I know I'm supposed to hate Nicholas, but there's something about him that oozes coolness, even if he is on the side of the powers of darkness.
Yup, that's what he wants you to think.
With all the bodies that got buried in the woods, it seems a shame that Barnabas didn't let Trask's skeleton have a rest. Was it that he liked having the skeleton there, to remind him of one of his few triumphs in the 1795 fiasco? When he spent so long in the basement in yesterday's episode, was it because he was gloating?
I wonder what Nicholas perceived when he was questioning Angelique's portrait. We heard music that tells us that something not quite straightforward is happening. I don't think that Nicholas heard that music; we just heard it to tell us that Nicholas was getting vibes from the portrait. Did he feel a pricking in his thumbs? Did the portrait become just a little more vivid when he was on the right track? Or was there some demon sense that we can't imagine? Incidentally, I did not all of read Midnite's no doubt excellent post about the portrait in the thread for yesterday's episode because of the Harry Potter spoiler warning (thank you for that, Midnite!) but today I was thinking about the 1968 Trinity: Angelique, Cassandra, and the Unholy Portrait, and the "qui ex patre filioque procedit" part of the creed that is in every mass set to music that I have ever listened to - "who proceeds from the father and the son", is it? Doesn't quite work for this trinity.
We're not going to see Barnabas or Julia for quite a few episodes after this. It's sort of weird - off they go to consult with Professor Stokes, and they disappear just as surely as Cassandra did.
PS: Spellchecker likes "vibes". Spellchecker is so hip!
