Fred's an interesting walk-on-walk-off character. It's the first time we've heard that Carolyn and Will had a handyman. He seems very quick to take advantage of an opportunity, and if he had lived in our own time band, it might well have been he, rather than Willie, who released Barnabas from his coffin. As it is, he gave no indication of knowing that Will and Carolyn were hiding a secret in the basement, but we saw so little of him before his death that there's no way of knowing for sure.
Fred said he had been interested in Alexis the minute he saw her, and my impression is that he was sincere, and it wasn't that he was just interested in any female. But was it that he was interested in Angelique as well, but saw that she was beyond his reach, whereas Alexis had the same looks and seemed more willing to recognize him as a human being? Or was he never interested in Angelique? We'll never know.
The closing credits gave further food for thought. If I remember correctly, his full name was Wilfred - Wilfred Block, I think - and he was played by Edmund Hasham, or something like that. Wilfred? Why not Fred? Why not Frederick? It sounds as though somebody had ideas about Fred beyond what we saw. And Edmund Hasham didn't look like an Edmund. He looked very much like a Fred, and he dealt rather well, I thought, with the difficult task of being the handyman who is willing to engage in some hanky-panky in the foyer with a lady at the drop of a hat.
The blanket that was draped over Amy was, I think, the same blanket that was draped over Sabrina just after she was attacked by John Yaeger. I had stigmatized it as dark, but on second viewing I had realized that it wasn't so dark, after all. But why were the afghans slighted?
