This ep picks up exactly where the last episode left off – thank you. Adam gives up the ghost and retrieves his arm back into the lab and goes on a rampage busting up the place. Barn decides the only thing to do is kill him with the gun in Lang’s office. When he & and Julia return all is quiet in the lab and they carefully enter. After a brief search by Barn, Adam’s found hidden under a sheet sleeping. Julia reasons Adam is a newborn in a man’s body and sees hope where Barn sees none. Julia encourages Barn with a morality speech to let Adam live, convincing him to keep Adam locked away in the Old House basement until they can rear him to mental adulthood. Meanwhile, at Collinwood we see Mrs. Johnson casually dressed, minding David who is still mute. As she fusses over the boy Cassandra walks in. David backs away in fear but this is seemingly lost on Mrs. J. Cass offers to watch the boy but Mrs. J. won’t have it, insisting that he is more accustomed to her care. Mrs. J. goes to get David some broth. While she is away Cass decides Mrs. J. must be freed from attending to David in order to have the dream. She takes her spell off David and puts him to sleep. When Mrs. J. reenters the drawing room, David wakes to the sound of her voice and is able to speak, and has no memory of the past 48 hours as per Cassandra’s reversal. Cass lulls Mrs. J. to sleep and she has the dream – led to the room of doors by David - her final door reveals a flock of roosting bats.
Afterthoughts: You got to give Barn some kind of credit, when he has a problem he doesn’t waste much time dilly-dallying around on how to put an end to it, lol. Even as a young man his first instinct was to kill Jeremiah in a duel – so I don’t know how much of his killing instinct can actually be blamed on his vampirism. Adam gets another shot at living – Julia always did have a moral slant to her – anything but killing if at all possible. Blackburn’s DC performance was better than most, quite good actually– seeing the bats makes me think we are getting closer to the curse returning to Barn – and Mutual Of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. And how about Mrs. Johnson’s threads! That was a rare sight. I don’t ever recall seeing her in anything but black but I am sure my memory is failing me. Do you suppose Cassandra actually goes shopping or does she just poof her way into a new outfit – shades of Samantha Steven’s or should I say, Serena? However she attains her threads, it was a nice outfit. And the wig is still fitting properly though I wasn’t that thrilled with the styling today. David has huge feet; it practically looks like he’s wearing clown shoes. Nice tender moment, Mrs. J. Speaking of her fondness for David. The writing seems to be getting generally better. There are a lot less things to criticize or question because of it. Little things like Jules cautioning that Adam might be behind the door waiting to ambush them. Mrs. J. asking if Davy lost his voice again during the dream, etc.
