David acted like his typical self in this episode. When told again not to go to the Old House, that's exactly where he goes! When he arrives, the door opens on it's own so Willie has yet to buy and install that deadbolt lock I told him to get. Why hasn't anything been done about that door?
Barnabas had to be concerned when he just entered Josette's room to find David there, and when David said he'd seen Maggie, he had to try to talk him out of it. He has no way of knowing how well David knows Maggie, I don't think he knows her well, I can't remember many previous scenes with Maggie and David together other than the one at the coffee shop when [spoiler]she makes him a sundae and lets him make one for himself while she was trying to distract him long enough for his father to come get him.[/spoiler] So her resemblence to Josette and the fact that she was wearing Josette's gown told him this was Josette, it may not even have occurred to him that Josette looked like Maggie.
Naturally Vicki and Roger ragged on David when he came back, but that kid will not listen. He's so stubborn! I felt that Vicki should have taken a firmer hand with him but it's possible that she can only go so far. The real responsibility is Roger's.
Barnabas was the total hypocrite in his conversation with Roger. He's responsible for Maggie's disappearance and acts so concerned. At this point I feel he simply has no conscience. He seems to like his new found family but he lies so smoothly!
When Roger said he almost felt sorry for Sam I wanted to get in his face and let him have it. I know he and Sam are not the best of friends, and he probably still has bad memories of the secret he and Sam shared, but he could show more sympathy for Sam than to only be "almost" sorry for him. What if it were his own kid which it could have been? Since David has been hanging at the Old House so much, what if Barn took him as well, especially if David were to learn that the person floating around the Old House was Maggie and not really Josette? Even if Sam were a person I hated I'd feel sorry for him having to go through this. I guess Roger can't help being Roger, maybe this is as compassionate as he gets!
After Vicki tells David for the umpteenth time not to go to the Old House, to go to the kitchen and eat, she goes upstairs and he sneaks out of the house to go where else? The Old House! That kid needs a good spanking and a grounding. Maybe Vicki should have taken David's hand and led him to the kitchen so he'd be sure to find it!
When he turns up missing, Vicki and Roger talk in the drawing room, and Roger tells her she's not strict enough. It's not her fault the kid doesn't listen. When he told her she should conceal her anxiety about Maggie I wanted to smack him. Why he should connect David's fantasies about Josette with Vicki's concern about her friend is beyond me. I don't see what one has to do with the other, since they don't know the Josette David is seeing is really Maggie. Vicki read Roger the riot act for coming down on her and Roger even apologized. I felt that well, at least he's coming along, he was almost but not quite sorry for Sam, and now he's sorry for what he said to Vicki. <edited by mod>
At the Old House, David saw Maggie/Josette who was floating around again. I wonder why Barnabas and Willie let her just wander all over the house with that door opening on it's own, no lock, the curtains open on the windows and people coming in all the time. She could easily be found.
Alondra
