Dark Shadows Episode 371 - 11/27/67

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Angelique says she wishes she could see the look on Josette's face as she pulls the handkerchief tight around the neck of his toy soldier.

Barnabas chokes, and he falls to the ground. He begs for Josette to get someone to help him as he falls to the floor in pain. Jeremiah runs in and leads Barnabas upstairs to his room. Vicki assures Josette that they will get a doctor to help him, but she runs past her up to his room.

Jeremiah helps Barnabas into his bed, and asks what he can do to make him more comfortable.

Josette and Vicki enter, and Josette says it was like Barnabas was being attacked. Jeremiah leaves to get the doctor.

In her room, Angelique smiles.

Jeremiah waits downstairs for the doctor. The doctor comes downstairs and explains that there is nothing physically wrong with Barnabas.

He leaves, and Vicki appears telling Jeremiah that his nephew is going to recover. Vicki tells Jeremiah that she was surprised to see how he responded to Barnabas' condition. She had been led to believe that the two of them were never close. Jeremiah takes offense to her claim, and then quickly apologizes for yelling at her.

Josette prays for Barnabas to be well again. Angelique steps into the doorway and smiles. She then asks Josette what has happened to him. Josette explains that the doctor told her there's nothing physically wrong with Barnabas. Angelique asks if there's anything she can do, and Josette asks her to pray with her.

She suggests that Josette should have her rosary, and when she goes downstairs to retrieve it from her luggage, Angelique stands over Barnabas and revels in the fact that no one knows what's wrong with him. He clutches at his throat while she thinks to herself that he has no one to blame but himself. She asks if he wants her to do something, and he pleads for her to help him. She says that last night she wasn't even worthy of him. Barnabas says he's going to die, and she says he cannot. She seems shocked, not wanting him to die because she loves him. Josette enters and Barnabas tells her he's going to die. Angelique runs out of the room.

Angelique runs into her room and struggles with the knot tied around the neck of the toy soldier. She gives up and searches for a knife. Unable to find one, she goes back and is successful untying the double-knot.

Barnabas tells Josette that he feels better, albeit weak. Jeremiah enters, and Josette tells him that his nephew has recovered. He asks what happened and Barnabas tells him that appears to have gone away.

Angelique holds the toy soldier and thinks about how foolish she has been. Angelique realizes that she must find a different means for her revenge; one that won't kill him, but will result in disrupting his marriage to Josette, and ensuring he ends up with her.

Our thoughts
                                                               
John: Vicki continues to let on that she knows more about what's going on than anyone else in Collinwood. I'd think such premonitions might lead her to getting burned at the stake!

Christine: What was Angelique thinking was going to happen to Barnabas when she tied a tight knot around that poppet's neck? She seemed surprised by the result. If she wants to steal Barnabas away from Josette, then why doesn't she just work a love spell on him? Perhaps she's not adept at that sort of magic.

John: Despite Jeremiah being smitten with Vicki since first meeting her, we find out today that suggesting he didn't have a good relationship with his nephew is a quick way to burn that bridge.

Christine: It was a dumb thing for her to suggest, though his reaction seemed a little over the top.

John: Angelique has certainly got some wide eyes. Is that a common trait for a witch?

Christine: It appears to be a common trait of all supernatural women on Dark Shadows.

John: Additions to our 1795 scorecard:

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• Caretaker/Doctor Thornton