Discuss - Ep #0124

[Watching Project]

Robservations #124

[MagnusTrask]

Moltke goes bumpety with knee upon director's slate.   Nice moment, David panicking and fleeing without saving Vicki.   Good economic argument from Sam about not interfering with his bender investment.   We get the Phoenix story.   This changes DS just by itself.   I wish I had more to say about that, right now.

David knowing about Vicki, lying, escaping from him, pushes Matthew over the edge.   "Got to something... now."   If he only knew how receptive David would have been to a soft-spoken "explanation" from "nice" Matthew for his reasons for holding her... David himself was trying to justify it, right to Vicki's face.   I think Matthew's lost his ability to play the nice guy, as the madness takes him over.

[DarkLady]

Another symptom of Matthew's insanity: Once again he must be carrying the water in his pockets as he returns from the well.

Meanwhile, we get the the tale of the phoenix.

Later, in public at the coffee shop where anyone could hear them, Maggie takes Sam to task for his latest bender and suggests he needs to start over in a new place, say, Phoenix, Arizona.

[alwaysdavid]

David has found Vickie but then preceeds to sit around and talk and then they get into their ususal big sister little brother arguments while Matthew could be back at any minute and kill them both!  Vickie can just not shut up to save her life.  David then can't untie her and she begins to talk about the sheriff and David runs off. 
The lady in the suit is eating in the cafe and asks about Roger, reacts to Burkes name and that he is in the hotel's so called presidental suite.  She lights a cigarette adding to her smoking good looks.
Sam comes in and seems to know the lady. 

[Lydia]

Vickie can just not shut up to save her life.

Literally.

Today the mysterious stranger's name was definitely in the credits, as opposed to yesterday, and it was OK today, because we learned enough her about to make learning her actual identity fun.  But did Laura never come back to Collinsport in all the years that she lived with Roger and David in Augusta?  Not even for a big Collinwood Christmas with Elizabeth roasting a turkey killed by Matthew and vegetables grown right there on the home farm?  Maybe Laura was driven to Collinwood and never left the house - but the impression she's giving now is that she just hasn't been back at all.

I was thinking that Maggie was pumping Laura for information a little bit too hard, and then Laura shut her down.  Nice job by Kathryn Leigh Scott.

David Henesy seemed sort of uncomfortable expressing David Collins's fear and uncertainty today.  Or maybe it was just his coat making him stiff.  And then when David lied to Matthew, I thought, "David's a better liar than that.  We know he is."  Oh, well, I suppose the idea was for it to be believable that Matthew caught him in his lie - but I think it would have been more characteristic of Matthew to decide David was lying even if David was exquisitely convincing.  Matthew doesn't trust anybody anymore.