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April 25, 1969 |
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Beth stops Quentin from killing Jenny.
Synopsis[]
- The time is 1897, and the place is Collinwood. Barnabas Collins is attempting to unravel the twisted skeins of the past to save two people in the present. In the Old House on the great estate, dawn has forced him downstairs, leaving in the house above a prisoner, a prisoner that one man has vowed to kill.
Quentin, without realizing it, attacks Beth. Beth storms off but Quentin goes after her. Beth asks Quentin what's wrong. He wants to marry her. He has not mentioned marriage before. Beth finds Jenny's locket. Beth tells him if he is going to kill Jenny, he has to kill her. Quentin wonders about Barnabas protecting Jenny, "We lock our pet secret up, why should he?” When she returns, Magda finds Beth who hides the locket but Magda finds it. He wants to wait for Barnabas. Magda makes up excuses. Beth and Quentin leave. Sandor returns and wants breakfast. They think Jenny is far away.
Jenny reasons that Barnabas killed Quentin. Magda and Sandor hear her and find the key to the room on the floor. They find her. They were worried after she disappeared from Collinwood. She would have killed them both if they told Quentin back then…that she is a gypsy, too. It was years ago, they tell her. "You are a gypsy, too," Magda tells her. When Jenny acts even more insane, Magda says, "God, she has a devil in her." She hugs her and calls her sister.
The three are going to leave. Jenny does not want to and hits Magda from behind with a book after Sandor goes to get the cross. Jenny flees to the drawing room. She finds her way to the cellar and finds and opens the coffin.
Memorable quotes[]
- Quentin: (to Magda, about the locket) If you want an appraisal, take it to the jeweler.
- Magda: (about Jenny) God, she has a devil in her.
Dramatis personae[]
- Grayson Hall as Magda
- Thayer David as Sandor
- David Selby as Quentin Collins
- Marie Wallace as Jenny
- Terry Crawford as Beth
Background information and notes[]
Production[]
Story[]
- This is the first mention made of Jenny and Magda being sisters. It was years ago when Jenny warned Sandor and Magda against telling Quentin the truth.
- INTERNAL MONOLOGUE: Jenny: Who was that woman?
- TIMELINE: It was over an hour ago when Quentin left Barnabas at the Old House.
Bloopers and continuity errors[]
- In the teaser, there is a hall table standing against the Old House staircase, which wasn't there in the previous episode, including in this scene as performed in the previous episode.
- In the teaser, as Jenny is looking in the mirror and talking to her image, there is a lot off-stage squeaking and other noise. There is also a lot of off-stage noise in Act I with Quentin and Beth in the Old House parlor.
- It's not made clear why Beth seems to know that Jenny is in the Old House and in Josette's room.
- In Act II, when Sandor arrives at the Old House and Magda shows him Jenny's locket, it seems either Thayer David seems to have forgotten his line. As Magda gives the locket to Sandor, she says, "It was here." Sandor looks at the locket for an unusually long time with no one saying anything, and then Magda jumps in again with "It was. It was here, Sandor. What does it mean?" Then Sandor says, "Impossible.
- A boom microphone and its shadow can be seen as Jenny calls for Quentin at the door to Josette's room. There is also a loud rolling or shoving sound from off-stage.
- At the end of Act II, as Magda and Sandor go up the Old House stairway, the entire banister shakes.
- In the scene between Magda and Jenny in Josette's room, as Jenny stands and wonders about Magda's statement about her running away, Marie Wallace trips and grabs onto the bedpost.
- As Magda falls to the floor after being struck by the book wielded by Jenny, Grayson Hall appears to be grabbing the wig she is wearing to keep it from slipping off. Also, as Jenny is about to strike Magda, Grayson Hall leans away from her, and it appears that Jenny is striking with the book in mid-air and hitting quite low. In the next shot, we see Magda is still standing before she falls to the floor.
- A boom microphone shadow an be seen on the pillar briefly as Jenny searches for Quentin.
- The background music stops abruptly twice during this episode. [Addendum: In each of these instances, the music stopping is precisely timed at dramatic moments, so it seems to be deliberate.]
- Toward the end of the episode, as Jenny goes to the basement of the Old House and sees Barnabas's coffin, the mysterious candelabra on the coffin is now gone.
External Links []
Dark Shadows - Episode 745 on the IMDb
Dark Shadows Everyday - Episode 745 - Rendezvous at the OK Corral
Dark Shadows Commentary- Episode 745: What I am is what I will be