Everyone In Collinsport's Favorite Word Slideshow

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[spoiler]Yesterday's quote:
Ep #841 (1897) - Beth - 'Yes, you MUST go back as quickly as you can.'

From "Robservations 3/6/03 - 840-841 - Petofi Sics Aristede on Julia"

Woods - Beth returns to tell Barnabas--Julia IS at the mill, she reveals, about to be killed--you must go there right away!--Petofi isn't there.   I'm very grateful to you, says Barnabas, and rushes off.

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The Robservations paraphrases again, though, also again, it gets everything close to the original quote...

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[spoiler]Yesterday's quote:
Ep #584 (1968) - Maggie - 'You call dragging me out of my house, helping me? You MUST be crazy.'

From "Robservations 7/31/02 - #584/585 - Willie & Adam Take Drastic Action"

In the tomb, Maggie awakens, looks at the coffin, and screams, deafeningly. Willie assures her it's all right. She asks what's happened. It will be all right, don't get excited he cautions. She remembers him chloroforming her. I didn't have a choice, he says. She looks around--where are they, and why? She wants to get out of here! He grabs her arms and he tells her there is no way out--he knows the way, but won't tell her. Why? she asks. He replies that she's always been good to him, so he's repaying the favor. She finds dragging her from her house a crazy act, and he takes offense. Someday, she'll know he's right, but he can't explain, she'd never believe him. He tried last night to warn her she was in danger, why didn't she listen to him?

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The Robservations doesn't reference the quote directly and paraphrases the circumstanstances without using "must" - shameful!!...

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[spoiler]Yesterday's quote:
Ep #328 (1967) - Sam - 'Why Maggie? Why would he want to harm her? He MUST be insane!'

From "#0327/0328: Robservations 01/24/02: Barnabas Frames Willie"

Barnabas tells Sam and George that he feels responsible for Willie's reprehensible actions and tells Sam to let him know if he or Maggie ever need anything.

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The Robservations doesn't reference the quote (nor does the AOL Update), but it comes up while Barnabas is feigning his shock over Willie's "guilt"...

And poor Willie, he gets framed for Maggie's abduction and is called "insane" - and then, as seen in Saturday's quote, when he's saving Maggie from being used in the experiment by actually abducting her, he's deemed "crazy."

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[spoiler]Today's quote:
DS 2012: (-1966) - Barnabas - 'However, please know that it is with sincere regret that I MUST now kill all of you.'

From the DS 2012 script:

... the sound of NIGHT WOODS growing louder by the second...                                                  CUT TO: EXT. ARCADIA NATIONAL FOREST — NIGHT Hidden here in the woods, a circle of VW buses (including the one Vicky arrived in) forms a modest HIPPIE CAMPSITE; one of the last outposts of peace and love in a world tilting toward Disco. Within this circle, a collection of HIPPIES bob their heads and impart wisdom around a fire, including our old friends from the van:                         BEARDED HIPPIE           You know what's good about this           war, man? -                         ALL HIPPIES           Good?/No way, man!/Who's this guy?                         BEARDED HIPPIE           Naw naw naw -- listen to me.           What"s good about this war is that           it's so bad that it's gonna be the           last one!

The hippies nod and “right on" at this -- great point, man. In the midst of these flower children, looking more out of place than anyone ever has, is -- BARNABAS wearing a tie-dye bandana and John Lennon sunglasses. He fits in...not at all.                         HIPPIE CHICK                      (next to Barnabas)           Uh-huh. And this "last war" we're           in the middle of...who wins? Everyone can tell the question is a challenge. They look to the Bearded Hippie, who nods - considering. Then:                         BEARDED HIPPIE           Peace wins, man. The other Hippies CHEER and CLAP at this.                         BEARDED HIPPIE (CONT’D)           Peace wins every war... Barnabas CLEARS HIS THROAT -- HARD. It silences the campsite -- gruff, Gothic, and pained. This is the best he can do at making conversation:                         BARNABAS           You speak of "peace." Well I've           very recently spent two centuries           locked in a box -- staring into           the all-consuming void; the dark           shadows of one’s soul. I spent           the first century adrift on an           ocean of madness -- until at last           I washed ashore on a tranquil           island of the mind. But it was a           false peace, you see -- for I'd           simply gone even more insane.                         BEARDED HIPPIE           Heavy.                         BARNABAS           Indeed. In that mad, dark           solitude -—- when one's eyes can no           longer look outward; one has no           choice but to turn them in. And           so I spent half of my confinement           looking at myself -—- coming to           terms with the scoundrel I'd been           in life. Giving penance for a           multitude of misdeeds. (MORE)

BARNABAS (CONT'D)           And at the end of this hundred           years' self-examination, I arrived           at a single, elegant truth:                      (beat)           All you need is...love. The Hippies nearly lose their minds SHOUTING and CLAPPING their approval. Barnabas is oblivious to the Lennon/McCartney-ness of his sentiments.                         HIPPIE CHICK           Man...you tripped for a century.                         BARNABAS           And great purpose, methinks. For           I've fallen in love with a girl... The circle OOHS and AAHS; throwing daisy chains at him.                         BARNABAS (CONT’D)           Alas...I know not how to win her           tender affections, for I am a           relic in her eyes.                         BEARDED HIPPIE           That's what they say about us,           man!                         BARNABAS           Where I'm from, the love a woman           is won by giving land to their           father. Hippie Chick scowls at this. She's not the only one.                         BARNABAS (CONT‘D)           Or sheep. And, if the love was           earnest enough, perhaps even a           combination of the two.                         HIPPIE CHICK           Women don't care about sheep or           land, man.                         BARNABAS           Are you certain?                         HIPPIE CHICK           Love, man. Tenderness. Chicks           dig heart, man.                         BARNABAS                      (thinks, then)           A heart...                      (stands; grandly) (MORE)

BARNABAS (CONT'D)           Then a heart she shall have! A           living, beating heart! The others CLAP and WHISTLE their approval. When at last the cheers die down...                         BARNABAS (CONT'D)                      (everyone)           You have my deepest gratitude,           really. Please know that it is           with sincere regret that I must           now kill all of you... The Hippies look at each other -- what did he say? And in that moment of confusion, Barnabas‘s fangs descend, his eyes go wide and we -—-

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 directions, descriptions and dialogue are different in the excerpt. However, the way the quote is delivered in the film is very close to the way it appears in the excerpt...

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[spoiler]Yesterday's quote:
Ep #287 (1967) - Julia - 'Mr. Collins has done a remarkable job with this house. He MUST'VE made a very thorough study of the period to know so many details.'

From "#0287/0288: Robservations 12/17/01: Julia KNOWS!!!"

Julia appears at the Old House and tells Willie that she's going to wait until Barnabas "gets back". How did you manage to make the restoration of this house so accurate? Julia asks him. He first says there were no drawings to work from, then, realizing there would have had to be, contradicts himself and says there were. No need to lie, Julia assures him. She sits to await Barnabas while Willie nervously paces. Why do you work for Mr. Collins if he's so "difficult," as you say? she queries. Before Willie can answer this leading question

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The Robservations doesn't reference the quote, however the AOL Update from when Ep #287 aired as the first show on the Sci-Fi Channel on October 19, 1995 has a bit more detail:

Julia is at the Old House.  Willie is adament that Julia must leave now.  Julia will wait for Barnabas to return.  She questions Willie about the restoration of the house.  She comments that the restoration appears that Barnabas knew exactly what the house looked like originally.  Later, Julia is sitting in a chair and Willie is very nervous.

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Before I posted about yesterday's quote, I meant to post that obviously the final version of the 2012 DS script dropped the Lennon/McCartney reference in favor of the Love Story reference they used. And interestingly enough, Love Story itself is nowhere to be found in the November 30th version of the script. That's apparently something that was worked in later...

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Our host has done something that screwed up today's slideshow.    I'm working on fixing it and will post when it works....

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   I don't know what they did but I had to go all the way back to a backup I'd made on April 6th of last year to get the code that was missing. How it disappeared is anyone's guess. But weird things happen around here.

But anyway, if you're not seeing the slideshow like this -

2026:

Ep #827 (1897) - King Johnny - 'King Johnny Romano alone
is going to do what MUST be done!'

2025:

Ep #792 (1897) - Quentin - 'Suppose we come to some
arrangement. I keep the hand until it does what it MUST,
and then, then I'll give it to you, huh?'

2024:

Ep #714 (1897) - Quentin - 'Judith, I MUST congratulate
you. I haven't seen him get this worked up in a long time.'

2023:

Ep  #530 (1968) - Cassandra - 'There is something you
MUST do for me.'

2022:

Ep #310 (1967) - Barnabas - 'Yes, Willie, we MUST.'

2021:

Ep #365 (1967) - Carolyn - 'Do you want to stop it,
Barnabas? MUST you stop it?'

2020:

Ep #647 (1968) - Madame Findley - 'A war is being waged
and we MUST find the one who started it.'

- then you need to clear your browser's cache...

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[spoiler]Yesterday's quote:
Ep #567 (1968) - Jeff - 'They MUST have had some reason, some-- some reason to do this.'

From "Robservations 7/18/02 - #566/567 - Barnabas Learns the Truth"

Jeff watches through the window as Barnabas tamps out the candles in the drawing room. Jeff finds the doors to the Old House locked (AMAZING!) and tries the window, which, miraculously, is unlocked! (as usual!) He climbs in, sneaks downstairs and gazes at the laboratory equipment. Why do they have all of Lang's equipment and instruments down here? he wonders. He picks up a scalpel and stares at it. He finds Lang's private journals. He was right, Barnabas lied to him. They didn't dispose of the creature's body, they found a head and completed the experiment! They brought that THING to life, created Lang's monster--but why?? What was their interest in such a project? What could they gain? Jeff ponders all this, then comes across the woman's body on the table. "Oh, no!" he cries, holding his head in horror.

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The Robservations doesn't reference the quote, however after Jeff wonders what they could gain, he then wonders why they moved all of Lang's equipment there, and then he delivers the quote just before and as he's discovering the body...

Also, Jeff doesn't remark that they found a head, what he actually says is, "They went ahead and completed the experiment for him." 

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It may be a new month but the same weirdness prevails. So again, if you're not seeing the slideshow like this -

2026:

Ep #121 (1966) - David - 'It MUST be that!'

2025:

Ep #92 (1966) - Richard - 'You MUSTN'T think that
Collinwood was always the way it is now. There was a time
when it took a large staff to run the place.'

2024:

Ep #75 (1966) - Roger - 'For goodness sake, Kitten,
it MUST be here in the house somewhere. It's bound to
turn up sooner or later.'

2023:

Ep #50 (1966) - Roger - 'Well, you MUST know that
Bill and I have had differences about a number of things
at the cannery.'

2022:

Ep #3 (1966) - Carolyn - 'But if Uncle Roger took off
when you mentioned this Burke Devlin's name, he MUST
have had a good reason.'

2021:

Ep #6 (1966) - Vicki - 'I mean, if she's been waiting for
him all these years, hoping he'll come back, he MUST
have been quite a man.'

2020:

Ep #122 (1966) - Matthew - 'Voices callin' ta me--you
heard 'em, you MUST of!'

- then you need to clear your browser's cache...

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[spoiler]Yesterday's quote:
Ep #827 (1897) - King Johnny - 'King Johnny Romano alone is going to do what MUST be done!'

From "Robservations 2/25/03 - #826-827 - Barnabas Saves Magda"

"Nine sacred candles, all burning."  We see nine candles lit before him.  "All ready!"  He pulls out the sword.  "Mateo, Zarco, all you of the Romano tribe who bore the honor and the glory and the power to stand up against our hated enemy, wherever you are, see this moment and make it your triumph, too.  King Johnny Romana, of all the men of his tribe, has found Petofi!--King Johnny Romana alone is going to do what must be done!"  He takes the scimitar and walks over to the terrified Petofi, whose arm rests on the chair's armrest.  Petofi's eyes widen to the size of robin's eggs as, overcome with terror, he watches King Johnny raise the scimitar high above his hand!

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The Robservations references the quote perfectly...

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Well, another day but the same weirdness prevails. So again, if you're not seeing the slideshow like this -

2026:

Ep #172 (1967) - Burke - 'Well, it MUST be pretty
devastating information for you to give it to me for nothing.'

2025:

Ep #162 (1967) - Dr. Guthrie - 'MUST have been a
spectacular place in its day.'

2024:

Ep #153 (1967) - Vicki - 'I just know that I MUST be
looking for something. It MUST be that house! Look,
there, beyond the trees.'

2023:

Ep #146 (1967) - Liz - 'It's my fault for coming up in
back of you so quietly. You MUST have been very
deep in thought.'

2022:

Ep #123 (1966) - Maggie - 'You MUST'VE just gotten
into town.'

2021:

Ep #134 (1966) - Roger - 'I MUST say I'm very pleased
with this new-found attitude.'

2020:

Ep #170 (1967) - Dr. Guthrie - 'We MUST keep this circle
unbroken at all times.'

- then you need to clear your browser's cache...

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[spoiler]Yesterday's quote:
Ep #121 (1966) - David - 'It MUST be that!'

From "#0121/0122: Robservations 08/14/01: Matthew on the Brink"

I thought I heard something, says David--I thought it was you--when I came in, I didn't see you and I started to call your name, then I could hear it. Hear what? asks Matthew. The sound, says David--it was like a voice coming from that wall. Come on, Davy! chides Matthew. No, says David, it was like someone was trying to say something, I don't know what. It could have been in your mind, suggests Matthew. No, it was very real, insists David. Matthew drags David over to the shelf. Do you hear it now? he demands. No, I don't hear it now, says David. You see, says Matthew. But I know I heard something, says David. Forget it, Davy, I'm tellin' ya, says Matthew, lighting the cigarette. I can't forget it, David says. I don't like the way you're talkin' says Matthew. Do you have something to do with the secret of this house? You're askin' too many questions, grumbles Matthew, you've been here too long already. It must be that! says David. Go home now, orders Matthew. What is it? asks David. That's enough, says Matthew. That's the secret! proclaims David. Trouble with you is, you don't know when to stop, says Matthew. Please, you don't have to keep the secret from me! says David.

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The Robservations references the quote perfectly...

And this is the third quote from this ep. The first (Matthew - 'If you wanta help me, ya MUST never do anything that might hurt me') was back on October 4th of 2021, and the second (Sheriff Patterson - 'Now, you MUSTN'T feel that way. No one could have predicted this') was back on August 24th of 2023.

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[spoiler]Yesterday's quote:
Ep #172 (1967) - Burke - 'Well, it MUST be pretty devastating information for you to give it to me for nothing.'

From "#0172/0173: Robservations 09/20/01: Sarah Guards the Gate"

Sarah reports to Burke's hotel room. I didn't expect to see you today, he says. I have information I'd give you even if you weren't paying me, she says. Well, it must be pretty devastating information for you to give it to me for nothing, he says, hands in pockets. (LOL!) Do you know what went on at Collinwood last night? she asks. That's what I pay you for, he reminds her, to find out.

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The Robservations references the quote perfectly...

And this is the second quote from this ep. The first (Laura - 'You MUSTN'T do that. Leave the fire alone, I want it left burning all the time') was back on August 11th.

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[spoiler]Yesterday's quote:
Ep #282 (1967) - Liz - 'Oh, you- you MUST mean Sarah Collins.'

From "#0281/0282: Robservations 12/12/01: Josette Speaks Through Vicki"

Drawing room - Liz enters to find Vicki, smiling, listening to the music box Barnabas gave her. Hearing of Barnabas' gift, Liz expresses her concern that Vicki's overdosing on Josette--they've had enough seances lately,

and Vicki is a sensitive and vulnerable girl without a past of her own--don't look for a past that isn't there, cautions Liz.

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The Robservations doesn't reference the quote at all, nor does the AOL Update. However, after Liz says they've had enough seances and she comments on how Vicki imagined seeing a child at the Old House, Vicki insists it was just her imagination. Then she goes on to explain that she knows why it happened because when she went through the trunk of old clothes at the Old House, she came across a dress that belonged to a little girl, the daughter of Joshua and Naomi. And to that Liz delivered the quote...

And this is the second quote from this ep. The first (Julia - 'We MUST do everything and everything and anything we can to hurry the day that you can remember the story of the real Maggie Evans') was back on December 28th.