Oh la la!! Lydia, you just need to look more closely! 

Yes, I love that scene at the end where Julia suddenly gets all polite on Kendrick and it doesn't work anyway--because she smiles at him, and Julia Collins never smiles at anybody.

Although Julia has her faults, I thought it was very brave of her to wait with the unconscious James/Morgan while Carrie (in her cute little nightgown and nightcap) goes to get help. Brutus could have rematerialized at any moment. But if J/M locked Carrie in her own room, why didn't she get dressed while she was in there?

It's odd that Julia or Wille never asked him how he was turned, it was never really hinted at prior to 1795

Oh, I'm sure they asked--but whether or how Barn answered is another story altogether! I'm sure he kept as much of it as possible from them for as long as possible.

I'm pretty sure that some time after the 1795 story, as Barnabas grew to trust and rely on Julia more, he told her little bits of the story, but never the complete version. At some point, there's a scene with the two of them having a confidential conversation in the mausoleum. (Well, doesn't EVERYBODY have their confidential conversations in a mausoleum??) I don't remember any of the dialogue, but as the scene opens, we can infer from what Julia says that Barnabas has finally told her the whole story of Josette and Angelique and how A. made him a vampire. I wish I could remember what else was happening at the time. Maybe it was when Barn was trying to decide whether to go through with Dr. Lang's experiment. Or maybe it was when Cassandra appeared on the scene and he recognized her. Of course Julia would want to know why he reacted so strongly. I suppose it's safe to say that by that time Willie was also aware of most of the story, if not all the details.

In PT, the upstairs parlor (I love that name!) seems to be a sort of "boys' common room" where the brothers hang out and discuss-- well, whatever they have to discuss. Mostly it seems to involve drinking. I also love that little pop-up liquor cabinet, which we've seen before, I think in 1970 PT.

Maybe Morgan figured that he ought to do some exploring while he was still alive and sane--and maybe get some kind of inside information that might help him break the curse. (Or maybe he was just hoping to find a chamber pot!) So much of the room's terror is its very arbitrariness. It kills some Collinses but merely drives other mad.

The scenes with Melanie and Kendrick are so sweet. Kendrick is so charming when he makes sure Melanie knows he plans on coming back, then they kiss good-night, just to keep in practice, I guess. He may have no idea what's going on, but I'm sure Julia has no idea that he's asking Melanie about her background either--something that I'm sure will prove revolutionary.

Poor Catherine is so ecstatic that Morgan is still alive that she doesn't even notice that he doesn't return her embrace--but Julia and Quentin do. And what an amazing declaration at the end!

My goof, Lydia! I thought you were imagining a scenario in which the boy was KNOWN to be Bramwell's son. But of course if Catherine did succeed in covering that up, then your scenario works out perfectly.

And yes, it would have been fun to see some mid-1850s PT storm and stress!

And baby makes three! I love Bramwell's reaction to his impending fatherhood. Once he gets over being surprised, he does a complete 180! Any anger he felt toward Catherine is obliterated by her announcement--at least until she insists on being in the lottery.

And I love Quentin in that dishy blue jacket! And of course poor Lieutenant James must have known which side his bread is buttered on, let alone who provides both bread and butter: "The word of a Collins" indeed!

Strangely enough, although Quentin seemed VERY interested in Daphne, he didn't react at all when she up and married Bramwell. What's wrong with this picture???

James Forsythe, Brutus Collins, Amanda Collins--what's going on here? More clues are forthcoming, I'm sure.

The hawk-eyed Julia is starting to be suspicious of Catherine, especially that fainting episode. Funny, though, Julia seems never to have imagined that anybody would stand up to her. She's got poor Melanie so thoroughly cowed that Catherine's independent spirit comes as a complete surprise.

Gosh, well, thanks! *blush* I have to confess that I didn't know the song at all, but I'm certainly flattered to be so distinguished by my cousins on this board. *preens just a teeny bit*