Interesting article on Baal here. He goes back a long, long way.

Louis Edmonds was fabulous--poor Daniel, already mad and now broken by Angelique as well. Harriet made a truly terrifying ghost. Maybe Daniel only thought she was unfaithful. Didn't he go off the deep end when Joshua told him what was behind the secret panel of the mausoleum?

Loved the little spat between Julia and Angelique--only the first skirmish!

Joshua and Naomi did pooh-pooh all that talk of witchcraft, but as we've seen time and time again, it doesn't pay to be a Rationalist.

What fun to see those dresses! Liz did wear a short dress for her wedding to Jason, if I remember right. And it was one of those awful floating caftan things that were popular at the time. Maybe she didn't care what she wore, and that's why it was so ugly! Vicki's dress was just as bad, but maybe she was trying for solidarity with Liz.

My favorite JB costumes were from 1795, especially that pearl-gray satin gown with sort of flame-colored velvet. But the 1897 and 1840 numbers were nice too.

Julia fumbled her visit to Daphne.

True, but I blame the writers, who were trying to figure out some semi-plausible way to get Daphne hired as the new governess but also knew that they had to include some semi-plausible way for Barn and Julia to at least try to prevent it. But would you believe a total stranger who tried to convince you that taking a job you hadn't even been offered would lead to death and disaster in about 120 years? But it was disappointing to see Julia so uncharacterstically at a loss for the right words. Remember this is the same woman who knew how to talk fast--and persuasively--when Barnabas came to her room at Collinwood so long ago, hell bent on strangling this pesky modern female who had discovered the truth about him!

Anyone else notice how Quentin tacitly acknowledges Barn's innate leadership when he asks him, What are we going to do, Barnabas? From now on, Barn is the unofficial head (as it were) of the Anti-No-Headed League.

Not only is Daphne almost certainly not qualified to be a governess, it didn't even occur to Quentin to ask about her background, experience in the governessing line, references, etc. I guess in the Collinwood universe, that doesn't matter.

Barn also had spiffy plum-colored coats in 1795 and 1897, but this one is equally spiffy!

Loved seeing Willie figure out how to find the tomb. Sometimes his street smarts come in handy in very surprising ways.

And the cookie is a classic New York black-and-white!

Love the scene between Quentin and Samantha. Such passion! Neither of them can do anything by halves, it seems.

Poor Hortense. If she were on Star Trek, she'd definitely be wearing a red jersey.

And how DOES Gabriel get up and down those stairs?

I love love love Flora's cheerful greeting to Trask: Oh, has someone died?

Good observation about Trask, Magnus. Although dead people are the only things he has power over, he probably considers it an asset in the marriage stakes that he will never run out of customers. And who knows? Maybe he has a profitable sideline in finding out secrets about his customers that their families would never want revealed.