DARK SHADOWS 560

 DARK SHADOWS 560

 

“We must create a mate for Adam…now.”

 

“I mean putting parts of dead people together…I mean it isn’t only crazy, it’s wrong.”

 

 

Lara. Morning. The narration tells us the experiment might save or destroy the Collins family. Willie will go to Lang’s house for journals. Julia gets two IDKs about the experiment.

 

 

Julia tells Barnabas that Vicki has returned. Barnabas says, “Thank God.” 

 

“We must create a mate for Adam…now.”

 

Julia gets a third IDK. And an “I know.”

 

Barnabas tells Julia to think not only of Vicki’s life but those of Elizabeth, Carolyn and David. “For the sake of every member of the Collinwood family.”  

 

 

Willie brings the books to Julia that she wanted. They tell Willie that Vicki is safe. Willie tells Barnabas he is glad, he was worried about her. They relay to Willie that he must dig up dead bodies. He flubs Barnabas’s name. Barnabas tells him there is no way out of this for him.

 

 

“Now there’s no way out for  you.”  He’s not a vampire so what can Barnabas do? He threatens to send him back to Windcliff and Julia reluctantly agrees.

 

 

“I’ve done a lot of things for you in the past, Barnabas but now you’re asking too much.”  He goes on to declare he’s not going to do this. “I won’t.”  

 

 

Later, the two wonder about how to get him to cooperate. Barnabas asks Julia.  Julia: “I---I don’t know, Barnabas.”   Julia goes downstairs.

 

 

Joe comes in and thanks Barnabas and wants to repay him for saving his life. Barnabas tells Joe he owes him nothing. He’s grateful to both Barnabas and Loomis for saving him.

 

 

He asks about Nicholas Blair. Barnabas seems to flub, “When she left, and he met Roger…”

 

Joe received a strange note from Blair, asking him to come to the House By the Sea at 7pm. Joe knows that Blair didn’t like him and the feeling is mutual.

 

 

WHY DOESN’T BARNABAS TELL JOE TO STAY AWAY FROM BLAIR? Instead, he just asks Joe to come to the Old House after his visit with Blair!

 

Downstairs Julia sniffles a lot (at least ten times). Willie come down and she asks for him to help her sort papers and journals (of Lang’s that Willie fetched).

 

 

When Willie tells her what they are doing is wrong and crazy, she says, “I no longer know what is right or wrong, just what is necessary.”  Willie will leave and Julia will not send him to Windcliffe. She asks where he will go. “I don’t know,” he answers. He retreats up the steps, scared about this horror and the music goes toward the commercial break and we hear a kind of pop. 

 

Joe tells Barnabas he will stop back here at 8 or 8:30pm. Willie comes up. Joe apologizes to Willie and Willie accepts it and shakes his hand. After he leaves, Willie expresses the idea that Barnabas should have left Joe to die. Barnabas tells him that “I can’t do that and neither can you.”

 

If it were Willie’s choice, Joe would be dead by now. Nice man. They both guess Maggie will probably get married to Joe. Barnabas asks Willie if he is still infatuated with Maggie.

 

 

Willie tells him, “I’m clearing out, Barnabas.” 

 

“Are you?”

 

 

Barnabas tells Willie that his leaving might make Adam angry and Adam might retaliate by hurting or killing Maggie. He also flubs, “You can’t lie….leave here….”

 

Willie tells him that Julia said she’d let him leave. Barnabas, “She did?”

 

He manipulates Willie into thinking about staying. Willie flubs, too, “She said she don’t…that you don’t….”  AND Barnabas, the jerk, is doing it with such glee.

 

 

“You got her (Julia) and Haskell’s got Maggie.”

 

Though Barnabas is manipulating Willie and probably (maybe?) wouldn’t let Adam get sent after Maggie by his reporting that Willie left, his half lie about this is probably somewhat true: if Adam realized Willie was at fault, Adam might go after Maggie. On the other hand, Adam did seem to feel a bit guilty about Sam so maybe Adam might leave Maggie alone. He’s just so unpredictable, who knows? He DOES really seem to hate Maggie more than anyone else other than Barnabas, Willie and probably Julia.

 

Barnabas is a nasty piece of work here as he manipulates Willie using Maggie’s life and threat Adam might have on her if Willie leaves and Adam learns that Willie endangered or stopped the experiment.

 

Julia comes up with the journal that can help her through the initial stages of the experiment. Willie tells them he will not like it but he will help.

 

At the House by the Sea, Angelique lets Joe in, “My name is Angelique.”  Note: Oddly and ironically, the Prime sub titles mistake her name as Angelic. WTF? She claims to be Nicholas’ secretary. “I’m supposed to be Nicholas’ secretary.”

 

 

She thinks Joe has an honest face and goes into some sob story about how Nicholas Blair is abusing her. Joe gets an IDU any of this. “You don’t understand.” “You’re right, I don’t understand.”   She tells him Blair has done terrible things. Joe offers to take her to the sheriff right now but claims he will protect her if it comes to that.

 

She cries in relief (is she faking all of this?).

 

 

She puts her head on Joe’s shoulder and bites his neck. It seems as if a few seconds might be cut out.

 

Joe’s reactions are odd, too.

 

 

Instead of pushing her off him, he lets her put her head on his shoulder, getting very close into a hug. AND instead of running from the house and/or calling the police immediately, he listens longer and longer to her half truth story (a lot of that going around).

 

 

 

Review: Karlen is very good in this episode. Not sure what else to say about this episode. It does the job.

 

Glad to see Julia not manipulating Willie for a change. Again, why Barnabas just doesn’t warn Joe off from Blair…as well as warning Maggie about the evil man, too is beyond me.

 

Certainly, they would/might listen to Stokes about how evil Blair is…Some of this is interesting but it also feels at times that the show is just bidding time or killing time…

 

Though I don’t really feel that way now. AND Angelique as a vampire is entirely scary and creepy, if not truly shocking as we already know she is one.

 

 from DS EVERY DAY: This is nonsense, of course. Adam would never think of using Maggie to make Willie stay, unless Barnabas specifically recommended it, which is basically what he’s threatening to do.

So when you get right down to it, there’s essentially no difference between Barnabas, Nicholas and Adam. They each have a slightly different agenda, but they all use the same toolkit. Adam threatens Barnabas with killing Vicki; Barnabas threatens Willie with killing Maggie. Nicholas pretends that he just wants to have a chat with Joe, and Barnabas pretends that he doesn’t know that Joe is walking into a trap.

The idea that Barnabas and Julia are creating “a race of monsters” is hardly even worth worrying about. These people are a race of monsters. It’s hard to imagine that they could reanimate anything that’s worse than the characters we already have on the show.

From DS BEFORE I DIE: John: Just what is Barnabas thinking when he suggests that getting dead bodies isn't complicated?

Christine: Consider his background. He's been responsible for quite a few dead bodies, after all.

John: I'm sorry, but Willie was too easily duped by Barnabas' "what about Maggie" speech. Not once did he ask how Adam would know that a) he wouldn't assist with the experiment, or b) that he had feelings for Maggie. If he had, Barnabas would have had to take credit for providing that info, which would put he and Barnabas back into an adversarial relationship, even if he agreed to help. Instead, he just goes with the scenario Barnabas laid out, and agrees to help because he thinks the risk is already present, when it clearly is not.

Christine: I have to wonder what keeps Willie at the Old House. Is Barnabas paying him a wage now that he's no longer holding him with his vampire control, or is he held in servitude, with the threat that he'll be declared insane and sent back to Windcliff? One might think he's staying in hopes of making his romantic fantasy with Maggie Evans come true, but I wonder if it's his love for Barnabas that prevents him from leaving. Whatever the reason, it may not be that he was easily duped, but was looking for an excuse not to leave.

John: Angelique plays the woe-is-me card, and Joe falls for it hook, line and sinker! He's going to have a hard time explaining that hickey to Maggie. I hope for his sake that he does go see Barnabas first, because I can't wait to see the look on Barnabas' face when Joe explains that the source of his neck wound is the attractive blonde Nicholas Blair is keeping hostage—Angelique!

Christine: I hope he's able to make it back to Barnabas. If not, at least Barnabas will know where to go looking for him, in which case, he may meet up with vampire Angelique himself! Will Joe leave Maggie to hook up with Angelique? Clearly some exciting possibilities are in store next week.