Episodes 804,805 Thursday, March 30, 2000
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Episode 804
Tape Date: July 16, 1969
Air Date: July 24, 1969 Thursday
Writer: Violet Welles
Director: Henry Kaplan
Edward tells Quentin, "I used to be the manservant of the
Earl of Hampshire..." Quentin tries to tell Edward, "You're
a member of this family! You live here!", but to no avail.
Edward continues to think he is an unemployed manservant
looking for a job. Jamison comes into the room and applauds,
saying, "Isn't he a gem?" After Jamison leaves, Charity comes
in. Quentin tells her that there's something wrong with Edward.
Charity suggests calling a doctor, but Quentin replies, "A
doctor won't help. We'll just have to keep him safe here
until he gets better".
There's a knock at the front door. Jamison answers it. The
visitor (Roger Davis) introduces himself, "I'm Charles Delaware
Tate". Jamison says, "Despite my appearance, I am the one who
sent for you. I am Count Petofi". Jamison takes Tate into
the drawing room and muses out loud, "Charles Delaware Tate,
world famous painter", then tells Tate, "I have summoned you
here to commission a portrait", and hands him a photograph.
Charity asks Quentin to have a drink with him, but Quentin
declines, saying, "There's something I have to do". Charity
becomes angry and says, "You're planning to go into town to
see some slut, aren't you? You prefer them to me because I'm
too much of a lady for you!"
Quentin and Charity take Edward to the tower room and lock
him in there. Quentin then returns to his room. Barnabas is
waiting for him there. Barnabas asks, "Have you called Jamison?"
Quentin replies, "Yes. He'll be coming soon". Barnabas says,
"It's imperative that we stop Petofi's possession of Jamison as
soon as possible before Jamison's mind is permanently damaged".
Jamison comes in, and Barnabas uses him powers to try to
cure him.
Charity is going to Quentin's room to talk to him, but
stops outside the door when she hears Barnabas' voice coming
from inside and leaves.
Barnabas finishes his work on Jamison, and concludes by
asking, "Who are you?" Jamison replies, "I'd like to say
'Jamison Collins', but that would be lying. It's getting late
and I've got to go to bed now" and leaves. Barnabas tells
Quentin, "We'll have to try something stronger".
Charity goes to the foyer and tries to telephone her father,
who's in Portland, but finds he isn't there at his hotel.
She leaves a message that he is to call her as soon as he
returns. Jamison comes down the stairs and tells Charity,
"You're very pretty. I'm glad you're living here with us
now", and kisses her on the cheek. The phone rings, and
Charity answers, saying, in a heavy Cockney accent, "Portland?
I don't know anyone in Portland!", and hangs up.
Quentin goes into the drawing room and finds Charles
Delaware Tate in there making a sketch. Quentin asks, "Who
are you and what are you doing here?" Tate replies, "I'm
Charles Delaware Tate. I've been commissioned to paint a
portrait of you". Quentin says, "I haven't commissioned
any portrait of myself", and asks, "Who did?" Charles
Delaware Tate takes a letter out of his pocket and gives
it to Quentin. Quentin reads it, then exclaims, "But my
grandmother Edith is dead!" He tells Tate, "I don't want
a portrait of myself. Since the person who commissioned it
is dead, you needn't do it". Tate insists on doing it,
saying, "I've already been paid for it", but Quentin kicks
him out of the house.
Charity comes down and starts to talk to Quentin - speaking
in a heavy Cockney accent. She starts to sing Pansy's song,
then asks Quentin, "How do you like me now?" Seeing that something
is wrong with her, perhaps suspecting that she's drunk, Quentin takes
her into the drawing room and tells her, "You'd better sit
down", but she tells him, "No, you sit down and let me entertain
you with my mind reading act!" She closes her eyes and concentrates,
then after a while exclaims, "Your brother Carl! You were responsible
for his death!" Jamison, who has come into the room, laughs
heartily. Charity suddenly snaps out of it and speaks in her
normal voice again, not remembering what's happened, but clearly
upset. Quentin takes her up to her room. Jamison/Petofi, appearing
very pleased with himself, takes out a notebook and starts writing
in it, noting, "Let's see how many 'real selves' I have revealed
and how many I still have left to do. Beth - vampire's slave,
Edward - manservant, Charity - trash, now that leaves...", but
Barnabas suddenly appears, grabs him, and drags him into the
secret passage in the drawing room...
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Episode 805
Tape Date: July 17, 1969
Air Date: July 25, 1969 Friday
Writer: Violet Welles
Director: Henry Kaplan
Barnabas takes Jamison and locks him in a cell somewhere.
Jamison - speaking in his normal voice - begins to beg to
be let out, but Barnabas is not fooled and replies, "I'll
release you when the spirit of Count Petofi no longer
possesses you". Jamison - now talking like Petofi -
warns, "Then you'll have to watch the boy die slowly in
this cell!"
Trask returns to Collinwood and finds Charity acting
as if she were Pansy Faye. He is shocked, and slaps her.
She returns to normal and tells her it's not her fault, and
tells him about the strange things that have been happening
at Collinwood.
At Evan's house, Evan is playing some sort of solitaire
with some scrabble-like letter tiles. Suddenly, he feels a
presence. The windows blow open and Barnabas appears in
the room. Barnabas tries to get more information about the
hand.
{Scene with Charity and G. Trask I don't remember}
At Evan's house, Barnabas isn't having much luck. Evan
insists that he knows nothing about the whereabouts of the
hand except that Tim Shaw took it. There's a knock at the
front door. Evan asks, "Who is it?" Trask's voice replies,
"Trask". Barnabas disappears. Evan lets Trask in. Trask
tells Evan, "Everyone at Collinwood is going crazy! Draw up
a document giving me complete control of Collinwood!" Evan
refuses, saying, "I don't want to have anything to do with
any of this anymore!" Trask replies, "You must! We can't
have control of Collinwood going to a boy who thinks he's
a foreign count! He thinks he's a Count Petofi!" Evan
replies, "Now that I know someone as powerful and evil as
Count Petofi is involved in this, I certainly don't want to
get mixed up in this!" Trask asks him to think about it and
leaves.
At Evan's house, Evan falls asleep. In his cell, Jamison
goes through his notebook of potential victims and says,
"Yes... Evan Handley!" He appears to Evan in a dream and
kisses him on the cheek. When Evan wakes up, he begins to
write a letter.
In the drawing room at Collinwood, Charity once again starts
to act like Pansy Faye. Trask pushes her to her knees and
demands that she pray. At first, still speaking as Pansy,
Charity says, "I don't know how", but then returns to normal.
They both get down on their knees and pray. They are interrupted
by the arrival of Evan Handley, who tells Trask, "I have something
for you to sign". Trask asks Charity to leave the room. She
does. Trask, thinking it is the document he requested giving
him complete control of Collinwood, greedily grabs the document
Evan has brought and signs it. But then he reads part of it
and finds to his horror that it is in fact a confession to
Minerva's murder. Trask exclaims, "How could you write something
like this?!" Evan calmly replies, "It's true, isn't it?"
Trask exclaims, "To think, I actually signed it!". Evan
nonchalently remarks, "I signed it too. After all, we're both
responsible for killing Minerva". Trask exclaims, "You're crazy!",
crumples the document up, and throws it into the fire, then
physically ejects Evan from Collinwood. While Trask is dragging
Evan to the front door and throwing him out, the paper burns to
ashes in the fire, but then magically reappears undamaged on the
desk. It is not even wrinkled...