Dark Shadows Episode 414 - 1/25/68

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In the family crypt, Sarah calls to Barnabas. The door slams shut, trapping her inside.

Millicent and Nathan return to Collinwood after viewing an eclipse of the moon. She suggests that he must be going, and he continues to flirt with her. She says he makes her do things she should not do. Before you know it, he proposes to her, and she accepts. She says they will be married in New York, and then return to Collinwood so he can resume his work with the Navy. He says he was considering a change, and gives her reasons why she wouldn't want him in the Navy once they were married. Naomi calls for Sarah and walks in on them. They attempt to explain what they were up to, but all Naomi is interested in is whether they've seen Sarah.

Sarah calls for help from within the family crypt.

Naomi says that when she got back from town, she found that Sarah had not been in her bed. Nathan suggests she might have gone to watch the eclipse. He says he'll go look for her and leaves. Naomi says that Joshua will be furious that she left Sarah alone. She mentions Victoria, and Millicent refers to her as a witch. Naomi says witches don't warn people. Millicent asks for more details. Naomi explains that Vicki warned her about Sarah dying on her birthday. When she got back and found Sarah was gone, she believes that Vicki may be able to predict the future.

Sarah calls for Barnabas, asking him to please find her.

Barnabas approaches a woman standing by the water. She recognizes him, and says he frightened her. She says she knows she shouldn't be out alone after what happened to other girls. She tells Barnabas that she heard he had gone to England. She flirts with him, offering to go walking with him. She says she can't wait until her friends hear about the two of them.

She says the Revered Bland has written a whole sermon about her. She invites him to the Eagle for a drink, and he explains that he really should be going. He asks if she's waiting for someone else. He says she's very pretty, and when she says she has to tell her friends he said that, he asks her not to tell anyone she saw him. He starts to leave but she convinces him to stay. She snuggles up against him and he makes a move to bite her. She backs away, and falls into the ocean.

Nathan calls for Sarah in the woods. Millicent joins him, and says if Naomi is right, there's a curse on everyone at Collinwood. She says everyone that falls in love becomes miserable. He offers to take her to the house, and she says they have to keep looking. She asks if he checked near the cemetery, and Nathan explains that a child would be too frightened to do that.

Barnabas kneels at Jeremiah's grave, commiserating with him. He thinks at least Jeremiah has a chance at rest, while his eternity offers no escape. He cries out.

Millicent tells Nathan she heard a human cry.

Barnabas returns to the family crypt. Sarah looks up and sees him. She tells him she's been waiting for him. He tells her she must go home, and she asks him to walk her home. He says he cannot, and she must not say that she saw him. She sees the blood on his mouth, and says he's not Barnabas. She runs from the crypt as daylight breaks on the horizon.

Our thoughts

John: Good thing for Millicent that Naomi was too preoccupied with Sarah to get upset with her fooling around with Nathan in the drawing room.

Christine: Nathan is a real scalawag. He's looking at living the high life off Millicent's fortune. Millicent is going to get whiplash the way she's always whipping her head away from his smoochy lips.

John: Barnabas almost got to play Jack the Ripper! Question is, did Ruby drown? Or did he just leave her to swim away? I guess we'll find out if the constable comes calling...

Christine: I think that he fished her out and then had himself a nice meal. He couldn't risk letting her get away and expose him.

John: Sarah has been waiting all day to see Barnabas, and when he finally appears, she runs away because he has a little blood on his mouth?

Christine: Well, he's also dead and is not quite the same mild mannered brother she once knew. I was wrong about him learning to eat a little more neatly. You'd think a gentleman vampire would carry a handkerchief to dab about the bloodstained lips after an evening's refreshment.