Trask is back, still oozing sexual jealousy from every pore as he confronts Quentin.
Nora reports to Quentin that Jamison is still angry with him. Quentin actually treats her very gently, much as Barnabas would--maybe he's been taking lessons. But nevertheless he sends the poor little girl out into the storm with a letter, written on psychedelic green notepaper, for Amanda.
Quentin storms into Charles's studio, demands his portrait, and conks Charles over the head. But his search reveals nothing.
Nora is almost at the old rectory when Trask stops her, calling her an evil little girl. Of course he reads the note.
Trask tries his hardest to get Amanda away from Quentin, but she lets him have it. Nice job by JL, showing Trask's genuuine shock that one of his tormented pets (nice, MT!) is resisting.
Quentin has been unable to find his portrait, and it doesn’t occur to him to look behind Charles’s current project. Charles is still unconscious on the floor. Worriedly Quentin checks the clock, realizes he’s run out of time and hurries out. He leaves something on the floor besides Charles: Sam Evans’s sketch of Betty Hanscomb, which looks like Vicki Winters.
Quentin arrives at the old rectory, shouting for Amanda, but he finds that she is gone and her things with her. But brave little Nora has waited for her uncle. Hesitantly she comes up behind him and tells him, Reverend Trask took the note. It’s hard to say which of them looks more miserable. I have got to get to the station! Quentin cries, and runs out. Poor Nora looks ready to burst into tears.
The Collinsport train station makes its third appearance on the show. Amanda is pacing up and down the platform, looking for Quentin. The train’s bell announces its departure, and the conductor calls out, ’Board! He warns her, If you’re going to take this train, you’d better get on it. Amanda looks at him, then turns to look at the station entrance one last time, but Quentin is nowhere to be seen. Was Trask telling the truth after all? Has Quentin changed his mind?...
