You must be right, MT. This ep. certainly ended with bang--presumably on a Friday too.
Angelique is wearing the same blue Grecian-style gown and long white gloves as in her portrait. Quentin apologizes humbly (for him) for doubting Alexis.
Trask tries to strong-arm Amy into telling him what she knows about Damian. Quentin arrives and rescues her, then gives his butler a dressing-down right in front of Alexis and Cyrus. Trask says that Amy came to Collinwood on her own. Alexis and Cyrus tell Trask about seeing Angelique in her coffin.
Cyrus tells Alexis that her sister had great knowledge of the supernatural--which as a scientist, he did not. He agrees with Quentin that the body must be destroyed.
Interesting little reminder that Barnabas is still in his coffin: Amy gives Quentin several reasons why she doesn't want to go back to Loomis House:
1. It's not that I’m alone a lot and don't have anyone to play with--I’m used to that. (Perhaps their lonely childhoods are what make the Collinses such a hard-drinking clan.)
2. The house feels "spooky," as if something is happening here. I feel more frightened than I’ve ever been, but I can’t explain it, and (in answer to Quentin’s question) I feel that way all the time.
3. Also, Carolyn is hardly ever home, and Will is always in his study. He says he’s writing a new book. I stood in the doorway once and watched him, but he didn’t even know I was there.
This last piece of news makes Quentin sit up, since it is a truth, universally acknowledged, that Will Loomis hasn't written a book in five years or so. Amy says she went into Will's room when he wasn't there and found some papers in the trash, which she hands over to Quentin. To his amazement, they are a draft of an introduction to a new book about Barnabas Collins:
In October 1965 [FIFTY YEARS AGO!!!] I wrote what I considered to be the definitive biography of Barnabas Collins. But certain facts of history have recently been brought to my attention; facts which have proved to me that the life of Barnabas Collins as I constructed and recorded it was pure fiction and nothing more. Providence has now afforded me a second chance. I shall endeavor in these pages to set the record straight and tell the true and shocking story of the life of Barnabas Collins.
Quentin remembers that Will researched Barnabas so thoroughly that he can't possibly have anything new to offer. He decides to ask Will about it, but that's all we hear about Barnabas--for now, anyway.
Trask comes up to Angelique’s parlor, apparently in answer to Alexis’s summons. (Cyrus has gone home in the meantime.) She asks if Quentin has retired for the evening; Trask says he is in his study. Alexis tells Trask, I want you to do something for me that I don’t want Quentin to know about. I want you to drive me back to the cemetery so that I can visit my sister’s tomb one more time. I will be ready to leave in ten minutes. Trask goes to get the car ready. Alexis takes one more long look at Angelique’s portrait.
As thunder rumbles and lightning flashes, Alexis sends the reluctant Trask back to the car to wait for her. Alexis enters to the mausoleum. She opens the casket and looks down at her sister’s uncorrupted body. She touches Angelique’s arm, wondering, Why does she still look as she did in life? It is wrong, she decides, it goes against the natural order of things. As she speaks the camera zooms in for a closeup of Angelique lying in her tomb so that we can see the pulse in her neck (though this was surely unintentional). I am reluctant, Alexis murmurs, but Quentin and Cyrus are right--the body must be destroyed. The next moment, she is paralyzed with shock when Angelique slowly opens her eyes. With a smile she tells her horrified sister, My dear Alexis, you were always so right. Someone must be destroyed--but it won't be me. It will be you....
[As Alexis touches Angelique in her coffin, Alexis is played by Arlene Sand. The next episode teaser is a rerun of the end of this episode.]
