Another episode packed with goodies!
Wonderful scene with Barnabas and Willie conversing over Jason's dead body. Even though Jason tried to kill him, Willie is horrified that he's dead and recalls that they were very good friends. Barnabas talks at great length (for him) about someone he loved dearly who died young.
After Barnabas helps Willie carry off a corpse for the first and last time, Sarah retrieves Jason's cap from the floor--and places it atop Barnabas's coffin. She must be utterly bewildered by the things she's seen Barnabas do. Although she can't understand why he's doing them, surely she knows they're evil. Now that she has seen the worst that Barnabas can do, how will she respond?
Drs. Hoffman and Woodard have a territorial dispute as to whose patient Maggie is. Dave shows Maggie her father's drawing. Sarah! Maggie says delightedly--even though she never learned Sarah's name. But things go rapidly downhill from there as Maggie remembers the rhyme that Sarah taught her to help her escape, and then "London Bridge." Julia is furious, but Dave thinks that finding Sarah could blow the whole case wide open!
Another great scene in the mausoleum as Willie buries Jason in the secret room. Now he has even more reason to hate this place.
In the outer room, Willie reads off the names on the plaques and Barnabas describes them briefly. Willie recalls seeing the portrait of Naomi--it was when he was looking through the books in the study at Collinwood, hoping to find jewels.
Barnabas acknowledges for the first time that Sarah is his sister. Willie asks if she was the friend he was talking about in the basement, but Barnabas answers only, Perhaps. But when Willie muses, It's strange to think about you caring about someone, Barnabas slams the door by replying, We've lingered here long enough.
After her "big brother" (as Sarah first described him when she met Maggie) and Willie leave, poor Sarah emerges from the shadows with her doll. Sitting on her own tomb and cradling the doll in her arms, she rocks back and forth slowly, consoling herself. How sad.
