Sorry, but I have to laugh at poor David's nightmare. He tells Burke that he didn't want to tell Vicki because she "sort of likes" Barnabas.
Lots of wondering for me in this episode. I'm assuming it was a Friday ep., but a lot of it seems like filler.
Burke promptly tells Vicki everything, but she insists that Barnabas is incapable of harming anyone. Vicki and Burke are about to fight about it when Barnabas stops by to ask for Julia, who is away from Collinwood. I have an urgent message for her, Barnabas says. The message is so urgent that he forgets his eighteenth-century manners and fails to greet her properly. After he rushes out, Burke wonders what could be so urgent about historical research. When he asks Julia about it later, she smiles as she assures him it's only some new data. I wonder how long she thinks she can keep up the charade.
It turns out that Barnabas is freaked about what Willie heard at the BW. He orders--no other word for it--Julia to re-hypnotize Maggie into forgetting, and she is forced to confess that Dave Woodard has fired her. She barely escapes being throttled when Barnabas magnaminously (ha ha) says he'll spare her this once--because it's time for his injection. Who's more dependent on whom, I wonder.
Barn promises Julia he won't harm Maggie, but the moment she's gone downstairs to prepare his injection, he starts pacing. Willie doesn't fail to notice and immediately suspects that Barn is planning something. Sure enough, Barnabas decides yet again that he has to kill Maggie. When are you going to do it? Willie asks. Barnabas tells him, It will be tonight--after the moon goes behind the clouds and I can move unseen in the darkness. I wonder how many more times he's going to decide he has to kill her. Sheesh.
