Bad Ass Birds

As the family mourns Jerimiah, Joshua learns that Barnabas plans to marry house maid Angelique.  He offers to buy her off, but she refuses.

Barnabas sees Josette at Jerimiah’s grave. He takes full blame for his death, and they have a nice chat. On a roll, he attempts to tell her about Angelique, but she keeps shushing him.

Angelique agrees to honor the mourning period before marrying Barnabas, using her time to begin a campaign to drive Josette mad. Her first act is to raise the corpse of Jerimiah right in front of Josette. Drastic, but effective.

Barnabas reluctantly agrees to honor his promise to marry Angelique, although he reminds her that he still loves Josette. She is elated to have won her prize in spite of this.  

Just to be sure that her rival gets no ideas, she convinces Josette that Barnabas hates her. Josette grows despondent. Later, she is awakened by the newly minted ghost of Jerimiah. 

Ain’t no one happy ‘cept Angelique.

Angelique sticks pins into Sarah’s doll in an attempt to make the 11 year old deathly ill. Barnabas and Naomi are moved by Sarah’s pleas to see Vicky, even though the child is a very bad actor and could well be faking it.  Nonetheless, the ensuing meeting convinces Naomi that Vicky is too nice to be a witch.

Ben suspects that Angelique is behind the illness and searches her room for evidence.  When she catches him, she admits to using Sarah as a pawn to win Barnabas.

Angelique tells Barnabas that she can cure Sarah with a cup of herbal tea if he promises to marry her. He agrees and she brews up a cup, but, more significantly, she removes the pins from the doll. This marks her most successful entrapment effort thus far!

Angelique encourages Barnabas to believe that Vicky is a witch to take the heat off of herself.  Sensing that he is vulnerable, she proposes that they get back together. He accepts, coughing a bit. (A little dry on the set?)

Trask confronts Nathan, threatening him with scandal if he doesn’t divulge Vicky’s hiding place.

He then alarms Josette with the assertion that she is bewitched. He discovers the pitchfork mark on her hand and convinces her that she is not responsible for her actions. When likes the idea of being guiltless until he suggests “cleansing her body.”  Ick.

Barnabas happens upon the wretched scene and realizes that he still loves Josette.  He confesses this to Angelique and offers her friendship instead of marriage. She wigs out and decides to kill his little sister. An extreme reaction, but then she is evil.