Nathan asks Trask if he delivered his letter to Millicent. Trask mumbles about seeing Abigail and Maude. Nathan points out they're both dead, and Trask says he saw them with his own eyes. Nathan asks about Millicent's reaction to his letter. He says she was pale, and appeared to want to stop Naomi from tearing it up. Nathan admits the reaction was as good as an answer to the letter. He then asks if Trask is still troubled by his dream. He says Abigail gave him instructions he doesn't understand. She told him to go to the old house on the Collins' estate. Nathan says it was just a bad dream he should forget. He says she'd never tell anyone to go to that place. Trask says the mention of the old house seems to frighten Nathan. Nathan tells him to forget about it, and Trask asks him why. Nathan asks if he'd still go if he knew it meant his certain destruction. He warns Trask to beware unseen forces tempting him to his doom, and stay away from the old house.
Ben asks Barnabas what he plans to do to Trask when he arrives. He says he will reward him. Ben asks if he's going to kill him, and Barnabas says that he will give Trask darkness, but not the darkness of death—yet. He tells Ben to build a fire, and bring a paper and pen to the room downstairs. He says they have other preparations to make. Barnabas goes outside and summons Trask.
Trask hears voices calling for him to come to the old house. He tells her he will obey, and leaves.
Trask approaches the old house. The door opens for him, and he enters. He calls for Abigail, but no one answers. Once he enters, the door slams shut and locked behind him. He hears the chandelier swaying, and begs Abigail not to torment him. He asks her to appear, and notices a book flip open on a desk, revealing a letter. He takes the letter and reads it aloud.
"The wind will speak his name, and the clock will strike the hour, but ere it strike again, he will know the darkness of the tomb, and he will beg for the darkness of death. If you wish to know the name of the man, listen to the wind"
A voice calls him name and he screams. All becomes quiet as the clock strikes midnight. Then the voice calling his name resumes. Trask makes his way to the basement door, and asks why he has been summoned. He goes downstairs to the room with a coffin. He approaches it, hearing the sound of a heartbeat. He again asks why he has been summoned. Barnabas appears and tells him he has been called at last to a richly deserved reward.
Trask tells Barnabas he is dead. He says it must be his imagination, like the voices that brought him there. Barnabas asks if it sounds like this, and the disembodied voice of Abigail is heard again.
Barnabas asks him why he tried to destroy Victoria Winters. Trask says she's a witch, and Barnabas tells him he has no idea what a witch is, and what evil she has at her command. Trask says he only did his duty, and Barnabas says he set out to destroy someone for his own ambition.
He tells Trask he will show him no mercy. He shows Trask his tomb. Trask screams, and Barnabas tells him he will have an unending lesson in darkness. Trask says he was wrong about Miss Winters, and he'll help free her. Barnabas asks him to submit his confession to paper. Trask agrees, and writes that Vicki is not a witch. Barnabas reminds him to sign the paper. Barnabas takes it, and Trask asks if he may go. Barnabas drags him to where he intends to wall him in, and Trask cries out.
Nathan knocks on Trask's door, calling for him.
Barnabas builds a brick wall over the space where Trask is tied up.
Nathan bursts in and tells Trask to wake up, only to realize he's not there.
Barnabas has walled up Trask except for a single brick in front of his eyes. He tells him to look at the light of his candle, and then he places the last brick in place as Trask screams.
Our thoughts
John: Did Robert Cobert take the day off? We got some wacky music when Barnabas was summoning Trask.
Christine: Robert Cobert has provided over 300 music cues for Dark Shadows, so you should expect some surprises. Please refer to "Cue 85: Little Faster Spooky Tension - Confusion" on Disc 3 from The Dark Shadows Soundtrack Collection.
John: I love how Trask tries to have rational conversations with Abigail's disembodied voice.
Christine: It's hard to believe that Trask would communicate with the dead after claiming it was the sort of thing a witch would do at Vicki's trial.
John: So was Ben working the audio board when Barnabas calls for him to playback the Abigail tape?
Christine: Speaking of audio, I love the echoing "NNNOOOOOO!" and "You CAAAAN'T!" from Trask that immediately cuts out. I also enjoyed the way Barnabas growled his dialogue today. He was so wonderfully menacing.
John: Who knew! Nearly 50 years before Poe wrote "The Black Cat", Barnabas Collins was burying someone behind a brick wall! Of course it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy than Reverend Trask! We'll see if his confession does any good in the mysterious absence of the good Reverend.
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| "He has presumed influence over the powers of darkness, while all the time, his darkness has been the darkness of ignorance and ambition. Darkness, I promise, will be his. But not the darkness of death. At least not yet." -Barnabas |
2 comments:
Walled in on a Tuesday! That's quite an episode for mid-week!
We haven't seen the last of Reverend Trask!
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