Does the Old House staircase here look only about half as steep as it ordinarily does?  I wonder what storage room Magda takes Jamofi and Aristede to, where the empty coffin is.  They then find the famous time-travelling Collins family history from 1965.  Charity has a dream with Jamison, in which Quentin betrays her for a new, unknown woman... Nice yellow robe-dress (1897, so robe).  In real life, Charity finds Quentin in the woods right after a werewolf outing, with a bloody and dying Tessie, the woman from the dream I think.  It's a bit too real for comfort when she comes to, and only then feels the pain from the fatal mauling.  She's played by Deborah Loomis.  So there really are Loomises.   

Mr. Frid's second VO?  Welcome, Lair.  Tate is revealed as a Petofi associate, who owes his career and talent to Petofi, and is expected to pay a price eventually... which may be his soul, but I have to think they threw that in before they had actually figured out what Petofi wants and needs from people.  I'm not sure what he'd do with someone's soul.  Maybe he's thinking of opening up a branch Hell.

What are Aristede and Tate arguing about?  I can't tell.  I decided they might be having a contrived, unnecessary argument to reveal certain information to viewers this way.  We learn that Petofi lost his Hand in 1797.  If he doesn't get it back by 100 years exactly, he dies, and he's already starting to die.  He's in suspended animation.  If he does get it back, he's immortal. 

Why?  We know the Hand was cut off as the price for Julianka's mother having cured him of werewolfism.  Does it really seem likely that they would add all this stuff that might actually work out very well for him?  The gypsies, or one gypsy, took pity on him, but none of them really liked him, I would guess.  Are spells pre-written, with parts that cannot be changed?  Were they stuck with all these conditions that the gypsy in question had no choice about, if they wanted to perform the cure/spell?

Maybe this business we're hearing about now isn't connected to the gypsies, but to someone he went to after the Hand was taken.  Why would anyone include those conditions, though?  It occurred to me that [spoiler] Afterlife Guy, who intercepted Amanda Harris on her way down off the bridge in NYC, might have intercepted the Count too, and arranged all this.  It sounds like a similar deal.[/spoiler]

Aristede waits.  I amused self by assuming he was waiting to use the john, because the Count is sleepy from his self-induced trance, and only has one hand to do his business with.  He then hears Jamofi telepathically... so Aristede was waiting and waiting impatiently for the guy in the next room, or wherever Petofi is cocooned, to make mental contact with him, through a boy he's possessing a couple miles away or so.  Only on DS.

Magda has now assumed Julia's role as selfless voluntary helper.  Poor Magda.  She's received her "Truth", which is that she's to blame for everything.  With all these truths coming out, I wonder, do we all have these hidden dreads and guilts?

 

Jamofi has a nice notebook, in which he keeps a check list for his Truth campaign.  Welcome home, Greg Trask!!  His seeing Pansy for the first time couldn't help but be good.  The screen goes sepia for a few seconds... then Greg slaps that sepia right out of Charipansy.  How many slaps is that for GT now? 

Evan... playing Scrabble?!  I may or may not Google for when Scrabble came to be... Barnabas pumps Evan for data on Tim and the Hand.  At least Evan's one guy Barnabas can interrogate without the cops being called or something... Trask comes, Barnabas vanishes.  I always liked or despised, not sure which, Trask's line justifying ruling Collinwood, saying he can't "leave the lunatics to run the asylum, the animals to run the zoo."  People like that do manage to find perfect sounding pretexts which make their selfish actions sound laudible.  Probably written by V Welles.

Trask also leaves, by the door...  Then a trance comes over Evan.  He is summoned by... the Green Hornet!  That effect was everywhere on TV then.  Mr. Spock had it on his bridge console...  The Green Hornet wasn't the first to use it, but they had it in their series' opening theme, though.  It's Jamofi calling, from his cell.  Not with his cell, from it.  Haw haw.  I kill me.  He can do so much by remote control, yet can't stop a guy from grabbing him and locking him up.  Count Jamison smooches the smooch of ultimate devastating truth upon Hanley.  As a hologram.  Cause he's actually in the Old House. 

So... his truth is also Trask's.  Evan delivers a signed confession to murder, and as Trask's lawyer, advises him to sign also, which he almost does.  It's fun seeing Hanley being this earnest about it all.  Jerry Lacey nearly lets the paper get away from him, but snatches it out of the air just in time, as Greg goes ga ga over its contents.  At some point, Trask says to Hanley, "I swear, you'll hang for worse than murder!!"  Eh?  Anyway, welcome, murder confession!!

 

Welcome, Ed the butler!  I think this is my favorite thing Louis ever did.  Apparently Petofi considers Edward's Truth to be that he doesn't deserve to be a master, and instead is more like this other servant of Lord Hampshire's, possibly also named Edward. 

Welcome, Tate.  The part raises Roger Davis up a bit, and this is his best character, but Roger Davis probably brought the part down.  It would have been nice to have a new character actor with more personality.

Edward hasn't quite been put into the Tower Room has he-- maybe a room on the way to it?   I think Beth and Judith went down the corridor a bit more after it made a right turn, to deal with Jenny.  Quentin's usually alert for ironies, but expresses no awareness of any irony in his having just banished Edward, just as Quentin had said was Edward's habit.  Was Edward likely to go on a mad rampage of dusting?

Talking to Quentin in the hall after, Charity goes from zero to sixty, starting out friendly, starting to flirt, then slapping Quentin for a minimal remark about not having a drink with her right then, and shouting that the imaginary woman he was going to out to see, she assumed, was a slut!  She's as pent-up as I am...  Something was definitely building in her, and it could have been messier than the way it did eventually happen.  At least [spoiler] as Pansy, the repression was gotten out of the way in no time flat, without all the troublesome finding oneself usually needed to transform a personality...[/spoiler]

Barnabas appears in Q's anteroom, which seems to be all there is of his room, now.  They discuss Jenny.  Welcome Pansity!!  The change happens between a call to the sanitarium and the callback!  Petofi never met or heard of Pansy Faye... maybe he felt her spirit hovering around still, and gave it a new home.  She mind-reads Quentin, revealing that he helped kill Carl... [spoiler] a revelation that I think is never heard about again, from Pansity.[/spoiler]  I guess that was Q's moment of truth.

Barnabas grabs Petofison and takes him through the secret passage.  Apparently J/P has some knowledge of spells and can use a few, but can't fend off a kidnapper any better than a boy can.

 

he realized that getting to heaven by raising a little hell wasn't in the Bible

Good ones, domrog.   

on some top secret business that's my business to find out about   

Thank you!