Beat me to it! Very good one. Thayer's acting in the first scene is great, where he ponders what Josette is. This scene may just be the point where DS starts to matter, over and above being just another well-done daytime drama.
Josette's getting to Matthew in a very deep way. I'm sure none of it involves clear thoughts that could be put into words, but suddenly there's a world after death, possibly. None of the characters express it (except Quentin, once), but what's so disturbing about ghosts, really, is that this might be our personal future, that we would have no control over.
As Matthew may or may not feel his own mind slipping away, as he has more and more trouble stopping himself from violence, suddenly just as his control's disappearing, a terrifying world of "comeuppance" opens up in front of him like some black chasm. That's how we usually see ghosts, as restless spirits unable to move on, often because they didn't deserve to, possibly...? Matthew hasn't believed in anybody or anything but Liz for 18 years, and thought all he had to fear about killing someone was discovery and jail.
Diner. Is she going to appear in this scene? I'm getting ahead of myself. Good, realistic conversation between Maggie and Joe about Burke and Carolyn. In the middle of it, yes... there's Laura!! I'm now watching this storyline for the second time, having gone through it first over the holidays. Then and now, I kept backing it up, and replaying the moment she walks in, because after we slogged through Roger-vs-Burke for so long as it kept running out of steam, it's so strange to see a new storyline begin, the first time on DS that a storyline's changed... and it starts with the exact moment this woman walks through the door of a diner, without any fanfare or anything.
Is Diana Millay pregnant? It ends with David seeing Vicki. DS is waking up and taking off now. David and Vicki in the next ep, that's a good scene. No writer listed.