LOL on the replay of the tag Karlen makes it a point NOT to touch the flmsy gravestone!
Quentin in the drawing room with the gramophone and a numb look on his face. But this time we see why they set him up there. Trask comes in the front door, and if Q was in his room, he'd not have been there to lecturre. And that would have deprived us of a great verbal fencing match between Trask and Quentin (the later in full formal articulate smartass Rhett Butler mode).
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Poor Carl – truer words were never said than what he said to Trask “People I think I can trust, it turns out I can’t.” That in a nutshell seems to be the problem of everyone in the family: Quentin trusts Evan and doesn’t trust Beth. Judith distrusts her brothers and trusts Trask. Carl doesn’t trust anyone else but trusts Trask. Edward trusts Barnabas but doesn’t believe either of his brothers. It goes on and on.
In these scenes Carl seems frantic to the point of manic and unbalanced. And off they go, armed with the ubiquitous cross, to go a vampire hunting.
Barn is out of his coffin, but the mausoleum door is wide open. The door creakis open and Barn turns to see Quentin bound in. Nice interchange, once Quentin points out he knows (and apparently saves himself from getting bitten). Barn raises rhetorical question of “You can look at me without fear” and Quentin points out (in a good character moment, though already telegraphed through good acting throught the storyline) that he’s always with fear. Darn, the close up stays on Barn. I would have liked to have seen the reaction shot when Quentin asked if his brother was dead. Is he relieved? Annoyed? Worried? Of such things character development is built. Barn seems slow on the pickup though, and it apparently annoys Quentin. He has to spell it out in words of one syllable that not only was Carl there, “HE KNOWS!!”
Interesting undercurrent in the scene. Quentin is doing what he has to to save Barn and thus save his own hide, but he seems very ill at ease and uncomfortable. He also seems to watch Barnabas very closely, like watching for something. I don’t think that he told Barn his part in Carl being inside the mausoleum, why he doesn’t want to be the one to find Carl. He knows Carl is NOT going to trust him and is real unlikely to listen to him if he tries to keep him from talking. My though t is that in the back of his mind hes thinking Barn has some power to make Carl forget without killing him – IF he chooses to. My guess is that that's the life ring he clings to to keep from facing the fact that he was willing to have his own brother killed to save his hide.
Quick work. Someone found a TARDIS and used it to move the coffin <G>.
Back to the Drawing Room, and Barn playing with Carl’s mind (or whatevers left of it). Karlen does panic beautifully. Carl is beyond his last nerve. Barn is really being unnecessarily cruel here. Maybe subconscious revenge for the practical jokes?
Carl was strangled, but he’s still visbily breathing, unlike Jenny. Feet approaching the Drawing Room. LOL I bet on Quentin. And it IS. At least he has the grace to be upset that Carl is dead. Really upset, he’s on HIS last nerve now, and Barn is not helping things. I’ve said before some time back, I think Quentin is scared to death of Barn, wondering if this would happen to Carl for talking, what will happen to HIM if something goes wrong. That's my theory on why he was so quick to tell Barn that he knew he had to do it. Hes got enough problems without a pissed off vampire thinking he's going to rat him out. Barn was capable of consciously deciding to kill Carl to keep the secrets, then dumping more guilt on Quentin by pointing out that it protects him too.
FINALLY someone stands up to a Trask for telling the family where they will and will not go in the house. Unfortunately it doesn’t work with the overbearing Trask. Bet Quentin is seeing his life flashing before his eyes as Trask opens that door. Good thing Barn works fast, the body's stashed somewhere. YIKES! There goes the hand. Quentin is trying so hard not to freak out that his reactions aren’t right. He waits too long to react when Carl falls, and Trask is right on it. But once he DOES react it seems very genuine, horror, shock (and we know a heck of a lot of guilt probably a ton of other emotions roiling around too). Proably all the reactions-- and then some -- that he bottled up when he really DID find Carl, but had to hold in because of Barnabas.
Ugh Trask playing Vampire hunter at the Old House. I always wondered why Barn didn’t just deal with Trask early on. He deserved killing waay more than Carl. Now we have the stay here till dawn challenge. And right on cue, the cock crows for the fade out.
Jeannie
