Voiceover first: "He has met Laura Collins and seen, to his horror, that beyond this past lies another past containing even more terror than he has yet dreamed of."
Really!?! The truth about Laura is more horrifying than being cursed as a vampire, losing Josette and his little sis, destroying his mother, killing Jeremiah,
being married to Angelique??!!!
I keep going back and forth over Barn's line to Charity: "I sense this woman is more than she seems. Much more." Did he sense that Laura wasn't human, I wonder, like a vampiric version of the spidey sense. Then I think I'm probably reading too much into it. But if he's going on appearance and name alone, then you'd think Barnabas would have seen a photo of David's mother at some point; I'm pretty sure there's a scene where he learns her name. So all that leaves are her voice and mannerism, and their meeting wasn't long enough for that. Okay, I'll shut up about this now.
Guess I've gotten a bit ahead here, and I'm making the first comments.
You're not ahead. The rest of us are just behind.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say I like that Angelique called her thick-witted. Here's a vampire victim who can't fathom that Laura is dead but still walking around. And right after Ang introduced herself to her, she showed up in her dream and Charity had to ask who she was. D'oh.
I LOVED the dream. No credits for this ep, but I don't have to look up the writer. That was a Violet Welles dream if ever there was one (and there are some doozies). "I'm being married." "No, my dear, you're being buried. That's how it is when you're dead." Brrr. The black wedding veil was the best, cuz if ever there was a virgin on DS, it's Charity.
Good point about no one in the house hearing Charity when she woke up. I bet the scream could be heard during filming over in Hell's Kitchen.
But I'm pretty sure that Judith's shawl was different. It didn't have the all-over pattern that Charity's did.
Is it me, or was Judith acting flirty with Gregory? Yikes, her body language on the staircase. "All I'm offering is money;" yeah right.
Grown women didn't go out in public with their hair down, and for certain NOT out of their room in their nightclothes.
I think DS is taking advantage of the fact that this storyline takes place in the same year as the publication of Stoker's novel by portraying the changes in the once-pious Charity as in the corrupted Mina (also engaged to be married at the beginning of
Dracula).