Dark Shadows

[last lines]

Barnabas Collins:
[after seeing Sarah's ghost] Sarah, my sweet little sister. Come back! [sobs] Please don't hate me. Please! [echoing] I cannot help myself!

[first lines]

Victoria Winters:
[voice-over] My name is Victoria Winters. My journey is just the beginning. A journey that I am hoping will somehow begin to reveal the mysteries of my past. It is a journey that will bring me to a strange and dark place... to a house high atop a stormy cliff at the edge of the sea... to a house called Collinwood. To a world I've never known, with people I've never met... people who tonight are only vague shadows in my mind, but who will soon fill all the days and nights of my tomorrows.

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard:
Barnabas Collins from England, welcome to Collinwood.

Victoria Winters:
My name is Victoria Winters. A terrifying curse has cast its shadow over Collinwood. While an innocent girl huddles in a prison cell awaiting judgement, death roams free, stalking the night and a tormented family struggles to comprehend its fate. But that fate is already written and the evil that controls it is relentless.

Joshua Collins:
As far as the people of Collinsport are concerned, Barnabas has sailed to England to attend to our business interests. In England he shall remain.

Josette du Pres:
No. I will not run away. I will not abandon this family and I will not abandon Victoria Winters. They want to hang her. And it was my maid, my Angelique, who was the cause of all this. It is unthinkable.

Victoria Winters:
Peter told me about Barnabas. I don't think I've quite taken it in yet. There's a man where I come from. He's so like Barnabas. His descendant, his namesake, in fact. I thought perhaps I was falling in love with him. But I guess that was just a fantasy really. But I feel as if I can look in your heart and understand.

Josette du Pres:
I believe you are the only who can, Victoria. Come and sit down. I told you once before how I seemed to know you as I know myself. Well, now though my head spins to imagine it, I wonder if you are myself. Myself in 200 years.

Victoria Winters:
I wondered the same thing. Is it possible?

Josette du Pres:
I no longer know what that means anymore. But I know this. Victoria, I must do everything in my power to release you from this horrible place.

Victoria Winters:
But Josette, the book. You must get out of here as Natalie says.

Josette du Pres:
I do not care about the book. The book said I would perish on Widows' Hill and I did not. And I will not go near that place again.

Victoria Winters:
[whispers] But...

Josette du Pres:
Victoria, by saving you, I am saving myself. Don't you see? I will not leave Collinwood until you are free. That is the way it must be.

Dr. Julia Hoffman:
[voice-over] It will be a long time, perhaps never, for those of us who have experienced the events of the past few days will ever be able to forget. But as horrible as those events were they pale into the glare of what could be a new and important discovery. Today I shall attempt to find the truth of what my intellect refuses to accept. At sunset, I shall confront the monster in his lair.

[last lines]

Barnabas Collins:
You've made a very serious mistake, Professor. Your foolish curiousity has now brought you into my bleak universe.

Victoria Winters:
[to Josette's painting] I'm in your room, I'm in your nightgown and now I'm going to sleep in your bed. I almost feel like I'm you.

Roger Collins:
I will say this for the good folk of Collinsport, nothing keeps them from an evening of free food and drink.

Victoria Winters:
[writing] I, Victoria Winters, begin this journal in the hope that no matter what happens to me there will at least be a written record of these extraordinary events. Somehow, I have been thrust backward in time.

Victoria Winters:
Why don't you children run along and take Jeremiah's guitar back to his room?

Daniel Collins:
Okay.

Josette Du Pres:
"Okay"?

Sarah Collins:
That's how they say all right in Boston. Isn't it, Miss Winters?

Victoria Winters:
Yes. Some people do.

Victoria Winters:
[writing] I feel the walls shrink around me. Have I revealed too much? But how could I not, if only the family history were wrong, if Josette and Jeremiah could be stopped? Perhaps that is what I am meant to do. But if one moment of history is changed, how much else changes with it? And will I then be permanently trapped in this time?

Barnabas Collins:
How many times must you hear this? I want nothing to do with you.

Angelique:
[about Josette] She hates you. Barnabas, she despises you. You saw it, she will never change.

Barnabas Collins:
So be it! As long as she is on this earth, I will never love another. And that is the fact of it.