Wednesday, August
3, 1966
Burke storms into the sheriff’s
office. Jonas tells him that people usually knock before they come in there.
(Really? People usually knock before they come in the sheriff’s office?) Burke asks
if Jonas knocked before coming into Burke’s hotel room.
“Why are you so worried about
my searching your room? What do you have to hide, Burke?”
Burke says he has nothing to
hide but Jonas had no right to do it without a search warrant. Jonas tells
Burke he had one, and Burke asks if he found anything interesting. He wants to
know who’s behind this—Roger Collins?
The phone rings and Jonas
testily answers it. He says he’s not ready yet. He tells Burke that nobody
tells him how to do his job, not Roger Collins or anybody else. Burke says that
family railroaded him into prison ten years ago and he hasn’t forgotten it.
Jonas notes he thought that was all bygones now.
Jonas says if Burke didn’t
tamper with Roger’s brakes, then somebody else did, and he has to find out who.
Maggie goes to the pay phone,
ostensibly to call her father.
Burke kills time at the
sheriff’s office by looking at wanted posters. Jonas comes back in and asks him
if he sees anyone he knows.
“I graduated from that class
five years ago.”
“Has it been that long since
you got out of prison?”
Burke says he got out early
for good behavior.
Jonas gets another phone call,
and he mentions New York. Burke wants to know if the phone call is about him.
He flies off the handle again. Jonas says he seems like someone with a guilty
conscience. (How did Burke ever get through five years in prison without
clocking anybody?)
Maggie lets David make a
sundae. She asks him about going in Burke’s room and he denies doing anything
wrong. He tries to go wait in the lobby, saying he doesn’t want the sundae.
Maggie smooths it over and talks him into making a sundae for her.
Roger arrives. David
disappears while Maggie lets his father in. He was just there, she insists.
“Spells and incantations,
Maggie.” If David rematerializes, he could make his own way home.
Maggie notes it’s getting dark
soon and Roger weakens. If she sees David again, at least let him know he’s in
for a good solid lecture.
She asks about Burke and her
father. She tells Roger that Sam is going to do a portrait of Burke.
Burke walks in. Seeing how intense Maggie and Roger look, he asks, “I’m not breaking up the great romance, am I?”
(A romance between Roger and Maggie would be kind of interesting.)
Maggie leaves Roger and Burke alone to go through their usual round of bickering over the brakes and prison. Roger says Burke will be going back there, and then leaves.
Maggie and Burke talk about David, then Burke wants to know if Roger and Sam saw much of each other while Burke was away.
Not until the night Burke came
home. Although Roger had been at the house when Maggie was a kid, about the
time of the trial.
Roger goes to the sheriff
again, who wonders what Roger is hiding. The report on Burke from New York is
clean. He runs an investment firm, buys into outfits and sells them for a
profit. But he did hire a private detective to come up there and investigate
the Collins family. Again, does Roger have anything to hide?
Maggie still can’t find David.
Burke says maybe he got into Burke’s room. Maggie says he didn’t even have time
to get out of the restaurant.
He’s in the phone booth.
(Nobody looked in the phone booth! Are you kidding me?)
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .Alexandra Moltke
Jonas Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . Michael Currie
Burke Devlin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . Mitchell Ryan
Maggie Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . Kathryn Leigh Scott
David Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . David Henesy
Roger Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . Louis Edmonds
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
Directed by Lela Swift
Story created
and written by
Art Wallace
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