Today Julia is wearing a pretty gray jacket with wide lapels and a cream-colored blouse with a neck ruffle and bow, with a gray plaid skirt. For once, Stokes is still wearing the same shirt and necktie as we last saw him.
Priceless scenes at the House by the Sea, first with Eve and Adam. After she orders him off to bed, Nicholas arrives. The part when Eve comes on to Nicholas is one of the best things in the whole series.
Stokes arrives at the Old House and reports that Adam is no longer in the place where he'd been hiding. But Stokes doesn't say where that was, nor does he mention David. Stokes agrees that Nicholas must be behind recent events but is more concerned with the whereabouts of Leona Eltridge/Danielle Roget. At the mention of that name, once again a mysterious gust of wind pushes the doors open and rattles the chandelier (we get a good view of its structure), this time with thunder and lightning obbligato. The wind also happens to knock a book off the bookcase atop the writing desk in the corner. When the wind dies down, Stokes picks it up and reveals it to be a memoir of the French Revolution by one Philippe Cordier. [It was published in 1798, but how it got to the Old House when no one lived there after Barnabas’s “demise” and Angelique’s disappearance in 1796 is one of those great unsolved mysteries of Collinwood, I guess. Perhaps the antique book collection of some later Collins was consigned to the Old House for storage.]
Well, if your front door suddenly flew open, your chandelier swayed, and your books started flying off the shelves, what would you do? Apparently the writers forgot that Barnabas and Julia know all about how to conduct a séance because Stokes has to explain it to them (of all people) all over again.
For the one and only time, Barnabas becomes the medium as Philippe Cordier speaks through him, vowing to kill his Hated Rival. In the House by the Sea, Nicholas is sitting with Eve and Adam, who at least appear to have reconciled their differences a little. (Nicholas and Eve get to sit in chairs, but Adam must squat on the floor beside her.) Suddenly Eve senses a Presence. She starts to her feet, screaming, Someone in this house will die tonight! She runs to the stairs. But just as Adam is about to follow her, he clutches his throat as if he is choking.
At the Old House and at the same moment, Barnabas clutches his throat as if he is choking. Julia and Stokes realize that Philippe Cordier is making good on his threat....
