Vicki is wearing the giant voluminous yellow robe thing when Jeff comes to see her. He tells her that he's moved to the Evans cottage--even though she's already been to see him there. They both puzzle over Julia's unusual behavior, but then Vicki gives him the really important news that Dr. Lang is dead. After his initial shock, Jeff doesn’t bother to hide his apparently unseemly joy and relief.
Julia visits Professor Stokes at his house, 13 Arrowhead Road. This is their first meeting. (His living room used to be Trask's room at the Collinsport Inn, and before that Angelique's room. The peripatetic convex mirror has landed above his mantel after making the trip from the Evans cottage. He has the same sofa as the Evanses do, but without the multicolor granny-square afghan.) She tells him about her dream. Conveniently enough, Stokes has written a paper on what he calls a dream curse. He tells Julia that not everyone who has had a dream like this is necessarily the object of the curse. But Julia says that even though she desperately wants to tell the dream, she's afraid to because it will eventually find the intended victim. Stokes quietly but shrewdly observes, You’re obviously trying to save someone. You must care a great deal about the person you’re trying to save. Julia gazes into the convex mirror as she answers, Yes--I will admit that I do. But I don’t know if I can save him--I don’t know!
Barnabas is miserable, wondering why Julia isn't at Lang's house studying his notes so she can do the experiment before Barn reverts. It doesn't seem to occur to him that Julia has troubles of her own. The reel-to-reel tape recorder is an entirely different model.
Jeff reads Lang's file on him and finds out that his past is not homicidal after all. Barnabas addresses him as Clark (no Mister for the Hated Rival). Barnabas can't help being jealous, because of course this means that Jeff is now free to tell Vicki that he loves her, and Barn already knows that she loves Jeff.
Of course Jeff makes a beeline to the Great House and shares his news with Vicki (still in the ginormous yellow robe). Jeff explains to Vicki that he had been in a mental institution for amnesia, and that just before he was found wandering the streets of Portsmouth, three women had recently been strangled with a rope. (We never find out who the real killer was.) Lang told me that I had had pieces of rope in my pocket, Jeff finishes, but now I know he only needed to have a hold on me. [spoiler][A long time from now, Peter Bradford will reappear with a rope.][/spoiler] I can't tell you why, he adds, but I can finally tell you that I love you. Since she loves him too, you can guess what happens next.
And so can Barnabas, because the shot of Jeff and Vicki kissing dissolves into a closeup of his unhappy face. Julia arrives at Lang's house and tells Barnabas that in order to do the experiment, she has to study ALL of Lang's notes and papers before daring to perform the experiment. Now Barnabas confesses, Julia, I’m afraid the experiment will fail. He predicts his bleak future: I will roam the earth alone, killing, destroying--and it will go on forever. I have only a few moments, a few minutes to be a human being. You know how precious those few moments are, Julia--you really know. Julia answers gently, I know. As Barnabas watches the minutes tick by before he thinks he'll revert, the episode ends....
