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[spoiler]Today's quote:
DS 2012: (-1969: Ep #904) - Barnabas - 'Why MUST I alone bear the rotten fruit of our cursed family tree? My parents, taken. My true love, taken.'
From the DS 2012 script:
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EXT. COLLINWOOD MANOR - NIGHT
Even at this distance, we can hear the anguished exclamations of --
BARNABAS (PRE-LAP) "Angel Bay!"
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INT. COLLINWOOD MANOR (DRAWING ROOM) - NIGHT
Elizabeth is alone with Barnabas, trying to sooth his melodramatic anguish, despite her own shock at the revelation of Angelique's true identity.
BARNABAS The very audacity of the name summons vomit into the recesses of my mouth!. For it has as its proprietor the devil herself!
ELIZABETH I always thought there was something a little off about Angie.
BARNABAS Oh, if my vampire eyes were capable of tears, I would flood the earth with my weeping!
ELIZABETH Barnabas, you've done more for this family in ten days than I have in ten years.
BARNABAS Angelique means to destroy us, Elizabeth. She hates me.
ELIZABETH "Hate?" No, if she merely hated you, she would've killed you. A curse takes devotion.
BARNABAS Fate sees fit to punish me forever! Has the infernal calculus of grief any limit? Any end?
ELIZABETH Barnabas...
BARNABAS What our ancestors did to incur such wrath I know not, but why must I bear the rotten fruit of our family's cursed tree?
He throws himself onto the organ; buries his head in his hands.
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BARNABAS (CONT'D) My parents, taken. My true love, taken.
ELIZABETH And what did you do?
BARNABAS (a beat, then) I tried to kill myself by jumping off a cliff.
ELIZABETH You fought, Barnabas. When your parents were killed, you fought on!
Barnabas raises his head.
BARNABAS I did, didn't I.
ELIZABETH You tried to keep the family business afloat! Tried to find the source of our curse and extinguish it forever!
A raised head becomes a full-on raised body.
BARNABAS My God...you're right. I fought for the survival of our name.
ELIZABETH You fought because it's in your blood!
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And the excerpt is from the November 30, 2010 version of the script, which is not the exact version that was ultimately shot. As such some of the dialogue is different in the excerpt. Case in point, in the film the quote is not preceded by Barnabas saying "What our ancestors did to incur such wrath I know not, but", and you'll note the remainder of what's scripted is slightly different from the quote, which is what Barnabas actually says in the film. Also different, while the exterior shot of Collinwood is in the film (preceded by crashing waves), Barnabas doesn't actually say "Angel Bay" until we see him in the drawing room with Elizabeth.
And Ep #904 now joins Eps #1, #124, #198, #478 and #659 as ones without any "must" lines - and that's the final one for this month.