1 00:00:01,740 --> 00:00:03,760 My name is Victoria Winters. 2 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:09,500 The gray light of early morning brings no relief from the tension that inhabits 3 00:00:09,500 --> 00:00:11,500 the old house on top of Widow's Hill. 4 00:00:12,180 --> 00:00:14,040 But at least the night has passed. 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,240 A night that was touched with a fear I'd never known before. 6 00:00:19,620 --> 00:00:21,280 And now it would be over. 7 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:23,660 Fear would be ended. 8 00:00:24,540 --> 00:00:25,840 And so would hope. 9 00:00:43,820 --> 00:00:46,080 Victoria Winters, you're quitting, aren't you? Uh -huh. 10 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:48,540 But you've only been here one night. 11 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:50,660 Well, it seems I can't take it. 12 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,160 And here I thought I'd found a friend. 13 00:00:55,420 --> 00:00:57,860 Oh, Vicki, I know it was rough last night. 14 00:00:58,380 --> 00:01:00,980 But no one knows that better than I. 15 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,220 Well, I'll take you up on that coffee. 16 00:01:06,220 --> 00:01:09,480 The first and last breakfast in college, Collingwood. 17 00:01:11,690 --> 00:01:13,370 Vicki, we could have been good friends. 18 00:01:13,750 --> 00:01:15,710 Maybe you could come and see me in New York. 19 00:01:16,030 --> 00:01:17,630 Vicki, you sure you want to do this? 20 00:01:18,490 --> 00:01:20,690 I know how difficult it was last night. 21 00:01:21,030 --> 00:01:22,790 Oh, you don't know how difficult it was. 22 00:01:23,170 --> 00:01:24,890 But let's get that coffee. 23 00:01:25,710 --> 00:01:28,650 Vicki, you haven't even met David yet. 24 00:01:29,790 --> 00:01:30,810 Give us a chance. 25 00:01:32,090 --> 00:01:33,090 But you're wrong. 26 00:01:33,670 --> 00:01:34,890 I did meet him. 27 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,720 Frightening it was to see that small white form at the top of the stairs. 28 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:07,720 Talk up to it. 29 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:11,000 Here's three words. 30 00:04:11,420 --> 00:04:12,420 Just three. 31 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,100 I hate you. 32 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,500 And that's when you decided to leave. 33 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:21,600 It wasn't just David. 34 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,380 It was everything. Your uncle last night. But I told you about Uncle Roger. 35 00:04:26,860 --> 00:04:28,840 Once you get to know him... I know, he's... 36 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,400 He's charming and pleasant and terrified. 37 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:33,700 Maybe I am, too. 38 00:04:34,060 --> 00:04:36,460 That sobbing I heard last night. Sobbing? 39 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:38,740 What sobbing? 40 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,260 Well, about two o 'clock. Didn't you hear it? 41 00:04:43,260 --> 00:04:46,380 No. I came downstairs because it woke me. 42 00:04:46,820 --> 00:04:51,520 I heard it all around me. I went into the living room, but there was no one 43 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:53,540 there. Maybe you were dreaming. 44 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:55,380 Good morning, you lovely people. 45 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:56,640 Hi, kittens. 46 00:05:04,330 --> 00:05:05,330 Good morning, Miss Winters. 47 00:05:05,390 --> 00:05:06,510 Very well, thank you. 48 00:05:06,990 --> 00:05:10,890 Vicki's sore at you, Uncle Roger. Well, then maybe a letter from home will help 49 00:05:10,890 --> 00:05:12,170 cheer her up a bit. 50 00:05:12,950 --> 00:05:15,590 A tie with the past always makes the future look brighter. 51 00:05:15,910 --> 00:05:16,910 Thank you. 52 00:05:18,090 --> 00:05:21,450 Oh, Miss Winters, I want to apologize for last night. 53 00:05:22,070 --> 00:05:24,790 I'd had a bit of a shock, and I'm afraid I took it out on you. 54 00:05:25,390 --> 00:05:28,810 I'm dreadfully sorry, and I hope you'll forgive me. 55 00:05:29,130 --> 00:05:32,290 Please say that you will, or else I'll throw myself off the cliff. 56 00:05:34,870 --> 00:05:36,870 Good, we're friends then. I'll see you later. 57 00:05:38,730 --> 00:05:42,730 Oh, by the way, has anyone seen David around this morning? I stopped in at his 58 00:05:42,730 --> 00:05:43,730 room, but he wasn't there. 59 00:05:43,950 --> 00:05:44,950 Lucky you. 60 00:05:45,130 --> 00:05:49,030 But if you see him this winter, give him a kick for me, will you? 61 00:05:49,270 --> 00:05:50,270 There's a good girl. 62 00:06:03,950 --> 00:06:04,950 Nothing but dreams. 63 00:06:06,910 --> 00:06:07,910 Happy breakfast. 64 00:06:11,150 --> 00:06:15,730 You see, Vicki, are you going to leave us just because of a dream? 65 00:06:53,450 --> 00:06:54,450 Anything important? 66 00:06:54,650 --> 00:06:55,650 Just news. 67 00:06:55,970 --> 00:06:57,810 He says the children all miss me. 68 00:06:58,950 --> 00:07:02,710 Well, I'll just have time for a good long look at the view before I go 69 00:07:02,710 --> 00:07:03,710 and get packed. 70 00:07:04,090 --> 00:07:05,069 You're chicken. 71 00:07:05,070 --> 00:07:06,150 I suppose I am. 72 00:07:06,990 --> 00:07:10,510 What kind of person comes all the way up here from New York just to spend one 73 00:07:10,510 --> 00:07:12,510 night and then gives up? 74 00:07:12,830 --> 00:07:15,670 It was the most frightening night of my life. Don't forget that. Okay, okay. 75 00:07:16,930 --> 00:07:19,070 If you're really going, then hurry up about it. 76 00:07:20,750 --> 00:07:22,330 Yesterday you told me to go. 77 00:07:23,340 --> 00:07:24,440 That was just talk. 78 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:29,940 Oh, Vicki, I'll go out of my mind if I don't have somebody in this place. Like, 79 00:07:29,980 --> 00:07:32,420 Carolyn, if you hate it here, why don't you leave? 80 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:35,560 Maybe I will someday. 81 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:40,880 Oh, you don't know how lucky you are. 82 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:43,080 Don't ever envy me. 83 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:45,040 Why not? 84 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:49,780 When you can just pick up your bag and walk out of here, you go home to a 85 00:07:49,780 --> 00:07:50,780 family. 86 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:03,760 Fifty -two of them. 87 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,480 But there isn't one of them who wouldn't give ten years of her life just to know 88 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,540 who she is and where she comes from. 89 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,020 Okay, so you worked in a foundling home. 90 00:08:14,980 --> 00:08:17,560 What does that have to do with... Yes, I worked in a foundling home. 91 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:21,220 And I lived there too, Carolyn, every year of my life. 92 00:08:23,220 --> 00:08:24,220 That's right. 93 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:25,620 I'm one of those kids. 94 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:29,220 You know what my family was? 95 00:08:33,130 --> 00:08:34,630 with ten words written on it. 96 00:08:35,110 --> 00:08:36,409 Her name is Victoria. 97 00:08:36,990 --> 00:08:38,789 I cannot take care of her. 98 00:08:39,950 --> 00:08:40,950 I'm sorry. 99 00:08:41,990 --> 00:08:43,070 I didn't know. 100 00:08:44,010 --> 00:08:45,590 That's the thing about families. 101 00:08:46,110 --> 00:08:48,330 You just don't know how important they are. 102 00:08:48,970 --> 00:08:53,190 But couldn't you... I mean, haven't you ever tried to find out anything? 103 00:08:53,610 --> 00:08:54,870 I never stopped trying. 104 00:08:55,230 --> 00:08:59,590 I was even crazy enough to come up here on the chance I might find the answer. 105 00:09:00,290 --> 00:09:01,670 But that's over with now. 106 00:09:29,390 --> 00:09:31,470 when your mother offered me this job either. 107 00:09:32,190 --> 00:09:35,510 I'd never heard of her, Carolyn, or Collinsport. 108 00:09:36,110 --> 00:09:38,310 Everyone thought I was crazy to come up here. 109 00:09:38,810 --> 00:09:39,970 Then why did you? 110 00:09:42,190 --> 00:09:45,070 The postmark on the letters was Bangor, Maine. 111 00:09:45,990 --> 00:09:48,970 And Bangor is only 50 miles from Collinsport. 112 00:09:51,230 --> 00:09:53,390 Oh, Vicki, that's a real stretch. 113 00:09:53,650 --> 00:09:56,250 When you're as desperate as I am, you grab for anything. 114 00:09:57,210 --> 00:10:01,770 So... Don't ever envy me, because you know who you are, and you belong. 115 00:10:02,770 --> 00:10:07,050 And your name is more than just a season when you were dropped on the most 116 00:10:07,050 --> 00:10:08,250 convenient doorstep. 117 00:10:09,010 --> 00:10:10,010 Winter? 118 00:10:10,930 --> 00:10:11,930 Victoria Winter. 119 00:10:14,330 --> 00:10:16,050 I'd never have figured that one out. 120 00:10:16,550 --> 00:10:17,550 Yes. 121 00:10:18,150 --> 00:10:22,990 Well, that's the sad story of my life, and the reason I came up here. 122 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:27,920 I'll do the dishes 123 00:11:44,490 --> 00:11:45,490 Go home, Miss. 124 00:11:45,990 --> 00:11:47,290 Go back to New York. 125 00:11:47,630 --> 00:11:48,630 Who are you? 126 00:11:48,810 --> 00:11:49,850 That's a good question. 127 00:11:50,530 --> 00:11:52,590 One I've been trying to figure out all my life. 128 00:11:53,110 --> 00:11:54,110 Who am I? 129 00:11:54,170 --> 00:11:55,270 Who are any of us? 130 00:11:55,570 --> 00:11:59,150 Why are we here in this green and ugly world? 131 00:12:00,110 --> 00:12:02,670 Your name is Victoria Witter. How do you know? 132 00:12:03,110 --> 00:12:09,230 When a man has cruised along these cliffs as long as I have, gazed out to 133 00:12:09,470 --> 00:12:12,330 feasted his eyes on the beauty about him. 134 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:15,960 He fastened his ears to the keyholes beside him. 135 00:12:16,260 --> 00:12:17,520 He does a great deal. 136 00:12:18,300 --> 00:12:20,120 You arrived last night in Collinsburg. 137 00:12:20,860 --> 00:12:23,560 Driven to the hotel by a dark and hungry man. 138 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:25,220 Then a taxi brought you here. 139 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:26,500 Who are you anyway? 140 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,060 Go home, Miss Winters. 141 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:32,120 Once you've told Roger Collins I'm here, you go pack your things and go home. 142 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,560 You will tell him, will you? 143 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,200 I can't. He's not here. 144 00:12:38,140 --> 00:12:39,140 Are you sure? 145 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:43,100 He went to town about a half an hour ago. Did he say where he was going? No, 146 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:44,100 just he was going to town. 147 00:12:44,260 --> 00:12:47,100 Did he say when he was coming back? No, he didn't. He'll be back. 148 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:49,920 When he does, I want you to tell him I was here. 149 00:12:50,940 --> 00:12:57,220 Tell him... Tell him Sam wandered along the shore last night and came to Widow's 150 00:12:57,220 --> 00:12:58,220 Hill this morning. 151 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,500 Well, I don't know if there'll be enough time. Then tell only him. No one else. 152 00:13:01,980 --> 00:13:05,120 And another soul in that ghost -ridden house of tears. 153 00:13:05,620 --> 00:13:06,620 Just a minute. 154 00:13:07,850 --> 00:13:09,570 What did you mean, house of tears? 155 00:13:10,070 --> 00:13:11,069 That simple. 156 00:13:11,070 --> 00:13:13,570 You break a heart, it cries. 157 00:13:14,590 --> 00:13:16,290 Wedding? Perhaps. 158 00:13:16,850 --> 00:13:18,510 But eternal and true. 159 00:13:19,430 --> 00:13:20,770 You've heard of Josette Collins? 160 00:13:21,090 --> 00:13:22,090 No. 161 00:13:22,410 --> 00:13:23,770 This is where she stood. 162 00:13:25,250 --> 00:13:26,250 Josette Collins. 163 00:13:27,030 --> 00:13:30,690 Daught here from France as the bride of the man who built that house. 164 00:13:31,050 --> 00:13:32,110 He built it for her. 165 00:13:32,370 --> 00:13:33,430 He gave it to her. 166 00:13:34,230 --> 00:13:35,810 But he couldn't give her peace. 167 00:13:37,130 --> 00:13:38,130 What happened? 168 00:13:38,210 --> 00:13:39,730 Pounds of people hated her. 169 00:13:40,450 --> 00:13:41,730 Because she was a stranger. 170 00:13:42,590 --> 00:13:44,490 Her husband's family hated her. 171 00:13:45,230 --> 00:13:46,330 Because she was different. 172 00:13:47,670 --> 00:13:49,310 Even the house hated her. 173 00:13:50,190 --> 00:13:53,570 So she would cry herself to sleep night after night. 174 00:13:54,310 --> 00:13:58,930 And then one day... This is where it was good. 175 00:14:00,670 --> 00:14:01,670 That. 176 00:14:02,450 --> 00:14:03,810 That's where she jumped. 177 00:14:04,870 --> 00:14:06,090 How horrible. 178 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:12,200 Some quiet night. 179 00:14:12,980 --> 00:14:14,720 Listen real carefully. 180 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:18,760 You can hear her crying her heart out with loneliness. 181 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:22,780 But I... What I mean is, that's impossible. 182 00:14:23,620 --> 00:14:24,620 Have you heard her? 183 00:14:24,940 --> 00:14:26,400 No, no, of course not. 184 00:14:26,620 --> 00:14:27,860 There's no such thing as ghosts. 185 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:29,080 Yes, there are. 186 00:14:29,420 --> 00:14:30,960 I don't believe... Both living and dead. 187 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:32,440 I don't believe in them. 188 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:34,540 They exist, all right. 189 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,360 What do you say about Mrs. Stoddard? 190 00:14:37,740 --> 00:14:40,080 Why, she hasn't been out of that house in 18 years. 191 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,100 Is she any more than a ghost? 192 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,720 No, they exist all right, as she does. 193 00:14:46,100 --> 00:14:48,060 They cry out, as she does. 194 00:14:48,820 --> 00:14:52,780 They walk those halls and haunt it, as she does. 195 00:14:55,220 --> 00:14:57,260 Tell Roger Collins that I was here. 196 00:14:57,460 --> 00:14:58,920 Tell him, no one else. 197 00:15:31,470 --> 00:15:32,470 and gone by now. 198 00:15:33,350 --> 00:15:35,790 Carolyn, why didn't you tell me about your mother? 199 00:15:38,490 --> 00:15:40,310 I thought you knew about my mother. 200 00:15:41,230 --> 00:15:42,650 Everyone else in town does. 201 00:15:46,070 --> 00:15:48,310 But you live with it, and there it is. 202 00:15:49,890 --> 00:15:53,330 She hasn't been off the hill since six months before I was born. 203 00:15:55,730 --> 00:15:57,210 But at this day, I'm lucky. 204 00:15:58,110 --> 00:15:59,290 I have a family. 205 00:16:00,940 --> 00:16:01,940 Why does she do it? 206 00:16:03,060 --> 00:16:04,140 Because of my dad. 207 00:16:05,980 --> 00:16:07,360 He lost, you know? 208 00:16:08,860 --> 00:16:09,860 Took off. 209 00:16:10,820 --> 00:16:11,900 18 years ago. 210 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:17,720 And my mother, being a sensible woman, decided to do the natural thing. 211 00:16:19,700 --> 00:16:21,320 She decided to wait for him. 212 00:16:22,340 --> 00:16:23,460 And where do you wait? 213 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,940 You mean she's never been out? Really never? Look, why don't you just go home 214 00:16:32,940 --> 00:16:33,940 and stop bothering me? 215 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:09,660 He's been gone 18 years. 216 00:17:10,260 --> 00:17:11,260 What about it? 217 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:12,920 The money. 218 00:17:13,460 --> 00:17:15,380 The money you said was sent to you. 219 00:17:16,020 --> 00:17:18,579 It started coming 18 years ago, didn't it? 220 00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:20,740 Maybe there's a connection. 221 00:17:21,180 --> 00:17:22,240 Now who's stretching? 222 00:17:23,180 --> 00:17:24,300 But isn't it possible? 223 00:17:25,780 --> 00:17:29,500 I mean, you came up here on a wild chance. Maybe it means something and 224 00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:30,500 doesn't. 225 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:33,600 But are you going to leave before you have a chance to find out? 226 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:36,200 I don't know. 227 00:17:38,350 --> 00:17:39,490 Thanks for thinking about it. 228 00:18:08,140 --> 00:18:09,140 Where did you get that? 229 00:18:09,580 --> 00:18:11,040 Her name is Victoria. 230 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:14,160 I cannot take care of her. Please, please give it to me, David. Her name is 231 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,580 Victoria. I cannot take care of her. 232 00:18:16,820 --> 00:18:19,520 Please give it to me. Her name is Victoria. David, give it to me right 233 00:18:38,670 --> 00:18:39,649 Will you go home? 234 00:18:39,650 --> 00:18:40,650 They do. 235 00:18:40,710 --> 00:18:44,650 Who? The widows. They told me to send you home. 236 00:18:45,430 --> 00:18:49,090 Widows? I don't know what you're talking about, David. You're just like... 237 00:19:10,190 --> 00:19:11,190 My name is Victoria. 238 00:19:11,930 --> 00:19:14,010 I cannot take care of her. 239 00:19:26,270 --> 00:19:27,890 Wow, what happened here? 240 00:19:32,790 --> 00:19:34,190 He's on your side, huh? 241 00:19:35,650 --> 00:19:37,570 Looks like he wants you to go home too. 242 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:40,420 He sure doesn't know how to pack. 243 00:19:43,420 --> 00:19:45,180 Caroline, I've been thinking. I know. 244 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:47,680 I know. Enough is enough. 245 00:19:48,180 --> 00:19:52,120 No. About the money and the 18 years. Way, way out. 246 00:19:52,820 --> 00:19:53,820 I know. 247 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,160 I guess it's just me trying to hold on to a friend. 248 00:19:57,940 --> 00:19:59,700 It is pretty far -fetched. 249 00:20:00,220 --> 00:20:01,220 You're right. 250 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,420 And I'd be a fool to keep on staying here. 251 00:20:05,420 --> 00:20:06,720 You're right about that, too. 252 00:20:09,260 --> 00:20:14,060 If I go, then all I have is this. 253 00:20:16,260 --> 00:20:18,260 Maybe you'll think of another angle someday. 254 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:20,400 Maybe I will. 255 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,380 Caroline, help me put those things away. 256 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:31,880 I'm going to stay. 257 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,760 the action is. Join top recording stars as they visit exciting locations to sing 258 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:08,300 today's biggest song hit, next on ABC. 259 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,820 Dark Shadows has been a Dan Curtis production.