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Nicholas prepares Maggie for their wedding/the Black Mass. Chris is reunited with Amy and later changes him hotel room. The hotel clerk investigates noises coming from the room that night and is violently murdered.
Synopsis
Teaser
- A brilliant morning Sun illuminates the walls of Collinwood and all is serene in the Great House. But not far away in a strange House by the sea a desperate man waits. This day will decide his fate, and the young woman he has chosen to be his bride.
Nicholas waits for Tom and wonders why Adam has left, and why everything is going wrong. He summons Maggie to come to him and to decide she wants and needs him. He states (to the air) "Tonight we will be united .... in death".
Act I
Adam arrives, slamming the door. Nicholas tells Adam he made a mistake in how Eve was created, but that his new mate will be warm and loving because Maggie will supply her life force. Adam says he would rather be alone than with someone like the old Eve and he does not trust Nicholas. Adam then swears to kill the new Eve if she is anything like the old one. Adam exits as Maggie arrives. Maggie drags it out, but tells Nicholas she will marry him and they embrace. He tells her they will be married tonight because he must leave for London tonight and wants to take her with him. At Windcliff Sanitarium, Chris waits to see Amy. While the nurse goes to get Amy, he checks the weather forecast and sees the Full Moon is tonight. He panics and says "No! Not again".
Act II
Amy and Chris are reunited, but she just stares at him, not speaking. He tries to bribe her with a box of paints, but she throws them across the room and asks "Why didn't you come before"! He says he wanted to but stayed away too long. She dismisses him, but when he does not leave she asks if he will stay. He tells her he can't and she screams at him to "go away!". He hugs her and apologizes, saying he will stay in Collinsport, promising not to leave her. Back at the Collinsport Inn Chris asks Mr. Wells if he can change rooms. He asks for the room at the top, away from the street, more secluded from the rest. Mr. Wells shows him the room and Chris seems pleased when he sees the grating over the window. He asks Wells to to lock him inside for the night from the outside and to ignore anything he hears as he is a writer who often acts out the parts he is writing. Wells seems dumbfounded.
Act III
At Nicholas' house, Maggie paces in her wedding dress, being generally nervous as time approaches for the minister to arrive. Nicholas offers her some champagne to calm her nerves and puts some drops in hers from a vial from his jacket pocket. They drink up and later Maggie begins to feel dizzy. She passes out in Nicholas' arms and he carries her away, never even messing up her veil. At the Collinsport Inn, Mr. Wells hears a commotion from inside Chris Jennings' room and unlocks the door. He goes inside to investigate, seeing the room has been torn apart. He looks towards the camera and screams! Nicholas carries Maggie into a black room filled with candles and lays her on an altar and begins the Black Mass. We see Wells being dragged away, his face horribly mangled and cut up. Nicholas continues the Black Mass, summoning The Damned, saying they will live forever as members of The Damned ... he takes a sip of wine from the ceremonial cup (630) and kisses her.
Memorable quotes
- Nicholas (about Maggie, to the air): "Tonight we will be united .... in death".
- Chris: "I wrote to ya!"
Dramatis personae
- ← Kathryn Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans →
- ← Robert Rodan as Adam →
- ← Humbert Allen Astredo as Nicholas Blair →
- ← Don Briscoe as Chris Jennings →
- ← Conrad Bain as Hotel Clerk
- Bobbi Ann Woronko as Nurse
- Denise Nickerson as Amy Jennings (uncredited) →
Background information and notes
- This is the first appearance of Amy Jennings, but she is not credited. Previously her brother, Chris, had called her Molly.
- This is the final appearance of Conrad Bain as Mr. Wells, the night clerk at the Collinsport Inn.
- Bobbi Ann Woronko who played the Nurse, was a former Miss Pennsylvania. She won the small role as first prize for a beauty pagent held at Pallisades Park, New Jersey.
Bloopers and continuity errors
- Nicholas is not wearing his ring (gold band with rather large diamond) when he drugs Maggie, but is wearing it when he performs the Black Mass. He was wearing it when Maggie arrived at his house.
- Since when can a hotel door lock from outside?
- What is that blue stuff on the dead hotel manager? Maybe best not to think about it?
- Adam knows Blair lied and trusts him anyway; Blair admits it was a mistake to lie to him?
- Maggie once attacked Adam; why would he want to have her as the life force?