Pivotal-- Barnabas figures out Chris is a werewolf. I derive no joy from watching him and Julia though, not even with a potentially great moment such as this, though, because they both speak in such a tense, halting way, as if it's a fight just to remember and get through the lines. I tense up in sympathy and can't relax and lose myself in the story. Mr. Frid doesn't have this trouble in past storylines, I imagine because he cares more about those, than about the unromantic, matter-of-fact present. Barnabas refers to Mr. Wells' death, without naming him, referring to him as a hotel clerk, not the owner.
Oh so that's Donna Friedlander... the name's so familiar, but I never knew if she was a DS Forums poster, a character, or an actress. Hello Goodbye, Donna. Hay-la, hay-la hay-low-a. Well, she did say she liked 'em moody. I liked how instantly upfront she was about "her type"... unpleasant outfit unfortunately, which doesn't help her cause much.
They really should have had more guest actors, so we wouldn't automatically know that any new actor's going to be a victim. It's actually strangely jarring to see a new face on DS at this point, it just seems wrong, because it hardly ever happens.
Before that though, a Jennings family meeting, where Chris interrogates Amy, in that ridiculous way that never works, of trying to get the other party to reveal that he/she knows something bad about the interrogator, without referring to or revealing what the bad thing is.
