The Episode I titled "The Search" is listed as Dark Shadows Episode 111 for some reason, with 109 & 110 skipped (not sure why), but getting into this episode, listed as 112, Matthew is caught by Elizabeth as he was about to break Vicky's neck. Elizabeth needs to get Vicky out of the cottage so she tries to convince Matthew that his admission to the accidental death of Malloy would be kept silent if he just cooperated in her release. It is only when Matthew almost strangles a courageous Elizabeth (counting on his obsessive loyalty to her as a means to set Vicky free) that he realizes how far he has fallen into the abyss that he flees. Patterson's boys out looking for him, no one believes Matthew is in fact still on the grounds, heading for the Old House where he plans to take refuge, the ending letting us know that Vicky's life is still not without danger. Roger makes an entrance late in the episode, his snobbish nose stuck high up, his contempt for Vicky quite boisterous as she tries to apologize. His demands for her release fall on deaf ears as Elizabeth will have none of it. Frank wants Vicky to come to Bangor later to spend the weekend so the two of them could get together and spend some quality time away from Collins Port, but Matthew is certain to throw a monkey wrench in these plans...
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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