Redux of the entrance from the day before. Very Victorian formal, as the villain formally introduces himself. “I want what you have”. Oh the double entendre fun in THAT line!
The Dancing Girl (Later lady. I guess she came of age?) was made long ago by a Persian swordsmith we discover. Oh that knife thing was well choreographed, once we got past Quentin’s ridiculously futile attempt to break away. When they pivoted they were in perfect synch, like the knife had them physically attached.
Magda finds out about the hand being stolen, and she’s figuring she’s dead, that its King Johnny got the hand (which she now admits she stole). But Quentin’s offhand remark about a YOUNG man throws her; it doesn’t fit with the gypsies. Quentin’s all about Quentin again – she has to stay and help him find the hand.
The scene as a whole shows an interesting view of how their relationship is changing. They keep working together, and he’s gotten over wanting to kill her; they work well together and it could be said even like each other. And as much of an ass as Quentin can be, at least both he and Magda are being more mature about this than Barn is with Ang. We never see any scenes or scenes showing how this happened, but apparently, at least on some level, Magda and Quentin have both managed to forgive each other and move on.
Desperation strikes again, Quentin wants to summon Angelique to get them out of this mess. Nifty ceremony, not Evan quality, but quite good. LMAO and what do we see next but Angie laughing at an Evan just now regaining consciousness. She’s good, very convenient story and oh so sensible, just one more helpless dim female victim of Barnabas. Slick move to try and get Evan to vouch for her, and it could very well work – IF they aren’t already suspicious of Evan because of one of his other nefarious activities.
LOL , Ang gets some great lines. She gets the disjointed pieces about the hand and removing the curse on Quentin, and her reaction is: “You two HAVE been busy”. So now she’s going to find out all about it,because neither Magda or Q will be stupid enough to get her mad after she specifically said she dislikes half truths.
Oh dear, now we find out that Angie will want a price, and it probably won’t be cheap. But she does have a point: it would be hard to imagine him being worse off than he is at that moment.
Cut to the waterfront, with a flirty Angelique finding Aristede – and reeling him in like a prize codfish. Another little poppet --- she does have this routine down pat – and he never saw it coming till she tightened the scarf around the neck.
Jeannie