1995

While in Angelique’s room, Barnabas and Julia discover that Collinwood is on fire, thanks to Stokes. Barnabas tries to reach out to Roxanne through the flames, but the room suddenly changes, and he and Julia find themselves back in their own time. Barnabas is distraught over the loss of Roxanne. “Why is fate so determined to offer me a chance for happiness and then destroy it right before my eyes?” Barnabas asks. “We forget how rare a life of love can be,” Julia says as if in pain. “You’re not the only one who’s had so little hope. It’s something one learns to live with. We can get used to anything, if we have to.” Julia looks up into Barnabas’ face, her meaning clear. The background music stills as the camera closes in on her eyes and then on Barnabas as he realizes she is talking about herself. 

EPISODE 1062: Barnabas and Julia return to the mausoleum after meeting an aged Carolyn. Barnabas is preparing to enter his coffin although Julia is anxious that someone will know about his hiding place. “I want you to sleep, too,” Barnabas tells Julia. “We’ve been through so much.” She shakes her head, telling him she won’t be able to sleep. He insists and wants her to go into the village. “No, Barnabas, I’m going to stay here and guard you,” she says stubbornly. He is adamant, but she continues to shake her head. A rooster crows, and Julia finally reluctantly agrees to leave him. “Be careful, dear friend,” he says and enters his coffin. Julia runs her hand lovingly over the coffin lid, worried about what will happen to them in this time. Julia waits coffin side for a while and then touches Barnabas’ resting place once again before leaving the mausoleum. 

EPISODE 1063: Julia narrowly escapes falling statuary in the foyer at Collinwood. She and Barnabas rush out of the house. They stop in the woods, and Barnabas tries to comfort a trembling and near hysterical Julia. He stands very close to her, obviously quite concerned, and places his hand firmly on her arm. 

EPISODE 1067: Julia heads up the stairs of the Old House to check on Quentin. Barnabas stops her, saying that Quentin and Carolyn are suffering so much. “You will help me, won’t you?” She smiles. “Of course, Barnabas, I’ll do what I can.” He turns away. “I’ve not always been kind to my cousins. There have been times when I was even cruel,” he says regretfully. “To see what’s happened at Collinwood, what the Collins family’s been brought to – some moments, it seems almost more than I can bear.” “You care about them very much, don’t you?” Julia asks, her feelings for Barnabas overcoming the spell Gerard has over her. “Yes, they’re people that I love….” Aware that he is baring his soul, Barnabas asks her, “Forgive me.” Julia comes to him and says that they should try to get back to their own time. He is incredulous that she wants to leave, doing nothing. Noticing the change in her, he asks if anything is the matter. She denies that anything has happened to her and walks away, but Barnabas still seems worried by her attitude. 

EPISODE 1069: Barnabas becomes increasingly perplexed by Julia’s attitude and behavior. She is argumentative and much less supportive of him than she usually is. After he finds Carolyn’s body at Collinwood, Julia resists when he tells her to call the sheriff. Exasperated, Barnabas finally asks, “Julia, what is wrong with you?” “Nothing,” she answers defiantly. “Something is,” he insists. “Why?” she counters. “You disagree with everything I say!” She finally agrees to go for the sheriff, and Barnabas says he is going to look for Carolyn’s body, which has disappeared. Sounding more like herself, Julia steps closer to him, and says, “Barnabas, be careful.” She glances up the stairs where Gerard is watching, and when Barnabas tries to turn to see what she is looking at, she places a restraining hand on his chest and urges him again to be very careful. 

Later, after he tells her that he has seen Gerard, he asks again, “Julia, what is wrong?” 

At the Old House, the sheriff has been questioning an agitated Quentin. The sheriff asks Julia where Barnabas is, and when she doesn’t answer, he tells her that she could help him if she wanted to. Julia turns to see a glowering Gerard watching her outside the window. “All right,” she says with an odd smile, “Come back just before dusk, and I will help you.” 

EPISODE 1070: Julia, on Gerard’s instructions, has told the sheriff all about Barnabas. She waits in the drawing room of the Old House, a malevolent Gerard at her side, as the sheriff goes to destroy the vampire. “I’ve betrayed him. Have I done enough for you?” she asks the ghost, before collapsing into a chair in tears. She cries as she asks Gerard why he keeps watching her. In agony, she says, “Are you determined that I be here to hear the shots, the silver bullets….” She is shocked when Barnabas appears in the doorway. He explains to her what happened with the sheriff and says he doesn’t know who told the sheriff about him. “Don’t you?” she asks, raising her chin. “You betrayed me!” Barnabas exclaims incredulously, crossing the room to her in disbelief. “You told the sheriff,” he says again, taking hold of her arm. “And I will again. Believe me, Barnabas, I will betray you over and over,” she says sobbing as she tries to wrench her arm from his grasp. “Julia!” “You’re not safe with me,” she cries as she turns from him. “Why?” “Don’t tell me anything and don’t ask me to go with you anywhere. Now, Barnabas, just go. Go.” He walks up to stand behind her. “Who has done this to you?” he demands. She tells him not to try to find out anything about her. She begs him to go to Angelique’s room to get back to their own time. “Lock the door. Hope you can get back before…” “Before what, Julia?” “Barnabas, they will be back. You’re right. And if you escape them, when dawn comes….” “You will come to my coffin to kill me.” She winces at the truth of his words. “Oh, Julia, who has saved me so often, what has he done to you!” She denies that anyone has done anything to her. “Julia, you have been with him,” Barnabas says, sounding almost like a husband accusing his wife of being with another man. Julia continues to shake her head in denial. “ He has done this to you?” he asks, but she does not want to talk about Gerard. “Barnabas, Barnabas, I told you to go while you can!” she insists. “And leave you to him?” he asks in disbelief. “Leave me, yes. It’s the only chance you have,” she says in despair. Barnabas tries to talk to her about the ghost, but she won’t even say Gerard’s name. “Then it will be my will against his,” he resolves. “Barnabas, Barnabas, let me go,” she pleads with him. She tells him that Gerard is watching them. “Barnabas, go, go,” she begs. Barnabas commands her to look at him, and using his vampire powers, he forces her to turn to face him. The camera focuses on their eyes as she says softly, “You can escape.” “Not without you,” he tells her gently. “You can’t take me with you.” He comes to her and standing very closely, he shakes his head and tenderly assures her, “Never without you.” “You won’t be able to take me.” “Julia, I will. You must believe me, I will,” he insists. “You can’t.” “Once we are back in our time, he cannot get to you. Now, you must depend upon me, not him. You must depend upon me.” She falls into his arms in tears, and he holds her, rubbing his hand in circles across her back. “Oh, how could I ever have done it?” she cries as she clings to him. “You must never blame yourself,” he says tenderly as he holds her close. “Oh, but I do, I do,” she sobs. “How can you forgive me?” “You have forgiven me so often for so many things,” he says humbly. She turns from his embrace and tells him that she is afraid. Barnabas asks if Gerard still has power over her. She says that she knows that Gerard is waiting. “And you will go to him again?” “I don’t know,” she cries. He tells her he won’t leave her alone for one moment this night and that she must use every once of willpower she has to resist Gerard. He wants to go see Stokes, but she says she thinks she should stay at the Old House in case the police come. He refuses to let her stay there alone, and gets very close to her. “I tell you, I will not leave you.” He puts his arm around her and leads her out the door as they go to find Stokes. Once outside of the Old House, he looks at her with concern before taking her arm. 

Barnabas, Stokes and Julia hold a séance to contact Carolyn. The spirit of the dead woman speaks through Julia, but a strong wind abruptly blows out the candle, and the circle is broken. Julia screams that Gerard is coming and collapses onto the table in tears. Barnabas goes to her and puts his arm around her. When his attention shifts to Stokes, whom Gerard has killed, Julia disappears. “Julia!” he screams over and over as he searches the Old House for her in vain. 

When Barnabas arrives at Collinwood, he finds Julia in Gerard’s complete control, about to kill herself with a dagger. “Julia! Put it down!” he commands. “Put down that knife!” Julia looks from Barnabas to Gerard to Barnabas again, and his influence finally wins out as she drops the weapon. “You will not have her!” Barnabas tells the ghost. “Julia, you are coming with me, and there is nothing you can do to stop us.” Gerard glares at him before touching Julia’s forehead. She immediately moans in pain and collapses onto the floor. “Julia!” Barnabas screams. He goes to her, and kneeling on the floor, he takes her hand. “She is dying,” he says in anguish. “You caused this. She is dying.” Gerard locks them in the playroom, but Carrie appears and shows Barnabas how to leave the room. A door appears, and opening it, Barnabas finds a stairway. He gathers a weak Julia into his arms and helps her up the stairs, assuring her that it won’t be long. When she cries out in pain and starts to collapse, he holds her closely and supports her as he cries her name, “Julia, Julia.” He manages to help her out the doorway that has appeared and to a chair, assuring her over and over again that it will be all right as he holds her hands. 

This episode contains the ultimate defining moment between Barnabas Collins and Julia Hoffman. Julia has been forced to betray the man she loves and has told the sheriff where he is and how to destroy him. When Barnabas survives the attack, Julia desperately and unselfishly tries to convince him to leave her behind because he is not safe with her. Barnabas, who just a few years before became murderous upon being betrayed, not only forgives Julia immediately, he refuses to leave her. “Not without you. Never without you,” he tells her, and these are very powerful words that reveal just how strongly he feels about her.