Trevor stands sneering at Roger Collins. "Now, Mouse! You shall watch your sister die right before your very eyes. Granted; with your injuries, you won't be able to do anything to stop it. But if there's any man in there, you have to try." Roger looked on helplessly as Trevor seized Liz by the throat. The lights in the room flicker, the windows burst open and wind rushed in. Trevor spun around in shock at all the turmoil and saw standing in the middle of the room, a woman. She wears a white robe, a hood covers her head. "YOU! Who are you?" he shouted out. The woman then spoke saying "Leave her alone!" Trevor looked at the woman and said, "If you have come to save her life, you are too late!" The woman coolly stepped forward and said, "I have come to save no one. I have come to see to your destruction, Judah Zachary!" Judah stands with a defiant look on his face and says, "I would see the face of the one who dares to withstand Judah Zachary!" The woman lifts her hands up to her face. She takes the hood in her grasp and lowers it to reveal her face. As the hood lowers she says, "My name is Victoria Collins, and my journey is now complete." Long dramatic beats as Liz and Roger look first at each other, then back at the woman.
Thunder claps and lightning flashes as the wind ripples across the flowing
white robe as Victoria Collins boldly faces the haughty Judah Zachary. "The
suffering you have brought to every generation of this family ends here,
Judah Zachary! Amadeus Collins did not take Laura from you. You and you
alone were responsible for her leaving you. You had no right to curse every
generation of Collins over that. You were a sick and deranged man, Judah!
You left the woman who loved you frightened and heartbroken. Amadeus Collins
picked up the broken pieces you left behind. But as the sick and twisted man
you were, you couldn't take responsibility for your own actions, so you
sought someone else to blame!" Trevor's face was totally red from rage at
the woman's boldness. He glared at her and declared, "I was tried and
beheaded! Amadeus Collins ordered that execution! My vengeance is a just one"
Another loud clap of thunder sounds. Victoria draws closer and continues, "You
were demented then, and you are demented now! You were tried for crimes of
which you were guilty! You were deserving of the punishment that was handed
down! I have known the awful horror of being tried and convicted of the same
kind of crimes, when I was completely innocent of them! Just like you tried to
have an innocent Quentin Collins found guilty of the practice of witchcraft,
your cruel curse brought the same destiny upon me 45 years before. You revel
in seeing the innocent suffer for that of which they are not guilty! You suffer
from the delusion that you were unjustly victimized for something you didn't
do! Well, Judah Zachary! I have arranged for you to have the innocence you so
desperately desire!" Liz and Roger exchange questioning glances and look again
at the confrontation before them. Trevor looks at her with great shock and
curiosity and asks, "Whatever do you mean by that? You will have time to do
nothing. In a matter of moments, the two remaining Collins will lie dead at
my feet, and you will have failed in your mission!" The wind blows through
her long strands of hair as she resolutely looks dead into his face and
declares, "I told you before, I have come here to save no one. I did not
come here to destroy you; I came to witness your destruction! You see,
Judah, it is already done!" Something in her confidence and the absence of
any fear in her sets Judah's nerves on edge. He then demandingly screams out
at her, "What do you mean?" Victoria paces the room and declares, "In the
year 1677, you were destined to die by drowning when your horse stumbled on
the bridge over the river near Rockport. You were rescued by a coven of
witches who happened over that bridge in their wagon only moments later. Had
they not been there, you would have died having never learned the ways of
witchcraft." Trevor looked at her incredulously and says, "I fail to see
your point. They did come, I was rescued, and I stand here before you now."
Victoria remained unshaken as she declared, "I had hoped when I first came
to Collinwood that my experience would open up the doors of life to me. I
could never understand why I had such a burning passion and fascination for
the past. Now I understand. I was born to destroy you, Judah Zachary! If I
had never been sent away from Collinwood, I would have never had the
compulsion to focus on the past. To examine all the strange things that have
happened here. Jeb Hawkes never realized when he destroyed me that he was
only furthering my adventure. In my present form, I have been able to
transcend the ages and to learn that you are the cause for every pain my
family has ever known. In the East wing there is a staircase; A staircase
that leads backward through time. Two of my friends have used that staircase
to transcend time. In a matter of moments, you will cease to exist, Judah
Zachary! You will vanish from this room like a horrible nightmare that ends
once you awaken!" Trevor looked at her and says, "That stairway leads to
1841. They cannot stop me by returning there!" Victoria smiles and says, "Do
you care to gamble your entire existence that 1841 is where that stairway
leads?" A troubled look came over his face as he flashes back on past
events. (Haze appears on the screen and Trevor sees himself shooting at the
man atop the staircase through time. The vision shifts to Silas McGruder
recounting his strange adventures in a mansion atop a strange staircase he
found in the woods. The haze then clears.) Dramatic drumbeats roll softly as
the expression on Trevor's face transforms into one of sheer horror. He
suddenly bursts out of the room leaving the door standing open. Dramatic
drumbeats continue as Trevor is shown frantically running down several
corridors. Camera focuses on the stairway. There is no door at the top of
the stairs. A long sequence of almost tropical sounding drumbeats continues.
The door to the room suddenly bursts open. Trevor rushes into the room with
great anticipation. Upon seeing the absence of a door at the top of the
stairs, his eyes grow wide in horror. "Noooo! This cannot be!" He raises his
hands above his head and declares in a loud voice "I demand that the gateway
should appear! You will open unto me now, for I, Judah Zachary, The Devil's
Son demand it!" A solemn dramatic note sounds and at the top of the stairs,
a door suddenly appears. Trevor rushes the stairs taking two at a time. He
rips open the door, revealing a background of brightly swirling lights. H He
rushes headlong into the lights and does not hesitate even long enough to
close the door. The camera now switches to the stairway in the woods in
1677. The door bursts open at the top of the stairway, again revealing
swirling lights. A breathless and wide eyed Trevor quickly emerges from the
swirling lights. He looks about wildly and says out loud "No! The river is
at least a couple of miles from here!
Desmond, Stokes, and Brutus walk through the woods and come to a clearing. Brutus shakes his head and declares, "I understand not what thou doest." Stokes turns to him and says, "Brutus, All I can ask is that you trust us. What we do here today will affect your family for generations to come." Brutus looked at them both not understanding, but somehow feeling he must trust them. Desmond takes a hammer and walks up to a 3-way signpost. One marker reads; COLLINSPORT 3 MILES. It pointed to the East. Another reads; ROCKPORT 2 MILES. It points to the West. A third marker reads; LOGANSPORT 7 MILES. It points toward the Southwest. Desmond knocks off the Rockport and Logansport markers, then picks them up off the ground. He hands one to Stokes while he now hammers the Rockport marker back on the post pointing this time toward Logansport. He then replaced the Logansport marker to point toward Rockport. He stands back to look at his work and nods. Stokes also nods as Brutus looks at both of them with intense curiosity. The sound of hoof beats is heard. Stokes urges them both out of sight saying, "We must not be seen." They slip behind some bushes as the sound of the hoof beats draw nearer and then fade in the opposite direction. "That was Judah Zachary. He has pleaded with Laura to reconsider and leave Collinsport with him, and she has rejected him." Desmond then says, "Listen. I hear a wagon coming from the Collinsport road." Brutus looks confused and asks, "These are they that thou seekest to divert away from the village?" Stokes looked at him most solemnly and said, "For the good of the Collins family now, and forever, Yes indeed, Brutus. What happens in the next two minutes can mean everything for the Collins family." Desmond then says, "They stopped. They're looking at the signpost." The three continue to watch. "Stokes then says, "They seem to be arguing about the directions. If they disregard the sign and follow their instincts, this whole thing could have been for naught." Desmond looked at Stokes and said, "That's not goin to happen!" he slipped backward and disappeared among the bushes. He emerged a moment later in the clearing. "Greetings friends! Where art thou bound?" A gentleman looked at him and said, "Greetings! A friend from Bedford hath dispatched us with haste to find and bring to him a certain Judah Zachary. We hath sought the village of Collinsport for him, and found him not." Desmond nodded knowingly and said, "Tis of no surprise, thou findest him not. He often rideth unto Rockport." The gentleman then said, "We findeth his mother, and she also saith he may have journeyed to Rockport. An elder among us saith he believeth that Rockport lieth this direction, yet the sign saith it lieth in that direction." Desmond winked at the gentleman and said, "With greater age the memory often faileth. Thou shalt find Rockport on that road." He said, his directions matching those on the erroneous signs. The gentleman nodded and smiled saying, "I thank thee, friend!" He then returned to his wagon. Camera reveals Desmond watching as the sound of a horse drawn wagon is heard. A moment later it is gone. Brutus and Stokes join him in the clearing as three dramatic notes sound.
(Place Commercials Here)
Dramatic music rolls as Judah Zachary calls out for help. He flails about in water up to his neck. "Help me! Somebody help me!" On the bank he sees a robed figure appear. A dark haired woman. She stands motionless watching him struggle. He cries out to her, "Please, help me! Save me!" She continues watching, but not moving. He goes under, but surfaces wildly a moment later. "Why won't you help me?" he cries out in desperation. She simply watches in silence. The undertow grabs Judah once again and he is dragged under. After a moment of flailing, he manages to surface yet again. He gurgles and spits and gasps out once again for her help. On the edge of the woods, Trevor Halliburton appears. He hears the cries for help and sees the robed woman simply watching. He looks about frantically, finding a broken tree branch. He grabs it and runs to edge of the embankment. He calls out to Judah, "Grab the tree branch Judah!" Judah looks up at him and cries out, "Who are you? How do you know my name?" Trevor looking fearful and disgusted replied desperately, "Don't worry about that right now, just grab the branch!" Judah strains to reach the branch being extended down to him, but it is always just out of reach. Trevor lies flat on the ground and strains to push the branch further. Judah makes one mad lunge and seizes the end of the branch. Trevor's eyes brighten and he grabs the end of the branch and begins to pull. Judah is now near the edge of the embankment. Trevor stands and gives a mighty pull of the branch. Judah grabs on tightly and is almost able to reach yet another branch growing out of the side of the cliff. He takes a deep breath and reaches for it, but as he does, the branch Trevor holds him by suddenly snaps. Both Judah and Trevor's eyes widen in horror as he plummets back into the icy waters. This time, the undertow grabs him, and he does not rise from the depths a third time. Trevor screams out "NOOOOOO!" Trevor's eyes are in total terror and his body shakes as inside, Judah realizes he has been defeated. Trevor drops to his knees and grabbing his head, he screams. He is still for a moment. Then a trembling and fearful Trevor Halliburton, who had been repressed for months, looked up and spoke. "It's over! He's gone! I can't believe it! He's gone!" He begins half laughing, half crying. Victoria walks over and places a hand on his shoulder and tenderly says, "It will be alright, Trevor Halliburton. In a moment, you will forget that any of this ever happened." He looked up at her in confusion to ask what she meant, when suddenly, he begins slowly fading away.
Brutus Collins follows Stokes and Desmond into the bunkhouse. He looks at them with a puzzled expression and says, "I hath been wondering how we shalt know if thy plan hath been a success." Stokes picked up a small valise and turned to him and replied, "If we have been successful the results may occur at any moment." Brutus shakes his head in confusion and says, "I still doth not understand this journeying through time!" Desmond smiled and said, "I found that hard to understand myself, Cousin." Stokes then looked at him gravely and said, "We must know that we can count on you to never make mention of that in your lifetime, Brutus! At this period in history you will be thought mad simply for the mere mention of it." Brutus nodded and replied, "I understand. One Silas McGruder in Collinsport is more than enough!" He stood looking warmly at his two new friends and moved to shake their hands, when suddenly they faded from view. (Soft dramatic sustained note sounds.) His eyes widened and his mouth parts slightly as he softly says, "Goodbye my dear friends." He looks for a moment sadly at the place from which they had disappeared. He reluctantly then turned and opened the bunkhouse door. Stepping outside, he took one last look, and then closed the door behind him. He pursed his lips and reached into his vest pocket and withdrew a door key. He looked down as he removed the key. When he did, a glint of light caught his eye from under the bushes. He stooped down to get a better look. He picked up the small shiny object. He recognized it as the small pocket timepiece he had seen Stokes with. He flipped open it's lid and looked at it for a moment. He looks up with a puzzled expression as camera slowly fades and one low sustained dramatic note sounds.
Camera opens on the brightly lit drawing room of the Old House. The French doors open and Jonathan Frid and Alexandra Moltke enter.
Jonathan: "Hello, I'm Jonathan Frid"
Alexandra: "and I'm Alexandra Moltke"
Jonathan: "and so we see our story brought full circle"
Alexandra: "The young girl, who began our story, is ultimately revealed to
be the one born that would bring an end to the evils that have been a part
of the family history from its earliest beginnings."
Jonathan opens a book which had been lying on a table by the big arm chair.
He sits and speaks.
Jonathan: Amadeus and Laura lived a long and happy life together. The
Phoenix curse never came to be. In future generations, both Jamison Collins
and David Collins would still be born, but to different mothers. As a
result, both boys were somewhat less precocious than their original
counterparts."
Alexandra: "Since Judah never practiced witchcraft, he never mentored Miranda Duval, and Angelique Bouchard never came to be. Barnabas Collins met and married his beloved Josette. They had three beautiful children. Sarah Collins lived on and grew to adulthood where she married a young man named Charles Braithwaite. They had children as well.
Jonathan: Jeremiah Collins wed a young governess at Collinwood named Phyllis Wick after the children outgrew the need of a governess. They had a son whom they named Morgan, beginning yet another branch in the Collins family tree.
Quentin Collins never had to contend with the curse of the werewolf. His wife Jenny shot him in the heart when she found him dallying with one of the household maids, but not before he fathered two children. They were not disowned by the family this time, and in the present Christopher and Thomas Collins architects enjoy a healthy success. Maggie Evans and Joe Haskell were wed in the summer of 1967. They own a charter service hosting tours of the Collinsport Bay area."
Alexandra: In 1966, two unscrupulous men came to Collinsport to extort money from Elizabeth Stoddard. Their plan backfired and Jason McGuire was sentenced to twenty years in federal prison. His friend, Willie Loomis got 5 years for his part as an accomplice. He was released after serving only two for good behavior. In prison, he thought things through and returned to Collinsport to ask forgiveness for his actions. He was hired by one, Bradford Collins, a descendant of Barnabas Collins. He now is a foreman at the Collins Watch & Clock Company founded by Brutus Collins after his invention of the first mechanical timepiece. He is married to a Collinsport local girl. They have two sons."
Jonathan: "Elizabeth Collins-Stoddard remarried. Her new husband had weath even greater than the Collins holdings. She handed everything over to her brother and left the village of Collinsport forever. Roger Collins is healthy and well and runs the Collins Cannery masterfully. Both his daughter Victoria Collins-Devlin and his niece, Carolyn Stoddard- Peterson, are learning the business firsthand from him. Professor T. Eliot Stokes is the Dean at the University of Collinsport, and Julia? (Holds book cover up) Dr. Julia Woodard has composed the Collins Family history. She and her husband, Dave, have four children. Attorney Trevor Halliburton has a successful law practice in the town of Collinsport and will soon propose to his long-time friend and secretary, Selena Parker."
Both rise and walk toward camera. Lights dim as Jonathan takes a candle snuffer and slowly begins putting out candles.
Jonathan: "Our revels now are ended... These our actors, as I foretold you were all spirits, and are melted into air! Into Thin Air!"
"...and like the baseless fabric of this vision. The cloud capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself. Yea all which inherit it shall dissolve, and like this insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind."
(They open the double doors to the Old House and step outside.)
Jonathan: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on.. and our little life, is
rounded with a sleep"
(Doors close.)
(Roll ending theme)
Elizabeth Stoddard.
JOAN BENNETT
Brutus Collins.
JONATHAN FRID
Roger Collins.
LOUIS EDMONDS
Professor Stokes.
THAYER DAVID...
Desmond Collins.
JOHN KARLEN
Judah Zachary (1677.
CHRISTOPHER PENNOCK
Trevor Halliburton/Judah Zachary.
KEITH PRENTICE
Man from coven.
GORDON RUSSELL
Special Appearance By ALEXANDRA MOLTKE As Victoria Collins...
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
Had this been an actual episode, the air date would have been July 16, 1971