According to DS Wiki, Sam Hall wrote this ep. Who knew he could write such a good love scene? Although NB and CP use up their very small stock of chemistry on it.
Nicholas comes back from-- somewhere and tries to force Julia to tell him what she's doing. She uncharacteristically stays silent, but he figures it out anyway and smashes all her stuff.
Barn isn't out looking for Megan but sitting in front of his fireplace when Maggie arrives and says they have to save Quentin. Meanwhile, Quentin wakes up, realizes where he is, and sends a signal to Maggie. She runs out of the Old House, so Barn follows her.
I must have missed Nicholas helping Julia into her coat after warning her to steer clear of the Leviathans--thanks, MT. Jeb arrives, and Julia practically runs out. Nicholas and Jeb argue, but in the end Nicholas lays down the law. And it's never a good sign when he has to repeat a question.
Barn has followed Maggie to a cemetery, where she realizes that Quentin has been buried alive. Unable to delegate the task to Willie--where is he anyway??--Barnabas starts digging with a shovel that one zombie carelessly left behind. Maggie is so desperate that she starts tearing up the dirt with her bare hands.
Carolyn and Jeb are at the carriage house. What was so urgent? she asks. Suddenly shy, he kneels in front of her on the floor (she’s sitting on the stone bench in front of the fire). I can’t say the things I feel, he replies. Stroking his hair, Carolyn encourages him to try. I have never met anyone like you, he starts. This only happens to me when I am with you. Whenever you look at me or touch me, I feel like the way I am meant to be--the way I always want to be. I don’t understand why you should want to be any different, Carolyn says. I am not what I seem, he answers. There is another me, one that you have never seen--one that I don’t want you to see. What are you trying to say? Carolyn asks, mystified. Only that I love you! he answers as she cradles his face in her hands. I always want to be this way. I always want to be this way--no matter what happens. What will happen? Carolyn asks. I shouldn’t have told you, Jeb replies brusquely. Nothing is going to separate us, Carolyn promises. We’ll be together. She kisses him and recalls, When I was little, I wondered what falling in love would be like. I was afraid it would never happen. It happened soon after I met you--and nothing is ever going to change that. They kiss again.
Presumably Barnabas has used his unhuman strength to lift Quentin’s coffin out of the ground. In any event, Maggie is presumably too distracted to wonder how he did it. He pries open the lid while she practically dances with impatience. Quentin is alive and begins to revive with the fresh air. He and Maggie embrace, and Barnabas helps him up to start the journey back to the Old House. How did this happen? Maggie asks. Jeb Hawkes, Quentin answers. He warned me that he had something special in mind for me. Whatever that man is, he is a man of his word.
Carolyn and Jeb are still snogging away, but she senses that something is still disturbing him. I can’t tell you what it is, he says, but I have to do something very important. Please wait for me to come back. Just trust me, he pleads, please wait for me. Carolyn promises to wait.
Julia is already at the Old House when Barnabas and Maggie bring Quentin back. Jeb tried to kill Quentin! Maggie reports. We’ll take him upstairs, then I will come down and tell you everything, Barnabas promises. I also want to speak to you, Julia replies. After they go upstairs, Julia paces around the drawing room, then starts in surprise as Jeb enters the house. They stare at each other for a few moments, then he bursts out, You must find a way to help me--tonight, now! Julia regards him coldly. I just found out you tried to kill Quentin, she says. I had a score to settle with him, Jeb says, but right now I don’t even care if Quentin is alive or dead. There are a great many things I want to change about myself. I’m willing to live and let live if you’ll help me. I don’t trust you, Julia says flatly. Now I see things differently, Jeb protests. Julia, being Julia, wants to know what. I don’t have time! Jeb argues. Just believe me that I want to be a changed man. But Doctor, it has got to be possible! he says frantically. It has got to happen tonight! Shocked at his urgency, Julia asks, Why tonight? Because if it doesn’t happen tonight, it will be too late, Jeb answers. Just trust me. Then he notices Barnabas standing in the foyer, staring at him with a cold and piercing gaze.
Nicholas returns to the carriage house, but Carolyn greets him coldly. What are you doing here? she asks. I’m sorry we have never become good friends, he replies blandly, but now I’m confident that we soon will be. He produces his shiny gold cigarette case and quickly hypnotizes Carolyn. Then he orders the zombies to take her to the shrine.
Maggie comes downstairs to find the Old House drawing room deserted. Quentin soon joins her and shows her the mark on his hand, the match of hers. Now I know how you found me, he realizes. Why is this happening to us? Maggie asks. I don’t want to fight it, Quentin replies. The only thing I care about is you. I love you. They are soon kissing passionately.
Nicholas is at the head of the Leviathan altar, wearing a black robe with a wide sequined collar (the same one that Evan Handley wore in 1897, actually) and almost hidden by an unfortunately dangling tree branch. He has a large scepter in his hands, with a stylized horned head. Jeb, carrying the Leviathan box, escorts Carolyn into the clearing. They are wearing their ordinary clothes. (It’s apparently a come-as-you-are affair for them.) Still under Nicholas’s spell, Carolyn stares ahead vacantly, unaware of her surroundings. Jeb places the box in the center of the altar, directly in front of the Naga stele, then stands by Carolyn’s side at the foot of the altar. Nervously he tells Nicholas he is ready. Nicholas begins his incantation, which is a variation on one of Angelique’s standbys: Prince of darkness, I call upon the flames to summon you. I beseech all of the dark creatures of nature to summon you here. You must be a witness to this ceremony. You must give your blessing to these two creatures, who will soon become your obedient servants. I call upon the seven plagues and upon the charred and blackened stars which reigned on my beginning to drawing you from the darkness of the earth, that you may witness the vows that they are taking here tonight. Take the scepter and start the vows, he tells Jeb. Jeb doesn’t stir. Nicholas repeats his command, and Jeb reluctantly walks to him and takes the scepter. When he is in front of the Naga stele, he suddenly shouts, Barnabas! Now, Barnabas! Get her now, Barnabas! Barnabas rushes in, takes Carolyn by the arm and runs off into the woods with her. The enraged Nicholas moves toward Jeb. Stop her! he shouts, then screams, No! as Jeb raises the scepter high over head and strikes the Leviathan box with it until it is shattered. You fool! Nicholas shouts. Don’t you realize what you have done?
A slow rumbling starts deep in the woods and moves toward them. Nicholas pushes Jeb away from the altar into the woods, shouting, We had better get out of here, you fool, or we will both go up with it! As they watch, a bright white light illuminates the entire clearing, accompanied by the sound of crashing rocks. In a moment, the light goes out and the altar is merely a pile of tumbled stones. Suddenly Jeb collapses to the ground, screaming and convulsed with pain....
