Friday, July 22,
1966
My name is
Victoria Winters. The road that leads down from Collinwood is steep and
winding, like the secrets of my past. And now it has brought a man close to
death, a man who is searching for answers of his own.
Roger and Vicki arrive at the
hotel. He tells her to wait in the restaurant (which is apparently open
twenty-four hours, regardless of whether anyone is there to take your order).
Vicki isn't convinced of Burke’s guilt, much to Roger’s annoyance.
Vicki is nursing a cup of
coffee when Sam invites himself to sit at her table. He saw her and Roger come
in. he glanced back as he was going home. It’s a bad habit of his, glancing
back. “One should always look forward.”
“It can’t always be done.”
Sam finds it strange that
Roger has come back there on the night of his car accident and disappeared. The
light dawns. “He went up to see Burke Devlin, didn't he?”
Burke is surprised to see Roger but not that surprised that he’s alive. Roger doesn't notice this. He wants to hear about the business deal. Or maybe there was never any business deal?
Burke offers him a drink.
Roger wants to know how long
Burke waited for him at the Blue Whale. An hour and a half.
“What happened to that smile,
Burke? I thought you and I were going to be friends again.”
Burke can’t believe Roger is
there after midnight to talk about a business deal.
Mr. Welles calls the Evans
house. Sam picks up. (He got home fast.) Sam is annoyed he called so late when
he knew Maggie went home with a headache. It’s after midnight, you know.
It turns out she asked Mr.
Welles to call and he probably said the first thing that came into his head
when Sam answered. This annoys Sam too—that Maggie is getting reports on him.
Maggie says when she got home,
she looked to see if Sam’s suitcase was still there. She wants all this with
him and Roger Collins and Burke Devlin to end.
Sam thinks she may get her
wish tonight.
Burke denies everything.
Roger goes to the phone and
asks for Vicki to be sent up.
Sam is making plans to get up
early to pain the sunrise on the cliff. Which cliffs? Maggie asks. Not Widow’s Hill.
Sam shows Maggie a picture he
did of Collinwood.
“I’m getting to hate that
place.”
“Now why should you hate
Collinwood? It’s a nice, respectable house filled with nice, respectable . . .
horrors.”
“One of whom seems to have
trapped my nice, respectable father.”
She thinks it’s funny how
everything is happening at once. Burke’s return, Roger’s accident—now Sam is
getting up early to paint.
Sam says maybe he and Burke
are meeting to decide how to try to kill Roger next. He goes off to bed in a huff.
Vicki arrives at Burke’s room.
The three of them go over the meeting in the garage. Burke says he was just
looking at the car because he was thinking of buying one like it. He found the
wrench on the front seat of the car. He saw it lying on the seat, picked it up,
and threw it on the workbench.
Roger says there was no wrench
on the front seat of the car earlier.
“Then someone must have put it
there!” Burke says he’s not the scared kid Roger railroaded ten years ago.
“Nobody railroaded you.”
Burke says he doesn't know how
Roger dragged Vicki into this. He gives her the usual advice about going back
home.
Roger and Vicki arrive back at
Collinwood. Roger tells Vicki she can’t leave now, whether she wants to or not.
He needs her, and she has to stay.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . Alexandra Moltke
Roger Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . .Louis Edmonds
Sam Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . Mark Allen
Burke Devlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . Mitchell Ryan
Maggie Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . Kathryn Leigh Scott
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
Directed by Lela Swift
Story created
and written by
Art Wallace
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