It occurred to me, as I watched today's episode, that it would have been fun to have John Karlen play Paul Stoddard in the flashback. True, they hadn't yet gotten into the habit of having one actor play multiple characters, and the audience might have been confused, but who cares? Slap a moustache on Karlen, slick down his hair, throw some incredibly 40s clothes on him - and the inescapable conclusion is that Jason always goes after the same type of guy.
Reading IluvBarnabas's post, I started wondering - contrary person that I am - how much truth there was in the story that Elizabeth told. I'm sure Liz was telling the story as she remembered it - but she's spent 20 years torturing herself for murdering Paul Stoddard, so perhaps she has inflated Paul's bad points, and made additions to the confrontation without realizing it. Maybe Carolyn's name was never even mentioned.
And then Jason disposed of the evidence, and went off, and waited 20 years to re-appear and blackmail Liz. Interesting. I guess he always had the idea of blackmail in his mind, and that was why he made sure Liz saw the dirty basement floor that proved that he buried Paul. Wandering off the subject: I believe there is a Beatles song in which, if you play it backwards, you can hear John or George or Ringo saying, "Paul is dead. I buried him." Which song was it? Anyway, 20 years ago Jason saw this as a nice nest egg waiting for him when he felt like cashing in on it. I wonder what other eggs he had buried around the world.
I took another look at Liz's wedding dress today. Very weird - those huge spots. I figure it had to be shapeless so that it would be easy to slip off for the flashback. But spots?