Barnabas returns home. Julia asks him what happened. He explains that Nicholas has disappeared in a blaze of flame on Widow's Hill. He describes Blair's begging to avoid his fate. Julia asks if he's disappeared forever, and he says he is. She hugs Barnabas, saying that the danger is over.
Adam sneaks into Collinwood. He makes his way upstairs, and says they all will die, but first, the one Barnabas loves. Victoria Winters.
Barnabas asks where Adam is, and Julia says he's in the lab. Barnabas goes to speak with him, but he's nowhere to be found. Eve's crispy skeleton is the only thing left in the room. Barnabas asks Julia if it's possible that Adam left the house to carry out his threat. He rushes off to Collinwood.
Carolyn gives Vicki some sleeping pills. She explains that she's worried about Jeff, but doesn't want to talk about it now. Adam listens outside her door. Carolyn tells Vicki in confidence that she became attracted to someone who went away. Adam hears this, and wonders who she's referring to. Vicki asks her how long this person has been gone, and Carolyn says it's been a long time. Carolyn leaves Vicki, and Adam hides so as not to be seen.
Once she's gone, he enters Vicki's room. He puts his hand over her mouth and tells her not to scream or he'll kill her. He drags her out of bed and says he's taking her out of the house. She asks if she can get her coat, and when he lets her go, she screams for help. Carolyn rushes in, and Vicki says Adam was trying to kidnap her. Adam backhands Vicki and she is knocked out. Carolyn says she's still breathing, but he could have killed her. She asks Adam what has happened to him, and he refuses to look at her. She tells him to remember he was a sweet man. She tells him to leave Vicki alone, and he says he will have his revenge. Carolyn asks for what, and goes to the phone to call the police. He rips the phone out of the wall, and then chokes Carolyn until she passes out. Adam picks up Vicki and leaves with her body.
Barnabas finds Carolyn on the floor in Vicki's room. He asks where Vicki is, and she says Adam kidnapped her. He goes to call the police, and tells Carolyn that he has to find Adam before he kills Vicki.
Julia is alone in the old house when he hears the machinery turned on downstairs. She calls for Barnabas and starts downstairs. Adam grabs her and roughly leads her into the drawing room. He asks her to sit down. She asks where he went, and he tells her he went into the woods to think. She asks what he was doing in the cellar. Adam says he was looking at his bride. Julia asks him what he plans to do, and he asks her why he should hurt Barnabas. He asks what he has to gain hurting her or Barnabas. Julia tells Adam that Blair disappeared, and will likely never return. Adam says Blair made too many promises he couldn't keep. Julia asks why he keeps staring at her, and he asks if he makes her nervous. She offers to give him a sedative and he declines. She tries to go downstairs, but he won't let her go. She asks what's going on, and starts downstairs. He follows her and she screams.
Barnabas returns home and calls for Julia. He finds her lying on the stairs, and asks where Adam is. She says he's downstairs, and Barnabas tells her that he's got Vicki. They find the door to the cellar is locked.
Adam has Vicki strapped to the operating table next to Eve's skeleton. He then throws the switch, and Vicki begins to scream.
Barnabas calls to Adam from upstairs, but he doesn't respond.
Adam fiddles with dials and smiles gleefully as Vicki appears to be tormented by the experiment. She begs for him to stop.
Adam hears Julia call to leave her alone. He then hears Carolyn call to leave Vicki alone. He continues to spin dials, and then goes to Eve's skeleton. He tells Vicki that Barnabas will suffer. Barnabas comes downstairs with a gun drawn on Adam, and tells him to turn off the machine. Adam says if he dies, Barnabas will revert to what he was. Barnabas says he's lying. Julia says Adam must have heard Lang's tape. Adam says he doesn't know what Barnabas is, but he knows he doesn't want him to die. Adam tells him to watch what happens to Vicki when he pulls the switch, and when he starts to do it, Barnabas shoots him in the back.
Our thoughts
John: Your 'friend' has been gone a long time, Carolyn? In soap-opera time, didn't Adam just leave a day or two ago?
Christine: Maybe she was referring to good ol' Tony Peterson and not Adam.
John: Where the hell is everyone else in Collinwood while Vicki and Carolyn are being attacked upstairs? Hell of a day for Roger, David, Elizabeth, Mrs. Johnson and that loser Harry to all have the day off.
Christine: It's not the first time the young ladies have been attacked and screaming for help with no one to come running in response. I guess when it happens often enough the residents fail to notice.
John: So Adam demonstrates that no one ever really knew how to run the experiment. But the random turning of dials had a great effect causing pain on the person on the operating table, despite their not being connected to anything—not even electrodes. Was anyone else surprised it took Barnabas so long to do something while Vicki continued to cry out in pain?
Christine: Well, he needed to give Adam a chance to remind us of Dr. Lang's tape so we could wonder all weekend if we may get Vampire Barnabas back on Monday if his shot proves to be fatal.
