Monday, January
16, 1967
Note: The
episodes’ official numbering includes skipped numbers for pre-emptions, in
accordance with their numbering system (so that one could look at the number of
an episode and know what day of the week it aired on). I have elected to number
the episodes by what episode it actually is, but I will note the official numbering also.This is the 143rd episode, but the official number is 146 or 11.
My name is Victoria Winters. A painting has caused great concern among those at Collinwood—particularly for one, who is the subject of the painting—and another, the man who painted it.
Laura causes Sam to drop his
cigarette onto the newspaper as he’s falling asleep.
Liz interrupts her.
Laura has gremlin face.
Sam wakes up and tries to put
out the fire with his hands, which is not a good result.
Maggie comes in and
puts out the fire, covering it with a rug or blanket and stomping on it.
Maggie comes in and
puts out the fire, covering it with a rug or blanket and stomping on it.
Liz asks Laura what’s wrong. Laura comes out of her trance and passes it off as being lost in thought.
Liz
thinks the expression on her face was frightening.
Liz
thinks the expression on her face was frightening.
Maggie wraps Sam’s hands in
cold, wet towels and calls the doctor. She tells him it could have been worse.
Sam thinks Laura burned his
hands. 
Maggie thinks it’s just that Sam fell asleep with a lighted cigarette by
some newspapers. (She seems more reasonable, you have to admit.)
Sam wonders what he can say to
convince her. He says Laura told him she’d see to it that he stopped painting.
Liz tells Laura they need to
take a look at where they stand. Liz doesn’t think she is making good progress
with David. His nightmares are growing worse.
Laura blames the painting. Liz
doesn’t think that’s the whole answer.
Laura thinks she needs to
spend more time with David. They need to take the painting away.
Liz doesn’t understand why he
painted it; it’s not even his style.
Laura says she went to see Sam.
“He was vague and drunk and impossible.” And he started another similar
painting. He needs to stop. He’s ruining everything and she hasn’t much time.
Liz wonders what she means by
that.
Just that she hasn’t been able
to do what she set out to do.
Roger arrives home, and they
bring him into the conversation.
Roger thinks Laura and David
are getting along well.
Laura blames the painting.
Roger says he’ll get rid of
the painting, and he’ll stop Sam from painting more.
There’s a knock on the door.
It’s Maggie, wanting to see Laura. Maggie tells them Sam burned his hands.
Maggie tells them her father is convinced Mrs. Collins started the fire.
Laura says that’s absurd. 
Roger
says he’s going to talk to Sam, and he goes off to do so.
Liz assures Maggie they’ll
find answers, sooner or later.
Roger arrives at Sam’s.
“Your wife burned my hands,”
Sam says.
Roger thinks this is absurd.
Sam says she has some kind of
hypnotic influence.
Roger wants him to stop
accusing Roger’s wife of impossible things.
Roger goes to destroy the new
painting, but it has a hole in it. Sam says the fire was nowhere near it.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . Alexandra Moltke
Laura Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diana
Millay
Elizabeth
Collins Stoddard
. . . . . . . . . . Joan Bennett
Sam Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . David Ford
Maggie Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . Kathryn Leigh Scott
Roger Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . Louis Edmonds
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
Directed by Lela Swift
Written by Malcolm Marmorstein
