Dark Shadows Episode 577 - 9/10/68

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Liz wakes up screaming. Carolyn runs in, and her mother tells her that she knows that she's going to be buried alive. Carolyn tells her it's merely a fixation, and suggests that she see a local doctor. Liz gets up and phones her lawyer. He's unavailable, and she leaves a message that if she doesn't hear from him within the hour, she won't speak with him again. She asks Carolyn if Roger told her lawyer that she's gone mad. Carolyn begs her to see a doctor who can help her. Liz appeases Carolyn, who goes back to bed. She locks her bedroom door, and calls information to get Anthony Peterson's number. She then calls Tony.

Tony answers the phone, and Liz asks him to see her immediately. He agrees, and she tells him to please hurry.

Adam plays chess against himself, while talking to himself as if he's playing against Carolyn. There's a knock at his door when Carolyn brings him food. He tells her that he can't remember her name, as it's been so long since he's seen her. She comes in, and he notices she appears depressed. She explains that she's concerned about her mother. Adam tells her that Liz is very beautiful.

He says she should take her mother to a doctor. Carolyn tries to explain things, and Adam launches in to a discussion of Freud. He gives Carolyn his book on Freud, and tells her to read it tonight, and they can discuss it tomorrow. He asks her to sit and play chess with him. She says she doesn't know how, and he cannot understand how she can know so little, having lived so long. She grills him on who he has been playing chess with, and he explains that he's been playing against her. He adds that she doesn't play as well as he does. He asks her to stay and tell him about her mother.

Peterson visits Liz, and she tells him she wants him to replace Richard Garner as her attorney. She says that to start, she wants to make some additions to her will. She lays out how her coffin is to be displayed. She provides details on how her coffin is to be made, including air vents near her head. He points out that her requests are unusual, but agrees to go along with it. She adds that a buzzer will be in the coffin, wired to a system that would be heard throughout the house. She then asks him to get her papers to sign as soon as possible. He tells her that the additions she's requesting are rather strange. She tells him they are not strange at all, since she knows that she's going to be buried alive.

Carolyn goes out in the garden with the book of Freud Adam gave her. She wonders if it will help her understand her mother or Adam. Tony startles her, and sees that she's reading Freud. He says it's appropriate. He adds that her mother has requested changes to her will. Carolyn begins crying, telling him to do whatever her mother wants him to do.

He says he's not sure he should, and she might not be mentally competent. He says he doesn't envy her or her family. He does say that he's sympathetic. He adds that he's been too embarrassed to call her due to Cassandra. He says he can't explain what happened; he says he hated her even when he was compelled to be with her. Adam watches them in the garden from his window. Tony tells Carolyn he'd like to go back to the early days of their relationship, and they kiss.

Adam is now downstairs watching them. Carolyn goes inside, and Adam attacks Tony, telling him to leave her alone before knocking him out.

Our thoughts

John: For one creepy moment, I was wondering if Adam was interested in Liz. Imagine him as Carolyn's stepfather...

Christine: It was disturbing to hear him say he'd been thinking about Liz while telling Carolyn how beautiful her mother is. I was wondering if Stokes gave him a copy of The Graduate to read.

John: I'm sorry, but Carolyn's crying was some of the least convincing acting we've seen from her. At least Tony Peterson is back in her life to cheer her up (and down, I'm sure, all in good time).

Christine: Maybe Angelique will make him vampire boyfriend number #3.

John: So is there a slide or a fireman's pole providing access from the tower room to the garden? How else was Adam able to get downstairs so quickly? I guess we can look forward to another visit from the sheriff, as they once again will have to comb the surrounding area for the madman lurking around Collinwood.

Christine: He probably jumped from the window. He did survive a fall from Widows' Hill, after all. Did anyone else notice that Liz appropriated Maggie's quilt sometime during the middle of the night, and also changed the blue nightgown she wore at the end of yesterday's episode? Maybe she was dreaming that she was having a nightmare yesterday.

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