505 - Adam, hunted by the sheriff and his men, runs through the woods. The sheriff sees the Old House and says that every time things go wrong around here, that's where all roads lead. Adam watches them head toward the Old House, his face contorted with fear.
Barnabas sits at the Old House, fretting over Adam--what's happening to him now?--they hunted him down and penned him in like an animal, and he can't help him! Barnabas hears voices outside and looks out the window. The sheriff and his deputies come to the front door, where the sheriff gives orders to his men. Barnabas hears the knock at the door and slowly goes to answer it. He greets Patterson cordially, surprised to see him again. The sheriff asks him what he's been doing all night, and Barn says he's been there since Adam's capture. Why didn't you look for Carolyn? asks the sheriff, and Barnabas says he figured Carolyn was safe, that the man had confessed to her whereabouts.
The sheriff drops the bomb on Barnabas-Adam escaped! Barnabas' reaction is almost one of relief. The sheriff describes how the escaped prisoner broke the bars on his cell window, mauled one of his deputies, who might have a broken neck, and released himself from the chain attached to the wall. What brings you here? asks Barn. This is the place they picked him up the first time, says the sheriff. It would be foolish to return here, points out Barn, but the sheriff says they aren't dealing with an ordinary man-are they? Barnabas doesn't know what he means. Did he come here? asks the sheriff, and Barn says if he had, he'd have told him. Patterson looks skeptical, and opens the double doors leading to the back of the house--how much does he know about this man? Demands the sheriff. Barn knows nothing, doesn't know who he is, only saw him once, when Roger shot at him. What about Willie?-the sheriff questioned him and believes he was concealing something. Barnabas doubts this. Why was Willie so nervous? The bad dream he had, says Barnabas. Patterson points out Willie was nervous when Liz questioned him, too, and blurted out the man's name. This stuns Barnabas. Adam, says the sheriff. Nonplused, Barnabas walks away, saying that's news to him. The sheriff wants to know how the man knows his name, if he never had dealings with him. Barnabas has no idea, and suggests he be out looking for Adam instead of talking to him. The sheriff has two dozen men looking, and he intends to keep asking his questions until he gets satisfactory answers. Barnabas insists he's told him everything he knows, but the sheriff says that means someone else is lying--there must be some reason Willie knows the man's name, and some reason why Adam knows Barnabas' name. Prepare yourself for an ordeal, warns the sheriff, telling Barnabas to sit down--he won't leave until he gets the answers he wants. Barnabas obligingly sits.
Adam wanders the woods. He comes to the root cellar where he left Carolyn, and smiles. She's still trying to force it open, but the large rock he left there is preventing it. It's no use, she tells herself, I'll never budge the door. She leans her head against a brick wall thinking morbid thoughts. If he doesn't come back, she'll die there, she tells herself, unless she can find another way out. She searches the root cellar, checking the small space, but realizes the only exit is the door. She hears Adam's chain outside. He moves the rock, opens the door and looks around. Carolyn, hiding behind a wall, tries to crawl quietly out, but he sees and grabs her, toppling her to the ground. He grabs her hair, and she cries that he's hurting her. She begs him to let her go--he's hurting her! "Hurting" repeats Adam, "No hurting, no!" He lets go of her hair. She cries that she wants to go home and begs him. He repeats home, and she screams that he has to stop repeating what she says. He covers her mouth and drags her back into the root cellar, closing the door. He tries to calm her down. She tells him he can't keep her here. The police are looking for her. Doesn't he understand? They'll find them here, arrest him, take him to jail. You don't want to go there, do you? she asks, then realizes he doesn't understand her.
He plays with her hair, crying, too, trying to make himself understood. He hugs her, presses his face against her gold hair, and cries with her. Dogs approach, barking. He takes her hand and pulls her from the root cellar. When she screams, he covers her mouth. He lifts her into his arms and carries her off again. The deputies search. They hear Carolyn's scream and run in that direction.
Nose to nose with Barnabas, the sheriff demands to know another thing that doesn't make sense-when they met Adam in the woods, Roger shot at him and he was hit in the shoulder. The last time he saw him, a few days ago, he was running into the woods with a bullet wound in his shoulder-and yet, when they captured him earlier that evening, it took six of his deputies to subdue him--no man alive has that kind of recuperative power-he had help from an expert attending his wound. No licensed physician in the area treated that wound, and there's only one doctor they haven't checked-Julia Hoffman.
Do you think Julia did it? queries Barnabas. This whole business stinks to high heaven, opines the sheriff (love it!), and no one is above suspicion, including Barnabas. Barnabas asks what connection he could have with a vagrant, which is what he believes the man to be. The sheriff doesn't know anything but what he feels, and he won't let up on Barnabas until he tells him everything he knows. Barnabas feels he's making a big deal about nothing. The man kidnapped a member of your family, the sheriff says, but Barnabas says he believes Carolyn is quite safe. How do you know that? asks the sheriff, and Barnabas says it was something Willie told him. Ah, now we're getting somewhere, exults the sheriff. Not that Willie knows the man, says Barnabas, but the man did come to the house several days ago, looking for food. Willie felt sorry for the man and gave it to him. The man couldn't speak at all, and didn't understand what Willie said. Willie did mention Barnabas' name several times, which could explain how he knew that name. What did Willie say to reassure him that Carolyn is still alive? Asks the sheriff. The man seemed gentle, said Willie, but the sheriff points out all the opposing facts-the kidnapped woman, wrecked jail cell and broken-necked deputy--why didn't Barnabas come to him in the beginning? Barnabas explains that he feared being implicated somehow. The sheriff still isn't convinced he's not. A knock at the door intrudes on the inquisition, and Barnabas lets in one of the deputies, who tells the sheriff they've tracked down the man-he was hiding Carolyn in an old root cellar. They're heading now for Widows' Hill. This perturbs Barnabas. The sheriff says to get all the deputies, they'll have him trapped. The sheriff insists on Barnabas coming along, not for help, but to be there when's he's caught-he wants to see if this man recognizes Barnabas. Tight-lipped, Barnabas gets on his cape, grabs his cane, and ushers the sheriff out ahead of him. A deputy stands guard at the Old House door.
Widows' Hill - Adam carries Carolyn up there, and the two of them gaze nervously at the water crashing over the rocks below. Adam looks around, scared. The cops home in on the Hill. Carolyn tells Adam he can't get away, the police are getting closer, and he's trapped. He can only go back into the woods, and that's where they are. She begs him to let her go, kicking her legs. He puts her down; she loses her footing and falls over the cliff, grabbing onto and desperately clinging to the rocks. She begs him to grab her arm-I'm slipping, for God's sake! The sheriff, three deputies and Barnabas enter on this tableau, and they all quickly realize they can't do anything or Carolyn might fall. Adam grabs her arms and pulls her up and back, then caresses her hair and releases her. Like her cousin David the other day, she runs into Barnabas' arms. The deputy cocks his rifle, ready to shoot Adam, but Carolyn begs, "Don't shoot him, he saved my life."
Adam, realizing he is completely trapped, leaps off Widows' Hill, sending Carolyn into wild sobbing against Barnabas cape. The sheriff and his men gaze at the now-empty cliff. We see another view of the ocean crashing on the rocks as they all retreat.
NOTES: Once again, we hear Dr. Lang's message to Julia recited over the wild thrashing sea. Is Adam dead? Does that mean Barnabas Collins will be as he was before, a bloodthirsty vampire?
How was that grilling Patterson gave Barnabas, I think he cooked him to a turn! Some of it was almost comical. You've got to love the sheriff's comment that "something stinks here."
Great stuff today. You've got to feel badly for poor Adam--what a way to go! At least he got one last caress of Carolyn's hair as his consolation prize, right?
506 - Intro: "Appeared to be the destruction of. . .Adam."
Over the crashing waves, we AGAIN hear Dr. Lang's tape.
Barnabas and Willie search the beach for Adam. Barnabas is annoyed that Willie is shining the flashlight in his eyes, and Willie insists that any man who jumps off the cliffs will die as soon as his body hits the cliffs. Barnabas reminds him that Adam isn't an ordinary man, and besides, his intuition tells him Adam is alive. Willie reluctantly stands from the rock on which he's sitting at Barnabas' orders, and Barnabas himself screams, "ADAM!" to the wave-torn beach.
Willie screams for Adam, too, and a few feet away, so does Barnabas, in a voice that must have left him hoarse. Willie says Adam is dead-get over it, but again Barn says he isn't. He might be badly hurt. Willie says he's never seen Barn like this, refusing to listen to reason (?), and Barnabas tells him to stop arguing, he doesn't care about the police, or believe Adam's body was washed out to sea. Barnabas feels that the sheriff, believing Adam dead, won't question them further. Willie suggests coming back in the morning, when it's light, but Barnabas insists they continue the search. Willie says he can't do it, and Barnabas says he will. Willie needs to go to Collinwood; the dream is driving him crazy and he has to tell it to her. Barn forbids it, even though Willie says he'll go crazy. Carolyn's been through an ordeal, Barnabas reminds him, and he won't let him put her through another. What about what I'm going through, demands Willie?-- I'd rather go back to Windcliff than have the dream again. Barnabas says he understands (but his voice belies that), but if the dream curse goes to its end, he'll be the one who suffers. Willie complains he's scared all the time, always shaking with fear. Barnabas assures him he DOES know how he feels. Then let me go to Collinwood, begs Willie, and stop searching for a dead man. They argue about it vehemently. He probably broke every bone in his body, screams Willie, yet Barnabas feels Adam survived and crawled off somewhere. Barnabas sits on the rocks and Willie tells him the way he's acting isn't healthy--he was washed out to sea. The abandoned root cellar, remembers Barnabas, and sends Willie there to look while he continues combing the beach. Willie wants to tell Carolyn about the dream, then he'll do whatever he wants him to. Stop harping on the dream, orders Barnabas, and go to the root cellar. Willie gives Barnabas a look of pure hatred.
Carolyn, clad in a pretty powder blue nightgown, sits in her room, her sandwich untouched. She seems dazed. She brushes her hair, looking like she's about to cry. Liz comes in to check on her, noticing she hasn't touched her food. I will, says Carolyn, assuring her mother that she isn't afraid. Carolyn doesn't seem happy to hear the police are certain Adam is dead--she needs time to get back to being herself. Liz asks if Adam hurt her. He used force to keep me there, says Carolyn, yet didn't hurt her--he was strange, pathetic, trying in his own clumsy way to be gentle. Liz finds this hard to believe.
He was frightened, trapped, and had to do something desperate, explains Carolyn. Liz wonders how she can defend this man, who could have killed her. He wouldn't have done that, says Carolyn, trying to explain, but in a strange way, she feels sorry for Adam, but doesn't understand why--she isn't happy the man is dead, because now they'll never know who he was, where he came from--there was something about him that made him so different from other people, almost like a child who hasn't learned to talk or had any experience with other human beings. His instincts were childlike, too, he kept trying to learn from her, and seemed sensitive. Liz listens; she still believes the man could have killed her. Why did he save her life, if he had no human compassion, why didn't he let her die on Widows' Hill? queries Carolyn--he pulled her up, saved her life-why? Liz is glad they won't have to see the man again, and says Carolyn should sleep, but you just know there will be no sleep for the troubled Carolyn this night.
Willie lurks in the garden by the fountain at Collinwood, disobeying Barnabas' orders, deciding if he should scale the side of Collinwood.
Liz offers to stay with her a while, but Carolyn says she's tired and will fall asleep quickly. They exchange kisses and Liz leaves.
At 2 AM, Willie begins climbing. Carolyn is asleep when Willie climbs through her window. He creeps toward her bed, then leans over and softly calls her name. Carolyn wakes up with a start, leaps from bed, and covers herself with her robe. She wants him to go out the same way he came in, demanding that he leave or she'll call for help--she doesn't want to get him into trouble, she says, backing away from him, but she will if he has to. He says he needs to tell her a dream. Carolyn, holding her head, asks if he really broke into her room to tell her a dream-he must be crazy!
She gives him one more chance to leave her room, but, acting crazed, he grabs her, covers her mouth, orders her to keep quiet--he'll tell her the dream and go away. When it becomes clear she won't be silent, he screams that he'll tell her anyway, and, holding her fast, his face a mask of terror and determination, begins to tell her his dream. Carolyn bites his hand, forcing him to release her. Carolyn screams. Liz, downstairs in the garden, hears and races up to her daughter's bedroom. Willie, nursing his wounded hand, asks why she did that, he had to tell her the dream, he didn't mean to hurt her! Carolyn, as hysterical as he is, orders him out, but neither is listening to the other. Willie, sobbing, exits through the window. Liz enters and gathers the sobbing Carolyn into her arms. Carolyn calms down and tells Liz Willie broke into her room; she doesn't know why. Liz locks the window, assuring her he wouldn't get another chance--she's telling Barnabas to send Willie back to Windcliff. He told me he didn't mean any harm, explains Carolyn, he wanted to talk to me--he must be crazy, he kept jabbering about a dream he had and had to tell me about it. He's having hallucinations, says Liz, he told her about some dream, too, at the Old House. Carolyn thinks what scared her the most was the way he spoke of the dream-it must be the most terrifying thing that's ever happened to him--he acted like he had no peace of mind until he talked about the dream. He said Carolyn was the one he had to tell the dream to, which puzzles both women. He took a huge risk, breaking into my room, says Carolyn, yet he did it anyway-why? Willie's mental state, guesses Liz, but Carolyn said he didn't act deranged, just terribly frightened. Carolyn thinks Willie really did have this dream and for some reason, she is the only person he could tell about it.
Liz doesn't believe this, and tells Carolyn to go to sleep. No, says Carolyn, she's afraid. No one can get in, Liz assures her. But it's the dream that is scaring Carolyn-if she goes to sleep now, she'll have the dream Willie was telling her, and if she does, she's afraid she'll die!
NOTES: Another stellar performance from Karlen, both in the beach scene with Barnabas and the scene with Carolyn. He is just so good!
Why is everyone so mean to Willie? At least Carolyn seemed to have some compassion for him, more than anyone else is giving him these days. Carolyn felt badly for Adam, too, and hopes he didn't die. But how could he possibly survive such a fall? Barnabas is sure he's alive, too, something we're pretty sure of. How? Wouldn't Barnabas be a vampire already if Adam were really dead?
Did Carolyn hear enough of the dream to be the next victim of it? Or does Willie have to finish it in order for her to have it?
Love, Robin
