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« on: October 01, 2015, 06:42:17 AM »
"Alexis" is suddenly there. It's almost as if no one was ever told she had an identical twin sister. If no one was, of course we have to think this is Angelique. Maybe PT has even worse "cousin-from-England" syndrome, where once someone shows up with a family face, all skepticism goes out the window. Quentin might have known-- he sounds as if he might have. Hoffman is stunned, but then also sounds as if she had known Alexis existed, before now. But then, of course, she lets A/A know she doesn't buy it for a minute. All confusing.
WAS an Alexis established in her family tree, as far as Collinwood was concerned, or not? Though it's not out of the question that Angelique would have hidden the existence of another "her", since she thinks/thought she is/was so incredibly special and unique. But, Collinsport is her home town. The town would know.
Quentin's syndrome is a common one, but not to this degree-- He acts as if it's ridiculous for anyone not to know what he knows, even when the other person had no way on earth of knowing. He's confined in a straitjacket of his own perceptions. To Maggie about the shock of Alexis: "Why'd you run away?!" Q might even be thinking-- "What more do I have to do? I told Maggie that Angelique couldn't come back from the dead. Case closed. Yet... all she has to see is her previously unknown, unmentioned-by-me identical twin sister chatting away in the Drawing Room, and her imagination runs wild! Women, GEEZ!!"
We now go back to Nicholas's basement, seemingly, the spiral staircase that he led Carolyn down, so she could help him summon The Most Evil Woman in the World. The camera backs away to reveal that this is just a corner of Cyrus Longworth's basement laboratory. I am tempted to think that this is Nick's house in PT. Welcome, Cyrus's lab... Cyrus and Chris talk. We learn that the work's gone on over a year, and that Angelique was a patron. What was she going to do, with CL's [spoiler]good-evil split? Ang/Alexis have that split already!! And here's another set of PT opposites within PT...[/spoiler]
In my notes: "Lara sounds like Glinda, Wiz of Oz."
Hoffman thinks Alexis made up being an identical twin? She can't, reasons given above. Do identical twins pop up out of nowhere traditionally on soaps? I'm not a soap fan, so I don't know.
Ooh, nice moment in dark corridor, when Hoffman passes by Maggie's room, or more interesting if true, just a room Maggie happened to be in, and stopped, aware of Maggie as she came out the door, with eyes in the back of her head. Hoffman never turns around. She just says, "The young lady is staying". Bye Maggie. By Violet Welles.