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« on: September 02, 2014, 07:19:39 PM »
Everything about 1897 from this point on seems to be about damage control. "This is your moment" Barnabas says to Trask, as he disappears. Later as Ed and Greg start the search, Trask hits Magda. He loves hitting women in the name of God. That hit is another moment where right and wrong get all tangled up. It also apparently turns Magda so against Trask that she sides with Barnabas over him, for good. It's a bad explanation, but it will have to do. Magda's standing by Barnabas's side through all this is one of those plot expediencies that undermine DS storylines. Sometimes they just say "no" to certain plot complications because they've got too much on their plates (writers, producers).
Good Barnabas fade-in, into compartment behind bookcase. He finds a cross on the coffin. What if Barnabas stood really far away (which he can't, not there) and threw things at the coffin to knock the cross off? Would he freeze in his tracks as he tried to throw? I wouldn't think so. Magda could have removed it. (Chains might be holding cross down... but if they weren't?)
Barnabas must arrange for a new coffin for the first time in his death-life, I guess. Charity is sent for grave-earth from the Old House basement, via Maggie's escape tunnel, I guess. Ed discovers her, end.
I missed Ed and Greg gloating. "Reticule", my word for the day. Is that the crate with melted candle on it from Dirk's lair, on a tour of all vamp hangouts in the area?