I think this is the first scene with Quentin and Nora. I'm sure that Quentin has Lenore in mind when dealing with Nora.
Poor Edward! Failing to kill Quentin is probably his first failure as a butler, and now he has to pay.
Yes, welcome (I guess) Donna McKechnie. Clearly Tim and Amanda are in a business partnership, but it seems they enjoy each other's company in more ways than one. Whatever we may think of Amanda, the scenes with her and Tim are well done. When Amanda complains about being cooped up in her room, Tim reminds her that the past two weeks have been profitable for her, so I suppose we can infer that he's been away for that long and maybe another couple of days to find a suitable accomplice.
Amanda really pours it on in her meeting with Trask. Ha ha ha! But how quickly Quentin forgets Beth. He still has a ways to go.
Once Amanda returns to the inn, she wants to go out. Tim grudgingly agrees to a walk down by the docks--exciting!
Quentin enters the lobby of the hotel (which will be unchanged all the way until Chris Jennings’s arrival in 1969). There is no desk clerk (and perhaps won’t be until Mr. Wells in 1966, played by Conrad Bain!). Quentin hears someone coming downstairs and hides. He sees Amanda leave with Tim Shaw, now also wearing a handsome gray top hat. (There is a phone on the front desk as well as the phone in Tim’s room. But in 1897, the lobby phone would have been the only one in the whole building!)
After his unsuccessful search, Quentin looks around at the mess. Suddenly he hears Tim tell Amanda, I’m sorry you’re bored. But once my plan is accomplished, we’ll have more money than we’ll know what to do with. Before he’s done saying this sentence, Quentin--who must be more than unusually agile--has escaped out the (upper-story) window.
Tim turns out to be quite the user as he leaves the hand with Nora. He's wrapped it in a box, and it does look very enticing.....
