Episode 60:
Slideshow
Elizabeth: "Night has fallen on the cursed Island of Maljardin and
for the first time one of its unwilling guests is to be allowed to leave. But Erica the wife of the Master has been warned by the
evil that possesses her that should anyone leave the Island she must return to the land of the
dead."
Jacques and Erica call to Jean Paul. "Erica?" Jean Paul walks into the Great Hall. "Erica are you all
right?" Jean Paul asks walking to her side. "Yes, my darling. I was just looking at
the portrait." "Jacques Eloi Des
Mondes." Jean Paul says turning away from Erica and
the portrait. "I'm familiar with it."
Erica turns to Jean Paul. "Darling look at the eyes. They are so much
like yours. Jean Paul look please." Erica walks over to him laying her hand
against his shoulder. "No. It
reminds me of too many things, things that are best
forgotten." Erica walks in front of
him. "Must you refuse me again today? Do I mean so little to you now?" Erica
asks as she puts her hands on his shoulders. "Of course not darling. But there are
things you don't understand. Things that you must not
ask of me." "Jean Paul look at me."
Jacques says to him. "Erica I dare
not. No. Help me! Somebody help me!" Jean Paul shouts pulling away from Erica.
He tries to fight Jacques influence. Looking up he sees Elizabeth and Tim
on the staircase. "There are the others. It must be time for
dinner. Raxl must have called them early." Jean Paul says then walks away and
leans on the staircase railing.
Erica walks up to Jacques portrait. "Before anyone leaves the Island , he
must be under my power. Or you will vanish from
Maljardin Erica. You will cease to exist."
Jean Paul stands at his bedroom window when Erica walks in. "Jean
Paul, what's wrong? You were so quiet at dinner and now you've shut yourself in
here in the dark." Erica says as she walks over to him. Jean Paul looks at Erica. "There is
something troubling me that I have to think about." "Oh my darling, let me soothe away your
problems." Erica says leaning against him with her hands on his shoulders. "You
have nothing to worry about, you know what you must do." "Erica you don't understand. I have to
fight this influence, this strange feeling." Jean Paul says to Erica. "But you are the Master of
Maljardin." "No Erica!" he cries
out. "What you do is right." Erica
says to him. "No, darling no." Jean
Paul pulls away from her and sits down. "I must arm myself against this. I must
not give in." Erica walks to
his side. "Jean Paul why do you fight me?"
"I'm not, but I must have time to think. Dearest forgive me please. I
must be alone. I must have time to think." Jean Paul says with his back to
her. "But there is no time. I will
wait for you in the Great Hall. And you will come to me. You know you will, you
have no choice." Erica tells him then leaves the room. "But Erica you don't know what can
happen." he says looking at the closed door. Chimes ring through the room. Jean
Paul stands and looks around. Erica's voice comes to him throughout the room.
"You will not refuse me again. You will not refuse me again Jean Paul." Jean
Paul walks across the bedroom, he stops at the bookcase. He opens and enters his
secret room. Pushing a button a compartment opens and he takes out the conjure
doll and silver pin. Raising the pin he slashes downward but stops before
piercing the doll. Carrying the doll and pin from the secret room he closes the
bookcase. "Come to me." He
hears Erica's voice. "Come to me Jean Paul." Jean Paul hides the doll and pin
inside his suit jacket then leaves the room.
In the Great Hall Erica stands next to Jacques portrait, she faces
the staircase. "Will he come?" "Yes
you have no idea how strong we are." says Jacques. "Then why is he still fighting you.?"
she asks turning towards Jacques portrait.
"Because he knows our strength. Call him Erica." "He mustn't suspect me. I couldn't bear
it." "He will not learn the truth
until we possess him. Now call him again Erica." Erica turns towards the staircase. "Come
to me. Come to me." Erica calls Jean Paul then looks at Jacques. "He resists,
there are other powers here." "If
he does not come you are no longer any use to us." "Don't say that." She turns back to the
staircase. "Please Jean Paul come to me."
Jean Paul slowly walks down the staircase. He walks to her side. "Oh my darling. Why have you been
so long?" "Has it been long?" Jean
Paul asks. "I have been so alone in
the dark country to be at peace if we were ever separated now." "Why are you standing in front of that
portrait?" Jean Paul asks. "Perhaps
because he reminds me of you. Why do you shudder dearest. Your ancestor was a
brave and bold man." "Who sold
himself to the devil!" "For power.
Jean Paul you did it for love. What woman could resist that?" Erica says
grasping him by the shoulders and turning him towards Jacques portrait. "Now
look into the eyes. Don't be afraid." Erica says as Jean Paul tries to turn
away. "It's just a square of canvas, a face as familiar as your own when you
look in the mirror." "Jean Paul why
do you fight me?" Jacques asks him.
Jean Paul pulls away and turns his back to Jacques. "No! Not this time!
It must not continue. You must not use Erica to trick me!" "Look at me! Jacques commands him. "Very well. If you insist!" Jean Paul
spins around and draws out the doll and pin. "Now Jacques Eloi Des Mondes face
your destiny!" Jean Paul says raising his arm holding the silver pin. Erica rushes into his arms and kisses
him. Jean Paul drops the doll and pin to the floor. He pulls back with a smile.
"Thank you my darling. How pleasant to kiss a beautiful woman after three
hundred years." Jacques portrait is blank. Jacques kisses Erica. "Will you help me now." Erica asks
him. Jacques nods. "Yes my darling.
It will be much easier without Jean Paul’s tiresome scruples.' Jacques says
running his hand over Erica's face.
"When you take Jean Paul over like this what happens to him for this
time?" "He stands motionless in
time . He's never taken you to the Great House at Fort Desmond has he?" Erica shakes her head no. "There's a room there with a clock
that's been a part of the family for even longer than Maljardin. Only the men of
the family know the clock and the secret of it. How to move time forward,
backward or to stop it completely."
Erica looks at him. "Will he hate me when he comes out of this? Will he
know me for what I am?" "There is
no one on this Island strong enough to fight us.. Raxl's powers are already on
the wane. She can only act as a woman now. As she did when she tried to
interrupt us before dinner." "And
Holly?" "You must possess her
quickly. She is the dangerous element we have to face. She is an unknown." "then summon her. And get it over
quickly." Erica says to him. "I
cannot. Not tonight. There is something that protects her. Something that is a
threat to you. It is the artist." says Jacques. "Tim. Oh he is leaving the Island. Jean
Paul has given him permission. Quito is going to take him to the Mainland. And
then he will be no threat." Jacques
turns away. "No no, no, no! He must be stopped. Think! There must be a way to
delay him." "Delay him, for what?"
Erica asks. Jacques smiles and
walks up to Erica. "So he may die."
Erica turns away upset.
Jacques holds her by the shoulders. "Oh so sensitive my lovely Erica.
That's the price you have to pay. You have been given a second life." "So have you." Erica says looking up at
him. "Only mine is secure. And
yours will end if you allow anyone to leave this Island before possessing
Holly." A door closes from
upstairs. "Be quiet, he is coming." Jacques whispers to Erica. "Now remember you
must only think of me as Jean Paul, not Jacques Jean Paul." Tim rushes down the staircase carrying
his jacket. "Excuse me have you seen Quito?" Tim asks. "I. I..." Erica says. "Yes he is in the boathouse waiting for
you. When you are ready." Jacques tells him as he walks to the table to pour
himself a drink. "Just like that?
You mean I can just walk down there and Quito will take me over to the
Mainland?" Tim asks after he steps off the staircase and walks over to Jacques.
"Jean Paul I have to tell you I am going to stay at the cafe until Holly and her
mother join me." Jacques glances at
him then away. "You may have a long wait."
"They want to stay here." Erica says to Tim. "Oh no they don't. Holly's mother wants
to leave and Holly would to, except she's under your influence." "Influence? Oh my dear fellow you speak
as if Erica and I were hypnotists." Jacques says to him. Tim shakes his head. "I don't know what
you are. I want Holly and her mother off this Island as soon as possible. Well
you can always say the reunited lovers want to be alone." "And if we don't." Erica says. "The name Jean Paul Desmond is not
unknown. I don't think there is a magazine or newspaper that wouldn't be
interested in knowing what happened on this Island." Tim says to them. "That sounds suspiciously like blackmail
to me. What ever happened to the grateful young artist?" Jacques asks. "He grew up." Tim says turning away. He
looks down. "What's that?" The conjure doll and silver pin are on the
floor. Erica picks them up. "It's
an Island custom, a voodoo doll. You can have it if you wish." Erica says
handing him the doll. "But I shall keep the pin. They should never be together.
Are you ready to go?" "Yes but
first I'll say goodbye to Holly's mother." Tim says then rushes up the
staircase. Erica walks in front of
Jacques. "Now?" Jacques walks
around her. "You must detain him my lovely Erica. You see there are powers
higher than ours and permission must be given. Even for his death. Follow
him." Erica doesn't move. "Now!" Jacques commands. Erica walks up
the staircase.
Tim is in Jean Paul and Erica's bedroom to collect his supplies.
He lifts the cover from Erica's portrait.
"Hardly a painting a woman would want facing the man she loves You admit
that." Eric says to him as she comes into the room. "I'll be out of here in a few minutes. I
just got to get my things." Erica
closes the door. "Not quite. You did a sketch of Holly once. Don't you want
that?" Tim looks away. "Oh you thought you lost it. You didn't,
Jean Paul decided to put it in his secret room. And I'm enough of a jealous wife
to want it off the Island also." Erica tells him then walks to Jean Paul's
bookcase. She opens the door to the secret room. "It's in there somewhere.
Please take it." Tim stands and
stares at her. "You do want a
picture of Holly don't you?" Tim
steps forward then stops. Jacques is standing at the back of the room watching
him. Tim walks into the secret room. Erica closes the bookcase and locks Tim in.
She turns and looks at Jacques. "It's done, now it's up to you. Jacques stands with a smile Tim pushes against the wall. "Erica,
Erica! Erica!" he shouts "Erica let me out!" He starts flipping switches. "Let
me out! Let me out!" Erica and
Jacques stand and look at each other. Jacques smiles. They can hear Tim pounding
and shouting from behind the bookcase. "Permission has been given. It can be
done." Jacques says to Erica. "Here me, Jean Paul Desmond will not call for you
but I Jacques who controls his body. I call for you." Erica walks towards the bedroom
door.
"Where are you going?" Jacques asks her. "I want to get out of here. I'm
afraid." "You are beyond fear now.
You are one of us. Remember that. And remember your great love made Jean Paul
call you back at any price. And you were eager to return at any price. Well now
the price must be paid." Jacques says walking towards Erica and lifting her chin
to look at him. Releasing her he turns away and lifts his hands palms up. "I
invite the Mark of Death. I invite the first murderer on this planet to touch
me, to give me strength." Jacques hands clench into fists as the heartbeat is
heard in the room. He stumbles towards the bookcase, pushing the button that
opens the entrance for the secret room. Tim turns as Jacques enters the
room. "Jean Paul, no!" Tim cries out.
"I regret Timothy it seems Erica has trapped you." Jacques says reaching
for Tim's throat.
Erica is standing in
the bedroom listening and looking at the entrance to the secret room when there
is a knock on the bedroom door. "Who is it?" "Elizabeth, may I come in?" Erica looks at the open bookcase. "What
do you want?" "I must see you. It's
important." "Just a minute." Erica
says then walks over to the bookcase and closes it. She walks across the room
and opens the bedroom door.
Elizabeth walks in. "I'm sorry to disturb you." "It's late. Couldn't it wait until
morning?" Erica asks. "I'm afraid
it can't." Elizabeth says turning towards her. "Erica you look so strange as if
you are listening to something."
"What nonsense. What's wrong?"
"I can't find Tim. He's not in his room. He's not downstairs. Holly says
she hasn't seen him." Erica takes a
deep breath. "Tim has left the Island."
"Already? But he promised to say goodbye first. I guess I shouldn't have
expected him to." Elizabeth looks across the room. "Jean Paul's library. Perhaps
I can find something dull enough to put me to sleep." She says walking to the
bookcase. "Stay away from there!"
Erica says following Elizabeth.
"Erica is something the matter?"
"Nothing, I'm just tired." Erica says walking to the bed and sitting on
the edge of it. "I need to be alone."
Elizabeth walks across the room. "Sorry." she says stepping away then
looks down. "Look, Tim's palette knife." she says picking it up. "I remember he
told me once it was a good luck charm. I can't imagine him leaving the Island
without it." She looks at Erica.
"Yes?" Erica asks.
"Nothing." Elizabeth says turning away from Erica with the knife. "Sorry
I disturbed you." Erica stands and
walks behind her. "That's all right. Sleep well." Elizabeth looks at Erica. "I will."
Elizabeth walks out the door. Erica
closes and locks the door.
She walks back to the bookcase as Jacques steps out. "Is it
done?" "You know it is done. I bear
the mark." On his hand is the Mark of Death. "You're safe. She thinks Tim has left.
and Quito can't speak, no one will ever know." Erica tells Jacques. Jacques walks towards her. "And the
body?" "Leave it in there." Erica
says. Jacques laughs. "Jean Paul
must return to this body. He has made a bargain only we have cheated him. You
are not the gentle loving Erica he expected." "I'll show you how loving and gentle I
can be." She puts her arms around him and kisses him. Jean Paul jerks back away from Erica. He
pulls away from her. "What happened? I was downstairs. I, wait a minute...then I
followed you. I followed...What's happened!" he asks turning towards Erica. Erica looks over at the secret
room. Jean Paul walks to the
doorway. He sees Tim laying on the floor, turning away he looks at Erica, "Oh my
God!" "Your God is now the Mark of
Death." Erica says turning away. "Look at your hand." Looking at his hand he sees the Mark of
Death. Erica smiles. "I can't have done this! I can't!" The mark fades as he
closes his fist. "They were right! All of them! I have brought back evil!" Jean
Paul says looking at Erica.
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Summaries written by Debby
Graham . The slide
presentation is the work of Ron Janick.
~Ron/Bella~
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