...two fingers and a latex glove!!"

...if she knew what happened to the Entenmann's chocolate chip angel food cake Mrs. Johnson had brought home from Shop 'n Save?!!"

...who drank the can of Moxie they bought for David for his birthday?!!"

...do backflips through the fire hoops she had set up on the lawn outside!!"

Carolyn tries to convince Barn not to kill Julia, geez Carolyn, make up your mind! All of a sudden now, Carolyn is unsure of herself and things in general. I wonder if this is Barn’s influence waning & Carolyn needs another bite. Barn warns her not to let her emotions get the best of her and pretty much puts her in her place with a somewhat veiled threat. This was a great moment in the scene – not in the way of it being thrilling or well acted, but it quickly answered a lot of questions the scene brought up for me. As a viewer, I appreciate that.

Did you notice Barn’s face when Carolyn kind of chastised him for letting Julia keep notes? It was so subtle, but so perfect. Frid is usually good for that and it’s one of the things I always watch for and really appreciate re: his performances.

OMGoodness, I loved Maggie’s yellow coat! And KLS looked absolutely splendid in it. I really liked the scene with Maggie and Carolyn outside the front doors of Collinwood. I think I may be tired of seeing the same three characters so much lately. Seeing Maggie was like a breath of fresh air. I don’t see the importance of the scene but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I was a good scene – Maggie picking up on the change in Carolyn and sensing the similarities with her own experience but not being able to put a conscious finger on them. And the howling dogs seemed subtly chilling in context.

I also very much enjoyed seeing Mrs. J. and I really liked how she was written in this episode, as being motherly towards Carolyn. It appears that the change in Carolyn is not going unnoticed by anyone, not mom, uncle, Vicki, Joe, Maggie, or even the maid.

The scene with Frid & Hall at the Old House was interesting and fun in the sense of Jules putting Barn in his place, lol. I always eat that stuff up. I mean nobody holds sway over Barn like Jules does – I LOVE IT!!! It always throws me off a little when Barn bumbles around, like in this scene, trying to keep Julia at the Old House. I guess I’ll never get used to vampires losing their composure.

I’m sure it’s been said/noted/explained before but hearing Julia’s explanation of the meaning of the howling dogs to Carolyn seems to have put to rest a lingering puzzlement (that's been in my mind) once and for all. Well, sort of – Now I want to know if these are supernatural ghost dogs or if they are the neighborhood dogs of Collinsport (which would seem absurd considering the house sits on a hill away from town…right)?

I think this will be the last time Carolyn & Barn will be able to pull the wool over Julia’s eyes, don’t you? Things ought to get really interesting for Julia (and us) now that Jules has busted Carolyn searching her room (I guess if there’s a secret panel in Julia’s room, Carolyn doesn’t know about it) and called out Barn on his trying to keep her at the Old house for Carolyn’s benefit.

No big Friday cliffhanger but a decent episode. Anyone notice that Julia’s room has been rearranged? 

Yes, Carolyn is much more a classic vampire victim than the others.

Back to normal. This ep's color video quality is very good.

In the opening scene we see a studio light above the Old House set.

Carolyn is losing her trancelike state and acting a bit more like her old self.

It's kinda nice to see Liz & Roger together, getting along, taking care of things. I really enjoy the rare moments of normalcy we get to see from time to time.

It's funny, now that it's fall and everyone is wearing jackets, there's no fire in the fireplace at Collinwood.

What's the name for the material of Julia's jacket?

Nice outdoor daytime shot of the Old House.

The sporadic tinkling of the crystals is kinda corny whenever we see Vicki in her hypnotic trance. I can see the tinkling at the beginning of the hypnosis but not on and off throughout.

Carolyn spills the beans to Barn about Julia's manipulation of Vicki and smiles while asking if he is going to kill her for it. Weird.

So far it's been a shaky week for viewing. Two B&W eps and this ep has audio & video glitches and is of poor color quality. At least this is the case with MPI VHS volume 25. (It's cover is that of the aged Barn in mid-pounce of Carolyn.) I have no complaints about the storyline though. Things are progressing nicely.

I don't think I've ever seen Vicki look more drab than in this episode, and this overlit ep and washed out print isn't helping any.

The acting was good and nothing over the top or beyond reason happened for me to question. The ep had a good flow. For me, right now everything is building up to Julia's exposure to Barnabas and what will happen as a result.

I couldn't help but giggle thinking that Vicki's hand would end up looking like the bouquet of yellow roses Julia brought to Vicki a few eps ago, that died after Barn's touch. I keep picturing Cassandra's 'old' hand, lol.

Oh, I noticed four small horizontal panes of glass over the Old House front doors. I've never noticed that before -- have they always been there?

This is petty and incidental, but I wish Barn's closing line would have ended with the words "death warrant", instead of "death certificate". The whole last line sounded awkward to me.

LOL, Magnus, I keep thinking the same thing. Barn does seem to have an unlimited cash flow.