Yes, the famous--or infamous--Locked Room is about as mundane as a room can be. Poor Carolyn.

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Ragged Isle

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I don't think Vicki is supposed to inspire passion--at least, not that kind. But it's possible to see why Burke no. 1 (Mitchell Ryan) found her attractive. To him she might represent a peaceful, calm new life after all the storm and stress he's been through.

If Elizabeth only knew about the wedding that's being planned at the Old House, she'd think things weren't so bad!

KLS does a good job of showing Maggie's struggle to remember and survive. Somehow she has acquired a manicure featuring frosted white nail polish, the height of fashion--in 1968.

I suspect that the necklace Barnabas gives Maggie has a second life as "Naomi's Necklace" in HoDS.

Willie does his best to apologize to Maggie. He tells her he can't help defending Barnabas. Later, when Willie comes to take her to Barnabas, he advises her, Give in--it will be easier. Then Maggie Evans will really be gone, she comments sadly. Tomorrow you won’t care, is all the comfort he can think of to give her as he leads her out.

Willie's fine workmanship on the second coffin contributes to Barn's good mood, because Barn generously offers to make Willie a vampire. Willie very sensibly turns him down. It’s just as well: The neighborhood seems barely able to support just one vampire, let alone two, and surely even the good people of Collinsport would start to notice if three vampires were preying on them. And anyway, who'd watch them all during the day?

The last shot in this ep. is a classic!

Interesting thought, MT. I know that some fans refer to Anthony George as "Burke Lite," and it's easy to see why. Try as I might, I find it much more difficult to picture AG's Burke as someone who did hard time and then roamed the world to make his fortune. AG's Burke might have, say, gotten a traffic ticket and gone to Augusta.

Yes, KLS is doing a very good job.

Maggie wanders downstairs just after Sam leaves, and Willie orders her to go back to her room. But she doesn't want to stay there. And small wonder, too--here’s not a book to be seen in Josette’s room and certainly no TV or even needlework to help her pass the time.

Welcome, Old House basement!

The time is out of joint: A distant clock chimes slowly as Willie opens the louver doors to the left of the fireplace. (The “official” entrance to the cellar, the metal door, hasn’t yet been installed to the right of the fireplace.) The clock continues striking as the camera pans from left to right, giving us our first look at the basement of the Old House: We see a door off to the left (remember this for later!), then the main room, then-- a coffin set on a plinth in the middle of the room. The back wall has three arched niches and a staircase in front of it. The clock is still striking as Willie slowly, fearfully descends the stairs, careful to keep as far away from the coffin as he can. As the clock strikes nineteen (I counted!), for the first time ever, we see the coffin lid slowly rise to reveal the vampire, awakening to another night.

After Barnabas (still in the coffin!) flings Willie aside for the umpteenth time, the camera stays on Willie, crouched on the floor, while noises suggest that JF is getting out of the coffin. Eventually he must have learned to do it nearly silently.

FAREWELL, HUGH FRANKLIN!

Now both Garners have left the show, never to be seen again.

Roger complains about having to help with the filing--a woman's job--because all the secretaries are afraid to come to work, what with the mysterious attacks.

Poor Elizabeth looks exhausted with having to deal with both Jason and Carolyn.