RECAPS OF LAST WEEK'S EPISODES
EPISODE 15 (released 8/8/11)
Roger is looking for his car keys, but no amount of scary incidental music is able to make this moment seem tense. Vicki enters, offering to help look for them. Roger again tells her to go back to New York, but she feels sure they aren't there.
Oh, by the way, she saw Burke in the garage, looking at Roger's car. Roger says it probably doesn't mean anything. After all, you know how padded these shows are. Liz tries to talk him out of going to the Blue Whale to meet Burke, but Roger explains he's got to, and it's a Lincoln/Ford's Theater kind of thing.
David tells Vicki he hates Roger and hopes he dies. A scene later, Vicki asks if he really meant it. Yep, he did. (There's your padding). David says Roger must hate him because he's not a nice kid. (That reasoning seems sound enough). Vicki retaliates with another Foundling Home story about a girl who thought everyone hated her, and pushed them all away, not realizing that the person who really hated her was herself! Unfortunately, the girl in Vicki's story solved her problem by sharing her Barbies and helping the other girls with their makeup, which doesn't prove too useful for David. David, always practical, says that that girl should have just put all her enemies up against the wall and shot them. Vicki says maybe that will really happen, if Sam Peckinpah ever directs a Dark Shadows movie.
Liz again tries to talk Roger out of meeting Burke at the Blue Whale, but Roger goes all John Wayne and says a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Liz wonders what on earth this could have to do with him.
Roger goes out to his car and starts down the long winding road, but before he gets halfway down, he runs off the road. His last thought before the crash is how ironic it is that this should happen the one time he got behind the wheel sober.
EPISODE 16 (released 8/8/11)
A filler episode in which Vicki and Liz fret about Roger at Collinwood, while Burke, Joe and Carolyn wait for him at the Blue Whale.
Roger wasn't hurt too badly in the accident, but Liz questions whether the accident really was an accident. After all, Burke visits the house for the first time in 10 years, asks Roger to use his car that night, and the brakes fail as soon as he does. Hmmm... Vicki says it must have been an accident, otherwise they couldn't call it an accident.
While Vicki is engaging in circular logic, Joe is looking like a square at the Whale, as Carolyn flirts with Burke and ignores him. Privately, Carolyn confesses to Burke her desire to be clubbed over the head, and dragged away from Collinwood by a dashing suitor, who will take charge of her and order her to do all the things she would have done anyway, even without orders.
Matthew tells Liz that he checked Roger's brakes two days ago, so if they failed now, they must have been tampered with. Either that, or the guy who checked them was an incompetent boob. Naturally, Matthew favors the first theory. Liz doesn't want the press making too much of this, and tells Matthew and Vicki that if the paparazzi come calling, to play dumb. Vicki questions whether she'll be able to do this, but Liz has something stuck in her throat, or something, and is unable to answer.
Joe puts his foot down, and insists that they go to that movie, but Carolyn invites Burke along! Unwilling to be a third wheel on his own date, Joe storms out to go get drunk, forgetting that he was in a bar already. (By this time, it's become clear that, although the Blue Whale jukebox has a couple of dozen buttons, it only has four actual songs).
Vicki lets slip to Liz that Carolyn went to the Blue Whale, and admits she knew that Burke would be there. Liz is about to go club Carolyn over the head and drag her back to Collinwood, until she remembers that she hasn't left the house in 18 years.
