BIG FINISH’s DARK SHADOWS-BLOODLUST episode 6

 

BIG FINISH’s DARK SHADOWS-BLOODLUST episode 6

 

Opening narration: The sheriff? Kate?

 

Maggie talks to Quentin about him leaving and how he is not normal. Quentin didn’t think Maggie would be so closed minded. Michael Devereux told him about Maggie’s group. Maggie knows Quentin did not personally cause Susan’s death.  Amy comes looking for Harry and Tommy (Tom). Quentin tells Amy it is good to see her again.

 

“So gloriously loud,” Quentin describes Amy as a child. She is his great granddaughter and she does not know. Maggie feels she does not need to know.

 

Rhonda comes to speak to Amy Cunningham to tell her and Maggie and Quentin that Andrew is dead. Rhonda also tells them Jessica Griffin was attacked too last night but she is clinging to life in a coma. Maggie wonders about the wounds: a werewolf? She demands Quentin leaves today or she will tell the town what he is.

 

Ghost Susan just appears as Ed explains to Benjamin Franklin what happened. Susan experiences some kind of attack by forces as worlds collide, “Collinsport will fall and there will be another attack…tonight.”

 

Theme.

 

Rhonda tells Amy that a pentagram was found on Andrew, and Amy comments like a witch killed him.

 

Quentin goes to the great house calling it a house of misery. David answers and says, “No dogs allowed.” He also tells Quentin that Roger and his Aunt Elizabeth never returned to Collinsport and are in Paris now. David seems to know Quentin is a werewolf. David explains Carolyn is gone again, went to visit a friend of hers in Logansport: Ned Stuart. David has more caustic comments about who he might want to see: Mrs. Johnson, Susan Griffin. David blames Quentin and the rest of his family for what happened to him.

 

Harry reacts to Andrew’s death. Tom asks if Andrew was murdered. Tom’s child like innocence makes it seem as if he thinks Andrew deserved it. Harry hated him and says so, “He was my dad. God, I wished he was dead but…” Amy comforts Harry.

 

Quentin asks Maggie where Angelique is after David doesn’t know. He searches for her.

 

Tom asks if the wicked witch killed his father.

 

Harry is overheard talking about where Angelique is when he wants to go ask her if she killed Andrew. Quentin goes to the cave on the beach. She shows up for him and is not glad to see him either. Angelique impresses on him that it was not she that killed Andrew. Quentin is a respectable man in London with a business. She feels a secret inside him and that he is in love. He tells her he is in love with a woman named Leyla Collins, his wife. She wonders if that is her signing her own death warrant.

 

Angelique is planning; she started with nothing years ago. Quentin tells her Barnabas will never love her.

 

Quentin doesn’t care about the town or Maggie. “Like all men, you come to me because you want something,” she says.

 

Ed talks to Micheal about the meeting tonight. Mike leaves. Susan comes out, upset they are having the meeting here. Ed drinks. Susan can sense moods, emotions and hints of the future. Hunt down supernatural. Ed thinks that’s good until Susan reminds him she’s a ghost. She can’t hold him. He never was the brightest bulb.

 

Trask comes in for a drink.

 

To defeat the Rankin creature (?), Angelique turned Quentin into the wolf last time he was in town. A full moon is on the way and Quentin wants to feel it. She asks about his new life. He wants to feel it once last time. She calls him naïve and that he sounds like an addict. She demands he go because someone else is waiting to see her and will not reveal himself until he goes.

 

 

Quentin leaves and Harry shows himself. She is genuinely sorry for Harry and has no argument with Amy or Harry. She knows what Harry is and can see it inside him. He did something the night Melody was killed. She has no reason to kill Andrew and had her revenge already. Harry threatens to bring people here if she tells. She really likes him and threatens to reveal what he is if he brings anyone here or tells where she is. She sounds sympathetic but he runs off, yelling, “Leave us alone, just leave us all alone.”

 

Jackie meets Maggie who gives her flyers. Cody asks Maggie about Harry, having heard about Harry’s dad. Amy tells Maggie she needs to lie down and not come to the meeting; Harry’s gone for a walk. Mike tells Amy to look after herself. Tom tells Cody he went for a walk. Cody meets Tom. Maggie tells Cody to look after Tom when they go for a walk.

 

Quentin knows the boy Harry is his great great grandson and a full moon is coming.

 

Cody thinks he’s being played a joke on. Harry meets Tom and Cody. “Is he taller than you? Definitely prettier,” Cody comments. Harry says, “Don’t start.”

 

Cody is going to go to the meeting. They talk about Andrew. Harry says, “This town, what does death even mean here?”

 

Cody jokes about the great totem pole of creation. He also says he has a suddenly hot younger brother. Harry tells Tom he will explain later, then says, “Wait, no I won’t. Cody!”  Jackie and Cody think Harry is cool. Cody says he needs beer, which is he and Jackie they go to the meetings.  They buy coke but then fill the bottle with beer. Tom asks if beer is like bacon and Cody says it is better. Tom wants to try beer. “You are such a bad influence,” Harry says. Is Cody Native American as he continues to make references to his tribe and to Native American culture, usually in a joke.

 

Quentin explains the curse of the werewolf is passed down through and to the male descendants. Tom is his great great grandson. He tells Maggie this. Maggie thinks they can stop creatures if they all work together. There are normal people here who have done terrible things and then there are creatures like Quentin, he explains, who have saved lives, “It’s not black and white, Maggie.”

 

Maggie is putting herself in danger. She asks him to help them but knows he will not, he’s the same selfish Quentin Collins. She tells him to find Angelique and do whatever it is he wants to and get out of Collinsport. She has a point now.

 

Kate wants a beer at the Blue Whale meeting. Ben Franklin is Frankie. They seem okay with each other now. She needed some space. He has a beer, too.

 

The Jerry Lacey reverend Isaiah Trask leaves the Blue Whale after talking to Ed. Jackie holds the door for him. He says Good Evening to Ed. He refuses another whiskey.

 

Cody calls Jackie off of asking Harry about his dad. She asks, “Whoa, when did you get so butch?”

 

She meets Tom. He claims he is here to try beer.

 

“And for once she is actually at a loss for words,” Cody says of Jackie.

 

The Blue Whale still has a juke box.

 

Kate will leave with Frankie, her boyfriend. She asks Harry to take photos for the Star. She knows about the teens’ plans to get drunk. Jackie jokes, “How does she know? She’s a demon. It’s the only explanation.”

 

Cody thinks Kate’s boyfriend is beautiful.

 

Maggie’s mike goes awry for a short time. She gives a speech about the town being safe and to stop pretending that the supernatural isn’t real. She goes on about people who have died and creatures of the night. So many. Ed blames the Collins family. Maggie denies they know that. She spent years being laughed at. On the flyer is a list of those who died due to the supernatural. The TV crew didn’t die from a gas leak. She brings up Victoria Winters.

 

She brings up the birds, the ghost ship, the death of Susan, and Melody.

 

Ed wants to go to Collinwood and get the truth out of David. Rhonda tries to dispute this. Ed starts to lead a mob toward Collinwood. Ed seems to either call Rhonda a liar, “You lie” or “You die!” Or huh?

 

Harry claims Andrew was killed by a witch. He claims it has nothing to do with David Collins. He tells them where a witch is, in a cave on the beach. He explains he doesn’t know if she killed Andrew but she knows things. Ed heads toward the beach. Maggie tells Mike to go back to the Inn. Susan laments Ed.

 

Quentin was late. She wanted him to return at sunset. He warns Angelique. Trask arrives and tries to warn her, too. Trask knows he is a heathen wolf. She calls Trask an old fool. Quentin tells her that they have another ally. He was late because, “I’ve summoned him.”  It is what he was going to offer her in return.

 

Harry claims they were going to go after some innocent man. Cody feels the mob is so wrong. “I don’t understand what’s happening,” Tom said. Harry tells Tom to stay behind him.

 

Trask goes to the mob, telling them his mistress did not kill Melody and Andrew or harm Ed’s mother. Ed beats Trask. Rhonda warms she will shoot if they don’t stop attacking Trask.

 

“I am innocent. This time,” Angelique says. Quentin moves to protect her, behind her.

 

Ed is happy he left Trask in a bad way.

 

Maggie is called in by Angelique who tells her she should be scared of her. Angelique knows young Harry told the mob about her. Harry says, “I’m sorry.”   She brings up Harry’s secret.

 

Angelique says, “Well, I shall not be the one to tell them for I do not judge.”

 

Rhonda tries to protect Angelique. Quentin invokes that it is not black and white to Maggie.

 

“Wait. He comes!” Quentin yells.

 

It feels like an earthquake. “No, it’s no earthquake. He just likes to make a dramatic entrance,” Quentin laughs. “He just likes to make a dramatic entrance.”

 

“Good evening.”

 

Maggie recognizes the figure. “Barnabas?”

 

Andew Collins makes an excellent Barnabas, carefully evoking Frid but making this his own, too. It’s perfect. Unlike Julia in the next mini-series.

 

Maggie tells Barnabas to go back to hell. Quentin tells her to look at the old man on the beach. When Maggie asks who killed Melody and Andrew, Angelique says, “I do not know but what I do know is that we are now the trinity…and we will protect ourselves. The witch…”

 

“The wolf…”

 

“…and the vampire.”

 

THEME.

 

FANTASTIC. Utterly fantastic. What a way for Barnabas to appear. Unexpectedly, too. Another great episode.

 

Cody says, “DS is a BF production.”