Wonderful episode. Great script and fantastic performances across the board.
The final scene shortened for the teaser, but much more of a closeup on poor Jenny. Marie did a wonderful job, with no words. It's not played with violence or rage, but hurt and betrayal, with tears in her eyes as she watches them kiss. She starts forward with the knife raised, like a sleepwalker, until she is nearly on top of them.
Beth goes into helpless ingenue though, standing there screaming as he handles Jenny by himself. Would it have made any difference in the long run? Who knows, since we find out that it's BETH Jenny really wants to kill this time -- enough to leave a clear shot at Quentin to do it. Never noticed this before (the advantage of watching it on a small portable right next to the laptop, I guess) but Beth's cheek has blood on it. Hers -- or one of the others?
Now to the $64,000 dollar question. Did he intend to kill her, or was it an accident? I've watched this scene on slo mo and rewinding dozens of times to get my own answer for a reference in a particular piece of fanfiction I wrote. He gets her to drop the knife, but doesn't go to a less lethal grip on her. He's like a sleepwalker. He doesn't even seem to hear Beth yelling to let her go. He also doesn't seem to have kicked the knife away to where she can't grab for it if she gets loose, which may or may not mean anything.
Given that Jenny came for him with a knife before, probably under similar enough circumstances -- and Angelique magic or no, he refers to still having what sounds like a nasty scar. This combination of factors makes me think that he had a flashback, and though she really couldn't have hurt him, his mind was probably telling him differently and he couldn't let go. When Beth finally gets him loose, he's breathing hard and looks horrified, then runs like hell, which also makes me think he didn't realize what he did till it was too late. (FYI Marie does dead with fixed eyes REAL well.)
Quentin in the drawing room staring at his hands like they belong to someone else. Anyone else thinking "will all Neptune's oceans wash this blood clean from my hands?"
Is it just me, or does Edward treat this whole thing as something that transpired for the sole purpose of inconveniencing him? He goes out of his way to be nasty. Nice touch when TC takes the knife from him, her hand is trembling. And a lot of her reaction is probably guilt -- after all she said she wished somethign would happen to Jenny, and not minutes later Jenny is dead after tryint to attack her for saying that.
Quentin, being Quentin, is trying to run. Interesting how Edward takes the bag from Quentin and he gives in to him like a little boy. As a matter of fact, both Q and B are behaving like naughty little children being taken to task by a schoolmaster. LOVED the way LE played the reaction to Edward being told that Quentin had married a gypsy (which in those days was thought of like an interracial marriage in the South in the 50s). LOVED Quentin's line about "This is NO time to be socially offended!" And Edward, being Edward is convinced that because he wants it covered up, it's possible for it to be covered up.
And talk about timing, what a time for Sandor and Magda to show up. Real sensitve way to tell Magda that her sister is dead -- way to go Edward. And NOT a good coverup -- can't they even have laid her out like she was put on the bed normally, instead of leaving her where she died. Not to mention missing the button in her hand, and the bruises on her neck. Sloppy sloppy.
And at the end Quentin is all alone with the knowledge of Magda's threat, with not even Beth willing to stay with him.
Jeannie
