Barnabas orders Willie to keep looking for Adam and leave Carolyn alone, because she's already had quite an ordeal. But what about what I'M going through? Willie complains. I’d even rather go back to Windcliff than have that dream again. He insists that Barnabas has no idea how alone and tormented he feels (my words, not Willie's of course). Barnabas pauses to reply quietly, Actually I do. But he does not elaborate. Instead he hypothesizes, Adam may have gone back to the cellar at the burned-out old Taylor Farm. I want you to go look for him there. Willie trundles off but then smiles as an idea occurs to him.
So many Collinses have returned home after dreadful misadventures that Mrs. Johnson has developed a standard "survivor's menu": a pretty measly-looking sandwich and in Carolyn's case, a cup of tea, as opposed to milk for David. (Actually, it reminds me of the scene in Annie Hall where the Woody Allen character has a very skimpy WASP dinner with Annie's parents!) Carolyn's experiences seem to have awakened real sympathy for Adam, even though she doesn't know the half of his very short life story.
The scene with Carolyn and Willie (JK does his own climbing too!) is hilarious. She bites down hard on his hand, and between his howls of pain and her screaming, they make quite a racket. Elizabeth rushes in, and Willie escapes the same way he came in. Elizabeth promises that she'll have Barn send Willie right back to Windcliff. She comforts Carolyn, but now Carolyn is afraid to go to sleep. And this young woman--who has chosen to have no other occupation but to get ready for dates--once more exercises some remarkable powers of observation. She comments, Willie risked a lot to tell me the dream. I think it must be really horrible. Even knowing just a little about it, I’m afraid that if I have the dream, I'll die! And “die” is as good a last word as any for the end of a DS ep....
