Hidden terror awaits those who live at Collinwood; they do not know that a truly shocking revelation is about to occur. Carolyn Stoddard has been absent from the house and will return with news that will strike at the hearts and souls of those who love her...
Elizabeth Stoddard stands in the foyer of Collinwood talking on the phone. "Yes Tony. You may tell him the offer has been accepted unanimously by the board. We can finalize it on the 15th of next month. Yes, it will be an excellent addition to our current operations. I intend to recommend Simon Murdoch to head up the new operation. I plan to phone him later and give him the news." Barnabas, Julia, and Stokes emerge from the door at the landing. Elizabeth looks up and sees them. "I'll be in contact with you later, Tony. Thank you once again for making the whole thing go so smoothly. Goodbye." The trio is halfway down the stairs when the front door opens. Carolyn enters followed by Trevor. They hang their coats in the doorway. "Carolyn! I'm glad you're home. How was your trip?" The other three are now at the bottom of the stairs. "Oh Mother!" she cries out excitedly. She then sees Barnabas, Julia and Stokes and declares, "It's almost as if you knew we were coming and waiting to hear!" She pauses a second and giggles slightly and then says, "Everyone! I'd like to introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Halliburton!" Liz looks shocked, Barnabas face registers a look of horror, Julia bites her knuckle and gasps, and Stokes looks totally bewildered. Carolyn stands in the doorway beaming with Trevor standing behind her smiling (A long trail of dramatic staggered music sounds and builds to a dramatic climax)
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Carolyn stands in the doorway still beaming amidst the stunned looks her news has brought. The grin then transforms into a look of concern as she speaks. "Well you'd think I just announced that somebody died! I thought you'd be happy for me!" Barnabas took the initiative and approached her taking her arms gently in his hands. "Of course we're happy for you, Carolyn. The news was just so sudden. Let me be the first to wish you all the happiness you so deserve." He said consolingly. Elizabeth ran to Carolyn embracing her and said, "Oh Carolyn! You know I only want you to be happy. I just had no idea you were even considering marriage." Stokes approached Trevor with his hand extended and said, "Congratulations Mr. Halliburton. My name is Timothy Stokes, a friend of the family." Trevor nodded and replied, "Thank you Mr. Stokes, I hope to make Carolyn as happy as any woman could ever hope to be." Julia also shook Trevor's hand and said, "Congratulations Mr. Halliburton." Trevor cocked his head to one side and said, "I don't believe we've met, have we?" Julia replied, "Only briefly, here in this very spot. The night Mr. Collins house burned." Trevor's face registered the memory and said, "Ah yes, I do remember that now, but now I'm embarrassed to say I don't remember your name." Julia replied, "Dr. Julia Hoffman." "It's nice to meet you, Dr. Hoffman. Thank you for the well wishes." Barnabas then spoke up saying, "Oh I almost forgot, Julia, I wanted you and Professor Stokes to see something I found in one of my ancestor's memoirs. I could especially use your help, Professor with some archaic euphemisms." Both nodded and followed him up the stairs after further well wishes. Carolyn, Trevor and Liz go into the drawing room. Liz is now smiling, having adjusted to the news and she looks at both of them and speaks, "Well, now where do the two of you planning on living? There's plenty of room here at Collinwood!" Trevor then said, "I'm happy you feel that way. I'm usually not this impulsive, and I plan to have my house renovated. If you wouldn't mind our staying here until the work is completed?" Liz smiled and said, "I wouldn't have it any other way. Let me go to the kitchen and get us some tea." With that, she turned and scurried off to the kitchen.
(Scene cuts to the inside of the East wing drawing room. The camera focuses on the closed double doors.) The doors open as Julia enters first, followed by Stokes and Barnabas. Stokes speaks, "Am I correct in assuming there IS no volume with archaic euphemisms?" Barnabas nodded and said, "I thought it important that we confer on what we have just learned." Julia looked frantic and said, "This is terrible!" Stokes nodded and said, "Yes. The poor man!" Barnabas and Julia both looked at Stokes as if offended at his commentary. Barnabas then said, "The poor man? You know who that man is. I should think it would be Carolyn you would be concerned about. Stokes looked firmly at them both and said, "If I had any doubts before, they have been removed now. When I shook Trevor Halliburton's hand I was keenly aware of a strong presence of evil. He is definitely possessed. I also sensed a trembling fear. He has been providing us with clues all along and we've missed them." Julia looked greatly puzzled at him and said, "What do you mean?" Stokes again alternately faced them both and spoke, "Judah Zachary does not know how to behave himself in the 20th century. He has a tight hold on Halliburton. The man must carry out his wishes. So he is allowed a certain amount of freedom to act and speak to do Judah's bidding. He wants desperately to cry out to someone about what is being done to him, but he knows that Judah will be aware of any betrayal. So he has dropped several subtle clues. First, the paintings you bought from him, Barnabas. Trevor Halliburton knew full well the value of those paintings. Judah did not. When he set the price so low that it should have raised suspicion, his clue went to waste, due to your own unfamiliarity with the 20th century value of the works. Secondly, there is the matter of the story he told Carolyn and young David of his former fiancé. If you recall, Miss Parker stated that she has known Halliburton his entire life. Not only had he never been engaged to, but had never known anyone with the name he gave. He dropped one more downstairs just now." Both of them looked expectantly at Stokes, eager to hear his explanation. "He claimed not to remember you downstairs, Julia." She looked a little incredulously at him and said, "People forget other people's names all the time, Eliot!" Stokes nodded and said, "Yes, they do. But you must remember that I made contact with Halliburton. I have an uncanny sense of the supernatural. Judah Zachary had dispatched Nicholas Blair to the Old House the night you met Halliburton here. When you mentioned someone burned in the fire, Judah must have known that it had to be Blair, and in his moment of shock temporarily repressed the lawyer's own personality, overpowering it with his own in that moment of surprise. Barnabas nodded, "Yes! I do remember seeing a strange expression on his face when Julia mentioned a man burning in the fire. I supposed it was only his reaction to a tragedy that had occurred, but now that I remember it clearly, it was more an expression of fear." Stokes nodded again and remarked, "Trevor Halliburton may not be the most wholesome person in the world, but he is greatly troubled by the things he is being used to do. I can tell you that." Julia's eyes grew wide for a moment. "Barnabas! It's just like with Gerard Stiles. Gerard was a bit of a con man looking to better his station in life, but when Judah was destroyed in 1841, you said that he was quite penitent toward Quentin. He considered Quentin his friend. He was grieved at what Judah had used him to do." Barnabas nodded and replied, "Yes. I never thought of Halliburton as a victim. But you indicated that he must have had some character flaw?" Stokes lip protruded as he said, "Not necessarily, but just as with Mr. Stiles, Judah is drawn to someone with less than totally honorable intentions. It could simply be the fact that he was representing Gerald Fenton against Roger Collins that he found irresistible. We may never know the exact reason, but I can tell you that Trevor Halliburton is a very troubled man. (Music stings out)
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(Setting: Carolyn's bedroom. Camera focuses on the door as it opens)
Carolyn and Trevor enter the room. "This has been my room for as long as I
can remember." Carolyn said smiling. Trevor looked all about the room and
said, "A very lovely and attractive room, my dear. Very spacious!" Carolyn
then turned to Trevor and embraced him and said, "It's our room now! Mr. and
Mrs. Trevor Halliburton!" Trevor smiled and replied, "You must like the
sound of that. You keep saying it!" Carolyn looked into his eyes and said,
"I not only like the sound of it, I love the sound of it! I'm very happy,
Trevor." Trevor then looked at her and said, "Well I want to keep making you
happy, my love." They kiss deeply and in one seemingly floating movement
they are upon the bed. A hand reaches up and turns off the light leaving the
room in darkness.
Barnabas sits in his armchair, his forefingers steepled before his lips. Stokes stands disinterestedly twirling some sherry in a glass while Julia paces in front of the fireplace with a worried look on her countenance. "What will we do? Carolyn has no idea what she's done. She's given Judah Zachary a foothold in the house!" she bemoaned. Stokes looked up from his sherry and said, "First and foremost is to watch ourselves all the more carefully. He must not be made aware that we are onto him. One thoughtless blunder could spell disaster." Barnabas, having heard both of their remarks, looked up and replied, "Yes. Such as our reactions downstairs earlier. Judah is not a stupid man." Stokes mused a moment and then added, "I would tend to agree. He may however, be distracted in his smugness that he has accomplished all he has without being discovered. Cockiness may well be his undoing if we continue to pretend blissful ignorance of the situation. Allow him to think we are playing right into his hands. I shudder to think of the alternative if he discovers we have seen through his deception. The end result might well be disastrous for everyone." A look of daredevil determination crossed Julia's face as she declared, "But the time will ultimately come when we will be forced to confront him with what we know. We simply can't stand by and watch him rip this family apart!" Barnabas rose from the chair and gazes toward the camera and utters, "Yes, but that time is not now. We have too many unanswered questions to deal with first." Julia then said, "If only we knew what Gerald Fenton took with him to his grave. It might provide us with information vital to our cause." Stokes finished the last sip of his sherry and stated matter of factly, "Perhaps we can. We are rather isolated in this part of the house. We could perform a séance and call upon Fenton to appear." Julia's eyes brightened and she exclaimed quietly, "Yes. A séance just might provide the answers we need!" Barnabas stood quietly considering the suggestion. After a brief moment, he turns in the direction of the camera and gazes off at nothing and declares, "Then it is settled. We will hold a séance here... Tonight!" (Three dramatic notes sound)
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Carolyn and Trevor lie in the bed, a blanket pulled up revealing only their bare shoulders. Trevor puffs a cigarette. Carolyn smiles at him and says, "I never thought I could ever be this happy again." Trevor took another puff and asks, "Again? You mean someone else made you happy before?" Carolyn lies back on her pillow and says, "My first husband, Jeb. I never thought I'd ever feel love for any man ever again... (Carolyn continues to speak as Judah recalled Nicholas Blair once telling him of the Leviathan box and the role Jebez Hawkes played in that affair. He remembered the betrayal of the Leviathan leader against his own mission and cause. This "Jeb" deserved his ultimate fate, he thought as he realized that this too could have been the fulfillment of his curse to see the family destroyed. Again, foiled by the meddling of Barnabas Collins! He inwardly seethed as his burning desire at this moment was to behold the dead body of Barnabas Collins) "Trevor? Have you heard a word I've said?" Carolyn asks, shaking him from his contemplations. "Ah, I'm sorry, darling. I was just so moved that you feel I've made you so happy. You have no idea how fulfilling that knowledge is." He smoothly lied. Carolyn then tilted her head to one side and asked, "That reminds me, what were you doing last night?" Trevor turned questioningly to her and asked, "What do you mean, my dear?" I came in from shopping last night at the hotel room. I saw you sitting at the table with a candle burning. I called your name and you just sat there with your eyes closed. I would have thought you were dead if I didn't see you breathing. Trevor glances away for an instance as the camera catches his look of fear as he groped for an answer. He then turned back and said, "Ohhhh, That! Meditation. I've practiced it on and off for years. Especially at times of great change in my life, and you are the single greatest change I've ever faced in my life, so I felt it was long overdue." Carolyn was moved by this last statement and grabbed him in a warm embrace as the camera fades out.
Barnabas, Julia, and Stokes sit around a round table in the center of the East wing drawing room. Stokes then begins to speak, "Our hands must be placed face down on the table, our fingers must touch. Whatever happens, we must not break the circle. Fenton mat choose to use one of us as a medium. That person will go into a trance. We must not disturb that person or break the circle for any reason. Do we all understand?" Both Barnabas and Julia quietly nod their understanding of his instructions. "Then we should begin." He said as he momentarily closed his eyes. He then opens them and gazes upward and speaks, "Hear us Oh spirit world! We call upon one who was taken from us who holds knowledge that could help us defeat an enemy. We seek Gerald Fenton. Come to us Gerald Fenton. We beseech you to join us here in this very room. Come to us, spirit of Gerald Fenton! Come to us." All three look alternately at each other then about the room expectantly. A quiet pause continues as they continue to look for a sign that they have been heard. Stokes then again says, "Come to us, Gerald Fenton, Come to us!" Suddenly the double doors open to reveal a silhouetted figure standing there. All look at each other, then at the figure. (Three sets of three rapid notes sound, then one dramatically sustained note. Camera fades to black)
Elizabeth Stoddard.
JOAN BENNETT
Barnabas Collins.
JONATHAN FRID
Carolyn Hawkes Halliburton.
NANCY BARRETT
Julia Hoffman.
GRAYSON HALL
Professor Stokes.
THAYER DAVID
Trevor Halliburton/Judah Zachary.
KEITH PRENTICE
Written and Directed by RUSS WILLIAMS
Story Developed and Created by ART WALLACE
Produced By PETER MINER
Associate Producer GEORGE DiCENZO
Fashions courtesy of ORBACH'S
Music composed by ROBERT COBERT
Scenic Design SY TOMASHOFF
Music Supervisor SYBIL WEINBERGER
Costume Design MOSTOLLER
Make up VINCENT LOSCALZO
Associate Producer KEN McEWEN
Assistant to the producer HARRIET ROHR
Unit Manager PATRICK PLEVEN
Technical Director J.J. LUPATKIN
Lighting Director MEL HANDELSMAN
Audio FRANK BAILEY HENRY PLIMACK
Sound Effects ED BLAINEY
Video RUDY PICCIRILLO ROSS SKIPPER
Series created by DAN CURTIS Executive Producer