the first appearance in the credits of writer Malcolm Marmorstein.
Yeah, Malcolm was sort of shaky today. The meaningful conversation between Elizabeth and Vicky lacked something. Suddenly they were in deep waters and I didn't quite see them getting there. When Vicky said she'd be seeing Frank Garner over the weekend and also going to a concert, Elizabeth said, "I didn't know you were interested in..." and I thought she was going to say "music", but instead she said "Frank" - the difference between polite conversation and serious conversation. And it went on from there, and I kept thinking, "I didn't think Elizabeth and Vicky were close enough to have a conversation like this at the drop of a hat."
And yes, Magnus, Matthew has changed, and I think that could be accounted for by the shock of having his sainted Mrs. Stoddard betray him, but I wish the dots had been connected a little more. Matthew is surely still smarting from that betrayal, and you'd think it would be all he really wanted to talk about. He wouldn't have had to go on and on about it; a stray remark would have done the job.
And then we had the weird conversation between Elizabeth and David, about loyalty. David's talking about being loyal to somebody outside the family, and Elizabeth's mind should immediately have leapt to Burke. But it didn't.
Oh, well. With the holiday hiatus upon us, I've got three weeks to enjoy the prospect of Matthew finally doing a proper job of murdering Vicky.