In the opening voiceover of this episode, Vicki says she arrived at Collinwood months ago--but in real time less than two weeks have passed since her arrival. We're up to day 11 or so, right?

It would have been fun to see Roger taken away in handcuffs or something.

It's strange that no one in this maritime community seems to realize that in the interval between Roger’s finding Bill Malloy’s body and Vicki’s finding THE PEN on the beach, the tide has come in and out several times!

Carolyn is in tears as she assures Vicki that she's known her uncle Roger all her life, and that he would never try to kill her. But didn't Roger and David live off in Augusta or somewhere?

Roger gets one of the best episode-ending lines ever as he snarls to the sheriff, I just can't take any more! Someone may want to do away with our little governess. But that someone is not I!

I think it was an apron--at least that's what my old notes say. If so, maybe it was a metaphor for how Roger is financially dependent on Elizabeth, tied to her apron strings, so to speak. 

Good one, MT!  But it does make for one of the few cliffhanger endings we've had so far.

While waiting for Roger to come home, the Mistress of Collinwood and CEO of Collins Enterprises is sitting on the bench in the foyer, mending an apron, probably her own apron at that--a nice touch.

I loved Paula Lawrence and I wish they had done more with her.

Thanks, Janet--it's been a while since anyone called me a chick! 

Bummer! I for one will miss you and hope you'll be back on the WP soon.

When Vicki spots The Duplicate Pen, she looks right at some contracts on the table. If she had studied them for even a moment she might have found out some very interesting things about Burke's strategy!

Sometimes poor Elizabeth must feel like she's the only adult at Collinwood.

I liked her comeback at the end of the episode, when Roger still suspects that Vicki is spilling all the Collins family secrets to Burke. What might she be telling him now? Roger asks. She says, I don't know, but I do know that Vicki can't tell Burke anything I wouldn't tell him myself--could you say the same?