On her thoughts, the body at the bottom of Widow's Hill, Carolyn cannot sleep. She wanted to sleep in Vicky's bed with her because of this innate creepiness she can't get rid of. Malloy is a topic of conversation even between a besides-himself Sam Evans, pacing and restless, and Maggie, trying to pry what wears away his ability to function normally. Yes, Sam and Maggie talk Burke and Malloy, and do you think she will be able to get answers from him? If you said, "Nope," you are right on the money. It's the same tiresome shit. Sam had a series of episodes fixated on his torment, on his secret, and lots of Maggie trying to figure out what was wrong, eating away at him. When you keep repeating the same scenes over and over, how can it not get irksome? Maggie talks of reading the letter pop wanted her to if something happened to him, and he insists she bring it to him so he can destroy it. He shrugs her, hurting her arms, adamant that she swear on mama's name not to read it. The main plot concerns Vicky and Carolyn hearing a noise, a thud, investigating the active part of Collinwood, looking for the cause. The ancestral book is found in the living room area, open, several feet away from its resting place on the table (a previous episode had Carolyn reading from it while talking shop with one of the Collins portraits). Vicky drops it and the same sound is recognized to be what they heard. How did it get to that position on the floor? Dark Shadows Creative pull off a special effect to prove that *ghosts do exist* at Collinwood. The book is put back where it normally lies, and it opens all by itself to the page reading, JOSETTE COLLINS, after the girls leave the room. Basically a trademark of the show has two conversations alternating back and forth, and this is the case in Episode 52. Carolyn still isn't convinced that what she and Vicky saw at the bottom of Widow's Hill was a clump of seaweed; DSC are telling us that all because Malloy's body has been moved, it doesn't erase what those two girl had seen.
Burke interrupts what could have been a decent dinner between Maggie, her father, and Vicky, and he's sore, agenda-driven, and pointed in defending himself, while also demanding answers...answers Sam is willing to flee to protect. Sam's only link to Burke at all, besides Roger himself, is the letter he wrote to Maggie. He escapes out the back door while the others were in the living room and heads to Collins Port Inn where the letter is kept but the owner will not give it over to him. The letter is Maggie's and she will have to give permission before Sam can get his hands on it. Malloy's death looms large and will not go away--especially as long as Burke steamrolls throughout Collins Port, pissed off and unrestrained. He wants to know Sam's connection to the wrongful conviction and isn't about to just forget his presence at the meeting that night. Maggie just cannot believe that her father had anything at all to do with Malloy's death; Sam and Malloy were fr...
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