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“I try to be honest.”
“I like that. It’s a quality
I admire in people.”
So say the two biggest liars
in DS history!
“I’m trying to reach into the
darkness. I’m trying to create. I plan to transmit the life force of Barnabas
into this creature I’ve created.”
Lara. Lang’s house. Different
reprise. Barnabas and Jeff seem to have hair cuts since the last episode’s
cliffhanger! Lang counts, “1…2…” and then the theme. Barnabas is told he can
die and he says that he takes some pleasure to think that he is that human. Barnabas
flubs when insisting they ask Julia for help.
He tells Lang Julia will help
them because, “…she cares for me…unfortunate but she does.” Eric says, “Yes, I know that.” Barnabas tells Eric that Julia will keep
their secrets. He flubs, “She can…she will…”
Barnabas will not allow him to kill Jeff Clark. He goes back to the
phone. Frid keeps reading the cue cards or teleprompter. They go through the
same thing all over again. Barnabas threatens to call Julia; Lang threatens to
shoot him all over again and advised him not to test him!
On the landing at Collinwood,
Cassandra and Julia chat. Cassandra wants Julia to meet Prof. Stokes, and
expresses that she knows they will be good friends. Julia and she are already
heading to be good friends and that Julia will like Stokes and he will like
her. Do I get the impression that Angelique wants Julia and Stokes to fall in
love so Julia will get away from Barnabas?
Hold the fort: didn’t Stokes
get drawn into this because he wanted the painting that Victoria Winters
manipulated by Angelique bought? Now, Cassandra knew Stokes before she showed
up with Roger? Huh? And why would Cassandra want Julia to meet an expert in the
occult? The only reason I can think of is that she wants Julia and Stokes to
hit it off so Julia will forget her love for Barnabas but at this point does
Cassandra even know Julia loves Barnabas? And was Cassandra that female student
Stokes was waiting for a while ago? Later, Stokes doesn’t seem to admit he knew
Cassandra as a friend so what the?
Cassandra tells Julia she was
the first person that was kind to her at Collinwood—the first person that was
nice to her. Julia tells her that that is an honest answer. Does Julia know
she’s Angelique yet???? She acts as if she does but doesn’t believe the witch
is evil!? Cassandra says, “I try to be honest.” Julia says, “I like that quality I admire in
a person.”
Barnabas calls via the phone;
Cassandra answers, passes it off to Julia, who then has to leave. Outside the
doors it looks like fall.
Eric moved Jeff to his room. Julia
arrives and gets and IDU.
Barnabas explains to Julia
and asks her to make him forget five hours of his life. He flubs, “As you know
this…” Julia says IDU again.
Vicki told Julia that Jeff
was in a mental institution. Eric lies. He mentions there’s a good deal about
Jeff Clark that she does not understand. Julia says, “Poor Vicki.” She also says, “She’s in love with this young
man and she doesn’t know.”
I feel an enormous attempt in
this ep to give Julia more humanity…to make her care about others including
Vicki and to seem as if she admires qualities in others such as honesty that
she herself feels she doesn’t have…and which she didn’t before this ep or this
storyline. Julia goes upstairs to Jeff’s bedroom, which looks suspiciously like
Willie’s old room in the Old House and Vicki’s during 1795. Eric is told to leave. Julia says, “…I can’t
have either of you here.” BUT Barnabas
is not in the room. Lang leaves.
Julia tells Jeff she is Vicky
Winters’ friend. Jeff=teleprompter. He tells her about the experiment and that
the lab is on the second floor just like this room. “He’s trying to create something
alive out of something dead,” he explains. “I know it’s incredible but it’s the
truth and he’s been trying to force me to help him.” When Julia questions him about the thing, he
gets in an IDK. Julia gets an “I honestly don’t know what to make out of what
you just said.”
She uses her medallion to
hypnotize Jeff. We see the psychedelic lights. For the first time in a long
time, we hear a voice over. Julia has the voice over. In 1795 the voice overs
came fast and furious with sometimes four in one ep, sometimes scene after
scene. Now, the voice over bits have slowed down a great deal. In this room a
shadow is used to intimate a window. There is also that same scaffold we’ve
seen time and again in the series since the first year episodes possibly.
Julia has door trouble
opening the one by the lab. Inside, she screams and gets hysterical.
“Ohohoh!” She puts her hands up and “Huh
HUH!” She has her hands on her face.
Barnabas comes in and tells her she wants to save Jeff. Lang comes in and
flubs, “No one has ever been done before.”
What? Julia is hysterical. Barnabas tells her that one more life is all
that has to be sacrificed: for the face/head. They keep saying face. Do they
have the back of the head? Lang doesn’t trust Julia.
Julia has a voice over as she
is leaving, seemingly agreed to Barnabas’s condition. Her voice over proves
otherwise. She won’t allow another life to be lost not even for Barnabas. She
stupidly goes to the office in Lang’s house and starts to call the police,
having locked the door. Lang and Barnabas are outside the door. Barnabas gets
an IDK when Lang asks why the door is closed.
Julia calls the operator and
goes into hysterics worthy of her almost sole episode. “Operator, get the
police, quickly! Quickly!” She screeches, “QUICKLY!”
Who does not love Grayson
going into hysterics even if it is just the last few minutes in the script. I
do. This episode, thus for that alone, is worth watching. Lang and Barnabas are
not as clueless as before; Jeff is sidelined a bit; and Grayson takes over as
an almost heroine; Barnabas a sort of anti hero hero. ! A better episode. Thank
goodness.
Grayson’s great!
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