Fleeing the squire's hold, the newlyweds move to remote Carwell Grange, where life is bliss -- notwithstanding the dispirited housekeeper, the wing with rooms painted entirely in black, and Charles' increasingly strange behavior and frequent references to "the old soldier" in whispered conversations with Harry. Soon Alice is pregnant and afflicted with nightmares. These become terrifyingly real one night when a madwoman bursts through the wall, threatens Alice with a knife, and then stabs Charles while claiming she is his wife.


Episode Two
Originally aired Thursday, October 19, 2000, at 9pm
Encore Thursday, May 31, 2001, at 9 p.m.

Alice, shocked into labor by the incident with the deranged Vrau, delivers a boy and takes him to the dying Charles to strengthen his will to live. Fearing infection, Charles' doctor sends the newborn to a wet nurse in a nearby village, against Alice's protests. Both Charles and the child soon die, and Alice is denied an inheritance by the squire. Adding to her turmoil is news from Harry that the squire was no friend to her father, but rather hastened his death. Alice is devastated, and, following a blistering confrontation with the squire, cuts off all ties with Wyvern Manor.

Five years later, Alice quietly pays her annual visit to her baby's grave. Stopping briefly at her childhood home, she encounters the squire, a visibly broken man, murmuring incoherently. Shaken, she meets Harry, who now controls the family estates. He is friendly but evasive when Alice tries to pin him down on newly discovered inconsistencies in the events surrounding her child's death. Suspecting that the boy may still be alive, she begins a search for clues -- a quest that takes her to the hidden cell of the dangerously demented Vrau.


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