My impressions of episode #217, again I noticed things I don't remember seeing in this episode since the first 8 videos are edited.
Willie was thrashing around on his bed, wishing the night would never come. Jason comes in, Willie asks the time, and when he learns it's not yet dusk, he feels he has a little time left. Jason wants to get the doctor but Willie refuses (does he think the doctor will know a vampire bite when he sees one?) Jason looks under the bandage (this time Willie lets him) and sees that it's just a little cut, not puncture holes like we see later on. But he observes that the arm is gray and looks as if it's been drained of blood. I wonder how he arrived at that. He wants to know how Willie got the cut, he says he got into a fight with a guy in a bar who used a razor on him (??) and the cut was deeper than it looked, therefore he lost a lot of blood. (who just carries razors around to cut people?)
Jason wanted to know why Willie left without the money, Willie says he just had to get away. It was strange that Jason said he was going to the drawing room to get the money from Liz and Willie couldn't wait that long for it.
Downstairs Carolyn explains to Vicki that Willie is back and he's very sick. Vicki is uncomfortable with him being there but since he's sick they feel he won't try to hurt them. Carolyn explains that Willie seems like a different person, he's quiet and passive, as if he'd been beaten badly. Jason comes down and explains about Willie suffering from blood loss. Carolyn asks if maybe he's faking, Jason assures her he is not faking, but he refuses to have a doctor. He says if Willie gets worse he will get a doctor whether Willie wants one or not. He asks Vicki to go ask Mrs. Johnson to prepare a tray for Willie and she leaves to do so, then Carolyn asks Jason where Willie had been. Jason said that Willie had refused to tell him. Carolyn asks what he'd meant the other night when he said Carolyn's questions would get her mother in trouble. He wouldn't answer, just said he was her mother's protector (HA!) He's her friend, he wants to be Carolyn's friend as well since she's a lovely girl (I did not like the sound of this at all!) Carolyn bluntly tells him she knows her mother's trouble is because of him and she wishes he'd never came or brought Willie. She walks out and Jason looks ticked.
Willie is still thrashing on his bed upstairs and begging for the night not to come "Oh please, it can't get dark again, I'm scared!" (Poor sweetie...) Vicki brings the tray in and puts it down, Willie asks what time it is, is it dark? It is still not quite dark. Willie thinks he has a little time so he gets up and puts his jacket on, but Jason comes in and tells him he's sick, he's not going anywhere, he removes Willie's jacket and orders him back to bed. Willie says he has to leave this house, no one wants him there. Willie claims he wants to sleep and then pretends to be asleep. Jason says he's gonna take care of Willie whether Willie wants him to or not! Then he leaves and Willie gets up again. He looks out the window and sees it's full dark now. He hears the heartbeat. He nods in resignation. "I hear ya, I'm comin'..." He stumbles down the stairs and nearly falls, but as he is making his way out the door Jason sees him and tries to stop him. Willie says again that he must get out of the house. Jason says nothing doing and forces him back inside. Willie pretends to comply but as they reach the base of the stairs he pushes Jason aside and escapes. We hear the sound of a car driving away. This confused me since I didn't know Jason and Willie had vehicles. If they did, they only had one, so when Jason followed him, he must have driven another car, he couldn't have followed Willie on foot. I am assuming that Jason must've forced Liz to buy both him and Willie vehicles, either this or Jason "borrowed" someone else's car.
Willie goes to the mausoleum, and lets himself in, then goes into the secret room. We do not see Barnabas who has to be in there waiting for him. Jason searches around the graveyard and then enters the first room of the mausoleum, but finds nothing and leaves.
The camera focuses on the secret room from which we hear the heartbeat.
Poor Willie, he's in there servicing his master, probably with his wrist again or receiving orders about a calf. Incredible acting by JK here, the fear is palpable! These scenes seem so real, I have to remind myself this isn't really happening.
Alondra
