as many of you know by now, I am in the process of writing a book called "Slaying all the myths", a sort of chronological episode guide to the "Buffyverse". Where this book will be different from others is that

1. It is chronolohical-Buffy and Angel episodes will be presented not in the order they aired, but in real-time.

2. I will be focusing on the moral, religious and philosophical implications of each episode.

Here is a sampling:

Episode 1B001

Welcome to the Hell mouth

WRITTEN BY JOSS WHEDON

DIRECTED BY CHARLES MARTIN SMITH

FIRST AIRED MARCH 10, 1997

NOTES: This is the first episode of a two-part series opener.

GUEST STARS:

MARK METCALF-THE MASTER, BRIAN THOMPSON-LUKE, KEN LERNER-PRINCIPAL FLUTIE, JULIE BENZ-DARLA, ERIC BALFOUR-JESSE

As the series begins, a young girl and boy break into Sunnydale High School. The girl is seemingly reluctant, but soon reveals herself to be a vampire, as she attacks the young boy. The girl is named Darla, and she serves a powerful vampire known as "The Master". At about the same time, Buffy is having a nightmare in which she sees a book with the title "VAMPYRE" placed before her. She awakes and gets ready for her first day at Sunnydale High School. Buffy's mother, Joyce Summers drives Buffy to the High School, asking Buffy to think positive. At the school, Xander Harris is skateboarding when he gets his first look at Buffy. He proceeds to crash into a guard railing while watching Buffy.

Buffy has a meeting with Principal Flutie, who tells her she will have a clean slate, regardless of her past...... which includes burning down the gym of her previous School. Buffy defends this by saying "But that gym was full of vam....asbestos". Leaving th principal's office, Buffy bumps into Xander, causing her purse to fall and a wooden stake falls out of it, which Xander picks up. Buffy then goes to her first lesson where she meets Cordelia Chase, who shares her textbook with Buffy, then proceeds to grill Buffy on her fashion/coolness knowledge, before totally embarrasing Willow Rosenberg about her outfit. Visiting the library to pick up her textbooks, Buffy meets Mr. Giles, the school's librarian, who hands her a book entitled "Vampyre", just like in her dream! Needless to say, Buffy makes like a banana and splits!

Later that day, Buffy has lunch with Willow, Xander and his best friend Jesse, and Willow warns her that being seen with them could be detrimental to her life at Sunnydale High, but Bufy doesn't care: she's seen the shallowness that is Cordelia. Meanwhile, two students have found a dead body in a locker. Cordelia breaks up lunch to tell Buffy that gym has been cancelled due to "the extreme dead body in Aura's locker." Buffy rushes to the locker and ecamines the body (it is the boy killed by Darla in the opening scene) and determines he was attacked by a vampire. She heads to the llbrary to talk to the mysterious librarian (whom she has discovered was at one time curator of The British Museum), Rupert Giles.

In the library, Giles informs Buffy he is to be her Watcher. The Watcher's job is to observe the slayer, and offer advice and insight on dealing with supernatural threats, most notably vampires. Buffy informs Giles about the dead boy, and telling him she never wanted the responsibility of being a slayer. As they leave the library, Xander emerges from behind the book stacks, having heard their conversation. That night, Buffy heads to The Bronze, a teen-centric nightclub. On her way there, she is approached by a mysterious, handsome stranger. Though Buffy doesn't know it yet, this stranger will soon become the most important person in her life. He warns her that she is living on a Hellmouth, which is about to open, the "harvest" is coming, and leaves her a gift of a crucifix necklace. Once in the Bronze, Buffy meets up with Willow and learns that she has an unrequited love for Xander, and that she and Xander "used to date when we were younger, until Xander broke all my Barbie's."

Buffy advises Willow to "seize the moment, because tomorrow you might be dead." and runs off to talk to Giles who has made an appearance at the Bronze. After telling Giles about the mysterious stranger, Giles invites her to use her slayer training and find a vampire in the building. It is a dark, gloomy atmosphere, just the kind of place vampires like. Using her keen sense of fashion, Buffy soon points out a vampire in a retro 70's outfit. She is shocked to see Willow leave with him and heads out to rescue her new friend. She nearly stakes Cordelia by mistake, freaking Cordelia out and prompting Cordelia to "call everyone she knows." Meanwhile, Xander's friend Jesse is talking to another vampire...Darla. Buffy is approached by Xander and she convinces him to help her search for Willow.

While all this has been going on, under the city streets of Sunnydale, The Master is awakened by vampires to begin to prepare for The Harvest. He sends his servant Luke to find fresh blood. The Master himself, is unable to because he is trapped in a sort of prison. The Harvest, if successful, will free him from his prison. Willow, meanwhile is taken by her new "friend" to a crypt. He tells her it a shortcut to the ice cream parlor. In the crypt, they are joined by Darla and Jesse, who has been bitten by her. Buffy and Xander arrive and Buffy kills the vampire threatening Willow, and Xander, Willow and Jesse vamoose, while Luke appears and attacks Buffy. While Darla tracks Willow's group, Luke throws Buffy into a stone coffin and moves in for the kill...........To Be Continued

PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

This first episode introduces many concepts that will become important to the series, chief among them was just how are vampires created? Vampire lore has held for many years that vampires suck the blood of their victims with the intent of creating more vampires. Tradition long held that if a vampire bites you three times, you would become a vampire. Joss Whedon adds a new dimension to that in BTVS. In Whedon's "Buffyverse", to become a vampire, all a vampire needs to do is taste the blood of a victim, and make that victim taste their blood before they die. Three nights later, they will arise as a vampire. In addition, once the victim is dead, their soul leaves their body, and a demon takes up residence in their body. The demon is the vampire.

RELIGIOUS CONSIDERATIONS

The main religious consideration in this episode deals with the idea of vampires being demons. Religiously speaking, this concept lines up with the bible very easily. The Bible relates an encounter Jesus had where he met a man possessed of many demons. The man who was possessed had resisted all attempts by the citizens to chain him up, and ran through the tombs yelling and screaming. The demon said "My name is Legion, for we are many." The demons knew Jesus was the son of God and that he would cast them out of the man and asked for him to cast them into a nearby herd of pigs, and when he did, the pigs went mad and all of them ran into a nearby lake and drowned. The Bible also talks about demons as being fallen angels. In Isaiah 14:12-20 is the most famous account of an angel falling from grace.

12What a comedown this, O Babylon!
Daystar! Son of Dawn! Flat on your face in the underworld mud,
you, famous for flattening nations!

13 -14You said to yourself,
"I'll climb to heaven. I'll set my throne
over the stars of God. I'll run the assembly of angels
that meets on sacred Mount Zaphon. I'll climb to the top of the clouds.
I'll take over as King of the Universe!"

15 -17But you didn't make it, did you?
Instead of climbing up, you came down- Down with the underground dead,
down to the abyss of the Pit. People will stare and muse:
"Can this be the one Who terrorized earth and its kingdoms,
turned earth to a moonscape, Wasted its cities,
shut up his prisoners to a living death?"

18 -20Other kings get a decent burial,
honored with eulogies and placed in a tomb. But you're dumped in a ditch unburied,
like a stray dog or cat, Covered with rotting bodies,
murdered and indigent corpses. Your dead body desecrated, mutilated-
no state funeral for you! You've left your land in ruins,
left a legacy of massacre. The progeny of your evil life
will never be named. Oblivion! (The Message)

This describes the fall of Lucifer (commonly known as Satan). Furthermore, Jesus adds to the subject in Luke 10:18. The occasion was the triumphant return of 70 disciples that Jesus had sent out. They returned ecstatic because even the demons obeyed them. Jesus replied:

"I know. I saw Satan fall, a bolt of lightning out of the sky." (Luke 10:18; The Message)

Taken together, these verses present a clear picture of a revolt in Heaven, lead by a jealous Lucifer who convinced many other angels to join him. What does all this have to do with Buffy? Well, these verses help establish the REALITY of demons, thus justifying them in the buffyverse.

MORAL CONSIDERATIONS

The main moral consideration for this episode is a bit of a pet peeve with me. It is the character of Cordelia Chase. Maybe it's because of my advanced years, (I am over 40 after all!) but in these early episodes, Cordelia is just.......UGHHHHHH! She is snobby, self absorbed, mean spirited, rude and obnoxious....and those are her positive qualities! Sadly, she stays like this for some time...and even gets worse before she gets better. It really isn't until mid-season 2 that we start to see a change in her. The good news is that eventually, Cordelia grows up. However we have to wait several years for that to happen.

Another moral consideration is the aspect of morality in vampires. This issue will be addressed in much more detail later in season 1 and much of season 2. Basically, as noted earlier, when a person becomes a vampire, their soul leaves their body and a demon takes up residence. When the soul leaves, so does any sense of morality. They become a creature of nature, not conscience. This will become very important later in the series.

FAMOUS QUOTES

Most every episode of Buffy has some great (often humorous) quotes. In this secrion you will find my favorites from episode. All quotes courtesy of www.tv.com

Angel: You're standing at the mouth of hell. And it's about to open.

Buffy: I'll be back in a minute.
Willow: Oh, that's okay, you don't have to come back.
Buffy: (smiles) I'll be back in a minute.

Buffy: Have you guys seen Willow? Did she come by here?
Cordelia: Why? Do you need to attack her with a stick? Jeez!

Giles: The vampire is not dead?
Buffy: No, but my social life is on the critical list.

Xander: Hey, I hope he's not a vampire, because then you might have to slay him.
Buffy: Was there a school bulletin? Was it in the newspaper? Is there anyone in this town who doesn't know I'm the Slayer?

Giles: Into each generation, a Slayer is born. One girl in all the world, a Chosen One. One born with the...
Giles and Buffy: ... the strength and skill to hunt the vampires...
Buffy: ... to stop the spread of their evil. Blah, blah. I've heard it, okay?

Girl #1: The new kid? She seems kind of weird to me. What kind of name is Buffy?
Girl #2: (walking by) Hey, Aphrodesia.

Angel: Is there a problem ma'am?
Buffy: Yeah, there's a problem. Why are you following me?
Angel: I know what you're thinking. But don't worry, I don't bite.

Mr. Flutie: You burned down the gym.
Buffy: I did, I really did, but... You're not seeing the big picture here, I mean, that gym was full of vampi... asbestos.

Buffy (to the vampire that took Willow): Okay, first of all, what's with the outfit? Live in the now, okay? You look like DeBarge

Cordelia (to Buffy after almost getting staked by her): God! What is your childhood trauma?

Giles: I believe this whole area is a center of mystical energy, that things gravitate towards it that you wouldn't find elsewhere.
Buffy: Like vampires.
Giles: Zombies, werewolves, incubi, succubi - everything you've ever dreamt was under your bed but told yourself couldn't be by the light of day. They're all real.
Buffy: What, you, like, sent away for the Time/Life series?
Giles: Uh, w-well, yes.
Buffy: Did you get the free phone?
Giles: Uh, the calendar.
Buffy: Cool.

Buffy: To make you a vampire they have to suck your blood. And then you have to suck their blood. It's like a whole big sucking thing. Mostly they're just gonna kill you.

Xander: (to Buffy) Can I have you? Uuhh, can I help you?

Principal Flutie: Welcome to Sunnydale! A clean slate, Buffy, that's what you get here. What's past is past. We're not interested in what it says on a piece of paper, even if it says... (reads) Whoa!
Buffy: Mr. Flutie...
Mr. Flutie: All the kids here are free to call me Bob.
Buffy: Bob--
Mr. Flutie: But they don't.

Xander: Can you help me out tonight, please, be my study buddy?
Willow: Well, what's in it for me?
Xander: A shiny nickel!
Willow: Okay. Do you have 'Theories in Trig'? You should check it out.
Xander: Check it out?
Willow: From the library? Where the books live.
Xander: Right, I'm there! See, I wanna change...

Luke: And like a plague of boils the race of man covered the Earth. But on the third day of the newest light will come the Harvest, when the blood of men will flow as wine - when the Master will walk among them once more. The earth will belong to the Old Ones... and Hell itself will come to town.

Giles: Something's coming, something, something... something is, is gonna happen here. Soon!
Buffy: Gee, can you vague that up for me?

Joyce: Are you, uh, going out tonight?
Buffy: Yeah, I'm going to a club.
Joyce: Oh. Will there be boys there?
Buffy: No, Mom. It's a nun club.

ALLUSIONS

Allusions are a plot device in a story that make reference to commonly known pop-culture items. Buffy is dull of these type of references. Once again, all allusions are courtesy of www.tv.com

Buffy: (holds an outfit in front of herself) Hello, would you like a copy of The Watchtower?

Buffy here refers to the prim and proper appearance of the dress and compares it to Jehovah's Witnesses. Witnesses are a Pseudo-Christian sect which relies heavily on door-to-door prosetylization. Church representatives dress very formally and often try to sell subscriptions to their church magazine which is called "The Watchtower."

Buffy: Live in the now, ok? You look like DeBarge.

A reference to the 80's pop music group DeBarge. Made up of five siblings and with aspirations to be a new The Jackson 5, they only wound up with one hit, 1985's Rhythm of the Night.

Giles: I'd much rather be home with a cup of Bovril and a good book.

The first of the British cultural references from Giles. Bovril is a food substance that can be spread on toast or made into a hot drink among other things. It's been described as "liquid cow" and is apparently extremely salty.

Buffy: What? You, like, sent away for the Time-Life series?

Time-Life publishes series of books on varied topics. This line most likely refers to the now out of print series "Mysteries of the Unknown" which focused on the occult and was still being heavily advertised at the time this episode first aired.

Let me know how i'm doing

OK, right now I am So *%%*%$#%&*^$%^ (*%$$^&&*ed off I can hardly contain my anger and frustration. See, about a year ago, I had started purchasing comic books on dvd that I can read on my laptop. I have the complete run of X-men including all the spin-offs and mini series, Legion of Super Heroes, Justice Society of America, Infinity inc. Dreadstar and many many others. All told about 5,000-8,000 comic books including a complete set of G.I. Joe. So last nitht I finish the Marvel run of G.I. Joe and I switch discs to go to the next series....and it don't work.....in fact, now none of my cd's or dvd's work. So I did what we're supposed to do in these kinds of circumstances. First I performed a system restore. No luck there, but I wasn't really expecting anything. Next, I did a system recover. If you don't know what a system recover, it should only be used in THE MOST DIRE OF CIRCUMSTANCES as it restores your laptop/pc back to it's original factory settings and you have to go back and re-add all of your old websites and passwords all over again, and it is generally a big pain in the you-know-where, but I figured it would be worth the risk if the problem was with my drivers and not my disk drive. NO SUCH LUCK. So now, I am stuck with NO comic books to read (I read 10-15 a day) until I can either afford to have it fixed, afford an external dvd drive, or afford a new laptop. In other wors, I will probobly NEVER be able to finish reading my comic books, which if you haven't guessed are VERY important to me.

Okay, so I come back here yesterday after over a year of being absent. I casually announce my return in a new thread. And I am within 24 hours slapped with a TOS violation! This is BS! Sure, no points (whatever the hell they are) were taken from me for my SIN. I mean, how can I even be expeced to know about TOS violations that were not violations when I was here before? But this is just a symptom of what has gone wrong with tv.com. It is no longer the family it once was, it's become a buracracy. Heck, i'll probobly get hit with another TOS for this post which is my own opinion, but I don't care.

Now that i've gotten THAT off my chest, I thought i'd fill everyone in on where i've been the last year an a half. About a year ago my Mother in Law died and 2 days later, I was in the emergency room with a 105 degree fever. Turns out I had a severe leg infection and almost had to have my legamputated. In fact, they were getting ready to prep me for emergency surgery when the lab report came back that the infection had not reached the bone in my leg, so they were able to treat it with iv antibiotics. The more immediate worry was why I was losing so much blood. Turns out my stomach lining had begun to deteriorate due to years of Motrin use. I had to have 4 blood transfusions and I can no longer take Motrin/Aleve/Aspirin any more. I can only take Tylenol. Then last summer I asked my doctor at the time why I was having so much trouble with wearing shoes. At that time I could only wear my shoes for about 1-2 hours at a time without being in excruciating pain. Turns out I have Diabetic Neuropathy in my feet. That's under control now with medication.

So what's going on in my life now?

Well in November I got a full time job working at the same school doing the exact same thing I was already doing. The difference is that I actually get paid in the summer. Recently I started writing a non-fiction book on Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel called SLAYING ALL THE MYTHS

It will be an episode by episode chronological guie focusing on the moral, philosophic and religious issues raised in Buffy and Angel

Well, before I get to #25-21 of my top 30 Keith Green songs, I have to let you all know what's been going on in my life recently. Things have been pretty hectic. I'm really enjoying my Criminal Justice c l a s s and I barely even have to study for it, as most of the material just comes natural to me. I wish I could say the same for Music Appreciation

My MA teacher seems to feel that her c l a s s is more important than anything else in life. This week, for instance I have about 80 pages of reading on the Baroque period (which includes about 100 terms I have to study), studying for a test on the Renaissance music period and working on a research paper on the societal ways and means during a specific period of musical advancement...try saying that 5 times fast! This paper, btw is due in less than 2 weeks...somebody shoot me.....

This however pales to my work situation. I was transferred to a different High School last week to work 1 on 1 with an autistic boy who thinks we should all bend over and kiss his a** and treat him better than all the other students. On my second day working with him he referred to me as a "fat F*****" and "stupid piece of s*** moron". And here's the kicker...because that's part of his disability there isn't a dang thing we can do to stop him from saying whatever he wants to. The next day got better when he ran from me while waiting for someone to pick him up. He told me to "make him" stop. Yeah right. Sigh. Okay, ventings over. Now onto the music

Coming in at #25

Make My Life A Prayer To You

Make my life a prayer to You,

I want to do what you want me to,

No empty words and no white lies,

No token prayers, no compromise,

I want to shine the light you gave,

Through Your Son, you sent to save us,

From ourselves and our despair,

It comforts me to know you're really there.

---

Oh, I want to thank you now, for being patient with me,

Oh, it's so hard to see, when my eyes are on me,

I guess I'll have to trust and just believe what you say,

Oh, you're coming again, coming to take me away,

---

I want to die, and let you give,

Your life to me, so I might live,

And share the hope you gave to me,

The love that set me free,

I want to tell the world out there,

You're not some fable or fairy tail,

That I made up inside my head,

You're God, The Son, you've risen from the dead.

---

Oh, I want to thank you now,

For being patient with me,

Oh, it's so hard to see,

When my eyes are on me,

I guess I'll have to trust,

and just believe what you say,

Oh, you're coming again,

Coming to take me away.

---

I want to die, and let you give,

Your life to me, so I might give,

And share the hope you gave to me,

I want to share the love that set me free.

This is a great song that really addresses our human frailties, and Keith's desire to totally die to everything that he saw as getting in the way of his being wholly and totally devoted to following God.

#24

How Can They Live Without Jesus?

How can they live without Jesus?

How can they live without God's love?

How can they feel so at home down here,

When there's so much more up above?

Throwing away the things that matter,

They hold onto things that don't.

The world has gone crazy, but soon maybe,

A lot more are going to know.

---

For maybe they don't understand it,

Or maybe they just haven't heard.

Or maybe we're not doing all we can,

Living up to His Holy Word.

Cause phonies have come and wrongs been done,

Even killing in Jesus' name.

And if you've been burnt, here's what I've learned,

The Lord's not the one to blame.

---

For He's not just religion with steeples and bells,

Or a sales man who will sell you the things you just want to hear.

But His love was such, that he suffered so much,

To call some of us just to follow, follow.

---

So many laughing at Jesus,

While the funniest thing that He's done,

Is love this whole stubborn rebellious world,

While their hate for Him just goes on.

And love just like that will bring him back,

For the few He can call His friends.

The ones He's found true who've made it through,

Enduring until the end.

The one's He's found true, who've made it through,

Enduring until the end...

This song asks that age old question "why would we want to live down here when there's so much more up there?" It also expresses a real issue Keith struggled with, which was the necessity to take the good news to all the ends of the earth.

#23

The Victor

Swallowed into Earth's dark womb,

Death has triumphed, that's what they say,

But try to hold Him in the tomb,

The Son of Life, rose on the third day.

---

Just look, the gates of hell, they're falling,

Crumbling from the inside out,

He's bursting through the walls with laughter,

Listen to the Angels shout!

It is finished, He has done it,

Life conquer death, Jesus Christ, has won it!

---

His plan of battle, you know, it fooled them all,

They led Him off to prison to die,

But as He entered Hades Hall,

He broke those hellish chains with a cry.

Just listen to those demons screaming,

See Him bruise the serpent's head,

The prisoners of Hell, He's redeeming,

All the power of death is dead!

---

It is finished, He has done it,

Life conquer death, Jesus Christ, has won it!

Just look, the gates of hell, they're falling,

Crumbling from the inside out,

He's bursting through the walls with laughter,

Listen to the Angels shout!

It is finished, He has done it,

Life conquer death, Jesus Christ, has won it!

This song used to be much higher on my list until I heard it sung by a woman named Jamie Owens-Collins. Her vocal range is much more suited to this song as it has several extremely high parts. Nevertheless, Keith's version is also good...hers is just a little bit better.

#22

When I First Trusted You

Well I though I depended upon you.

At least that used to be what was happening with me.

In those times of our first sweet communion,

Nothing got in the way, I heard your voice everyday.

When I first trusted you, gave my life to you.

When I trusted you.

---

Well there's something that needs to be cleared up.

I feel so sorry inside, that my first love has died.

Cause I've tried in my own strength to follow.

When I've known all along, I just couldn't go wrong.

If I'd only trusted you, give my life to you.

If I'd trusted you. Ooh, trusted you.

---

Well I though I depended upon you.

At least that used to be what was happening with me.

In those times of our first sweet communion,

Nothing got in the way, I heard your voice everyday.

When I first trusted you, I gave my life to you.

When I trusted you.

This is really a wonderful song that addresses something that happens to every Christian at some time in their walk with God. Namely, after a while we get beat up by the world and we get our eyes off of God and onto ourselves. This song is about a person who realizes that is what's happened and it is his desire for things to be like they were "when he first trusted God."

#21

The Lord is My Shepherd

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want,

He makes me lie down in green pastures,

He leads me beside the still waters,

He restoreth my soul, and guides my path in righteousness for His namesake.

Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life,

And I will dwell in the House of The Lord, for ever and ever and ever.

---

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will not fear, thou are with me.

Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me,

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies......

Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup's overflowing

Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life,

And I will dwell in the house of the Lord, for ever, and ever and ever.

The Lord is My Shepherd, I shall not want.

This song is basically the 23rd Psalm set to music. It's very moving and Keith brings a lot of passion into it.

Next time #20-16

Here is a synopsis of the first 20 episodes of DARK SHADOWS

Episode: 1
Summary:Victoria Winters travels to Collinsport by train from New York to be the governess of David Collins. She has been hired under mysterious circumstances, by Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, against the will of her brother, Roger Collins (father to David). Victoria, an orphan, believes that the job might lead her to find something about her past. Burke Devlin arrives on the same train after several years away from Collinsport. Burke has a private investigator checking up on the Collins family. Maggie Evans warns Victoria about the Collins family, but Victoria goes to Collinwood anyway.

Episode: 2

Summary: Having arrived at Collinwood, Victoria starts to settle in. At the Blue Whale Joe Haskell becomes jealous when Carolyn dances with other guys. Victoria meets Roger who becomes agitated when he finds out that Burke Devlin has arrived in Collinsport.

Episode: 3
Summary:Victoria meets Carolyn. After learning of Burke's return to Collinsport, Roger searches for Sam Evans. Burke tries to extract information about the Collins family from Joe Haskell. Bill Malloy meets with Roger to discuss Burke's return; Roger appears to be unconcerned with the return of an "ex-convict". Later Bill meets with Burke, who admits he has a grudge against the Collins family.

Episode: 4

Summary:Roger and Elizabeth argue over the return of Burke and what Victoria may know about him. Roger and Elizabeth question Victoria about her contact with Burke Devlin. Roger's accusations anger Victoria. Later Victoria is awoken by the sounds of a sobbing woman, she then searches for the source of the sound. While searching she meets David who only says, "I hate you".

Episode: 5

Summary:After her first night at Collinwood, Victoria has decided to go back to New York. Victoria explains to Carolyn that she is an orphan and came to Collinsport because she believed that somehow she would find out about her past. Near Widow's Hill Victoria meets Sam Evans who tells Victoria about Josette Collins. Victoria finds out from Sam that Elizabeth has not left Collinwood in 18 years. Sam instructs Victoria to tell Roger that he wants to talk with him. Victoria returns to her room to find that David has helped her "pack" while she was out. Victoria changes her mind and decides to stay at Collinwood with renewed hopes that she will find out something about her past.

Episode: 6

Summary:Victoria searches for David in the basement when she meets Matthew Morgan, who warns her to stay out of the basement and mind her own business. Elizabeth shows concern for the locked room in the basement. Matthew explains to Victoria that 18 years ago Elizabeth offered him the job as caretaker after firing all of the Collinwood staff. Elizabeth talks with David, who is concerned that Victoria's presence will keep his mother (Laura) away. Elizabeth tells David that his mother is ill and that is why she cannot be with him. Victoria asks Elizabeth why she was hired and what she might know about her past. Elizabeth tells Victoria that she knows nothing about her past, and doesn't appreciate being interrogated.

Episode: 7
Summary:Roger tells Sam that he is sure Burke has returned to seek revenge, and is concerned what should be done about the situation. Victoria has gone into town to call the foundling home that she grew up in to check on Elizabeth's story. While there, Victoria talks with Burke. Roger searches for Victoria and becomes disturbed to find out she has been talking with Burke. Burke visits Sam who is very uncomfortable with his return to town. Victoria places a call to the foundling home.

Episode: 8
Summary:Carolyn asks her mother (Elizabeth) about why she hired Victoria and what she knows about her past. Victoria gets through to the foundling home, and finds that they had not heard of the Collins family before she was offered the position at Collinwood. Joe Haskell tells Elizabeth that Burke has offered him money for information on the Collins family. Joe wants to marry Carolyn, but wants to know why she doesn't seem interested. Elizabeth tells Victoria that she doesn't like being checked up on.

Episode: 9

Summary:Bill Malloy talks with Elizabeth about the return of Burke, she is determined not to let his return interrupt her life. Carolyn tells Victoria the story of Widow's Hill. Carolyn, curious about all the talk of Burke Devlin, goes into town to meet him (under the guise of mailing a letter for Victoria).

Episode: 10
Summary:Carolyn goes to the hotel to talk with Burke about why Roger is afraid of him. Burke claims that he has no interest in her Uncle Roger. Roger tells Elizabeth that Victoria was talking with Burke. Roger asks Elizabeth why she hired Victoria, Elizabeth tells Roger it was to take care of David(Roger wants to send David away). David, hiding in the room, hears this and tells his father that he hopes Burke will get even with him. Later Elizabeth finds David all dirty with something in his hand that he claims is a shell. Carolyn returns to Collinwood with Burke.

Episode: 11

Summary:Elizabeth is surprised that Carolyn has brought Burke Devlin back to Collinwood. The three of them go into the drawing room to talk. Mr. Wells tells Sam that Carolyn came to visit and then took him to Collinwood, Sam is disturbed by this. Burke offers to buy Collinwood, Elizabeth says it's not for sale. Burke and Elizabeth discuss "prison", comparing the 5 years he spent "behind bars" to the 18 years she has spent at Collinwood. Burke wants to talk with Roger; Elizabeth asks Carolyn to go find him.

Episode: 12
Summary:Roger confronts Victoria about meeting with Burke. Roger warns her that Burke is dangerous and that she must remain loyal to the family, however he would prefer it if she went back to New York. Sam tells Maggie that he is leaving Collinsport, she wants to know if it has something to do with Roger and Burke. Carolyn finds Roger and tells him that Elizabeth wants to see him in the drawing room. Maggie talks Sam out of leaving. Roger is about to enter the drawing room to meet Burke.

Episode: 13
Summary:Roger believes Burke blames him for being sent to prison 10 years ago. Burke discusses how he has traveled and made money in the 5 years since he has gotten out of prison. Burke implies that Roger married his girlfriend the day after he was convicted. Burke invites Roger to meet him at the Blue Whale later that night to discuss a possible business deal. Victoria talks with Matthew Morgan, he reveals to her that Burke was convicted of manslaughter. Victoria finds Burke in the garage with a wrench in his hand, he claims he was admiring Roger's car. Roger decides to meet with Burke later. Elizabeth warns Victoria to stay out of Matthew's way as he is very protective and could be dangerous.

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Summary:David tries to plant something (bleeder valve) in Victoria's room; she catches him and he claims it was a seashell. Joe tells Burke he will not sell information about the Collins Family. Victoria tells Carolyn that Burke is going to be at the Blue Whale (waiting for Roger), as a result she decides to go there with Joe. David tells Victoria that Collinwood is full of ghosts and she will see them if she stays long enough. At the Blue whale Joe is annoyed with Carolyn's fascination with Burke. David wants to know if his father will be using his car that evening.

Episode: 15
Summary:David wants to know if his father is going to send him away. Victoria tells Roger that she believes David is warming up to her, but Roger warns her that he is trouble. Victoria tells Elizabeth that she saw Burke hanging around Roger's car; Roger and Elizabeth argue whether he should go see Burke (but she doesn't tell him about Burke and the car). David tells Victoria that he hates his father and hopes he dies. After talking with Victoria, David says he will give his father another chance. David tries to talk with his father, but Roger brushes him off. Roger drives away in his car while David watches, later his car crashes on the way down the hill from Collinwood.

Episode: 16
Summary:Bill Malloy calls Collinwood to say that Roger is ok, and that it was the brakes that had failed on the car. Victoria and Elizabeth discuss whether Burke had anything to do with the "accident". Matthew claims that the brakes had been checked just two days before. Joe becomes upset and leaves when Carolyn invites Burke to go to the movies with them. Elizabeth finds out from Victoria that Carolyn went to see Burke, she calls the Blue Whale to find that Carolyn has left with Burke.

Episode: 17
Summary:David is talking in his sleep when Elizabeth walks in, he is saying, "I didn't mean to kill him". Bill Malloy explains that the bleeder valve was missing from Roger's car, which caused the brakes to fail. Roger is sure Burke is responsible. David doesn't want to see his father when he returns. Roger and Bill later discuss the accident with Elizabeth; she tells them that Victoria saw Burke hanging around his car. David is eavesdropping on their conversation. Roger plans to question Victoria.

Episode: 18
Summary:Victoria discusses the accident with David. Roger later questions Victoria about how she saw Burke near his car with a wrench in his hand, confirming all of Roger's suspicions. David, disturbed, smashes a model car and throws it out the window. Roger intends to take Victoria to confront Burke at his hotel. David has the bleeder valve that was missing from Roger's car.

Episode: 19
Summary:Elizabeth is worried about Carolyn as she was last scene with Burke. Carolyn and Joe argue over her being "friendly" to Burke. Bill tells Sam about the accident, he is upset that idea that Burke may have caused it. Elizabeth tells Carolyn that Burke was arrested for manslaughter 10 years ago and Roger was a witness at the trial.

Episode: 20
Summary:Roger and Victoria go to the hotel to confront Burke. While Roger heads to Burke's room, Victoria talks with Sam about recent events in Collinsport. Roger accuses Burke of removing the bleeder valve from his car and to back up his accusations Roger sends up Victoria from the coffee shop. Victoria tells her story and Burke claims he is innocent. Roger and Victoria go back to Collinwood, he makes it clear that Victoria cannot leave now, as she is too involved in the situation.