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« on: July 20, 2015, 01:25:20 PM »
Frid VO! Jeb is now manipulating disloyal Phillip by threatening Megan's life, without coming out and saying it. What if Megan heard? Jeb would not kill his mommy slave, and most devoted and ruthless worshipper, perhaps counting Bruno. Only Megan is not expendable. Phillip should realize, but Jeb acts on impulse and thinks he needs no one, so he can't be totally sure I suppose.
Jeb's at Collinwood, giving his performance of an innocent bystander part for Carolyn, telling her Phillip killed everybody everywhere who's dead, just about. The polite and meek sure get up to some bad stuff, don't they... I guess Jeb has now totally cooled off about revenge murdering Quentin, after the distracting Maggie/Davenport thing. Q gets right to work becoming a fresh annoyance for Jeb, though, making an excellent point about Phillip's not possibly having had anything to do with killing Paul Stoddard, not unless went around covering people with noxious slime and scaring people to death. (He didn't really die of fright, but go ahead and use that story, Q...)
Good episode. I like Quentin in this one. He's engaged and clever and assertive. This is how good guy Quentin could have been. Too much of the time in the present, he seems "extra", just hanging around, without any place there. They should have devoted time to grounding him, giving him a life, a purpose, showing his new path forming. That sort of thing is an excellent way of using up all those hours of air time you have to fill, though it may seem easier to push plot and scary events every day. Scary stuff resonates much better when happening to real, fleshed-out people, Dan.
Carolyn doesn't suspect Jeb at all. She should be suspicious immediately, as Jeb rushes in at just that moment about another murder. What about her loyalty to Phillip and belief in him? Guess he's just not enough of a bad boy to trust implicitly. Maybe her reason is struggling to yell sense at her, in her dreams, because her Jeb dream has become recurring.
Barnabas gets the Box! Locks don't exist in Collinsport! If I'm at a cairn about to beat a box into splinters with my silver wolf's head cane, and I speak from long experience, and I see a bat come out, I whap that bat but good with my cane, which I'm already about to strike with anyway. But no, threat appears and he freezes. Deer in headlights. Bites. End. Very, very sad.