So many people were grappling today with truth versus falsehood, and reality versus delusion. I suppose that's some of the stuff of which soap operas are made, but today it seemed like more of a theme than usual.
Carolyn calls Burke, fondly believing that he'll be thrilled to hear from her, and gets cold water dashed in her face when all he can talk about is Vicky. But she probably still believes she and Burke could have a relationship.
David still wants to believe that his father is Bill Malloy’s murderer. (And, as usual, somebody or other scolds him for saying such things about his own father.) I think it's pretty certain that Matthew did it, but I really like the idea of the writers pulling off the Big Bajoor at the end of this storyline and making Roger the murderer.
Mathew hears Josette calling to him, and sees her portrait glow. Is it real? Or is he crazy? Or was he, as Vicky suggests, not quite awake?
Vicky, who is sure she saw Bill Malloy’s ghost the last time she was locked up, is sure that Matthew didn't experience any supernatural manifestations. Why not?
And we, the viewers, have to wonder: did Matthew really see and hear what we were told he saw and heard? We are still in the part of the series where supernatural stuff is very rare and incidental. Nobody’s life is changed by it. We've never heard Josette’s voice before; when we saw her ghost leave her portrait, she was entirely silent. We know Matthew is off his rocker. We know David has been talking to him about ghosts. How do we know that we didn't spend a few minutes inside his mind today?
