Chris has taken his troubles to Julia. In the drawing room at Collinwood, they are looking over an old photo album. Julia tells him that strangely enough, there are no pictures of Quentin, but she doesn’t know why. She shows him pictures of the women who lived at Collinwood in 1897. He doesn’t recognize Beth from the photo--although he should, because she pointed out Quentin and Jenny’s son’s grave to him in the woods long ago, before Barnabas traveled back in time to 1897. He does recognize Jenny. In her photo she looks quite beautiful and quite sane, wearing her beautiful gown and with her hair piled up neatly. Julia tells Chris, Jenny was married to Quentin Collins. It’s time you found out that Jenny was your great-grandmother. Then I’m actually a Collins! Chris exclaims in amazement. Julia tells him the story of Quentin and Jenny’s two children, Jenny’s madness after Quentin abandoned her, and Edward’s locking her up in the tower room and sending the two children to live with a Mrs. Fillmore. Fillmore was my grandmother Lenore’s name, Chris says, confirming the story. (Was that Lenore’s adopted maiden name, or did she also marry a Fillmore, perhaps a foster brother? We will never know, but in any case it didn’t save her unfortunate grandson. She must have borne a daughter, who became Tom, Chris, and Amy’s mother.) Julia reminds him that Jenny said Chris had to find Quentin. Why should he be able to help? Chris wonders. Julia explains that the curse started with Quentin and passed to the oldest son of each generation. So Chris has an explanation of how he became a werewolf, if not a cure.
Long ago, Joe Haskell mentioned that Tom Jennings was also a cousin of his, but that seems to have been dropped.
The writers force a very smart character to do at least two very stupid things to keep the plot going: Julia wants to conduct a séance to contact Quentin (who she _knows_ isn’t dead), and she wants David to be in on it (when she _knows_ how Quentin’s ghost tormented him). She tells David that Chris desperately needs their help. Chris makes a personal appeal, and David unhappily agrees to participate. Julia thanks him and goes to get what they will need. (But since storms knock out the electricity so frequently, wouldn’t candles be stored permanently in the drawing room?)
Paul's hotel room looks a lot like Joe's room at the boarding house on Water Street. With all those colors, the mark on Paul's wrist looks more like a tattoo to me. But in any case he's a marked man.
