User Reviews

Julie Tyler is a young girl pre or young teen. She's a reader and an outcast. Her mother runs a boarding house and her father's never been in the picture. It's small town and late 70's and it's still a stigma.

She makes predictions about the deaths of two men and they are accurate. One of the men her mother Katherine was going to marry. She also reads about witchcraft. It's not helping her standing in the community or even with her own mother. Katherine does try to defend Julie in her own way but has doubts and questions for Julie who has no easy answers. Only her favorite teacher understands but we don't get enough between them. The plot falls into place quickly it is not hard to see where it's going , who's behind it or how Julie knows ( she isn't even sure) but Barnaby figures it out. Betty joins him and helps but it's another episode where one of the main three is largely doing everything.

One character is a border and another pretends interest in reading great books to get access to the teacher's house. She is their next victim but Julie and Barnaby stop them . Barnaby and Betty take Julie home and her mother has a whole new outlook and assures Julie she is her top priority and asks for forgiveness for the things she said and thought . Julie forgives her and they thank Barnaby and Betty for their help.

One little interesting thing is one of the characters is named Sarah Proctor. John Proctor was one of the Salem Witch Trials victims and one of his daughters was named Sarah. I don't know if that was done on purpose or unintentional but Proctor isn't that common.

It would have been nice to get more of the why they did it and used Julie but I guess it's the old motive of money and they didn't mind making Julie collateral damage. They are stopped almost too easily and we don't get a more satisfying confrontation with them.

It's a good episode and entertaining but a little too predictable.