413

Victoria warns Naomi that she must keep Sarah at home or she'll die of exposure in two days.
== Synopsis ==
Teaser
: A séance has been held in the great house at Collinwood, a séance which has suspended time and space and sent one woman on an uncertain and terrifying journey into the past, back to the year 1795. There, each of the Collins ancestors resembles a present-day member of the family, but the names and relationships have changed, and Victoria Winters finds herself a stranger in a sea of familiar faces. The terror and evil that have plagued the Collins family now has spread through the village of Collinsport itself. Held captive on a charge of witchcraft, Victoria Winters is the one person who knows that this is but the beginning of a two-hundred-year nightmare.
Peter Bradford is torn about his previous lie to Reverend Trask. He wants to confess to letting Victoria out of her cell, because Trask now believes she was in two places at once. Peter believes Trask will convince the court that only a witch would be capable of that and therefore, Victoria will be convicted of witchcraft.
Act I
Victoria talks him out of confessing to Trask. She also thanks him for making her feel comfortable in the hard situation. She kisses him on the cheek and he smiles, observing that women from the 18th century do not do that. While Peter and Victoria are discussing the Collins family history book, Victoria realizes that Sarah Collins will die on her birthday, two days from today. She asks Peter to bring Naomi Collins to her so that she can warn her and possibly prevent Sarah's death.
Act II
Sarah tells Naomi that Josette has been sad, so Sarah made a candle for her to put in the window to guide Barnabas home. Sarah, too, misses Barnabas and wants him to return. Naomi tells Sarah that Barnabas will be gone a long time; perhaps he will be gone until Sarah is grown. Sarah doesn't believe her and plans on lighting the candle anyway, hoping that Barnabas will see it and return. At the mausoleum, Ben is worried that Barnabas is planning on going into town again. Barnabas is going to visit Josette instead; before he died he promised her that he would return and he will keep that promise.
Act III
When Naomi visits Victoria in jail, Victoria tries to warn her that according to the Collins' family history book, Sarah will die of exposure on her eleventh birthday. Naomi doesn't believe the book exists, but she agrees to keep Sarah inside until after her birthday.
Act IV
Sarah goes into Josette's room to place the candle on her windowsill. She sees Barnabas outside, looking up at Josette's window; she calls to him and he slips into the shadows. Sarah runs outside to find him. He runs away, inadvertently leading her to the cemetery. Leaving the jail, Naomi wonders if Victoria is really able to know the future. Peter only knows that what she said about the book is true; he has seen it. He confirms that the book predicts Sarah's death. Naomi hurries home in order to protect her daughter. Sarah enters the mausoleum looking for Barnabas.
== Memorable quotes ==
:Victoria: Peter, I didn't come here by choice. I don't know how it happened. But when I found myself 200 years back in time, I was frightened and miserable. But because of you, I... for the first time, I've felt some assurance. I'm very grateful to you for everything you've done.
:(Victoria kisses Peter on the cheek)
:Peter: (chuckles) I guess you are from another century.
:Victoria: What do you mean?
:Peter: Women here don't do things like that.
:Victoria: Oh. I'm sorry.
:Peter: I didn't mean I disapproved.
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:Barnabas: I made a promise to Josette before I died. I told her to wait for me, that I would come back to her. And I shall fulfill that promise tonight.
== Dramatis personae ==
* Joan Bennett as Naomi Collins
* Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins
* Thayer David as Ben Stokes
* Roger Davis as Peter Bradford
* Sharon Smyth as Sarah Collins
* Alexandra Moltke as Victoria Winters
== Background information and notes ==
=== Production ===
=== Story ===
* TIMELINE: Day 165 begins, and will end in 415. It was last night when Reverend Trask came to the jail. In two days, Sarah will die on her 11th Birthday.
** The date is given as the 24th, the month isn't stipulated although presumably it is January as 419 states that March 2nd is only a month away. This also means the year is now 1796. As the date of Victoria's arrival in 366 was given as November 20th, 1795.
== Bloopers and continuity errors ==
* The teaser states that "Victoria Winters is the one person who knows that this is but the beginning of a two-hundred-year nightmare," but this isn't true. She has no idea that Barnabas is a vampire or that Angelique is a witch causing all this supernatural destruction, and there's been little indication that reading the Collins family history book would reveal a "two-hundred-year nightmare."
*A boom microphone shadow can be seen over Sarah's head on the staircase.
*Naomi says that Josette and Natalie went to Bangor that morning and will return later that night. It was established in 57 that Bangor is about fifty miles from Collinsport. In 1795, it took many hours to travel fifty miles by carriage over mostly dirt roads. A 50-mile trip was considered an all-day trek. It seems unlikely that they would do the round trip all in one day.
* Sharon Smyth stumbles over Josette's name, first saying "Jeremiah," then "Joshua".
*Before entering the Collins mausoleum in Act II, Thayer David waits for his cue then nods to a crew member. [I don't believe this is Thayer David waiting for a cue or nodding to a crew member. As established in a similar scene just a minute before, Ben is watching the sunset, awaiting his time to attend to Barnabas awakening. His nod is to himself, acknowledging that the time has arrived/is arriving; he does the same thing in both of the brief scenes outside the mausoleum.]
*In Act II, as the photos of the sun setting are displayed, there is significant studio noise including steps from people moving about.
*When Barnabas is talking to Ben in Act II after arising from his coffin, Jonathan Frid has trouble with his lines: "I'm going...not to the village tonight," and later, "I shall p...fulfill that promise."
*It is stated that Sarah will die on her eleventh birthday, but it has been previously established that Sarah died when she was nine years old (276, 315), with her life dates given as 1786-1796.
*As Sarah is going to light Josette's candle in the window, she sees Barnabas below. But while she states her lines about seeing him, Sharon Smyth keeps looking up toward the teleprompter.
* Eagle Hill Cemetery is said to be five miles away from Collinwood in 209. Now it seems to be so close it can be seen from the front door of Collinwood. [I believe Sharon Smyth was supposed to stop where Jonathan Frid was standing, but instead she continued several steps into the cemetery set before delivering her line.] [Addendum: Even if Sharon Smyth overshot her mark and shouldn't have been in the cemetery set in this scene, in her next scene she is in fact in the cemetery, so the five-mile distance still seems unlikely; by this time in the series, Eagle Hill is much more clearly closer to Collinwood than in its original appearance in the pre-Barnabas episodes.]
*Roger Davis flubs a line when Peter Bradford tells Naomi that "I'll take you back to Collinsport now." He should have said "Collinwood" (and they are obviously already in Collinsport in the gaol).
* Joan Bennett's voice in her last scene is so croaky, it suggests Naomi shouldn't just be worried about Sarah's health.
* The location of the fog machine, whilst itself not directly visible, is evident during the closing credits as several periodic bursts of "fog" can be seen jetting from behind the grave stones on the lower right of the screen.
==External Links ==
Dark Shadows - Episode 413 on the IMDb
Dark Shadows Everyday - Episode 413 - The New Black
Dark Shadows Commentary- Episode 413: So sad for such a long time
Dark Shadows Before I Die- Episode 413: 1/24/68
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