Barnabas stumbles upstairs and tells Julia that Adam is on his way to Collinwood to make good on his threat. He says they have to warn them. Julia tells him he can't make it, and she can go. She tells him to sit while she goes upstairs to get medication.
Julia grabs her bag in Josette's room, and notices that Carolyn is no longer lying in the bed.
Julia tells Barnabas that Carolyn's body is missing. He asks if she's sure she was dead, and she says she was. He tells her Adam must have come back and taken the body. She says she saw him leave, and he didn't come back. She then adds that if Adam did come back, it means he's not going right back to Collinwood.
Willie returns and says they're going stir crazy in the mausoleum. Barnabas tells him they have more important issues to deal with. He says Carolyn was involved in the experiment and died. He says Adam is on his way to Collinwood to carry out his threat. Willie says he saw Adam alone in the woods, sitting under a tree. Barnabas is confused if Adam wasn't going to Collinwood, and he didn't have Carolyn's body. Barnabas reminds Willie that he needs to keep watching over Maggie. Willie says that he can't keep drugging her, and she's eventually going to get out and report what she knows to the police. Julia agrees they should do something about Maggie, and offers to hypnotize her again. She tells Willie to meet her at the mausoleum in an hour, after which he'll be able to take her home.
Maggie wakes up in the mausoleum. She calls out for Willie, but he's not there. She opens the secret door to find Julia standing outside.
Maggie tries to leave, but Julia won't let her. Julia closes the secret door behind her. Maggie asks what Julia is doing there, and she says she's there to help her. Maggie asks if she's going to help Barnabas kill her. Julia tells her that Barnabas did try to kill her out of fear. Maggie tells her that she knows what Barnabas is. Julia tells her that he's changed. Julia tells her she'll be free if she cooperates with her. Julia pulls out her medallion and starts to hypnotizes Maggie. Maggie screams, and says that Julia made her forget everything before. She says she's going to let the whole world know what Barnabas is.
Julia returns to the old house, and Barnabas confirms that Willie made it back to the mausoleum. He's momentarily relieved, until she tells him that the hypnosis didn't work this time. Barnabas is uncharacteristically calm about the whole thing. Julia says they can't let her leave the mausoleum, and Barnabas says that Maggie is the least of his worries. He laments that his family is at risk, with one more member now dead. Barnabas says that he must spare his family further grief. He says he's going to go to Collinwood and tell the family everything, and accept the full consequences. Julia tries to talk him out of it. He tells her he's grateful for everything she's done for him, and he will do what he can to exonerate her. He leaves, and she paces around the drawing room.
Outside of Collinwood, Barnabas realizes that he can't bring himself to tell everyone the truth. Then he decides he must tell them about Carolyn, and knocks on the door. He is shocked when she answers.
Our thoughts
John: What's with Barnabas being so calm, cool and collected all of a sudden? He's been so keyed up these past few weeks, that came as quite a surprise. Even in the past, when resigned to his fate, he's never really been at peace. Of course, to no one's surprise, it didn't last.
Christine: Perhaps now that Barnabas is human he's finally beginning to mature.
John: It took them a while, but I think they finally mastered a good visual effect for Julia's hypnotizing medallion. Unfortunately, in looking better, it has apparently become less effective...
Christine: Maggie's awareness of her memory loss may have made her less receptive to having her memory wiped again. I do find it difficult to believe that Maggie would rather die than forget that Barnabas is a vampire who tried to make her his vampire bride. I think she's being a bit melodramatic.
John: Was there anyone who didn't anticipate Carolyn opening the door at the end of today's episode? Frankly, I'd love to know how she got out of the old house without walking past Barnabas and Julia. Perhaps she scaled the wall from the window in Josette's bedroom. She would have been the first to do that, which is pretty amazing when you consider how many women have been trapped in that room through the ages.
Christine: Of course we knew she'd be there, but it's nice to wonder how she got there and why she's smirking when she opens the door and sees him. Maybe she has also remembered that he was once a vampire who put the bite on her.
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