Dark Shadows Episode 1050 7/3/70

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Elizabeth declines a cocktail from Julia. She asks Julia if she saw Carolyn earlier. She says she never drank so much previously. She says Carolyn is convinced that she knows who Angelique's murderer is. Roger comes downstairs and asks to speak to Julia. Once he has her isolated, he tells Julia that Carolyn has been murdered. He says he heard her scream, and he found her body in the Tower. Julia tells him to call the police, and he replies not until he tells his sister. He turns to see Elizabeth listening to them. She says that Carolyn knew who the murderer was. She rushes upstairs.

Julia explains to someone on the phone that the Collins' are taking no calls. Julia goes into the drawing room and offers them both drinks. They both refuse. Elizabeth cries on Roger's shoulder as he blames the house for being cursed. He does point out that she's with Will now, and they have to find Quentin. Elizabeth says he was always so fond of Carolyn. Roger says she must have been telling the truth about knowing the murderer. Elizabeth gets up to go to her room.

Roger admits that the sum total of his life is that he can never help anyone. He tells Julia to fix him a brandy. He asks her if she thinks Quentin is in the house. She says no, and then asks about the secret he mentioned Carolyn told him. He asks Julia if Alexis was upset over Carolyn, and she says she was terribly upset. He says it's strange having her in the house, and asks if she reminds her of Angelique. Elizabeth comes back in and asks him to join her to decide where Carolyn is to be buried. He says it can wait, and she says he must come with her to the mausoleum.

A man approaches the Collins family mausoleum and enters. A gloved hand opens the secret door and he steps inside, closing the door behind him. A dagger is in the chair, and he lights the candles. He hears the door of the mausoleum close, and grabs the dagger.

Roger and Elizabeth are in the mausoleum. He asks why they're there. She says she doesn't want Carolyn buried next to Angelique. He says she should be buried in the cemetery. She counters that she's a Collins, and should be buried in the mausoleum. He agrees, just to get her to leave. She says they have other things to do. He says he doesn't know what she's talking about, and she tells him he will, and they leave.

The man comes out of the secret room and leaves the mausoleum.

Roxanne lies unconscious before Julia, who wonders how to bring her half-alive, so Angelique will be unable to function. She knows if Roxanne talks, Angelique will die, and Quentin will be trapped, so she must be careful not to go too far. She hears the door to the house.

In the foyer of Will and Carolyn's house, Roger tells Elizabeth it's masochistic for them to be there, and asks why she brought them there. She searches paperwork, looking for the name of Carolyn's murderer. He says her loyalty to Quentin is commendable. She says if Carolyn wrote that he murdered her, she'll believe it. She says he's not the only suspect. He asks who, and she mentions Trask. Roger asks her about Barnabas, and she says he wasn't there when Angelique was killed. Elizabeth finds a half-written note from Carolyn saying, "If anything happens to me, it was because he knows I have the proof." He says she found what she came for, and now they can leave. He pockets the note, and they leave together.

Julia examines Roxanne, who's attached to the machinery that brought Adam and Eve back to life. She throws the switches, and the machinery fires up. She wonders if she set the dials correctly. She flips a few switches and eyes the oscilloscope as Roxanne begins to glow. After she gets what Julia determines is a reasonable tan, she turns off the switch. It doesn't appear to have done anything. She realizes that Stokes relied on science and black magic to control Roxanne, which means she'll have to start reading up on black magic.

The mysterious figure arrives at the old house, but hears someone as he is about to enter and runs off. Julia leaves the old house, and the figure returns and enters. He goes upstairs.

Roger tells Elizabeth that it's surely a shock, but it can't be unexpected. She says if she hadn't seen the blood. Julia arrives and Roger asks if he saw the police leaving. She says she just returned from Stokes's house. Roger tells her they found the murder weapon—a knife and a pair of Quentin's gloves. Julia says someone else might have used them. Elizabeth says even she believes it was Quentin now. She says he must be caught.

The mystery man continues to search the old house.

Roxanne wakes and rises. She starts upstairs.

The mystery man tries the door to the basement, but it's locked. He stops and spins, raising his dagger, when he hears the door open behind him. Roxanne walks out, arms extended to greet the man.

Our thoughts

John: Interesting how they chose to start today's episode, considering how yesterday's ended. Sadly, while we're told that Carolyn has been murdered, we don't even get to see her dead body! Right off the bat, we're led to assume that Roger killed her. And he certainly comes across as guilty throughout the episode. Where's the inspector when you need him!

Christine: Maybe the inspector did it! Now that they've tried to make Roger appear guilty, I've changed my mind about Mr. Trask being the one who did her in. Perhaps they were trying to throw us off track with his obvious sharpening of the butcher knife. On the other hand, Roger did seem very disturbed back in Episode 990 when they reenacted the séance, saying he couldn't got through it again. Was it because he was guilty?

John: If Elizabeth just plans to bury Carolyn in the mausoleum, would that really necessitate a late night visit?

Christine: Maybe Elizabeth is guilty. She sure seemed to want to get Carolyn buried quickly. Perhaps Carolyn was right to suspect her, after all. Also, if they didn't go to the mausoleum, then we wouldn't have seen Claude North waving his dagger around in an attempt to confuse viewers into thinking he was the one who murdered Carolyn.

John: Oh come on, Julia. Did you have the machinery that brought back Adam and Eve in your carry on bag when you transported to parallel time? I really shouldn't expect more from a show where one character decides she wants to find an explanatory note from a murder victim, and then waltzes right into the person's house and finds it.

Christine: Now I need a drink! Where's the pop-up bar? We either have to believe Julia and Barnabas have been making trips to Angelique's room discreetly and carrying large pieces of equipment furtively down the stairs and all the way to the Old House, or Will and Carolyn lived a secret life as mad scientists in their spare time, with a fully stocked lab. The only other alternative is that one of them went out and did a lot of shopping at Mad Labs R Us in Bangor. With Carolyn just murdered, was today really a good day for Barnabas to take the day off and leave Julia to her own devices?

Shout out to parallel Jenny Collins, whose gravestone was partially obscured in today's episode.

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.

Episode 913/914

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?

Dark Shadows Episode 1048 7/1/70

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Julia arrives at the Loomis house. Barnabas tells her he put Roxanne back in the secret room. He says they need to find Claude North, who may be the secret to killing Angelique. She asks if that was the name on the drawing. He says that he found Roxanne in the graveyard at North's tombstone. Julia suggests that if he's dead, they won't find him. Barnabas says the sketch isn't 100 years old. He doesn't understand the connection, but he knows he's very important.

There's a knock at the door. Julia hides, and inspector Hamilton comes in. He tells Barnabas that he has some questions about Will's death. He asks if Carolyn is home. Barnabas says she's resting. Carolyn comes downstairs with a glass of brandy in her hand. Barnabas tells her she should be resting. Hamilton says he'll try to be brief. She pours herself another brandy, and reminds Barnabas that he's her cousin, not her keeper. Hamilton asks if she's satisfied that Will took his own life. Barnabas interjects, asking if he has reason to believe otherwise, and Hamilton asks him to let Carolyn answer. She says that all she knows is Will jumped from the Tower room. He asks if he might have been pushed. Carolyn says that anything is possible, and Collinwood has a skeleton in every closet.

Hamilton asks if there could be any connection between Will and Bruno's deaths. Barnabas asks if the inspector believes Will didn't take his own life. Hamilton asks Barnabas if he was in Collinwood when the first Mrs. Collins died. Barnabas says he arrived after. Hamilton says he has a list of all attendees, and he's looking forward to speaking to Julia Hoffman. He says she's an old friend that he met when she worked for the Richardsons. Julia hears this from within the secret room. Hamilton asks Carolyn about Will's relationship with the first Mrs. Collins. Carolyn says that's his last question and storms off.

Hamilton leaves, and Julia comes out and asks Barnabas what she can do. Carolyn laughs, saying all the pretending and lies are getting sticky. Julia says she'll have to go back and try to bluff her way through it. Barnabas tells her to be careful. She leaves, and Barnabas tells Carolyn that if she keeps drinking, she's going to say the wrong thing to the wrong person.

Hamilton asks Julia if she participated in the seance, and she says she wasn't. He asks where she was when she heard Angelique's scream. She says she doesn't remember, and he says that's not like her. She then says she was in the servants quarters. He asks what she did next, and she says she rushed into the room. He asks her what she saw, and she says she saw Angelique lying on the ground, and Dr. Longworth was examining her. Shortly after, he pronounced her dead. Hamilton asks if she arrived in time to see Quentin with his hands around his wife's neck. She says she did not.

He tells her he has no further questions, and adds that it's good to see her again. He asks if she ever sees the Richardsons, and she says she does not. He says they were so fond of her, and never knew why she left. He says he and his wife shared their view. He says she was also especially considerate of Jane. Julia asks who, and he says his wife. Julia asks how she is, and he is shocked. He tells her that she knows very well than his wife has been dead for three years. He reminds her that she attended the funeral. Julia says he was talking about the Richardsons, and her mind slipped into the past. He asks her if she's been mistreated at Collinwood. He says he missed the familiar greeting she always gave him, and asks if she's forgotten that too. When she says that of course she hasn't, he asks her to greet him with it now, but she is unable. He says she must be under a strain, and thanks her for her time. She leaves.

Roger tells Angelexis he is upset that the inspector has questioned everyone in the house. She wonders why he hasn't questioned her, and he says she wasn't present at the seance. She asks if he knows more than they think he does. She says there might be some interesting development with the case.

Barnabas is sitting by the fire when Julia returns. She says her meeting with Hamilton was a disaster. she says she's afraid he's got her. Barnabas asks how he could have figured out that she's a Julia Hoffman from another time. She says he can't know that, but he must know she's not the Julia he once knew. Barnabas assures her that she's in no danger as long as he doesn't question anyone else.

The inspector stops into Angelexis' room. He says she's the most important reason she's there. He tells her that he wants the absolute truth from her. He says that she's in trouble, and they may have to hold her as an accessory to murder. She asks what he's talking about. He says if she pretends not to know, she'll make things difficult. He says that he got a court order to exhume Angelique's crypt. When they did, there was no body there; not even a coffin. He thought that someone might be trying to keep something from him.

He says he then looked at Dr. Longworth's journal. It mentioned that Angelique's body was destroyed. He says it also mentioned her and Quentin, and therefore he assumes the three of them destroyed the body. She says that Cyrus and Quentin burned the coffin two months ago. She says there is something he doesn't know. She says they opened the coffin and despite her being dead for six months, her body was perfectly preserved. She says that her sister had dabbled in the occult, and had pledged to return from the dead. Hamilton dismisses superstition and says that Quentin destroyed her body out of fear that an autopsy would reveal him as her murderer. She says she knows that's not true.

He asks her where Quentin is now, and she says she doesn't know. He asks where the remains are buried. She says they're somewhere in the woods. He tells her not to leave Collinsport, and then asks her about Julia. He asks if she's been ill. She asks why, and he says her behavior is peculiar. He mentions how she asked about his wife, despite having attended her funeral three years earlier. He says she's not like the Julia Hoffman he knows. He bids her goodnight.

Carolyn finds Roger in the drawing room in the morning. She pours herself a drink, and he asks if she knows what time it is. He tells her that her behavior is shocking. She says the house is full of shocking behavior. Killing each other is okay, but drinking in the morning is shocking. She says drinking is the only way she can bear with terrible secrets. He asks her what secrets, and she says he'd like to know. 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.

Our thoughts

John: What a stroke of luck that the investigator of Will's death is an old chum of Julia's! Now, it would be one thing if Julia just needed to fool an old acquaintance, but a police inspector? Perhaps she's counting on parallel-time police in Collinwood to be as dumb-witted as they are in her time band.

Christine: It sounds to me like they may have been more than just friends. I was really hoping she was going to come up with some funny greeting to try out on him.

John: Julia almost got away without putting her foot in her mouth. I love how Barnabas is willing to express that he can't imagine how the inspector could have figured out Julia was transplanted from another time band. What's funny is that the only place where I can imagine an inspector reaching that conclusion would be in Collinwood!

Christine: Not good old Inspector Hamilton who wants to hear nothing about Angelique's interest in the occult and refuses to further investigate how her body could have remained perfectly preserved.

John: Hamilton has proof that Angelique was involved in the destruction of her sister's body, but lets that slide? Seriously? I guess he is truly one of Collinsport's finest. But at least he was able to let Angelique know that Julia is not the Julia that he knew. Useless information, unless you have an awareness of parallel-time...

Christine: If Hamilton is the one lurking outside the drawing room who just heard Carolyn say she can prove that Alexis is Angelique, then he may not let her participation slide after all. Julia probably should have snuck into the parallel portal room and disappeared before being questioned, but she definitely should beat a hasty retreat now. Unfortunately, her love for Barnabas will keep her in harm's way in parallel time as long as Barnabas remains. And why are they staying anyway?  It's time for them both to cut and run.