Barnabas walks downstairs Collinwood's staircase, looking sad (and spiffy) in a three-piece gray suit.
Yes indeed, quite spiffy!
Random weirdnesses today - or anyway, apparently random weirdnesses. It's hard to tell what came from where. I got the impression that the call to the undertaker was made by David, under Quentin's influence, but I find it hard to believe that David could manage to make his voice sound grown-up, even over the phone. Maybe David and Amy dialed and Quentin talked? And what was the point? Apparently more was supposed to happen, but Barnabas wasn't playing along. Was the idea to get Elizabeth embalmed so she would be really dead and permanently out of the way? But dead people are never out of the way at Collinwood, and how could Quentin be sure that Elizabeth's ghost wouldn't come back and join forces with Magda against him? I prefer the theory that Quentin just wanted to have a little fun at Barnabas's expense, but if that was the idea, then why were David and Amy worried that Quentin would be mad when Barnabas sent the undertaker away?
Incidentally, is it legal in Maine to bury somebody without having an undertaker involved? Of course Barnabas and Willie didn't check in with an undertaker when they buried Jason McGuire, but they weren't worrying about the law at that point.
Why was it that the song Amy played on the piano was London Bridge Is Falling Down? Sarah's gone until she decides Barnabas has met her high standards of goodness (no, come to think of it, she got fed up with the rest of the present-day Collinses as well), but I cannot believe that the choice of song was random. Was it that Amy asked what she should play, and David, under stress, couldn't think of anything but Sarah's song?
Why couldn't anybody get hold of Roger in London? Did Quentin jimmy the phone so that when Barnabas thought he was talking to a hotel clerk in London he was actually talking to Quentin?
How did Vicky's things get back into the closet? (By the way, I love the way Maggie talked about Vicky's "things". So colloquial.) Was this Vicky's doing, or Quentin's, or Sarah's? Or was Barnabas so upset about Vicky's disappearance that he did it without knowing it?
