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« on: March 18, 2015, 07:16:21 PM »
Mr. Frid VO again? Meg is being testier in this redo of the scene where the ball is heard bouncing, and young terror Alexander is debuted. Paul and Alex meet, in their friendliest scene. They will go on to have a somewhat disturbingly hostile relationship-- it's a bit disturbing for an adult to drop that wiser, respectful barrier adults usually have up in relation to children, and deal with them directly, on the same level, with anger or fear.
So the Big Day in December came and went, and now there's a new one, January 15, 1970. Alex's birthday? Barnabas smarmily announces to Stoddard: "Everything's going splendidly!!" Barnabas, STOP SMILING!! It's creeping us all out!
Alex runs around with an African mask on... BarnMeg grin devilishly about this, as if it's a hint of what's to come. Carolyn presents Paul with the $1000 check, and he tears it up. Even in 1969 though, would that buy off any respectable con man? And if $1000 is given freely without strings, wouldn't that be a big motivation to stay and get more?
Liz shows up again at Paul's hotel door, pretends awkwardly to take him seriously (in a way that only a clueless person would buy as sincere, though the audience considers believing it because of the bit she adds about Barnabas having been so different lately, which we know is true and observable)... and invites him to Collinwood. Then she "reports" to Barnabas about it on the phone, revealing that she's now one of the cult!