This has to have been one of the best episodes in the whole series. David's expression was chilling as he looked at his father lying unconscious at the bottom of the stairs. But then, it wasn't David who was looking.
I'm wondering if Louis Edmonds did one of his wonderful recoveries today. Roger had just finished helping David take the toybox down the stairs, and David had said that he and Amy were taking it outside to play. Roger said something like, "You've never taken your toybox outside to play in all your born days!" To me, it sounded as though he had slipped up a bit and "in all your born days" was a substitution - more like southern Louis Edmonds than Maine mainstay Roger Collins.
I enjoyed the conversations between Elizabeth and Roger - nice, normal conversations. Vicky is a rich man's problem at the moment. What do you do when a cherished family retainer is no longer capable of doing his work? You can't fire the retainer; that just wouldn't be noblesse oblige. In the easiest case, the retainer is old enough so that you can give him a pension along with maybe living quarters somewhere or other. Sometimes, even though the retainer is old, he refuses to retire, and things get difficult. And then we've got Vicky, who is not old enough to be gently retired from service, and who would be desperately hurt if somebody were hired to take over her duties while she grieves over her dear departed husband. Will she ever grit her teeth, stiffen her spine, and take up her life again?
As for lori54's spoilery question...[spoiler]I looked at that maroon vest on the skeleton and thought to myself, "Trask would never wear that." Trask might want to wear it, but he was too cautious. So this skeleton does seem to have been Quentin, which is a pity, because I like the idea of Quentin's angry spirit being cooped up with Trask's decomposing body for 70 years. I figure that after Barnabas messed around with 1897 and Quentin's body didn't get walled up in his room, Destiny exerted its will, and said "I want a body there. I don't care whose. Are there any volunteers, or shall I just choose somebody at random?"[/spoiler]