Though how do we know she's wearing underpants under that shroud. Normally a body wouldn't be buried with underwear if they're buried in a shroud.

(I like that you actually know that information...)

a 666 tattoo

congealed Rice Krispies and molasses

DS's sudden reanimation and revitalization continues.  Everything is hightened, as things clearly are building to a head, but we don't know why, or what form it will take.  We have little new information, and Quentin seems to be in a position to stop us from getting it, but instead of his relaxing and feeling more secure, he's getting angrier and more vengeful, because the living family had the gall even to try to bring his secret out into the open, I guess.  Quentin's gearing up for a rampage of some sort.

As we see a redo of yesterday's cliffhanger, this time Abe goes on talking as Q takes the receiver and listens.  It's all very well done.  Real dread is being generated.  I'm no longer sort of plodding along watching good old DS for the sake of the WP; it's getting gripping now.  Q backs David up the stairs, obviously about to take some terrible action against him... cut to DS opening theme... cut to Q and David inexplicably back in the Drawing Room.  Amy enters.  David and Amy then have a great scene in which Henesy and Nickerson do real adult-level frantic acting, getting across well how everything's spinning out of control.

What one has to guess is that if Quentin's secret is exposed, he'll retaliate by killing everybody, though he may be planning to do that eventually anyway.  Something like that.

We're suddenly getting much livelier dialogue, not just plot.  Everything with Abe makes the whole situation with Quentin come alive.  It's all inspired, finally.  The two sets of glasses business was inventive.  Ezra doesn't catch on so fast, because he can't see the ghost well, and the whole scene builds slowly because of this, in a terrible but great way.  We cut away, cut back, and Q is looking over the ledger after the murder that we don't know has happened yet, but how could it not have...!  Obviously, the only way Q could be silently looking the book over on the other side of the room, uninterrupted, is if he'd just snuffed out Ezra's fragile life.  Very very well and subtly done.

"Vigoda" in credits this time.  Directed by Lela Swift, written by Sam Hall.  Shot of Q's desk, end credits.

I almost got in on the ground floor on this site then, except there were no new memberships taken then.  My nouveau DS fandom was triggered by getting most of DS in 2002 at one shot cheaply, that year.

I suppose that had to be intentional.  She's playing a role in the plot much larger than her size.

(Thanks very much, MB!)

Congrats on all those curses, whatever they really are, UR!