Poor Mr. Wells! I loved his scenes in the early days. He was such a nice guy. We hadn't seen him, if I'm not mistaken, since long before Barnabas arrived. And then they bring him back, out of the blue, for one whole episode so he can get ripped to shreds by Chris. So not fair!
This seems to be one long episode of great scenes. It's pretty funny to see Nicholas worried, having everything fall down around him because it's totally different than the Nicholas we're used to -
so together,
so cool and collected and in control of everything.
Chris visiting Amy at Wyndcliff scene is wonderful. Denise Nickerson was especially great. It's hard to decide who to sympathize with more: Amy, because her parents and one of her brothers died while the other brother is very, erm... distant (what else can she do but think that he just doesn't care?) and now she's stuck in Julia's hospital, or Chris, because he clearly feels so guilty and there's no way he can explain to her why he can't take care of her.
The ritual in this episode is one of my favorite scenes from the entire series! My feelings on Nicholas/Maggie situation aside, that whole scene was perfectly done. The set was amazing, the dialog was great, and the whole thing was brilliantly delivered by Humbert Allen Astredo, who is in my opinion one of the best actors on the show.
"Let the legions of the damned... salute you!"