As Trask told the court about writing Vicky's initials on the ground during the exorcism, I thought how surprised he would have been if, instead of Victoria Winters, a VW beetle had come tootling out of the Old House.
Abigail has given lots of hearsay evidence at the trial, but she was an eyewitness to Joshua's appearance in a puff of smoke in Vicky's room, and that definitely doesn't sound good for Vicky. The trial as a whole is very frustrating because of its irregularity and because of the idiocy of various parties, but it is also very interesting. My immediate response is always, "Witches don't exist, but you can't really blame people for believing in them when there are no scientific explanations for various natural phenomena." But in the Dark Shadows world, witches do exist, and a trial for witchcraft is a reasonable course of action. It's just that they're trying the wrong person. And I wonder: could anybody ever manage to get Angelique arrested, tried, and convicted for her crimes? It makes me very glad that I don't believe in witchcraft.
