I don't remember clearly my reaction, when this episode originally aired, to the revelation that Victor Fenn-Gibbon was Count Petofi, but I know I did not expect it.
I'm confused by Evan's relationship with the hand. When Quentin found it at Evan's house, just before Aristede appeared on the scene, I was surprised because I didn't remember the hand coming back to Evan after Magda used it so disastrously on Quentin, and I thought he was still at the stage of wanting nothing to do it. But he had it. Today Tim appears at the Evan's door with the hand, and Evan is frightened by it, despite the fact that - if I remember correctly - he admitted to Quentin - or least didn't deny - that he had used the hand to restore his face. Oh, well, maybe his brain was still a little addled from the initial adverse contact with the hand.
As for Tim's relationship with the hand, I don't buy Josette's (I mean, our Josette's) idea that the hand was cooperating with Tim because Tim wanted bad things. There's a certain amount of logic to the idea, but it's the wrong amount - either not enough or too much. I do think that the hand cooperated, but I don't think it was Tim's nefarious motives that beguiled the hand. I think - mind, I say I think - the cooperation might have had something to do with Tim's relative innocence in matters of the occult. Maybe the hand was sort of amused and charmed by Tim. Or maybe it was Tim's looks. I commented yesterday - or anyway, in the topic for yesterday's episode - on what an attractive pair Tim and Aristede made. Maybe Count Petofi thought the same way.