A jury? I don't remember that. I thought it was just the three judges, but I haven't seen this ep. in years and have only my notes.

Judge Hanley refuses to reopen the trial and says Vicki must hang. He is not the last Hanley to appear in the show!

Peter and Joshua now must bring the bad news to Vicki, who is devastated. Joshua apologizes and leaves after saying a regretful goodbye to Vicki. We can only imagine his outrage that he can’t have Vicki freed merely by his word as a COLLINS!

The lovers escape, but Vicki has been shot….

Thanks for the beautiful frame grab, MB! That's really eerie and emotionally charged!

I think this is the first time we see Angelique's portrait. I have no idea when she had it done--or why she would be portrayed in her plain servant's gown and cap instead of in a gown that would display her very brief status as mistress of the Old House. Or maybe it was never painted by human hand but instead produced in hell. 

Do you mean in the mausoleum? I think they're supposed to be big stone sarcophagi. Joshua would want to be as ostentatious as possible.

  Nice to have you around, Lydia!

Welcome Tower Room! (I think?)

Another pretty good line from this ep.: "What I've been trying to tell you all along is that I am already dead!"

Barn tells Joshua that Angelique threatened to destroy his entire family if he told anyone that she was the witch. Well, really, that happened anyway, didn't it?

I think Joshua wants to confine Barnabas because he thinks that that way he can somehow keep him from killing anyone else. He is horrified at the extent of Barnabas's ruthlessness. Plus as MT notes, Joshua is in the habit of thinking he can control everything around him. And now that all his hopes for the future have been destroyed, he's even more desperate to control his reluctantly homicidal son.

The ice-blue satin gown that Millicent is wearing is the same one that Carolyn will wear to Barnabas's costume party a long time from now.

Very nice scene with Daniel and Millicent. All the poor little guy wants is to go home to New York and get away from this gloomy house. Though Millicent is more than a few sandwiches short of a picnic, she and her brother are very close, and she does her best to comfort him.

Later, Millicent tells the stunned Naomi that she has signed over her entire fortune to Daniel. Naomi can't dissuade her because Millicent says Nathan will be able to support her, and anyway, her fortune doesn't matter to him. All a-twitter at the thought of her bridegroom’s nobility, Millicent goes upstairs to prepare for her wedding day.

According to what Joshua tells Naomi about having to find Ben, poor Ben singlehandedly moves Barnabas's coffin to the Tower Room. Why Barnabas didn't just bat his way there is a mystery to me--maybe he wanted to spare his father yet another shock. Joshua arrives and locks Barnabas in--a useless gesture as he well knows.

Much later, Naomi is wearing a beautiful black robe as she gazes out the drawing room windows at the Tower Room.

You've said pretty much everything I would have said. This is one of the best and one of my favorite episodes in the entire series--gut wrenching, heartbreaking, superbly written, beautifully realized and featuring nearly flawless performances from everyone involved. I remember that my hair was standing on end the first time I saw it.

It's hard to know who is in the most dreadful circumstances: Naomi, desperately trying to reach her husband, who is desperately trying to keep her in the dark; Joshua, torn between pity and horror for his son; Barnabas, who knows what he must reveal and dreads it.

Joshua's proud demeanor before Nathan, even in defeat, is heartbreaking.

Despite their previous disagreements, father and son tacitly agree that at all costs to themselves, they must keep the secret from Naomi. In some ways, the tragedy of the curse brings them closer.

Yes, I'm 99 percent sure this is the first mention of the word vampire.

dom, you note that Joshua wouldn't tell Barnabas who revealed that B. was at the Old House. Maybe Joshua thought Barnabas would take some kind of revenge, although he doesn't yet know the extent of Barnabas's savagery. Unfortunately he's only given Nathan another weapon to use against him.

JB is dazzlingly beautiful in this episode and will be still more beautiful in one to come….

That is funny, especially since oysters were considered an aphrodisiac.