Wednesday, July
20, 1966
My name is
Victoria Winters. My past is still a mystery to me, but my future is bound to
the great house on Widow’s Hill. To a boy whose eyes brim with fear and the
torment. To the strange sounds and lonely echoes of a small room filled with
the echoes of long-dead years.
Roger goes up the stairs.
David skulks in the shadows near the stairwell.
Vicki’s window is rattling in
the wind. The catches on those windows! She gets up and closes it. Just as
she’s trying to settle back to sleep, Roger comes knocking. He wants her to
meet him in the drawing room. After their last drawing room encounter, it’s a
wonder that she agrees.
David comes to the drawing
room and tells Roger he’s sorry.
“Sorry for what? That I survived?”
Roger immediately apologizes.
David asks about his arm. It’s
just a sprain. David says he knows Roger said someone tampered with his brakes.
Roger sends David to bed, and David says he isn't sorry after all.
David knocks at Vicki’s door
and wants to talk with her. Vicki tries understand his father is upset and that
it’s not David’s fault there was an accident. David denies doing anything.
“David, no one’s accusing you
of anything. No one but yourself.” She thinks he feels bad because he said he
wished his father would die. His father didn't mean it when he shouted at David,
“just like you didn't mean what you said.”
David wants to know what she’s
going to tell his father.
Nothing about him.
What if it wasn't an accident?
His father will go to the
police.
“What will they do?”
“Whatever police do.”
David is upset that the person
who tampered with the brakes could go to jail. It’s the same as sending someone
away, the way his father threatened to send him away. That’s all Vicki and his
father think about. They’re both the same.
Roger is not interested in
David’s emotional state. He questions Vicki about the bleeder valve. Vicki
tells him Burke had a wrench in his hand when she saw him in the garage by
Roger’s car. Roger (and the whole audience) wants to know why Vicki didn't
mention this before. It seemed silly after Mr. Devlin was so friendly. Roger
wants to know if Burke’s hands were dirty. Vicki doesn't recall.
Roger plans to confront Burke
in his hotel room—and he wants Vicki to get dressed and come with him. She can
wait in the lobby and he’ll only call her up if he needs her.
While Vicki is dressing, David
gets the bleeder valve to hide in her drawer. She finds him lurking and wants
to know if he was bringing “another present.”
David tells her he wrecked the
car.
One of his models. He crushed
it and threw it out of the window. Why doesn't she call the police on him?
“Because it’s easier to buy
you a new car.”
Roger interrupts them, looking
for Vicki. Before she goes downstairs, David coldly tells her he hates Roger.
When Vicki joins Roger
downstairs, he tells her he’s worried about his own problems, not David.
“I should think he’d be one of
your problems.”
“Not tonight.” Tonight he is
only concerned about what happened to the car, and it has nothing to do with
David.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexandra Moltke
Roger Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . Louis Edmonds
David Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . David Henesy
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
Directed by Lela Swift
Story created
and written by
Art Wallace
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