Golly, what a gloriously
packed episode!
Yup, that scene between Elizabeth and Matthew was something. Was Elizabeth lying when she told Matthew that nothing would happen to him? This was before she lied by telling Matthew that she hadn't called the sheriff about Vicky's disappearance. Matthew said, when he detected the lie about the sheriff, that Elizabeth had never lied to him before. So, was that previous statement of Elizabeth's a lie that Matthew
didn't detect? Or, when Elizabeth told Matthew that nothing would happen to him, did she think she could shut down any further investigation of Bill's death the way she had shut down any further investigation of Roger's accident? Did she think she could keep Matthew in check for the rest of his life?
Poor Matthew. He was betrayed by the one person in the world whom he trusted.
So let's see: Vicki had a brandy a couple of days ago, then a sedative, then brandy again.
I was just dying to have Julia give Vicky a sedative.
We got a rehash of yesterday's episode from Vicky, and I was very happy to get it - even hoping that it wouldn't stop in midstream - because Thayer David, and later Joan Bennett, made the whole business in the cottage so interesting that I wanted to go over it again, and see what Vicky and Elizabeth would say about what happened.
Oh, gosh, Louis Edmonds knows how to make the most of the scene! Roger's bit with Vicky was perfect. And later, the squabble with Elizabeth had me looking forward a few months to the arrival of someone else with whom Elizabeth will have fine fights.
