Dark Shadows Episode 627 - 11/19/68

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Jeff tells Vicki to go back to Collinwood. He opens a closet door and closes it, disturbed by what he saw. Vicki opens the door and sees Eve's body lying on the floor, dead. Jeff checks her vitals and then closes her eyes. Vicki asks if she's dead, and he says she is.

He has Vicki sit down. She asks who the woman is, and he tells her it's Eve. Vicki asks if it's the woman he told her about earlier and he confirms that she is. She then asks if he did it, and he says he didn't. She says they have to call the police, and he says he needs time to think. He says they'll think he's guilty or insane. She tells him that waiting will only make him appear more suspicious. He tells her to go back to Collinwood and she refuses. He picks up the phone and asks the operator to connect him to the police.

Adam wanders through the woods, forlorn. He regrets killing Eve. He realizes he can't go back to Blair's house. He doesn't know what to do.

He sees Angelique, and she offers to help him. She says she knows that he killed Eve. He tells her he doesn't want her help. She explains that she's the only one that can help him. She says he was right to kill Eve, who was evil. She adds that Blair knew she was secretly seeing Jeff. Angelique quickly fills in Adam on how Blair brought back Danielle Roget to provide the life force for Eve. She says he's only a slave to Blair, and neither of them can escape him unless they work together. She tells him she needs his help to dispose of Blair. He will think that Jeff killed Eve. She tells him to go home, and pretend to be shocked when he hears that Eve is dead.

Someone watches Joe from outside his hospital room window. Joe sees his cousin Tom Jennings and yells that he's dead. The man explains that he's not Tom, he's Chris Jennings.

He asks Joe how Tom died. Joe says he doesn't know. Chris asks about the animal-like wound on his neck. Chris says he got a list of names from the sheriff to investigate, including Jeff Clark and Nicholas Blair. Joe asks Chris if he's seen his sister, Molly. Chris says he hasn't. Joe explains that she fell to pieces when Tom died, and now she's in Windcliff, thanks to Dr. Hoffman.

Julia walks in and screams when she sees Tom. Joe explains that the man is Chris, not Tom. He says he'd like to talk to Julia and offers to drive her back to Collinwood. She agrees, and asks to speak to Joe alone. She asks Joe why he didn't tell her Tom had a brother. Joe explains that Chris was hard to get a hold of. Years ago he changed, and disappeared from Collinsport altogether. Julia asks what he's doing in town, and he tells her Chris is here to investigate Tom's death. He tells her to try and convince him to leave town. Chris watches them from outside the window.

Back at Collinwood, Chris asks if he can ask Julia a few more questions. She invites him in, and asks how well she knew Tom. She says she hardly knew him, and Chris asks why she would react so strongly if she didn't know him that well. She explains she had heard about his unusual wound, and was able to examine him. She says it appeared to be an animal bite. He asks what kind of animal, and she says she doesn't know. Julia asks Chris why it took him two months to come out to investigate Tom's death. She asks if he came for a different reason. He mentions his sister. She says that she's at her hospital, Windcliff, and it would be good to have her brother close. He says that the life he leads is all wrong for her. Julia asks him what kind of life he leads. He says he moves around a lot. She asks if that means he doesn't have or want any responsibilities. He says he'll see his sister later and storms out.

Vicki bursts in, asking for Roger. She tells Julia that she needs Roger to post bail for Jeff. She explains that there was a woman found dead in his apartment named Eve. She goes up to find Roger, and Julia leaves the house.

Angelique approaches her coffin, and thinks that if she succeeds tonight, Blair will be returned to darkness, and the master may lift her curse. She summons a great evil, and is surrounded by fire. She begs not to be destroyed, but screams in agony.

Our thoughts

John: Sure, Jeff. It's going to serve you better to spend some time thinking about what to do before calling the police to report a dead woman's body in your closet. I do think it would be quite humorous for Jeff to be tried and convicted for a murder he didn't commit, just as Peter had been a few hundred years ago.

Christine: It looks like that's the way it's going to go. Of course Vicki is going to stand by her man, even though he's screaming at her to leave one minute and embracing her the next, which seems to be the kind of future she'll have with Jeff Clark, if he's not sent to the electric chair first.

John: Wow, we were treated to a classic soap-trope today... the mysterious arrival of a previously unmentioned twin of a now-dead character! Who is this Chris Jennings, and what new excitement will he bring to Collinsport? I did enjoy Tom, so I have high hopes for Chris!

Christine: How nice that they let us believe he was Tom Jennings back from the dead through the commercial break. He has the same penchant for melodrama that his brother did. This mysterious twin likes to spend time in the mountains and is always on the go. He also has no qualms about staring in at people through windows. I guess that makes him a peeping Chris. 

John: Why would the master lift Angelique's curse if she gets rid of Blair? And what exactly was she trying to summon? Whatever it was, I have to give them credit for today's visual effect. Her burning in the fire was one of the nicer chroma-key effects we've seen.

Christine: I thought she was summoning Satan, though it appears her conjuring backfired. I guess she forgot she's no longer a witch. I was wondering how she knew that Adam killed Eve. Was she spying on him through the magic mirror, or was Eve the one she had her eye on? It's kind of a weird thing for her to be doing either way.