313 - (Alexandra Moltke) - It is dawn at Collinwood, and faint rays of light have begun to creep across the silent walls of the great house. For one girl, it has been a night of terror, for a small boy has disappeared and he is in greater danger than anyone knows, for he has begun to stumble onto secrets that could cost him his life.
Roger returns home from Boston to find Vicki asleep on the couch, fully dressed. She awakens and gives him the bad news about how
Joe, Carolyn and she bungled taking care of David. A disheveled David continues banging on the secret door, calling for help.
As Carolyn admits to Vicki that the witness who supposedly saw David is old and unreliable, the two young women do their best to reassure each other that David is all right. They're both scared, and Carolyn says she has a feeling something bad has happened to David.
Roger and Joe search, with Rog popping out some great lines of comic relief. He makes disparaging remarks about the cops in their town, and when Joe suggests they check Eagle Hill Cemetery, which is where Maggie was found twice, Roger pooh-poohs the idea, but agrees reluctantly to go.
David, who has dozed off, wakes up and murmurs, "Somebody's got to come!" The cemetery caretaker, a real hoot of a guy, finds the mausoleum gate open and goes to investigate. When he hears David's voice calling, "Help!" from behind what is supposedly only the back wall to the tomb, his eyes widen as he responds,
"No, there is no help for you, you must rest!" to what he assumes are ghosts. He runs off, leaving poor, lonely David losing hope. He falls asleep again against the stone steps.
Roger and Joe spot the caretaker, whom Rog dubs "senile," but when Joe questions the codger, he learns the old man heard voices. Yes, he knows of a David, David Brewster, says the caretaker, drowned at sea.
Joe presses the ancient mariner, who reveals he heard voices at the Collins tomb. Roger sarcastically his ancestors are kicking up a fuss, but Joe, despite the caretaker's warnings of danger, persists, and they go to check out the mausoleum. Unfortunately for David, when his father and Joe are inside the mausoleum, he takes another nap, and doesn't hear DS' most famous spoken blooper, when Roger mentions his INCESTORS and quickly covers his gaffe. As Roger waxes on about Naomi and Joshua,
David slumbers, and only awakens after everyone has gone. He decides the voices he heard were part of a dream he had. David awakens fully and, his hands on the stone step that opens the door, starts calling fruitlessly to the empty tomb.
NOTES: How frustrating it is for poor David, falling asleep when rescue is near, always just missing being found. It's equally frustrating for the viewer!
Hilarious blooper on Edmonds' part, but how quickly and cleverly he fixed it! He's so good at that!
314 - (Grayson Hall) - The sea beyond the great house shimmers in the clear morning air, but inside the walls of Collinwood, terror mounts, for a missing boy has not yet been found. Far from the great house there are those who also know fear, a fear so terrifying that it stuns the mind and numbs the heart.
An exhausted Joe collapses in a chair at the cottage and tells Maggie they haven't found David. Between Sarah and David's mysterious disappearance, Joe thinks the supernatural is involved (and I've always believed Collinsport to be the first Hellmouth). He blames himself for David's running off, but Maggie won't hear any talk like that. Dave Woodard stops by and they tell him how Julia stops by only to take Maggie's pulse, but appears to be doing nothing about bringing her memory back. Also, why is she hanging around the Old House posing as a historian--when she's there all alone? Dave, agreeing it all makes no sense, promises to look into these allegations.
They also discuss the mysterious Sarah, and Maggie loans Dave the doll the little girl left for her. There was no way for Sarah to get into the locked house and leave it--yet she did, somehow. Dave feels the doll will lead them closer to the truth.
Willie, searching for David, hears Sarah's flute--and she appears to him! He tells her he's her friend and that he wants to take her to see Barnabas, who she claims she's been looking for, too (?)
She can't go back to the Old House with him right now, though, she says petulantly, because she has to look for David--and besides, she doesn't like being asked so many questions. She does tell him she's revealed "her biggest secret" to David. When he makes the mistake of turning away, Sarah disappears, leaving him calling after her, frustrated.
Willie races to Collinwood and tells Julia he saw Sarah! She doesn't want him to tell Barnabas of his encounter with Sarah, because it will mean putting David in danger.
This could ruin the experiment, too, she frets. Willie says he'll try to keep quiet, but Julia insists he do more than try.
Woodard comes in and says he must talk to Julia, first commenting on Julia's interest in all the Old House residents. He tells her he agrees with her assessment of the supernatural goings-on, which clearly unnerves her--until he says it's in regard to Sarah. Her dress and appearance, her ability to appear and disappear all point in that direction. Then he shows Julia the doll.
He gave it to the local librarian to examine, and that doll, though it looks brand-new, is actually 150 years old!
NOTES: Will Julia lose Maggie as a patient? If so, can she stick around Collinsport, working with Barnabas, without Maggie's case as an excuse?
Sarah is a little ghost girl, which we already know. Now she's appeared to Willie, but not Barnabas. What is she waiting for? Why didn't she save her supposed-friend, David? Now that Willie knows Sarah has revealed her biggest secret to David, will the boy's life be in jeopardy? Will Willie and Julia be able to keep all this from Barnabas? Given how nervous he is, won't he want to kill David when he hears about this secret Sarah told David?
Love, Robin
