DARK SHADOWS 519
DARK SHADOWS 519
“You let Victoria Winters
hang when you were the guilty one. I have come back to right that wrong.”
“The eternal battle shall be
waged again, here, in this house.”
Vicki. The narration states
that Liz spent the day at the grave of her ancestors.
Liz comes back to Collinwood
while Roger is on the phone with Vicki. Vicki tells him about Sam. Roger tells
her that he is sure Liz will allow Maggie to stay here and he knows that he and
Cassandra will welcome Maggie and be delighted to have her. Sure. NOTE: a kind
of smoke or mist blows across Liz INSIDE the foyer after the door is shut or
maybe it’s the lighting but it sure looks like a large amount of smoke!?
Liz doesn’t want to talk to
anyone, not even Vicki. When Roger talks to Liz, he thinks her morbid manner is
about Sam, that she’s already heard the bad news. He tells her he knew Sam was
a friend but he was hardly that close to them or to Liz.
Liz was at Eagle Hill all day
and mentions something about Roger burying her. Liz asks what Roger is talking
about and then Roger realizes Liz does not know about Sam so we get a “YOU
DON’T KNOW” instead of “I DON’T
KNOW.”
There is a bang. And a
strange music blast as Liz tries to talk. Liz knows she is next and soon. Roger
thinks she is ill and wants to ask Dr. Hoffman or Dr. Tobias to look at her.
We see the piano. Liz talks
about the years having passed, years that she didn’t really live, was not
really living. She calls Roger shallow. Liz flubs at the word monster calling
it master.
Cassandra makes Liz see
through Naomi’s eyes and she’s wearing her LAUGH IN outfit. If she chooses, Liz
will die like Naomi.
Roger knocks and asks why the
door was locked. Cassandra tells him that David kept coming in and she was not
in the mood to deal with him, she’s been thinking about poor Mr. Evans. Mike
Shadow. Roger asks her to have a game of bridge. She tells him in a half an
hour.
After he leaves, she locks
the door and prepares poison. Trask appears and watches. She feels it, even
though he vanishes. He appears again. His image moves up and down as if the
effect, which started out okay, is going wrong or the machine making the image
moved.
Vicki comes down the steps.
There are ten rings to the clock chimes. So it’s
Julia has given Maggie a
sedative and Maggie is asleep. Joe loved Sam, too. Vicki says, “I know.” Since
his blindness, Joe claims he and Sam became good friends. Joe wants to get the
monster that did this to Sam.
Vicki says, “We’ve had enough
violence,” then oddly, adds, “…for now.”
So later then she thinks they might need more violence???
He tells Vicki that maybe he
and Maggie should leave Collinwood. Vicki says, “Don’t do that.” Cause it’s a barrel of laughs? Joe can’t
imagine Maggie going back to the house to see Sam’s paintings and things.
Liz comes and calls him Lt.
Forbes and acts like Naomi vs Nathan Forbes. When Vicki makes her realize what
she is doing, she apologizes and runs upstairs. Is Vicki pregnant?
Vicki tells Joe, “Don’t say
anything to Mrs. Collins” about what
happened with Liz/Naomi. Cassandra comes down and tells them she is sorry about
what happened to Sam. She wants to talk to Miss Winters about David. Joe goes
up to the first room on the left to sit with a sleeping Maggie.
David is apparently
frightened by Carolyn’s kidnapping and Sam’s death, according to the witch
biatch. She seems to be lying. She questions Vicki about Sam’s last words. Vicki
thinks that is a macabre game and
leaves, insinuating that she suspects Cassandra has something to do with the
way Liz is behaving.
After Vicki leaves, Cassandra
has voice over and reveals that tomorrow, David will be frightened by death.
What she means by this is beyond me? I guess she means by Liz’s death?
Maybe she means the death of
Liz will frighten David? Trask appears
in the drawing room and calls her Angelique Collins after she says, “I do not
know you.”
He says the devil may have painted
her hair but he knows her. He claims the The Lord has let him return and the
eternal battle will be waged in this house. He has a cross and this makes
Angelique pass out. He plans on driving the other devils out, so one has
already flown the coop of the biatch.
Soon, Angelique is tied to a
tree. Trask, smartly, won’t tell her who is responsible for bringing him back.
Angelique tries to lie her way out of this. Trask use the cross to make the
sign of the cross on her head. She yells, “You cannot change me.” SOOO she’s evil of her own free will.
As Angelique says something about him dropping that, she mimics the word, “cross,” as if she was not allowed to say it out loud. Trask says she will face the judgment of THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (a movie and a tv movie). Both actors look at the teleprompter to say their lines at various times but not that often here, just glances.
He continues to exorcise
Angelique and to be honest, it’s quite disturbing AND embarrassing. She will be
returned to the bosom of goodness. Angelique spouts, “NEVER!” Trask has to blow a fly away from his face as
he rants his ceremony. He also shakes his head away from one. A fly lands on
his shoulder and flies off. He sets her free or her spirit free. She screams
and vanishes. More screams.
The credits credit Jerry Lacy
as Tony Peterson…but Lacy does not play Tony in this, he plays Trask!
A troubling episode but a
good one and one where the actors put their all into it. It might be the first to
headlong confront that the devil is behind Angelique and that she is willingly
a part of that. It also confirms that Trask NOW has the Lord behind him? Sort
of? Fully? It might be the first and ONLY time that a supernatural entity, the
ghost of Trask, gives insight into the fact that it is the Lord giving him his
power and he seems to be one of the only goodly sorts (sort of?) that has power
over Angelique’s full force as he really does seem to drive out demons. I can
see those Catholic and Christian groups going insane over this episode and
trying to get the series cancelled.
Dark Shadows bloopers to watch out for:
At the end of the teaser, Liz gazes out the window and says, “We all eventually die, don’t we? And I know who will be next.” The camera pulls in for a close-up, and it’s obvious that she isn’t quite sure what she’s supposed to say next. Her gaze flickers to the teleprompter, and then shrugs, “I will be next, and it will be soon.”
Coming back after the opening titles, we join Roger’s first line already in progress:
Roger: — frighten me.
Liz: I shouldn’t. Death is a perfectly natural thing.
Liz trips over the word “monster” neat the beginning of act 1.
At the end of act 1, the Chromakey ghost of Reverend Trask appears behind Cassandra. As the scene fades to commercial, the camera filming Cassandra moves, which makes it look like Trask is bouncing up and down.
When Liz imagines that she’s addressing Nathan Forbes, she barks, “Don’t play the innocent with me! It might work with Militant, perhaps –”
As Trask backs Cassandra up to the piano, she yells, “Stay away from me!” He glances at the teleprompter as she throws him the cue again: “Stay away from me…”
Trask is bedeviled by a wayward fly during the last moments of Cassandra’s exorcism. When he yells, “Depart from her, ye cursed demons!” the fly lands on his tie. The Reverend continues, “– into the everlasting fire which burns all evil, and leaves only the ashes of what good she once possessed.” At this point, the fly takes wing, and flies into his face. He puffs, to blow it away. “Devils be humbled!” he screams, as the fly bumps into his nose. He shakes his head. “Shrink in fear at the dark night you must shortly see.” The fly — not accustomed to shrinking in fear — settles on his right shoulder for another couple lines. Trask bellows, “Hear me, and go hence from her!” and the fly finally goes hence.
As Cassandra disappears, the audio drops out on two of Trask’s words. You can read his lips to fill in the missing words: “Her spirit is free! [Out, devils!] Go!”
Jerry Lacy is credited as Tony Peterson, instead of Reverend Trask.
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