LP does the voice over, seems she’s speeding through it for some reason.
We pick up with Beth in the woods with the gun, and the wolf on the rock. This time they don’t spend as long focused on Beth after she screams, and her hand’s not shaking as she aims the gun.
She’s really not thinking straight (not a big surprise under the circumstances). She’s screaming for help, yet screams “No, Quentin, NO!” . And we have the convenient cavalry to the rescue walking in the woods, in the form of Edward and Barnabas.
It was a VERY close thing with Beth, the creature has her down on the ground and is rolling around – again, very conveniently he doesn’t use the claws or teeth on her neck or any vital areas. She’s hysterical, but still has the sense to let them know Jamison’s out there. Though apparently she doesn’t give them or let them know she had a gun with them, as they want to go get a gun. I’m also wondering if her faint was for real, as she fainted JUST when Barnabas was going to go chase the creature, and that was the only thing made him help Edward get Beth back to the house.
And now we’re back to Laura at the cottage, the logical place for Jamison to go from here. (Wonder if that’s where Beth was heading?) At least the delay in seeing her probably means the pink dress has been cleaned by now. With all the goings on with Jenny and now the curse, the threat of Laura got pushed to the side. Clearly, though, she hasn’t forgotten, and she still intends to get rid of Quentin someway and somehow.
Interesting that Edward notices that the wolf had clothes and ran like a man, but didn’t recognize the clothes?
Then again, Edward is NOT the brightest bulb in the bunch sometimes, and, as we see later, doesn’t even recognize those clothes when seeing them close up and on someone of the right height.
Barnabas shows sense in aiming Edward toward Laura and the cottage to find Jamison, but in the internal monologue, he mentions asking Edward for silver bullets. What are the chances that anyone (saving the Lone Ranger) has a stock of silver bullets just lying around, much less silver bullets of the right caliber for that gun?
Just occurred to me, isn’t that yellow/gold brocade couch at the cottage one we see in Quentin’s rooms?
Laura manages to sidetrack Edward quite nicely to go out on a wolf hunt, on the assumption that Jamison is out there too. LE has one of his unusual almost bloopers here “if you’re lau…lying Laura….”. He corrects himself quickly and just forges on. Interesting how in this scene Laura actually remembers that Nora exists, and wants to fetch her too.
Beth again opens the windows, even though the wolf is howling and for all she knows could come bouncing right in the window at her.
She’s really upset, and Barnabas calls her on it, asking about the animal before she asks if Jamison has been found and is all right.
Note how everyone now seems to know about Beth and Quentin
– it’s assumed by just about everyone, now including Barnabas, that she knows where he is any time they need him. Wonder how much Beth knows about the Laura problem, since Barnabas just entrusted her with knowing that Barn and Quentin plan to “settle” Laura.
Barnabas was careless, same way he was in that earlier episode when he batted in to Quentin’s rooms, and this time Laura caught him exactly the same way Beth caught him then.
Of course he has no plausible explanation this time either -- and has her scarab in his hand. Amazingly, he manages to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory by underestimating her. If it weren’t for the delirious Jamison, he’d never have distracted her and gotten the boy out of the cottage.
Nope, I’m not going NEAR the fact that Jamison mistook Barnabas for Quentin.
Jeannie