Maggie comes into the room Vicki is sleeping in, and screams. Vicki wakes up and Maggie describes seeing the ghost of a woman at the foot of the bed. She describes the woman, who Vicki recognizes as Angelique.
Vicki realizes that she's not safer at Maggie's. She says she will have the dream, and Barnabas will die. Maggie says she's sure she didn't have time to tell Vicki the dream. There's a knock at the door, and it's Joe. Maggie tells him she saw a ghost in Vicki's room. Joe dismisses that, and Maggie explains that Stokes and Vicki think Angelique Collins is responsible for a dream curse that will kill Barnabas. Maggie asks Joe to spend the night. He agrees, and Vicki goes back to her bedroom.
Vicki spots the rosewater Angelique left behind, and starts to apply some to her neck. Maggie comes in to check on her, and she says she feels fine. She asks Maggie if she could use some of her cologne, and Maggie tells her it's not hers. She assumed it was Vicki's. Vicki realizes that Angelique left it for her to use so she would have the dream. She gives the bottle to Maggie and asks her to smash it.
Joe finds the idea of a dream curse incredible. Maggie suggests Vicki could leave Collinsport for a while. She says she couldn't leave Jeff, and that she'll visit Stokes in the morning. Joe says there's something odd about Stokes. He entered Vicki's life by way of the portrait of Angelique. And then he broke into the Evans' cottage. Joe says he'd like to join her on her visit.
Stokes works on vocabulary with Adam, and then suggests they play a new game. A word association game. Stokes says love, and Adam says love. He says hate, and Adam says Willie. Stokes asks why, and he says Willie hurt him. Stokes says kill, and Adam says Barnabas. He says Barnabas hurt Adam. Stokes asks why, since Willie also hurt him. Adam says Barnabas was his friend, and then hurt him, and he begins to cry. He asks how they met when the doorbell rings. Stokes sends Adam to his room.
He lets Joe and Vicki in, and Stokes says he thought she left Collinsport. He says she will remain in danger as long as she's in the vicinity of Collinwood. Stokes tells Vicki her analysis of the situation is correct. The cologne would have induced the dream. He reiterates that she must leave Collinsport, and she says she cannot, because Jeff needs him. He says she's behaving like a moonstruck schoolgirl. Joe asks Stokes about the flash cards by the fireplace. He says he's teaching a three year-old nephew to read. Joe hears someone and says he thought Stokes lived alone. Stokes says he has cleaning people in.
As they go to leave, Joe gives him his stick pin. He says they found it on the living room floor. Stokes says he must have left it on one of his visits. Joe says they found it after Sam died, right where he was unconscious. He asks what Stokes would have been doing at the house when Maggie was staying at Collinwood. He explains he stopped by to extend his condolences. The door wasn't locked, and when he didn't find her, he left at once. As they leave, Stokes tells Vicki he hopes she doesn't have the dream.
Joe sneaks into Maggie's place and grabs a rifle next to Sam's easel when Maggie asks him what he's doing. She asks what he's doing. He says he doesn't have time to explain, and leaves with the rifle.
The doorbell rings at Stokes place, and Joe comes in with a gun. He accuses Stokes of hiding someone dangerous in his house. He says someone is hiding the maniac responsible for Sam's death, and he thinks it's Stokes. He tells him he's going to search the house, and Stokes refuses. He threatens to call the police, and Joe dares him to. They start to struggle, and Adam comes out. Joe pulls the gun on him and goes to the phone to call the police. Adam runs outside and Joe follows. We hear a gunshot as Stokes yells for him not to shoot.
Our thoughts
John: How would Maggie know how long Angelique was in the room with Vicki? She was sure she wasn't there long enough to tell her anything, of course we know she was wrong.
Christine: It was strange that Maggie said that right after she had just told her that the woman seemed to be whispering something to her. What was she doing going into her room at midnight anyway?
John: So where exactly is Jeff staying these days? Is he in the other room at the Evans' cottage? And why can't he leave with Vicki? What's keeping him in Collinsport? It seems like the two of them could run away and no one would stop them.
Christine: Yes, where is good-for-nothing Jeff Clark? Jeff can't run away with Vicki because he's got no bread. He lost his job as a parts specialist when Lang died, and it's a mystery how he's been supporting himself without a job.
John: It was clear that it was only a matter of time before Stokes was caught in a lie. We'll see where things go from here, but things don't look good for Adam if he's been shot again!
Christine: If Adam's been mortally wounded, then Barnabas is also in trouble. It was odd that Stokes told Vicki that the pipe tobacco Cassandra left for Sam Evans induced his dream, when he was the one who intercepted it and passed it on to Tony Peterson to prevent that from happening in Episode 513. Cassandra induced Sam's dream by drugging his water in Episode 517, though Stokes wouldn't have known that. As much as the camera crew loves to include mirror images in shots, I thought it was unusual that the mirrors in both Stokes' and Maggie's places had been covered with what appears to be vaseline. What's up with that?
Dark Shadows Before I Die Round Robin Nightmare tracker (bold appearing in this episode):
- Wide-eyed skull
- Guillotine
- Lang's Headless creation
- Skeletal bride
- Educational Bat-footage
- Giant spider-web
- Mounted wolf's head
- Carolyn's tombstone
- Maggie with Sam's coffin
