DARK SHADOWS 595
DARK SHADOWS 595
Stokes about Leona: “There’s
something curious about that woman.”
Adam to Stokes not asking him
questions now. “That seems rather strange. You are the one that always asked
the most questions.”
Grayson. The narration talks
about the house being shrouded in darkness. A cold night wind.
It is
Different reprise. Here, we
see the clock up close. He didn’t do that in the reprise. The shots are also
different. For one thing, Leona’s hair is less straight and more curly and in
this reprise after Adam declares her providing the life force for his mate, she
looks directly at Barnabas where in the cliffhanger last time, she just stared
at nothing, weirdly. And otherworldly. Here, she seems more normal. Or as
normal as can be.
Barnabas’ shoulder hits a
crystal behind him, that dangles from a lamp. When Adam asks where Julia is,
Barnabas says “I don’t know where she is,”
if she’s not at Collinwood.
Leona needs to rest. As Adam
moves past the coat stand, he hits Barnabas’s cane and it keeps moving.
Julia returns and has been to
see Professor Stokes. She arrives with him. Julia says “Thank God” that Carolyn
is still alive.
Adam asks Leona, upstairs,
many questions, “I don’t know myself.”
All he has to know is that
she is a friend of Nicholas Blair. Leona tells him he asks as many questions as
the man downstairs. No one is to know she and Adam just met tonight or her
relationship to Nicholas. As she lays down on the bed, the camera sways in too
close and goes out of focus and rocks and pulls out abruptly and shakes.
Leona wants Adam to remember
that Nicholas’ involvement in this must not be told to the others and that the
others must not know that she and Adam just met tonight.
At one point, Julia says,
“It…it isn’t possible.” Stokes, who’s
hair looks very gray now, inquires about the spelling of Leona’s last name.
Barnabas: “I don’t know.”
Adam comes down and tells
Stokes, “You are the one that always asked the most questions.” He insists his mate live tonight. Adam tells
Stokes he taught him the word assumed.
Adam goes to Leona to asks
about Stokes’ request to talk to her. She will see him. Nicolas has told her
about stokes.
Leona has her own very
special voice over. She will destroy all these people, “All of them. All of
them.”
Blair told her about Stokes,
who comes to visit, granted an audience by Adam who already warned her that
Stokes is most serious and most suspicious.
Stokes tells her that the
long stories are usually the most interesting ones. Eric Lang told Leona about
the experiment and about Adam: a lie she tells Stokes.
She then makes the most
remarkable lie: she and Eric were in love. She tells Stokes she is going to die
anyway. Stokes says, “I don’t understand.”
Leona and Lang, she lies, met as doctor and patient, for she has seen
specialists to try to stop her disease but it is an incurable one.
She wants to die the way Eric
Lang died: working on the experiment. She tells Stokes she needs rest now. He
leaves and she tells a returning Adam
that Stokes believed every word.
Stokes tells Barnabas the
story and that she is convincing. Barnabas asks him if he believed her story
and Stokes says IDK. Stokes adds, “There’s something curious about that
woman.”
He wonders, again, about the
spelling of her name. Stokes predates Steven Moffat’s Rowan Atkinson’s 9th
Doctor in CURSE OF FATAL DEATH and also Jon Pertwee in THE FIVE DOCTORS by
saying, “I’ll explain later.” Julia
does not believe one word of the story. Stokes leaves.
Adam and Leona are ready for
the experiment. Barnabas reiterates that the mate must be educated. He flubs
with, “Get the…let’s get this done.”
Leona does not want an injection. Julia explains what will happen to
Leona who says, “I understand.”
Julia snaps at Adam, “I
suppose it’s useless to ask you to leave.”
Leona has what looks like a
paper mache chin.
The experiment happens and Leona is out with
no pulse. Julia declares her dead (she’s becoming a regular STAR TREK’S Dr.
McCoy).
Adam looks at them, “I should
kill you both.” But the body moans.
Adam goes to her and calls
her “Eve.” Barnabas, “It’s not
possible.” Julia responds to that with,
“I don’t know.”
Adam will take off the
bandages and says to Julia’s “be careful”, “I will. I will be careful. I will
be careful.”
He takes the bandages off to
Marie Wallace’s Eve. Her eyes are open but they seem unmoving. Even so, Adam
says, “She is alive. She is alive.”
The credits zoom out
slightly. The music actually ends with less a fade out and more a final note.
Review: Bizarre! And eerily,
it works. I don’t know if they were trying to trick us into making us think
Leona were to be the new villainess, aka Angelique or what but she works in
these two episodes only because her presence is brief. I don’t think the
actress has the staying power of Lara Parker or the character the power of
Angelique.
That said, there’s something
dispassionate about her and that makes her scary in a way, a stranger with no
ties to the family at all and she just seems evil…mainly due to the
circumstances of the casting and the timing of it all.
Dark Shadows bloopers to watch out for:
One of the cameras has broken again, and there’s a bright green stripe down the left side of the picture. This happened about six weeks ago, and it took them two weeks to fix it.
Leona’s has a different hairstyle than she had at the end of yesterday’s episode.
As Adam leads Leona to the stairs, he bumps into Barnabas’ cane, which is hanging on the coatrack. The cane rocks back and forth in a distracting way for the rest of the scene.
The camera pulls in on Leona as she’s lying on the bed, but it begins to shake. There’s a quick cut to another camera, shooting her from a similar angle.
Immediately after that, Adam says, “You must be quite a good friend of his to be willing to go through with this to do this.”
At the end of the episode, Eve moans as she comes to life. When Barnabas rushes to her side, a boom mic can briefly be spotted overhead.
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