Elizabeth has spent the day at Eagle Hill. Meanwhile, Vicki calls Roger and asks if Maggie can stay at the Great House. While they're talking, Elizabeth drifts in. Roger tries to get her to talk to Vicki, but she drifts over to the french windows. With real kindness, Roger tells Vicki that as far as he and Cassandra are concerned, Maggie can stay as long as she likes. Sam’s death is news to Elizabeth, but she comments, Well, we all eventually die, don’t we? And I know who will be next. I will be next--and it will be soon. Possibly remembering the past, Roger asks his sister if she's hiding something. Apathetically she replies that she isn't, and Roger realizes that his big sister is in big trouble.
Cassandra's youthful appearance has somehow been restored and she is wearing the horrible green paisley robe while she gloats that her plan for Elizabeth is going so well. She plans to take things further by having Elizabeth reenact Naomi's death. Roger arrives and tries to interest her in helping him cheer Elizabeth up. After he leaves, After Roger leaves, she finishes dispensing some poison powder in a pill case as Rev. Trask materializes behind her. Sensing someone’s presence, she turns around but sees no one. She calls to Roger and David, but gets no reply. When her back is turned, he reappears. His chromakey bounces up and down as the scene fades.
Maggie is asleep in a guest room at Collinwood, thanks to one of Julia's sedative concoctions, when Joe arrives. Elizabeth sees not Joe but the duplicitous Lieutenant Forbes and berates him accordingly until Vicki brings her back to herself. Mortified, she runs away. Cassandra arrives a moment later and talks about "poor Mr. Evans" with her patented crocodile grin. Vicki manages to get away from her after accusing her of being responsible for Elizabeth's current state.
But Cassangelique has only a few moments to gloat (and put the pill case with its poison in the drawer of the little writing table) before she hears a familiar voice call her name--and turns to see Rev. Trask. He lists her crimes, then whips out-- his trusty cross. Cass flinches away but her power drains away and she faints.
Although he's had plenty of time to think in the dark, Trask hasn't come up with new ideas any more than Cass has. He ties her to a tree in the forest and presses his cross to her forehead. I can’t speak! she gasps. As his prayer goes on (and on), she gasps, I can’t breathe! The devils are leaving you, Trask explains. Let fire burn out evil and leave the ashes of the goodness you once possessed! he prays as he blows away a fly (classic blooper!). Let the devils be humbled and shrink, he continues (as he shrinks away from the fly), at the fear of the dark night they will shortly see! At last he finishes his exorcism. Cassandra screams (off camera). Your spirit is free! Trask proclaims, and Cassandra screams one last time (again off camera). The camera pulls back to show that she is no longer tied to the tree--she has vanished. Arms outstretched and still holding the cross in one hand, Trask falls to his knees to give thanks.…
[Despite his heroic efforts against the Dreaded Collinsport Fly, Jerry Lacy is billed as Tony Peterson, not the Reverend Trask, in the final credits.]