From the voiceover:  ...Knowing that when the fire is out, there is nothing left for her but eternal darkness.

So, it's possible to prevent Laura from ever coming back again?  Or does "eternal" have a different meaning for a Phoenix than it does for you or me?

A couple of things are very different in the opener from the way they played out at the end of the last ep.  The first is that Dirk found Laura pacing instead of lying on the floor unconscious.  I'm going to go out on a limb and say the change was because, in #737, Diana Millay appeared hurt by the way Roger roughly picked her up off the floor, or by the way he roughly carried her, or by the way he roughly placed her on the bed.  Or all of the above.  Anyway, in the previous ep she looked a little shaken and was touching and rubbing her neck after he moved her, the poor thing.

The second difference is that in #737 (as directed by DC), Laura lost consciousness and Dirk awakened her by frantically repeating, "Laura!"  It seemed odd because until this point he always referred to her as Mrs. Collins.  In the restaging (by Kaplan), she passed out and he awakened her by chanting to Amon Ra.  It makes more sense, too, that he was able to rouse her supernaturally.  Now I get that RD was improvising the first time because he forgot what he was supposed to say!

[For fans of 24] the following takes place at 3:00 a.m. or later, tick tick tick...  And no one at Collinwood seems the worse for wear!

Why didn't it occur to Jamison before that he can boss the servants around?

Dirk's expression when he's summoning the scarab from the fire is just too funny!!

A couple of Laura's better entrance lines--
The poor lady never felt better.

  and later--

Did I hear you say something about bitter medicine?

This one made me LOL--
Charity:  Oh Barnabas, please, make me happy.

It's not easy to distract me from Quentin, but I learned that a bouncing boom mic behind his head does the trick.

Finally, are we supposed to believe that with all the lookalikes that Barnabas has encountered through 3 different centuries, he meets a woman with the same name as one who died more than 100 years before and he automatically assumes she's the same person? 

Don't mess with me or I'll unleash Janet the Wicked on you while she's still channeling Richard Widmark. 

Any Y&TR watchers here?  Ely Pouget appeared on the show yesterday as a shrink brought in to treat Katherine Chancellor's memory loss.

I don't have a clue if she'll return, but did find a vid of the March 11 episode on the CBS site:

The Young & The Restless, #9101

Happy Birthday, you young'un!

He has aged, but it' doesn't seem like he has 28 years since I last beheld him on DS.

::passes calculator to Taeylor::   

Then back to Quentin and Magda, where we see THE PETOFI BOX right behind Quentin's gramophone on a shelf.

Hi, Jeannie.  Magnus once named that The-Box-That-I-Keep-Mistaking-For-the-Petofi-Box.  MB captured it for the fill in board; click the image to enlarge it:

Episode #0719

I'd bet big money that there's a cap of the Petofi box somewhere too. 

Happy Birthday, BC1958!