I saw the scene where Jason meets Barnabas for the first time and when he introduces himself, Barnabas looks like he doesn't want to speak to him.  I was wondering if Barnabas knew all about the Liz/Jason connection from Willie (who would have told him why he was living at Collinwood as well as those living there).

I have finished watching Collector's Series 5 and have been enjoying the Laura story more this time then the first time I saw it on the Sci Fi Channel.  Others have commented that it was actually DS at it's very best and while I don't entirely agree with that, this is actually a unique time in DS:

- The focus is on characters independent of the rest of the series who aren't referred to much afterwards.
- Carolyn is the mistress of the house, changing the dynamic of the setting
- The writers are using every character (except Maggie, who it's odd to see just on the sidelines this time) organically in the plot.
- All the characters are aware something is wrong and know/suspect that one character is the center of it.
- There is a "team-up" feel to the story as everyone wants to get the bad guy.
- A live outdoor scene showing a cactus!
- The only morgue scene on the show

What Twilight Zone episode was he on?

Cavada Humphrey would also have made an excellent Magda or another gypsy woman.

[spoiler]At this point I doubt the writers even thought of Trask being tied into the Quentin storyline.

Ignoring the writer's mistake of people remembering the ghost of Quentin during Leviathan (IMHO, it was the Leviathan's MAKING them remember so they could not trust Quentin as he wasn't under their influence)...in the altered 1968, did David & Amy even get to that anteroom?  There wouldnt have been any ghost to talk to her via the telephone. Though by the summer of 1970, Quentin is living there so obviously the skeleton had been discovered when Barnabas & Julia were in Parallel Time.  I could imagine the look on Quentin's face when he saw the skeleton and finally confirmed what he suspected his sister Judith had done!  This was a scene they really should have shown![/spoiler]

It would have been nice to see the caretaker again, but it wouldn't have been the original one as DC fired him during the writers strike.

I am surprised they never looked for Beth's grave, no mention was ever made of it at all.

Was this to have happened instead of Barnabas & Kitty going back to 1796?

I had heard that DC's plan during the Leviathan story was to bring Vicki back by having Barnabas go back in time and save her again, a replay of 1796. But negotiations with AM fell thru and that plot was abandoned.