstairs getting his cape to go out when Julia enters. She tells Barnabas she came by to see how he was, and he says "I'm coping with the circumstances." Julia says "If there's anything I can do...." but before she can finish, he says "You've already done so much... saving me from Brian at the laboratory before he got hold of his powers again... I always owe you so much, Julia." She turns away and says "What are friends for?" Barnabas says "Of course." There's an awkward pause (and it's not cue-card related but intentional) before Barnabas says "Vicky was here earlier. She made me feel a little better." Julia says "That's good. You shouldn't lose hope, Barnabas...." Barnabas replies "Hope... so many times in my life, I had no hope. I wonder if it was fate or my own decisions that caused all the complexities of things." Julia answers "I'm not sure if I believe in fate. I think our own decisions are what create our destinies." Barnabas says "I'm not sure if that should make me happy or miserable." Julia says "Back when I was in medical school, there was enormous pressure on me to give up my ambitions and find a husband... but I told myself that I would only accept a man who accepted me for what I am. I couldn't repress my ambitions. I was married to my work." Barnabas says "That doesn't mean it would always be so." Julia says "I know, that's what I'm trying to tell you." Julia tells Barnabas that he must "let go of the past" if he is to go on. "You found yourself in this time, with these people. In a way, in this house, you've preserved a part of your own time, as a sanctuary of sorts... but it can't be a fortress, Barnabas. You've got to move forward and think of your future." Barnabas answers "My future...." Julia says "You'll find...someone, I'm sure..." Barnabas replies "Someone..... yes, perhaps. Then again, perhaps not. I...." Julia turns to him and says "Yes?" He stammers a bit and says "I need to take a walk and think..." He's halfway out the door before he turns and says "Thank you for your concern, Julia. It.... you mean a lot to me." He leaves as Julia sighs and wonders.

Barnabas walks through the woods. We hear him think "Perhaps I should've brought Julia with me on my walk... I'm not sure. So much is going through my mind now.... if only I had done things differently in my life.... I may have avoided the strange destiny that has been my fate..." He reaches Widow's Hill and looks over the horizon. "A viewpoint on an enormous world... a world of so many places and possibilities.... here and also in the past..." he thinks as we dissolve to a memory in Barnabas' mind..... In a small room, Angelique finishes getting dressed in 18th century clothes. She brushes her hair in the mirror with a smile when Barnabas, also dressed in his 18th century garb, moves behind her and kisses her. "I hope that's not a good bye kiss," she says. "No," Barnabas answers. "I'm sure we will see each other again before my father and I depart for Boston." He walks to a window and looks outside. "I can never understand how people can live in such a climate as Martinique... where's it's summer all year round." Angelique answers that you get used to it. "Why are you in such a rush to return to Boston?" she asks. "I would think you'd want to stay here..... now." Barnabas stammers a bit, and says that "It's beyond my control. I simply cannot." Angelique grows a little angry and says "It seems many of your passions are out of your control as well." Barnabas takes her hand. "I'm sorry. I just.... I just need time. Please don't ask me anymore. This moment is difficult as it is." Angelique holds back her hurt and says "Indeed." Barnabas hurriedly leaves and Angelique grumbles. "You will be mine, Barnabas....I swear it..." she mutters. Outside, Barnabas sighs a deep sigh. "Why did I do that..." we hear him think. "What am I doing here? Only because Josette finds me invisible did I even notice her handmaiden.... a lovely woman, but..... a handmaiden.... my father would surely disown me if he knew. He must never know. Gentlemanly discretion must apply." Barnabas walks away a little and thinks "Why should I live for my father and not for myself?" He starts to turn back towards Angelique's servants' quarters when a messenger boy gives him a note. Barnabas reads it and his eyes open wide. We cut to Josette (Kathryn Leigh Scott) standing on the balcony of a large house. She walks back inside, and there is a knock at her door. The room looks very much like what will be her room in the old house, but larger. "Come in," she says, and Barnabas enters. "I got your note," he says. "Please tell me you mean it." Josette smiles at him. "Did you really think I could play hard to get for the rest of your life? All the time you tutored me in English, all I did was watch your eyes...." Barnabas smiles, and takes her hand. "My eyes were fixed upon you, as they are now," he says, kissing her hand. She leans towards him, and he kisses her passionately. "Finally!" he says. "I finally know how you really feel!" Josette says "And how do you feel?" Barnabas smiles and says "Like a man in love," before kissing her again. We dissolve back to Barnabas sitting alone, looking out over the waves on Widow's Hill. "A man in love..." we hear him think. "But with whom? Did I really love them both that day? What if I had turned back and gotten that note after I damned my father's snobbery and told Angelique what was in my heart... everything would be different.... " He stands up and thinks a moment. "Though in an odd way, I wonder what would have happened to Quentin and Vicky and David and all the others if I hadn't been here now.... if I hadn't made that choice...." His thoughts are interrupted by Harrison's shouts of "Barnabas! Is that you?" Barnabas looks up and says "Harrison? I'm over here!" Harrison walks up and says "There you are! Somehow I thought I'd find you here when you weren't at the old house." Barnabas says "I was just sitting and thinking." Harrison answers "I need your help with something." Barnabas wonders what.

Harrison tells Barnabas that he successfully closed the time portals in Quentin's old laboratory, "but the problem persists in the West Wing. You must come with me there." Barnabas is confused, and asks "What can I do? I thought perhaps Stokes would be the one to..." Harrison says "No, it has to be you. I can't really explain it all now, only that you must come with me to the West Wing." Barnabas tells Harrison that "When I passed into the strange world of parallel time almost two years ago, it didn't have any affect on the structure of the doorway. I don't understand how you think I can help." Harrison answers "Barnabas, the doorways are created by the subconscious desires of the different people who come within the temporal field left over from the laboratory, the same field that opened the original passageway in the east wing." Barnabas says "You want me to create a doorway?" Harrison answers "Yes, Barnabas. Because I know the doorway that you'll create, the one that leads to the time and place where you'd want to live, is the key to everything." Barnabas gasps.

Episode 1508

Aired: Wednesday April 4, 1972

David Selby's voiceover: "A new day has dawned at Collinwood, and for the residents of the great house, an enemy is dead and a danger to them all has passed. But what remains is the very safety of time itself... for if Harrison Collins, the mysterious visitor from the future, cannot find a way to close the holes in time that have opened, that future may be doomed. Harrison knows that in order to save his own time, he must find a way to alter the destinies of those who live now.... but he also knows that the slightest error could lead to disaster...."

Julia enters the foyer of Collinwood and finds David and Vicky in the drawing room. They ask her what happened to Maggie, and Julia tells them "I left Maggie at Windcliff." Vicky asks if Maggie will be all right, and Julia says "You don't understand, Maggie isn't a patient there. I hired her to work with the patients." David and Vicky are surprised.

After the titles, David asks Julia why she hired Maggie, and Julia explains how Brian had left her with healing powers when he tried to "use her to save himself and destroy Barnabas." David sighs and says he should have "made sure Brian was dead after I fixed it so Chris would attack him." Julia tells David he shouldn't be angry with himself, since he saved Quentin and Lori, "as well as finding a cure for Chris... that was something that Barnabas and I spent a lot of time searching in vain for." Vicky tells Julia that "Barnabas was okay physically after everything that happened, but I'm not sure about him." Julia nods. "I know. I've never seen him the way he was out on Widow's Hill after Angelique made her sacrifice." Vicky tells Julia how Burke and she went to see him. Julia asks how Burke felt about seeing Barnabas. "Well, at first he was suspicious," Vicky says. "He was expecting the Barnabas he knew from his own world. He was genuinely surprised by what he found, but nonetheless felt sorry for him. I've never seen him that sad." Harrison enters and hangs his coat up. He starts to head for the cellar door, but instead hears the voices and enters the drawing room. "Oh, I'm sorry, I hope I'm not intruding," he says. Vicky tells him "No, of course not. How was your talk with Professor Stokes?" Harrison says he thinks Stokes is "brilliant" but that he must solve this problem on his own. David asks him what problem, and Harrison says "You may as well know that I came back here to seal up the holes in time opening in the west wing. If they continue to grow, all of the present time could be threatened." David says "But Burke came back here through one of those holes. I couldn't help wondering if..." Harrison says "If other people could too? People who are gone?" David nods, and Harrison says "Like your mother?" David, surprised, asks "How did you know that was who I was thinking of?" Harrison looks at Julia and Vicky a moment before telling David "David, you should know that I came through one of those doorways myself. Your mother cannot come back through time, I'm sorry. I cannot tell you any more than that, except to say that even after I go away, you will see me again. I promise you." David thinks a moment and says "I believe you. I was just wondering...." Harrison says "I know. But I'm glad you trust me. That means a lot to me." Vicky takes David upstairs as Harrison asks Julia how Barnabas is doing. Julia tells him about how sad he is, and Harrison nods. "That's what I had thought... perhaps if I talk to him...." Julia says "If there's anything you can do, anything that you know about the future, please tell him, or point him in the right direction. It really wasn't until now that I realized that even after everything she'd done... Angelique truly loved him. And me.....I.....care about him a great deal." Harrison looks at Julia for a moment and says "Yes, I know."

In the basement lab, Harrison looks around at how part of the room has been restored to new while the rest is old and dusty. "So odd..." we hear him thinking. "Some of this room reverting to its original state while the rest....." He walks over to the desk and examines it. "What could've caused this.... when I left, it was from over there.... yet when I originally arrived, it was upstairs in a...." Harrison suddenly realizes. "Upstairs.... along the line that led to the room in the east wing that was originally opened to parallel time by the things left in this laboratory.... that might be part of the answer...." He walks to the pile of old wooden planks he had used before. "The remains of the stairway through time...still here...." he thinks. He picks up a dusty book. "What's this... " he thinks. "Journal of Quentin Collins, 1839... April 4... My father in his delirium cried out for Morgan. Despite how many times I reminded him that my older brother died before he was 4 of consumption, father insisted he was alive... father's mind is getting worse...." Harrison puts the journal down. "Morgan... interesting... Grandmother Catherine in parallel time called me Morgan..." He scoffs and says "This is getting me nowhere. I need to try something." He spreads the planks around the perimeter of the desk and then stands back. He raises his ring to his face and says "Open..." and a swirling cloud begins to appear. The desk begins to fade and look blurry, and Harrison begins to smile. He says "Close..." and the swirling cloud shrinks into nothing. "It worked!" Harrison says as he looks over the desk - which is now totally old and dusty. He begins to spread the planks around the entire laboratory. "I can close the holes in this room.... but will that affect the west wing?" he thinks as he spreads the planks out. "I'll have to check later... in the meantime, at least this will solve one part of this riddle..." He continues to spread out the staircase planks.

In the drawing room, Liz is going over some papers when Burke comes in. Burke pours himself a drink and offers Liz one, but she says that she doesn't want anything to distract her while she's going over the books. "Anything I can help with? I'm pretty good with that stuff, you know," he says. Liz says "Actually, there was something I wanted to talk to you about that relates to the Collins family business." Burke starts to talk about "avoiding the cut throat competition" he felt before he was marrying into the family, and Liz cuts him off saying "Of course, Burke, I understand all that. I'm sure we can easily work together on all sorts of things. But that's not my concern. My concern is Vicky." Burke asks "Vicky?" Liz says "Yes, Vicky. With Carolyn going away and with David heading back to school soon, Vicky will be all I have here. She's very different than the Vicky you might remember from five years ago." Burke thinks that over, but answers "She's not too different... though I have noticed a little more assertiveness." Liz says "There's a lot more. She's older now, much more sure of herself. And now that she knows she's a Collins, I think she's been given more direction. And I was thinking that Vicky ought to be the one who helps me in my business affairs." Burke is surprised. "Vicky? Liz, it's your decision, but I don't think she'll be interested. And what do you think Roger will have to say about it?" Liz answers "Roger will understand. Vicky's a smart young woman, and she's already given me good advice. Now that I'm married, I don't want to devote all my time to the Collins enterprises, and while David is still too young, Vicky is the logical choice." Burke says "And you're asking me how I feel about that...." Liz says "I don't want to ask your permission, but I didn't want my suggestion to lead to an argument between you and Vicky. You see, I know she'll say yes to my offer." Burke nods. "I think I agree. And....." He takes a drink. "I have to admit that your idea makes sense. I don't think I'd want a wife to feel that her husband stifled her ambitions, especially when they're so close to his own. She's went through a lot to get me here, I can't say no to her for anything, I think." He laughs a little. "Liz, don't tell her I said that, or I'm doomed!" Liz smiles and thanks Burke for being so understanding.

Harrison walks through the west wing looking into some of the empty rooms. Suddenly behind him, a light appears under one of the doors. He opens the doors, and sees the same room from his own time that Vicky had landed in. Quentin comes up behind him and sees the room. "What, or should I say, where and when is that?" Quentin asks. "I recognize it," Harrison answers. "My own time. I could step into that room right now and be home. But I don't think I can just yet." Quentin asks why not, and Harrison answers "Because I didn't consciously open that doorway into my own time. It simply happened, which means that I have not solved the problem of these doorways opening... there may only be one way to do it, though it's taking a big chance." Quentin asks what the consequences of "failing at that big chance" would be. Harrison says he's not sure, since "it only involves guiding people towards the past I remember." Quentin asks Harrison if he can be "so sure of yourself in altering the present." Harrison says he can't be, but "there's no other choice." Quentin says "Why don't you do me a favor, and tell me what I'm supposed to do now? Lori has gone with Chris to Boston. Now that my curse is over, she has no scientific interest in me. My portrait won't change with moon anymore, it'll only appear as a bizarre sick joke to those who don't know its true meaning. But I thought you were giving me clues that Lori Slater was somehow my destiny..." Harrison is surprised. "No, I didn't mean to do that, and if I did, I'm sorry. You know, with your curse ended, you can have children again without passing on a curse." Quentin humphs and says "To have a son, I'd need a wife first, and that's only if I decide to be traditional about it!" Harrison takes a deep breath. "I don't want to tell you too much since doing so might alter what is meant to happen, from my point of view. But I can tell you this - when the next opportunity arises, go to the Collinsport train station." Quentin says "The train station? What kind of opportunity?" Harrison says "When Carolyn leaves with Stokes, I can't make it any plainer than that. Just make sure you're there.... and make sure you have enough money on hand to buy a train ticket. That's all I can tell you." Quentin grows curious. "A train ticket? Where am I going?' Harrison says "You'll know when you get there."

Episode 1507

Aired: Tuesday April 3, 1972

After a repeat of Monday's close and the titles, Julia reminds Maggie that Joe has "been in a comatose state for years since his breakdown." Maggie says she never could get him to recognize her "during my last stay here... but that will change." She reaches out and caresses his face, and he begins to blink. She takes his hand, and he slowly turns towards her and his face goes from a blank to recognizing her. "Maggie..." he says weakly. Julia gasps. "It's true... what Brian said is true... you can heal...." Maggie says "Yes... I can feel it...but it seems to come and go, I don't know how long it will last now that Brian is dead. That's why I made you rush me up here... if there was anything I could do with this, it was to get Joe back." Joe starts to smile as he looks at Maggie more. "Maggie! Maggie Evans! You're Maggie Evans!" he says, excitedly before turning towards Julia. "I know you too... you're a doctor..." Julia asks Joe if he knows her name, and after a few tries, he gets it. Julia tells Maggie that Joe will need a full examination, "and most likely some other treatments to return his mind completely to normal... especially to adjust to the time he's lost." Maggie tells Julia that "I want to stay here and help him. Maybe I can help other people here too, people who were once the way I was." Julia says "That might be possible, but I'd have to make sure that...." Maggie suddenly looks very seriously at Julia and sternly says "I think you'll arrange to allow me anything I wish, Dr. Hoffman. Especially with my memory completely restored. Completely." Julia shudders a bit, and answers "Of course... anything...." Maggie sighs, and says "I'm sorry... I shouldn't have used that tone." She looks back at Joe a moment and says "I can understand what your motives were....how you felt about Barnabas... it wasn't really his true nature anyway." Julia tells Maggie that she'll "get right to work" on her certification. Maggie and Joe hold hands and a smiling Maggie says "I think I'll like this... helping people. It beats serving them coffee." Her and Joe kiss. (awwwww!)

Barnabas sits alone in the old house reading a small book when there is knock at the door. He answers it, and finds Burke and Vicky have come to visit him. "Burke!" Barnabas says. "I'd heard all about your strange journey here... I'm so sorry I couldn't have been available earlier..." Burke says "It's okay, Barnabas. I'd heard about your strange journey recently as well." Barnabas says "Well, we needn't discuss that, it's all in the past. Nevertheless, I hope to avoid such misadventure in the future. Won't you both come in?" Vicky thanks him as Burke looks around. Barnabas notices this and says "It's been a while since you've been here, hasn't it? Yet somehow, this house never really changes that much." Burke says "No, I guess it doesn't. I wonder how different things really are." Vicky notices the book Barnabas has been reading. "An old volume of Poe?" she asks. Barnabas says "Yes... I find some of the poems comforting when I'm in a melancholy mood... please forgive me." Vicky sees where the book is open to "Annabell Lee" and begins to read a little before stopping. "I'm so sorry...." she says. "A poem about a lost love when..." Barnabas tells her it's all right. "Somehow, I'm still not quite convinced she's really gone." Burke says "I'm sorry I never got to meet her. She sounded like quite an interesting lady." Barnabas says "Yes... certainly the most unique women I've ever known. I... I don't know what I'll do without her." Barnabas winces a bit, and Vicky tells him that "you'll go on and you'll be all right. Remember how I thought I had lost Burke, and then I found him again. Perhaps one day, you'll find her again." Barnabas says "Perhaps." He smiles at Vicky and then tells Burke "You see that my lovely cousin who you're about to marry is an eternal optimist." Burke says "Yes, she certainly is. Always sees the good in people, although that can sometimes be a weakness." Vicky says "Oh, Burke!" Barnabas says "I suppose we all have some good in us." Burke counters with "Then you can also assume that all of us also have some evil." Barnabas thinks it over. "I suppose so, but it must be human nature to suppress such feelings. Otherwise, we wouldn't live in a civilized world." Burke says "Not much civilization here, with no electricity! I still don't understand how you can live like this." Barnabas says "I find it more comfortable." Burke says "Well, I'm sure Angelique found it comfortable as well... but I wonder what other modern women would accept living without modern conveniences." Barnabas says "I'm not sure. Perhaps it doesn't matter. Perhaps my destiny is to be alone." Vicky says "Barnabas, you're not alone, you have all your family and friends." Barnabas says he knows, and that he's "eternally grateful" for that. He apologizes for his "rudeness" and offers both Vicky and Burke a drink. As he goes to mix them (perhaps a claret cup?) Burke takes Vicky aside and quietly says "I think I owe you an apology." Vicky (of course) says "I don't understand." Burke tells Vicky "I came here thinking I'd see the same Barnabas I hated in my world, despite what you said. But you were right about him. There are some similarities, but that man couldn't ever harm anyone I care about." Vicky smiles at Burke, and Barnabas hands them both drinks.

Harrison sits down to tea with Stokes in Stokes' house. Stokes admits to having an "endless curiosity for the knowledge in your head, Harrison." Harrison tells Stokes that he can only interfere with 1972 in order to protect his own time many years in the future, and that revealing too much might alter that. "Have you ever considered the possibility of revealing too little?" Stokes asks him. Harrison says he hasn't, though "it's been very tempting to give people advice on some critical decisions of their lives, knowing what the probable outcomes would be." Stokes says "Yes... I can see where one would be so tempted, around one's own ancestors. For myself, I think I must resist the Pandora's Box of knowledge in your mind." Harrison takes a sip of tea and replies "Yes, but that doesn't mean I don't need your help to some degree." Stokes says he was wondering when they'd get around to that, since "I know you didn't only come over here to tempt me with your knowledge of the future." Harrison tells Stokes that the future "must be protected" by "sealing the holes in time appearing in the West Wing of Collinwood." Stokes answers that "I'm not sure how I can help you. From what I understand, your psychic link to that crystal in your ring should give you enough power to solve the problem." Harrison runs his hand over his ring and answers "Yes... I can close the doorways that have been opening, but I must be sure that the one remaining is the true path to my own world. And to do that.... I might have to interfere with some events here in the present. I was hoping to get some words of encouragement from you, that I would be doing the right thing." Stokes answers that without knowing the future, he'd be "very hard pressed to know whether or not you are doing the right thing." Harrison nods and says he knows. Stokes suggests that "your idea of sealing the source of the problem in the laboratory of Quentin Collins from 1840 is a good beginning. It's the second part of your plan I'm not so sure about." Harrison steps away for a moment and says "I know... it's a risky thing, but I think it will work." He adds with a smile "I think I know my ancestors well enough."

Carolyn is packing her things in her room while Vicky helps her. Vicky tells her how envious she is that Carolyn will be going to study in Europe. Carolyn laughs a little and says "You're about to get married, and you're envious of me?" Vicky goes on about all the "wonderful opportunities" that await Carolyn when Liz and Alan enter. Liz asks Carolyn if she's sure she needs to pack that much since "after all, you're not leaving here forever. At least I hope not." Carolyn tells her mother that she could "never leave permanently." Alan says he's not sure, since "Stokes was telling me how other graduates of the program have traveled all over the world. I wonder if you'd want to come back to a little New England seaport after seeing all that... after all, nothing too exciting ever happens here." Vicky tells Carolyn that "I feel so traditional... getting married while you're going off and pursuing a career... you might wind up being as distinguished as Professor Stokes!" Liz tells Vicky that there's a lot to be said for being married as well, to which Alan says "Hear, hear!" Carolyn smiles and says "Mother, I'm not ruling out marriage. I'm just putting it off for a while." Vicky says that she'd thought about going back to school as well, but "now that I'm getting married, there's really no need. I used to have dreams of becoming someone very important, I guess every little girl does. But if I'm important to Burke, that will be enough to keep me happy." Liz thinks about what Vicky has said.

Episode 1506

Aired: Monday April 2, 1972

In a repeat of Friday's close, Brian begins to move closer to Maggie as Barnabas realizes why. "Your wounds... you need to heal your wounds before you can evoke Josette and complete your unholy bargain!" Brian answers "Exactly. And now, Miss Evans can perform that simple service, once I command her to." Maggie says "I won't! I won't help you!" Brian struggles to take a step closer and says "You have no choice, Miss Evans!" Maggie suddenly frees one of her hands, and Brian moves closer to her as she can't help but move it towards him. He's about to get close enough when Angelique shouts "Brian Miller! Get away from her!" Brian turns to see Angelique and Julia standing only a few feet away from him in the howling wind. Angelique scowls a hateful scowl as she walks towards him. "And get away from my husband....." Brian tries to move closer to Maggie's outstretched hand as Barnabas gasps....

After the titles, Angelique sneers at Brian. "Your powers are much weaker now than they ever were... without the healing hand you gave Maggie, you are no match for me." Brian struggles to reach Maggie, but finds he cannot move. He looks over to Angelique desperately. "You!" he shouts over the wind. "You've....taken control....but you do not hold all the trumps my dear..." Brian turns his glare towards Barnabas and commands "You know what you must do now, Barnabas. You are still under my control." Barnabas gasps and begins to step towards the edge of the cliff. "No..." he wails. "Don't let it end this way..." Angelique waves her hand and Brian screams in pain as he grabs the bloody wound in his side. Barnabas stumbles a bit, but Julia is right there to grab him - she pulls him away from the edge of the cliff and down to the ground. "Julia..." he says. "You saved me... you saved me again." Julia answers "What else could I do?" Brian shouts angrily "No!" and makes a desperate lunge towards Barnabas. Before he can get there, Angelique has stepped in between them and grabs Brian by the throat. "You wanted to send them over the edge to be impaled on the rocks below to keep your bargain and attain immortality..." Brian chokes under Angelique's grip and cannot get free. "Perhaps I'll drain the very life from you that you find so precious..." she says. Brian takes a small knife out of his pocket, but Julia shouts "Angelique! Look out!" Brian swings the knife, but Angelique pushes him forward to get out of the way of the blow - and sends a screaming Brian over the edge of the cliff. Julia runs to the edge and grimaces. "He's....dead," she says.

Julia repeats that Brian is dead, and then turns to Barnabas. "You're free!" she says. Barnabas, out of breath, nods. "Maggie..." he says. "Make sure Maggie is all right... she was also under his power." Maggie stands and looks at her hands for a moment. Julia tells Barnabas that Maggie seems fine, but Maggie doesn't answer to her name. Julia turns back to a satisfied Angelique. "It's hard to believe he's finally dead," she says. Angelique replies "What happened to his body on the jagged rocks below is nothing compared to the agony his soul suffers now." Julia asks Angelique how she can be sure, and Angelique replies "He tried to cheat his master. It's one thing to outwit him, but quite another to attempt a theft." Suddenly in the howling wind, flames burst next to some nearby rocks. As he did before, Diablos steps from the circle of flame. "How true your words are, Angelique. And how timely, now that I have come to complete our own bargain." Julia says "You got what you wanted! Brian Miller is dead and his soul is yours." Diablos answers "Indeed Brian Miller is mine forever, and will learn the price of attempting to cheat me. But there is another bargain, one for a much more precious soul." Julia looks at Maggie and then back at Angelique. "No..." Julia says. "Angelique! You didn't!" Angelique snaps "Quiet, Julia! This is none of your concern!" Julia yells "You can't let him take Maggie! Have you lost your mind? Barnabas would never..." Angelique shouts "That's enough!" Diablos laughs. "Maggie Evans was the vessel of Josette but is no longer.... the spirit of Josette was freed when Brian Miller was destroyed," he says. "So you too have broken your promise, my Angelique. Unless you are prepared to offer the innocence of Maggie Evans in exchange for the love of Josette Du Pres.... a meager substitute but an innocent soul nonetheless... Or perhaps instead as your punishment I shall claim what you desire yourself... I shall take Barnabas Collins to join Brian Miller in my realm." Barnabas shouts "No! You cannot!" Angelique says "I have not broken my bargain with you.... it is true Josette Du Pres has been freed and her spirit has returned to the land of the dead when I destroyed Brian. But you shall not claim Barnabas. I have not broken my bargain with you. I promised you the soul of Barnabas' beloved." Diablos says "And Josette DuPres is gone." Angelique answers "But I am here... and I am Barnabas' beloved. You will not harm Maggie at all, because you have me to complete our bargain." Barnabas shouts "Angelique! No! You cannot sacrifice yourself like this!" He begins to stand up and approach them, but Angelique waves him back. "If Maggie were destroyed, you'd never forgive yourself or me... it would be poisonous to our love forever. I cannot let it go on any longer. This is the only way." Barnabas says "But what will this bring? You'll be destroyed! I cannot bear to lose you again... not after all this time." Angelique sighs and smiles at Barnabas' innocence. "Barnabas... after all these years and everything we've been through....you should know more than anyone that my death can never keep me away from you." She suddenly turns to Diablos and announces "I am ready." Barnabas leaps towards her, but is stopped by a blinding flash of fire that consumes both Angelique and Diablos. There is a scream from Angelique that fades into the whistling of the howling wind as she vanishes in front of Barnabas' teary eyes. Barnabas fruitlessly scratches the ground where Angelique stood and lets the handful of ashy dust run from his hands, scattering it into the wind. "She's gone...she's gone..." he says tearfully as Julia looks on.

Barnabas runs his hands through the ashy dust where Angelique stood, crying and moaning. Julia asks Maggie if she's all right, and Maggie says she is "now that I know everything." Julia looks concerned and says "You remember.... everything?" Maggie says "Yes. I know all about Barnabas.... and I've forgiven him." Julia sighs with relief, but Maggie looks at Barnabas grasping with futility at the dust and looking over the cliff at the waves crashing on the rocks. "Fate hasn't forgiven him yet though, Julia," she adds. Julia says "I'll... I'll see to him. I'll look after him." Maggie says "You always do, don't you Julia? Always look after him...." Julia replies "Maggie, are you sure you're feeling all right? You've just been through a terrifying ordeal... you might need some medical treatment." Maggie looks at her hands for a moment, and answers "I'm fine. I feel absolutely fine. I want you to take me to Windcliff. You must take me to Windcliff immediately." Julia is confused, and asks "Maggie, if you're feeling fine, why do you want to go to Windcliff?" Maggie snaps "Julia, don't argue with me, just get your car. You're taking me to Windcliff." Julia watches Barnabas, who is still somber as he looks over the waves. "Gone..." he says. "Every time... with or without the curse.... my love only means destruction...." Maggie walks by Julia straight to Barnabas. As he continues to sob, she caresses his hair gently. He looks up, and Maggie offers her hand to him. Barnabas takes her hand and stands, and Maggie puts both her hands onto his chest. "Don't say that, Barnabas. You will go on and find the happiness that has eluded you throughout the years." She smiles at him, and he looks at her wondering before she turns back to Julia and demands once again to be taken to Windcliff. Julia asks Barnabas if he'll be all right, and he touches where Maggie had touched him. "Yes..." he says. "I don't understand it, but somehow I know I will..." Julia looks at Maggie.

At the old house, Julia leads Barnabas inside, where he says he'll wait for her after she takes Maggie to Windcliff. "I have...a lot to think about," he says. Julia leaves and asks Maggie "What did you do?" Maggie only repeats her demand to be taken to Windcliff. Julia asks why when there's nothing wrong, and Maggie tells Julia not to give her an argument. We cut to Windcliff, where we find Willie sweeping up the main lobby. Julia enters and Willie runs to her. Julia says "Willie! You're up and about... the last time I checked, you were still....." Willie says "Yeah, I know...I was in bad shape, but it'll take more than that to keep old Willie down, you know? I been doin' better." Julia says that's good to hear, and Willie asks her what she's doing there and if everything is still okay back at Collinwood. Julia answers that "There was a crisis...but it seems to have passed." Willie asks Julia if she'll be spending more time at Windcliff since "I kinda like workin' around here. They let me rebuild some of the steps out back, and I was thinking that this place could use a groundskeeper of sorts, I was meanin' to talk to ya about that..." Julia tells Willie that "It would be possible for you to keep working here, while your treatment progressed. I see no harm in it." Willie thanks her, and adds that he'd like to continue "even after I'm all better. I could use the money... I met this other patient, and she...well...." Julia smiles and says she understands, when Maggie comes in, in a rush. Willie sees her and gasps "Maggie! What are you doing here? You're all right, aren't you, you're all right?" Maggie says "Yes, Willie, I'm fine. What about you, are you doing better?" Willie gives her a quick recap of his recovery, and Maggie tells him "That's good, Willie. You were once very kind to me... I haven't forgotten." She turns to Julia and says "But I didn't come here to see Willie. There's someone else." Julia wonders who as we cut to a room where we see a patient from the back looking out a window, motionless. The door opens. Maggie and Julia enter, and Julia says "He's been like this since we admitted him years ago... I don't know what you think..." Maggie snaps "It doesn't matter what you know. It only matters what I feel." She walks over to the patient, and as we see him, it's a catatonic Joe Haskell (Joel Crothers), sitting and staring out the window blankly. "Joe..." Maggie says tearfully.

Episode 1505

Aired: Friday March 30, 1972

Kathryn Leigh Scott's voiceover: "It is a dark night at the great estate of Collinwood, where that darkness covers plots and treachery against those who live at the great house. A last chance has been given by the master of all darkness to Brian Miller, who plans to save himself by sacrificing others. But as his plot unfolds, little does he realize how wide and how far his plotting will affect the Collins family, and its ultimate destiny...."

Angelique and Julia race through the woods after Barnabas, knowing they must find Brian to stop him. Suddenly, Angelique stops and holds her head as if in pain. Julia asks her if she's all right, and Angelique says "Yes...I think so...I... I....." Suddenly, her eyes open wide and she says "Julia! I'm having a vision! I see Barnabas!" Julia asks where he is, and Angelique says "Oh my God, Julia! No! No!" Angelique screams as Julia shouts "Angelique! Angelique! What is it?"

After the titles, Angelique is nearly out of breath and says "I know where Brian is taking Barnabas, and I know what he's planning!' Julia asks her how she knows and what did she see, and Angelique answers "I saw Barnabas.... and Maggie Evans!" Julia asks what Maggie was doing, and Angelique answers grimly "Holding Barnabas' hands as they both plunged off the cliff at Widow's Hill! That must be what Brian intends for them.... the shadows in my vision tell me that these events have not happened yet!" Julia says "We must get to Widow's Hill then! Why would Brian kill both of them? What would he have to gain?" Angelique answers "He must have concocted a new bargain with my master. After attempting to cheat him of his own soul by stealing Quentin's immortality, he had to promise him others in exchange, no doubt. And with Josette's soul awakened inside of Maggie, getting her and Barnabas together would give Diablos what he always craves..." Julia realizes the answer and says "Love...he would destroy souls in love and take them as his own!" Angelique says (with some jealousy) "Exactly! He came to me as well, threatening Barnabas unless I provided him..." Angelique stops talking, and Julia shakes her head. "No.... you didn't! You didn't promise Diablos Maggie in order to save Barnabas!" Angelique snaps "Julia, I had to make a bargain or else Barnabas would be destroyed! I can't let that happen! I can't ever let that happen! Even when he suffered under my curse, I watched over him....knowing someday, with enough time...he'd understand my true feelings." Julia tells Angelique that she "can't destroy Maggie! Barnabas feels such responsibility for her because of what he did when he was first freed from his coffin...he'd never forgive you if he knew it was you who caused her destruction!" Angelique says "We're wasting time. We must go to Widow's Hill!" Meanwhile, at Widow's Hill, Maggie walks to Barnabas and helplessly, he takes her hands as Brian watches, still wounded.

Barnabas takes Maggie's hands and they stand together near the edge of the cliff. Maggie looks around and shudders. "Why...why am I here?" Barnabas frets "It's my fault. Everything is my fault. I cannot help myself! I am under his control!" Maggie looks over towards Brian as the wind howls and whips through her hair and robe. Barnabas looks at her tearfully. "How like Josette you are....here...here at the saddest spot I have ever known...." Maggie thinks a moment and says "Josette...." Barnabas continues "I've tried so many times to make up for the pain I've caused you...and it's all led to here... to our deaths, deaths I can do nothing to prevent!" Maggie looks at Barnabas and says "Josette! You wanted me to be Josette... you gave me her music box, locked me up...locked me up in that room! You tried to kill me!" Maggie tries to pull away but cannot. Barnabas shouts "Yes...yes, I did all those things! I am willing to die for it all now if it meant saving you! I cannot live with the guilt any longer... knowing everything I did when I was under the control of that horrendous power that poisoned my very soul... the only shred of humanity I had left was my love for Josette....Josette who had run from me and chosen to die by jumping from this very cliff so long ago.... I could not face eternity alone." Maggie looks over Barnabas as he begins to weep, and she starts to feel sympathy. "But then you were no longer as you were. Somehow, you began to walk during the day.... and you helped me.... saved me from Roxanne... you risked your own life for me again and again...." Barnabas answers "I had to. I had no other choice." Maggie says "Because you still thought of me as Josette?' Barnabas answers "No. Because you are Maggie Evans." Brian steps into the picture and says "Confession is so good for the soul, is it not?" Barnabas looks at him angrily and shouts "I will find a way back from the grave and destroy you, Miller!" Brian laughs through his pain and says "This is the one place on Earth that I'd take such a threat seriously." Barnabas replies "You want to kill me to save yourself. I know that. But spare this girl, I beg of you! Spare this girl and let her be!" Brian fakes a pout and says "Oh, so gallant to the end, aren't we? It so happens I need this girl... I need her for a very special purpose before I finish with my plans." He takes the herbs from his pocket and tells Maggie. "You must eat these herbs if you wish to leave her tonight, Miss Evans." Maggie scowls "Why should I trust you?" Brian snickers and says "Because you have no other choice." Barnabas nods at her, and Brian feeds her the herbs.

Angelique and Julia continue to race through the woods when suddenly Angelique stops. Julia asks her "What is it now? Are you seeing anything else?" Angelique says "No...but I sense something... something is happening. We must hurry!" They run off as we cut back to cliffside. Maggie finishes eating the herbs and starts to blink a bit. She goes into a trance. Barnabas says angrily "What have you done to her?" Brian answers "Nothing harmful, Barnabas...actually, it's something quite extraordinary. If only I was going to let her live to fully experience the wonders I have just given her." Barnabas shouts "You monster! If only I could get my hands free...." Brian snickers. "Yes, caught in the grip of such a lovely creature....how ironic that all your strength cannot free you with my powers at work." Brian grimaces and holds his bloody side as he sits on a rock. Barnabas says "You're weakening, Miller. You're losing too much blood. If your evil master hadn't arrived to save you, you'd have died by now." Brian says "Ah, but my master wanted me alive because he knew I wouldn't disappoint him with you both. I need to regain more of my strength before I can restore Josette's spirit to Miss Evans." Barnabas, confused, says "Then what were those herbs for, if not to transform Maggie into Josette?" Brian says "A very special mixture, Barnabas. One that can only work under certain conditions..." Maggie suddenly snaps out of her trance and gets her bearings. "What happened?" she asks. Barnabas tells her about the herbs, and Maggie says "Yes...I remember. I also remember everything you said." Barnabas nods and says "I'm sorry. I wish you didn't have to remember that in your last moments." Maggie smiles at Barnabas, who is surprised. "Just like now...like the both of us... you were under a power beyond your control. You've gone beyond any sort of atonement..." Maggie takes a deep breath and says "I forgive you." Barnabas smiles in disbelief and says "That means...so much to me. You have no idea." Brian smiles and says "Excellent, Miss Evans. Excellent." Barnabas and Maggie wonder why he's so happy.

Brian says "Maggie's forgiving spirit was the catalyst my formula needed... it has now transformed her into someone quite special." Barnabas says "What are you talking about? She's still the same Maggie!" Brian answers "Quite true in some ways, but not in a very important one. Those herbs, when properly initialized by the proper emotional state, can bring about healing powers most astounding... and when Maggie forgave you for all of your past crimes against her, Maggie indeed transformed herself. A combination of a simple touch and her will alone are now enough to heal. And I don't need to remind you who controls her will, do I?" Barnabas realizes. "Your wounds... you need to heal your wounds before you can evoke Josette and complete your unholy bargain!" Brian answers "Exactly. And now, Miss Evans can perform that simple service, once I command her to." Maggie says "I won't! I won't help you!" Brian struggles to take a step closer and says "You have no choice, Miss Evans!" Maggie suddenly frees one of her hands, and Brian moves closer to her as she can't help but move it towards him. He's about to get close enough when Angelique shouts "Brian Miller! Get away from her!" Brian turns to see Angelique and Julia standing only a few feet away from him in the howling wind. Angelique scowls a hateful scowl as she walks towards him. "And get away from my husband....." Brian tries to move closer to Maggie's outstretched hand as Barnabas gasps....

Episode 1504

Aired: Thursday March 29, 1972

After a replay of Wednesday's close and the titles, Quentin repeats his question to Harrison, who tells him that "You couldn't do anything for him now. His fate lies between two opposing forces greater than any of us." Quentin tells Harrison to "stop speaking in riddles." Harrison tells Quentin that Barnabas' fate is in Angelique's hands, and "I don't need to remind you what she is capable of." Quentin nods, but says "But I have to know... will he be all right?" Harrison thinks a moment and says "That depends on many things... mostly it depends on Barnabas himself..." We dissolve back to Barnabas beginning to stir in the laboratory with Julia at his side. He apologizes to her for "causing all of this trouble." Julia tells him that it wasn't his fault since he was "under Brian's monstrous control." Barnabas says that he "still feels Brian out there.... Brian must still be alive....I can feel his pull on my soul, Julia! I can feel it!' Julia tells Barnabas that he'll be all right "Once we find Brian and destroy him." Angelique comes back in and tells Julia and Barnabas that Brian escaped into the woods.

Julia tells Angelique that they must find Brian, and Angelique says that she knows. "Brian was hurt and bleeding... perhaps he won't last very long out there," Julia says. Angelique answers that "I don't know... he was freed for a reason. And I think I know what that reason was." We cut to Brian staggering through the woods, holding the wound at his side. He stumbles and falls to the ground. Brian examines the herbs he grabbed before escaping and smiles a little as he puts them into his pocket. "Only one way...." he gasps. He closes his eyes and begins to chant "Maggie...Maggie Evans... hear me, Maggie Evans...." We see an image form above Brian showing us how he sees Maggie...lying asleep in her bed at Collinwood. The more Brian calls her, the more she begins to stir. "Yes Maggie.... you must come to me again....you must come to me here in the woods.... I have a task for you." Maggie sits up awake and walks to the window. "I must go..." she says before putting on her robe and leaving her room. The image fades as Brian catches his breath and says "It won't be long now... now you will save me..... as your final act." At Collinwood, Maggie comes downstairs as if in a trance. Quentin and Harrison see her from the drawing room and Quentin says "Maggie? Where are you going?" She doesn't answer him and continues on towards the door. Quentin starts after her, but Harrison stops him. "Again?" Quentin snaps. "You know why she's here and where she's going?" Harrison says "Yes. She's fulfilling her own strange destiny." Quentin tells Harrison that he doesn't care "whatever supposed to happen if it means Maggie will be harmed." Harrison says "Don't worry... Maggie will not be harmed," though he says it ominously as Maggie walks out the front door.

In the woods, Brian continues to call for Maggie as he holds his bloody side. "I must...stay conscious...I must keep my mind about me..." he says. A small glowing light appears and then bursts into a ring of fire. Brian shields his eyes but sees a dark hooded figure step from the flames. "Have you forgotten your master so soon? Diablos says as he steps closer to Brian. Brian crawls backwards, afraid. "No, of course not..." Brian says. "It was I who allowed you to escape from the laboratory...who has kept you alive... have you not wondered why?" Diablos says, stepping closer to him. "If you're going to kill me, go ahead and do it," Brian says. "But you'll be depriving yourself of what I have planned for you." Diablos laughs. "Your plans are always so interesting. Trying to cheat your way out of our original bargain by obtaining immortality, stealing it from Quentin Collins...quite an original idea, I must say. But do you really think that I would allow that when you have promised me your soul?" Brian says "I can deliver more to you than just my soul." Diablos asks how, and Brian says "I control two souls that you desire more than mine. I control Barnabas Collins through my powers, as well as Josette DuPres through the vessel of Maggie Evans. I can give them both to you in exchange for my own...." Diablos says "I will not heal you in such an exchange. You are close to death, Brian Miller. If ye shall die on this night, I will still take your soul. However, if ye deliver Barnabas Collins and his precious love Josette to me while surviving this night, I will consider our bargain completed." Brian smiles and says "Done." Diablos says "Done," and steps backwards into the ring of fire before it and him vanish into a glowing light. Brian closes his eyes and begins to concentrate "Barnabas.... Barnabas Collins, hear me...." We cut back to Barnabas, who becomes more awake and starts to groan. Julia asks him what's wrong, and Barnabas says "Brian! He's...he's calling me!" Barnabas starts to get up.

Barnabas tries to stand as Julia tells him to "fight Brian." Barnabas insists that he "can't" and that he "must go." Angelique commands Barnabas to stop, and Barnabas says "Please... Angelique...I cannot fight his power over me! Don't you understand?" Angelique says "I understand, but my power is greater than his..." she puts her hands up and begins to cast a spell to keep Barnabas in his place, but he protests "No... don't....(and in his best James Dean impression shouts) you're tearing me apart!" Angelique continues her spell, but Julia shouts "Stop! You'll damage him!" Angelique snaps "How much more damaged can he be, while he's slave to Brian?" Barnabas shouts and tries to break free, knocking over some shelves. Julia shouts "You can't do this to Barnabas! We need to get to Brian and stop him somehow!" Barnabas smashes some test tubes on a desktop, and Angelique must raise her hands to block herself from the flying glass. When she does, her spell (and its accompanying music!) stops. Barnabas runs by her and out the door. Julia gets to Angelique and asks her if she's all right. Angelique says she's fine, but that they must follow after Barnabas "since he'll lead us right to Brian." They leave quickly, and we cut back to Brian calling for Barnabas. At the edge of the woods, Maggie appears and Brian sees her. He smiles. "Ah, Miss Evans..." he says. "You couldn't have come at a better time." She stands there innocently.

Episode 1503

Aired: Wednesday March 28, 1972

In the foyer at Collinwood, the doors open and David enters. He looks around and then gives Quentin an all clear sign. Quentin enters carrying his covered portrait. He carries it upstairs as David stands near the drawing room doors to make sure they don't open. Once Quentin is upstairs, David steps away, and the doors open. Burke sees David and says "David! You're back!" Burke grabs David's shoulders and says "What happened? Where's Quentin?"

After the titles, David tells Burke that Quentin is "fine" and went upstairs for a minute. Burke asks David what happened, and David says "I'd rather tell you some other time, Burke." Burke is surprised, and says "I didn't know we were going to keep secrets from each other, David." David says "I'm sorry, I don't mean to. It's just that.... well.... there was someone who was trying to hurt friends of mine...." Burke says "This Brian Miller. I've heard a little about him." David says "Yeah. But he won't bother us anymore." Quentin comes downstairs as Harrison comes out of the kitchen with a piece of cake. Harrison smiles at Quentin and says "You're back. And with David, I assume?' Quentin smiles back. "You knew, didn't you? You knew everything that was going to happen, didn't you?" Harrison takes a bite of the cake and nods. "You told me all about it," he says with his mouth full. David and Burke come out of the drawing room and see Harrison and Quentin. Quentin says "Yes, David was an enormous help to all of us tonight." David looks at Harrison and says "Where'd you get that cake?" Harrison says "Mrs. Johnson made it this afternoon. There's plenty of it in the kitchen, no one has been around here all night." David excuses himself and runs into the kitchen. Burke laughs a little and says "Still a kid in some ways, I guess." Quentin nods and says "Becoming a man in others. That boy saved my life tonight, Burke. He also saved Chris Jennings and Lori Slater as well." Burke asks if they should call the police to go after Brian Miller, "if he was threatening your lives." Quentin says it won't be necessary. "Brian also made an enemy of Barnabas Collins, which means he'll be facing the wrath of someone much worse than the police." Burke, a little suspicious, asks "How dangerous is Barnabas Collins?" Quentin says "I'm not talking about Barnabas, I'm talking about his wife." Burke smiles at that and he and Quentin go into the drawing room with Harrison for drinks.

At Lori's lab, Lori looks over samples of Chris' blood as he paces, alternating between happiness and edginess. "Tell me, Doctor," he says. "Tell me I'm really cured! Tell me the next time that moon rises that the whole nightmare won't start over again." Lori says she's "nearly totally positive" that it won't since "your blood is now completely normal. All the chemical differences I noted when you were suffering have all totally vanished." Chris says "If only you could bottle unicorn blood, doctor, you'd have your miracle cure." Lori says "There's only one thing... I'll also need to test your sister in Boston." Chris says "Amy? Why?" Lori says that since the curse would cause any sons of Amy to also be "afflicted" she'd have to be tested, but since David had read that the unicorn blood would "end the curse" Lori says "I have a theory that Amy's blood should also be back to normal as well.... she should no longer be a carrier, as it were." Chris says "That means Quentin too.... he's no longer living under the curse." Lori says "Yes... the portrait will no longer change with the full moon, but it will still have its overriding effect on his mortality. If only that secret could be harnessed for science...." Chris raises an eyebrow and says "Trying to harness that secret is what drove Brian Miller to commit his evil acts. Maybe we should leave well enough alone." Lori wonders about that.

At Collinwood, Burke, Harrison and Quentin are in the drawing room drinking together when Roger comes in from outside. Quentin, a little tipsy, calls Roger in so that everyone can drink a toast to him. Roger wonders why "all the joviality" and Quentin says "Because of a wonderful thing you did, Roger. Having your son!" Roger snickers, and says "Oh dear, tell me. What's he done now?" Quentin says "He saved my life tonight, Roger! Something for which I'll be eternally grateful. And when I'm eternally grateful, I do so mean eternal...." Quentin staggers a bit, and Roger says "Oh, I do think you've had quite enough" as he leads him to the sofa. "Burke, what is he on about?" Burke tells Roger that Quentin said David had saved him and others from Brian Miller. Roger can't quite believe it, but Harrison says "He's not quite a boy anymore, really." Roger takes a drink and says "Yes, I know. It's hard for me to think of him in any other way, but I suppose I'll get used to it. Strange, really... I used to find so many of his childlike ways annoying at times, wishing he'd grow up. And now that it seems he is, I miss the child." Burke tells Roger that "everyone changes over time." Roger says "I suppose you're right. Perhaps we should drink to that." As they drink, Lori enters the house and finds the men in the drawing room. Roger says hello and tells her that Alan isn't around, but Lori says she hasn't come to see her father, but to see Quentin. Harrison leads Burke and Roger to the study as Lori closes the doors. Quentin looks at her and says "They'll talk.... knowing you and I are in here together." Lori says that she's come to say goodbye. Quentin says "What?" Lori tells Quentin "Not permanently, but for a while, at least. I want to go with Chris to Boston so I can run some tests on his sister." Quentin says "Oh, is that all? You don't have to make a big production out of..." Lori says "...and I might stay there. I'm not sure yet." Quentin raises an eyebrow and says "Oh?" Lori says "I... I don't know if I can stay with you, Quentin. I'll grow old through the years while you won't... it's just not what I had planned for my life." Quentin says "I...I don't know what to say. But I don't want to say goodbye." Lori says "I don't either," but runs from the room in tears.

In the study where David has finished telling Roger and Burke what happened that night. Roger tells David that he might have been killed, and David says "I had to do it. I knew Brian would underestimate me." Burke tells David "that was good thinking." David thanks Burke, and Burke tells him "After all, if I'm going to marry into this family, I'd better get used to treating you more like a man, right?" David says "You're going to marry Vicky?" Burke nods, and David hugs him. We dissolve to Quentin standing alone looking sullen when Harrison comes in. "She's gone, left," Quentin says. "But I suppose you knew that, since you know everything that's going to happen to me." Harrison tells Quentin he's sorry. "I know you're hurting now." Quentin manages a smile, and says "You must know everything I'm going to feel for years to come. I don't even need to live through any of it, all I need to do is ask you!" Harrison tells Quentin to "get control of himself." Quentin says that "there's no hope for me. I'll go on, living like this, unable to love anyone. Watching everyone I care about grow old and die while I stay here, year after year. Maybe I don't want to anymore!" Harrison tells Quentin "Don't talk like that. No one knows better than me that you will find a purpose to your strange existence, and you will find happiness, Quentin! I cannot tell you more than that, but you must trust me!" Quentin says "I knew you'd say that. See? I know the future too! Let's drink to it!"? Harrison sighs, and says "Quentin, Lori Slater left here to go to Boston, just as I knew she would. But you're forgetting someone." Quentin turns to him and says "Who?" Harrison says "I'm sure that by telling you, I won't be affecting anything. You're forgetting Joanna Slater. The one that reminds you of Beth Chavez." Quentin thinks a moment and says "Yes...she does. She went back to Boston as well." Suddenly, Quentin thinks a moment and says "How did you know she reminded me of...." Harrison smiles at Quentin. Quentin humphs, smiles and says "I'll take your word for it and just let things happen from now on. So now tell me... should I go back out there and try to help Barnabas?" Harrison thinks a moment.