Even though it was stupid and pretty dangerous, Carly continued to text message the killer trying to arrange a meeting. When not using her cell phone, it went back to the cleavage of her dress. One might understand the need for a mother to bring a cell phone to the formal, ball but to continually fish it out from between her breasts was pretty tacky.

Uber-psycho Anthony Z showed up on the Spoon Island launch at the very end of the episode and began beating on the dock with a metal pipe while cackling. It was a pretty frightening Halloween sight, but I'm not sure what beating on the dock is going to do, unless he's damaging it to the point the launch won't be able to off-load.

While there was a lot going on, the episode wasn't as edge-of-your-seat as you might expect for the beginning of the sweeps period. It seemed to be a tremendous amount of story set-up. I was surprised to see very few of the names on the 'going to die at the ball' lists that have been circling the spoiler sites even in attendance. Hopefully the action steps up soon.

Coming Up…

If you haven't noticed, the 'next day' teases have been off in the last week or two. My guess is the events of the ball have been subject to some last minute shuffling before air time. On Thursday's episode (or maybe Friday's) we should see Alexis make a discovery, Johnny warn Lulu of the danger she is in, and Maxie argue with Layla.