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« on: March 07, 2015, 11:06:03 AM »
No writer credit, but this might be V Welles, since the first scene between Chris and Carolyn is actually pretty good, making something fresh and vital out of what by now is a very tired plot thread, Chris's werewolf angst. Chris comes so close to outing himself as a werewolf to Carolyn that it actually would have made him look much better and decreased his danger if he's just spilled the beans completely. The way things were left, it sounds as if human Chris just hauls off and kills people because of rages. Good for Chris that Carolyn is having trouble buying it.
Apparently Chris just started inhabiting the "carriage house" again, "cottage" (?) after disappearing and coming back-- then tells Carolyn to get out of his life. Is he planning to stay on the estate? And work as caretaker? Well not now, he's planning on using his gun. Don't blame him. He's burnt his bridge behind him.
Barnabas experiments with electronics... on Phillip, more of a brainwashing experiment a la Manchurian Candidate... someone should tell him he wasn't the first to fiddle with electronics... Is that Lang's recorder? I really wish that after the room was empty and we still heard "Punishment is necessary..." we'd had a few seconds of silence, then : "If both Barnabas and my creation live... if both live..." That would have been a great, big hoot of an in-joke.
Jenny appears to Chris. Jenny's ghost has gone insane (when her ghost was sane in 1897) for purposes of easier identification as a character, and differentiation from Megan, though Megan is about to go off the deep end from fear herself. Well, maybe Jenny's hair went insane, only.
Phil to Meg: "Finish your coffee and try to relax." Setting her up with caffeine to be extra jittery and easily frightened? Marie then performs a nice one-woman show in the antique shop entitled "I'm Really Scared". I liked it going black, then it turns out we've moved to an adjoining room without light, then Meg opens the door and we see her. Anyway, this was so good that they had Marie redo almost all of it for the next episode.
Knob turns... end. I so wish it had been Garth Blackwood looking 70 years older.
Closing credits: arm of stagehand stoking the dry ice pot in the cairn basement.