Barnabas Collins has four guests in his home, the Old House on the great estate of Collinwood. They are mad scientist Julia Hoffman, occult expert Timothy Eliot Stokes, and an unusual pair known as Adam and Eve. These last are Frankenstein’s monsters. Eve came to life for the first time less than an hour ago, in the basement of the house, and has not yet been outside.
Stokes has figured out that Eve is the reincarnation of Danielle Roget, a homicidal maniac who fled France in the late eighteenth century and was later hanged in America. He tries to convince Adam of this, but Adam is committed to the idea that Eve will be his loving wife, and refuses to listen. For her part, Eve dominates Adam and scorns him when he is slow to obey her commands. She takes a similarly high-handed approach when Stokes and Barnabas question her, but with less success. When Stokes asks her about her previous existence, she claims to remember nothing, but when they refuse to tell her what she wants to know a moment later, she blurts out that she is used to having her questions answered. Barnabas asks when she grew used to that, and she is flustered.
At the end, a wind blows into the front parlor. Stokes identifies it as a ghostly presence, and asks it to lead him, Barnabas, and Julia to what it wants them to see. It takes them to the basement, where they find that the body of the mysterious woman who died donating her “life force” to the creation of Eve has vanished.
None of these events is new to returning viewers, but the script is crisply written, the actors do a good job, and they all have fun with it. So it was a pleasant enough way to spend a half hour.
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