Why did Chris give Sabrina the key to his apartment?  It really makes me wonder about him.  He claims to be so horror-stricken at what he has done - but until Barnabas came along, he wasn't making much of an effort to stop it from happening.  It seems as though something very strange is going on in his subconscious.

Denial?

This was the first time we heard Quentin's evil laughter!

I'm noticing things on this viewing that I hadn't before.  One of them is the buildup of Quentin's laughter.

When the kids first locate his room and skeleton, the laughter they hear is creepy but subdued.  But by the time they return to his room following Madame Findley's death (with David's attitude in need of some of Quentin's special adjustment), his laughter has a bit more vigor.  And in this ep, his laugh has even more volume and gusto, and of course by next Friday's cliffhanger we'll get the all-out enthusiastic laughing that is featured in MPI's Scariest Moments video.  This certainly supports the theory some fans have expressed in this WP that Quentin becomes stronger as this Turn of the Screw storyline builds to its climax.

It's JMO, but I think we've heard Quentin's evil laughter before this point, though not at the volume or strength heard in this episode.

LOL, got it now. 

That's cool about your mom, fridfreak.  And I think your communication with your daughters is admirable.

What wonderful comparisons, Barnabas'Bride!  Did DS even have a satisfactory female role model for its time?  While watching the series originally as the feminist-in-training that was pre-teen Midnite, I rooted for Julia to get a life, hated Angelique for her handling of rejection, and kept hoping that 1796 would be re-re-rewritten to give Josette a happier ending.  Yet, knowing that Quentin was the quintessential bad boy and a heartbreaker, I wanted him SO bad.  Go figure.

DS ... has such "love" cross over into actual obsession--a la "You are Josette" and Angelique's whole history with Barnabas, etc.  Frankly, the former is a lot less disturbing.

I'm curious why you feel that Angelique's obsession is a lot more disturbing than his.  If judging by results alone, then that might be the case since Barnabas got over his obsession sooner and suffered greater losses (though one could make a case that the latter was often due to the curse rather than to Angelique's machinations).  And his opportunities to murder the objects of his obsessive thinking were lost to circumstances beyond his control.  Both B & A became obsessed as defense mechanisms, each blamed the other for their emotional pain, and both affected the suffering of others through their special powers as a result-- Angelique targeted his loved ones, and consider what he did to Maggie before setting his sights on Vicki, while who knows what might have happened to Burke had he remained Barn's competition.  I find their actual obsessions equally disturbing, just as, in the real world, a man's obsession in which denial plays a major part is just as scary, perhaps even moreso, than a woman's.  And to get back to the comparison with today's parents, many are choosing to teach their sons and daughters that a case of obsession by either sex can turn dangerous.

as MB and I know all too well from the number of times a Googlebot meets up with our security, their bots return to check sites quite often.

There's no longer a Google alert for the Empire site.

Yep, the browser identified malicious trojans and a worm on the site.  You might want to run a virus scan to be on the safe side.  Do it for me, pretty please?

"Afterlife"-- cool, thanks!