Golly, Barnabas has turned into such a lazy vampire! Once upon a time he broke into Dr. Woodard's office to steal Willie's blood sample. Bent some iron bars or some such thing. If he wanted to, he could smash Tony Peterson's safe, surely - but no, he must not dirty his lily-white hands with physical work, so he makes Carolyn go get the notebook.
And he couldn't be bothered to keep up the pretense that he cared for Julia; he was having too much fun sneering at her, so he lost a lot of traction. Julia knows he was lying about caring for her, so she knows he was lying about being himself haunted by Dave Woodard.
I started to think: "What would Joshua think of his lazy son?" and it turned into, "Thank heaven Joshua never became a vampire! Nobody would escape from his industrious clutches!"
Physical details...As mscbryk noted the other day in the discussion of episode 357, Tony's apartment is the oft-used Room 24. One thing I love about Dark Shadows is that the places are interesting and individual. The rooms at Collinwood are different from the rooms at the Old House, and the Evans cottage has the huge window and the never-changing paintings to show that an artist lives there. Room 24 is the exception that proves the rule. I think it is designed to be boring. The walls are boring. The doors are boring. Or is it just a Pavlovian reaction on my part? “Room 24 – yawn.” Actually, there was a nice-looking sofa in Tony's apartment. It looked new, or else newly-upholstered. Some sort of flowered pattern. Where did Tony get the money for it?
