Ha ha ha! Maybe Barn had Willie rig a wire so he could siphon off just enough power from the Great House to run a TV set in the basement. Who knows, he might even get a VCR in so Willie could tape the soaps and Judge Judy for his evening viewing. He probably wouldn't much care for True Blood or Vampire Diaries, though.

For all that Timothy Elliott Stokes seems to know about almost everything, his total ignorance about vampires is a really big ol' blind spot, isn't it. 

Funny to see Willie telling us that he thinks Elizabeth needs to see a doctor!

Sam's painting of Betty Hanscomb, which he gave to Vicki, is now back on the wall of the Evans cottage.

Maggie is wearing a watch with one of those super-wide “mod”-style straps. Adam thoughtfully moves her out of the way before he deals with Willie.

We usually think of time as an arrow that goes only forward and always at the same velocity, but things are different in the Collins Universe. Time there is highly flexible and can expand or contract as necessary to the story line.

All of that is only to say that I don't know where Barn has been or where Willie is.

Maybe Trask doesn't know that he didn't go to heaven and was in some kind of suspended-after-death state until Julia and Stokes and Tony so foolishly woke him up. Maybe he's so angry partly because he didn't get raptured up to heaven right away and is taking it out on Barnabas.

According to the DS Wiki, Joshua knew about Ezra Simpson and his crimes. The Wiki has a link about him here, but I honestly don't remember anything about him.

Trask's body language is always a treat to watch. And I think you're right--JF certainly is different as the mortal Barn as opposed to vampire Barn.

Probably DF had already left the show, in his mind, anyway.

My notes say that Judge Ezra was played by the omnipresent, ever-silent Tom Gorman, who is usually a patron at the Blue Whale and I think played the hand of Barnabas grabbing Willie's throat way back when.

We see that Ben's memoir was completely accurate--enough bricks have fallen away to reveal the top half of Trask's skeleton, hands still tied above his skull. (The skeleton’s left arm looks misshapen, and the candle on the table is still red, but after the opening credits, it’s blue.) It’s true! Stokes exclaims, the diary was right. Julia recoils at the ghastly outcome of Barnabas’s rough justice: It's terrible, she gasps, even though she knows Barnabas was justified.

Upstairs, David is finally enjoying his chance to play with Lang's tape recorder. [Somehow the script writers have forgotten that it’s long past midnight! Vicki is really falling down on the job! Or else Julia treated Tony, then returned to 13 Arrowhead Road the following morning.] Treating David quite as an equal--and in a lovely echo of Ben and Daniel long ago--Stokes introduces himself as man to man, and the two shake hands.

Julia is in a tight spot, denying to Stokes that she knows anything about Adam, but her very denial gives away the fact that she's protecting someone. Shortly after Julia and Tony leave ahead of Stokes, a camera is seen briefly while Stokes addresses Trask: I can understand a certain reluctance in letting your skeleton be seen (camera at left), but if you had appeared to us we would have given you anything you wanted. Stokes is the last to leave and so the only one to hear a sigh fill the coffin room. Stokes tells Trask, Don’t be despondent. If you appear, you take your revenge on the witch and rest in peace. This is not the most fortunate choice of words, but unlike his ancestor, our professor has greatly underestimated the not-at-all Reverend Trask.

Back at Collinwood at 7:00 a.m. the next morning, Julia waits anxiously for Barnabas. David finds her. You’re up early, he says. I’ve been up all night, Julia admits (she’s still wearing yesterday’s dress). Have you seen Barnabas? Amazed, David tells her, Barnabas was supposed to come back at noon yesterday. That’s what Mrs. Johnson told me. She went into town to do some shopping for him. [And here’s a totally unexplored sidelight: We can only imagine Barnabas’s reacquaintance with the pleasures of food and drink after almost 200 years.]

David tells Julia he didn't tell anyone about seeing anyone at the Old House. Apparently only the youngest family members keep the "word of a Collins."

Barn hears a noise from downstairs, and thinking it's Adam, goes to investigate. Trask! he exclaims, appalled, when he finds that gentleman in the coffin room. Yes! Trask gloats. I’ve been freed--freed for revenge! Barnabas tries to rewind, insisting, It was my ancestor who wronged you. But of course it's too late--Barnabas gave himself away by knowing Trask's name. As Trask moves closer and closer, the now all-too-human Barnabas backs away in real terror, shouting, Don't touch me! Trask only laughs: You touched me when you forced me into that hole. You touched me when you hung me. You touched me when you cut out the light. Trask finally puts his dead hand on Barnabas's shoulder. Instantly Barnabas collapses to the floor.

Julia gives up trying to find Barn at the Old House and leaves, not knowing what is happening in the basement beneath her very feet. Trask has hanged the unconscious Barnabas in the fatal alcove--just as Barnabas hanged him so long ago. Barnabas’s hands are high above his head, which sags onto his left shoulder. . The bricks are up to Barnabas's waist, but this manual labor is apparently not too humble for the Rev., who is laughing triumphantly.

Thanks, MB--as usual, you are the source of infinite knowledge. 

Adam is won over by Sam's simple kindness. Sam is almost the only person who seems genuinely concerned for him as a human being.

Yes, I think this is the first mention of Stokes's fondness for cheese. But like everyone else on the show, he never eats.

I wonder if Mrs. Bland (whom Tony says recommended Stokes as an antiques expert) is a many-times-great-grand-daughter-in-law of the Rev. Bland who married Barnabas and Angelique so long ago.

I believe Carolyn has fallen victim to Stockholm Syndrome--although I don't think the incident that gave the syndrome its name had happened yet.