Julia finds herself in 1840. Gabriel Collins (wheel chair bound) tries to force Ben Stokes to tell Daniel Collins that Quentin is dead (apparently Quentin and his son Tad have died at sea). Daniel (Quentin and Gabriel’s father) is apparent ill (mentally and physically). Julia tells Ben Stokes that she is a friend of Barnabas Collins; Ben agrees to help her. Later Daniel Collins escapes and everyone looks for him; someone attempts to strangle Julia.

Ben stops Daniel from harming Julia; Daniel mistakes her for his wife who he killed ten years earlier. During the struggle one of Julia’s earrings falls off and Gabriel later finds it. Gerard is a clairvoyant. Julia and Stokes devise a story that she is Julia Collins, brother to Barnabas, both of whom are cousins from England. Julia goes to Barnabas’ coffin and plans to release him.

Julia opens Barnabas’ coffin, he does not recognize her and tries to kill her. Ben stops Barnabas from killing her. Julia introduces herself as “Julia Collins,” a cousin from England. Julia and Ben decide that they must chain Barnabas back in his coffin, but at dawn they find his coffin gone. Gerard finds the matching earring in Julia’s room and starts to suspect her.

Ben tries to convince Barnabas that he must be chain in his coffin, he refuses. Gerard and Leticia make plans to “get money” that is at Collinwood. In 1970 Barnabas decides he must go back to in time. Carolyn is mentally unstable, and Quentin tries to hang himself. Barnabas uses the I Ching wands to attempt to get back to 1840. In the trance Barnabas sees Julia’s grave in 1840.

Barnabas is unable to go back to 1840, Barnabas and Stokes find Julia’s grave in the graveyard. In 1840 Julia meets Roxanne. Lamar Trask expects to marry Roxanne, but she detests him. Lamar Trask tells Julia that he expects to get revenge for the disappearance of his father in 1797. Barnabas meets Roxanne and falls in love with her, later he bites her.

Gerard tries to romance Samantha, knowing that she is the heir to the Collins fortune (now that Quentin is dead). Gabriel tells Gerard that he knows his real name is Ivan Miller a known swindler; he blackmails him. Gabriel has Gerard get arsenic and plans to have him use it to kill Samantha. Barnabas plans to make Roxanne a vampire and take her away with him; Barnabas bites Roxanne again and leaves her to die.

Ben shows Julia a note from Barnabas explain what he plans to do. Samantha finds Roxanne nearly dead; however when Samantha returns with Gerard for help she is gone. Julia is able to give Roxanne a transfusion. Barnabas finds that Julia is interfering with his plans and tries to attack her, but something stops him and he fall to the floor.

Barnabas tells Julia that he has used the I Ching and was able to travel back in time from 1970. Desmond Collins (Flora’s son) returns to Collinsport with a disembodied head to give to Quentin; Flora tells him that Quentin is dead. Barnabas introduces himself as Julia’s brother. Julia tries to hypnotize Roxanne, later she finds Roxanne missing. Roxanne wanders into Collinwood and claims she knows Barnabas. Desmond becomes suspicious of Barnabas and Julia. Flora is frightened by the head.

Ben is upset by the presence of the head. Barnabas meets Daniel, who remembers him from when he was a child in 1797, Barnabas tells him that he is the son of the Barnabas he knew. Gerard explains how he saw Quentin and Tad were lost at sea during a sever storm. Ben remembers a time many years earlier when a disembodied head was associated with several murders. Ben decides the head must be destroyed; Ben is tormented in the woods by the head.

Gabriel tells Gerard he wants him to kill Samantha soon, he agrees. Ben is found dead; it appears as if he tried to cut his own head off. Gabriel is surprised to find that Gerard and Samantha have been married.

Gabriel tells Daniel that Ben is dead and that Samantha has married Gerard; Daniel tells Gabriel that he approved of the marriage. Desmond finds a note left behind by Ben telling him that the head must be destroyed. Gabriel and Desmond make plans against Gerard. Samantha and Gerard are shocked when Quentin shows up at Collinwood.

Quentin explains that he and survived. Quentin finds that Samantha has married Gerard. Quentin tells Samantha that she will have to choose between him and Gerard; she decides to go to Boston to be with Tad (avoiding making a choice). Barnabas goes to the chapel to view Ben’s body. Barnabas finds that Quentin has returned to Collinwood. Barnabas sees Daphne in the woods.

Barnabas questions Daphne about Gerard, she does not know he is. It is revealed that Quentin was responsible for Gabriel ending up in the wheelchair when they were children. Quentin is disturbed by a note that he finds. Desmond has a dream in which the Head says “you must help me.”

Desmond starts to act erratically. Daniel is happy to find that Quentin is alive. Daniel tells Desmond about several strange murders that centered around a disembodied head in 1803. Desmond finds Daphne working at the local newspaper, where he has gone to do some research about the head. Desmond finds out from Daniel that the head once possessed Otis Greene. Daphne secret writes that she plans to kill Quentin.

Leticia walks in on Desmond and senses evil, later she finds the Head of Judah Zachary. Lamar suspects that Barnabas is linked with the evil that is happening in Collinsport, and that Roxanne knows more than she is telling. Leticia uses her powers to tell Lamar where his father’s body is at, Barnabas interrupts before she can reveal any more. Desmond forces Otis Greene to tell him where the body of Judah Zachary is at; he dies shortly after seeing the head.

Desmond tries to find the body of Judah from the clues that Otis Greene gave him before he died. Gabriel believes that Samantha is going to choose Gerard to stay with. Desmond asks Gabriel to help him decipher Otis Greene’s dying words. Desmond finds a secret under cave in a graveyard, and mask encrusted with jewels.

Desmond hires a local man, Tim Braithwaite to help him move the coffin with the body of Judah. Lamar, Flora and Gerard have a seance to contact the Reverend Trask; during the seance Trask says that an evil will walk again soon. Tim removes the mask from Judah’s coffin, the body then kills him. The body emerges from the underground cave.

Desmond returns to find Tim dead and the body gone; he decides he must destroy the head, he later finds it missing. Desmond tells Quentin about the head, they make plans to destroy Judah. Samantha has made the decision who she plans to stay married to.

Samantha chooses Gerard. Quentin tries to stop Samantha from taking Tad, she tells Quentin that Tad is not his son. Samantha makes plans to secretly leave Collinwood with Tad; Gabriel overhears this and reports it to Quentin. Hortense, the Collins governess, is attacked by Judah’s body in the woods.

Quentin reminds Samantha not to get any ideas about leaving with Tad. Quentin tells Barnabas about Judah and his headless body. Julia warns Daphne to leave town and not to accept a job as governess at Collinwood as it will lead to her death. Quentin offers Daphne the position of governess, she accepts. Angelique goes to secret room in the Collins mausoleum and finds Barnabas’ coffin gone.

Angelique has Laszlo help find what happened to Barnabas. Leticia has the head and is under its power; she is able to find Judah’s body and returns in to the underground cave. Angelique introduces herself at Collinwood Barnabas’ wife. Leticia brings the head to the body in the cave.

Angelique introduces herself as Valerie Collins to Daniel Collin, he recognizes her from his childhood; Valerie makes him forget. Julia finds there is a curse on families of the jurors who convicted Judah Zachery. Valerie shows up at the Old House to the surprise of Barnabas and Julia. Leticia tricks Julia into going to the cave where Judah’s head and body is.

Julia comes under the power of Judah, and she is to help join the head and the body. Quentin finds that Joanna killed herself (a woman who once had an affair with). Daphne moves into Collinwood with renewed plans to secretly kill Quentin. Samantha learns that Gerard only married her for the money. Gerard finds a gun in Daphne’s purse. Quentin finds another note from Joanna.

Lamar continues to investigate Barnabas to find the truth about the disappearance of her father. Lamar tells Roxanne that Barnabas is married to Valerie. Valerie finds that Barnabas is in love with Roxanne. Quentin receives another note from Joanna. Angelique causes the wounds on Roxanne’s neck to reopen. Angelique tells Barnabas that he must be her faithful husband, otherwise Roxanne will die and become a vampire.

Julia has prepared a laboratory to reunite the head and body of Judah Zachery. Leticia dreams that they need the mask to succeed making Judah live. Leticia searches for the mask and finds it at Rose Cottage, Gerard catches her as she tries to leave with it.