Episode #227 - This is to be a night of horror--a night that evil will display its terrible power. A night that an innocent is to become the frightened object of that power.
Cottage, morning - Sam awakens Maggie, who, to his astonishment, had overslept for the first time in his memory. Well, getting one's blood drained can weaken a girl! When Sam noted that her doors were left open, I could only think to myself how careless Barn was, unless he was rubbing in the fact that he had had "knowledge" of Maggie during the night.
As tired and drained as Maggie is, she fights her father, argues with him, but she forces herself up and out.
She looks utterly exhausted at the coffee shop, her marks on her throat covered in a scarf. She's so out of it, she gives poor Joe only half a cup of coffee, then overfills his cup, spilling it. She breaks a cup, too, but has no interest in cleaning it up. When she passes out, her father and Joe take her home and put her to bed. Maggie, like Willie, refuses a doctor, protecting her enslaver. JOE AND MAGGIE ARE JUST SOOOO CUTE! I love it when he sits on her bed and they talk about him going out with the guys and vowing to tell her about most of it. When he promises her flowers, however, she gets upset--they remind her of her nightmares of her own death,
and she doesn't want him to talk about such things.
Barnabas takes a candle to the window and sends Maggie a telepathic message--Come with your father tonight to the Old House. I want to see you, Maggie. She suddenly feels well enough to drive Sam to the Old House, and says she overheard Willie come to the door, which Sam insists was impossible. Something improved her hearing, and the flirtatious tone in her voice says it's something Sam would not be too happy about!
When they show up at the Old House, Barnabas looks smug, like he's been expecting Maggie. Their exchange and the way they look at each other is the behavior of lovers. Barnabas urges her to go home, get better (be there so I can bite you, Maggie), and their goodnight stare is fraught with lovers' passion.
When Sam wants to knock off early, Barnabas discourages it, and why? So he can go off to nosh on Maggie again while Sam is busy painting his visage! Barnabas smiles out the window, seeing Maggie in his mind as she tosses and turns in bed, awaiting him.
She senses he's coming, and makes sure her doors are open to receive him. She pulls off the scarf and lies back in bed, eagerly waiting for the touch of her lover's sharp teeth on her throat.
Episode #228 - A brilliant morning sun shines on Collinwood, but it does not seem able to disperse the shadow that has long hung over the vast and rambling house--the shadow of a secret, an insidious secret, held by a man who is no longer a stranger to Collinwood.
Jason demands Liz give him a job at the cannery, something in public relations, perhaps, which will explain his continued presence. Carolyn comes in and sees how perturbed her mother is. Jason feigns concern for Liz' welfare, and Carolyn leaves. Jason behaves as though his position in the firm is a done deal, and bonus--a way to take some of the workload off Liz! He leaves, grinning as always. Liz goes to dial the phone.
Study - Roger cannot believe it when he learns Liz has made Jason director of PR. She defends her action, but Roger tells her she's made a big mistake. He can't change her mind, however, no matter how many good arguments he presents.
Drawing room - Carolyn reveals to Vicki how much she dislikes Jason, articulately how he fakes his too-sweet behavior. Jason comes in, asking for Liz. Carolyn wants to know how long he's going to stay. Ask your mother, advises Jason.
He tells her of his new job at the cannery, which her mother encouraged him to take (let's kill this SOB!) because of their friendship. Carolyn tells Vicki she will not believe what Jason told them.
Study - Roger tells Carolyn he never saw Jason before this current visit; he was away at school during the time Liz knew Jason and Paul Stoddard. Carolyn laments that she knows so little about her father, but Liz refuses to discuss him. Roger tells her that what Paul left behind is in the locked basement room. Carolyn, who never knew what was in that room, is curious about it. Vicki advises Carolyn not to pursue that.
When Liz comes in, Roger tells her that they are all annoyed at Jason's participation in the business. Carolyn asks her mother for the key to the basement room, but Liz, upset, forbids any discussion about that room and leaves.
Liz paces the drawing room. When Vicki comes in, Liz apologizes for her outburst in the study. Vicki believes that room is connected to Liz' current troubles.
Liz denies this--Paul's things are down there, but it would, as Vicki points out, disturb Liz to have them touched. She begs Vicki to put a stop to Carolyn's curiosity about that room.
Carolyn diligently searches for the key; she finds one in a box, but quickly returns it when someone approaches. Seeing it's Vicki, she takes out the key again. Vicki tells Carolyn it will be extremely painful for her mother if Carolyn insists on going into the locked room. She doesn't have to know, responds Carolyn--and she has the right to see her father's things! Maybe that's not what's in the room, suggests Vicki.
Vicki pleads with her, but Carolyn doesn't listen.
NOTES: Jason's demands are getting more and more outrageous, but they are leading up to a really BIG one, not long from now.
I remember being annoyed that they returned to this aspect of the show after the previous exciting episode with Maggie.
Carolyn has every right to know about her father, and Liz is wrong to keep it from her. Of course, Liz feels huge guilt about Paul Stoddard, and doesn't want to twist the knife in her own heart by talking about him, or opening up a trunk or suitcase and looking at his old clothes. Surely, however, Liz has to understand that Carolyn wants to know about the man who fathered her--and Vicki about her parents, too!
Love, Robin
