JB voiceover. Condensed version of the much longer scene that ended yesterday’s show. OOPS Evan apparently goofed up somewhere. Yet another guy goes right for the strangling.
And the phone rings. Of course it’s Beth, looking for assistance on a Quentin hunt. Interesting that she’s very delicately hinting that she knows what he and Quentin have been up to and might decide to share. WOONDERFUL, Judith comes along (as anyone could in the hallway, which is why the phone ends up conveniently there and not in the drawing room whenever the script calls for something to be conveniently overheard).
Hmm, Beth has managed to pull the wool over Judith’s eyes on this one. Also interesting, given Beth’s previous recollection about Edward, that Judith has decided Quentin should know about his children. Also interesting is Judith talking to Beth as an equal about the children. Is this perhaps because she thinks Quentin is serious about Beth? Or perhaps hopes he is, and thinks Beth will be a good influence on him? Judith has a good point about perhaps knowing of the children giving Quentin a sense of responsibility (but oh, she has no idea what a double edged statement that is).
Poor Beth, in tears, goes out on her Quentin hunt as the wolf howls and howls as Barnabas and Judith talk. Nice continuity having Barnabas get the call from Ezra about the pentagram charm. (I’d love to have been a fly on the wall as he tried to explain pentagrams to a small town jeweler.)
Judith gives us background on Beth: she’s from Collinsport and the cousin in town does exist. No mention whether she’s a widow or what became of her other family, and she’s been working there about two years. LOL Judith’s line about not being too interested in servants is a great in joke on Barn, given his problems stemming from too much interest in one particular servant girl. Now Barn has his clue about where the baby’s pentagram came from, and he’s heading out and about to play Sherlock Holmes.
Evan is having another dress rehearsal with Tim, here’s hoping it works better this time. Nice red herring with Judith playing cards alone in the drawing room as if she’s the intended victim.
And here’s Tim at Collinwood, coming in right behind Beth . Funny, Ezra refers to A charm, and we know that Beth also gets one. Wonder if the boy is really ill, or whether that’s Beth’s cover story.
OK, some background on the father of the snakepit brood. A very strict, Godfearing man who would have liked Trask (hmm, no wonder the kids are so messed up as adults). Would be interesting to find out how one of Gabriel and Edith’s kids turned out that way.
Gunshots. Barnabas comes to tell everyone what is happening and meets them outside the door. Poor Beth, trying to cover for the fact that she’s terrified, not of the creature, but of it being caught. Shot in the chest – and she nearly collapses hearing that.
Barnabas takes the Bat express and ends up in Beth’s room ahead of her. Get a panorama of the room that I don’t remember seeing before. Very large and well appointed, not to mention well lit. Hardly the plain servants garrett with a bed and place for clothes, shared with another servant. Still a bit creepy though, that she has to stay in the same room with the same bed that Jenny died in. Seems somewhat less than sensitive.
Got to give Beth a lot of credit for poise and self control. She must be beside herself worrying about Quentin now she knows he’s been shot, and here’s Barnabas inexplicably in her room asking nosy questions, yet she holds her own with him. Barn’s approach leaves something to be desired – he should make it clear he’s a friend, not an enemy. She doesn’t trust him, and he;s really given her no reason to tell him anything. He may not remember, but I bet she does, that this is the 2nd time she’s found him somewhere he shouldn’t have been with no logical way of being there.
That’s our Barn – when logic doesn’t work CHOMP ON EM to get them to talk!
Jeannie
