335 - (Joan Bennett) - Within the walls of the great house at Collinwood, there is a frightened child. Young David Collins is searching desperately for a friend who has the dark, secret answers to his questions. But his friend is not easy to find, because she comes from a world beyond the world we know at Collinwood.
Black and white, new Dr. Woodard (ick!) and Dr. Fisher psychoanalyzes David.
David gazes miserably into the crystal ball, trying to locate Sarah. He knows she's mad at him, but hell, he's pissed at her, too! Everyone thinks he's crazy now! He holds the crystal and begins singing London Bridge, but it isn't until he buries his head, despairing, into his bedclothes that she appears to him. She admits she knew the secret door wouldn't open, that "somebody" saw to it (but she won't say who).
They're bringing a shrink to see him, he tells her. She wants her flute back, but he says he gave it to Dr. Woodard, which upset her; it's all she has for companionship (it would have helped if she didn't give her doll away). David tells her he fears being sent where Barnabas can get at him.
There's a knock at his door and Sarah disappears. Liz leads in Dr. Fisher, a shrink with a very nice, clipped voice. He tells them he was talking to Sarah, that he uses his crystal ball to find her. Dr. Fisher asks Liz to leave him alone with David, and after she goes, he begins to ask shrink-type questions. David describes his dreams to the doctor, and specifically mentions Barnabas' mean face and ****FANGS**** The doctor asks David how he feels about death and David says he didn't think much about it until now.
He IS afraid that Barnabas will kill him--but he isn't afraid of his ghostly friend, Sarah. Dr. Fisher asks David to describe his dreams one more time, and David complies.
Burke and Dave sit on the sofa in Collinwood's drawing room, discussing David's situation. Woodard feels the doll and flute are significant, and perhaps nothing is wrong with David's mind. They discuss the Maggie-Willie connection (although Woodard mistakenly says they had the same neck wounds, and Willie was bitten on the wrist, not the throat), and Woodard says he believes Willie did not kidnap Maggie. However, whatever creature/person inflicted them those neck wounds is still at large.
Dr. Fisher tells Burke, Liz and Woodard that David is very disturbed. He believes David never accepted his mother's death, and thus fears death. The faceless woman in his dream represents his mother's death, too, this faceless woman dangling a medallion as a lure to him. Sarah, as David's imaginary, dead companion, is giving him the chance to symbolically "make friends" with death, and Barnabas, through his shape, height or shadow he casts) represents his fear of death. They walk to the portrait and Fisher goes on to explain that it might be the resemblance to the first Barnabas that frightens David. Dr. Woodard, gazing at Barn's portrait, recites the "Dr. Fell" poem. David's imaginary Barnabas, says Dr. Fisher, is death put down in a coffin, fangs bared as if to devour him.
At the word FANGS, Woodard looks as if a bolt of lightning struck him. He tells Liz he has to leave and hastily runs out the door. Dr. Fisher leaves, too, but Liz asks Burke to stay behind.
Liz delivers bad news to Burke--he can't buy the House by the Sea. Odd old Caleb Sayers Collins, who disliked strangers, didn't want the house to go to anyone but a Collins for 100 years,
and that won't be for another five. Liz promises to give it to them as a wedding present in five years, but Burke is still clearly disappointed because he knows how badly Vicki wanted the house.
Meanwhile, Dr. Woodard heads for the mausoleum, Sarah's flute in his hand. It appears he's added up 2 and 2 and come up with four. He believes that secret room does exist, and it was used to keep a horrifying secret that had to be sealed out of sight. As he's reaching for the ring, however, he turns and sees he's no longer alone--Sarah has joined him. He stares at her, shocked, and whispers, "You're little Sarah."
NOTES: Pretty good episodes, and I must say, David Henesy is a fantastic young actor. I wish he had stayed in the business; I think he would have gone far.
It's about time they got David a psychiatrist, but he really should have been on the couch sooner-like when he tried to kill Roger, or locked Vicki up to die in that dreadful room. Now, when he's telling the truth, they think he's nuts. There's irony galore there!
Dr. Woodard now seems hot on Barnabas' trail, that "fangs" comment sinking in deep. Will Sarah tell him everything now or protect her brother and David as best she can? What will she reveal to this Dr. Woodard that I personally don't care about anymore?
336 - (Alexandra Moltke) - All of us at Collinwood remain concerned about the state of mind of young David Collins. We are unaware that at this moment, at the Eagle Hill Cemetery, two people are about to meet for the first time. They will recognize each other, and they will know that together they may travel a long, dark and dangerous path to help the troubled little boy who means so much to both of them.
Dr. Woodard returns her flute and appeals to Sarah to help him help David, reminding her that if David is sent away, she'll be alone again. Does she know why he is so frightened? Sarah seems reluctant to assist him, since no one seems able to keep secrets anymore, but she does tell him that the secret room does exist and proves it by standing on her mother's coffin and opening the panel. As Woodard gazes in amazement at the coffin, he speculates: Has David been telling the truth about everything? He figures whoever was supposed to be buried here died shamefully, horribly.
Though Sarah won't say a word, he finds the chains Willie took off the coffin and tells Sarah the coffin must once have had someone in it--someone who wouldn't stay dead. He turns to ask if he's right so far, but she's once again gone.
At Collinwood, Burke gives Vicki the bad news about the house they hoped to buy. She mumbles something about wondering if their not getting the house is some kind of omen, yet assures him she wants to marry him. It's just the whole David mess. (WHY can't she keep working and marry Burke, what kind of crap is this?)
She reminds Burke that he's David's friend, too, and hopes he won't be annoyed that she wants to wait on their wedding. Burke is disappointed, and expresses fear that something will take her away from him (the camera pans on Barn's portrait as he says this). She promises that won't happen and they hug (I guess they agreed to keep away from the kisses, given how bad they are at it).
Woodard, agitated, returns to Collinwood and is upset to hear from Vicki that Burke left on a business trip, destination unknown. He asks for Julia, then to be allowed to check out some of the Collins family history books in the study. When she asks what's going on, he tells Vicki he can't tell her a thing, adding, "What you don't know won't hurt you." Meanwhile, Julia returns to Collinwood (looking spiffy in a camel hair coat) and talks about how Roger referred earlier that day to David's mausoleum trip as "David's Folly." This annoys Vicki, since it's clear Julia agrees with him. Julia says Barnabas has been the innocent victim of David's imagination and hopes Barn and the OH will be left alone. When Vicki tells her Woodard is in the study looking at Collins family books, Julia becomes concerned and hastens to the study. Woodard is there, poring excitedly over the many volumes. The original Barnabas had a sister named Sarah, he points out, and he, Dave, met Sarah himself at the mausoleum! Ridiculous, she says, looking very fearful at this turn of events, and she suggests he's tired and overwrought. Dr. Fisher thinks David is hallucinating. Woodard reminds her Sam saw Sarah, too, and Julia retorts Sam probably saw Sarah instead of pink elephants, being the drunkard he is. Well, he knows he saw Sarah and he intents to find out why she came back and get to the truth of this situation--he won't rest until he knows.
Julia's lip curls with dismay.
NOTES: This is BAD!
Love, Robin
