Kudos to CB in a great death scene! Although it must be said that CB blinks ever so slightly when Charity gazes down at her.
Charity veers wildly between her obsession with the students' grades and her obsession with fancy clothes and jewels.
Great stuff from DB and HAA too. A possible answer to your question, MT, is that now that the murder is done, Evan has to hypnotize Tim into forgetting so that he (T.) doesn't implicate Evan and/or Gregory.
Charity has dumped Tim, but she's still jealous of Rachel's beauty and takes advantage of the situation to implicate Rachel--even though she and Rachel were arguing even as Minerva lay dying.
At first, Rachel doesn't believe that Tim isn't guilty but she tells him to wait for her at the Peabody farm and she'll try to bring him some money.
The next scene makes me wonder exactly what Evan was thinking when he menaced Rachel: Miss Shaw! Evan calls out, then fixes the error by continuing, If Shaw is in there, you can be charged as an accomplice to murder! Tim opens the window, and Rachel lets him out. I was getting ready for bed! she calls out to Evan, shuts the window and lets Evan in. Evan charges in, gun drawn. I don’t know what you’re doing here! Rachel exclaims. Yes you do, he retorts as he searches her closet without so much as a by-you-leave. What happened? she asks. Tell me, he practically shouts at her, where is Tim Shaw? Did he go through the window, running through the woods? Why would Tim be going anywhere? Rachel asks. Evan throws the gun on the bed and twists her arm painfully. Don’t you lie to me! he snarls. You’re hurting me! Rachel protests. He keeps his hold on her as he repeats, Where is Tim? I don’t know--you’re hurting me! she protests again. You have the perfect face for it, Evan sneers, those great, innocent eyes. Tell me where he is! I know you’re lying! You’re glad Mrs. Trask is dead! Rachel is still genuinely shocked, but Evan only sneers, You do _that_ very well, too. Where is he? Did you and Shaw plan it together? Tim didn’t plan anything, Rachel insists loyally, and if Mrs. Trask is dead, Tim had nothing to do with it. What are you doing here? she asks him suddenly. You’re not a friend of anyone here. What are you implying? Evan asks. I don't know, she replies. It's just strange you're here. But Evan has his alibi prepared: I came for the translation I commissioned Tim to do. Where is he? he asks again. He takes her by the arms and orders her, Look into my eyes! I don’t want to! Rachel wails. Let me go! I don’t know where Tim is! You do! he insists. He shakes her roughly, then grabs her by the throat, but all the while Rachel continues to insist that she doesn’t know where Tim is or what’s happened. Let me alone! she wails. Evan leans close to her and says, You’re lying to me. Shall I get rough with you? I can, you know. Or would you prefer to wait until after you’ve lied to the police? he asks savagely. Would you prefer the Reverend Trask and I to question you _then_? [His menacing is very well done and made me wonder if Evan was an S&M freak in addition to being an amateur satanist!] He releases her, then takes the key to her room. Don’t worry, he assures her sarcastically as he locks her in (completely forgetting the gun on the bed). You won’t be alone for long. Rachel (also completely forgetting the gun on the bed) sinks down on the bed in despair, murmuring Tim’s name helplessly.
Tim arrives at the Peabody Farm and finds a cellar door that seems to open directly into the earth. [The house in which Tim takes refuge appeared in the present time as Vicki's beloved "Seaview," which Elizabeth wanted to sell to Burke.] He opens the cellar door; terrified, he descends into total darkness. He feels his way along the wall until he finds a stump of red candle and some matches on a box. He lights the candle and surveys the dark, dank room. To his amazement (but not ours), he discovers a coffin in the middle of the room. He puts the candle down, moves the box closer and lifts the coffin lid....
