DARK SHADOWS 312

 

DARK SHADOWS 312

 

“David has a way of getting past locks.”

 

Vicki gets a IDK in the reprise from last time. David pure and innocent?

 

When Joe and Carolyn inadvertently stop Barnabas from biting Vicki, Barnabas says, “Good evening.”  Barnabas gets a I can’t understand (ICU). Joe explains about Sarah, mentioning Sarah brought Sam to Maggie. Joe gets an IDK.

 

Carolyn thinks they should phone Liz and Roger. Vicki says that they can’t do anything from Boston.

 

When Barnabas can’t find Willie at the Old House, he yells for him.

 

Barnabas gets two IDKs.

 

Willie asks what Barnabas will do. “Well, you wouldn’t harm him would you?” and he says, “He’s only a little boy and a Collins. Well, you wouldn’t harm a member of your own family, would you?” 

 

It’s almost six hours since David left.

 

Vicki remembers seeing a little girl at the top of the stairs during the costume party and realizes now, that she really did see her and that it was Sarah. Joe is smoking.

 

In an tense scene, Joe and the sheriff go to the Old House just as the sun starts to rise, forcing Barnabas to have to wait until the last second before he goes to his coffin.

 

“Why would he come finding her here?” What?

 

Willie’s checkered reddish shirt. Karlen looks particularly good in this episode.

 

Barnabas gets two I KNOWS.

 

Joe found a lot of empty rooms. Barnabas makes excuses about the basement/cellar locked and says he lost the key Elizabeth gave him and he does not want them to knock the door in. Barnabas flubs that it is impossible for Willie…eh, David to get down there.

 

“…so you possibly can’t get down through the door…”  What? Another flub! Hilarious.

 

As Barnabas makes excuses his face is at the 6am clock. Carolyn gets him out of this without realizing it (Joe could repair the door after he knocked it in). They don’t feel the need to break the door in as a woman thought she saw David on the road outside of town. This woman spotted a little boy fitting David’s description several hours ago walking along the beach road about two miles outside of town.

 

Willie flub? As the sun is about to rise any second, Willie says, “But you gotta start your search for David.” Barnabas says yes but he wants Willie to continue the search. What?

 

Barnabas orders Willie to find David and bring him here and he will decide what to do next. Willie watches Barnabas go…

 

Despite all the flubs, another good episode but are we supposed to worry about Barnabas as the sun comes up? We almost do but he’s so bad…most of the time. And yet this is a tense episode and scene. I’m NOT rooting for Barnabas to be honest.

 

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      Vicki. Reprise is different with different dialog. Vicki says, "I look

      upon him as if he were my little brother." Carolyn and Joe return, Carolyn

      calling, this prompts Barnabas to stop and go off into a corner to control

      himself possibly. He says, "Good evening" to them. Sure sign that Malcolm

      is not writing this. Barnabas is using the teleprompter. Joe tells

      Barnabas all about Sam and Sarah, that she told him where to find Maggie

      on that beach. Vicki and Carolyn discuss calling Roger and Liz who are in

      Boston but they don't yet. Barnabas is gone after Joe leaves. Carolyn

      notices he usually does not leave so abruptly. The curtains are once again

      blowing from the inside. Barnabas returns to the Old House and looks

      around. He calls for Willie a few times in what must be filler. It takes a

      long time.

 

      Barnabas and Willie talk. It takes a long time. Willie is worried for

      David and that Barnabas might harm the little boy. Willie asks if he'd

      harm a member of his own family. Barnabas says it would be regrettable.

 

      Collinwood: Joe smokes. Patterson arrives and suggests David might have

      been kidnapped. Joe suggests they go to the Old House and it would be like

      David to go play where he's forbidden to go. "Knowing David that would

      give him more a reason to go there." Joe and Patterson go to the Old House.

 

      Carolyn and Vicki wait in the drawing room and what seems like a bunch of

      dialog-less filler.

 

      Barnabas and Willie talk amid long pauses between them as if again, one or

      the other or both of them have lost their place in the script, forgotten

      their lines, stepped on each other's cues, etc. Then the door knocks come

      and it is Patterson and Joe, there when the sun is about to rise. I must

      admit in the past, this created no tension for me as I wanted the creepy

      Barnabas to get caught but now...it sort makes me feel a bit, a small bit sorry

      for him. I also must admit the 1991 TV show did this scene better as

      Barnabas says he is sick and we see him sizzling in the sun's rays as the

      Sheriff is there. In any event, when Patterson asks if he minds them

      searching, Barnabas flubs, "Not at all", then protests, "My house? Here?

      Why?" and "why would he come finding her here?" Joe suggests there are

      many places kids could sneak in and maybe the two of them have done it

      before such as when Vicki saw Sarah at the top of the stairs. In a long,

      tense sequence, Barnabas and a more nervous Willie try to dissuade the two

      men from searching. As the two men search different places, Willie and

      Barnabas talk. Barnabas flubs again, "You were making them suspicion as it

      was." Willie also flubs when he says, "What happens when they search the

      coffin..." but it is possible he says, "...search the coffin room..." The

     rooster (cock?) crows.

 

      Boom mike shadow. The cellar is locked and Barnabas tells the two men that

      it is "impossible for Willie...ech, David," in another flub. He has lost

      the key he claims after Liz gave him a bunch of keys. He's misplaced it,

      he claims. Joe suggests breaking the door down and that he can replace the

      door later. Barnabas will not let him but just as the two men seem intent

      on doing this, Carolyn arrives and tells them a deputy called and told

      them that there is a lead on David and where the boy might be. An old

      woman claims she saw a boy fitting David's description on the beach. As

      they leave Patterson asks Barnabas if he will join them. He declines.

      Before he retires to his coffin, he tells Willie to find David first and

      bring him here. The credits have the "Reserved" at the very end shaky and

      at the bottom partly invisible.

 

      A shaky episode with flubs galore from the men and camera flubs and white walls and what seems like

      lots of filler with the ladies not talking and Barnabas roaming the Old

      House drawing room for a lot of moments before screaming for Willie.

      Still, having David in trouble for a lot of eps is no bad thing. He no

      longer really deserves it but it seems like karma for locking Vicki in one

      room and then waiting a long time to tell others about her being locked in

      the Old House with Maggie. It would also serve Vicki right (if Barnabas

      bit her) for being so stupid toward Burke. The flubs make it kind of funny

      and it's not boring but also not great either.