RECAPS OF LAST WEEK'S EPISODES
EPISODE 15 (released 8/8/11)
Roger is looking for his car keys, but no amount of scary incidental
music is able to make this moment seem tense. Vicki enters, offering
to help look for them. Roger again tells her to go back to New York,
but she feels sure they aren't there.
Oh, by the way, she saw Burke in the garage, looking at Roger's car.
Roger says it probably doesn't mean anything. After all, you know how
padded these shows are. Liz tries to talk him out of going to the Blue
Whale to meet Burke, but Roger explains he's got to, and it's a
Lincoln/Ford's Theater kind of thing.
David tells Vicki he hates Roger and hopes he dies. A scene later,
Vicki asks if he really meant it. Yep, he did. (There's your padding).
David says Roger must hate him because he's not a nice kid. (That
reasoning seems sound enough). Vicki retaliates with another Foundling
Home story about a girl who thought everyone hated her, and pushed
them all away, not realizing that the person who really hated her was
herself! Unfortunately, the girl in Vicki's story solved her problem
by sharing her Barbies and helping the other girls with their makeup,
which doesn't prove too useful for David. David, always practical,
says that that girl should have just put all her enemies up against
the wall and shot them. Vicki says maybe that will really happen, if
Sam Peckinpah ever directs a Dark Shadows movie.
Liz again tries to talk Roger out of meeting Burke at the Blue Whale,
but Roger goes all John Wayne and says a man's gotta do what a man's
gotta do. Liz wonders what on earth this could have to do with him.
Roger goes out to his car and starts down the long winding road, but
before he gets halfway down, he runs off the road. His last thought
before the crash is how ironic it is that this should happen the one
time he got behind the wheel sober.
EPISODE 16 (released 8/8/11)
A filler episode in which Vicki and Liz fret about Roger at
Collinwood, while Burke, Joe and Carolyn wait for him at the Blue
Whale.
Roger wasn't hurt too badly in the accident, but Liz questions whether
the accident really was an accident. After all, Burke visits the house
for the first time in 10 years, asks Roger to use his car that night,
and the brakes fail as soon as he does. Hmmm... Vicki says it must
have been an accident, otherwise they couldn't call it an accident.
While Vicki is engaging in circular logic, Joe is looking like a
square at the Whale, as Carolyn flirts with Burke and ignores him.
Privately, Carolyn confesses to Burke her desire to be clubbed over
the head, and dragged away from Collinwood by a dashing suitor, who
will take charge of her and order her to do all the things she would
have done anyway, even without orders.
Matthew tells Liz that he checked Roger's brakes two days ago, so if
they failed now, they must have been tampered with. Either that, or
the guy who checked them was an incompetent boob. Naturally, Matthew
favors the first theory. Liz doesn't want the press making too much of
this, and tells Matthew and Vicki that if the paparazzi come calling,
to play dumb. Vicki questions whether she'll be able to do this, but
Liz has something stuck in her throat, or something, and is unable to
answer.
Joe puts his foot down, and insists that they go to that movie, but
Carolyn invites Burke along! Unwilling to be a third wheel on his own
date, Joe storms out to go get drunk, forgetting that he was in a bar
already. (By this time, it's become clear that, although the Blue
Whale jukebox has a couple of dozen buttons, it only has four actual
songs).
Vicki lets slip to Liz that Carolyn went to the Blue Whale, and admits
she knew that Burke would be there. Liz is about to go club Carolyn
over the head and drag her back to Collinwood, until she remembers
that she hasn't left the house in 18 years.