Roger Collins finds it hard to believe David tried to kill him; David denies everything, and Burke Devlin produces the bleeder valve.

Synopsis

My name is Victoria Winters. A brewing storm buffets the great house on Widows' Hill and angry spirits out of the dim past seem to pound against its walls, demanding admission. There is no sound in the house, nothing but the echo of thunder and the whine of the rising wind. Yet the emptiness seems alive, alive with fear and tension that build on a single terrifying fact: I am alone.

Victoria sees a cloaked and ephemeral figure. Roger has arrived but is completely lacking interest in his son's whereabouts. Roger names David and Burke as the two people who dislike him most. Victoria brings up the truth about David's murder attempt. Roger doesn't believe her.

David searches for the bleeder valve he had earlier planted in Burke's couch (29), but he can't find it. Burke drives him back to Collinwood.

Victoria finishes her story about David and shows his father the evidence. Roger finally believes Vicki and confides in the governess about his son. Burke arrives with David, telling a white lie that he had just found David wandering about fifteen minutes ago. Roger takes his son into the drawing room to speak alone. He tells the boy that he knows about the bleeder valve. David tries to blame the whole thing on Victoria. Roger doesn't believe him and flatly tells him so.

While the two Collinses are out of earshot, Burke once again advises Victoria to leave this "madhouse." When father and son return to the foyer, David asks Victoria to repeat her accusations to David. Burke watches as Roger and Victoria confront the lying boy. Burke later produces the missing bleeder valve.

Memorable quotes

Roger: Now, that's a combination, isn't it? My son and Burke Devlin, the two people in this world I dislike the most.

Victoria: Mr. Collins, you have no reason to dislike Burke Devlin.

Roger: That's funny, Ms. Winters. I don't know if i should thank you or to hate for this.

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Roger: We never know what monsters we create, do we?

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Roger: When a boy tries to kill his own father, there's no help for him, no help at all.

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Burke: (about the grandfather clock) What strange sights it must have seen in its day.

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Burke (to Vicki, while David and Roger are in the drawing room): There's something going on in that room...and if my guess is right, you're living in a madhouse...and you'd better get out of here while you still can.

Dramatis personae

• ← Mitchell Ryan as Burke Devlin →
• ← Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins →
• ← David Henesy as David Collins →
• ← Alexandra Moltke as Victoria Winters →

Background information and notes

Production

• MPI's Collector's Series Volume 6 VHS cuts off the last few credits of this episode before they're completed.

Story

• Burke comments that the grandfather clock in the foyer is over 200 years old and was probably the first piece of furniture placed in Collinwood.
• As a child, Burke once sneaked onto a coastal freighter bound for Boston.
• David says he's never had a dog. This fact will later be contradicted by his mother Laura Collins in episode 153.
• GHOSTWATCH: Victoria gets trapped in the drawing room during a power outage. The doors open to reveal a silhouetted figure during a flash of lightning. It's never made clear whether it was really Roger, who had just returned home, or in fact a ghost.

Bloopers and continuity errors

• In the dark drawing room Victoria lights a match and then throws it into an ALREADY burning fireplace.
• When Vicki walks into the foyer holding a candlestick as a weapon, it appears that a dollop of melted wax falls from it. [This makes sense since it was lit moments before.]
• Actor Louis Edmonds calls Carolyn "Caroline" when speaking to Victoria in the drawing room.
• Either Louis Edmonds or David Henesy forget their lines in their conversation together and one is feeding the other his lines.
• After the final act fades to black, a loud cough is heard on the soundtrack.
• In the end credits, Ohrbach's is spelled "Orhbach's."
• During the end credits, the voice-over says the usual "Dark Shadows is a Dan Curtis production," but the DCP logo has not yet appeared on screen, and the credits fade to black before it does.

End credits announcements

• Watch an all-star team of last season's top college gridders pitted against the National Football League champion Green Bay Packers in the College All-Star football game. It's a sports special tonight at ten, nine o'clock central time on ABC.
• Dark Shadows is a Dan Curtis production.

External Links 

Dark Shadows - Episode 30 on the IMDb

The Collinsport Historical Society - Dark Shadows Diary - Episode 30

Dark Shadows Commentary- Episode 30: What monsters we create

Dark Shadows Before I Die- Episode 30: 8/5/66