Dave Woodard should have had kids of his own. He's very protective of and tender toward both David and Sarah, even though he hasn't met her. He talks to David as if to an equal--the only way to deal with kids, IMHO.

[spoiler]Although, considering his ultimate fate, it's probably just as well that he doesn't.[/spoiler]

Vicki was to go on trail for killing Laura, with Frank Garner as her defense attorney), but even before the show went supernatural things from the bible were changed (i.e. on the show Roger didn't meet a much deserved demise falling from Widows' Hill, and Bill Malloy was killed off on the show, whereas he was originally planned to be a continuing presence in Liz' life). About the last thing from the bible that was at least partly used on the show was the Liz/Jason blackmail - though Jason was named Walt Cummings in the bible.

Thanks, MB! So Vicki would have gone on trial for something somewhere in time!

Welcome, toy soldier!

Barnabas has to hide a very smug grin when Roger tells him about David's nightmare. But his smile vanishes instantly when Roger adds that Dr. Woodard is coming over to give David a sedative. Is this our first on-camera sedative, I wonder?

A coffin, Barnabas laughs, how absurd.

Sarah gives David the little toy soldier with its blue Continental coat. David calls it "nifty" and asks Sarah how she got it--after all, she is a girl. She won't tell David whose toy it was--but it can only have belonged to Barnabas. Telling David that he asks too many questions, once again she vanishes from his sight.

I'll bet that whoever has that wheelchair could take it to Antiques Roadshow now. 

Poor David--no one believes him. He even sneaks back to the Old House in crepe-soled desert boots to try to prove he isn't lying.

Julie urges Elizabeth and Roger as strenuously as she can without blowing her cover that they have to keep David away from the Old House--and that they don't need to tell Barnabas about David's latest fantasies either.

Julia is moody as she gives Barnabas another injection. Barn actually has his jacket off and we can see his suit vest as he rolls his shirtsleeve back down--this is as undressed as he ever gets. Anyway, Julia tells him that she's feeling a bit blue because Willie has been shipped out to a home for the criminally insane. Even Barnabas feels a bit sorry.

Welcome, Bil Baird bat!  (The shadow of the pole used to manipulate the bat is visible in the last scene.)

The uncooperative Ziploc oxygen tent! The glass bottle of blood! Sam Evans, puffing away on his pipe while sitting right next to Willie's potentially explosive oxygen tent! 

Barnabas tells Julia that if Willie recovers, she also has a lot at stake. I wonder what led him to use this unfortunate turn of phrase. Maybe he's trying to look hip by using slang. He also thinks she should continue to pose as Dave Woodard's consulting physician. Even though Dave has fired her from Maggie's case? And even though almost everyone still thinks of her as a historian?? Jonathan goof? or writer goof?

While Dave Woodard struggles to zip up the uncooperative oxygen tent, Julia apologizes for hiding her suspicions of Willie (though she should really be apologizing to the sheriff, who might have grounds for prosecuting her if the doc blabs). Suddenly Willie starts to groan--he’s coming out of the coma! Abandoning the struggle with the oxygen tent, the doc tells Julia to close it, but she has no more success than he did.

Nice bit by JF at the very end of this episode, when the sheriff's deputy announces that Willie is waking up. Barnabas is immobilized with shock as the deputy announces the news. He uses all his self-command, but we can see his eyes widen with fear.

Well, at least someone at Collinwood--David--realizes that Sarah is actually a ghost.

The scene between Barnabas and Julia is one of my all-time favorites--all the more hilarious because JF and GH play it dead straight. Two of my all-time favorite Barnabas zingers, both about the hapless Willie:

"He clings to life with a leechlike persistence" and "I'm talking about getting rid of him before someone brings us the news that he has miraculously recovered and is writing his memoirs."

The next morning, Julia asks Vicki for details about David's nightmare--details that Vicki sees no reason to conceal. Later, MISS Hoffman the historian talks to Elizabeth about talking to David. I once had a lot of experience in child psychology, she explains. Her cover is wearing pretty thin by now to me, but not of course to the good people of Collinsport.

David shows Elizabeth his drawing of Barn's coffin. And of course he freaks out when he sees Julia's medallion.