DARK SHADOWS 441








 

 

      441

      Joan. The narration tells us that Trask will find a fate worse than death.

      Reprise which seems exactly the same. Trask voice over. Maude’s unblinking

      dead body is …well, I give the actress credit for not blinking. This is

      indicative of DS deaths: the bodies have their eyes wide open but

      unstaring and unblinking. Nathan wants Trask to deliver a letter to

      Millicent and as Nathan is not welcome at Collinwood, he needs Trask to

      bring it. Trask, at first, refuses but Nathan sees the arm of Maude from

      under the blanket that Trask stupidly threw over her body..she’s on his

      bed and was found that way. Nathan, at first, believes Trask just had a

      girl over and that she’s asleep. He says things like, “You’re a man after

      my own heart” and “I never find them waiting for me when I come home.”

      Trask tells him she’s dead and he finds out it is Maude by looking at her.

      Trask and he figure if the town never finds out about this, his name will

      not be tarnished or gossiped about. Nathan tells him he will help him if

      THE PRICE IS RIGHT. Trask will deliver his letter. He will do it tomorrow

      morning but Nathan will help him after he delivers the letter. “I don’t

      trust anyone.” Trask talks him into it anyway. Nathan will get rid of

      Maude’s body tonight. Nathan gets an IDK sort of.

 

      Millicent uses the tarot cards to plot a disaster on Nathan involving the

      tower of destruction, the star, the death of feeling (her love), the moon,

      the chariot, and news that’s hidden for a long time, the lover, etc. With

      her at the top of the card pyramid as the high priestess. She talks to

      herself and says that the death of her feeling of love has been replaced

      by hatred. Naomi asks whom she is talking to—and Millicent says to Nathan.

      Millicent explains the cards to her. Naomi thinks she needs to stop

      talking this way and act this way and get over it. The lover is dead,

      Millicent says.

 

      Trask comes to deliver the letter. Millicent gets an IDK. Naomi is there and denies him the

      chance to get to her but Millicent tells her to let him in. She also

      states that Naomi may stay (“I keep no secrets from cousin Naomi”) and she

      abides by and approves Naomi’s decision to tear the letter up…in word

      only. After Trask leaves and Naomi goes into another room, Millicent tries

      to piece the letter back together.

 

      Trask has a dream and thinks he hears Abigail’s voice in it. We see those

      psychedelic lights again but this time there is no Julia medallion. Lacey

      is terrible as he says, very stiffly, “Where….are…you?” But he’s usually

      very good. He sees a door and tinsel streamers on it. In his dream, he

      hears the voice of a female tell him to find out the secret and that she

      knows the secret. It sounds like Abigail. In the door is Maude’s wet body,

      a ghost possibly, that tells him THEY (Nathan and? Noah?) threw her body

      into the water. This ghost is a bit scary. Trask calls for Abigail who

      shows up and tells him to go to the Old House to find out the secret of

      the witch. She shows him a visual of the Old House but the hand is there

      beckoning him to go there, also. Would you go? When he wakes up, he

      decides he must go to the old house.

            

 

Vicki is talking to someone, maybe at the Old

      House but there are steps in the shot and Alexandra gets very upset as

      there is hammering, bumping, thumping going on in the background and

      distracting her and she rolls her eyes. I know I saw this scene but I

      would have thought I'd have seen it already as there are not many black

      and whites to go and Vicki's really not in it that much...anyone have any

      idea which ep this is? How'd I miss that or did they edit that out of the

      DVDs. If they did, I’m pissed off. If not, where is it? I would have sworn

      it was during the BARNABAS INTRO stuff...and maybe it was he she was

      talking to or maybe Willie???I'm baffled.

 

 

 

 

 

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