DARK SHADOWS 610
DARK SHADOWS 610
Joan. Narration says Eve knew
Jeff/Peter in the year 1795. Reprise. New Material.
“Who are you?”
Eve tells Jeff, “I was right. You are Peter. Peter Bradford.” Theme.
Eve watched him die.
Jeff gets a “IDK what you’re
talking about.” AND a “IDK who you are.”
Jeff laughs it off as a joke for a moment. She repeats he is Peter and
he rants that he is Jeff Clark, “Do you understand?”
Jeff asks, “Why are you
here?” “I don’t know, I can’t remember
anything except you.” What? She knew
before, didn’t she? WT?
Eve answers, “I don’t know
how I know who you are. I don’t know why we’ve been brought together again. My
memories so dim and it was so long ago. But I haven’t made a mistake. You are
Peter Bradford, my Peter Bradford and I won’t rest until we’re together again.”
Vicki finds Liz doing her
correspondence in the drawing room. Liz wants to thank Jeff. Her doctor told
her to keep her mind occupied “We all care about what happens to you.” Liz wants to thank Jeff for what he did for
her the other evening. Vicki tells her he is coming here tonight and they are
going to see a movie.
NOTE: wasn’t Jeff waiting for
her for some time now as last episode he told Carolyn and Carolyn went inside
AND then David and Jeff talked? AND then Eve saw him. Wasn’t Vicki getting
ready and knew Jeff was outside waiting for her? Vicki is either forgetting all
this or doesn’t know he is outside? WT?
During this scene, Vicki who
was going to wait, tells Liz that not
only is she seeing Jeff again but that they are going to get married and the
wedding plans of Vicki’s will help Liz keep her mind occupied…if she can help
with the wedding. Vicki agrees she can. Liz hopes to be alive on the wedding
day. Liz fears being buried alive. Right after Vicki tells Liz, Liz flubs,
“Then you’ve resolved all your difficul…differences and difficulties?”
When Liz asks if the wedding
date will be soon, Vicki’s answer: IDK.
Liz tells Vicki even in her
best moments she can’t help but dwell on the fear of death. Vicki: “I don’t
understand it. I understand about fear but fear has to be caused by something.”
“I know.”
Vicki knows Liz is not going
to die. Liz says Vicki and the doctor are in complete agreement. The doctor
said she is in excellent physical condition. Liz is sure she will collapse
again and feels she may find she’s been buried alive.
Vicki goes to Jeff late and they will leave to go
to a movie. Jeff admits he is jittery but bluffs that it is that he is going to
start a new job and he does not want to let Roger Collins down again. Vicki
thought he was acting the way he did a few weeks ago, his mind is somewhere
else.
Eve watches the pair and then
watches them leave. Liz sees Eve and thinks she knows who Eve is: the angel of
death come to warn her. Eve flees.
Eve is scolded by Blair once
back at the House by the Sea. Eve mentions a fight with Carolyn but it was more
with Adam as she later says.
Eve is sarcastic and mocks
him, “Poppa Nicholas.” He slaps her. Eve
says, “I hate you.” He can do without
her sarcasm.
Eve thinks Adam is like a
spoiled child but Blair repeats to her that she can hate him but make Adam
think she does not. She asks him “Who was I?”
She tells him about Jeff
Clark being Peter Bradford.
Blair worries that there are forces
at work that he does not know about. She says IDU. He puts her into a trance to
find out more. Eve says, “My mind is a void.”
Yup. It sure is. He takes her back to another time, another place,
almost 200 years. So, wait, it’s about 1767? What?
In her mind, a scene from the
past plays out. It might be
Eve tells Peter that she
killed Philip for him. She asks he can understand that. “I’ll never understand.” Phillepe would have kept them apart so she
killed him for them. She watched the spilling of blood for four years during
the (French?) Revolution. He did love her once.
Peter is disgusted by her and
tells her he will give her until tomorrow morning to tell the police so she can
get out of Collinsport. He seems intense about Philip and angry that she killed
him and yet because he once loved her he will give her that chance to get out
of Collinsport. (Was Peter in love with Phillip?). He tells her to get out of
his life and he never wants to see her again.
Eve comes out of the trance,
“He is Peter Bradford. And I love him!”
Wait? What? Eve seems to not
mind that Peter turned her in, wants her out of his life AND tells her he never
wants to see her again. Yet when she comes out of it she seems happy that he is
Peter Bradford.
For her part, Eve, though,
having murdered Phillip and somewhat in line with what’s gone before via Leona’s
history, hardly seems in the past to be…the evil soulless woman that they tried
to make Leona out to be. Eve might be selfish and a killer but she killed for
love, not because she was the most evil killer in history as was stated before.
Also: Eve seems in the beginning
of this NOT to know much or anything about who she was which is also NOT in
line with what went before regarding Leona and what Eve knew. Sort of?
Uneven and this time, though not
a terrible episode, it took me forever to get through this one.
Dark Shadows bloopers to watch out for:
Jeff asks Eve, “What are you doing in Collinwood, why are you here?” He either means “in Collinsport” or “at Collinwood”.
Vicki tells Liz that she and Jeff are going to be married. Liz says, “Then you’ve resolved all your difficult — differences. And difficulties.”
When Vicki comes out onto the terrace at the beginning of act 2, the camera starts to follow Jeff — and bumps into the fountain.
After Eve runs off, the camera lingers on Liz as she watches the mysterious woman go. It lingers too long, until Liz finally turns to peek and see if the camera is still on her.
FROM DARK SHADOWS BEFORE:
Our thoughts
John: It seems like it has been a while since we've see one of Jeff's frustrated head grabs!
Christine: His most recent head clutching was in Episode 582, which means he's appeared in about four episodes since then where the dramatic head grasp was not employed.
John: Which movie do you think Jeff took Vicki to tonight? I'd like to think they saw Night of the Living Dead, but knowing Jeff, they probably saw Romeo and Juliet.
- Barbarella
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Rosemary's Baby
- Bullitt
- Night of the Living Dead
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Romeo and Juliet
- Planet of the Apes
Christine: I think Vicki probably wanted to see Oliver! but Jeff took her to Ice Station Zebra instead. On the other hand, he may have taken her to Night of the Living Dead just so she'd get scared and cuddle up.
John: It certainly seems like everything is being set up for another flashback. It will be interesting to see how they reconcile Peter Bradford's story.
Christine: So, let me get this straight. Bradford was having an affair with Danielle Roget and got bent out of shape because she killed her lover, Phillipe Cordiet, to prevent him from killing Peter, which must have happened before he met Vicki. It sounds like another Angelique-Barnabas one sided love affair. What was up with him holding his fist up to her? Was he thinking of punching her? One thing we know for certain is that these two will be trying to one-up each other in the over the top acting department.
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