They don't seem to be very hearty New Year revelers.
Can you blame them? It is reasonable for them to assume that the New Year won't bring them anything good, because no New Year ever does on Dark Shadows.
Joanna walked back into Collinwood as if she owned the place, and resumed being the line-flubbing Glinda the Good Witch. And then she tried to get Daphne to sing "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" over Samantha's death - or something like that. She's very weird.
They didn't go to much trouble to make dead Samantha look realistically rock-ravaged, but I suppose there wasn't time for that, and anyway, we got the picture. She was satisfyingly limp when Gerard held her. Golly, what a thing to bring in the front door! ("It followed me home, Ma!") Couldn't Gerard have brought her in the back door, or left her out on the terrace to dry?
We see our first PT1840(1) scene outside of the Room, during which RT Daphne was just patiently standing there watching Julia Collins watch Kendrick and Sam out the window, I guess...
Yeah, that was cheating, but never mind, Julia with the binoculars made me laugh. I daresay she can carry them around without any trouble in that tent of a garment she's wearing, and haul them out whenever she espies a situation in the distance that demands her attention.