Actually, that ending scene is in DVDs that were produced later – see the following discussion:
DS: The Beginning DVD
That particular scene is that reason that I finally finished watching all of the original Dark Shadows today. Previously I had watched episode 8, but on a DVD that was missing this scene. Now I've got a later one. With apologies to Emerald Rose:
Miss Hopewell's dictation was a surprise to me. My first thought was that I didn't know the foundling home could afford a secretary to take dictation, but my second thought was that back in those days managers didn't know how to type. Even female managers, I guess - or else it would have made Miss Hopewell look like a lesser person if she admitted she could type.
Elizabeth's inner turmoil didn't work very well for me. There are times on Dark Shadows when I feel a character's pain so clearly that it's as if I myself am hurting, but this isn't one of them - probably because we don't know what the whole story is.
So is the idea that Bill Malloy saw Joe Haskell with Burke and decided to give him an incentive to remain loyal to the Collinses? The real surprise to me is that the promotion didn't happen before. I feel sorry for Joe, though. We are being shown, plain as plain can be, that although Carolyn likes Joe, she's not in love with him. If she had gone to college, he would have been history by now.