Showing posts with label Mr. Trask. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 2, 2020

Dark Shadows Episode 1049 7/2/70

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Carolyn pours herself a drink, and tells Roger he'd like to know the things she knows. He tells her that she's drunk. She says that she'll tell him the biggest secret of all. She says it concerns someone he loves very much. She says she can prove that Alexis is really Angelique.


Someone standing outside the drawing room hears her say this.

Roger tells her that's ridiculous, and Carolyn assures him it's true. He tells her to check beneath her skull where the hat pin... She then says she has proof, and he asks what it is. She says that would reveal another secret. He tells her the dead do not come back. Carolyn says Angelique came back for a reason, and everyone in the house should be warned.


It's Trask eavesdropping on them from the foyer.


Roger says if she keeps it up, he'll put her in a sanitarium.

Amy sneaks up on Trask, and he tells her to leave him alone. She runs off.


Roger tells Carolyn that anyone who watched Angelique die won't believe her story. Carolyn says that he does. Roger says there's no shred of logic to it. If she came back, she'd want revenge. Carolyn asks if Quentin being on the run from law would be revenge? She asks if he thinks Quentin murdered her, and Roger says he knows he did.


Angelexis walks up on Trask. He seems troubled to see her. She asks what he's looking at, and Trask apologizes before scurrying off.


Angelexis walks in on Roger and Carolyn as he explains no one but Quentin would have killed her. When he sees Angelexis, he's in shocked. Carolyn says they were just discussing her sister's murder. Angelexis adds that Trask was quite interested in their conversation, as she found him eavesdropping on their conversation. Roger says he'll have a word with him. Carolyn stops him and asks him to tell his theory about Quentin to Angelexis. She says she finds the subject upsetting. Carolyn tells her that there are even more secrets than they know, and that she knows them all. She puts down her drink and says she's going home. She momentarily sobers up and says she was thinking that Will would be there waiting for her. She leaves to return home. Angelexis asks Roger why he's staring at her.


Carolyn leaves Collinwood, and Trask follows her.

Trask walks in on Carolyn in the old house. He tells her that he heard her in the drawing room. He asks if it's true; if Alexis is truly Angelique. She asks him to pour her a drink. He asks her how he knows. She asks why it interests him so much. She suggests that he was in love with Angelique, too. He says it can't be her.


She laughs, mocking him for being afraid of her. He demands that she tell him how she knows. He says she'll regret causing trouble. She asks if he's going to make her regret it, and he leaves.


Elizabeth tells Angelexis that she thought she heard Quentin in the hall last night. Angelexis says he wouldn't return to the house. Elizabeth thinks he's spying on them to determine which of them is guilty of Angelique's murder. Angelexis says that his running away from the police makes him the most likely suspect. Elizabeth refuses to believe it. She asks if Angelexis believes Quentin killed Angelique or Bruno. Angelexis waffles.



Carolyn walks in on them, drunk. Elizabeth asks Angelexis to let her speak to her daughter alone. She leaves, and Carolyn says that she should have joined Will in his drinking. Carolyn tells her mother that she's relieved about her. She says she was upset when she believed Elizabeth had murdered Angelique.


Roger eavesdrops on their conversation.

Carolyn says that she found her hatpin, and she thought she killed Angelique for her and Will. Carolyn says she now knows who killed her. Elizabeth says she must call the police. Carolyn refuses. She says the police will never believe her. She adds that she knows who the murderer is, and tonight, when evening comes, she'll do something about it. Her mother asks her why in the evening, and she says that's another secret.


Roger sees a shadow in the foyer, and realizes that he wasn't the only one to hear them. He wonders if it was Trask, or possibly Quentin.


In the kitchen, Trask begins to sharpen butcher knife. Amy walks in and asks if he's still mad at her. He apologizes. She asks him to promise to believe her, and then says she heard the footsteps of the man who lives in the Tower room. He asks if she's seen the man, and she say she's afraid. He asks why she hasn't told anyone else, and she says then they wouldn't believe her, and they'd also be afraid. He tells her that he'll see who it is.


Elizabeth tells Roger that Carolyn is making no sense at all. He says he thinks she should be hospitalized immediately. She refuses. He says she always asks his opinion, but never takes his advice, and storms off.


Trask goes to the tower room. As he's about to open the door, Carolyn yells at him to stop snooping around, and to go downstairs. She says she's going to be with the spirit of her husband. Trask reluctantly leaves. 


Elizabeth looks for Trask in the kitchen. Amy tells her she saw him an hour ago, coming down the stairs. Elizabeth then asks where Carolyn is. Amy notices the knife Trask was sharpening is gone. Elizabeth says he probably put it away.


Carolyn tries to reach to Will. She hears a door open and footsteps. She says she's not afraid. She asks why he killed her. An unseen figure raises the butcher knife, and Carolyn screams.




Our thoughts

John: I love that parallel-time Roger, like our own, is basically lorded over by his sister. And he's right—in all timelines, Elizabeth often asks him for his opinion, seemingly just so she can purposefully ignore it.

Christine: Well, it could be because his advice is not worth following in either timeline.

John: Should we start tracking the taxidermied pig? He seems to keep turning up in strange new places.


Christine: It is an odd place to keep a stuffed pig. The only other place I remember seeing it was at the Leviathan antique shop, though we definitely should keep an eye out for this macabre specimen. It may be a harbinger of death.

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John: Based on Carolyn's asking the unseen man, "why he killed her," are we to assume that Quentin is about to go all Norman Bates on her? I was really hoping her visit might lead to the introduction of the ghost of Will...

Christine: I don't think Quentin is the knife wielder. Since they showed Trask sharpening the knife, he is probably not the killer either. That leaves Roger, who may have been insisting on having Carolyn hospitalized and declared mentally unfit so nobody would believe her ranting about who murdered Angelique. Since he was acting obviously nervous whenever anyone brought up the murder, I'm not convinced it's him either. Let's hope we'll get a reveal tomorrow! Incidentally, is this the first time we've seen the kitchen in color?




Thursday, April 30, 2020

Dark Shadows Episode 1004 4/30/70

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Hannah says Fred is dead. Angelique says that this is how she lives now, and this is how Quentin will live with her, for eternity. She asks Hannah if she's frightened of her. She says anyone would be. She tells Hannah to refer to her as Alexis, and then demands that she dispose of Fred's body.


Hannah asks what they should do if anyone saw her leading Fred to her, and Angelique explains that he's a loaner and drifter, and won't be missed by anyone. She tells Hannah she's a coward. Hannah reminds her that she'll need warmth again, and she wants no part of it. Angelique says that her curiosity has turned to terror now that she knows someone who has returned from the dead. Hannah says that Dameon's spirit will not let her do what she plans. Angelique says that nothing will keep her from having Quentin forever.


Trask tells Bruno that he was wrong—Angelique's body was in the tomb. It has since been burned. He tells Bruno that they're in trouble. Dameon's ghost is in the house because of them, not Angelique. Bruno tells him to stop simpering about the ghost until they have a reason. He accepts that the woman in Collinwood truly is Alexis, and adds that he didn't think he could be fooled so easily.


Angelexis returns to Collinwood and finds a telegram for Quentin. She opens it and reads it. It's from Maggie's sister, suggesting that if he calls her, he could talk her into returning as the time is right for her to return to Collinwood. Quentin calls to Alexis from the top of the stairs. She hides the telegram and tells him she was just thinking of him. He offers her a drink, and with one hand behind her back, she accepts his offer. When he steps into the drawing room, she crumples the telegram and tosses it into the fireplace.


Quentin hands her a drink. She says that Angelique loved the house, which upsets Quentin. She asks if he'd prefer to speak of Maggie, and that appears to get under his skin as well. She asks if he loves her, and he asks why she's bringing it up. Quentin explains that Maggie is an innocent child. Angelexis says that even as a child, Angelique was quite sophisticated. She picks up a statue and as she places it on the mantle, she asks what he plans to do. He says he'll wait for Maggie to contact him. He asks why she put the statue where she did, adding that it's exactly where Angelique placed it.


She asks if he still doubts who she is, and he assures her that he does not. They then hear a voice saying, "You know who I am." The lights go out, and Angelexis clutches Quentin. The voice then laughs. Quentin turns on a light and asks Dameon what he wants. The voice says, "She knows," but Angelexis denies it.


She says the ghost has her confused with Angelique. Quentin says she's implying that Edwards hates Angelique, but then dismisses that, believing that she's Alexis. He tells her that she could leave, and she says that she's going to stay. Trask enters, and Quentin tells him that Dameon Edwards is back. He asks Trask to explain why he can't rest. Trask tells him it's as much of a mystery to him. Quentin says he should think about it, and that he'll be around if Trask decides to say something more.


Trask goes into the drawing room, and speaks to Dameon. He asks for a sign that he's being heard. He doesn't get one, but he swears he didn't kill him. He says he should be after Bruno.

Bruno sneaks into Alexis' room. She asks him what he wants. He compliments her looks, and says it's proof how much he misses her sister. He says that she put passion in his music, and he critics don't realize it's gone yet. He tells her that he came to apologize. He truly believed that Angelique had returned, but he was wrong. He asks if they can be friends, and she asks if he can be anyone's friend. He kisses her hand and tells her that Angelique found him charming. She says that in time, she might.


Trask begs Quentin to stop asking him about Dameon. He says if he knew anything he'd tell him.

Angelique stares up at her portrait. She then picks up a phone.

Hannah returns home as her phone rings. She answers it, and it's Angelique, checking to see if she finished her job. She tells her to come to Collinwood to deal with Dameon Edwareds. She says that she will exorcise the ghost through Hannah, and everyone will think that Hannah was responsible.


Quentin is asleep on the couch in the drawing room. In a dream, he hears someone calling to him. He asks where he wants him to go. The voice says he's at the last door he will ever enter, and tells him to follow his spirit. Quentin walks upstairs. The voice tells him that he is waiting. He beckons Quentin to come to the door. Quentin finds himself before Dameon Edwards who says he wants him to know how it will end. He leads him to a door and opens the door. Inside, Quentin's body is hanging from the rafters. Quentin picks up a note saying, "I had to do this to be with the one I love." Dameon laughs at him.





Our thoughts

John: If Fred was a loner and a drifter, what the heck was he doing in Collinwood, how is it that Quentin knew him, and what was with his being so cozy with Angelexis? I feel bad for Hannah that she was left to clean up Angelique's mess. Fred wasn't a small guy. Thankfully, she seems to have the same high-speed grave-digging skills as all other residents of Collinsport.

Christine: I really wish we could have seen Aunt Hannah at work, dragging Fred's corpse out to be buried, digging a hole, dropping him in and covering him up without getting a speck of dirt on her dress or putting a single hair out of place. The woman is truly amazing! Portrait watchers should note that the Mustache Man hangs in parallel time at Hannah's hip 70s pad.



John: Wasn't Bruno just crying about the ghost of Dameon haunting him? Funny to see him berating Trask for basically doing the same!

Christine: I'm wondering if Angelique has OCD, being so particular about placing a statue in an exact spot on the mantel that she couldn't resist doing it, knowing that it could expose her for who she truly is.

John: So we still have no real understanding of who Dameon is, exactly how he died, or why he's doing what he's doing, but at least he showed us how things are going to end for parallel-Quentin—swinging at the end of a rope!

Christine: We also don't know why he's so happy about Quentin hanging himself. Is this how Angelique intends to keep Quentin through eternity? That's a plan that seems like it could backfire. 



Second Down for the Count:
Barnabas was chained in his coffin 22 episodes ago.

Monday, April 27, 2020

Dark Shadows Episode 1001 4/27/70

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Alexis goes into Angelique's crypt and opens the coffin. She tells Angelique that she doesn't know what her secret was. She says that she knows that it's wrong, but her body must be destroyed. Angelique opens her eyes, and tells Alexis that she is right, someone must be destroyed, and it will be her. Angelique gets up, and Alexis says it can't be happening. Angelique assures her that it is happening, thanks to her. Angelique takes off her gloves, and tells Alexis that how she remained young will be her secret, but the warmth of Alexis' touch brought life back to her body. Angelique tells Alexis that her time has come. She says Alexis will take her place in the coffin, and she will take her place at Collinwood. Alexis screams.


Trask waits outside the crypt, wondering what's taking Angelique so long. He decides to check on her, then hesitates. He wonders why she didn't want him in there.

Angelique buttons her coat, and thanks Alexis, who is now lying in her coffin. She hears Trask calling Alexis. She tells him that he can come in. He does, and finds her closing the coffin. He asks if she's alright. She tells him she said a final prayer for her sister. He asks if she's ready to go back to Collinwood, and she tells him she's very much looking forward to it.


The lights go on and off and the chandelier swings in the drawing room at Collinwood. Quentin calls out to Dameon, asking if it's him. He asks who's responsible for Dameon's return. The lights come back on.


Angelexis and Trask return to Collinwood, and she dismisses him. Quentin invites her into the drawing room. She looks around as if she hasn't seen the place in a while. He tells her they must discuss Angelique. She says that she returned to her sister's tomb. She says that he and Cyrus were right, and that Angelique's body must be destroyed.


Quentin asks Trask if he's gotten a hold of Cyrus yet. Trask says he hadn't heard back yet, and will try again. He asks Quentin if he's decided what to wear to dinner with the Conway's, and Quentin tells him he has other plans, and tells Trask to let them know he has other plans. Quentin tries calling Cyrus.


Cyrus is in his lab when the phone rings. Cyrus answers, and Quentin asks him to meet him at the mausoleum. He agrees to do so. There's a knock at the door, and he lets Chris in. Cyrus explains that he's very busy. Chris says he was following Cyrus orders, and pulls out a note he got from him. Chris asks him why he wants to transfer $5000 from Cyrus' account to an account for John Yaeger. Cyrus says Yaeger has been helping him. Chris asks if he's in some kind of trouble with Yaeger. Cyrus assures him that Yaeger isn't blackmailing him. Chris says he's going to need Yaeger's signature to open an account, and that he'd like to meet him, anyway. Cyrus tells Chris that he'll have him come around. Chris leaves the lab.


Cyrus meets Quentin at the mausoleum, and they go inside. He tells Cyrus that they must destroy Angelique's body tonight. He says Alexis has agreed to it. He tells Cyrus that he wants to drag the coffin out and light it on fire. Cyrus agrees they should destroy the body, but points out they might be seen. Quentin says they have to take that chance. He opens the coffin to see her one last time. He admires her beauty, and bids her goodbye. They carry the coffin out.


Quentin touches a torch to the coffin, and it goes up in flames immediately.


Angelexis is in her room in Collinwood when Trask enters. He tells her that Quentin has returned. Trask points out that she seems so at home in Collinwood that it makes it seem like Angelique never died.


Quentin and Cyrus return to Collinwood. Quentin goes upstairs to get her, and tells Cyrus that he has to stay and have a drink with them.

Quentin tells Angelexis that they burned the coffin, saying there's going to be a change in atmosphere in Collinwood, including bringing Maggie back. Angelexis says she looks forward to meeting her; adding, under more favorable circumstances. He thanks her for coming to the mausoleum with them, and opening the coffin with them. He invites her down for a drink, and she declines.


Cyrus waits in the drawing room, when he doubles over in agony. He sees hair on his hand, and turns into John Yaeger. He hears Quentin coming downstairs and closes the drawing room doors.


Quentin comes downstairs and is surprised to find the drawing room doors locked. He calls to Cyrus, asking if he's alright.



Our thoughts

John: What was the point of Quentin's poltergeist moment in the drawing room? Why even bother having the ghost of Dameon show up if the actor who plays him has the day off?

Christine: My best guess is that it was intended to show that Dameon is all whipped up about Angelique's resurrection. Whether he is restless because he's displeased or delighted by it remains to be seen.


John: I was really hoping for a scene in the crypt where they opened the coffin and Alexis tried in vain to convince them that she was not Angelique before they roasted her! That would have been classic.

Christine: Yes, but it was oh so much more disturbing that they unknowingly cooked her while she was in a state of limbo, and not actually dead. That certainly was a flammable coffin though, wasn't it?


John: Um, okay... so now Cyrus doesn't have to drink his potion to become John Yaeger? Sounds like a pretty nasty side effect! I wonder if it goes both ways, and tough guy John Yaeger will find himself turning into nerdy-Cyrus at the most inopportune time...

Christine: The lack of control over the transformation is in keeping with the original Jekyll and Hyde story, and if it follows the original tale, Yaeger will need to use the "Do Not Touch" potion to resume his Cyrus persona. John Yaeger's appearance has evolved quite a bit since his arrival in Episode 996. It's funny that with all the manscaping he seems to be doing, he's kept those hairy hands.

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