Before we move on we have a bit of old business to deal with. After Barnabas simply excuses himself to Stokes and as Barn walks over to Naomi's portrait, DC has a notation that "as they exit shot go in to CU of Stokes", which would seem quite logical given Barnabas blew him off without answering. However, that close-up doesn't take place. As Barnabas hesitates to answer all we see is Carolyn looking over at Barn with curiosity -
- and Julia out of focus in the background - and then after Barn moves out of the shot, we see Liz watching him -
-and Stokes and Roger out of focus in the background. But when we do see a close-up of Stokes is in what we've just covered because a close-up of him comes up as Liz says they haven't kept up the Old House -
- and Roger begins to say that with work it could be livable, and given how uninvolved Stokes is in that discussion yet he was quite involved in the previous one, it seems an odd place to decide to place/move a close-up. But then, quite possibly only DC knew why the change was made - and we know how odd it often is to fathom DC's thinking