526

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Number	520
Timeline	1968
Narrator	Alexandra Moltke
Writer	Ron Sproat
Director	Lela Swift
Broadcast	July 2, 1968 (Tuesday)
Recorded	June 14, 1968 (Friday)
Video	Complete: Disc 56 Collection 8: Disc 4
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Nicholas brings Cassandra back to Collinwood, but warns her of the consequences of her failure.

Synopsis

The great house at Collinwood is shrouded in darkness, but within the darkness the powers of evil exist. Not far from the house, in the forest that lies beyond it, there is one who is evoking the powers of evil to cause the return of a woman who could destroy one member of the Collins family.

Angelique reappears, and Nicholas wants to know how she got herself into this mess. He thinks that love is getting her in trouble, but Angélique vows she feels only hate for Barnabas. Jeff goes to see Victoria, aggravating Roger.

Nicholas and Cassandra work out a plan; Victoria is missing; as Clark and Roger look for her, Cassandra returns. She says she’s been in Philadelphia where she grew up.

Jeff wakes sleepwalker Victoria up; she has a button in her hand. Nicholas gives credence to Cassandra's explanations. Victoria says she’s afraid of Cassandra and Nicholas.

Jeff tells Victoria that he's Peter Bradford; his explanations, however, don’t stack up to Victoria's experiences. Now she thinks he's Jeff Clark, not Peter Bradford. Nicholas comes in to tell Victoria he’ll help her, and Jeff notices that the button she was holding came from his jacket.

Dramatis personae

• Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins
• Lara Parker as Cassandra Collins
• Roger Davis as Jeff Clark
• Humbert Allen Astredo as Nicholas Blair
• Alexandra Moltke as Victoria Winters

Background information and notes

Production

• This episode was recorded out of broadcast sequence. The previous episode to be recorded was 517.
• There is a tape edit during scene with Victoria and Jeff in Victoria's room.
• The soundtrack is slightly garbled as Nicholas and Cassandra talk and look at Collinwood in the distance.

Story

• Cassandra claims that she and Nicholas grew up in Philadelphia.
• Louis Edmonds flubs his line when he says "It's odd, the bed clothes a-must, so she must have been there".
• Sometime after Cassandra and Nicholas talk in front of Collinwood, but before she actually enters the building, Cassandra managed to find time to change her clothes.
• TIMELINE: 2am: Jeff arrives at Collinwood. Cassandra says she's been in Philadelphia for a few days as a cover story for her disappearance, (she disappeared in 519).

Bloopers and continuity errors

• The screams heard by Cassandra in the beginning of this episode are not the same screams heard at the end of the previous episode.
• A boom microphone shadow can be seen over Louis Edmonds' shoulder as Cassandra enters the foyer.
• Alexandra Moltke can be seen waiting for her cue before wandering in the forest.
• A stage light can be seen reflected in the mirror behind Victoria and Jeff when they are talking in Victoria's room.