Don Briscoe VO. So Vicki is hovering as a... ghost? [spoiler]She could be the 1968 ghost of a Vicki who died in 1795/6, but I don't think that's what they're going for. Somehow, she's something like a ghost, only she's a living spirit in 1795 projecting her will and consciousness ahead in time to 1968. I wonder what it looks like in 1795, as she's doing this. Is she in the cell, putting herself into a trance? Is she just concentrating very hard, maybe mumbling commands to her clothes to go back into her closet?[/spoiler]
Vicki the like-a-ghost has lilacs as her ghost scent, as Josette had jasmine, when she was contacting Vicki in early 1967. All this, the clothes-back-in-the-closet trick, encountering the music box again, it's all too much for Barnabas, as you would expect. J Frid plays it well. It's up to him to convey the emotions interestingly, since they're not really written into the lines. His look as he opens the music box on his own speaks volumes, as they say. Thank you, JF.
At the start of this ep, we can't tell which ghost is messing with the closets, a nice only-on-DS sort of problem... Later on it becomes clear Vicki is present, leaving signs, because of the note in the music box, but the signs are so perfect for accomplishing Quentin's plan for keeping the kids at Collinwood, that you have to wonder if some of it is him. And was there any interaction between Vicki the near-ghost, and Quentin the really-a-ghost? Did they bump into each other in the spirit realm, and work out a joint plan? Again, questions that only DS viewers would be challenged to ask!
We recieve from Amy's lips an important bit of data on Quentin: He can't affect physical objects (outside his room I guess). The music box opening was proof for Amy that another spirit is present. So I still think Quentin's whole deal is that he must work his way out of his room, and increase in power, gradually with the children's help. It's hardly my theory. Probably Lydia's.
Clarice was good, as always.
