Good for Mrs. Johnson, standing up to Nick on Liz's behalf. This is the most his callousness ever shows through the sickeningly-sweet charm. It occurred to me that despite his best efforts, utterly jaw-droppingly callous moments should sometimes come from him, considering he's supposed to be made of evil, basically. Good Mrs. Johnson scene. She leads up gradually to saying Mrs. Stoddard's under a spell, reluctant to voice such an idea to Nick of all people... adding reality to the story. I'm glad Clarice got a chance to do that. She and John Karlen seem to be the only factors anchoring the story to the ground, usually.
I liked how Tom was being all feral-vampire, then suddenly got interrupted by Roger's voice and stopped, as if he dropped the "act" for a moment... This the most classic sort of DS moment, where you're involved in one thread and forget about the other one, but just then the two story threads collide unexpectedly. Where else but DS could you "forget" temporarily that a vampire was roaming around, and then be surprised by having him appear to another character with her own supernatural problems?
Liz's and Julia's supernatural situations also collide very nicely. Liz wants to unburden herself to Julia about everyone burying her alive, but Julia's too busy obsessing on her vampire master. It's interesting seeing the two of them interact, without any clear-headed unaffected people in the room.
Tom's coffin room.... Angelique's music appears. Oops, wrong vampire. Julia finds coffin, Liz enters, Julia yells her out of the room, Tom bites. It's great hearing Julia scream and scream orders at Liz of all people. "Get out!!! Get out!!!" Near-LOL at Liz thinking the coffin must be hers. At this point, there's starting to be a similar sense to 1795 when supernatural mayhem was striking down all the characters, and chaos was resulting, and there was no hope.... but this is the presaent day, and they can't let it go that far.