Humbert Allen Astredo worked hard today. There was a nice bit when apparently either Astredo or Robert Rodan spoke out of turn. Nicholas told Adam, "Leave the room. I -" Adam interrupted with "No," and Nicholas turned to Adam and said, obviously irritated by the interruption, "I need to think!" It was a very neat recovery.
I get the feeling that the Danielle Roget story has been changed in mid-storyline. (And why would that surprise me?) The many people whom she killed or arranged to have killed in France seem to have fallen by the wayside and we're left with the murder of Philippe Cordier, committed so that Eve could be with her one true love. It all starts to sound pretty run-of-the-mill, not worthy of the most e-e-evil woman of the 18th century.
Nicholas's feelings towards Maggie aren't becoming any more believable. Am I relying too much on clichés, or am I right? I think I must be right, because in a show like Dark Shadows, clichés are helpful. Nicholas never loses his composure around Maggie. He never softens around Maggie. He never displays an impulse, however quickly suppressed, to run away with Maggie and leave Angelique, Adam, Eve, and Diabolos all to their own devices. By this time we should have seen something, and I haven't seen it. I want to see Nicholas dancing around the living room of his house singing, "Maggie! Am I a fool without a mind, Or have I simply been to blind To realize?" And what I'm seeing is the same old Nicholas.