546

Nicholas punishes Cassandra by taking her powers away from her and makes her mortal; she will then age and die.
== Synopsis ==
: A dark night over Collinwood, for a witch listens to a mysterious message which explains why one man, despite her efforts, remains free from her curse. And now she seeks a way to make him a vampire again.
Cassandra raises an axe over a sleeping Adam, but Nicholas stops her in time. However, she tries a second time using voodoo. Nicholas punishes her by taking her powers away from her and makes her mortal, she will then age and die shortly. Roger finds Cassandra and ends their relationship. Cassandra goes to the Old House and admits her identity as Angelique. She pulls a gun on Barnabas and plans to kill him.
== Memorable quotes ==
: Nicholas (to Cassandra): You are no longer a witch, a member of our coven. You are human — without power. You have only the minutes left to you to live out. You will die as humans die!
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: Cassandra: One word, after such a long history between us...one word can end two hundred years of pain. Oh, why didn't you ever love me?
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== Dramatis personae ==
* Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins
* Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins
* Robert Rodan as Adam
* Lara Parker as Cassandra Collins
* Humbert Allen Astredo as Nicholas Blair
* Addison Powell as Eric Lang (voice only)
== Background information and notes ==
=== Production ===
* This episode was recorded out of broadcast sequence. The previous episode to be recorded was 544.
* Although the voice of Eric Lang is heard here for the final time on the tape recorder in the reprise from the previous episode, the character made his final appearance, as a ghost, in 543.
* This is the first time Louis Edmonds provides the opening narration and is only the fourth time it has been by a male voice.
=== Story ===
* Nicholas says and seems to believe that Angelique was born during the year 1774 in Martinique. In 1140, it is revealed that she was alive in the year 1692. Either he is unaware of her existence in that year or just claiming her second reincarnated life starting as that point. She does not tell him he is wrong, but she has other concerns at the moment and maybe wants him to think that is the year she was born in when it probably is not. [Of course, at this point in the series, Angelique's/Miranda's existence in the 1600s had not even been conceived yet. As far as the story is concerned at this point, Angelique was indeed born in 1774.]
* INTERNAL MONOLOGUE: Cassandra: Killing Adam (reprise) / What a fool I am.
* TIMELINE: Cassandra has until dawn to live.
== Bloopers and continuity errors ==
* In Act I, when Adam is strangling Cassandra, Humbert Allen Astredo looks to his side at the teleprompter and briefly stumbles over the line "And I promise you..."
* Humbert Allen Astredo stumbles on a line in Act II: "Carolyn wouldn't like to...Cassandra to have found you..."
* Humbert Allen Astredo stumbles on a line, "Your departure has already been arranged, of course. It will be orderly, designed to concern — cause little concern or regret.”
* In Act IV, when Cassandra is talking about how the Old House parlor is so different from before yet the same, someone coughs off-stage.
==External Links ==
Dark Shadows - Episode 546 on the IMDb
Dark Shadows Everyday - Episode 546 - A Little Bored
Dark Shadows Commentary- Episode 546: A woman, born on Martinique in 1774
Dark Shadows Before I Die- Episode 546: 7/29/68
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