I'm puzzled about something I don't remember from seeing 1840 before, and I'm wondering if my current daily taping got out of order when I fell behind in my viewing last week ...
Anyway, from what I've seen, Julia "Collins" and Leticia Faye stitched Judah Zachary's head back onto his body (implied), the body came to life but then didn't, Julia and Leticia leave, Gerard Stiles enters the crypt and removes the mask from the lifeless body which then comes to life, they grapple and Gerard escapes the crypt but Judah Zachary is apparently killed in a fire that breaks out, Julia and Barnabas return to the crypt and find his arm sticking out from under the rubble and cavalierly pronounce him dead. At this point (at least as I've taped it), Gerard returns to Rose Cottage, where he consults the head of Judah Zachary, which is still in its glass case.
At first I thought I was watching an old episode on the tape, but then the head seemed to instigate a dream in which Gerard is inspired to return to the tomb for the mask.
That's about as far as I've gotten (and I had to pre-empt the second episode last Thursday so I could tape something on another channel) ... but I also noticed Quentin wearing his unusual ring, although I don't think that has been introduced yet, unless that was the episode I missed taping ...
Anyway, if Judah Zachary's head was attached to his body, how could it still be in the glass case at Rose Cottage?