Strange that Willie knew nothing about Angelique, let alone that she's the current vampire. Julia quickly fills him in, then they set off to find Barnabas.
Nicholas comes home very late after his date with Maggie--but I'm sure he didn't compromise her in any way. He finds Adam collapsed on the floor, apparently near death, and realizes that Julia was completely right.
Willie and Julia haven't found Barnabas. Tentatively, Willie reminds Julia that after Barn staked Tom Jennings, she was as good as new. Julia realizes that Angelique's coffin must be at the House by the Sea, so she sets off, a stake in one hand and her medical bag in the other.
Nicholas is even angrier when he sees that Angelique has swiped his magic mirror. Julia practically bursts in to save Adam. Nicholas tries to pretend he doesn't know anything about Angelique, but Julia says, I have no need to examine Adam. I’m familiar with what is wrong with him, and I have the treatment--whereupon she produces the stake. Nicholas laughingly pretends not to know anything about Angelique, but allows Julia to give Adam some stimulant injections, since he doesn’t have facilities for a transfusion. But while she’s giving Adam the injections, she points out acidly, Just because I’m doing this doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten the most effective cure for this condition.
Just as Adam begins to revive, so does Barnabas. Luckily Willie hears his faint calls for help.
Julia finishes working on Adam but acknowledges that this time Nicholas has defeated her. Nonetheless, she leaves the stake for Nicholas. A memento of your visit, he jokes, but she tells him, You had better use it if you want Adam to live.
When Willie gets Barnabas back to the Old House, he wants to take him straight upstairs. (We never do see the living Barnabas’s bedroom in the twentieth century; perhaps it’s the same one he died in long ago. But more likely it is the one his father used.) But Barnabas says he’ll sit in the drawing room and begs Willie to close the curtains. Willie tells Barnabas that Julia is at Nicholas Blair’s house. Barnabas exclaims guiltily, Angelique! Julia knows about Angelique? [Actually, he shouldn’t be able to name her, but then we’d be deprived of the ensuing fun!] Yes, yes I do, Barnabas, Julia answers as she walks in, sounding very much like a wife, just as Barnabas looks very much like a philandering husband caught in the act. She adds gently, But there will be no recriminations. You're alive. The best thing now will be to get you to Windcliff. You’ll be out of Angelique’s reach there. He protests, then moans, Why is the day so long? Julia orders Willie to go to Collinwood, making sure no one sees him, and use the phone in her room to call Windcliff and tell them to send an ambulance. Willie rushes out. She tells Barnabas, I will help you stay alive. She won’t find you there. If you stay here, Angelique will kill you.
Nicholas watches as Adam revives and decides he's had enough of Angelique's shenanigans. Carrying the stake and a mallet, Nicholas goes downstairs to Angelique’s coffin room. He places his hands on the coffin, but pauses before he opens it. You will feel no suffering, no pain, he says with hypocritical comfort (and even though the writers have faithfully followed Bram Stoker’s lead in that every vampire at Collinwood puts up quite a fuss when staked). You will cease to exist without ever knowing it. He opens the coffin….
