Season 1971 - Episode Guide

A very alive Joanna asks the court to let her testify, and she does. The court disallows all of Trask's testimony. 

Samantha tells Gerard that she knows she killed Joanna, throwing her off the cliff into the sea. Daphne sees Joanna in the foyer of Collinwood and is terrified thinking she is a ghost. 

Gerard proposes to Daphne. 

Carrie and Jeremy share a long kiss. In his jail cell, Quentin tells Gerard he does not trust him. 

Carrie discovers Mordecai who says Quentin's name just before he dies. Carrie leaves Jeremy when he says he hopes Quentin is soon executed.

The judges announce Quentin is guilty and execution will be carried out in a week. Edith catches Gabriel actually walking and is then killed by him. Daphne finds evidence that she thinks shows Gerard killed Edith. 

Stokes happens on the PT room but can only observe, not enter the room. Daphne discovers Edith's body. Daphne shows the evidence to Gabriel which he then reveals to Daphne is his cufflink, not Gerard's.

Gabriel takes Daphne hostage in a Collinwood room. He admits Daphne that he killed Randall and Edith. Joanna hears a noise behind a door and enters the room as Gabriel waits to strangle her. 

Quentin breaks out of jail, frees Desmond who is then shot by the guard. 

Daphne tries to trick Gabriel into believing she is interested in him. Daphne escapes her ropes and finds a secret passage.

Gabriel attacks Daphne and the ghost of Daniel comes to her rescue. Quentin and Daphne visit the PT room at the wrong time.

Samantha shoots Joanna at close range but is unharmed. Samantha finds a note from Gerard asking her to meet him at Widows' Hill. She is surprised there by Joanna.

Joanna disposes of Samantha, then arranges for Quentin and Joanna to leave town early in the morning via carriage. 

Before Quentin and Daphne can escape Collinsport to be married, Gerard uses his powers to force Daphne to marry him.

Quentin is captured by Trask after being lured to Collinwood to stop Gerard from marrying Gerard. Valerie vows to Barnabas' portrait to help get rid of Judah Zachery. 

Angelique uses her powers with a voodoo doll to try to kill Gerard (Judah). Quentin puts his head on the chopping block.

The executioner's blade is stopped by Angelique/Valerie/Miranda and she shows the judge the case with the head of Judah Zachery. 

Barnabas is unable to profess his love for her to Angelique as Trask takes revenge. 

Catherine rejects Bramwell's intentions upon his return after a five year absence. 

Justin goes to the locked room and suddenly falls on the floor, dead.

Morgan decides to marry Catherine tonight before the lottery. Bramwell kidnaps and locks up Catherine at the old house to prevent the marriage.

Catherine and Bramwell seem to reconcile and are shown straightening their clothes implying passionate relations. Morgan arrives and takes Catherine away.

A sleeping Catherine is awakened in her bed by a crazed knife-stabbing Melanie. Daphne tells Catherine she should not marry into the Collins family.

Melanie discovers a locked room where Stella is being held against her will by Julia and Flora. 

Morgan arranges for Stella's body to be buried secretly. Kendrick kisses Melanie, unaware she is likely to have killed his sister, 

Morgan slaps Bramwell's face with gloves calling for a duel and Bramwell accepts.

Kendrick arranges for a meeting with the psychic Gerald Stiles in order to try to find his his sister, Stella. Morgan and Catherine arrive at Collinwood announcing they were just married.

Flora reveals the imprisonment of Stella and that she died and the police are on the way. Quentin decides to use a séance to try to communicate with Brutus Collins. 

Morgan shows his anger to Catherine when he reads the letter from Bramwell.

With the plague happening as told in the séance, Flora announces the Lottery will be held tonight so a full night is spent by the person chosen beginning tomorrow night.

Gabriel draws the slip with the X and runs away, He is captured and locked in a room awaiting his night in the locked room of the lottery. He escapes.

Morgan does not agree with Julia that a second lottery is needed to replace Gabriel. 

Gabriel apparently finds the courage to bravely enter the locked room. No sound is heard after he is locked in. Quentin and Melanie instantly recover from the plague. 

The next morning Morgan enters the locked room and finds a dead body that is not Gabriel. He has a check written to him by Gabriel on the body. Melanie sees the ghost of Justin Collins who delivers a message.

Melanie tells Quentin that someone is outside waiting for him. Kendrick gets a surprise while reading in the drawing room.

Gabriel stabs Kendrick, burns a portrait of Brutus and locks Morgan in a room. Daphne announces she and Bramwell are going to marry.

Catherine and Josette chastise Barnabas for his intention to marry Daphne. Carrie does a reading for Daphne of her future. 

This is a missing episode and is a group of still pictures and narration by Lara Parker. A fan recorded this episode's audio and it is used to reproduce the episode. Carrie sees but does not reveal all to Daphne of her future with Barnabas. Kendrick goes to the police and they are out to find Gabriel to arrest for murder of Stella. Catherine hears some shocking news from her doctor who was called when she fainted in the foyer of Collinwood.

Catherine privately reveals to Bramwell she is pregnant with his child. Bramwell tries to convince her to run away overseas from Collinsport. A new lottery is held.

Catherine goes to the locked room but the key does not open. Morgan announces he is in the room and the locks are changed. 

Morgan is looking around the locked room and finds a padlock on a hidden doorway. He breaks it open and enters that room. When he emerges from the locked room the next morning, he acts as if he is confused.

Morgan states he is not Morgan. Melanie continues trying to find out about her real parents. 

Morgan discovers the skeleton of his sister Sarah. Morgan states he is James Forsythe. 

The spirit of Brutus appears to Morgan/Forsythe. Kendrick reveals to Catherine that he has searched for her records for the last three days and that she was never in the orphanage that had been stated to be where she was adopted. Kendrick is shocked to meet the alternate personality Catherine.

While searching in the woods for Kendrick, Melanie comes across Gabriel who gives her a sealed note to give to Flora asking her to meet with him secretly. 

Kendrick fights with Gabriel as Gabriel goes in and out of his own mind. Quentin tells Kendrick to leave and takes Gabriel to Collinwood. Flora tells Quentin that Gabriel did not kill Stella but she does not know who did kill her. Later, Kendrick returns to talk to Melanie. 

Kendrick tells Melanie that he wants to marry her as soon as possible. Bramwell depresses Daphne leaving late in the evening saying only that he is going to the village. She follows him and sees him kiss Catherine.

Morgan/Forsythe believes Julia is his sister Constance. He is shown choking Julia with a rope in the drawing room. Catherine is talked to by Julia about her continuing relationship with Bramwell. 

Quentin courageously stops Morgan/Forsythe from killing Julia. A family member deceives Morgan/Forsythe to enable an attempt to remove the possession of Forsythe from Morgan.

Morgan/Forsythe tells Julia the complete story of the Curse from Brutus on the Collins family. Brutus was skimming the profits due Forsythe. Brutus then kills Forsythe and Morgan's wife, Amanda.

Daphne shows signs of being weak and dizzy. The doctor tells Julia that Daphne has a terminal illness, there is no hope, and she does not have long to live. Julia does not inform Bramwell of the condition right away.

Kendrick asks Carrie to try to get a vision of Melanie's real parents. 

Julia gruffly interrupts Carrie's vision of Melanie's parents, and later threatens her if she reveals information.

Morgan discovers an unconscious Julia in the locked room where Gabriel was being held. Daphne tells Bramwell that she is slipping away quickly, then falls into a coma. Julia and Morgan go to the locked room in the daytime to search for information. 

Morgan and Julia discover the perfectly preserved bodies of James Forsythe and Amanda Collins. The door slams and they are locked in that room with no way to open the door. Gabriel attacks Catherine to force her to give him money so he can flee from Collinwood.

Kendrick runs in tackling Gabriel preventing Melanie from being murdered. Morgan gives chase in the secret passages of Collinwood and starts fighting Gabriel.

Melanie meets her mother. Daphne passes away. 

Melanie and Kendrick arrive at Collinwood announcing they have just been married. Bramwell refuses Julia's request to leave Collinwood. The ghost of Brutus causes Melanie to be possessed by Amanda's ghost forcing the family into having a new lottery.

Catherine nearly passes out again. Kendrick demands to participate in the lottery, and is chosen. 

Kendrick believes he can break the curse for the Collins family. Bramwell and Catherine meet at the Gazebo and discuss the baby. Someone is in the bushes listening in on their conversation.

After the funeral for Daphne, Morgan tricks Bramwell and then knocks him unconscious, then locks him in the lottery room. 

Catherine tells Bramwell she will stay with him on the other side of the door. He reads the letter to her that he received from Morgan. In front of the family, Morgan refers to Catherine as the little mother. Morgan is enraged when Catherine admits to him privately that it is Bramwell's baby. 

Catherine gets possessed by Amanda while locked in the lottery room. 

Bramwell and Catherine fight for their dream of a Happily-ever-after.