Hm.
Oh,
hello. Do you know the road to Colburn?
I was separated from my regiment at our
stat.
Do you have any drinking water?
I'm very thirsty.
Clear water from a mountain.
Thank you.
I,
ok.
Hello.
I'd like a word with you if you never said goodbye to me.
In fact, you never even said hello.
It isn't an act of treason to talk to me.
I'm a weary, disillusioned soldier.
And you're the only pleasant sight that I've seen in seven months.
Go ahead. It's permitted for you to laugh.
Wait, you haven't told me your name. My name's Elaine.
Come on. I want to show you something
great.
Where are you going?
Hello? What's wrong?
What?
Thank you.
Raise
yourself young man. You're safe here
here.
Take this
for your strength.
God knows. Help is a very rare thing in this forest.
Take it whenever it's offered to you.
That bird.
He attacked me.
I'm afraid you're wrong.
She's quite harmless
here.
Hold out your arm.
She only seems dangerous.
Actually. She's very affectionate, which is very unusual for a girl.
Keep it back.
Oh, that is too bad.
Little girl liked him, didn't you?
This is good stuff.
We brought you here.
Gustav
said your horse.
Where is Helaine?
This is Helaine.
No, not the bird. The girl. Where is the girl? There is no girl.
Of course, there's a girl. I saw her. She spoke to me.
Perhaps you were tired from your long journey and,
and had a pleasant illusion.
Gustav,
have you ever seen a girl here?
Gustav
sometimes imagines things
if he could speak.
I think we would find that his mind is warped.
Such is the will of God
to endow
and deprive
to
me.
Thing of beauty you'll find in this forest
is Helene.
Hello.
I was afraid you'd drowned.
So you are real.
I started to think.
Who are you?
Wait, wait of the danger.
Wait,
quicksand.
The girl was trying to kill me.
She knows not what she does.
Her will is not her own.
You mean she's insane,
possessed.
She needs your help help.
How can I help her?
The castle of the Baron
Von Lap.
You will find her there.
I can say no more. There's great danger. Fine, Eric. Eric knows
the
ride to Co B
is long and far safer by day.
If you leave now, you can rejoin your regiment by dusk. Where is Gustav?
What do you want him for?
I want him to show me where the castle of the Baron Von Lef is.
No one's lived in the castle for years
besides Gustav
has
gone away for a few days.
Perhaps you'd show me the way to the castle.
Why are you so interested in the baron?
I never said that I was
but the girl that I followed last night and spoke to,
I believe that she lives there.
Oh,
there is no girl. That is nonsense.
You recognize her, don't you?
No,
I'll find the castle myself.
No, wait,
don't go to the castle.
I have told you the truth.
There is no girl, Mark me.
You are getting yourself into things beyond your understanding.
Leave now while you can. I intend to find her.
Please don't tell the barman. I am here.
Mhm.
Hello.
Is anyone here?
Hello?
It's me Andre.
In the name of the government of France. I order you to open this door.
Your pardon, young sir. I was at my devotions. I did not hear you.
I'm sorry, sir.
But surely I made enough noise to awaken the dead,
the government of France.
I've seen the uniforms of many governments in my time.
What would a soldier of France be wanting here?
Shelter for one thing? Permit me to introduce myself.
Lieutenant Andre Duvalier, fifth chasseur,
Baron. Victor Frederick Von Le.
I suggest you will find better shelter at the villages. Thank you, Baron.
But I've had my fill of village inns.
Surely you wouldn't want to inconvenience a French officer.
Come in.
What do you see Lieutenant
of the remains of a noble heart
relics,
ghosts of past glories,
a noble heritage is something to be proud of there.
I'm afraid we've forgotten that in France. Oh, yes.
Your name Duvalier.
Your family. My father was the comte de Valer
was until they spilled his head into a basket one morning in the place.
De La Concorde. Forgive me for reviving painful memories.
You must be cold and tired. Lieutenant,
some cognac.
I'd like that. Baron. Thank you. Sit down
Stepan.
Yes, ma'am Kodiak for our guests.
Yes, Baron,
Baron.
I wonder if I might ask who was the young woman
I saw in the window before you came to the door,
young woman
who I'm afraid your mistake.
No, I'm not mistaken. I saw her dark hair and eyes about 20.
Well, I'm
quite sure you think you saw someone but
Baron, I am in full possession of my faculties. Please
allow me to show you something.
You should never believe everything your eyes tell you young man.
Is that the girl you think you saw?
Yes, of course. Yeah. Before you say anything else
examine the portrait closely the signature
and above all the date
1786.
But that's 20 years ago.
It's incredible.
It's the same girl and she hasn't changed a bit.
She has been dead for 20 years
with all respect, Baron for a ghost. She's a very active young woman.
You're speaking of the Baroness Van Lepp, my wife.
I beg your pardon, Baron. I meant no offense.
Perhaps the resemblance was not quite as much as I had thought,
the girl at the window. Lieutenant Duvalier,
the only occupants of this castle are Stefan and myself.
You were the first visitor
since the turn of the century.
Of course, Baron
Stefan will see you to your room. Thank you.
Yeah.
Right.
Hello down there.
I'm coming down. Wait for me
a
all right. Unlock this door.
Do you hear me?
Unlock this door? I'm gonna shoot through the door.
I kept to the shadows so he did not see me.
He's a strange one though.
He shows no fear. Well, he must leave at once. Do
you think perhaps he's not merely a traveler? Why do you say that
he might have heard things in the village
or nonsense? He's a soldier. He doesn't listen to old wives tales.
The important thing is that he leave with all due speed.
I shall see to it, sir, but of his own accord,
he was showing the respect, his position and rank demand.
Hope that
I understand, sir.
So
must you intrude on a dead as well as a living if
I intrude step and I shall leave it to my host to.
So inform me, why have you come to castle
upon left? What do you want here?
You seem to have things strangely confused in your mind.
You're the servant not. I
I'll ask the questions.
This was once a place of worship. Why have the holy objects been removed?
The baron ordered it.
When his wife, the baroness also passed away,
then this became her tomb. No, just the entrance to it.
The Von left family crypt lies below beneath the cemetery.
She rests there with four centuries of Von
Leps
that's been sealed for 20 years.
Nonsense
must have been open last night. The girl must have passed through here
as the baron told you, sir, there is no,
no girl.
Well, we shall see come with me to the stable step and I wish to attend to my horse.
That's what I came to tell you
your horse is gone.
Apparently it bolted during the night. Impossible. You're lying. Why?
No, sir, I'm not lying.
Fear me. Well, Stan,
I'm sick of all of these lies.
First, the old woman, then the baron and now you the old woman, you may never mind.
What about my horse? I shall get you another one from the village at once. Sir.
Believe me, Lieutenant.
I have no desire to interfere with your departure from this castle.
You seem very anxious to be rid of me.
Is it because you're afraid I might find out about Eric,
Eric?
So there is an Eric
that at least was not a lie.
Lieutenant. Please don't involve yourself in these dead matters.
There is nothing here but an old man and his decaying memories.
I beg if you leave him in peace,
will you join me?
No, thank you Baron.
I've just come from the stables. My horse is gone.
Your horse is gone.
Yes, I believe it was stolen. Baron. Oh, impossible.
The stable door perhaps was left open to the animal boat. Not an unusual thing in
itself.
No,
but there are certain other mysteries I would like to
have explained Baron and I mean to have them explain.
How dare you take that tone with me? I don't mean to be abrupt but I will have answers.
Well,
now,
why did you remove the portrait of the baroness from the wall?
Wait for renovation, the dampness of these walls. Put the mold on the pigment
you evade very cleverly. Baron.
Can you also explain the violin music and the girl in the chapel last night?
You saw her again? So you admit there's a girl,
Ilsa, is that her name? Answer me, Baron. Please please leave me in peace.
If I leave you now, Baron,
I will come back with a company of my men and I
will tear this place down around your ears until I find her.
Is that clear?
Very clear.
All right. Now, what happened to the baroness was her death, violent.
Yes, her death was violent. How did she die?
You spare me nothing.
20 years ago. I was not the man you're looking at. Now.
This land, this estate prospered. My people lived well and were happy.
My wife had died some years before and I was lonely.
And one day in the village, I saw
a
peasant girl who come to live there with her mother. Oh, I could have taken her
nobles have taken the daughters of peasants since the beginning of time. But
I loved her
and she became the baroness for
lep
almost immediately afterwards.
I was called away for military service rebellion in the Polish Province.
I was gone for nearly a year when the fighting was over. I
hurried home
to my bride.
No one knew of my coming.
I surprised her in her room. She was not alone.
She laughed at me
said her bed was not for me to find another
in my own hands.
My goodness
and their lover,
Stepan took care of him
later. I gave out a story that she had died of
some
beets. No one ever knew of her betrayal of me or
how, in fact she did die
except for Stepan
for 20 years. I've not set foot beyond the walls of this castle.
I've lived here alone. But
memory of the dreadful thing I did that night
is my pen.
And now you believe what that the ghost of Ilsa
has come back to relieve you of your penance?
Is that
it?
How long has the spirit been coming to the castle?
It
all began two years ago.
At
first, I was terrified. But now I,
I'm eager for her. Every meeting.
One more question, Baron.
Has anyone else except yourself
seen the Spirit Stephen? For instance,
you think I'm mad. Don't you
right now, Baron. I'm not sure just what I think,
but don't forget you saw her too.
Perhaps we are both men,
Elsa.
Uh
Elsa.
The name sounds strange to me here by the sea.
It is your name,
don't you remember?
My name is Elaine.
The old woman told me
she lies.
She summoned me from the sea.
You must go back. Your soul is troubled. Ilson. Go back to Eric.
Do they say
only when the sea enters the crypt,
we shall rest there together. He and I beneath the sea,
it is an evil thing. You must not do it. Sa
I must obey the old woman,
the Frenchman. He can help you also.
Andre.
Yeah.
The old one calls,
she warned you, Gustav
do not interfere.
She's been patient with you long enough
but no more
drug
Rama
Tetra,
Rama
Mafra
with
Ala
Nathe Osa
by
oo powers of darkness. Let the spirit of Ilsa sink deeper deeper into this mortal
form.
Hello?
Be as though you never would
spirit of ill.
See through these eyes, speak through these lips.
Do my bidding
for only then shall you find release from your torment?
You are becoming stronger now,
quite strong
soon. You shall have the strength
to carry out my vengeance.
Pings
and the dark powers will set you free for. I have promised them a richer crime.
Hey,
good afternoon.
Who are you
an appropriate question? But I'm afraid I'm the one who should be doing the asking.
I'm invited in. Of course,
what do you want of me?
You realize that this is the property of the Baron Victor Von Lepp
and that is forbidden for any of the villagers to set foot here.
Much less, make it their home.
How long have you been living here?
Only two months
perhaps I should tell you.
You see, I've just come from Kleinschmidt where you are not totally unknown.
You've lived here slightly more than two years.
Your name is Katharina.
And you originally come from Colburn where you were quite unpopular because of
certain activities.
They call you
Karina the heretic,
the witch.
They were fools.
Why do you live here? What do you want?
I haven't any money.
This was the only place that wasn't burned to the ground. So I,
I brought my things in here.
Where did you find? The girl
is? No girl?
I saw her,
she was sitting in this chair.
There is no girl. I know what she is,
old woman. I know what she is.
Listen to me and listen to me very carefully.
I don't know what you want. Now, do I fully understand your black abilities?
But if the two of you have not returned to Coburn within one night,
I shall come back here and kill you with my own hands
and burn this place to the ground once and for all
and you know who once lived here, all those years ago.
You know who lived here,
Eric?
Does the Frenchman gone?
No, I know he now refuses to leave.
I don't think he will leave of his own accord. He must, I gave you definite orders.
Baron. No one knows this officer is here.
If he should never arrive in Copeland.
Are you suggesting that it's the only way
that I will never countenance.
God knows I have enough upon my conscience without the
senseless murder of a young man who never harmed me.
How do you know what harm he plans?
You want him wandering around the castle? Do you want him down in a crypt
enough? The crypt is no concern of yours.
Oh,
right.
Come to me
home to
where are you?
Ok.
So
what is the meaning of this intrusion?
I'm sorry, Baron. I thought I heard voices.
Does that give you the right to burst into my room? Unannounced?
I beg your pardon. Baron
Stephan has gone to the village to get you another horse.
It will save us both embarrassment. If he will leave the moment he returns,
there can be no doubt of it, sir,
sir,
you're doing the best thing. Lieutenant.
The Baron often does things which may seem strange to you and me. But the
death of the baroness was a severe shock to him.
One from which I fear he is never fully recovered.
I understand completely Stepan.
Tell me something, Stefan,
if I can,
who is Eric?
Do you recall.
The baron spoke of returning from the war and finding the baroness with another.
Yes,
Eric. Was that other?
Wait,
wait
Gustav.
She is saying you,
she loves you.
You must.
Yeah.
Night
soul cries out
for release.
Go back.
Um,
I've waited for you so long.
I've been searching for you
to help you.
But you wander in strange places at strange hours.
You're really here.
Of course, I'm here
and I'll never leave you again.
Never.
When the night comes,
I get cold,
my arms and my shoulders get cold.
I don't like the night
I want to be free of it.
You are free
only in here
in this holy place. No,
everywhere with me.
You must come away with me now.
No, I can't.
Not until
until what
the crypt,
it must be destroyed
and with it, the dead
don't speak of the dead anymore. You're with me now.
I am possessed of the dead.
You're a warm living woman who has told you these things, the dead
in Paris,
they're doing wonderful things to discover the nature of the mind.
I'll take you. There,
there are doctors who can free you from this, from the dead.
The dead cannot reach out from the grave.
You must come away with me now.
No,
I'm afraid
the night
there's nothing to be afraid of.
You see,
love me and there is no,
I do love you
then come away with me.
Wait, here,
it's all right.
It was the m
not.
You are not alone.
I am here with you now
soon I will join you in eternal sleep.
Stefan will
flood the crypt
and seal us here together
with our love.
Yeah.
No
s
answer.
Why do you not talk to me?
I am here, Vin
I've been waiting for.
Oh no.
You know what? You must do
anything I will do with that. I dare not. Do not ask me. I beg of you. You must
or we can never be together.
No,
no, I cannot. I dare not
look at me victor.
Yeah.
Why
you told
me
so
must do it victim
only then can we be together?
I
landed?
I cannot,
I dare not.
My soul will be damned to eternal perdition.
Let me see who you really are.
No,
don't go back. You must not. No.
Let me go.
What kind of a woman are you?
Where are you?
Who are you?
Hello?
Is there a doctor in the village? His illness is not of the flesh.
I've seen this before in a day or two is mine. Will return.
We can only wait.
The baron tells me you've been with him since the Polish campaign.
That is true.
Then you must have been in this castle for 20 years. You must know every section of the
he's regaining consciousness.
No,
he often moans during these seizures.
You have keys, fetch them. I'd like to see the chapel.
The chapel.
Yes. If you don't mind,
the hinges are rusted solid.
Do you have a crowbar?
Yes. Come with me.
What is it
that light there?
That's the baroness's bedroom in the tower.
Who's been sealed ever since that night?
Not even the Baron went into.
Come with me.
Where's the key?
The Baron has the key to this lock?
Lieutenant D.
Mhm.
If the Baron should find out we've rented this room.
Did the baroness have a child? I don't know. I
never thought she did. You spared me nothing,
Baron. If you'll permit me, I think that I can explain.
Take this gun
scor this gentleman from the castle
if he resists,
kill it.
Yes, Baron,
Lieutenant.
No,
no
ma
is
off.
I am here. Victor.
I'm weary.
My soul cries out for relief.
There is. But one way they do.
No,
no,
the holy covenant of God forbid it.
You will be forgiven.
Be sure.
Take your life as you took mine.
Let your own hand destroy you
and bring us together forever.
Forever.
No more torment that
forever,
forever.
Like one.
Thanks.
I will.
I promise you, Lieutenant.
If you return to Von Leb Castle, I shall not hesitate to kill you.
Where is she? Let me be.
Why did you lie to me about the girl?
Yeah.
Call it off.
It doesn't matter now.
You're too late
tonight. He damns himself. Yes. Even now she taunts him to his own eternal doom.
You control the girl just as you control that bird.
How mesmerism, mesmerism, you fool. Why
answer me old woman? Or I'll break your neck to avenge myself on the Baron
Von Lip.
She will drive him to God's one unpardonable sin
suicide.
For what offense? What has the Baron done to you?
He killed my son
airing me.
Eric was your son.
And tonight the Baron pays for Eric's life with his own immortal soul.
She spoke of destroying the crypt.
Too late, too late
Darren.
Darren. You mustn't go
far.
Where's the Baron? We must get to him? He's locked himself in the crypt.
Eric is avenged, Eric, avenged.
She's used the girl as a puppet to drive the baron to suicide. But why
she thinks it was the baron that killed her son. She never knew it was you.
What do you mean?
He killed my Eric.
Eric is her son.
You murder us. No, wait,
don't you see now it was all a lie.
The Baron did return that night to find Eric with the baroness and he did kill her.
But there was a struggle and in the fight, it was not Eric who died, but the baron,
I killed the baron.
Then Eric is still alive.
He took the baron's place and for 20 years, no one has known,
but he took the baron's place in mind as well as body in his mind. He is the Baron Von.
Let.
Ok.
I told him to flood the cellars.
Now they'll both be killed.
All right.
Flood the cellars. How
there's a tunnel that leads from the sea to the crypt.
Come with me.
Bye.
He
selected it from the inside.
But
you keep on here. I'll try and get in through the chapel.
I may need you.
No, no, not.
I may not enter the house
of God.
I have made my pact.
No, no,
you
I have
here in
my
life
this time forever.
No.
Now
I am waiting.
Per
per
OK.
Now Victor
bring the sea into the crypt
to mantle us forever.
We will be together again. Victor
together with our love here beneath the sea.
Come to me. My love.
Draw the veil.
Look as great.
Let me see how eagerly I await your embraces.
What have you done to me?
I have damned you as you damned me.
The part of me that loved you lies there, Victor rotting in the coffin.
Look at it.
See what your evil love has done to me and die with that vision in your brain.
Why have you done this to me?
I am the spirit of Ilsa that your unholy sin gave over to the dark powers.
But now by giving your immortal soul to them,
I will be free,
Eric.
Yeah.
OK.
You're safe now
it's over,
it's over. Do you understand
you're free now?
Three
Andre