A bat approaches Suki outside the old house, and she runs back inside. The bat changes to Barnabas, who approaches her. He tells her it's too late for mercy, and clutches her throat. Nathan approaches the old house and calls to Suki. Barnabas drops her body. Nathan bursts in to find Suki lying on the ground. He asks who was responsible, and before collapsing, she says, "Barnabas Collins."
Joshua comes downstairs when Nathan bursts in. Joshua asks if he found Josette and Nathan tells him that he heard a woman screaming in the old house. By the time he got there, he found his sister dead—strangled.
In the old house, Joshua looks at the portrait of Josette. Nathan returns to tell him he covered his sister's body with a sheet. Joshua asks what she could have been doing at the old house. Nathan says he's confused by the fact that the last thing she said was Barnabas' name. Nathan tells Joshua that the prior night, he saw a figure in the woods that he was sure was Barnabas. Joshua tells him that he knows that Barnabas is in England.
Joshua asks Nathan if there was any ill feeling towards his sister. He says that he doesn't seem to show much grief despite having just found her dead body. As they prepare to search the house, they hear someone upstairs. It's Josette. She comes downstairs, calls for Barnabas, and collapses.
In the drawing room of the new house, Naomi sits by the fire. Millicent joins her and asks if there's any word on Josette. She says there is none. Millicent then asks if she has seen Nathan's sister, as she wasn't in her room. They hear Joshua calling from the foyer, and go to see he and Nathan leading Josette into the house. Joshua tells Nathan to get the constable. Millicent asks Nathan about Suki, and he tells her that she was strangled at the old house.
Naomi and Joshua get Josette into her bed upstairs. Naomi notices two marks on her neck.
Millicent checks in on Josette, and asks Naomi if she heard about Nathan's sister. Naomi says she had. Millicent tells her she wrote a letter to Suki's aunt in Boston, and Naomi says she can have a servant deliver it.
She says she'll see if she can find the address in Suki's room, and Joshua returns with smelling salts. Naomi shows him the wound on Josette's neck, which he recognizes as similar to the one Barnabas had shortly before his death.
Millicent goes downstairs with a box from Suki's room. Nathan enters, and asks if he can have a drink. She says yes, and tells him she'd like him to read a letter she's written to their aunt. She opens the box from Suki's room, and Nathan tells her she doesn't need to look up the address. He makes up an address, which Millicent writes on the envelope. She then sees a marriage certificate, and tells him that she has to write another letter to her husband. He tries to stop her, but she reads his name on the certificate. He tries to explain, but she won't hear it, and sobs as she runs outside.
Joshua and Naomi come downstairs. He asks when the Countess left. He says she mentioned seeing a book with the history of the Collins family, which says that Josette is supposed to die by her own hand tomorrow. Naomi tells him she's aware of Vicki's book, and he tells her that if they can keep Josette alive through tomorrow, perhaps she'll be safe.
Josette wakes up and says that tomorrow she'll belong to Barnabas forever.
Our thoughts
John: I must admit, I wasn't quite expecting Suki to shuffle off this mortal coil quite so quickly. Though I am looking forward to Nathan being accused of her murder, considering he had both the motive and opportunity. His pal Barnabas really did him a favor!
Christine: After having Jason McGuire hanging around for four months to torment Liz, we could hardly expect poor Suki to last only a week.
John: I'm surprised Millicent was so nosy, going through Suki's papers when her brother was right there, but I guess someone had to find out about their secret, and fast!
Christine: I agree it wasn't quite in her character to be so forceful with Nathan, but sometimes it's so much more satisfying to not have these things drag on. It looks like Nathan may find himself in a cell next to Vicki.
John: Did Kathryn Leigh Scott have the easiest job on television, or what? We should have tracked how often she appears bedridden!
Christine: I was thinking of how difficult it must be not to laugh while people are hovering over you and inspecting your neck. Shame on you for deliberately goading me into looking up all the shots of KLS in bed.
