1970

At the beginning of this storyline, Julia has traveled alone to the past.  Confronted with both a Collins family she does not know and a corporeal Gerard who is suspicious of her, she is desperate for Barnabas to join her in 1840.  Back in 1970, Barnabas has seen Julia’s tombstone from 1840 and is equally desperate to find his way to the past to save her.  Once reunited, they attempt to change the course of history to save the Collinwood of the future.  Complicating their efforts is the arrival of Angelique who poses as Valerie Collins, Barnabas’ wife.  Valerie is jealous and suspicious of Barnabas’ relationship with Julia, and her subsequent actions almost cost Julia more than her life.  Barnabas’ attempts to find Julia, his demeanor when she is missing, and his conversations with Valerie regarding his feelings for Julia add to the complex tapestry that makes up the relationship of Barnabas Collins and Julia Hoffman.

Julia, alone in 1840, wonders why Barnabas hasn’t joined her.  “Barnabas, Barnabas,” she thinks to herself.  “Where is he?  Why hasn’t he followed me?  Why hasn’t he followed me?  Why?” she worries.

Julia and Ben Stokes discuss why Barnabas hasn’t joined Julia in the past.  She tells Ben that if Barnabas uses the I Ching, he will return to his coffin, and he will summon someone to release him.  “Last night, I thought I heard him calling to me,” Julia says, looking hopeful.  Ben urges her to stay away from the coffin.  “There’s a vampire chained in that coffin.  He don’t even know you exist…. You stay away from that Barnabas.”  “Ben, oh Ben,” Julia moans, not wanting to listen to him.

Ben brings Julia some clothes and coaches her about her cover story for the family.  Julia resists his efforts and begs him for time to think about it, but Ben insists on their plan.  “But Ben, it’s dusk now,” Julia says restlessly.  “Forget about Barnabas,” he orders, telling her to knock on the front door of Collinwood at 8:30. 

Against Ben’s advice, Julia goes to the mausoleum.  “Barnabas is summoning me,” she thinks.  “ I know it.”  She opens the gate and enters the main room of the crypt.  “What if he isn’t?  What if it’s my imagination?” she wonders.  “My Barnabas is here; I know it,” she concludes with a smile as she confidently opens the secret door.  She approaches the coffin and lovingly touches it.  She lights a candle and runs her hands across the top of the coffin.  “If his spirit has not made the journey through time, he will not know me,” she worries to herself.  Placing both hands at the top of the coffin, she speaks aloud.  “Barnabas, Barnabas Collins.  You can hear me.  You must.  It’s Julia, Julia Hoffman,” she says gently with a smile on her face.  “You must recognize my name.”  She closes her eyes and continues, “Barnabas, let your spirit reach out to me.  Let me feel its presence,” she pleads.

“Barnabas,” Julia says in despair when she cannot feel his presence.  Spying a rock, she begins to break the chains that bind the coffin.

Smiling, Julia releases the last of the chains.  With one last doubt, she opens the lid and speaks to the man inside.  “Barnabas, it’s Julia.  Julia Hoffman.  You must recognize me, Barnabas.  Barnabas, Barnabas, listen to me!” she shouts as he grabs her by the throat, accusing her of knowing his secret.  Ben intervenes, telling Barnabas that Julia is a friend and to let her go.  They argue over Julia.  Glaring at her, Barnabas refuses to let her go until Ben says he won’t help Barnabas if the vampire doesn’t release her.  Julia leaves and Ben explains her story to Barnabas, saying that Julia expected Barnabas to know her and to help her when she opened the coffin.  Barnabas thinks her story is mad, and he leaves to seek blood.  Julia re-enters the mausoleum and worries to Ben that Barnabas will be found out.  “If he is, if he’s caught tonight, and they destroy him, then the Barnabas in my time will disappear,” she agonizes.  Ben tells her she has to get to the house tonight to prepare the way for Barnabas to re-appear.  She argues that she is too upset to go through with that charade.  “You’ve got to,” the old man says.  “You’ve got to prepare them to accept him.” 

Julia introduces herself to the family and acts surprised that her brother, Barnabas Collins, has not yet arrived at Collinwood.  She is introduced to Ben and tells him that her brother looks just like their dear father.

At dawn, Julia sneaks down the stairs only to run into Ben.  They both have been waiting to go back to the mausoleum to chain the coffin.  Once they arrive, Ben tells her, “After it’s done, you can’t never come back here no more.  Even if you think your Barnabas is in there.  Ya understand?”  Julia nods reluctantly.  Once inside the secret room, they are astonished to find that the coffin is gone.  “Ben!  The coffin’s gone; he won’t let us find him!” Julia sobs.

Suspicious, Gerard greets Julia as she returns to the house.  He asks if there is any news from her brother, and when she answers negatively, he remarks that she must be terribly worried about him.  She agrees, looking quite upset. 

Ben and Julia discuss Barnabas’ disappearance.  “If we could only talk to him,” Julia laments.  Ben does find Barnabas – at the Old House.  He urges Barnabas to talk to Julia, but Barnabas refuses to listen to him.

Julia meets Leticia Faye, and learning that Leticia is a psychic, she asks the woman to see into the year 1970.  Leticia tells her that she sees only smoke and dust.  Julia worries to herself whether Collinwood has been destroyed.  “Barnabas must be alive.  But why hasn’t he joined me?  If I could only see the future.  If I only knew what Barnabas is doing now,” she thinks.

In 1970, Barnabas sits in his chair by the fire, brooding.  Stokes comes in after the funerals of the family.  Barnabas says he will never forget that night and the creatures Gerard summoned from the grave.  “They stopped me from following Julia.  Eliot, I’m going to find her,” he declares. He paces, worrying his hands.  “I’ve got to find out where Julia went, and somehow I’ve got to get there!”  He is convinced that Julia has gone into the past and is determined to use the I Ching to find her.  Stokes tells him that the I Ching can be very dangerous.  “You cannot talk me out of it, Eliot,” Barnabas says. 

Barnabas throws the I Ching wands and sits before them.  Stokes guides him into a trance.  As Barnabas passes through the door, he sees a tombstone that reads:  Julia Hoffman Collins, Died October 6, 1840.  Barnabas’ face crumples in agony.  “No!  It can’t be.  It can’t be!” he cries.

Barnabas moans as he tries to get through to the past.  “I must get through.  But I can’t!  I can’t move!”  Stokes wakes him from the trance, but Barnabas tells Stokes he shouldn’t have stopped him.  “Could you see anything through the door?” Stokes asks.  “Yes, I saw an inscription on a tombstone.  Julia Hoffman Collins.”  “Could you read the date?”  “Yes.  October the sixth, three days from now.  I don’t know about the ‘Collins’, but I’ve got to get back there by October 6th!” Barnabas declares with feeling, slamming a hand against the table and standing.  Stokes tells him what he saw might be a hallucination, but Barnabas doesn’t believe it was.  They go to the cemetery to verify the vision, and they find Julia’s tombstone.  “Even if you succeed in going there, how can you be sure you’ll get there before the day she dies?” Stokes asks.  “I don’t know, and I don’t know anything, but all I know is that I must find a way, and I must do it within these next three days!”  As they turn and leave the cemetery, the camera closes in on Julia’s gravestone.  “Barnabas!” her ghostly voice calls out from the past. “Barnabas!  I need you, desperately!”

In 1840, Julia is gazing at a silhouette in the drawing room of Collinwood.  “Barnabas, oh Barnabas,” she says aloud, closing her eyes.  “Will I ever see you again?  Will I?” she asks in agony.

Julia speaks with Lamar Trask about his father.  He tells her that the Reverend Trask disappeared at the same time that her father, Barnabas Collins, went to England.  Lamar vows to find his father’s killer.  “Someday I will discover what happened to him, and who was responsible.  And if that person is still alive….”  Julia listens to him, worried about what his threats might mean for Barnabas. 

After Julia talks with Samantha, she believes that Roxanne has been attacked by Barnabas.  She tells Ben of her suspicions. “Do you really think Mr. Barnabas has found Miss Roxanne?” Ben asks.  “What Samantha said made it sound as if he had.  I’m going to the Old House.”  “We already looked there,” he points out.  “Well, it’s worth looking again, Ben.  We’ve got to find him,” Julia says desperately with the trace of a sob in her voice.

Later, Ben and Julia bring the dying Roxanne to the Old House where Barnabas finds her.  Before he can bite her again, Julia calls out his name to stop him.  She tells him what he wants to do is wrong and to leave Roxanne alone.  Enraged, Barnabas advances on her with fangs bared.  “You will not interfere again!” he shouts as he goes for her neck.  But before he can attack Julia, Barnabas moans in pain, covering his face with his hands.  Julia watches in astonishment as he collapses to the floor.

Barnabas regains consciousness, his 1970 self now rejoined with his body in 1840.  As he gets to his feet, Julia grabs a cross and holds it in front of her.  “Stay away from me,” she commands.  “No, put that away!” Barnabas says, turning away from the religious symbol.  “You know I can’t do that.”  “But you don’t understand, Julia, let me look at you so you can see me.  I’m not the same; you saw what was happening to me.”  “I only know that you tried to kill me.”  “Yes, and I would have if the I Ching hadn’t finally succeeded.”  “The I Ching?” Julia asks in surprise.  “Yes, don’t you understand, I was finally able to will myself back to you.  I’m here to help you, Julia.  Believe me,” he pleads, one hand shielding his face, obviously in great distress because of the presence of the cross and because of Julia’s disbelief.  “Eliot helped me with the I Ching.  Carolyn is half-mad; Quentin is confined to Wyndcliffe.  Now would Barnabas of 1840 know all of this?”  Finally convinced this is her Barnabas, Julia sets the cross down and turns to him.  “Oh Barnabas, oh Barnabas,” she moans in relief, falling into his embrace.  “Thank heavens I got here in time, Julia,” he says as he holds her.  “When I saw your grave in 1970, I knew I had to find a way.”  She pulls back to look at him.  “My grave?”  “Yes, Eliot and I found out that you died on this very day in 1840.  Oh, I shudder, I shudder when I think I might have killed you just now,” he says in anguish, turning away and putting one hand to his face again.

Later, Julia tells Barnabas that she must hypnotize Roxanne to erase the girl’s memory of her attack by Barnabas.  Julia explains that she has told the family that she and Barnabas are brother and sister.  She tells him to go and introduce himself to them, but he seems leery.  Julia takes hold of his arm, “Barnabas, you go there.  I will hypnotize her, and then I’ll bring her there.  I’ll say I found her wandering in the woods.  Go,” she implores him.  He finally agrees to go, then touches her arm, wishing her good luck.  She smiles and nods as he leaves for Collinwood.

Julia follows Barnabas to Collinwood, and they enjoy a brother-sister reunion, hugging each other when she arrives.  They continue to hold each other as Barnabas says tenderly, “Dear Julia.”  “It’s so good to see you,” she says.  Julia grasps his lapels, and Barnabas tightens his hold on her, saying, “Julia, you’re shivering.”  He asks Samantha for brandy so that he and Julia can exchange a few words alone.  Julia tells him that Roxanne escaped from the Old House, then taking his arm, they walk into the drawing room together, Barnabas’ hand covering hers. 

Angelique has reappeared posing as Valerie Collins, Barnabas’s wife.  At the Old House, she surprises Barnabas and Julia and tries to badger Julia as she seeks to learn the nature of Julia’s relationship to Barnabas.  “How long have you been traveling with him?” Angelique asks as Julia puts on her cape to leave.  “Don’t answer her,” Barnabas tells Julia.  Julia gives Angelique a contemptuous look and refuses to answer her questions.  “Where did you meet him and how?” the witch persists.  Barnabas reaches out to grip Julia’s arm.  “Julia, please, go now,” he implores.  Angelique tells Julia to go ahead and return to Collinwood.  “You and I have all the time in the world to find out about one another,” she says smugly.  “I know all about you now,” Julia answers as she opens the door.

At Collinwood, Angelique confronts Barnabas about his “sister”.  She reminds Barnabas that his real sister is dead.  “You caused her death.  I will never forget it,” he tells her.  “Perhaps I will be equally kind to Julia,” the witch threatens.  “Angelique!” Barnabas exclaims.  Angelique persists in trying to get information about Julia.  “Does she know what you are?” she asks when he refuses to answer any of her questions.  “I wouldn’t trust her if I were you.”  “I do implicitly,” he tells her.  “Are you in love with her?” Angelique asks suspiciously.  “She’s a friend, that’s all.”  “Where did you get such a good friend?”  “So you intend to threaten Julia.”  “Is she in your power?  Do you plan to make her what you are?”  “No, absolutely not,” he assures her.  “Then you are not in love with her which means that she is in no danger whatsoever.”  “Can I have your word for that?”  “Yes, indeed, of course you can.”

Barnabas is explaining what has happened with Angelique and Roxanne to Julia.  Julia is distracted, and Barnabas asks her if something is wrong, but she denies it.  She leaves to get something in her room and passing Angelique in the foyer, gives her a look of contempt.  Later, the two women meet again in the foyer.  Seeing Angelique’s bags, Julia asks if she is moving to the Old House.  Angelique then asks if she and Julia had met somewhere before.  “I had the feeling that you knew who I was before Barnabas said my name.”  “Barnabas has told me about you,” Julia says. Angelique wants to know how much he has told her, but Julia says she doesn’t remember; it was so long ago.  Angelique mocks the story Julia and Barnabas have concocted about their relationship.  “I simply wanted you to know that I know you are no more Barnabas’s sister than I am.  The intriguing question is who are you, and what are you to him?”  “I am devoted to him,” Julia declares.  “You may interpret that any way you like.”  “Well, there’s lots of time to find out about you.  For the time being, as mistress of the Old House, I feel I should warn you that you are no longer welcome there.”

Angelique leaves, but before Julia can go herself, Barnabas finds her.  “You’re not leaving the house, are you?” he asks.  She tells him she is going to Rose Cottage, but that she will first go check on Roxanne.  “I’d better go with you; it’s late, ” he says.   Julia doesn’t want him to come with her and tells him they don’t want Angelique to see them together.  “But you cannot go out there at this hour,” he protests. She assures him that she will get one of the servants to go with her.

Barnabas goes to Rose Cottage.  He tells Gerard he has come to take his sister home, but Gerard tells him that Julia is not there and that he hasn’t seen his sister at all.  Barnabas is very concerned.

Barnabas returns to Collinwood and finds Julia there.  She looks less than happy to see him.  “Well, you were out so late,” he remarks.  “I was worried about you.”  “Oh, were you looking for me?” she asks pleasantly.  He says no, that he was out with Desmond looking for the killer.  “Where were you this evening?” he asks.  “I told you; I went to Rose Cottage to see Flora and get a copy of her book.”  “Oh, of course,” he says smoothly.  He asks how the book is coming along and if she had a pleasant evening.  She says that she did and starts to move away.  He grabs her arm and wrenches her around to face him.  “Flora went to Boston this evening, and she won’t be back until tomorrow night.  Now tell me why have you been lying to me!” he demands.  Julia stares at him.  “I asked you why’ve you been lying to me?”  “You must be mistaken, Barnabas.  Maybe Flora just meant to go to Boston-”  “Flora went to Boston earlier this evening,” he shouts.  “ I went to Rose Cottage to look for you and found out.  Now tell me where you’ve been.”  Julia’s demeanor suddenly changes.  “I don’t owe you an explanation of anything,” she says sharply.  “I can come and go as I please.”  “Julia, what’s wrong with you?” he asks, concerned.  “It’s my life, and I will live it as I choose.  You have no business asking me questions.  Now please leave me alone.”  “Julia,” Barnabas says, alarmed, “Julia, he has you.”  “What do you mean?”  “You are under Zachery’s spell.  You’ve been helping him! Now tell me where he is.”  She starts to struggle with him.  “I’m not going to listen to anything else you have to say!”  “You’re going to stay here and tell me everything, do you understand?”  “No, please, you’ve got to let me go,” she begs.  “He needs me.”  “What do you mean, he needs you?  How have you been helping him?” he asks ferociously.  “I’ll tell you nothing, do you understand?” she shouts as she backs away from him.  “Nothing!”  Barnabas stares at her with vampire concentration.

Later, Leticia runs into Collinwood calling for Julia to come help Judah Zachery.  Julia is sitting in the drawing room, and when Leticia comes in, Barnabas puts a restraining hand on Julia’s shoulder as she tells the younger woman to get out.

Julia pleads with Barnabas to let her go to Judah.  “He needs me.”  Barnabas tells her Judah is dead, but she protests that he is not and that she can help him.  She gets up saying that she has to go to him when she suddenly feels that Judah is burning.  After a moment, she announces that it is over, Judah no longer possesses her, and she asks Barnabas why she and Leticia tried to help Zachery.  “You can’t understand how I felt,” she tells Barnabas as they discuss the warlock’s power.  “He was the most important man on earth to me.  I had to do whatever he said.  I had to protect him – even from you.”

Barnabas is upset to learn that Roxanne and Trask plan to marry.  He wants to go to Roxanne to talk her out of it, but Julia stops him.  “No, Barnabas, you can’t do that.  Remember your agreement with Angelique,” she says desperately.  “Angelique will never find out,” he says as he starts to leave.  Julia grabs his arm.  “Barnabas, Barnabas, she will.  And she will carry out her threat to Roxanne,” she warns.  “Well, somebody’s got to stop her from doing this.  Will you go to her?” he asks.

Julia does go to Roxanne telling her, “He [Barnabas] still cares about you just as he always has.”  Roxanne promises to think about what Julia has said to her.

Later, Julia has to tell Barnabas that Roxanne has died as the result of a jealous Angelique’s actions.  “If there was only some way to destroy that woman,” he says of the witch.  Julia points out that Roxanne will now rise as a vampire.  They agree that they must prevent Roxanne from becoming what Barnabas is.  “We must put her to her final rest and spare her the misery of the living dead,” he says, tormented.  Julia watches him with sympathy and love on her face.  They agree to meet at dusk to make plans.

Barnabas and Angelique talk following Roxanne’s death.  Angelique observes that Barnabas is more antagonistic and bitter toward her than he was before.  “There must be some reason why you’ve changed, and I think I know what it is:  Julia.”  “Julia!  What has she got to do with us?”  Angelique answers that she doesn’t know, but she does know that she is not his sister.  “I intend to find out who she is, and just why she is so important to your life.”

To satisfy her curiosity about Julia, Angelique searches Julia’s room and finds her journal.  Later, Angelique confronts Julia about what she has found.  “ I find that the name you mention most often is the name of Barnabas Collins.” Julia has no choice but to tell Angelique how she first met Barnabas in the future.  Angelique wants to know why Barnabas did not kill Julia for knowing that he was a vampire.  “Because I swore that I would keep his secret, and I have kept it,” Julia declares.  Angelique does not believe her.  “ I know Barnabas too well.”  “Oh no, you don’t know Barnabas well enough, not now or ever,” Julia says smugly.  Angelique then learns that she herself will be alive in the future, but Julia explains that the reason she and Barnabas have traveled to the past is to prevent a disaster from occurring at Collinwood in 1971.  “What was your relationship with him in 1971?”  Angelique asks.  “We were the best of friends as we are now.”  Again, Angelique does not believe Julia.  “I’ll tell you what I believe.  I think that you have some kind of influence over his thinking.  I think that you have decided that he will never come back to me, possibly because you yourself are in love with him.  You’ve poisoned his mind against me.”  “You are being completely irrational,” Julia replies with disdain.  Angelique tells Julia that she considers Julia an enemy.  “ I warn you, Julia, your time will come.  For you, the future will change.  I puh-romise you.”

Later, Julia prepares to go to the crypt to stake Roxanne, but Angelique puts a spell on her.  Julia falls asleep and arrives at the crypt past dusk where vampire Roxanne is waiting for her.

Julia awakens in an old lighthouse with a gloating Angelique standing over her.  Angelique explains that she is going to let Julia die, and then she will become a vampire.  “You’ll be closer to [Barnabas] than you ever have been before.  Isn’t that what you’ve always wanted?”  “Barnabas hates you; you’ll never have him,” Julia spits at her.  “Perhaps not, but neither will you,” Angelique says angrily.  “Nor will any other woman.”

Barnabas comes to Collinwood looking for Julia.  He finds Quentin in the drawing room and tells him Julia was supposed to meet him, but she didn’t show up.  Quentin tells him that Julia left Collinwood before dark.  Barnabas turns away looking very concerned.  “Now, don’t be worried,” Quentin assures him.  “I’m sure she was just detained somewhere.”  “I suppose so, but I just don’t like the idea of her being out at night alone.  Especially with all these attacks.  Well, if she comes, tell her that I was here, will you?” he says before leaving.

Later, Barnabas storms into Collinwood demanding to talk to Angelique.  “I’m not going to play games.  Where is she?”  “Where is who?” Angelique counters.  “Julia.  What have you done to her?”  She denies knowing what he is talking about.  “I’m warning you,” he says menacingly.  “You are not leaving this place until you tell me everything.”  He tells her that he knows she stopped Julia from destroying Roxanne.  “Oh, what a pity.  Julia must have gone there to put poor Roxanne out of her misery and arrived too late.”  “Angelique, I will do anything you ask if you will release Julia unharmed.”  Angelique refuses to bargain with him.  “But why do you hate her so?” he asks desperately.  “She is not your enemy.  She represents no threat to you nor ever has.  Julia and I are very good friends.  We’ve never been anything but friends.”  She tells him that the problem is that Julia knows too much about her.  “And you see, you have only yourself to blame for that,” she taunts him.  When she tries to leave, Barnabas stops her.  “You are not leaving here until this is resolved.”  But Gerard interrupts them, and Barnabas hurriedly leaves to see if he can find what has happened to Julia.

Angelique returns to the lighthouse.  “I simply wanted to tell you that I spoke to Barnabas, and his devotion to you continues to amaze me,” she tells Julia. “He’s searching for you everywhere because he knows what will happen to you if he doesn’t find you.  But he’s not going to find you.  Not until it’s too late.  Just think, then you’ll be like him, and much more like brother and sister than you are now.  Goodbye, Julia.”

Still held prisoner in the lighthouse, a dying Julia tries to convince Laszlo to let her go and says that she will see that he is paid.  She tells him to go to Barnabas.  “He’ll see to it you get anything you want.”  Laszlo refuses but wrenches a ring from her finger as “payment”.  A semi-conscious Julia moans, “Barnabas, Barnabas.”

Despondent, Barnabas stands in the drawing room at Collinwood listening to the dogs howling outside.  “Worrying about your sister?” Gabriel asks from behind him.  “Yes.”  Gabriel remarks on Julia’s odd disappearance.  “You weren’t available that afternoon, were you?”  “No,” Barnabas says, closing his eyes and bowing his head.  He looks stricken as the dogs resume their howling in earnest.  Gabriel comments, “Those dogs, listen to them.  They sound like a pack of wild-” “Yes!” Barnabas interrupts.  “I’m sorry I’m unable to hunt for your sister with you, Barnabas.”  “I feel lost,” Barnabas says despairingly.  “She could be anywhere.”  Gabriel continues to taunt Barnabas about Julia’s whereabouts.  “I’m afraid that when we find her, she’ll be dead,” Barnabas responds, bowing his head once again.  “A pessimist.”  “No, a realist, I think.”  “Back to the search?” Gabriel asks as Barnabas prepares to leave.  “As useless as it seems,” his cousin replies.

Barnabas confronts Laszlo at the Old House.  As they struggle, Barnabas sees what is on the gypsy’s finger.  “Julia’s ring!  Where is she?” he snarls.  Laszlo claims the ring is his.  “No!” Barnabas shouts, his eyes wild.  “You’re Angelique’s servant, aren’t you?  Tell me where Julia is!” he growls as he viciously grabs Laszlo by the throat.

Barnabas arrives at the lighthouse.  “Julia!” he shouts when he see her lying unconscious.

Barnabas kneels beside Julia, calling her name.  “Julia, Julia.  Can you hear me?  It’s Barnabas.  Can you hear me, Julia?” he asks, his arms around her.  “Barnabas,” she moans.  “I’ve got to get you out of here.”  He starts to lift her when Roxanne appears.  She tells him Julia must stay there.  “When I leave, I will leave with Julia,” he says.  “No.”  “There’s nothing you can do to stop me.”  The new vampire tells him that Julia responds to her will, but Barnabas forces her to look at him.  She relents and leaves, telling him he’ll be sorry he interfered.  Barnabas returns to Julia’s side.  “Julia, Julia,” he says as he pulls her to him. 

Barnabas brings Julia to Rose Cottage entrusting her to Flora’s care as he rushes off to find a doctor.  Later, he tells Randall that they must destroy Roxanne if Julia is to live.

Barnabas encounters Angelique in the foyer at Collinwood.  “Barnabas, going to see your dear sister?”  “You and I have nothing to say to each other after what you’ve done to Roxanne and Julia,” he snarls.  “And I would have succeeded if it hadn’t been for you.”  “Consider yourself lucky that you didn’t succeed.  I would have killed you if you had.  I would destroy you even if it meant my own destruction,” Barnabas says vehemently.  Angelique looks at him in amazement.  “You are really that devoted to Julia?” she asks in surprise.  “Yes,” he says earnestly.  “I am that devoted to her.”

Julia has learned that Gerard now has possession of Ben Stokes’ diary.  She is terrified that Gerard will learn Barnabas’ secret from the diary, but Barnabas assures her that Ben would never have betrayed him in any way.  Unconvinced that Barnabas is not in great danger, Julia begs him to leave Collinwood.  “Barnabas, Barnabas, please go away.”  He refuses to leave saying they came to 1840 to accomplish something, and they can’t just run away now.  “Barnabas, I won’t be running away,” she argues.  “I’ll stay here until all this passes, and then you can come back.  Oh, Barnabas, please go,” Julia pleads.  “Julia, I will never leave you behind,” he says with feeling.  “You know that.  And you know you won’t come with me so we’ll both stay.”  “All right, Barnabas,” Julia agrees.  “We will stay.  And I’ll help you.  Help you do what?  What will we do?”  “I just don’t know,” he answers, looking troubled.

Angelique has removed Barnabas’ curse, and as she, Barnabas and Julia talk at the Old House, she informs Barnabas that she exacts no price for her good deed.  Julia tells her that she doesn’t believe her.  “Julia, I think Angelique and I should have a talk alone for a moment,” Barnabas says.  “Of course.  You are after all, husband and wife,” Julia answers snidely with a sarcastic smile on her face.  “Julia, thank you,” Barnabas says sincerely. “If you hadn’t warned me that Gerard knew about me, I would have been lying dead forever in that coffin now.”  “They would have had to kill me first,” she says through gritted teeth.  “Then Angelique has saved us both,” he says, trying to keep the peace.  “Saved us for what, Barnabas?  For what?” Julia shouts before stalking off.  Barnabas looks after her, concern on his face.

Later, after speaking with Angelique, Barnabas goes to Collinwood to talk to Julia.  “Barnabas, this is madness! You must not believe her,” Julia says, desperately trying to convince him not to trust his wife. “ If you believe her, then she will be manipulating you.  And you will never know where you are.  Oh Barnabas, if you believe her, you’ll be at her perpetual mercy.  You must not trust her!”  “But I do.  I must, Julia.  She’s changed, and I’ve changed because of her.  I’m free now.  I must believe her!” he says stubbornly.  Julia shakes her head and clenches her fist in frustration.  “Barnabas, anything you feel beyond gratitude will be a serious mistake.  She will use her power against you again. Oh Barnabas, I care for you too much-”  Julia breaks off her impassioned plea before she reveals too much of her feelings, and Barnabas gives her an odd look at her outburst.  She glances away and continues in a rote voice, “You’re my good friend; I don’t want to lose you.”  “You will not lose me, Julia, not now.  I’m not afraid of anything anymore.  I’m ready for anything that might come along because I’m human now.”  He stops and glances at the window.  “But what am I doing standing here when I could be outside in the sun? Julia, excuse me, I’d like to take a walk alone for a moment.”  “I understand,” she says quietly, and then watches him wistfully as he walks out of the mansion.

Julia encounters Gerard on the stairs, and he tells her he still believes that Barnabas is a vampire.  “Barnabas is not what you think he is,” she tells him.  “No, Barnabas is quite human, all too human, I’m afraid,” Julia reflects as if to herself.

Julia, upset that Barnabas is missing, encounters Gerard at Collinwood.  “Tell me, are you looking for your brother?”  “Yes, have you seen him?” Julia asks, a little too anxiously.  Gerard says that he has not but mentions that Barnabas was supposed to be in court today.  Julia says she was to meet him at the Old House before going into town but he wasn’t there, and Valerie hadn’t seen him since the night before.  When Gerard comments that this is strange, Julia counters that Barnabas may only have gone for a walk.  “But then why are you so uneasy?” he asks.  “Should I be uneasy?” Julia wants to know.

When Julia visits Quentin in the jail, he says he is glad somebody finally showed up.  “Barnabas hasn’t been here?” she asks worriedly.  Quentin tells her Barnabas failed to appear in court.  He notices Julia’s expression and asks her what’s happened.  She shakes her head.  “I don’t know,” she says, obviously upset.  Quentin wants to know if Barnabas has changed his mind about testifying for him.  Julia assures him that Barnabas would never do that.  “This is not like him, Quentin.  Valerie and I looked everywhere for him this morning.  We couldn’t find him…. The only conclusion I can come to is that something has happened to him.  Something dreadful.”  Quentin is convinced that the people who want him convicted have done something to Barnabas.

Daphne and Julia discuss Barnabas’ disappearance.  “I wish there was something I could do,” Daphne says.  “There’s nothing anybody can do except pray for him wherever he is,” Julia practically sobs.  Julia then opens the drawing room doors and finds Gerard and Trask talking.  “What have you done with my brother?” she asks tearfully.  “What an odd question, what have I done with your brother?” Gerard responds.  “I told you this morning-”  “I know what you told me this morning, but I know Barnabas Collins too well to believe that he could disappear this way.  Oh, he had to be trapped into it, and you two both had reason to stop him from testifying for Quentin.”

Angelique tells Julia she would give every power she possessed if she could see where the missing Barnabas was.  “Are you really in love with him?” Julia asks skeptically.  “You still doubt me?” Angelique says.  Julia admits that she doesn’t doubt her anymore.

In Quentin’s laboratory, Julia explains to Angelique about the staircase through time.  She tells Angelique of her last night in 1970 and how she escaped down the stairs.  “I don’t know whether to be grateful for the stairs or not, or hate them because they may have led to the death of Barnabas,” she says tearfully.

Eliot arrives from the future by using the staircase.  He tells Julia that he found Flora’s journal in the ruins of Collinwood and that it said that in 1840, Barnabas Collins had disappeared and was never heard of again.  “Was what she wrote true?”  Julia nods, obviously quite upset.  She tells him Barnabas has been missing for a week.  “And you have no idea where he might be?”  “None,” she answers, near tears.  He says they will have to change the course of history and find Barnabas.  “Oh, Eliot, we’ve tried.  We’ve tried,” she says, shaking her head.

Julia has fallen asleep in the drawing room.  She has a dream that Roxanne is calling to her.  In the dream, the front door opens, and Roxanne is standing there.  “He’s dying, Julia.  Barnabas is dying.  Follow me.  Follow me!”  “Where, Roxanne, where?” Julia asks desperately.  As Roxanne chants, “Follow me,” Julia sees a vision of an alley.  “Barnabas is dying,” Roxanne shouts.  Julia follows her through the alley saying, “We must save him.”  “I can’t,” Roxanne answers.  “You must follow….Oh, there is little time.  Hurry, Julia, hurry!  You must hurry!”  At that moment, Angelique shakes Julia awake.  “She was taking me to Barnabas,” Julia says groggily.  “You’ve ruined it.  You’ve ruined it!”  Julia says she knows that Roxanne would have led her to Barnabas.  Angelique wants to go to the place Julia saw in her dream, but Julia hesitates, saying that Eliot is due to arrive.  “Well, which is more important, Barnabas or this, this Stokes?” Angelique asks.  “Barnabas,” Julia agrees, and they leave to look for him.

Julia and Angelique find the alley Julia saw in her dream.  Julia pleads with Roxanne to help them, but the ghost does not appear.

Outside of the wall Barnabas is entombed in, Roxanne wails, “Oh, Barnabas, why doesn’t Julia come?  Why?  You have so little time.  So little time.”

Trask has shot Angelique, and she has died in Barnabas’ arms.  Julia enters the drawing room where she finds Barnabas cradling his dead wife.  “Barnabas.”  “She’s dead,” he sobs.  Julia’s face is impassive.  “I loved her, Julia,” he continues.  “She is my only love, and I never knew it.”  Julia’s eyebrows rise in surprise at his fantastic declaration, and then she glances down, seeming wounded by his words.  Barnabas then collapses in pain, and Julia rushes to his side.  She tends to him while he explains what happened with Trask.

Later, Barnabas, Julia, and Eliot discuss going back to 1971.  Desmond overhears them, and they convince him that they have indeed come from the future via Quentin’s staircase.  “You and Julia will leave me here,” Barnabas says to Eliot.  “No,” Julia objects strenuously.  Desmond tells Barnabas that if it is Valerie’s funeral that is keeping him there, Desmond and Leticia will take care of the arrangements.  Barnabas looks at Julia and Eliot and agrees to go home with them.

Barnabas, Julia, and Eliot have successfully returned to Collinwood of 1971.  The house is intact but deserted until Elizabeth comes bustling in complaining that the three of them are very late for the opening of the historical center.  “Eliot, I know that Barnabas and Julia are always preoccupied, but it’s not like you to forget something we’ve been planning for so long,” Liz says.  She and Eliot leave first, and Barnabas and Julia are left alone in the drawing room.  “So the ghosts of Gerard and Daphne never came here,” Barnabas says.  “We changed all their lives by being in 1840,” Julia responds.  “As well as ours.  Think, Julia, think back to 1840.  Those stairways are likely no more.  Desmond has probably destroyed them by now.”  “We’ll never forget any of them, Barnabas,” she says, looking at him with a reassuring smile.  “Never,” he echoes.

And for the last time, we see Barnabas and Julia walk together out of the drawing room at Collinwood.