In the location footage of LE walking to the Old House, Roger also wears a caped coat. Must run in the family.

Even now, after Jason beat Willie up and un-friended him, Willie still defends him to Barnabas, saying that Jason is just bluffing.

If the tapestry is just a shawl, it wouldn't do any harm. But if it's heavy or scratchy, that wouldn't be good.

Yes, that must be the largest Thermos in creation. The next size up would be an actual coffee urn.

Sam's shirt is very much what middle-aged guys wore when they weren't working. But it is kind of funny that he wears a tie with it. Vicki arrives and offers to help him dispose of Maggie's things. He turns her down, and after Vicki says how fond she was of Maggie, he almost spills the beans.

Poor, faithful Joe tells Carolyn that he loved Maggie and still does.

However briefly, Carolyn seems to be in apologetic mode. She apologies to Joe, then tells Vicki, Lately all I seem to do is pick fights. She tells Vicki how much she admires Joe. He’s facing the worst time of his life and taking it on the chin, she says. They’ve just finished making up when Carolyn spots a bouquet of violets on the piano. Jason has been getting them for her mother every day (remember, according to him, violets are her favorite flowers), and just the sight of them gets Carolyn angry all over again.

Mt. Desert Island sounds beautiful. I'd love to get there someday.

Very true, Janet. But for all Barnabas knows, Burke or someone else might be right behind Sam. Also, Barn could materialize in the hospital, find out Maggie's room number--as he actually does--and then kill her in her hospital bed and dematerialize again without anyone the wiser. But Dr. Woodard's fortuitous arrival and his announcement of Maggie's death put an end to that plan. So Barnabas probably feels that his secret is safe.

Teeny, tiny nurse station desk. Glass transfusion bottles. Well, no one ever claims that the Collinsport Hospital is on the leading edge of patient care.

Between the time that Maggie hurries down the corridor, following Sarah's flute, and her arrival on the beach below Widows' Hill, her robe has become tattered--though her long, perfectly applied false eyelashes are still intact.

At last, Barnabas is cheated of his prey. But poor Maggie's mind has been broken, and she reverts to childhood in sheer self-defense. She recognizes her "papa" but doesn't recognize poor Joe, who is devastated.

Sam tells the doctor about the little girl named Sarah who told him where to find Maggie. Although Maggie has never heard the little girl's name (why didn't they introduce themselves?), she murmurs, Sarah. Then she puts the doll next to her and even lets Joe hold it for a moment.

Doc Woodard's heart is in the right place, but his plan seems pretty drastic--he's taking his career in his hands by faking Maggie's death. He tells Sam and Joe, "I want to send Maggie to a nursing home called Wyndcliff, about a hundred miles north, he tells them. It’s run by Dr. JULIA Hoffman. You remember--I was going to show her Maggie’s blood sample before it was stolen." [That was back when Dr. Hoffman was “one of the best men in the field”!] Yes!!!

Sarah's flute version of "London Bridge" is the first of many times that music plays a major part in a story. We've already had the various iterations of Laura's portrait (plus Burke's, and Vicki's double, not to mention Barnabas's). What soap--or any other TV show--would bring music and art into the story now?

Lydia, please do revive the prop project! It sounds like so much fun!

I think that by now, poor Elizabeth just doesn't have any perspective on her relationship with Carolyn. But Vicki is an employee--even though she's a trusted one--and an outsider, so it might be easier for Elizabeth to confide in her.

My notes for this ep indicate that Barnbas sleeps the afternoon away in his coffin. Possibly to air out his unhallowed bed, he’s decided to keep the lid open and sleep in his caped overcoat.

It's so delightful to see Jason so utterly confounded by something completely outside his frame of reference: mother love. Go Liz!

Back in those days, DWI wasn't a felony, so unfortunately Carolyn isn't in serious trouble. But this is really the nadir for her, and her cruelty to her mother is inexcusable. And Elizabeth has actually left Collinwood for Carolyn's sake. Vicki's heart was probably in the right place when she suggested it, but it turned out to be only another paving stone on the road to hell.

As Vicki walks along the upstairs hallway, we get a great view of [spoiler]the small wooden casket that will much later hold the Hand of Count Petofi. [/spoiler]For now it sits in lonely splendor atop a credenza in the hallway.

Elizabeth finally can't bear her burden alone any more, and she blurts it out to Vicki.