DARK SHADOWS 623
DARK SHADOWS 623
“You’re not going to write
your own history?”
“I would have preferred to
have run away with him and change the course of history…we will be together in
another time.”
“I’m going to take it from these
printed pages and set it down in my own hand.”
Louis and he seems to give a
brief pause. He calls the present 1968 and that Eve may do things that may
tragically affect the present. It is
Zoom in on Eve. Okay, am I
supposed to care about the time traveling adventures of Eve? If so, the writers
have made a serious mis-step….again. This seems like it will be a mere filler
episode, something the B cast might do when mingling with two A cast.
Perhaps that is unfair as it is a major part
of the storyline to find out if Peter and Jeff are one and the same. Once you
know…and who does not really know by now? …once you know, it’s dull city.
Eve has been away for six
months. The old man says a few short weeks ago a woman was hanged and it wasn’t
her when the mask was taken off her face. “Her name was Gloria Winters.” Eve then says, “Victoria Winters!” The old man, named
When he tells of the girl
being hanged (and that when the mask was removed and it was another girl they
had not seen before), the hangman or whoever the younger man is feels his neck
as if this is affecting him.
Eve is allowed to go to
Jeff/Peter and he sees her as Daniel Roget but we don’t have a clue as to why.
Perhaps Eve is inhabiting her old body? Yet her present day EVE body vanished
too.
It makes no sense. He scoffs
at the irony: she guilty of murder and free; he innocent and ready to be hung.
She thinks they can leave and change the course of history. His answer, “IDK
what you’re talking about.”
Eve Teleprompter. Peter says,
“I don’t know, I just don’t know.”
Peter looks out the barred
window in his cell and apparently those loud sounds we hear are supposed to be
the gallows man checking and rehearsing the doors of the gallows, opening them
and closing them twice. We don’t see that. Just hear it.
She will get Ben Stokes to
help with the escape: and in a retcon, I guess, she tells us Ben could never
refuse her anything. What she actually says is, “And Ben Stokes is the one
person who could never refused me anything.”
WHAT? Danielle was supposed to be some kind of lady who killed and so I
guess it IS possible Ben is the only one who could never refuse her anything but
I rather think that maybe there were other men she used and who could not
refuse her either. And since when did Ben know HER?
At Collinwood, Joshua (who
gets an “I KNOW”) calls Ben Stokes into the drawing room. Ben has had a hair
cut? He tells Ben there is nothing they can do to help Peter. Joshua flubs, “They
thought that she simply protecting…trying to protect.. Peter.”
Joshua has confirmed his lack
of anything to do further for Peter and will give him their prayers (great!)
and hopes God will give Peter the mercy that Collinsport denied him.
Joshua has the book Vicky
brought with her. He calls it the book of his family’s history, past, present
and future. Ben says, “I KNOW!”
Ben calls it scary; Joshua is
afraid of it, too. He wants Ben to destroy the book. The drawing room windows
look like they are missing that indented alcove or is that just me?
Joshua says there are certain
statements which are not true, however he plans to make them part of the family
history in any case. Ben says, “I don’t understand.”
Joshua will cover up what
Barnabas became, the real cause of Naomi’s death, and Millicent’s association with
Forbes.
Joshua is going to take the
history from the pages and set it down in is own hand. Huh?
Joshua will write his own
history using some of the pages and make the history show that Naomi died of
natural causes, Barnabas went to England and Millicent was a spinster. Ben
says, “I still don’t understand why you want it destroyed.”
Joshua tells Ben, “You know I
never believed in witchcraft. And I certainly never believed Victoria Winters was
a witch. But this book, I do believed is cursed.”
HOLD THE FORT: at this moment
he makes two statements which are untrue, possibly three.
First, he should NOW believe in
witchcraft as for the family anyway, almost everything about Angelique has come
to light, including that she once turned Joshua himself into a cat! WTF? He
speaks in the present tense making the first statement but he should NOW
believe totally in witchcraft. He even called in a white witch Bathia Mapes and
saw her die in a fire created by witchcraft.
Second, Joshua tells Ben he
NEVER thought Victoria Winters was a witch but…HE DID at one point! He was
convinced it was her.
And third, there’s no reason
to believe the book itself caused any harm, magically, at all. WTF?
Joshua believes the book is
cursed. Ben says, “I don’t know.” He
will go to the woods and burn it.
Joshua makes another dumb
statement if you consider or if he considered everything that happened: that his
statement is he doesn’t believe that the book comes from the future, “It’s impossible.”
He would rather believe it is cursed. “If
there is such a thing as black magic, then I think this book is a product of
it.” WTF?
Either he believes in
witchcraft or he doesn’t. The dialog is not clear.
Did someone who never saw the
1795 (some of which must have been in 1796 but that was never stated either) or
who never saw the 1795 scripts, write this??? Even so he makes statements just
within this episode itself that contradict themselves.
Peter calls
The clock (tower?) (church)
bells ring about 18 times. Peter covers his ears. 6pm?
Outside the Collinwood doors,
when Ben sees Danielle, he tells her she was not supposed to ever come back
here. He says, “IDK what kind of scheming you’ve been up to but I won’t have anything
to do with it, you hear?” She explains
she can help Peter.
As long as no one gets hurt,
Ben will help with the escape by having two horses outside. Eve will just drug
the jailer (“I have no reason to hurt him. I don’t even know the man.”
Ben wants to burn the book
first but Eve insists there is no time, what difference does it make if the
book is burned tomorrow. Ben says, “Well, I…I don’t know.” He gives her the book (WHY would he do that, despite
mild and meager protests?) to hold while he gets the horses and carriage.
In the courtroom, Eve has
read the book and has a voice over. The bell rings and she says, “5:30, a half
hour to go.” Ben tells her the horses
are across the road. He wants the book to burn it but once more she talks him
out of letting her hold onto it for now! Ben leaves again.
She flirts with
“I’m sorry, I’ve shocked you,
haven’t I?” Well, you have me! Well, I mean you’ve shocked me.
Peter in his cell, dabs the
pen to write but when he goes to put the pen back in the holder he misses it
and lets the pen fall onto the bed. Peter has decided to stay. He gives Eve his
note that he took hours to write. He tells her he will be with the woman he
promised something to in death. He loves her enough. He told her he would be
together with her again in death or in another life.
As Peter goes to his hanging,
one can almost feel sorry for…Eve! She seems sympathetic as she wishes him good
bye, clutching the note. She also seems pathetic and sad. Even though she’s supposed
to be Danielle Roget, who is incredibly evil we’re told but not really shown
much of, if at all, she feels incredibly connected to her love for Peter which
falls on his deaf ears.
Eve takes the note and puts
it in the book and as jailer asks if she wants tea or a toddy, Eve vanishes in front of his eyes as
the bells start ringing again.
A toddy is a drink made of
spirits with hot water, sugar, and sometimes spices:
Review: Okay, why? It’s long
and sort of boring but really it does the job.
Edmunds and Thayer are just
great and great to see them in 1795 outfits again even if it is jarring. I
can’t imagine being a DS fan in 1968 and liking this and not feeling
cheated…not only to we not see Vicki, we do not get Barnabas and Julia either.
Still, it is watchable for
the most part. Watched the right way, it might go fast but who can figure out
the right way to watch this? Quickly? Asleep? Really I’m just being hard on it
but I don’t give a rat’s ass about Eve…and barely care about Peter/Jeff either.
Well, that was then, over ten
to 15 years ago I wrote that. I’m not sure much of that has changed too much but
I did enjoy this episode again. Marie Wallace is appreciated and a force to be
reckoned with. Peter is just baffling. It’s always nice to see Louis as Joshua
and Thayer as Ben but Ben is incredibly dumb here, which I’m not sure he was in
the past. Love to see the fall out from this with Joshua but maybe Ben would
not tell him what happened to the book.
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Tom Gorman has been on Dark Shadows for two years now, mostly as a non-speaking extra. He first appeared as a Blue Whale customer in November 1966, and since then he’s been a jailer, a bartender, a judge at Vicki’s witch trial, and a ghost.
Tom has been acting on TV and on the Broadway stage since 1939, which is probably long enough. This episode is actually his last television appearance. Watch closely, and see if you can figure out why.
The other guy is James Shannon, a personal favorite. You remember James — he was the hottie Deputy from a few months ago, the one that Angelique tried to seduce and vampire-bite. He doesn’t have any lines today, but he makes up for it by being cute.
(More) Dark Shadows bloopers to watch out for:
Louis Edmonds trips slightly at the beginning of the opening voiceover: “This is — Collinwood in the year 1968.”
Mr. Prescott tells Eve, “A few short weeks ago, it appeared that he might marry another young lady. Unfortunately, she was found guilty of practicing witchcraft, and was hanged.” Peter actually didn’t meet Vicki until she was already accused. It doesn’t seem super likely that people would have thought of as engaged, under the circumstances.
In the cell, Eve tells Peter, “Just be ready when I come to get you. I’ll arrange everything else.” Peter is still waiting for his cue, so after a moment, she looks at the teleprompter. She continues, “I have the chance to give you your freedom, on the condition that you’ll go away with me.” Peter still doesn’t respond for about three seconds, and then he mutters, “I don’t know.” Eve looks at the teleprompter for help again.
Joshua trips twice in two lines: “Because she was herself condemned to hang. And did hang. They thought that she was simply protecting — trying to protect Bradford.”
A couple inconsistencies: Joshua refers to Millicent as his niece, but in the 1795 storyline, he referred to her as a cousin. Also, Joshua says that he never thought that Vicki was a witch. He did, but then realized he was wrong.
Peter repeats a line with Mr. Prescott:
Peter: Look — I’m a condemned man. I’m entitled to a last request. Now, there’s something I need.
Prescott: Something you need?
Peter: Yes. Please. I am a condemned man. Give me a chance.
Peter pretends to write a note using a quill, but it’s obvious that there’s no ink in the inkwell. When he’s done, he throws the supposedly inky feather down onto the blanket, rather than using blotting-paper. I mean, he’s about to be hanged, so he doesn’t really care about the laundry bills, but still.
At the end of act 3, Mr. Prescott steps on Eve’s line:
Eve: We will be together —
Prescott: Listen —
Eve: — in another time!
Prescott: I don’t think you’ve been feeling well.
Behind the Scenes:
So that’s the last we’ll see of Tom Gorman, sadly. After this, he appeared on Broadway in a 1969 production of Hadrian VII, which maybe it was one of the great lost classics of our time, but I wouldn’t put money on it.
We’ll see James Shannon and his monkey face again in two months, when we return yet again to the Collinsport Gaol.
John: So Peter has no trouble recognizing Danielle (who was credited as Eve, oddly enough). I guess they decided the thought of her looking different would have been too confusing.
Christine: None of us would have wanted to sit through a whole episode having them explain it and she only had 6 hours in 1795 anyway, so there was no time for Bradford to be confused by her changed appearance. I have to wonder about Ben's relationship with Danielle that enabled him to feel comfortable shirking his duty to burn the Collins family history book as ordered. That doesn't seem like him.
John: Well, lest there be any doubt, Peter Bradford is definitely the same limp fish that Jeff is in the future. He even does the patented Jeff Clark head grab.
Episode 623: This Is Happening | Dark Shadows Every Day
Episode 623: This Is Happening
“All we know is, she was hanged. But whether she died or not is something everyone in Collinsport is still wondering about.”
Gosh. So much to cover, and I can’t explain any of it. The Great 1968 Wrap-Up is in full swing, and I don’t have the energy to take care of bystanders today. If you aren’t completely up to date on the ins and outs of the spine-tingling nonsense they’re passing off as a storyline these days, then there is honestly very little that I can say that would help.
If you’re super brand new to the blog, then you might be better off reading yesterday’s post. Wait, sorry — yesterday’s was even goofier than today’s. I don’t know, there’s a lot of posts to read. Pick a number between 210 and 623. Okay, now put it back in the deck. Was it 497? Damn it! I suck at card tricks.
So there’s this, for one thing. Somebody’s been tampering in God’s domain, creating a Bride of Frankenstein in a mad science lab, using the spirit of a dead lunatic as the animating life force. Her name is Eve, and she has never had a boring scene.
While Eve was out making trouble one night, she caught sight of a man who she recognized as her 18th-century lover, Peter Bradford. Not content to stalk him in the present day, she’s now being sent back in time by sorcerous soap vixen Angelique, so that she can —
Hang on. Didn’t I just say I wasn’t going to do this? This storyline can not be explained.
Anyway, she’s magically traveling back to the past, and when they really want to express themselves on Dark Shadows, they say it with Chromakey. They’ve been getting a lot better with their brand new blue-screen technology, except for today, when they get a lot worse again.
And here we are in the past! Angelique apparently has the power to send people tumbling backward through time just by thinking about it for a while, because she is a witch and a vampire, plus she pulled the secret magic number of the universe out of Barnabas’ cell phone when he wasn’t looking.
So now, with very little warning, we’ve jumped back to 1795. It’s a few weeks after girl governess Victoria Winters was hanged as a witch, and catapulted back to her own century.
Now Vicki’s defense attorney boyfriend, Peter, has his own execution scheduled for dawn. That’s how you can tell how guilty she was; even her lawyer gets the death penalty. You have to break some serious laws to rate that level of scorched-earth jurisprudence.
And here are the stars of today’s show — Tom Gorman and James Shannon. We might as well get to know them, because we’re going to be spending a lot of time with them today.
Tom Gorman has been on Dark Shadows for two years now, mostly as a non-speaking extra. He first appeared as a Blue Whale customer in November 1966, and since then he’s been a jailer, a bartender, a judge at Vicki’s witch trial, and a ghost.
Tom has been acting on TV and on the Broadway stage since 1939, which is probably long enough. This episode is actually his last television appearance. Watch closely, and see if you can figure out why.
The other guy is James Shannon, a personal favorite. You remember James — he was the hottie Deputy from a few months ago, the one that Angelique tried to seduce and vampire-bite. He doesn’t have any lines today, but he makes up for it by being cute.
So they’re standing around chatting about Peter’s upcoming execution, when a great wind roars through the room — the chandelier sways, the candle goes out, and a mug drops off the desk.
Tom is alarmed, and stammers, “What the devil is happening here?” James goes for the tankard, because obviously the most important thing to do in a supernatural emergency is to secure the tableware. James works in Collinsport law enforcement.
And here’s Eve! Back in time, and twice as crazy. She’s grinning like a mad thing, dressed up in clothes that I don’t know what century she thinks she’s dressed for, but whatever. She doesn’t look the way that she did back then — this is her new body, stitched together from 1960s dead people — but, again, whatever. If Eve doesn’t care, I don’t care.
Oh, this is what Tom looks like, by the way. Get used to this. It’s not makeup or special effects; this is just what his face does. You point a camera at it, and it happens all by itself.
And look how cute James is. I know he’s not, like, super pretty or whatever, but I actually have kind of a weird thing for dudes who look like monkeys. I’m serious, I would hit that in a hot second. I know you don’t care. I’m just saying.
Eve announces that she’s here to see Peter.
Tom: Are you related to the prisoner?
Eve: At one time, we were going to be married, but I’ve been away for six months.
Tom: Married… that is most interesting. A few short weeks ago, it appeared that he might marry another young lady. Unfortunately, she was found guilty of practicing witchcraft, and was hanged.
Eve: She was someone who lived here, in Collinsport?
Tom: Her name was Gloria Winters!
Which is fantastic. The episode’s only been on for a minute and a half, and already I have a favorite part.
Eve says, “Victoria Winters died here?” and Tom has a very Dark Shadows-y answer.
“All we know is, she was hanged,” he says. “But whether she died or not is something everyone in Collinsport is still wondering about.”
James indicates his neck, because he wants to contribute.
Eve turns toward the camera, and says, “So — she came back here, and fell in love with him!”
Tom leans forward, and asks, “What did you say?”
Eve smiles, and says, “Nothing,” and then she changes the subject.
So I think that’s a first on Dark Shadows — an actor who just goes ahead and does a pantomine villain aside to the audience. It’s an innovation that I think underscores the actual time travel that’s happening here. Eve is acting like a Dark Shadows character from November 1968, and the others are acting like Dark Shadows characters from April 1968, which is when the original 1795 story wrapped up.
This level of furious camp acting just didn’t happen seven months ago — they were playing it a lot straighter back then. Seeing Eve in this context accentuates how far the show has drifted from normal afternoon television.
If you’re not a regular here, you may be wondering why the acting style would change so dramatically over the course of a year. The short answer is that it’s been a pretty weird year. The long answer involves Addison Powell, and requires a tremendous amount of patience.
Eve says that she needs to see the prisoner, so Tom just shrugs and lets her right on into the cell. He says, “Well, there are no rules against it,” which seems amazingly casual considering they’re half an hour away from an execution. The guys in charge of Death Row might want to invest in some rules.
And now we get another welcome departure from the April ’68 style — Peter’s wearing a loose shirt wth the top unbuttoned, revealing a tantalizing slice of a hairy chest.
I know, we’re not supposed to be into Peter because he’s so scowly and weird, but it’s exciting, because it demonstrates how far we’ve come in the three weeks since Julia cut Joe’s turtleneck in half, symbolically breaking the crushing tyranny of the Dark Shadows ties-or-turtlenecks mandate. Death to turtlenecks!
And then the rest of the scene is just Eve going crazy.
Eve: They think they’re going to hang you, but they’re wrong.
Peter: Yeah, why?
Eve: We can go away… leave Collinsport together, and change the course of history! She said if I stayed more than six hours…
Peter: Look, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Yeah, we don’t either. Angelique told Eve that she only had six hours, not that she’d be stuck here if she stayed longer than six hours. But this is a universe where crazy ladies make the rules, so who knows. She’s probably right, she’s crazier than I am.
And then, just when you least expect it — Joshua and Ben. I told you there was a lot today, this is why I’m rushing through it.
These two are the survivors of the 1795 storyline — practically the only characters who made it out of the furnace alive and sane. And here they are, as if they just kept on living their lives after the cameras followed Vicki home.
And look how close they’re standing to each other! They started out as bitter enemies — Joshua was the cruel master, and Ben was the oppressed indentured servant. But they went through the war together, and they both lost so much, and now they’re here, talking about their problems like they’re a family. This is one of the most legitimately touching moments in the whole series.
Joshua knows that Peter’s going to be hanged today — one last sacrifice on the dark altar of Angelique’s witchery — and there’s nothing he can do to stop it. The world turned out to be much darker and stranger than he was prepared for.
And he’s still got this impossible book, a Collins Family History that Vicki brought back with her from the 1960s, filled with predictions that didn’t quite come true.
The book frightens him, and appalls him — but he doesn’t want the world to know about the shameful disaster that almost exterminated the family, and the lies printed in the book are so tempting…
“I have gone over it very carefully,” he explains. “Strangely enough, there are certain statements which are not true. However, I plan to make them part of the family history in any case.”
Ben says, “I don’t understand,” and Joshua raises his voice.
“Do you think I want the world to know the evils that have been perpetrated here?” he shouts. “No! I certainly do not. They will never know the vile and pitiful thing that Barnabas became.”
Astonished, Ben says, “You’re not going to — rewrite your own history?”
The answer is yes. It’s what this family does. Apparently, there’s an instinct deep in the Collins DNA that makes you look at a history book, and immediately grab a pen.
“I’m going to take it from these printed pages!” he declares. “And set it down in my own hand.”
Obviously, that’s going to create some kind of history-cracking paradox fissures, but he doesn’t care. Look at his expression. He really hates this fucking book.
Okay, still a lot left. Joshua tells Ben to take the devil book outside and burn it, which is the first sensible thing anybody’s said all day. But nothing comes easy for Ben.
Eve: Ben!
Ben: What are you doin’ here? You weren’t ever supposed to come back!
Eve: I had to come back when I heard that Peter was in trouble!
This is another example of this brand-new old-time retroactive history that makes this crackpot storyline so unbelievably difficult to describe. She wasn’t part of the actual 1795 storyline, but they’re pretending that she happened to leave town right before we came in.
That’s totally fair, and absolutely standard practice in long-running serialized narrative, although it makes you wonder what Ben’s life must be like. First, this crazy lady bossed him around, and just when he finally thought his life might get back to normal, Angelique showed up and did the same thing.
Eve is planning a jailbreak for Peter, and she wants Ben to find a getaway horse, and keep the motor running outside the lock-up. He says that he’s busy, what with the book burning, but she just grabs the book out of his hands and tells him to get a move on.
This is what life is like for Ben Stokes, just an endless series of insane people, demanding his participation in another lunatic scheme. He probably never gets a moment to himself.
As she marches back to the Collinsport Gaol, Eve takes the opportunity to browse through the book for a while.
Eve (thinks): I’ve learned more than I ever thought I would. Victoria Winters actually came back in time, and brought this book with her. This could be very valuable to me — very valuable!
So, here’s a pop quiz: What the hell is she talking about? Her plan, as far as I can tell, is to break Peter out of stir, jump into whatever mode of transportation Ben’s managed to string together at short notice, and make for the border. When exactly will knowing the names of unborn Collins family members come in handy?
But who even knows with this broad? She’s a force of pure chaos, a hurricane in a hat. Her prime directive in every single conversation is to unsettle and perplex everyone she comes across, up to and including me.
She makes writing this blog an absolute waking nightmare, because every time I think I’ve got a handle on her crazy plan, it shifts again, pivoting inexplicably and sprinting off in a whole new direction. I shouldn’t even be calling her Eve, because her 1795 name was Danielle Rogét, which is a whole other thing that I just can’t explain.
She’s going to do it. Eve is going to break Dark Shadows, and she’s going to break me, and I love her so much that I can hardly even express it in words.
And then she does the following:
Tom: He says he needs another minute; then he’ll see you.
Eve: I don’t mind waiting.
Tom: You can sit down, if you like.
Eve: No, thank you. I’ll stand.
Tom sits down, and starts to read. Eve sashays over to his chair.
Eve: I suppose you won’t want me around, when it happens.
Tom: A hanging’s a gruesome thing, not a sight for a lady.
Eve: What about… after the hanging?
Tom: After? You — you want to come and see the body?
Eve: No. That’s not what I had in mind.
Tom: What did you have in mind?
Eve: Meeting you.
Tom: Me?
Eve: I’m sorry. I’ve shocked you, haven’t I?
Tom: Well, uh… no.
He gets up again, and she follows.
Eve: Well, it’s just that I believe in speaking my mind. Do you know what I mean?
Tom: Listen, I — I guess he’s ready for you now.
Eve: Who?
Tom: Mr. Bradford.
Eve: You don’t seem to understand. I’m not ready for him.
It’s unbelievable. This isn’t even part of her plan. She’s just doing this. She’s trolling the 18th century.
So I have to say, I feel sorry for people who don’t watch Dark Shadows. I really do. I wonder what they think television is for.
Tomorrow: Lost and Foundling.
(More) Dark Shadows bloopers to watch out for:
Louis Edmonds trips slightly at the beginning of the opening voiceover: “This is — Collinwood in the year 1968.”
Mr. Prescott tells Eve, “A few short weeks ago, it appeared that he might marry another young lady. Unfortunately, she was found guilty of practicing witchcraft, and was hanged.” Peter actually didn’t meet Vicki until she was already accused. It doesn’t seem super likely that people would have thought of as engaged, under the circumstances.
In the cell, Eve tells Peter, “Just be ready when I come to get you. I’ll arrange everything else.” Peter is still waiting for his cue, so after a moment, she looks at the teleprompter. She continues, “I have the chance to give you your freedom, on the condition that you’ll go away with me.” Peter still doesn’t respond for about three seconds, and then he mutters, “I don’t know.” Eve looks at the teleprompter for help again.
Joshua trips twice in two lines: “Because she was herself condemned to hang. And did hang. They thought that she was simply protecting — trying to protect Bradford.”
A couple inconsistencies: Joshua refers to Millicent as his niece, but in the 1795 storyline, he referred to her as a cousin. Also, Joshua says that he never thought that Vicki was a witch. He did, but then realized he was wrong.
Peter repeats a line with Mr. Prescott:
Peter: Look — I’m a condemned man. I’m entitled to a last request. Now, there’s something I need.
Prescott: Something you need?
Peter: Yes. Please. I am a condemned man. Give me a chance.
Peter pretends to write a note using a quill, but it’s obvious that there’s no ink in the inkwell. When he’s done, he throws the supposedly inky feather down onto the blanket, rather than using blotting-paper. I mean, he’s about to be hanged, so he doesn’t really care about the laundry bills, but still.
At the end of act 3, Mr. Prescott steps on Eve’s line:
Eve: We will be together —
Prescott: Listen —
Eve: — in another time!
Prescott: I don’t think you’ve been feeling well.
Behind the Scenes:
So that’s the last we’ll see of Tom Gorman, sadly. After this, he appeared on Broadway in a 1969 production of Hadrian VII, which maybe it was one of the great lost classics of our time, but I wouldn’t put money on it.
We’ll see James Shannon and his monkey face again in two months, when we return yet again to the Collinsport Gaol.
Tomorrow: Lost and Foundling.
— Danny Horn
Ben: What are you doin’ here? You weren’t ever supposed to come back!
Says Ben to a woman he’s never seen before because Danielle Roget was blonde and French and didn’t look a damned thing like Eve! Of course by this time Ben is used to the world being just generally WEIRD so why not just decide that this woman he never met is really a non-magical serial killer who left town looking totally different. He gets to do it all over again when Vicki comes back looking totally different as well.
I actually have a vision of Ben finding Mrs. Stokes, so that we eventually get Professor Stokes. He must have had a checklist 1) vampire if yes, find right kind of branch, if no proceed to next question 2) witch, if yes get something to burn her with if no, proceed to next question, 3) crazy lady from the future if yes find her a horse and hustle her out of town, if no proceed to next question.
I like this episode especially the Ben and Joshua part.
ke seeing Joshua – he’s one of DS’ genuinely tragic characters, not born of supernatural means but real loss, tragedy and hubris, and Louis Edmonds gives him such gravitas. His best role, IMHO.