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Number	659
Timeline	1969
Narrator	Nancy Barrett
Writer	Ron Sproat
Director	Dennis Kane
Broadcast	January 15, 1969 (Wednesday)
Recorded	January 8, 1969 (Wednesday)
Video	Complete: Disc 70 Collection 12: Disc 2

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Mrs. Johnson catches David and Amy dressed in 19th-century clothing and acting like Quentin and Beth.

Synopsis

Night at Collinwood, a night that appears to be quiet and serene, but unknown to the residents of the great house, there is terror in this night, for the spirits of those long dead still exist within its walls, and they have made contact with the living. Two innocent children have become possessed, and as a result, they will be compelled to destroy. Unwittingly, they will place every member of the Collins family in great danger.

Amy sneaks into David's room and he reiterates that they're going to play the game with Carolyn.

Amy asks why and David tells her that Quentin wants it because Carolyn knows too much. Amy protests that she likes Carolyn, but David insists. Just then, Maggie comes in and says she heard them talking, David tries to deny that Amy's there, but she doesn't buy it, and eventually Amy reveals herself. They convince Maggie that Amy had a dream that David was dead and came to see him, since everyone she cares about has died. Maggie covers for them when Mrs. Johnson comes to the door, and then tells them she'll come back to take Amy to her room. David tells Amy to go get dressed because they're going to play the game with Carolyn tonight.

Outside, Carolyn comes home with Chris and asks him to come live in their guest cottage. He's initially reluctant, but after he finds out it's fairly isolated, accepts. She then pretty much corners him into kissing her.

Later, after dodging Carolyn and Chris inside the foyer, David and Amy sneak down to the servants' quarters dressed in old-fashioned clothing and start role-playing Quentin and Beth. They have a cryptic dialogue in which Beth says she's afraid of "them," and Quentin says he hates "her" and doesn't believe in "her" curse. He says he will finish it, when Mrs. Johnson walks in on them and shoos them off to their room. She finds Maggie and relates what she saw, saying that the children have changed, and she is afraid of them.

Back in David's room again, Amy says she doesn't feel like Beth any more, but David belligerently tells her that when they're wearing those clothes, she's Beth and he's Quentin. He says something will happen to Mrs. Johnson, and when Amy asks "what," responds "you'll see..."

Memorable quotes

Amy: Maggie's nice. I like her.

David: I like her too.

Amy: We won't play the game with Maggie.

David: No, not her.

Amy: I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to her.

Carolyn: (about Amy) I'm beginning to worry if David is a good influence on her.

Mrs. Johnson: You children play very odd games.

Mrs. Johnson: David likes to prowl around the house in the middle of the night. Maggie, there's something peculiar about those children.

Mrs. Johnson: I don't know, Maggie, I don't know. I'm... I'm frightened of the children. I don't know how to say it. David's changed. He's sly, almost sinister.

Dramatis personae

Background information and notes

Production

This episode was recorded out of broadcast sequence. The previous episode to be recorded was 666.
First episode directed by Dennis Kane.
The end credits begin late, it seems, as the only cast member credited is Denise Nickerson as Amy Jennings before the crew credits start rolling. The DVD doesn't even give Denise's credit, but starts right in with the crew credits. The end credits also give a copyright year of 1968.

Story

First appearance of the servants' quarters area at Collinwood and/or Beth's room.
Chris kisses Carolyn for the first time. It would later be revealed that they are in fact distant cousins related through Quentin's daughter Lenore, at which point the relationship is promptly terminated, in part due to Chris' failure to commit due to his lycanthropy.
TIMELINE: Chris plans to move into the cottage tomorrow. It was hours ago when Maggie left David and Amy.

Bloopers and continuity errors

David has a toy on a shelf that appears to be lighting up; as such, the camera seems to avoid it where possible.
When Maggie knocks on David's bedroom door, Amy hides behind the door, and David jumps into bed fully clothed and pulls the covers up over him. As Maggie talks with Amy and David, David sits up, revealing he is wearing clothes rather than his pajamas. Maggie does not say anything about this. --She knows he was only pretending to be in bed, so why would she be surprised that he is wearing clothes? [Regarding the last comment about Maggie knowing David was only pretending to be in bed, it still seems more like a blooper. David was supposed to be in bed, and Amy was in her nightclothes, so it's still not clear why David would be in his clothes.]
When David and Amy hear Carolyn and Chris in the foyer, David Henesy blows out Amy's unlit candle and smiles at the realization of doing so. Also, after Carolyn and Chris leave the foyer and David and Amy enter, David relights both his and Amy's candles, but when he blows out the match, he accidentally blows out his own candle yet cups his hand over it as if to protect the flame even though it's been extinguished.
Don Briscoe steps on Nancy Barrett's lines: Carolyn: "I punished him for it..." Chris: "What'd he do?" Carolyn: "...but it still worries me."
After Chris leaves Collinwood, Carolyn walks up the stairs still in her coat. The house residents always hang up their coats or leave them in the foyer.
Why would David and Amy go through the west wing, down the secret passage, to get to the drawing room, then through the foyer towards Roger's study to get to the west wing again?
It's not clear how Mrs. Johnson would have heard David and Amy talking in the servants' quarters in the west wing. Even beyond the west wing being separate from the rest of the house, David tells Amy that they would have to go *through* the west wing to get to the servants' quarters, making them even further away from the occupied portion of the house.
the room David and Amy enter looks nothing like Beth’s room as it will appear in 1897. Additionally, the ornate and ample furnishings seem at odds with the simplicity of this “servant’s room”.
Mrs. Johnson tells Maggie she found the kids “downstairs”, but the location as shown is at odds with her statement, unless the West Wing contains servants’ rooms on the main level. (Mrs. Johnson and Harry seem to have rooms on the main level in the back of the house.) Historically, many servants’ quarters are either on the top floor, or in the basement. This version of Beth’s room doesn’t look much like a basement or attic garret.
When Mrs. Johnson and Maggie talk in the foyer about David and Amy, after Maggie says, "I'll see that they do," a boom mic shadow moves across her as Mrs. Johnson steps away.