Except for the span of years for the comments written for this episode, one might think all the reviewers for the story got together to agree that it had an easily predictable conclusion. I don't know how, because there were enough elements to keep you guessing, and in fact, Penny Van Bruten (Kathryn Leigh Scott) did have a history of mental illness, so she could easily have been 'seeing' Charles Willaby
(Stanley Lebor) in her feeble imagination. Nevertheless, the ending wasn't all that much of a surprise, when you go with the idea that Penny seemingly had money to burn and Harry (Simon MacCorkindale) wanted to preserve all that capital for himself and his co-conspirators. I have to say, the maggots in the grave were as nice touch, and Charlie's appearances were creatively placed, although Penny might have picked up on a ruse when the shotgun blast to Charlie's face appeared on the wrong side during the seance. By then though, her attention span was pretty shot itself.
Review of Visitor from the Grave
