DARK SHADOWS 532/533
DARK SHADOWS 532/533
Lara and as if they heard me,
a new still of Collinwood or at least different from the one they’ve been using
over and over and over. No reprise. 9 others have had the dream. We see the Afghan
throw blanket on Maggie’s couch in the main room of the cottage.
Maggie is sleepless also,
worrying (though she says looking for) about Joe. It is just after
Vicki explains what just
happened to her with the dream and reminds her about the compulsion to tell
someone about it. Maggie says it was just a dream. WHAT? What is wrong with
everyone who has had the dream? Do they have some kind of memory loss about it?
We hear shuffling as they talk. Maggie does make mention that she had the dream
too but I guess she’s trying to reassure Vicki that Barnabas is not dead. Vicki
coughs. She also says, “Maggie, IDK what I’m going to do.”
Barnabas calls Maggie on the
phone to tell her about Joe. He and Willie found Joe in the woods…this is the
lie he tells Maggie. Vicki wants to go
to the hospital with Maggie, she doesn’t want to stay alone. Maggie tells her
to hurry.
Nice new angle of the Tower
Room exterior and Collinwood exterior. It is 6:15 am: Barnabas comes to
Collinwood where Blair is fully dressed. “I have always kept irregular hours,
Mrs. Blair, as I’m sure you do.” Blair
gets a sleeping Cassandra up to come down to talk to Barnabas.
NOTE: As we see through the
drawing room doors, before Barnabas knocks, we see Blair leaning on the
fireplace. It does look as if he is conferring with someone or something unseen!
Maggie sees Joe and she says,
“Thank God you’re alive.” Joe tells
Maggie and Vicki that he owes his life to Barnabas. He has a concussion.
Sheriff Patterson played by Vince O’Brien, comes in and Joe tells him about
Stokes harboring Adam.
Cassandra comes down the
steps and we see a huge camera on screen.
Cassandra and Barnabas ask
Blair to leave them alone to talk. The pair go into the drawing room. Barnabas
is willing to admit defeat, that she’s won. She says, “I’m afraid that IDU what
you’re saying.” She still won’t admit
that she is Angelique.
Vicki has had the dream and
she will not come running to him to tell it to him, he knows this. He will
submit to her and will always try to be what he was to her in
After he leaves, a visibly
impressed Angelique then says, “Could you ever really love me?” THERE’S JUST NO PLEASING HER!!!! This b word
also gets a YOU DON’T KNOW how much I wish I could believe you.
Maggie brings Vicki in to
Collinwood, checking to see if anyone, particularly Barnabas is around. Nice
shot of both sets of doors through both Drawing Room doors. She tells Vicki to
come in. Blair comes down so Vicki runs up to her room.
Blair meets Maggie for the
first time and trusts they will be friends and comments that she is more
beautiful and not as average as Cassandra led him to believe. When he hears
that her fiancé is in the hospital he offers to drive her back to get to know
her better. Mike shadow as they leave.
The hospital window: a nice
shot looking into it at Joe and Patterson. Unfortunately, we see someone in the
glass that we’re probably not supposed to?
The sheriff leaves and runs
into Maggie who asks him about Stokes. Patterson already questioned Stokes and
feels he got nowhere with him. Stokes told him that Adam was there only an hour
and had come there looking for food.
Stokes denied knowing any
more about Adam than that. Patterson feels he is lying but can’t do anything
without proof. What about a witness? Like say Joe!? He then tells Maggie they
have to find who is protecting Adam! Stokes is, you fool!
NOW in what is one of the
best scenes of the entire series (again during this 1968 drag fest!), Cassandra
admires Barnabas’s portrait. Blair comes back in to Collinwood and sees
Cassandra, who’s wearing a nice red dress. “I’ve won, after all these years I’ve
finally won,” she states and explains to
him.
He is not thrilled and
brought her back so she can get revenge, not form an alliance with Barnabas
Collins. Not sure I like him bullying our main villain Angelique but he’s now
the main boss villain it would seem. “An alliance between you and Barnabas
Collins is out of the question.”
I don’t like that a man is
telling her what to do and she does it, afraid of him.
He moves off into the drawing
room or someplace else and NOW Vicki comes in and tells Cassandra what she
thinks of her in the best scene ever! When Vicki tells her she knows the answer
to how she’s feeling, Cassandra says IDK what you mean.
Cassandra tells Vicki that
Barnabas was looking for her. “You’re a liar,”
Vicki states and for good measure adds, “And you’re evil and selfish and
wicked.” I LOVE IT! Someone is finally
telling Angelique the truth about herself.
Cassandra gets another IDK, this time IDK what you’re talking about.
“How dare you talk to me that
way,” she only counters and is still visibly happy that Barnabas has submitted
to her so she’s somewhat seemingly impressed by Vicki’s talk in a way.
Vicki goes on, “It’s not
going to work. I’ll die before I tell the dream to Barnabas.” She tells her she can have the dream over
and over but won’t submit to telling Barnabas. The dream is going to end with
her. After she goes, Blair comes out and points, “I rather like her.” THAT’S A GREAT LINE from an enemy. And even
Angelique seems impressed.
Finally someone human,
without any powers, is telling Angelique off and it is about time and she
(Vicki) suffers no ill effects. It’s something great! And to top it all off,
Blair likes her for it!
Angelique admits, “She has
great will power.” Of course, it would suit her if the dream curse does not go
on because she wants to accept Barnabas’s submitting to her even if Blair won’t
allow it. She seems to think Blair can do nothing now and Barnabas will her’s. Blair
has other plans: to bring Barnabas to Vicki. He seems to force
Angelique/Cassandra to write a letter to Barnabas…in Vicki’s handwriting…
It is interesting to note
that Cassandra seems reluctant now to further the dream curse and seems to want
to allow it to end and take Barnabas up on his proposal. It is only Blair that
makes this go on. Darn him! Ironic as later we will find out that he has
feelings for Maggie and one can already see this. He also seems SEEMS sincere
when he tells Maggie he is sorry for her fiancé being in the hospital or that
he’s sorry he’s delayed her.
An almost perfect episode. An almost perfect episode, everyone in top
form, especially Frid, Parker, and Moltke. Moltke is really rather good away
from saggy leading men that she's been saddled with for like since the start of
the show.
Near the start of act 1, when Maggie and Vicki are talking about the dream, there’s the noise of something heavy scraping across the floor from the studio.
Vicki coughs in the middle of her line: “I have to tell the dream to Barnabas.”
Just after that, Maggie says, “I know that, Vicki, but if you just –” Her line is supposed to be cut off by the phone ringing, but it’s a second late. She mutters again, “If you just, uh…” and then the phone rings.
The final music cue in act 1 is played a little too late; it cuts off as the commercial break starts.
As Barnabas crosses the Collinwood foyer to meet Cassandra by the stairs, you can see a camera swinging around on the left side of the screen.
When Barnabas tells Cassandra, “So I am willing to submit to you,” a chair scrapes on the studio floor.
Barnabas is in the Collinwood drawing room, talking to Cassandra. He says, “If and when you have reached a decision, you will find at Collinwood. In the Old House.”
Behind the Scenes:
Dark Shadows was pre-empted about four weeks ago, for coverage of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination. Since then, the episode numbers were knocked out of their usual pattern of ending on multiples of 5. Today’s episode has a double number — 532/533 — to make up for the missing day.
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