:- Willie comes through the service entrance door looking real dazed. He looks like he is really out of it and may fall onto the floor again. Jason comes out of the drawing room and tells him he waited up all night for him. (thanks daddy!) Then he demanded answers to his questions, and any nit could have seen that Willie was in no condition to answer questions! He begged to be left alone but nothing doing. Jason accused him of going to the cemetary, he followed him and he saw his car there. (so it is Willie's car, I wonder if they both arrived in it, and maybe Liz has bought Jason a car now, so he had a car to follow him in) He demanded to know why Willie went to the cemetary, though he already knew. Willie whimpered that he hadn't been there and he was sick and needed to rest. Jason thought he must be faking it since he had been fine enough to leave the night before. He accused him of looking for the jewels all night and needing rest and sleep during the day. Well now he was going to leave, and that was it. Willie said he couldn't, he was sick and needed to rest. Jason said a nice drive in the country will help you. They went on and a bit with this and finally Willie fell to the floor and Jason had to help him up. Willie was really in a bad way!
Upstairs he thrashed around on the bed like he had before, and Roger came in. The conversation was pretty much the same as it had been with Jason, only Roger was ordering him to leave, he said Liz had told him to come up and tell Willie to leave. We don't see the conversation between Roger and Liz, but I think we can assume that Liz learned about Willie's having left the night before and they all feel that if Willie could leave the night before and be out all night, he was ok to leave for good. Jason must've agreed to this, otherwise he'd still be forcing Liz to allow Willie to stay.
Willie tried to get up but begged Roger to help him up. This was so sad. Roger felt he was faking the whole thing, and even applauded his performance. "Sarah Bernhart could take lessons!" He told Willie he looked "ghastly" and that leant credance to his performance. I should think anyone could tell that Willie really was sick, in spite of the fact that he had been out all night.
When Willie tried to stand up, he fell back onto the bed, and Roger left totally ticked off. Willie looked so pathetic. My heart went out to him but it always does!!
Downstairs Roger confronted Jason, said Willie was a fraud, not sick, but Jason contended he was. (now changing his tune) Roger doesn't believe it, both he and Liz want Willie gone. (this irks me, Willie isn't bothering anyone now, he's staying up in that room by himself and it's not such a big deal to let him stay til he's well) Jason said he had taken a turn for the worse and Roger scathingly says, "A cough would be a turn for the worse!" Roger is so understanding! Roger demands that Jason get a doctor for Willie, Dr. Woodard's (!!!) number is in the book, call him, he's one of the less addled quacks around (Loved this!)
The phone rang and it was the Sheriff, we hear Roger's end of the conversation. During this, Jason is looking real nervous, like oh gak have they gotten something on me? Roger says he doesn't have time to come talk to him, but he finally agrees. Then he tells Jason that the Sheriff has a craving for intelligent conversation (so he calls on ROGER??) He tells Jason to call the doctor and regrets that he won't be there to say goodbye to Willie, who should be gone by the time Roger returns.
The Sheriff explains to Roger about the cattle. It sounds like there have been many cattle drained of blood and their carcasses just left there. This is so gakky! But it raises a question. Barnabas has only been free for a few days. He's feeding from Willie and the cattle? Later on, [spoiler]he feeds from Maggie and we stop hearing about the cattle, and throughout the show we never hear of him feeding from cattle again. There are times it appears he isn't feeding at all, except for maybe a mention of someone at the docks being attacked or something.[/spoiler] Is he maybe feeding so much right now because he has to make up for 172 years of not feeding while he was in the coffin? That's all I can think of, otherwise he'd be attacking cattle throughout the run of the show.
At any rate this deal about the cattle is gross, and I'm glad they don't describe it more graphically. The sheriff says it's been done so expertly that there's no way it was done by an animal, it was done by a human being. Roger asks what kind of depraved vandalism was that? It sounds like some of the farms belonged to the Collinses and others were privately owned. I never knew the Collins family owned any farms. They are both confused as to who would do such a thing? Well there has been a newcomer to town in the past couple days and that's just when this cattle thing began. So it's not Jason or Willie who have been around a while, but will Roger question if it could be Barnabas. No of course not, he's a "marvelous man!"
At Collinwood Dr. Woodard has examined Willie, and takes his time to explain what's wrong with him. He says Willie isn't sick, before finally explaining that he's suffering from a loss of blood, his heartbeat and pulse are threaded because his heart is being called upon to work very hard with the blood it has left. He tells Jason to just let Willie rest and drink a lot of fluids.
Later Roger comes in when Jason and the doctor are downstairs and Dr Woodard explains to Roger about Willie's loss of blood. You can see that Roger is comparing this with what the Sheriff told him about the cattle. Could there be a connection? Again Dr. Woodard tells them to let Willie rest and he'd be fine.
Upstairs Willie is thrashing something awful, it's getting dusk again and he knows what that means! He cries "no, no no!!!" Oh my poor sweet Willie!
Alondra
