Never thinking for a moment thar "Alexis" is actually Angelique, Quentin tells her about his experience with the empty room. She, however, is more interested in finding her "sister's" murderer. After Quentin leaves, she learns the drawback of coming back to life.
Amy takes David to the Loomis House attic. Daniel shocks Amy by opining that Will is crazy, then tells her about a secret passage from the beach to the basement (just as in _our_ Old House!). While Daniel is hunting for the sword Amy told him she had found, he suddenly hears the sound of a heartbeat. Amy can’t hear it, but then Daniel comes on several paintings, one of which is a portrait of Barnabas Collins, faded with time and neglect. When she looks at the painting, Amy shrieks and faints. Fred (aka Wilfred Block, played by Edmund Hashim), a caretaker on the estate, hears her and rushes in. He brings both kids back to Collinwood. Angelique comes downstairs and takes a sudden interest in Fred, but Quentin arrives.
Angelique next goes to visit her aunt Hannah, who has beaded curtains (remember them?) in the doorway to her living room, as well as an atrociously fake-looking stuffed coral-crested cockatoo. Thinking she's talking to Alexis, Hannah chides her for not coming to visit earlier. She recalls, Angelique used to come when she wanted to do something she couldn’t do at the big house. Angelique asks her aunt to read the tarot cards for her. All of a sudden, you sound just like her! Hannah comments, but notes, You (i.e., Alexis) didn’t believe in these things. Maybe I’m changing, Angelique says. Sure enough, the first card to turn up is that old familiar Tower of Destruction, followed by the Moon Inverted. Angelique is unperturbed, but Hannah exclaims and refuses to finish. You have no future, she tells “Alexis.” Then Angelique asks her aunt to read her palm. When Hannah looks at it, she gasps, You're not Alexis--you’re Angelique!
I always said I would come back, Angelique reminds her horrified aunt. I never had the kind of power you have, Hannah gasps. I was a very apt student, Angelique replies. Do you know where Julia Hoffman is? I was afraid to ask at the house for fear of giving myself away. Hannah says she heard Quentin sent Hoffman on vacation. I must get her back as soon as possible, Angelique declares. Why is Damian Edwards haunting Collinwood? He cannot rest, Hannah answers. He has threatened the children, Quentin, and Bruno-- And Trask? Angelique asks. You know! Hannah says with disgust, almost loathing. You know why! Suddenly Angelique has another attack of cold and demands her aunt’s help. Please don’t ask me, Hannah begs her. Angelique simply threatens her with the same cold. Why did you come back? Hannah asks in despair. You should know, Angelique laughs--because of love! I wanted to come back because I needed Quentin's love more than anything. Almost crazed, she adds, He was the one man that I couldn't ... who could always make me want more and more of his love. Shocked, Hannah says, You’re planning to kill him! No, Angelique answers. Quentin will want to die when he has found out that I have discovered who murdered me. Murdered! Hannah gasps, and Angelique provides a first-hand account: Didn't you know? In the darkness, a hand ... here ...[putting a hand to the back of her neck] ... pressed a long, sharp pin. I felt a sudden pain and then cold. She starts to feel the cold again and orders Hannah to go to Loomis House to bring Fred back here. Hannah pleads with her. With a sinister smile, Angelique says, I will haunt you for the rest of your life if you don’t obey. Hannah knows Angelique can do it, so she hurries away with a note from Angelique to Fred.
Meanwhile, Quentin is watching over Amy (who is covered in the same plaid blanket that Carolyn put over Sabrina after Yaeger’s nighttime attack). She revives, and he asks her what happened when she looked at the painting. I saw his eyes, Amy answers. He needs help. She is troubled, especially because, as Quentin notes, Barnabas died over two hundred years ago. I know! Amy says. Quentin looks across the room at the faded portrait, which now leans against a chair near the fire.
Hannah brings Fred to her house and to the waiting Angelique, then leaves the room quickly. I’ll be upstairs if you need me! she says, her voice harsh with disapproval. Fred is all for picking up where he left off with "Miss Alexis." But when she orders him to kiss her he realizes too late that the warmth is leaving his body while her cold seeps into his. He tries to move away, but she forces him to look into her eyes. He collapses to the floor. When Hannah returns moments later she finds her niece hale and well and no longer cold, but Fred is definitely nothing of the sort. She touches him and exclaims in horror, He is as cold as if he has been dead for hours! Angelique smiles her mad smile and announces, That is the way it must be now. This is the way I will live now, and when Quentin comes to join me, he will live this way too--for eternity!....
