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Number	615
Timeline	1968
Narrator	Alexandra Moltke
Writer	Gordon Russell
Director	Lela Swift
Broadcast	November 12, 1968 (Tuesday)
Recorded	November 5, 1968 (Tuesday)
Video	Complete: Disc 65 Collection 11: Disc 1

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Angelique offers to send Eve back in time if she will help protect her during the day.

Synopsis

Nothing that will happen on this day or the night that will soon follow can stay the actions of the evil forces threatening Collinwood. Not far from the Collins estate in a house by the ocean, a man who possesses terrifying powers of evil has learned that he was betrayed by a woman: not an ordinary woman, but one of the living dead.

Nicholas opens Angelique's coffin and finds it empty. He vows to find Angelique during the day and destroy her. After she awakens, Angelique summons Barnabas, not knowing he is at Windcliff. At the house by the sea, Eve teases Nicholas about Angelique and says she will not lift a finger to help him. Angelique uses the mirror to see what Nicholas is up to. Nicholas says Barnabas is in the hospital and wants to send Eve to watch Jeff. She agrees, if Nicholas will help her prove Jeff is Peter. Nicholas refuses. Angelique smiles as she watches the whole thing.

That evening, Jeff attempts to rush his wedding to Victoria by moving up the date. He sends Victoria away after seeing Eve and angrily tells her to go away before he goes into the house. Angelique then comes out of the shadows and makes a deal with Eve: she will send Eve to the past for a short time to prove that Jeff is actually Peter Bradford if Eve can get Nicholas out of the house. Eve lies to Nicholas, telling him that Angelique is headed toward the hospital to see Joe. Angelique then performs a ceremony to send Eve back to the past for six hours, where she is again Danielle Roget.

Memorable quotes

Eve: (to Nicholas) I wouldn't lift a finger to help you.

Dramatis personae

Lara Parker as Angelique Bouchard Collins
Roger Davis as Jeff Clark
Marie Wallace as Eve
Humbert Allen Astredo as Nicholas Blair
Alexandra Moltke as Victoria Winters

Background information and notes

Production

This episode airs on November 12, 1968, which is the day that Alexandra Moltke filmed her final appearance in the series.
The fountain in the terrace is not running.

Story

INTERNAL MONOLOGUE: Nicholas: Staking Angelique.
TIMELINE: Almost sunset. Jeff wants to get married Friday afternoon. Angelique will send Eve back in time at midnight. Eve will have only six hours in 1796.

Bloopers and continuity errors

Someone off-camera can be heard talking during the first part of this episode. [If you're referring to the teaser, this does not sound like someone talking off-camera but rather bleed-through audio from something previously recorded on the tape. It was standard practice to reuse videotape.]
In Act I, after Angelique's internal monologue about wondering why Barnabas has not responded to her summons, there is a loud sound from off-stage.
Nicholas tells Eve that Julia sent Barnabas to a hospital "a few miles away." Julia has sent Barnabas to Windcliff, which as been established to be about 100 miles away. Also, it's not clear how Nicholas would know Barnabas was sent to a hospital. No one has told him, and he no longer has his magic mirror to find out where Barnabas is since Angelique took it.
In the dialogue between Eve and Nicholas as Angelique is looking at them in the magic mirror, Humbert Allen Astredo steps on Marie Wallace's lines at one point. He also steps on Lara Parker's lines later in the episode.
A boom microphone can be seen over Jeff as he turns to speak to Eve on the terrace and when Angelique appears on the terrace.
After Jeff scolds Eve on the terrace and holds her shoulders, he shoves her violently out of frame, and Marie Wallace can be seen losing her balance. Twenty years later at a fan convention, Roger Davis talked about how the cast would laugh at their flubs and bloopers, and Marie Wallace remarked that it wasn't very funny when he shoved her out of frame.
After Jeff leaves the terrace and Eve turns to follow, someone in the studio snaps their fingers. [This is likely a cue for Lara Parker to enter the scene.]
When Angelique encounters Eve on the terrace and promises to send her back in time, Eve eventually asks Angelique when she can send her back. Angelique tells her at midnight. However, the clock on the mantle shows approximately 11:40 pm when Angelique starts the ceremony, which takes only a few moments.