Abigail and the Countess stand over Josette's grave as Barnabas looks on from the family crypt. Barnabas wonders if Josette still hates him. He blames her hatred on Angelique's curse. He wonders if it's within his powers to bring her back.
Abigail tells the Countess they must return home before the storm hits. She doesn't want to leave. She asks Abigail to giver her a moment alone with Josette. Abigail leaves her to speak to the grave. Ben arrives to place the gravestone. He tells her he liked Josette, and didn't want anything bad to happen to her. She says the worst thing happened to her, and he says not the worst. He says that she chose to die the way she did. He escorts her to the waiting carriage.
Barnabas sits in the crypt, calling for Josette to return. Ben enters and tells him it's done. Barnabas asks if anyone is in the cemetery, and Ben says they've all gone home. Barnabas says he'll try to call her back from the dead. Ben says he can't, and Barnabas reminds him that Angelique brought Jeremiah back. Ben tells him to remember that Josette chose to die because she didn't want to be one of the living dead. He tells him to let her rest in peace. Barnabas threatens to kill him if he says another word, and sends him away.
Barnabas goes to Josette's grave and calls her name. He tells her he needs her, and says she must return to him. He says if the powers of darkness exist, he commands them to let her hear his voice. He hears a crying woman. He tells Josette she must return to him. The woman's cries continue. Her voice tells him he must not disturb her rest.
Back at Collinwood, Abigail tells the Countess that the witch will pay for what she has done. A window swings open, and the Countess says she heard the sound of Josette sobbing in the wind.
Barnabas asks Josette why she's crying, and her voice explains that she's dead, and can't come back. He tells her that she will come to him in their bridal suite at the old house.
The Countess tells Abigail she's sure she heard Josette's voice. She says she needs to go to Josette's grave now. She senses that Josette needs her.
Barnabas enters Josette's room in the old house and speaks to her portrait. He tells her to hear and obey him as he commands her to come to him.
Barnabas calls her to come to him.
We see Josette's feet make their way through Eagle Hill Cemetery.
Barnabas calls for Josette to return to him from the land of the dead.
Josette enters the old house and makes her way upstairs.
Barnabas notices the silence surrounding him. He points out the clock in the room has stopped.
The door swings open and a woman in a white dress and wedding veil enters. She asks why he disturbed her rest. She says she must return to her grave. He approaches her and she tells him not to.
He assumes she hates him, and she says she can feel neither love nor hate. He asks if she forgives him, and she says there is nothing to forgive. He says they will be together forever, and she says they have each gone to their separate fates. She says she is only back as he willed it to happen. She says he must allow her to rest, and she tells him she will lift her veil to find out why. She asks him one last time to let her return to the grave. He says he cannot, and will not. She lifts the veil, revealing a battered and broken face!
Our thoughts
John: It's a real shame that Andre couldn't be troubled to attend Josette's funeral. That, or he had to leave early.
Christine: So Barnabas now has the power to raise the dead, which indicates he may have inherited Angelique's limitless power to do whatever he wants to suit the plot. He apparently just bought Josette a new clock so they could tick away the hours of eternity together, or perhaps so he could remark on how it inexplicably stopped when she arrived at the Old House. Her shadowy entrance was nicely done.
John: I think someone needs to explain to Barnabas that NO MEANS NO. Can a dead woman get a restraining order?
Christine: It seems to be a fault that will carry on through the centuries.
John: Awesome rock-face on Josette! Her look was definitely justified. No inexplicable Jeremiah-eye dangling here.
Christine: Does anyone else see a glancing resemblance to Admiral Ackbar? Why does Barnabas look so surprised? What did he think she was going to look like after taking a nosedive onto the rocks at the base of Widows' Hill? Of course, his love for her is so strong that her hideous disfigurement surely won't deter him from keeping her around for an eternity against her wishes. Or will it?
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| Someone was really overdoing the gravestone dissolve today. |
