DARK SHADOWS 466

 DARK SHADOWS 466

“Yeah, well, I must have a double somewhere.”

 

“Have you discovered something that Mr. Collins didn’t know about?”

 

“No, I don’t think we’ve discovered anything that he didn’t know about already.”

 

 

“You know your patient could be classified as a member of the living dead.”

 

“He’s a vampire, isn’t he?”

 

Grayson. Short reprise. The reprise seems to be about 1 min 20 seconds. No new stuff. It seems to be exactly the same other being shorter.

 

We see the sign of Collinsport Hospital and it has rooms that look just like bedrooms rather than hospital rooms. A nurse (played by Katherine Balfour) comes into the show.

 

She has some kind of accent. British? Bostonian? Massachusetts? Russian? She telephones Julia at Collinwood and tells her the news, mentioning that Barnabas is critical and that the ID on him and Miss Victoria Winters was the same address! Does Barnabas have ID? How? AND why is his address the same one? Doesn’t the Old House have its own address? Maybe not?

 

Barnabas is calling out things in his delirium and this includes, “Vicki, Millicent was right” and various names such as Josette.

 

 

NOTE: I never thought about this brief moment other than it just being Barnabas in a dream state but…perhaps it is his longing to be good or to tell the truth or free Millicent from being known as insane, something, anything good from Barnabas besides hypocritical guilt.

 

 

 

Eric Lang, although we do not yet know his name, comes into the room.  We’ve heard him as Jeremiah’s ghost’s voice and seen him as a lawyer (maybe called a Judge) Mattigan who once was going to defend Vicki but decided not to when he heard her wild story.  He listened to Barnabas’s sleep ranting and also listens to his non heartbeat and feels for a pulse. The nurse and he talk about how he had no pulse and how his blood count was low. Lang tells her to prepare plasma for a blood transfusion. In the accident, Barnabas was not bleeding at all but now has almost no blood. The nurse said something like, “I didn’t understand it.”

 

The man who looks like Peter is named Jeff Clark but we don’t find that out right away. He is standing over a sleeping Vicki when the nurse kicks him out. He returns when he hears Vicki wake up and call for Peter. When he goes in, Roger Davis is talking as the music builds heading for a commercial ad. We don’t hear what he says.

 

He tells her that she and Barnabas crashed into a tree and he told the nurse earlier that he caused the accident. He pulled both Vicki and Barnabas out of the car. Vicki asks, “You don’t know?”  when he seems not to know her. He doesn’t know her. She also gets an IDU this while he responds with, “I sure don’t either.”

 

Vicki seems to say, “You’ll disappear and I won’t never know.” Or maybe it’s “I will never know.”

 

 

Ironically, Peter/Jeff says, “Look, I won’t disappear. I couldn’t if I wanted to.”

 

She asks him questions. He hasn’t lived here long and he feels he couldn’t disappear if he wanted to (maybe because he caused the accident or does he already like her?). She tells him a bit about Peter. He says, “I must have a double somewhere.”   He tells her his name is Jeff Clark but he envies Peter if she loves him; Vicki tells him not to envy Peter. She tells him, “You are Peter Bradford.”

 

 

The nurse comes in and tells him that Vicki’s doctor is Eric Lang and Jeff seems to know him and not be very happy that he is her doctor. Jeff is kicked out again. Eric comes in. Barnabas had very little blood. When Vicki asks if Barnabas is all right, Lang gets his first IDK.

 

Eric flubs when he calls Vicki “Miss Collins, uh, Miss Winters, I’m sorry.”  When Vicki asks what is wrong with Barnabas, Lang says, “I don’t think we discovered anything that he didn’t know already.”  He finds the marks on her neck and she tells him that maybe she scratched herself. The nurse comes to Lang, telling him that someone is trying to move the patient.

 

NOTE: this shows more typical “Maggie” and/or vampire/victim behavior, though Vicki seems now to know ALL about Barnabas and is protecting his secret. Maybe I forgot the future of this plotline and maybe Julia makes her forget all about it but this would seem to indicate Vicki knows all along, if not?

 

Julia is calling for an ambulance to take Barnabas away. When Lang walks in, the two know each other but formally. He calls her Dr Hoffman and she calls him Dr Lang, “How are you, Dr. Lang?”  She insists that only she understands Barnabas’s care completely. He has a rare blood disorder. Lang is sarcastic and evasive, knowing Julia is covering up what Barnabas really is.

 

Julia gets, “IDK what you’re inferring.”

 

 

He asks to see her neck, thinking she is under his control. There is some kind of annoying video tape line across the screen for a short time.

 

Lang says he has an interest in bizarre medicine, it is his hobby. He also claims that the patient can be considered one of the living dead. Julia tries to call for someone over his head that is in charge, “Who’s in charge here, Dr. Templeton?”  

 

Eric stops her, telling her that hospital policy disallows her taking him.  She lies to him that Barnabas has an eye condition and Lang knows she is lying. IN A WAY I LIKE THAT HE SEES THROUGH HER LIES but in another way he’s most patronizing and annoying. She makes him promise that all sunlight will be blocked from the room.

 

Lang asks, “He’s a vampire, isn’t he?”  He also comments that Julia finds herself in a most curious position to be in. She tells him that there are many unknowns to this—he may reject the blood transfusion. He calls Barnabas “OUR” patient.

Lang also told her, “You see, I know.”

 

Someone on another blog stated Julia says, “No one has ever given such massive blood transfusions to a vampire before.” She NEVER says that.

 

Later, the room has been sealed from all light. Barnabas wakes up and meets Lang. WHERE DID JULIA GO?  He asks if Vicki is all right (and he seems genuinely caring about Vicki) and Lang assures him she just has some minor bruises.

 

Barnabas has the most amusing PJs, all candy colored reddish or pinkish. For the reprise they will be totally different, a kind of light blue. And he has a different robe on in the reprise. In any case, Lang tells him it is nearly 4 o’clock. Barnabas says, “You don’t understand.”

 

Barnabas wants him to call a car from Collinwood. Lang tells him he’s tried new and experimental drugs on him and he can’t leave yet. “You must study your reactions to them,” he seems to flub.

 

Lang gets, “Mr. Collins you don’t understand. You just don’t understand what has happened to you.”

 

Barnabas reacts badly to all this and gets his robe (red?) and prepares to leave. Lang moves to the curtains over a window and moves them aside, opening them up to the sunlight that comes in. “It is 4 o’clock…in the afternoon!”

 

 

 

 Barnabas screams and covers his face as sunlight fills the room! On the dvd, there is a jump as this happens. Was this a different take on the screaming Barnabas???

 

The credits, quite funnily, have the office desk with phone and the clock says 4pm.

 

Addison Powell: how to describe him? He’s wildly good in this with just a flub or two and yet he conveys the strange doctor well. I didn’t really trust him at all for Barnabas and Vicki but the whole thing just works and his interaction with Julia, she having to be the one in the hot spot, makes for good TV. The cliffhanger is a GREAT one but it’s somewhat spoiled by Addison’s overacting at just the wrong spot when he kept the rest pretty low key. Still, it is not ruined and is entirely redone for the next ep’s reprise. This ep was surprising and bold: how can they keep the secret now? Who was Jeff? Was he Peter? What’s going on? I found this ep to make me want to watch more. A bold move for DS…                                  

                                             

At the start of act 2, when Jeff says “Be careful,” the camera swings too far to the left, revealing the edge of the set and the room beyond it.

When Vicki asks Jeff if he remembers her, he says, “What, have we m– known each other before? I’m sure I’d remember.”