In this episode, Barnabas says that there are certain requirements to his existence, and one of them is that there must be a Josette. Very strange. I don't remember it ever getting stated again, so I guess that it was just a lead-in to the message for the eavesdropping Jason that Barnabas was the madman who kidnapped Maggie. Still, I would like to know what it meant. At this point we are assuming, I think, that Barnabas made a pact with the devil in order to become a vampire. Did the devil tell him, "There's just one condition..."?
Jason just gets better and better. He has been done out of his latest get-rich-quick scheme, but he's still in there pitching. It's a pity he has to get out of town. I'd like to see him going to Sam Evans and offering to sell him information about what really happened to poor, dead Maggie, and he could have some more fun predicting disaster to Vicky - who rises to the bait so easily that it's pathetic. "What do you mean? What do you know?" Oh, gosh, she sure needs to learn how to say: "That's nice. Goodbye."
I liked the background for the closing credits - the chair with the indented cushion, which should be in the Smithsonian along with Archie Bunker's chair, and the jewel "chest", which, as I've mentioned before, always looks pretty skimpy to me. If Willie dipped both hands into that for Jason, there would be nothing left for Barnabas.
