HAA VO. I liked Magda's eye roll, at VFG attempting to butter her up with flattery. She recognizes the mark on Julianka... on what, a button? Is the false hand the same hand we see doing things? I thought it was. Was Thayer actually cutting his face for real, with the knife? VFG is Petofi. He doesn't want Quentin to have an easy cure, because Petofi paid such a huge price.
Evan doing anything but relaxing, at home. Quentin drops by, knocks three times, Evan thinks it might be the Hand knocking! It comes out what Tim's been up to... he's skipped town with the Hand. I wonder what sent the writers down this road, possible Thayer was unavailable (again), so the source of his search becomes totally unavailable while he and his character rest up? Or they ran out of ways for the good and bad guys to vie over the Hand? I don't mean to say it all doesn't work-- it does work. DS might sometimes use happenstance to create these complicated, unpredictable, interwoven story threads.
Nice Petofi/Jamison talk about adulthood and not having to do what others say. I'm still waiting for that kind of adulthood to happen to me... sounds nice... It shows too briefly another interesting side of him, one that can connect with a child better than with an adult. I wonder if I might have liked the boy Andreas.
I'm not as sure as before that the mass-possession and the "lies falling away" spell was forced and contrived. He possesses Jamison, or leaves a chunk of his mind in Jamison. It's unclear what possession is or means, on Dark Shadows.