515 - Opening was completely different from yesterday: Willie stumbles much further into the room and Maggie tells him Joe shouldn't have beaten him up, no matter how jealous he was. Willie asks her to drive him back to the Old House, and she point outs he's still bleeding and she'll fix him up first. Adam appears in the doorway, slamming the door closed. He doesn't grab Maggie, as he did at the end of the last ep, but instead grabs Willie, and, screaming, "BAD! KILL!", whacks Willie across the face. Maggie pummels Adam's back and he grabs her, making her scream at the top of her lungs.
Maggie demands to be let go and Willie encourages him to do so--she never did anything to you. She tells Adam he's hurting her shoulders. "Hurt!" he repeats, and releases her. Willie tells Maggie to get to the phone, but she's afraid as Adam caresses her hair and stares at her (loves long hair on the ladies)! She backs up to the phone and dials the operator. Adam simply watches, but then he yells "No" and grabs the phone from her, pushing her away. Willie screams for Adam to look at her. "Willie hurt Adam!" the big man says, and Willie tells him he didn't mean to. Maggie tells Adam Willie is already hurt-look at the bruises. Quickly, frantically, Willie tells Adam he can help him-get him food like he did the last time. Adam needs food, the big lug concedes, and Willie tells him to stay right there and he'll get him food. Willie shouts to Maggie to get some jewelry, give it to Adam. Willie holds up the sparkling earrings for Adam's inspection. A car pulls in. It's Sam, and Maggie tells him not to come in. There's a madman here, she explains, a maniac--Willie is here with her, and the madman tried to kill Willie. Sam asks for a description of the man, and he assures her Adam won't hurt him. He calls Adam, who comes forward eagerly. Maggie gets upset at this scenario, fearing for Sam's life, and she picks up a hammer and attacks Adam with it. "You don't know what you're doing!" she screams, and Adam, hurt once more, attacks Maggie as the blind Sam cries out, "What's happening?"
Events spiral out of control as Sam orders Maggie behind him. He holds up his cane and reminds Adam he's his friend. Friend, repeats Adam. Don't harm me, says Sam, I wouldn't harm you. Adam is getting calmer.
"Maggie is my friend," says Sam, wanting Adam to repeat it, but Adam insists, "KILL MAGGIE!" He walks behind Sam to get at Maggie and Sam strikes him with his cane. Adam breaks the cane in half and he and Sam struggle. Adam slams some wooden framing at Sam, sending him unconscious to the ground. Maggie screams, "POP!" and Adam, realizing he's done a very bad thing, runs from the house as she sinks to her knees to tend to her downed father.
Back in the woods, Adam runs from the terrible things he's done, frightened. Maggie hovers over Sam, sobbing. Willie tells her the doctor will be there in a few moments. She worries that her father hasn't come to, opened his eyes or moved, and she's terrified. Why hasn't be come to? He's dying, she cries, my father's dying.
Adam sinks down on a huge rock, berating himself, "Adam hurt friend!"
At nearly two o'clock, Maggie and Willie return from the hospital. Willie suggests she get some sleep, but she can't. He gives her pills the doctor gave her (everyone is sedative happy in this town, huh?), but she just wants to be with Pop. There nothing you can do, says Willie. Maggie fears Sam won't come out of the coma and will die during the night. He encourages her to take the pills and assure herself Sam will be all right. She agrees to the sedative. He says he'll come back tomorrow and bids her good night. She asks him who the maniac was, and he says he doesn't know anything more about him than she did. He knows his name, but that's all, he's seen him around, he says.
She doesn't believe him, he knows too much-offered him food; Willie could calm him, and Adam feared Willie hurting him. He came to the Old House a few times, admits Willie, to the door, wanting food, so he fed him. One day, he asked for food and Willie refused, and he and the man fought. He hasn't seen him again until tonight. Maggie suspects he's hiding something, and means to find out more--what about Barnabas? He's never seen him, lies Willie, but Maggie wants to question Barnabas. Barnabas left town, says Willie, and no one knows where he is. Maggie is hysterical, she needs to know more about the man so he can be punished! Maggie sternly adds that, tomorrow morning, she'll have the same questions and will demands better answers then. She sits down on the sofa, her face filled with misery.
Old House - We see the portrait of Barnabas hanging above the mantle. Julia stands there, thinking how silent the house is. Where could Barnabas be? Where are you, she asks, something must have happened to you, something terrible-but what? Julia hears the sound of a woman sobbing--where is the sound coming from? She goes to investigate-the basement! She heads down there, where, huddled against the wall in which Barnabas has been entombed, she sees Josette's ghost, in her wedding finery, sobbing. Julia gasps, her hand to her mouth, and the ghost disappears before her eyes.
Julia, still recovering from her shock, stands upstairs in the drawing room, hand to her throat, listening to the ghost crying. Willie bursts in and tells a distraught Julia what's happened with Adam-not only is he alive, he might have killed Sam Evans, who is now in the hospital. Willie says they must find him before the cops do; Adam knows more words now and can incriminate them. Julia is clueless in this, she doesn't know what to do. If only Barnabas were here! (Julia, what happened to the intelligent, fast-thinking woman you used to be?) Willie says they must handle this on their own--they must kill Adam. Julia agrees. Willie tells her he hasn't heard or seen Barnabas in quite a while-has he disappeared into thin air? Where is he? Julia knows something terrible has happened to him. The ghostly sobbing fills the room, and Willie asks, in consternation, who that is. They go downstairs, and once they get down there, the crying stops. Julia knows it's Josette, sobbing for Barnabas. She describes the ghost, who she says was grieving, and there's only one reason she would grieve-for Barnabas. But why here? Julia points to the wall against which Josette was sobbing, and Willie, terrified, says he wants to get out of here, he's spooked. Julia asks when Willie bricked up the wall, and he wildly says he didn't. Trask! realizes Julia, he wanted revenge, but against Barnabas, not Angelique. Trask did to Barnabas what Barnabas had done to him-walled him up behind there! This horrifies Julia. He's been there for three days and is probably dead. Get some tools, she orders Willie, they must break down that wall! Willie hurries up to do as he was told.
NOTES: Love the fact that Josette still looks out for Barnabas! Whatta gal, true love after death and beyond!
Are they too late? Can a man survive without food, air or water for 3 days?
Will Sam survive? Will Adam? How can Julia so easily do away with him after she was pushing Barnabas to let him live when he was first "born"?
516 - Willie, who doesn't understand what's going on, starts chipping away at the mortar with a hammer and awl. Julia stands back, does nothing, and keeps yelling at him to hurry. Willie suddenly stops and grabs his neck. He felt a strange draft. Julia insists he continue, but he stops again, shivering with fear-someone touched me, he says. A chair falls over nearby, then a box. Willie freaks out. Trask's laughter fills the basement; he appears and tells them to leave or they will die. The apparition disappears. Julia begs the spirit of Trask to listen to her, appealing to him as a man of God not to murder. If he must destroy, he should destroy evil. Apparently interested, he reappears.
Julia begs him to go after the witch, who has survived through time--Cassandra Collins--destroy her! Trask disappears, on a new crusade now. The feeling of his spirit is gone. Satisfied, Julia gets back to the task at hand and urges Willie back to the wall. He's stunned, but with much urging, he starts chipping again. He removes a brick and looks in; and he yells that he sees Barnabas. After an opening is made, Julia checks Barnabas' pulse--miraculously, he has a slight heartbeat. Willie starts to untie his wrists while the Julia gets a cot.
At Collinwood, Elizabeth comes downstairs and approaches Cassandra in the drawing room. Why are you doing this to me? she begs. Cassandra plays innocent. Liz can't sleep, she only thinks of death, and it's because of Cassandra. The witch forces Liz to look into her eyes. After she's hypnotized, Cassandra gives her a sherry and says she hasn't had it bad yet--the worst is yet to come. She addresses Liz as Naomi--remember her--wife of Joshua Collins. Liz agrees and drinks the sherry. Where's Joshua? Where are Sarah and Barnabas, my children? asks a frantic Liz/Naomi, who expresses a terrible feeling that someone close to her is going to die tonight.
Back at the basement of the Old House, Barnabas lies unconscious on a cot. Julia and Willie watch over him.
When Barnabas slowly wakens, Willie tells him that the Julia figured out where he was. Barnabas thanks her for saving his life. Willie explains to him that the ghost of Trask was here. Barnabas doesn't think he'll be safe as long as Trask is here. Julia tells him how Trask left and is probably now after Cassandra. Barnabas wonders if his power is as strong as hers--will he be able to destroy her?
Cassandra is still plying Liz/Naomi with sherry and promising her a terrible ordeal. The matriarch wants Joshua--he will protect her! He's not here, says Cassandra, and even if he were, he couldn't help. The witch assures her that someone will die soon--perhaps not tonight, but soon. Cassandra goes to the door and beckons Liz/Naomi to follow her. They are going to the mausoleum to see her grave. Liz/Naomi tries to refuse but Cassandra's power is stronger than the other woman's will.
At the mausoleum, Cassandra shows Liz/Naomi the graves of Joshua, Sarah and Barnabas--they are already dead, and soon she will join them.
Liz/Naomi claims it isn't true--Joshua and her family are still alive. She is forced to examine the plaques. Just Joshua and Sarah's markers are shown. When Cassandra asks Liz/Naomi to look at her own plaque, she shines the flashlight on a stone that's been covered with a piece of paper. Nothing is inscribed in stone because you haven't died yet, the witch tells the other woman--but you will soon. Liz/Naomi goes to the stone and leans against the paper. Cassandra keeps babbling about death being inevitable and how her family is waiting for her. Liz has a moment of clarity and declares she is not Naomi Collins, although she doesn't know who she is--but Naomi died centuries ago. If that were true, her remains would be in the casket, right? asks Cassandra. She forces the woman to look into an empty casket. Liz/Naomi runs out the door, repeating, "No!" Cassandra starts to have a good laugh but is interrupted by Trask. He approaches her with a torch, claiming he will destroy her--the witch--by fire. She orders him back into the grave, but he says he isn't going until she's gone. He grins as he holds the torch toward her and shouts, "Burn, witch, burn!" In a very cheesy special effect, it appears that Cassandra is burnt in a white jet of fire.
NOTES: Could it be this easy? Has Trask really done away with Cassangelique? She really is a nasty bitch here, torturing poor Liz, making her think she's Naomi, urging her to drink, telling her someone isBurning going to die. And all because Liz witnessed something intimate between Tony and Cassandra! What will happen to Liz if Cassangelique is, indeed, vanquished?
It seems almost impossible that Barnabas survived his Cask of Amontillado excursion, but perhaps Josette somehow gave him that extra oomph he needed to make it. Good thing Julia figured out what the ghost was trying to tell her, huh?
Love, Robin
