Discuss - Ep #0752

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[MagnusTrask]

A strange morning shot, with a thin line of glowing grass.  Evan starts to move and get involved in this episode, and we see what part he's really going to play in the 1897 Show, and it's not a lawyer.  He's really 1897's Stokes, the local black arts expert, emphasis on "black", and accordingly not quite as willing to be drawn into others' supernatural problems out of the goodness of his heart.  He announces that there's no such thing as a friend, after Quentin begs him for help... then is seemingly acting as a friend just after the commercial break.  Maybe he looks into every other-worldly cranny just for opportunities for himself.

Evan, talking to Judith about Dorcas's death, instantly notices Beth's uncomfortable reaction to the news for what it is, vaguely speaking-- her knowing something she's not telling.  He may have instantly connected it to Quentin.  Beth doesn't ask if it was Rachel.  It could have been. 

Good Magda-Evan confrontation.  It's a professional conference of sorts.  I love how Evan "knows", and is thinking faster than we are, which is a relief.  Too often the show moves more slowly than our brains do... 

Evan's advice goes unappreciated by Quentin, and he leaves.  The transformation starts.  Good for Beth, instantly redrawing the pentagram, and getting Q into it.  What would have happened if he'd stayed in it?  He changes.  Beth sees.  She can handle it though, unlike Sabrina.  Violet Welles wrote.

[DarkLady]

Judith (wearing an extremely ruffly lavender satin gown) misses Beth's reaction to the news of Dorcas's death. She sighs, Poor Reverend Trask--things happen to him that would try anyone’s soul. Yet he always thinks of others. Even though he's busy with the police, he took the time to call us and warn us Evan asks, Are you all right? Yes, she replies. Thinking of that heroic Reverend Trask inspires me to courage. 

Evan finds Quentin and Beth together and says he has to discuss something with Quentin. Evan asks Beth to leave--but she doesn't until Quentin says she should.

Quentin learns a hard lesson about friendship: Evan agrees to help: But it will cost quite a bit for my _professional_ help, he adds. How could you? asks Quentin. You’re my friend! Evan laughs as he replies, You don’t remember some of the basic facts of life--there’s no such thing as a friend. Quentin says, I’ll give you anything to help. What’s your price? Your desperation has made you generous, Evan comments with a smile--and I like generosity.  I’ll let you know when the time comes.

Great "professional" conference with Evan and Magda. She already knows about Dorcas but stubbornly denies to Evan that her curse has had any effect. But Evan spots the pentagram around her neck--the first time we've seen her wear it.

Doubtful and still frightened, Quentin isn’t happy about how little Evan learned about the curse. He rubs out part of the pentagram with his foot to show his displeasure. At this, Evan stops beating around the bush and tells Quentin bluntly, It's possible you may die inside the pentagram. I won't be getting in the pentagram in the first place, Quentin retorts. I'll just kill Magda instead. That would make matters even worse, Evan warns sharply. Beth agrees. If you do that, there might be no hope at all, she says. Irritably and without so much as a thank-you, Quentin tells Evan to get out. But before he goes, Evan sternly warns Beth, Get out and stay away from Quentin tonight. Go far, far away. He leaves.

At 5:00 p.m., Beth and Quentin are waiting tensely for something--anything--to happen. I think you’re afraid of me, he says. She admits, I am. Then get out, he orders her. Are you sure? she asks. Yes! He shouts. She turns to leave when Quentin is suddenly convulsed with the pains of transformation. Please stay! he begs her. The pentagram! she gasps. She picks up the chalk and starts to redraw the lines that Quentin had scuffed away earlier. Then she sets a chair in the middle of the pentagram and helps Quentin to sit. She takes the black candles from the table, but as she's trying to remember what she's supposed to do with them, Quentin collapses in a seeming faint. He’s dying! she says fearfully. In her panic, she sets down the candles and drags Quentin out of the chair--and outside the pentagram--and over to his (unseen) bed. A low growl tells us that the transformation is complete. He turns to face Beth, who screams in horror, Quentin! Don’t come near me!….