Agree totally with both you guys about Trask showing up, that was just SO Great.
And Quentin fainting out of terror. (Pay no attention to the cowardly drunk behind the curtain!)
HAA was just wonderful as Nicky in these scenes -- he and Jerry Lacy were having waay too much fun with their respective hypocrites.
And now for my two cents on this episode (probably magnified for inflation since you guys KNOW better by now to expect short posts from ME.
Slightly different take on yesterday’s finale. Guess someone noticed the coat, Quentin's is gone this time, though Evan has what may be a ceremonial robe. Quentin is also drinking standing up rather than slumped in the chair. He also sounds a bit more sober, and we see a shot of him sighing deeply as Evan begins. Couple more shots of him chug a lugging from the bottle, which this time is NOT in his hand as he faints at the sight of TRASK.
LOL you do get the feeling Trask saw and heard enough to have a real good idea what they were doing. “Perhaps the person you SHOULD summon is a DOCTOR”. Evan is tripping over himself trying to explain his way out of this so he doesn’t get ratted out to Judith and risk losing what is probably his best (if not his ONLY ) client.
Apparently terror sobered Q up pretty quick—he seemed pretty lucid and coordinated when he argued with Evan. Didn’t fall on his face when he lunged at him either. Maybe the instant adrenalin of terror killed his buzz. But here he is in the next scene, downing the brandy again for all he’s worth. And just to make tonight complete, now he has to deal with Mrs. Trask. Once again someone with no rights in the house waltzes in and parks themselves like they own the place.
Interesting foreshadowing here when Minerva is so very concerned about whether Judith and Gregory have met up. Looks to me like they were laying the groundwork for a revelation in the later part of the storyline quite early down the road. Quentin, being Quentin, is miserable and wants to share the wealth by planting ideas in Minerva’s head – just because he can. Don’t know that he was sober enough to have calculated it as the fastest way to get rid of her.
LOL the Trasks in their native habitat and marital bliss. Oh, from the litany Minerva recites, our Right Reverend Trask is quite a player. Trask is quite good at the ‘big lie”, trying to convince Minerva that she’s hysterical and imagining things. He’s also playing quite the fencing match with Evan. Evan seems quite disappointed when Trask doesn’t rise to the bait about women. He knows he needs a way out, because Trask will have a very high price.
Cut to the school and the spiteful and suspicious Minerva second guessing Tim Shaw on the papers he’s grading. Once the Reverend gets her to leave, we know something’s up. He’s being NICE and he’s never nice without there being something in it for him. Poor trusting Tim should have known that by now, but for some bizarre reason he’s taking Trask at face value, and goes over all unsuspecting to Evan’s house to be their pet patsy.
Nifty looking effect on the potion Evan is brewing up (but does the vessel with the pestle have the brew that is true?).
Jeannie