P Stoddard says to Carolyn, look at me and say that nothing's happening to me... in other words, would I be in this state without an outside force? It's almost a good argument, but not really. She could just go on assuming that his distress is something he's causing to himself. Still, we see a close up of her face, and we see her thought process in her face, as she comes to believe him, for the moment anyway. It's actually a pretty complicated set of expressions and micro-expressions, as the CIA would say. (As nutty as I'm sure the CIA can be, one probably valid idea of theirs is that some thoughts can be "read" by these micro-expressions that most people don't consciously notice. Carolyn's face is full of expression here, and some CIA guy would have a field day probably.)
Carolyn says there's no reason for Paul's bedroom to be his tomb... Paul replies that there is a very good reason... Yes there is! It might be a family tradition, just ask Greg Trask!
ECS shows up, PS waves dismissively then collapses in a chair. I suppose it's the "medicine", but we don't know he's taking it yet, and it looks as if ECS has magic knocking-out powers.
Nice restful jarringly electric yellow sheets in Paul's room...
"What made you think, even for a minute, that I wanted you back." Nice. You hear important stuff when you play dead. At least Paul can quit trying to convince Liz that he's not crazy... she knows he isn't!
Paul exits the house via another way than the front door, and we actually see this exit. Mrs. J on a manhunt! Stokes happening by: [spoiler]It'd be nice to think that this is the turning point for Paul, and for a moment I almost made myself believe it, but we know better. Boo Elliot. Sheriff Davenport... you really ought to listen to PS, for your own sake...[/spoiler]
It's illegal to force PS to take a sedative and go to Collinwood. Even legally declaring him incompetent wouldn't result in his ending up back there. Not that I'm naive enough to believe that this sort of thing doesn't happen, even when the town rich lady isn't involved. When everyone with power is convinced they're right, rules matter somewhat less.
