What an episode! I truly believed that Barnabas's love could bring Josette back from the grave. The final scene was the flip side of an amazing scene from a while back, when Barnabas told Josette that she must leave, and she refused to do so. This time, it was Josette telling Barnabas that they could not be together, and Barnabas was the one who refused to believe it. I don't blame him. "The dead must rest." I don't understand it: the dead Josette is so different from the living Josette. But I believed in the change, even though I don't understand it.
Josette's mother must have died quite young, and Natalie must have been a mother to Josette since before Josette could remember. Poor, poor Natalie.
Barnabas's ring is still missing. If Josette had not lost the ring, might his vampire power over her have continued so that she would not have feared to become a vampire herself, and so that she would not have gone off of Widows Hill?