Liz asks Barnabas how it is possible that Vicki disappeared, and Barnabas says he'll never understand it. Liz says it's like death, and tells Barnabas they can't understand death. He offers to take her upstairs to rest. She tells him soon she will take a long rest—because she's going to die.
Chris Jennings looks out at the full moon. He then paces around his apartment, checking his watch. He picks up the phone and makes a call.
Barnabas answers the phone. It's Chris Jennings to speak to Julia. Barnabas explains that she's busy with Mrs. Collins, and Chris explains that it's an emergency. Barnabas tells him she'll call as soon as she can.
Julia comes into the drawing room and tells Barnabas this is one shock Liz may not recover from. She says she has relapsed, and seeing Vicki disappear has her once again thinking she will die. Barnabas suggests Cassandra must have cast some sort of spell on her. He adds that he can't imagine life without Vicki, and Julia explains that it was Vicki's choice. She was desperate to be reunited with Jeff. Barnabas blames Jeff for interfering with Vicki's life. He then says he wants her to come upstairs to speak to Liz. On their way upstairs, he mentions Chris Jennings called for her, and she says she can talk to him later.
Chris leaves his apartment.
Joe is outside Collinwood with Amy while she looks at the moon. They go inside and she thanks him for taking her to a movie. She says she's sorry Chris couldn't join them, but he will once he settles down with a new job. Joe asks Amy about the star she saw on his face. She tells him she really saw it, and asks why. He asks if she's ever seen it on anyone else, and she says no. He asks if she sees it now, and she says she only saw it yesterday. He sends her upstairs, and tells her he'll call her tomorrow. She asks him to have Chris call her, too, and he says she will as he leaves. Liz walks past Amy in a trance and goes outside. Amy tries to talk to her, but she's not responsive.
Chris stands in the woods under the full moon.
Amy watches the moon. Barnabas comes downstairs and asks her what she's doing. He asks her to come inside and speak to him. Amy says she knew something was wrong, as Liz had a strange look in her eyes when she walked by her without saying anything and left. Barnabas tells her to wait in the drawing room, and goes upstairs. After he's gone, Amy puts on her coat and goes outside.
Julia tells Barnabas the sedative should have prevented her from getting up. He tells her to stay with Amy while he goes looking for Liz. He realizes Amy may have gone looking for her, so he goes to find her.
Chris arrives at Collinwood and chastises Julia for not getting him the pills he requested. She asks why he's so upset, as he doesn't need the pills until he's ready to go to sleep. He tells her he's in a hurry and needs to get back to town before dark. She gives him the pills, and tells him to read the instructions. He takes them and rushes out.
Liz stands before the mausoleum, thinking there's no reason to wait any longer. Amy asks her what she's doing. Liz tells her that no one can help her. She explains that she's going to die soon. She says it won't be ordinary. Everyone will think she's dead, but she won't be. She'll be buried alive. She opens the door to the mausoleum and then collapses. Barnabas shows up, and Amy says she thinks she's dead. He tells her that she's not, but they must get her back to Collinwood.
Chris throws down some sleeping pills and sits on his bed when there's a pounding on his door. It's Joe. Chris asks him to come back in the morning. Joe says it will only take a few minutes. Chris lets him in, but says he only has a few minutes. Joe says he let Amy down again. Chris apologizes. Joe berates him for his behavior, and Chris tries to explain. Joe tells him he needs to show Amy he loves her. Chris tries to forcibly remove Joe for his own good. Joe tells him to do something about Amy soon, or he'll have to answer to him.
Joe leaves, and Chris locks the door. He lies down on the bed and passes out. He starts to moan, and turns into a wolf.
Our thoughts
John: Liz and Barnabas are appropriately affected by Vicki's disappearance. Why does Julia seem to take the news a little too casually? She seems pretty comfortable accepting that Vicki's desire to be reunited with Jeff would result in that happening.
Christine: With Vicki out of the way, the path to Barnabas is clear, so she's probably not too broken up to have the competition eliminated.
John: Liz really is disturbed. She regularly seems to forget that it's not that she's going to die—it's that she's going to be buried alive. For a moment there, when she stood in front of the mausoleum, I thought she was suggesting that they had built her emergency escape tomb, but no such luck.
Christine: Just when I had hoped Liz had gotten over her fixation with premature burial it had to resurface. I thought it was odd that Barnabas would bring up Cassandra, when he's been referring to her as Angelique since she put the bite on him.
John: So I guess Chris has given up on the whole 'chain himself up' program. Not that it worked the last time. Of course, it would probably help if he had a better sense of when it's dark outside... telling Julia he had to get back before dark after he had already been ogling the moon in the night sky. I guess we'll see if wolf-boy sleeps through the night, and whether Amy's NOT seeing the pentagram on Joe's face tonight means that he's actually going to make it through the night, too.
Christine: I'm betting the sleeping pills will also be unsuccessful. He needs to go back to heading for the hills and running with the pack away from civilization when the moon is full every few days in Collinsport.
Strange how Vicki's disappearance, not Madame Findley's death and her encounter with the werewolf, was the catalyst for bringing the death curse back.
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