I've always admired how skillfully Pennock uses the wheelchair as a prop. At one point he practically pops a wheelie with it.
Yes, I've been admiring Pennock's skill as well.
Flora is indeed a mystery. She can't be a closer relation to Quentin than a cousin, but surely if Joshua had had more cousins than Daniel and Millicent, then those additional cousins would have been invited to the wedding in 1795. I toyed just now with the idea that Desmond's father was a son of Joshua and Naomi who came in between Barnabas and Sarah and who was off seeking his own, independent fortune in 1795, but that can't be right because it would have been mentioned when Julia came on the scene. I always get the feeling that Flora is a blood cousin, which complicates matters even further, because, as DarkLady says, it is unimaginable that she would be an unwed mother, so Miss Flora Collins would have had to marry her cousin Mr. Collins, so now we have
two branches of the family who were not invited to the big wedding. Maybe the Mr. Collins whom Flora married was no relation to the Collinsport Collinses - after all, Collins isn't so very uncommon a name (which reminds me, it amuses me to imagine that Senator Susan Collins of Maine is a Collinsport Collins) - but that's another thing that would surely have been mentioned. All I can say is, Flora's place in the Collins genealogy is just about as difficult to figure out as the question of how 1795 Trask managed to father Lamar Trask.
Quentin apparently knew, without being told, who Judah Zachery was, and I have the impression that Desmond knew who the Head was when he bought it. Desmond's original idea was that the Head would be a great joke, but if Quentin, with his knowledge of and belief in the occult, had been presented with the Head of Judah Zachery, what would he have done?
Incidentally, I hate the word "occult" as it is used on Dark Shadows. It always sounds wrong to me.
Desmond said quite casually that he had disposed of Tim Braithwaite's body. I wonder what he did with it. The traditional Collins method would be to bury it in the woods, I guess, but honestly, the writers are becoming quite offhand about corpse disposal, aren't they? I remember when Barnabas killed a certain someone (but not Someone) back in 1967, and we saw Barnabas and Willie carrying the body to the place Barnabas had chosen for it. Now it's just "Reader, I buried him" - or some such thing.
"I know with whom I must spend the rest of my life." What a sentence to have to pronounce! Virginia Vestoff didn't sound terribly comfortable with it.
