Wardrobe notes: When Sarah arrives to spring Maggie from Wyndcliff, she has somehow retrieved her cap. And sometime after Maggie leaves her room and we see her and Sarah on the hospital grounds, she is wearing a brown windowpane-check dress.
Barnabas spots the No Trespassing sign at the House by the Sea well before Burke or Vicki. You must have the eyes of a cat! Burke exclaims. It's just a matter of conditioning, Barnabas replies--with perfect truth, I guess. Vicki wants to go upstairs, but Burke quashes that idea. Barnabas, who says he's used to candlelight (he brought candles from Collinwood) goes up instead. Burke takes the opportunity to talk to Vicki about the possible future of the house--which can be rosy if we let it, he assures her. She stares out the window dreamily.
Once more, Sarah evades Maggie's questions about how she got into and out of Maggie's locked room. The poor little ghost is touchingly pleased when Maggie laughs for the first time since they met. Hand in hand, they set off for home singing "London Bridge"--which Maggie doesn't seem to mind one bit.
Just as Burke is all set to ditch Barnabas at the House by the Sea, Barnabas returns with handkerchief embroidered with the initials F.McA.C. [spoiler]Could they stand for "Flora McA[something] Collins"? We will meet her a long time from now.[/spoiler] Vicki has some scruples about taking it, but Barnabas says gallantly, I'm sure she would want you to have it. Burke glares at him.
At the BW, Barnabas treats Vicki to a scotch and water and Burke to bourbon. (It’s hard to imagine Vicki having hard liquor; I would have thought she would order a sherry. I suppose Barnabas got himself a Bloody Mary.)
While Barnabas goes to the bar, Burke and Vicki discuss the house. Seeing you going around testing floorboards was very comforting, Vicki opines. Burke says, I want to make your present and future more enticing than the past.
But who knows what would have happened if not for the appearance of the supposedly dead and buried Maggie Evans, very much alive and still holding Sarah's doll? Barnabas, the only one present who knew she wasn't dead, keeps his face turned from her, but she hardly seems to notice anything and suddenly collapses. WOW!
My notes tell me that this was the last episode shot in glorious black and white. Hooray!