David stares into his crystal ball, trying to reach Sarah. He calls to her, and then begins to sing London Bridge. He lies down on his bed holding his crystal ball, when Sarah appears and picks it up. She says she's upset that David shared their secret. He asks if she did something to make the door stay closed, and she says no. When he asks if she know who did she tells him yes, it was somebody. He tells her that his aunt has gone to find a psychiatrist for him. Sarah tells him that she's going to leave as soon as she's got her flute back. David tells her that Dr. Woodard has it, and that it's not important considering he might be sent away. There's a knock on his door, and Sarah disappears. He opens the door and it's his aunt and a a stranger. She asks if he was talking to someone, and David says he was talking to Sarah. Liz introduces Dr. Fisher. He asks David about his crystal ball. He asks Liz to step out so that he can talk with David alone.
David tells Dr. Fisher about the dream in which he saw Barnabas in the coffin. David describes Barnabas as having fangs. The doctor assures David that no one is going to get him. He asks if David thinks about dying often, and if he's afraid of dying. He asks about Sarah, and says if she's dead, is he afraid of her. David tells him he's only afraid of Barnabas. Fisher asks David to relate the dream one more time.
Downstairs, Burke and Woodard wait for the psychiatrist to finish with David. Woodard says all the strange events surrounding Maggie and David make him think there's more going on than anything just in David's mind. Woodard reviews the facts: Maggie had a strange neck wound, and Willie had a similar wound. If he was in fact responsible for Maggie's wound, how did he get his?
The psychiatrist tells Liz that David is very disturbed. Woodard says of course he's disturbed, but how real his fear is. Fisher suggests that it could be fallout from the death of David's mother. Fisher says that the striking resemblance of Barnabas to his ancestor may have spurred a fear of death to David. He describes him rising from his coffin, fangs bared and coming for David. Dr. Woodard picks up on this and excuses himself. Fisher leaves as well, and Liz asks to speak to Burke privately.
Liz tells Burke that her lawyers says she has to abide by the deed she found. The last owner of the house, Caleb Collins, stated in his will that no strangers could own the house for 100 years. Burke asks if they could challenge it in court. Liz says that a court case could take years, and that the 100 years will be up in 5. She offers Burke the house to he and Vicki as a wedding gift, and he says they can't wait that long. She says she wasn't thinking he would wait that long to get married, just to move in to the house.
Woodard returns to the mausoleum at Eagle Hill cemetery. Inside, he brings Sarah's flute. He thinks out loud that there could be a secret room to hide a terrible secret. He reaches up to try the ring in the lion's mouth when he turns to see Sarah in the mausoleum with him.
Our thoughts
John: Has Dr. Woodard been permanently replaced? These cast replacements seem to have little to no concern about the actors even looking like the previous incarnations of the characters. Even Burke didn't recognize Dr. Woodard, calling him Dr. Hoffman.
Christine: Look how well it worked out replacing Mitch Ryan with lookalike, Anthony George. Robert Gerringer was replaced because he wouldn't cross a picket line during a strike. They may have grabbed any old Joe off the street. The Collins family finally calls in a psychiatrist for David. They didn't think he needed help for attempted patricide or for witnessing his mother's death, but claiming Barnabas is undead has them truly concerned. Dr. Fisher is the most well-spoken, intelligent doctor we've seen on the show yet. Too bad it's his only appearance. He could have really helped out at Collinwood as resident psychiatrist, making the rounds to each family member.
John: David mentioned Barnabas having fangs, and yet the V-word has yet to be uttered by anyone. But it sounds like Dr. Woodard is one step closer to finally solving that riddle.
Christine: Maybe they'll come up with some alternate "Zuvembie" type term. Perhaps Dr. Woodard will discover that Barnabas is really a Vuzempire.
John: So now that Woodard is on to Barnabas, and finally meets Sarah... I can't imagine that he's going to survive too many more episodes.
Christine: It looked like Sarah may have goosed Dr. Woodard the way his hand flew away from the ring in the mausoleum.
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Peter Turgeon was the third actor to portray Dr. Woodard. Richard Woods played him for two earlier episodes, once to examine Willie after his initial encounter with Barnanbas and once to examine Maggie after she was first attacked. As much as I loved the bumbling bluster that Gerringer brought to the part, I actually prefer Turgeon in the role.
Outside of that role, there's one single role I associate with Peter Turgeon. He played a comical "square" in one of the Frankie and Annette beach movies!
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