Carolyn goes to Barnabas to tell him she saw Julia's notebook. He asks if she recovered it, and Carolyn explains that a lawyer who was visiting her uncle took Julia into town. He angrily asks if she let Hoffman tell a lawyer about him. She said they were alone together on the ride to his office. She describes how she went into his office after Julia left, and she saw him put the notebook in his safe.
Barnabas tells her they are going to drive to the lawyer's office. He realizes that it's almost dawn, and he sends Carolyn to get the notebook. She says she can't break into the safe. Barnabas asks if the lawyer is attractive, and tells Carolyn that she will do what she must do. Barnabas then says he has an alternative solution for Dr. Hoffman. He'll discredit her as being insane. He pulls out a syringe and shows it to Carolyn. He says Hoffman saw it in the doctor's body and will remember it well.
Carolyn and Peterson have a drink at The Blue Whale. She tries to flirt with him, and he asks why she's tracked him down twice. She gets him to admit she's pretty, but he doesn't fall to her whims. He offers to buy her dinner, but she declines. He asks if she'd be interested in him if Julia Hoffman wasn't his client. She tells him to call her later.
In Collinwood, Carolyn comes downstairs as Julia returns home. She tells Julia that she should have let her drive her to town, and that nothing will stop Barnabas.
In her room, Julia sees a syringe on a table and says that it can't be the one used to kill Woodard, as she burned it. She then realizes that it is the one, and wonders how it got there. At first she suspects Dave Woodard, despite his being dead. She realizes that it would have to be Barnabas, and that Carolyn must have put it in her room. She grabs it and leaves her room.
Peterson calls Carolyn, and once again invites her to dinner. Julia comes downstairs, grabs the phone from her and hangs it up. She shows her the syringe and tells her that she knows Barnabas made her put it in her room. Carolyn asks her why it upsets her so. Julia is obviously distraught.
Carolyn goes to see Barnabas, who says he is performing a ritual, or experiment as she might call it. Carolyn tells him that Julia was very upset. Barnabas tells Carolyn about secrets he learned from an Indian in Barbados. He says he learned the secret magic number of the universe. Carolyn thinks he's teasing her. He says he gained the power to plant a germ in someone's mind, and watch the disease spread. He tells Carolyn that she will no longer doubt magic. He performs an incantation as she watches, confused. She gasps as he disappears.
Julia lies in bed, tossing and turning. She hears something and sits up. She sees a figure in the shadows. Dave Woodard's voice asks why she killed him, and tells her that he'll never let her forget. She collapses on her bed, the figure disappears, and outside her window a bat flaps his wings.
Our thoughts
John: So Barnabas saved the syringe used to kill Dr. Woodard? As a souvenir? Funny how he casually mentions it to Carolyn, and she doesn't bat an eye (no pun intended)
Christine: He must have suspected he'd need it in case she decided to turn against him for forcing her to help him kill Woodard.
John: Um, did we miss something here? When we last saw Carolyn and Peterson, he was grilling her in his office. Now they're on a date at The Blue Whale? I wonder what Carolyn told him to put his mind at ease...
Christine: He did say that she'd seen him 3 times in the last 18 hours, so it seems we missed out on her second visit to Peterson at the courthouse. He remembered her first bikini, so she probably didn't have to work too hard to get him to spend his hard earned cash buying her drinks at the local pub.
John: That voice at the end sounded like it could have been the original Doctor Woodard (even if it was a just a conjuring trick by Barnabas). Probably not our original actor, or they would have shown him outside of a silhouette. Makes me long for the days of Bill Malloy's ghostly figure showing up in Collinwood.
Christine: It is Peter Turgeon's voice speaking for Woodard, but the silhouette belongs to good ol' Peter Murphy, who was last seen playing Barnabas' elderly head in Episode 348. It's a mystery why they used Turgeon's voice but not his body. Bill Malloy's ghost really knew how to cut a frightening figure. He was not one to hide in the shadows.
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The first time they met was at Collinwood, the second time was in his office and the third time was at the Blue Whale. He did keep asking her for a date, so it's no surprise she took him up on it, if only to get the notebook. Grayson Hall is really chewing the scenery in these episodes. Even her husband, DS writer Sam Hall, admitted that she used to overact, especially on the reaction shots.
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