Elliot and Tony bicker, and it comes out that they don't like each other. I think the world's a play to Stokes, and he's content observing the actors... he doesn't need to be pals with them.
This episode was actually good. Gordon Russell wrote it, with help from Thayer, probably. When did Violet Welles start writing under other writers' names? I'd have enjoyed the Cass-Stokes scene more if I'd remembered that he was supposed to be dead. Great to see Stokes' face tranform in seconds from perhaps an expression of mortal fear, at being seen, to a self-enjoying shit-eating grin! He adjusts fast, and savors even the dangerous times... I loved the moment when he said to her, forget the portrait, I've found the original. The moment itself was original, being a sort of smile and a wink between enemies, maybe even a compliment on her appearance from Stokes. Cass smiles, and warms up for a moment.
I love unconventional emotional responses, and original ways of experiencing and reacting to events, people, and life.
I realized that I hadn't enjoyed Cass at all until this episode, but now I do. As for Stokes giving Tony the wacky terbacky, he did tell him what was in it. Otherwise I'd think revenge for trying to poison him. Anything could happen.
Oh no, Liz and being buried alive. It was a bit exciting watching it start out of the blue so abruptly, and I'm glad to have Liz back, and actually taking part in something. She'll get to do lots of morbid actory soliloquizing from here on, which of course I will enjoy for awhile, and then tire of. I never thought I'd get to like Liz. I had to see 1966 for this to happen.
