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September 26, 1969 |
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September 18, 1969 |
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Quentin and Amanda make plans to leave town; however, Quentin finds his portrait is missing.
Synopsis
- Evening comes to Collinwood at the turn of the century. A dark storm begins to blow in from the sea, almost as if it were meant as a warning to the two who mean to escape from their tangled lives.
Amanda and Quentin make plans to leave on the 6pm train for New York, but Amanda is hesitant, unsure about whether Charles Tate told the truth about her not being human.
Later, a furious Reverend Trask demands to know why both Amanda and her belongings are no longer at Collinwood, raging that he knows that Quentin is the source of all evil at Collinwood, and vowing to rescue Amanda and destroy Quentin.
While saying goodbye to Nora in his room, Quentin's portrait disappears before his very eyes. Recognizing that this may signal that he may once again be under the curse of the werewolf, Quentin gives Nora a letter for Amanda, explaining that he may not be able to meet her on the train platform.
Quentin, thinking that Tate may have caused the portrait to disappear, goes to his studio and a struggle ensues.
Trask intercepts Quentin's letter and goes to see Amanda at the Rectory, where she confesses to Reverend Trask that she intended to make him fall in love with her. Trask's denial of his lust for Amanda exposes Trask as a hypocrite.
Nora tells Quentin that Trask took the letter and he races to make the train.
Memorable quotes
- Rev. Trask: You know something about this, Quentin!
- Quentin: Well, I take pride in knowing something about everything...not much, but something.
- Rev. Trask: Where are you going?
- Quentin: To my room! Am I allowed, teacher?
- Rev. Trask: I am not satisfied with your answers.
- Quentin: That's too bad.
- Rev. Trask: I have proof of your perfidy, Quentin. I will make your life miserable.
- Quentin: You make my life miserable just by existing!
- Amanda: Reverend Trask, you’re a hypocrite! And I don’t have time to listen to your lies!
- Trask: Lies! MY lies!
- Amanda: You live them!
Dramatis personae
- David Selby as Quentin Collins
- Donna McKechnie as Amanda Harris
- Roger Davis as Charles Delaware Tate
- Jerry Lacy as Gregory Trask
- Denise Nickerson as Nora Collins
- John Hallow as Railroad Station Master
Background information and notes
Production
- This episode was recorded out of broadcast sequence. The previous episode to be recorded was 851.
- Jerry Lacy returns to the cast after an absence of 17 episodes.
- This is the eighteenth episode with no pre-Barnabas cast members and, without Jonathan Frid, the sixth episode with an all-post-Barnabas cast.
Story
- INTERNAL MONOLOGUE: Charles: Now I control Quentin Collins; Quentin: (writes letter).
- TIMELINE: Day 324 begins, and will end in 855. 4:45pm at start of the episode. There is one hour and fifteen minutes until Quentin and Amanda leave for New York as planned. Amanda will be at the rectory until 5:45pm. 5:25pm: Nora attempts to leave Collinwood. 5:40pm: Gregory arrives at the rectory.
Bloopers and continuity errors
- In the teaser, the clock Quentin looks at to check the time before the train leaves says it's 5:45. The grandfather clock behind them, though, says 7:30. Granted, this is the abandoned rectory, so one could argue the grandfather clock has not been set or is not operational.
- Nora asks Quentin why Jamison is mad at him, but then shortly after she herself states that Jamison is mad at him for planning to marry Angelique.
- Someone coughs from off-screen when Nora is talking to Quentin, after Quentin tells Nora to tell Jamison he loves him very much.
- Quentin Collins sends his 12-year-old niece outside into a raging storm to deliver a note.
- When Nora leaves Quentin's room, running footsteps can be heard. This is presumably Denise Nickerson running to get to the next set.
- When Nora and Trask are talking near the front door, Jerry Lacy is standing in shadow with no light on him.
- The new wound on the face on Quentin's portrait is no longer there as Charles looks at the portrait in the studio. There's no indication that Charles painted over it and no reason for us to think he did, but one could argue he did.
- During Quentin and Charles' fight, Charles falls to the floor next to the couch. The couch is pulled away from him. It's clearly a stagehand who does it because Quentin is standing over Charles and didn't do it. --(Addendum - It very well could have been Quentin. The camera is too low to see exactly what happened.)
- As Quentin finished searching the studio and the camera closes up on Charles lying unconscious on the floor, the sketch of Sally Evans is visible beside him. In addition, the seascape that Charles is painting was also seen in Sam Evans' studio in episode 164. As well, there is an abstract painting on the windowsill that seems anachronistic to 1897.
- When Rev. Trask is knocking on the door at the rectory, he is in a hallway that leads to the doors of the main room. In the previous episode (849), when Julia opens those same doors to let Count Petofi in, the doors lead directly outside.
- After Amanda lets Trask into the rectory, one of the doors doesn't quite close, and she has to try to close it a second time.
External Links
Dark Shadows - Episode 850 on the IMDb
Dark Shadows Everyday - Episode 850 - Proof of Your Perfidy
Dark Shadows Commentary- Episode 850: That's your train, lady