It was made clear today that Carolyn's vision was a dream, but that it was a dream of something that had really happened - a reminder dream. I'm enjoying the mystery, even though I know the solution. I agreed with Barnabas that parallel time Elizabeth wasn't capable of killing anybody, especially by cold-bloodedly sticking a hatpin in the neck, but I agree that with Carolyn that maternal love - especially soap operatic maternal love - will drive a woman to do unexpected things. But would Elizabeth have the knowledge to insert the hatpin in the right spot? I think there's a precise spot you have to aim for. This is my memory from reading Agatha Christie's
Thirteen at Dinner, also known as
Lord Edgware Dies.
My mind is sort of captivated by the idea of Carolyn picking up the piece of jade and putting it in her pocket without thinking about it. She would have found it in her pocket later, and what then? Did she return it to her mother? We learned today that Elizabeth apparently does not habitually wear hatpins; rather, she has a collection of them, so it must have been surprising that the jade would have broken off from the hatpin and been lying there. Did Carolyn think Angelique had filched the hatpin from Elizabeth and that in the fuss in the few minutes before and after Angelique's death, it had fallen from wherever Angelique had it on her person and been broken?
One thing that none of the characters have discussed is the whereabouts of Carolyn's father. Apparently there's no question of[spoiler]Elizabeth having killed him.[/spoiler]I think it would have been absolutely, totally cool if they could have brought Dennis Patrick back (surely he was finished by now with doing whatever movie it was that took him away from the Leviathan storyline) as parallel time Paul Stoddard, and I would love to have seen if he was one of the innumerable men who worshipped Angelique. But they didn't do that, so we are left with the question of what became of him. I think he probably left the scene long before Angelique married Quentin. But did he leave it of his own free will?
Frid was having trouble with his lines today. He referred to the hatpin as a hairpin. And there were other things, and I had the impression that he was tripping up Grayson Hall during the conversation between Barnabas and Julia. There was a point at which Barnabas took his cane down from the coatrack and had some trouble doing it, and Julia walked slowly away from him, deep in thought, and I imagined Hall carefully going over her next line in her head to get back on track.
Is CN itinerant? Have they no Motel 6's in PT for him?
The secret room is even cheaper than a Motel 6.
What's Liz doing with the Petofi box?
Yes, that was an interesting choice, wasn't it?
