An ancient and deadly plague infects the halls of Collinwood; and Dr. Julia Hoffman has obtained the antidote to counter its effects. Unknown to Judah Zachary, who holds the family captive in their own home, Dr Hoffman has managed to reenter the walls of the great house undiscovered. She hopes to administer the antidote before the remaining family members are claimed by the dreadful virus, but in doing so she is placing her own life in grave danger...
Julia rounds a corner and stands just outside the room where the family is
being held. She has at some point taken her stethoscope from her back and
put it around her neck. Placing the instrument into her ears, she first
looks carefully in all directions, then softly places the diaphragm of the
stethoscope on the door and listens intently. A look of relief crosses her
face and she reaches down and slowly opens the door. She sees Elizabeth
Stoddard tied to a chair looking quite haggard. As she enters she sees Roger's
wheelchair with it's back turned to her. His head is slumped over out of
sight. "Julia!" Liz whispers out. Julia looks first at her, then back at the
slumped figure and asks, "Is he..." Liz then whispered back, "Sleeping"
A look of relief fills Julia's face as she hears this news. She then sees
the empty chair beside Liz and says, "Carolyn?" Liz then tiredly replied,
"Judah took her to another place. She was becoming quite belligerent so he
isolated her." Julia reached into the bag and withdrew a syringe and the
bottle of fluid and then filled the hypodermic. "I have the antidote the
plague. I'm so glad I got here in time." Liz moaned in a depressed fashion,
"I'm certain the plague hasn't infected us, otherwise, we'd be dead
already." Julia then said, "You may be right, but this won't hurt you if
you aren't infected." She squirted the air out of the needle and placed the
tip of the needle against Liz's arm. She then pulled back in shock, "Well,
well, well; if it isn't the imminent Dr. Hoffman!" Julia eyes widened in
horror as Trevor Halliburton stood holding her at gunpoint with a most evil
grin on his face. (Three sets of three dramatic notes sound, followed by one
ascending sustained which ends in a crashing crescendo.)
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Scene opens on a deserted hallway in the West wing of Collinwood. A door at the end of the corridor opens and Trevor Halliburton shoves Julia Hoffman through the doorway as he continues keeping his pistol drawn on her. He points the gun to a door on the right and demands, "In there!" A frightened Julia, keeping her eyes on him, fearfully opens the door that he had indicated. "Inside!" He barked, thrusting the gun again in the direction of the open door. Julia did as she was told. He then points the gun at a candelabrum and tosses a packet of matches in her direction and says "Get some light in here!" Trembling, Julia opens the matchbook and clumsily tears a match out of it and manages to ignite it. Her hands shaking she lights all of the candles that are placed in the candle holders. The room illuminates and Judah then slams the door. Then he barks, "Sit down!" Julia sat in a high backed wing chair that was beside the old unused bed. Trevor then displayed a haughty grin and said "Well Doctor, you and your friends have certainly led me on quite the merry chase, I must say! It only stands to reason that I would ultimately triumph." He then chuckles lightly and continues "You would have done well to have stayed away from Collinwood once you escaped!" He then takes a few gloating steps and says "But I knew you couldn't stay away. It was only a matter of time before you and your friends would slip back inside to play the tired old predictable goody- goodies and seek to save the day. It was that very predictability that led you right back to me." Then with a devilish that frightened Julia, Trevor advanced on her with a snarl and said "Now Doctor Hoffman, you are going to tell me how you escaped from Collinwood, and where I can find the others!" Julia's face hardened and her eyebrows arched as she confidently replied coolly, "I will do nothing of the kind!" Trevor laughed out loud and chided, "So you wish to play the martyr to the bitter end!" he shakes his head back and forth in a tsking fashion and further says, "My good Doctor, you know far too much of my powers to think you successfully resist me!" Julia simply looked at him coldly and daringly replied, "Yes, I am well aware of your powers, but I would die before I would tell you anything!" Slightly annoyed by her stubbornness, Judah then shoved his face right up next to hers and said, "I would watch my words if I were you Doctor! I'm sure you're well aware that I am quite capable of killing you with almost no effort at all!" Now it was Julia's turn to chuckle as she sneered back at him in a husky voice, "Yes, I am quite aware of what you are capable of, but I also know that in doing so you would defeating your own purposes." Trevor's eyes grew wide with rage as he roughly seized her by the throat and almost screamed out loudly, "DON'T THINK THAT I WON'T KILL YOU DOCTOR!" (Julia's eyes bulge as she gasps for breath as dramatic music rolls out.)
Barnabas and Selena quietly round a corner in another deserted hallway. As each of them approach doors on opposite sides of the hallway they listen carefully before slowly opening the doors to those rooms, each one only finding them to be completely deserted. They advance further and repeat the same actions at the next doors they come to. Each again closes their respective doors, once again having found nothing. Barnabas heaves a sigh, as under his breath he asks, "Julia, why did you go off on your own like this?" Selena looks at him caringly and says, "She's a good friend to you isn't she?" Barnabas quietly replied, "One of the finest friends one could ever ask for. We must find her before Judah does!" Selena smiles and nods and proceeds to the next door.
A door opens in yet another hallway and Quentin and Willie enter. The hallway here extends to the right and the left. Both men alternately look in both directions and Quentin says, "I'll take this one and you can check that one out." Without waiting for an answer, Quentin proceeds down the left hallway. Willie pauses for a moment and after a short sigh heads in the opposite direction. He opens a door only to find yet another deserted room. Upon seeing it, he simply shakes his head in disappointment and closes the door. Quentin is seen turning a corner at the end the hallway he had chosen. He walks toward a door and opens it. As soon as he does, he sees Julia bound and gagged in a chair across the room. He breathes a sigh of relief and says, "Julia, thank God I found you!" Julia's eyes widen in fear and she violently shakes her head back and forth, trying as hard as she could to tell him not to enter. Her warning came too late as his eyes grew wide in surprise at a sharp object pressed against the middle of his back. A look of resignation crossed his face as he slowly raised his hands over his head. He turned slowly and saw the form of Trevor Halliburton holding a sword that was pointed directly at his mid-section. Trevor grins as three dramatic notes sound.
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(Two dramatic notes sound) Trevor Halliburton goads Quentin into the room with the point of the sword then closes the door. Still holding the sword on Quentin, he says, "Well, what have we here? The wolf who walks like a man! You escaped me last time, Quentin Collins; you won't be quite so lucky this time!" Quentin looked at him in confusion and said, "I don't know what you mean by 'last time'." Trevor then chuckled saying, "Ahh yes, that's right! I suppose you wouldn't remember now would you?" Quentin then said, "How do you expect me to know what you're talking about when you keep speaking in riddles?" Keeping his sword carefully aimed at Quentin, he explains himself more fully. "It was during a night when the moon was full. Loomis had locked you away in the mausoleum. I was hiding out side in the bushes waiting for him to leave. After he did, I went in to let you out to fulfill your destiny. I had no idea that Loomis would double back and find me there. He kept me from releasing you that night, and I promised myself that I would rectify that little mishap. So you came in here in the hopes of rescuing the good Doctor, but instead you stumbled right into your final destiny Quentin Collins! Quentin's eyes shifted back and forth between the point of the sword and Halliburton's face as he said, "So you're gonna kill me, is that it?" Halliburton laughed and said, "Kill you?" Halliburton bursts out in laughter and says, "I would think of it! I shall leave that to the good people of Collinsport!" He reaches into his pocket and withdraws the Devil's Mark amulet and says, "You spent many years not transforming into your true self! You have some lost time to make up for, my friend!" A horrified look crossed Quentin's face as he asked, "What are you going to do?" Judah simply held the amulet in the direction where Quentin stood and declared, "I, Judah Zachary, known also as The Devil's Son, declare that you , Quentin Collins, will now revert to your baser self! No more shall the rising of the sun restore you to human form! From hence forth you shall roam the woods as well as the streets of Collinsport as the wolf who walks like a man! I hath declared it, and now it is so!" Julia's eyes were wide as she looked in Quentin's direction. Quentin then said, "Hey now look, you can't do that..." "Oh but I can! Not only that, I already have! You already feel the pain beginning to gnaw in your gut! You feel the primal urges as they struggle for control!" Quentin's eyes suddenly widen and he clutches at his stomach for a moment before falling to the floor writhing in agony. Trevor stands gloating in triumph, his eyes wide with excitement. Julia watches sympathetically at Quentin and then with hatred toward Judah. Fur erupts from all the pores on Quentin's body. A guttural growl is heard as the werewolf rises on two feet. He roars with eyes wide and is about to take a deadly swipe at Trevor. When his eyes meet Trevor's, a look of terror fills the beasts face and he whines like a scared pup and turns about in all directions seeking a way to escape. Since Trevor stood between him and the door, after several desperate attempts to find an alternative escape route, the werewolf hurls himself through the second floor window. The sound of breaking glass is heard and it echoes as the broken fragments strike the concrete walkways below. Julia again looks at Trevor with a look of pure hatred as he loudly and diabolically laughs.
Barnabas closes a door with a look of disappointment on his face as Selena approaches. "Well that's the last room in this corridor. Perhaps we should find Quentin and Willie. It could be they have found something." Barnabas said as his eyes dropped downward and a slight sigh is heard. Suddenly, Willie appears around the corner with a look of sheer horror and he declares, "Barnabas! He's got huh! That Trevah's got Julia an' it's awful!" Barnabas looked at Willie with a look of extreme curiosity and asked, "What has he done to her, Willie?" Willie sought to regain his composure and said, "I think Julia is ok, but somethin' awful has happened!" Barnabas swallowed hard and then urged Willie, "Please Willie, you must tell me what he has done!" He looks in the direction that Willie had just come from and asked, "Where's Quentin?" Willie's breath was staggered as he replied, "That's what I was gonna tell ya. He got Quentin!" (Two low dramatic notes sound and fade.) A look of horror crosses the aged face of Barnabas Collins as he hesitates to ask the question which is foremost in his mind. "Is he...dead?" Willie looked down at the carpet and then said, "It's wus than that. He might be betta off if he was dead." Selena looked back and forth between the two men wondering what Willie could mean by that statement. Barnabas walked to the end of the corridor and looked skyward and said, "There is no moon out tonight..." Willie then said, "It don't mattah Barnabas. He made him..." He shoots a quick glance at the unknowing Selena and then continued, "... He made him change and I hud 'im say he ain't nevah gonna change back neithah. He was waitin' on him, Barnabas!" Barnabas pondered for a moment with a pained expression as he realized the agony of his cousin and his friend. He then looked back and softly said, "He will be waiting for us to walk right into his trap as well! We must find some way to lure him out of that room; But how?"
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Judah Zachary sneers within the body of Trevor Halliburton as he smugly struts in front of Julia Hoffman. Pulling inconspicuously on the ropes that bind her to the high backed chair, Julia looks up at him in concern and says, "Judah. I can help you. In this time, we have come so far in treatment for the emotionally disturbed. I can take you to Wyndcliff! That is the hospital that I personally oversee! We can help you work through the emotional traumas that... that have troubled you for so many years!" Trevor turned and studied her for a moment and then with a laugh of amusement said, "You're really serious about this! You really think you can lock me away in an asylum filled with lunatics as if that was is what I am! No... I am not mad! I am on a quest to right the wrongs committed by the Collins' throughout the ages, dear Doctor! The eradication of their very being is the only way to atone for the wrongs done by every generation that has been born since Amadeus Collins decided to be judge and executioner on one he hated!" Julia then replied in a tone of disdain, "So you think destroying innocent lives will make up for what you lost? That those who never knew you or ever did you any harm should be held guilty of something they had no control over or power to change? Where is the justice in that, Judah?" Trevor turned and said, "Your thinking is too modern for your own good, Doctor! You were not always this way. Remember the bond we shared in the crypt at Gallows Hill cemetery? We also shared that bond in your future when I appeared as Gerard Stiles? Oh yes! Since my arrival in your century I have learned much! I have learned that I was originally successful in destroying the Collins stronghold! That defeat would have been complete if I had known that in that cursed mausoleum there lay a Collins who was undead that would one day return to defeat me!" Julia then chided him saying, "You are mad, Judah! The proof that you failed the first time is right here before your very eyes. If you had been successful the first time there would be no modern day Collins family to avenge yourself upon!" Trevor then laughed hysterically throwing his head back. In a moment his laughter subsided and he drew close to Julia and opened his mouth, but the voice that came forth was not that of Trevor Halliburton, but the sound of her own voice. ""You know Barnabas, we didn't really change anything. It's a time paradox! Yes, you woke up to find Collins' in control of the Collins Empire instead of the Stiles'. That can only mean that we also intervened in the original timeline. Like an endless loop. We were meant to go back and correct things." He then paused a moment and his voice then changed again. Now she heard the voice of Barnabas speaking, "That's impossible! Gerard Stiles should have been in control the whole time! We weren't around to fix things until long after his death would have occurred" He then spoke again in her voice as he continued, "You're thinking logically, Barnabas. In the world of the supernatural, the rules of logic seldom apply. We simply must accept that we were destined to intervene." Julia sat horrified as she remembered that conversation. It was the morning after they had returned to 1971 from the past. She struggled for a moment, not knowing what to say. Then she regained her composure and confidently said, "It is rather a moot point now, Judah. We did transcend time and we did defeat you in 1841. It's past history now! History you won't be able to change!" Judah chuckled and replied, "Perhaps! But I will succeed now!" He pulls the Devil's Mark amulet from his pocket and holds it in front of her face. "You're going to tell me where Barnabas Collins is!" Julia quickly turned her head and said, "It won't work, Judah! I know all about hypnosis and I won't allow you to do it!" Judah grinned and said, "Fine. Your refusal will not save his life however. You see, just as Quentin Collins came looking for you, so will he! Mark my words, Doctor! When he does... Barnabas Collins will DIE!" (Three dramatic notes sound.)
Had this been an actual episode, the air date would have been July 12, 1971