Episode 1002 - Tuesday, September 26, 2000

[Tony Ning Lew]

September 26, 2000
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Episode 1002
Tape Date: April 23, 1970
Air Date: April 28, 1970 Tuesday
Writer: Joe Caldwell
Director: Lela Swift
Quentin continues to demand, "Cyrus, if you're in there, open the
door! Is anything wrong?" Receiving no answer, Quentin shouts, "Trask!
Bring me the drawing room keys!" Receiving no answer, he leaves to get
them himself.
Inside the drawing room, Yaeger notices the window and starts for
it, then thinks to himself, "No, it must appear that I left of my
own consent. Of course! I'll write a note!" He uncaps a fountain
pen he finds on the desk, gets a piece of paper from a drawer, and
writes, "Dear Quentin. Please pardon my leaving. I'll explain later".
He is about to leave the note there when something suddenly occurs
to him, "Idiot! That's the handwriting I decided to use as John
Yaeger. I've got to start again!". He crumbles up the note and
writes another one, leaves it on the desk, unlocks the drawing room
doors, then goes out the window.
Quentin returns and comes into the drawing room and finds it empty.
He looks around and finds the note on the desk, "Sorry I had to leave
without saying goodbye. I've just remembered an urgent appointment.
I'll explain later. - Cyrus". Amy comes walking into the room.
Quentin asks, "What are you doing here?" Amy replies, "Mr. Loomis
brought me here but he didn't want to come in". She complains, "Why
doesn't anyone want me?" Quentin asks, "What do you mean?" Amy
replies, "Willie and Carolyn don't want me at the old house, and you
don't want me here!" Quentin tells her, "That's not true. Sorry
if I gave you that impression. In fact, I'm glad you've come back.
Daniel is returning today. His uncle Roger should be returning
with him any moment now". Amy notices a piece of crumpbled paper
on the floor. She picks it up, remarks, "Someone dropped this"
and gives it to Quentin, then leaves. Quentin uncrumples the paper
and reads it. A puzzled look comes onto his face. He compares it
with the other note and notes, "The handwriting, it's different.
It's similar, but different!"
John Yaeger returns to the lab. He gets the antidote from the
wall safe, but then thinks, "No! Why should I do this? Why should
I be afraid? I am John Yaeger! I am not Cyrus Longworth, that
coward. Longworth, he'd take the quick way out, but not me! I love
life, and I love adventure, and I'm not afraid! Even if I did change
without the potion, what of it? I should take advantage of it!"
He takes his cane, pushes the button to unsheath the knife and
exclaims, "I'm John Yaeger and I'm not afraid of anything!!!"
Daniel is talking to Amy outside Angelique's room, "You're just
saying that to make me feel bad that I've been away". Amy insists,
"No, I really saw Dameon Edwards, and I saw him walk through a wall!"
Daniel says, "No you didn't!" Quentin, who's shown up, echoes, "No,
you didn't, Amy". Amy insists, "I saw him!", but Quentin reminds her,
"We went down into that room and the wall was solid". Amy is upset
that no one believes her.
At the lab, Yaeger remarks, "The one thing Cyrus and I share is
taste. We both know the best when we see it.", as he admires a landscape
painting on the wall. He takes it off the wall and remarks, "I'm sure
Cyrus won't mind if I take this for my room". He hears Sabrina call down,
"Cyrus, are you down there?" Yaeger quickly exits out the basement door,
taking the painting with him. Sabrina comes down saying, "Cyrus, did I
hear you down here?" but finds the lab empty.
Yaeger goes to his rented rooms and puts the painting up. There's
a knock at the door. Yaeger says, "Come in!" Buffie Harrington comes
in. She tells him, "Mrs. DuVal said you were here". She looks around
and remarks, "It's going to look very nice here". Yaeger replies, "It's
going to look magnificent!" Buffie notices the picture on the wall and
remarks, "I see you've already bought a picture. It looks nice".
Yaeger again corrects her, "It looks magnificent!". Buffie remarks,
"I'd been wondering where you'd disappeared to". Yaeger replies, "I
have a few questions to ask you, too". He goes and locks the door,
then asks, "Do you mind?" Buffie replies, "Of course not". Yaeger
asks, "I don't frighten you, do I?" Buffie replies, "No". Yaeger
remarks, "Good. I don't think you've done anything to make you afraid
of me, have you?" Buffie doesn't answer. Yaeger prompts her, "Well,
have you?"
At the lab, Sabrina is talking on the phone to Quentin, who wants
to know if Cyrus is there. She notices that the painting is missing.
Yaeger asks Buffie, "Why did you go to Longworth's lab? You wanted
to see if the check had any value, didn't you? You don't trust me,
do you?" Buffie lies, "I just went there to thank him". Cyrus remarks,
"Why? I gave you the check!" He continues, "I don't expect you trust
me since we don't really know one another yet, but it grieves me that
you don't like me". Buffie insists, "I do like you. Haven't I proven
that to you?" Yaeger says, "But I thought you said you liked quiet
men". Buffie asks, "Quiet men?" Yaeger says, "Didn't you say to
Cyrus Longworth that you liked quiet men?" Buffie asks, "He told you
that?" Yaeger remarks, "A quiet man. Very well. I won't make a sound.
Not a sound. No one will hear a thing. Not a single solitary sound".
He starts to slap her around.
Yaeger has beaten Buffie. She complains, "You didn't have to do
that!" Yaeger replies, "I had to do it. I had to prove that I could
be a quiet man. Is that satisfactory?" Buffie begs, "Let me go back
to my room". Yaeger replies, "If you insist. But before you go, just
to prove that there was no malice in the lesson today, I'd like to let
you have this" and gives her Cyrus' painting. Buffie asks, "You'd like
me to have this?" Yaeger replies, "Yes, deep down, we both appreciate
the beautiful". Buffie thanks him. Yaeger continues, "And I'd like
to take you out to dinner". Buffie, incredulous, asks, "You'd like to
take me out to dinner?" Yaeger replies, "Yes, to a place with good
food and good wine". Buffie asks, "You'd take me to a place like that?"
Yaeger at first says yes, then starts laughing hysterically. Buffie
asks, "What's wrong?" Yaeger replies, "Did you really think I'd take
you out looking like that with bruises on your arms and cuts on your
face?" Buffie protests, "But you asked me!" Yaeger replies, "Maybe
sometime in the future when you've learned how to take care of yourself!
Good night, Miss Harrington!" Buffie leaves.
In the drawing room at Collinwood, Amy is showing Quentin a wrinkled
piece of typing paper, explaining, "I took this paper from Mr. Loomis'
trash can to draw on". I read it and found out he's writing about a
room in the East Wing. I thought he was writing about Angelique's room,
but he said it was empty. Is this part of his book about Barnabas".
Quentin assures her, "It's just a story". But after Amy leaves, Quentin
reads it and gets a strange look on his face.
Yaeger goes back to the lab. He opens the safe and takes the antidote
out, but hears someone coming and quickly puts it back into the safe,
which he closes. Sabrina comes down into the lab and demands to know,
"Who are you? What are you doing here? Who let you in?" Yaeger asks,
"Hasn't Cyrus ever told you about his good friend John Yaeger?" Sabrina
says, "John Yaeger! I should have known. How did you get in?" Yaeger
replies, "With the key Cyrus gave me". He asks her, "Are you always
so cold? I sense some emotional release trying to get out". Sabrina
warns him, "You'd better leave before Cyrus comes back". Yaeger counters,
"But it was Cyrus who told me to wait for him here". Sabrina starts
to leave, saying, "Well, if you'd excuse me...", but Yaeger interrupts,
"No, I'd like you stay and talk about that emotional release I mentioned
earlier", but Sabrina leaves. Yaeger smiles, then takes the antidote
back out and takes a swallow.
Quentin goes to the hallway outside Angelique's room. He hears
Daniel and Amy talking inside. He opens the door and sees Amy and
Daniel in an unfurnished room arguing. "Daniel" is arguing, "Maybe
if we stayed and waited something might happen". Amy argues that
nothing will. "Daniel" insists, "I heard Dr. Hoffman tell my father
Barnabas was trapped in here". Quentin calls out, "Daniel! Amy!", but
they continue to argue without appearing to hear him. Quentin shouts,
"Amy! Can't you hear me?" A voice from behind him answers, "Of
course I can hear you". He turns around and is shocked to see
Amy and Daniel standing there. Daniel asks, "We heard you calling
us. Is something wrong?"