Thayer VO. Petofi never thinks to truth-test Q on Angelique being his accomplice, and waits to give way till the last nanosecond. He HATES giving way. Even to do so once is a humiliation, so much of onme that he drops his guard for a moment, and admits to it. His personal wall is back up though, by the time Barnabas steps out. The wall is feeble and forced. He tries to stay cool in the face of defeat, and only shows how much it affected him, by the visible effort required to keep his defenses up. This failure can't be blamed on Aristede.
Very well done by Thayer David, the whole thing, the flashback to the day the Hand was taken off, up to his having to give in.
Magda carried Beth to her room? Beth's clock isn't set for the time it's supposed to be. Istvan sneaked right into Collinwood and managed to hide...and sneaked back out without Magda screaming her head off... gag I guess.
Beth murmurs, If you hadn’t come into the room-- But I am good at coming into the room, Magda comments. I missed that DL..... funny.
So Q saves Barnabas. They leave without his coffin, which is still at the Lair. What's Barnabas sneaking back into Collinwood for, apart from chatting with Beth? The coffin would have been the reason. I like the mechanism under glass in the closing credits.