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« on: July 31, 2013, 05:12:00 PM »
The red brick wall gives way to reveal Trask’s skeleton - scotch taped cranium and all. Stokes thinks Trask may be inhabiting Tony’s body and calls him forth with the promise of finding the witch that eluded him before his death. During this discovery, Lang’s taped music starts playing upstairs. Julia impulses Adam’s name aloud and heads upstairs with Stokes hot on her tail. They find David playing with the tape recorder. Julia gets rid of him, telling him to take the tape player with him. Stokes reminds Julia that David best not tell Cass that he saw him there and Julia asks David to keep their secret.
Stokes then questions Julia about Adam, he tells her he’s met Adam, but before she is forced into a corner, Tony calls to them, sending the pair hurriedly back to the basement. Tony shows them that the skeleton is gone. Stokes, fascinated, calls forth Trask but to no avail. Julia leaves with a frazzled Tony. Alone, Stokes hears Trask sigh and before following J & T up and out, again tries to convince Trask to materialize with the promise of atonement and revenge. (As smart and intuitive as he’s proven to be thus far, Stokes isn’t thinking this through as one might hope or expect.)
Next morning, David greets Julia in the foyer of the Great House. He tells her that Barn is to return by noon. Julia leaves for the Old House.
Barn returns to find a note left by Julia, leaving it unread because of a noise he goes to investigate in the basement. Expecting Adam, he instead finds a fleshed out & vengeful Trask, who with just a slight touch of self righteousness on the shoulder renders Barnabas unconscious. Meanwhile, Julia comes back to find her note unopened and decides to leave it there thinking Barnabas has not yet returned.
The episode ends with an unconscious Barnabas bound behind the death wall and a vengefully laughing Trask.
Stokes is one smart cookie. Or maybe he is average and everybody else is stupid. The whole Trask thing does not impress me at all. You know, the disappearing skeleton, inhabiting Tony’s body but not making itself known, etc. And I am not even sure why they are doing this at all? Hall seems to be getting her mojo back but she’s not there yet. Thayer is still too loud. Henesy gets another paycheck. It’s not important but we never see Julia leave the note for Barnabas - it’s just there. I’m guessing now that the tape player is at the Great House - Cassandra is going to happen upon Lang’s Message. The copyright has been reading 1967 for a few episodes now. DCP is a f’n mess.