Welcome, Jerry Lacy! His turn as the brash young Tony Peterson, Esq. has always been one of my favorites.
Poor Julia isn't at her best tonight. Roger's innocent musings about the foyer clock send her into near-hysterics. Roger is puzzled, but he still tries to lord it over Tony, who isn't having any.
Later, Roger tells Carolyn he wishes he knew Barnabas's secret. No, you don't! Carolyn exclaims. This seems uncharacteristic for someone under the control of a vampire, but maybe she's like Willie and still has some reserves of self-command.
Tony's office features a large and beautiful arched doorway that we’ll see many more times. Just like Burke, he hates the Collinses. He tells Julia, If you’ve never had money, you don’t know how it hits the blood. This comment nearly sends her off the rails again, and she does have hysterics a moment later when Tony guesses wrongly that Roger is after her.
Tony offers to put the notebook in his large (but not quite man-sized) safe and assures Julia that there is a night watchman. Julia doesn’t bother to explain how ineffectual a mere human guard would be.
After Julia leaves, Carolyn arrives, drapes herself across Tony's desk and tries to flirt the notebook away from him, but he isn't having any from her either. He grabs her by the shoulders and asks her, What's the real reason you're here?
