Season 3 goes back to the original sixties run of Dark Shadows, picking up with episode 222. Vicki finds a strangely polite Willie fixing up the Old House and hurrying her out the door before sunset. Barnabas calls on Maggie Evans at home and hires her father Sam to paint his portrait: $1,000, sittings at the Old House, nights only. Emmy presents The Tedium of Painting with Sam Evans, right up until Barnabas ghosts him at dawn.