I've just been reading updates to the discussion of episode 839, when it became clear that Quentin wasn't going to walled up his room...
Discuss - Ep #0839
...and now we've got Trask walled up in Quentin's room instead of Quentin, and it occurred to me: was this only the first time that 1897 got tampered with? I'm thinking that it is only right and proper in the Dark Shadows universe that it should be a Trask that is walled up. After all, getting walled up is what Trasks do. So maybe in the
original 1897, Trask was walled up, and then somebody travelled in time from...take your pick what year...and Quentin was walled up instead, and space and time stopped canoodling long enough to give a gasp of horror (I hope Grayson Hall played either space or time) and scramble to put things right, so what is happening now is that things are being restored to the way they were in the first place.
Judith got a huge stroke of luck when Garth Blackwood came to Collinsport and started murdering just about everybody he saw. That made it very plausible that Trask was merely another one of the victims, so nobody would look any further.
How much money did Quentin leave in that drawer in his room? It looked like a lot. He's not a rich man, so I'm thinking he would have gone for it, if he hadn't been sure that he would have found out more that he wanted to know about Trask's disappearance.
How strong is a wall that is one brick thick? And how long does mortar take to dry? I refuse to believe that Trask could not have broken down that wall somehow.
There was a gravestone for Carolyn Collins Stoddard in the cemetery. I'm trying to remember when that would have been used, but coming up blank.