One of my all-time favorite episodes!
They reshot the teaser so Tony could wear his Bogart fedora as well as his trenchcoat. Carolyn is at her all-time worst here. She is so enslaved to Barnabas that she is willing to smear her beloved mother just to get the notebook.
Julia gets Carolyn's story out of Tony. Grimly she tells him, It isn't true. The notebook isn't about some ordinary scandal, but about something far more dangerous and devastating. If you like, I’ll write a letter authorizing you to read the notebook if anything happens to me. That's enough to convince him that whatever the real story is, Julia is no blackmailer, and he agrees to keep the notebook.
David is back from his trip to Boston with Vicki. He's wandering around disconsolately when Sarah appears to him, and they have their cutest, most delightful conversation in the series. But suddenly she says, Something bad is happening at the Old House. Unlike other times, when the camera simply turned away, she disappears before our eyes.
Julia has apparently decided that she has nothing left to lose. In one of the most powerful scenes in the series, she goes to the Old House and with massive understatement tells Barnabas that this isn't a social call. After some mutual name-calling, she plays her ace. Tauntingly she tells him that she has seen Sarah--and he hasn't. Julia says, She’s lonely, very lonely. She’ll talk to anyone--anyone but you. Don’t talk to me that way! Barnabas warns her, his fury growing. Anyone but you, Julia repeats triumphantly, looking straight at him. Before she can get away, Barnabas seizes her by the throat, shouting, No more words, Doctor! You’ve done as much-- Suddenly the front door is blown open by a rushing wind. The chandelier swings back and forth violently. Barnabas drops his intended victim in surprise. The unconscious Julia slumps to the floor as Barnabas hesitantly moves toward the door, knowing what he will see, on the knife edge between fear and longing. Sure enough, Sarah stands gazing up at her brother, silent but very, very angry. Barnabas at last hears "my fair lady" in D minor....
