If Elizabeth only knew about the wedding that's being planned at the Old House, she'd think things weren't so bad!
KLS does a good job of showing Maggie's struggle to remember and survive. Somehow she has acquired a manicure featuring frosted white nail polish, the height of fashion--in 1968.
I suspect that the necklace Barnabas gives Maggie has a second life as "Naomi's Necklace" in HoDS.
Willie does his best to apologize to Maggie. He tells her he can't help defending Barnabas. Later, when Willie comes to take her to Barnabas, he advises her, Give in--it will be easier. Then Maggie Evans will really be gone, she comments sadly. Tomorrow you won’t care, is all the comfort he can think of to give her as he leads her out.
Willie's fine workmanship on the second coffin contributes to Barn's good mood, because Barn generously offers to make Willie a vampire. Willie very sensibly turns him down. It’s just as well: The neighborhood seems barely able to support just one vampire, let alone two, and surely even the good people of Collinsport would start to notice if three vampires were preying on them. And anyway, who'd watch them all during the day?
The last shot in this ep. is a classic!