Yes, try that one.  I wouldn't wait, and good luck to you.

Everyone lied in this episode!  Beth, Edward, Rachel (her "not look to the past" speech makes me wonder if she has become corrupted), and I think even Magda.

I can't help but think that Barnabas has greatly influenced these events.  Previously, he told Magda that Rachel is in danger from his own formidable enemy and assured Magda that she wasn't, and he asked her for an amulet to protect against a witch.  Then he told Rachel that the amulet would protect her from harm.  Next, Magda saw Rachel wearing it.  So (I think) Magda's entire reading was a sham based on this information.  By her reaction, we can tell she had no sense that anybody was in the tower room until Rachel told her.  She tells Rachel the amulet will protect her against a "she" who wants her, which I took to mean that Magda assumed it was Barnabas' enemy-- the witch-- that is in there.  So she doesn't think she's putting Rachel in harm's way, but does think she's making herself (once again) indispensable as a prognosticator.  We also have Rachel believing that whoever is in the tower cannot hurt her.  Once again, Barnabas has inadvertently (?) caused the past to change.

Doesn't the fact that Jenny (we heard her name a couple of eps ago) escaped mean that Beth really didn't lock the door?  We didn't see her leaving the tower, so I'm imagining that the only explanation Beth could give was that she was exhausted (everyone wants to stop the poor dear from going to bed and actually sleeping ), and that the only reason Judith didn't fire her was that she would be nearly impossible to replace.  It looked like Edward had the fire under control before Beth arrived, so I'm not sure I get how she saved his bacon.

I don't know that Edward hates Jenny because of her past so much as he's angry at having to deal with the high costs of the whole mess [spoiler]left behind by Quentin.[/spoiler] I don't just mean financially, but that lives and reputations are at stake.  (With Edward, it may be hard to say which of the 3 is more important to him. )  Nice red herrings by the writers with the mystery, btw.  I suspect it's the reason they recently had Barnabas ask Edward point blank about his wife-- so we could see and remember his angry reaction.  Even with Edward's vague question about his brother, clues to the "secret behind the locked door" seem to be pointing elsewhere.  Bravo!

it doesn't always pay to know every secret,

OMG, yes!  What bugs me most about Rachel is her sense of entitlement.  You're the hired help, sweetie; the family does not owe you an explanation.

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LOL, Lydia, and thanks. 

I can't decide if Barnabas had any changes made to the will when he had the chance.  It seems strange that Edith would give nothing to the person she planned to entrust (maybe "burden" is a better word) with the secret.  OTOH, Quentin didn't seem at all surprised that Judith inherited everything, so perhaps that was Edith's intent all along.  Then again, Q. seemed awfully pleased to learn he couldn't be tossed out of the house, so was that in the original will?  I'm so confused!!

But regardless of whether or not this was the will that Quentin stole, you'd think he would be running to Sandor or Evan to find out what the heck happened instead of making a beeline for the women.  Oh wait, this is Quentin we're talking about...

It used to seem strange to me that he was so accepting that his plan failed, but now I get it.  Had he been named Master of Collinwood, it would have been too hard for everyone to believe.  Yet now he gets to live there regardless of his behavior, and with Edward powerless and Jamison set to inherit everything, he still has a crack at some of the money since he's the boy's favorite.

Until Barnabas meets someone, that is the original timeline for that particular character, unless he indirectly causes a change.

Interesting.  Then he potentially has changed a lot in his short time there.  But DID he cause Edith to die prematurely?  Did Edward learn the secret?  How'd the gypsies manage to stay on? 

I guess we're supposed to think that if Barnabas hadn't turned Rachel's head, she would have succumbed to Quentin's charms as we recently saw in Maggie's dream.  (IIRC, she dreamed she was with Quentin in Rachel's bedroom [liz's in present time] but felt nervous that "he" [Edward?] might catch them.)

OMG, in the redo, Barnabas took the time to casually place his cloak and cane on the coat rack before heading downstairs (he he still had them on him when he opened the coffin in the previous ep) and then...

he had to tend to Rachel,

...and THEN we're shown the identical sight of daybreak that prompted Barnabas to leave the cottage in #712.  So now we know why Barnabas took his sweet time getting to the coffin-- time really does stand still at Collinwood!

and then he had to talk to Magda.

And he offered to see Rachel back to Collinwood!!!
 

Magda opened his coffin and saw that he wasn't in it.  Was she planning to have a little chat with him if he was?

I'm going to guess she had seen him with Rachel and went downstairs to pace a bit (cuz how else did she get down to the basement without passing him?), then checked to see if maybe he had materialized in the coffin while she waited.  Or something.
 
Rachel must be very taken with Barnabas to agree to always wear that big ugly necklace that goes with... nothing.

LOL

I for one am thrilled that Angelique has returned. She's an evil little w(b)itch, but damned if she doesn't make things interesting.

Oh, me too.  Quentin's description of her as "our beautiful black-hearted child of the angels" was great.  Love the brown dress, too.

Quentin and Angelique seem to be cut from the same cloth-- both had "larger expectations" than what they were given in life, and they're beautiful and clever and learned to take what they wanted by whatever force necessary.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that Angelique saw in Evan Hanley Nicholas Blair's twin, just as she saw Rachel Josette's twin. I think she WANTED an excuse to choke him, and he certainly obliged.

Maybe she just really didn't like lawyers? 

Seriously, the scene IS fun to watch.  But I don't recall any character saying that Evan and Nicholas have the same face, whereas the resemblances between other characters throughout the series got mentioned even in cases when they also ended up not meaning anything-- [spoiler]Rachel and Josette (because I don't believe a soul can be reincarnated into two persons at the same time),[/spoiler] Matthew Morgan and Ben, Ned Stuart and Jeff/Peter, Sebastian Shaw and Jeb.  So maybe we're not supposed to notice that Evan and Nicholas could be twins.

Rachel, ... Her only crime was to look like Josette which is all the reason Angelique needed to hurt her.

If Angelique's reason for going after Rachel was that she was a Josette look-a-like, I don't think there would have been any need for the scene in which Angie witnessed Rachel receiving the music box from Barnabas.  So I blame Barnabas, who seems to keep forgetting why he's in 1897 and apparently can't stop himself from indiscriminately changing future events.  And by giving the music box away, how does he even know it will get back to where it's supposed to be in 1967?  <sigh>