327 - (Alexandra Moltke) - The warmth and radiance of the sun that shines down on the great house at Collinwood cannot remove the ominous shadow that clouds our lives. We remain concerned for young David Collins who has not recovered from the effects of a terrifying dream.
David runs upstairs, terrified, and Vicki, Liz and Julia discuss his strange reaction. Vicki tells the other women that the medallion Julia was holding looked just like the one in his dream--and she also remembers the time Julia showed her the medallion at Maggie's house.
Coincidence, mutters Julia, and apologizes to Liz for upsetting David.
David is urgently searching for Sarah in his crystal ball when Vicki comes up to check on him. Not only is he certain that medallion was the same as in his dream, he's also sure Julia was the faceless woman holding it. He wants her to go away, he tells Vicki, she scares him! Vicki disagrees with his assessment (a little child doesn't lead them on DS). David spots Sarah's whereabouts in his crystal ball
and has to promise Vicki he'll tell her what he discusses with his little friend if she allows him to go out (in daylight, this time) to look for her--just an hour. Vicki is reluctant, but David is so insistent, she agrees.
Vicki tells Burke about David's dream. Devlin finds it fascinating that David dreamed twice about Barnabas, and Julia's appearance in his dream intrigues him, too. Vicki explains how Julia spoke alone with David, and Burke remarks that Miss Hoffman is engaged in a lot of doings that don't involve Collins family history. He suggests Julia is spending so much time at the Old House because she has a mad crush on Barnabas Collins, to which Vicki replies, "Oh, Burke!" and rolls her eyes. Burke insists he's seen more imperfect combinations. He grows concerned when she reveals she allowed David to go out searching for Sarah again, and heads out to look for him. Burke overhears the children talking,
but David doesn't get a chance to question Sarah about his dream when Burke's appearance chases her away. David is angry and disappointed, but says no when Burke wants to try finding her. David believes Sarah will only talk to him now. Burke recounts David's dream about Barnabas and wonders why the boy thinks Sarah can help, since she didn't have the same dream. Because she's a ghost, says David matter-of-factly, and Burke expresses incredulity. Look at how fast she disappeared, David points out.
Burke went into the door and out again, then in and out again, and we heard the director's instructions clearly on tape.
When Burke tells Vicki and Liz how strangely David is behaving, asserting Sarah is a ghost, Vicki, stating she believes David,
challenges her fiance to investigate THIS situation. Find out who and where Sarah is, then produce her in the flesh. If she does this, Vicki will believe Burke, but she's sure he won't succeed, because she, too, thinks Sarah IS a ghost.
David awakens to find Sarah standing in a creepy blue light at the foot of his bed. She tells him Willie is innocent of kidnapping Maggie, and in fact went to the cottage to warn her. He tells her he recognized the room in his dream as one in the Old House cellar. "Don't go near the Old House, David," she warns him, "it's not safe." She repeats it over and over, slowly disappearing right before his eyes, as he begs her to please come back.
NOTES: Knowing David as we do, where will he go as fast as he can after hearing Sarah's warning?--the Old House, of course! Wasn't that a totally creepy scene?
Good for Vicki, challenging Burke to search for Sarah. Like David, she believes the little girl is a ghost, so what Burke will learn is going to be limited to her past.
328 - (Grayson Hall) - On this night near Collinwood, a man lies dying, a man who knows a terrifying secret. If he does, he will carry that secret to his grave, but if he lives, there is one he can expose, one whose very existence depends on his death.
Barnabas did enough pacing for an expectant father today as he worried about Willie revealing his secret. Seeing an oxygen tent and hearing Barnabas tell Julia he feared that his "career" would be threatened were two jarring aspects of this ep. I'm sure he meant another word than career, but substituted that one. Otherwise, I'm not aware that vampirism is a career, LOL. While Barnabas starts preparing to leave to do Willie in himself, she advises him to do nothing. Besides, he can't leave now--the sheriff is coming to search Willie's room.
Barnabas, with Julia's help, decides he'll stash something incriminating in Willie's room.
We have a sub sheriff today, not Dana Elcar, and in Willie's hospital room (Willie's upper body is shrouded in the oxygen tent, so I'm betting a stagehand was under there, not Karlen), and the Sheriff says he doesn't think Willie is guilty of Maggie's kidnapping--but he thinks Willie, if he lives, can supply the culprit.
In Willie's spartan room, Barnabas shows Julia the ring he took from Maggie and says he's going to hide it in a candlestick in Willie's room. Barnabas orders Julia to go to the hospital and ensure Willie's death. She angrily refuses, reminding him she won't take a life, but he points out that her career will suffer, too, if he is exposed. Julia insists Willie will die naturally. Sam stops by Willie's hospital room to check on the patient, and he agrees that Loomis is innocent.
Where could he have hidden Maggie? His motive? How does Sarah fit in? asks Dave. Hearing that George is heading to the Old House, Sam asks to tag along (only in a small town)! George says to let him know immediately if Willie awakens--he wants to be the first to question him!
Grinning at his own cleverness, Barnabas hides the ring in the candlestick. As the sheriff searches Willie's room, Barn tells George and Sam that he still believes in Willie's innocence. When asked, Barnabas says Willie did go out at night, that once his chores were finished, he was free to do what he pleased. When asked where he thinks Willie might have kept Maggie, Barnabas reiterates he prefers to think of Willie as innocent. We see a microphone appear in a shot right about here.
When Sam and George don't turn up the ring by themselves, Barnabas knocks the candlestick over and does a "Eureka, what's this?"
Well, that tears it--Willie is obviously guilty, admits the sheriff.
Julia, observing how exhausted Dave is, offers to relieve him on Willie Watch. She apologizes for not mentioning her suspicions about Willie before, and he says he sure wishes she had. Willie starts to moan, and Dave races out of the room to alert the sheriff to this fact. Julia eyes the IV snaking into Willie's arm and hears Barnabas' voice telling her to get rid of him.
Barnabas tells Sam and George that he feels responsible for Willie's reprehensible actions and tells Sam to let him know if he or Maggie ever need anything. A deputy knocks at the door--Willie's coming out of the coma!
Sheriff Patterson vows to get the truth out of him.
NOTES: Uh oh, will Julia do away with Willie before he can talk? Will the sheriff get there before Julia can kill Willie? Will Barnabas ever get caught in that supercilious, "I believe Willie is innocent" shtick?
Is Willie going to live or die? Write his memoirs? What will he call them? ME 'N' THE VAMPIRE?
Love, Robin
