The opening scene suggests that time has passed into days. Willie brings a still restrained Adam supper. Adams knocks the tray out of Willie’s hand and Willie flees in terror. Julia arrives and discusses Adams ‘care’ but Willie wants no part of this scenario and suggests going back to the sanatorium until things get back to normal but (a rather nasty) Julia threatens him with life at the sanitarium to keep him where she wants him. Julia leaves to get more food for Adam and Willie decides that since Adam likes shiny things that he will dip into the Collins family jewels hidden behind a wall in the cell to placate Adam and endear himself. While doing so, Willie recalls his affection for Maggie and decides to give her a pair of Josette’s earrings that she wore while captive at the Old House and splits to Maggie’s. While Joe & Maggie ready for a date, Willie slips into the cottage and drops the earrings into Maggie’s purse and hie-tails it out of there seconds before Joe and Maggie reenter the studio. When Willie makes it back to Adam, Julia is there waiting and scolds him for leaving. Julia leaves threatening to return periodically to ensure Willie remains with Adam. Adam immediately wants to plays with the jewels again but Willie can’t accommodate Adam’s request for fear of Julia returning and busting them. Back at the Evans cottage, Maggie has lost her house keys. After a fruitless search Joe suggests Maggie look in her purse – and she finds the keys - and Josette’s earrings. The ‘mysteriously appearing’ earrings become the new focal point of their conversation with Maggie feeling drawn to them. Joe gets jealous and worried that he might not be able to accommodate his girl’s unprecedented like of fine jewelry. Maggie catches on and placates him, but even so, is still irresistibly, if not hypnotically drawn to them. Back at the Old House, unable to understand that now is not the time to play with the jewels, Adam tries to force Willie to comply and Willie backs himself into a corner to escape Adam’s clutches. Julia returns to this chaotic scene and tries to talk Adam down but he cannot be calmed so a terrified Willie suggests Julia give him her necklace because Adam becomes transfixed with shiny things. Julia complies and Adam calms down. Outside the cell, Julia sets up the battery-powered tape recorder she's brought with her – to play music for Adam – in hopes of keeping him calm and perhaps develop his senses and even hopefully, his intelligence. This is Lang's music tape and Jules turns it on and she and Willie leave the basement. Adam hears the music and comes to the cell window to listen – then Lang's dying message to Julia plays - and upon hearing the name ‘Barnabas’, Adam sounds out the name Bar-Na-Bas and smiles.
Afterthoughts: Good goddess! Is Julia a nasty mofo with Willie in this episode or what? Jeez, I don’t recall her ever being like this. Hall didn’t even pull it off which made it that more disappointing for me. Yuck. Who’s to blame the actress or the director? More mirror magic, this time with Maggie who looked beautiful, even without the earrings. Willie was never portrayed a genius but he seems to have been dumbed down a bit and I’ve decided for myself that Willie has changed and is worse for the wear; Poor Willie. Cute sexual innuendo between Joe & Maggie:
Mags: “Oh, Boy, that’s the last time I trust you!” Joe (taking her arms in his hands): “Oh?” Mags: “I mean, with the dishes.”
Joe’s looking hunkier than usual, it may be the hairdo or perhaps he’s lost a pound or two. I was going to gripe that it is ludicrous that Jules is wearing that necklace and suit but I’d be taking for granted that she is doing nothing but tending to Barn and Adam, etc. though, I don’t know that it’s established that she is indeed doing anything other than tending to Barnabas and the Collins family’s needs. Is there more than one cell in the Old House basement? I seem to recall that Barn was in a cell (in 1795) that had no door, am I wrong? Maybe I am thinking of the goal cell Vicki was in?
