Victoria and Frank Garner are having dinner. As usual, Vicki is wearing a sleeveless dress, and her hair is piled on top of her head, making her far too elegant for her surroundings.
And the opening voiceover was talking about how cold it was!
Sheesh, it's only the Blue Whale!
Funny how that place shuttles back and forth between dive and the best restaurant in Collinsport.
Roger knows Laura is not telling all she knows about the dead woman in Phoenix, but he's still willing to let Laura take David away without any guarantees of anything whatsoever. I suppose, in his defense, you could say that just as he knows when Laura's lying, he also knows when she's sincere, and he knows in his heart (assuming he has one) that she's sincere in her love for David - but it would be a pretty shoddy defense, I think.
What exactly does Laura know about the dead woman in Phoenix? It doesn't matter, as far as I can tell, but I'm sort of curious as to how much she knows about the mechanics of her own existence. I'm assuming, of course, that we're expected to believe now that the dead woman in Phoenix was Laura. So, was Magnus right when he said that Laura was physically in David's room the other night? I'm still not putting it all together.
Josette's jasmine scent guides Vicki and Frank to the cemetery.
I don't think the scent guided them. We didn't see Vicky sniffing like a bloodhound, saying, "This way!" It was just the compulsion thing, with the jasmine scent to tell Vicky it was all right. But (and surely I've asked this before) how many people recognize the scent of jasmine? Still, it was interesting to see Josette take a different tack. Or maybe she's given up on the Laura business and is guiding Vicky to her parents. What's the attention span of a ghost?
The ending was very nice and classically spooky. As Frank was persuading Vicky to go away, I was thinking of The Listeners, by Walter de la Mare:
'Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,' he said.
And then Dark Shadows diverged from the poem, and the door started opening.
