Dirk is all about trying to help Laura and desperate to go with her and the kids wherever they're going. Little does he know! She actually seems angry that she needs his help.
GH is in her element as Magda in this ep.: Magda returns to the Old House from somewhere and finds Quentin sitting in the drawing room in shock. You don’t like it at home? she asks. What do you do here? Is this a public house? You come and you go as if you live here--get out! Stop it, he says absently. Then she takes a good look at his dazed eyes. Are you sick? she asks. Then she gets really nervous and asks, What have you seen? Have you been sneaking around the house? Tell me! Quentin relieves her fears somewhat by saying, haltingly, I saw Angelique burning in this room. Since there’s no evidence of the incident, Magda snaps, Liar! Get out! Quentin insists, There _was_ a fire--Laura’s--and it killed Angelique. No one can kill Angelique, Magda insists. Witches burn, Quentin reminds her. Fire is the only way to destroy them. Laura knew it--and she won! he shouts. Everyone beats you, Magda says with cruel scorn. I won’t take that from you! Quentin cries out. You’ve done enough to me! You get what you deserve, Magda snaps pitilessly. Now get out! I must tell Barnabas, Quentin insists, but Magda orders him, Get out--before Laura does something to you. Run, Quentin, she taunts him. Run, hide from her, hide! Laura had the power to stop Angelique! See what she can do to you, who play with black magic, but can't stop Laura, can't fight her. _Run_! she jeers, her voice terrifying. Quentin runs out, and Magda laughs uproariously at her brother-in-law’s panic.
When Barnabas rises to face another night, Magda is waiting upstairs. Well, madam, he greets her sardonically, what a surprise, almost an honor, to see you. Where were you when I went to my coffin? Where were you at dawn, when you were supposed to be protecting me? And where was Sandor? Magda says nervously, Listen, I got news. Barnabas answers angrily, I know that technique. News does not deter me. Magda says, I don’t want to tell it, but it must be told. Then I will know how angry you can get. Seeing that she’s serious, Barnabas attends. She crosses herself hastily. Barnabas is stunned when she announces, Laura knows about you--she knows you’re a vampire!
Magda fills Barnabas in (off camera) about the day's events. So Angelique saved me from Laura, Barnabas marvels. How curious life is, he observes, consciously or unconsciously quoting Nicholas Blair. She would not let the curse end. She would not give me the peace of the dark coffin. You don’t really want that, Magda says. Barnabas replies sharply, I don’t need your opinion. I haven’t forgotten that Laura would still be ignorant if you and Sandor had protected me as you should have. Magda comments with sly daring, You are afraid now, without your Angelique to protect you. He wonders why Angelique would have let Laura do her fire spell. He's not best pleased when Magda reminds him that Quentin saw it happen. Ever fearful of exposure, he wonders if Laura told anyone else. But Magda thinks Laura means to settle him herself, and Barnabas decides he has to settle Laura first.
Barn spies on Laura and Dirk as they plot against him. He seems Laura give Dirk a letter for Judith's eyes only. As Dirk arrives just outside Collinwood, the bat swoops at him, disregarding his attempts to escape--and his screams.
Barn accosts Laura and Collinwood and shows her Dirk--slumped against the wall, with blood streaming from the bite marks on his neck. I suppose that since Laura knows about Barnabas anyway, he has nothing to lose by showing her his handiwork. Laura goes upstairs to get Jamison. Up in Jamison’s room (which is David’s room in the twentieth century), Laura goes directly to the bed. I’ve come for you as I said I would, she tells Jamison. She tries to wake him up--only to discover that there’s nothing in the bed but a bolster. Her dismay turns to horror as she hears a woman’s laughter. As she stares in disbelief, Angelique steps out of the shadows into a witchy green light, laughing wildly....
