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« on: August 26, 2014, 05:03:43 PM »
Judith has shot Rachel. Tim is a convenient witness, told to be there by Dirk without remembering, probably. Dirk's three vamp victims are in the same cellar, but they're all at cross purposes with each other. Tim doesn't seem bitten. It's like Dirk had them all act out a play.
Ed and Greg confer at Collinwood on the Dirk problem, but even though Trask ID'd Dirk himself, he now is all about transferring suspicion to Barnabas. Why? A sudden exploring of his own family history?
Tim wastes and wastes time that could have been spent running to the surgeon begging Rachel to let him go for one. I didn't hear half of Rachel's heartbreaking death scene because it was so soft, but it was well done. This character did not make an enormous individual impression on DS, but now, at the last minute, her life is made real in her own words.
Incapacitated Dirk in daytime in the coffin, who ought to be inert, dead in fact, stupidly calls Judith to him far too early for him to be up to feed on her, and at a time of day when she can't easily slip out unobserved. Ed of course follows, sees Dirk, and has time to get a stake and a rock. Dirk is staked. So Darwin applies even to vampires. Farewell, Crazy Dead Not-Dead Dumb Vamp Dirk.