Lose Something! The Beginning of the Matthew Imprisonment of Victoria

It’s the suddenness that frightens. The unexpected. The feeling you don’t know what’s gonna happen next.

It was building to this as Matthew fled his cottage as a fugitive and Vicky tried to come to terms with nearly facing death that the two of them were fated to meet face-to-face once again. Dark Shadows Creative was not about to let this story end like that, and they sure knew how to milk a plot for all its worth. David becomes a major inadvertent catalyst as it is his being at the Old House where Matthew was hiding that would inevitably bring Victoria straight into the clutches of the killer. It starts with a rather uncomfortable meeting between David and Matthew; David was bringing him food raided from his family's cupboard. Matthew is not a trusting fellow and in little David he believes is someone he can rely on. David questions Elizabeth about loyalty, what it really means, pondering if his friendship with Matthew is on solid footing. I think DSC was planting a seed here as later on the seemingly solid friendship that had oddly developed between David and Matthew could be fractured if Victoria's imprisonment were discovered. Matthew's inability to keep from wanting to harm Victoria may have actually worsened his chances of remaining in hiding longer because there will be a search for her. His undoing could be his unwillingness to leave her alone. There's a nice scene shared between Victoria and Elizabeth, the two very vocal about their mutual admiration and respect for one another. It is a conversation where Victoria expresses just what Elizabeth means to her; the strength Elizabeth doesn't believe she has is adamantly accentuated by Vicky. David being at the Old House, Elizabeth worried about his staying out too long, Vicky going to fetch him, Vicky dropping her wallet, returning to find said wallet Matthew awaiting: all of this, a sequence of events building to the imprisonment of the governess who once again faces annihilation.