I've got to defend my region on the subject of New England witchhunts: the Salem business was an aberration, not the norm. It took place during a rather unsettled time in Massachusetts history, and furthermore, it happened in 1692 – a hundred years before the 1795 storyline.
But of course I agree about Vicky. She's starting to look as though she has a death wish There is exactly one person in the whole province of Maine who is on her side, and today she did her level best to drive him away. Even if Abigail doesn't get her burned at the stake, Vicky still needs to earn a living. It's very unlikely that she ever got any wilderness survival training at the foundling home to help her if she gets thrown out of Collinwood.
I liked Josette's lines at the beginning of the episode. She didn't use contractions: she said "I cannot" instead of "I can't" and she said "I do not" instead of "I don't." Kathryn Leigh Scott delivered the lines with notable clarity, so that, even without a French accent, the impression came across that English was a foreign language to her, and that she was making an effort to speak correctly. Then the contractions came in - "I don't understand" - and the illusion was lost.
I'm amazed that Barnabas survived Angelique's efforts to untie the knot around the toy soldier's neck. When you're untying a tight square knot, the way to do it is to tighten the inner knot, which loosens the outer knot. No wonder Barnabas thought he was seconds away from death just before the pain stopped!
Is Barnabas's bed the same one that Angelique Stokes Collins used in parallel time?
