My name is
Victoria Winters. The strands of fear seem to bind Collinwood to much of the
outside world. Fear I don’t quite understand. Fear that reaches down to others
and holds them in its grip—a grip that holds more tightly every minute.
Roger comes to visit Sam, and
they have their usual round about Burke’s portrait. He says he can’t dissuade
Burke. Roger says he doesn’t want Burke connecting the two of them. Sam says
Burke’s car just pulled in the driveway.
Sam lets Burke in. He tells
Burke he has a headache and his hand is unsteady. Maybe they could put it off
till next week?
“But what if your hand is
still shaky next week? Then you’ll put it off again. And again. No dice.” He
doesn’t know where he’ll be next week. Or where Sam will be. If there’s nothing
going on with him and Roger, why doesn’t he want to earn the $1500 Burke wants
to pay him?
Sam gives in.
Bill is telling Liz about a
new canning machine. She wants to know how many people it will put out of work.
None, he assures her. He also tells her about Burke’s investigation of her
business interests. He is like Captain Ahab going after Moby Dick.
Liz says Captain Ahab was a
madman.
The phone rings. It’s Ned
Calder. Liz wants him to come back to work for her.
Bill thinks this means she
wants extra help to fight Burke. Bill plans to stop Burke cold, and to do it
today.
Sam works on the sketches for
the portrait. Burke talks about Collinwood and the Collins family. “Them
against the world. They don’t care who gets hurt.”
What about Roger?
Sam says he doesn’t know him
that well.
Roger listens.
Burke says Roger played an
important part in his life, even helped him into prison.
Sam pours himself a drink.
Burke asks if that’s wise, with his headache. Sam starts to say he hasn’t had a
headache in years.
Burke wants to wash up. Sam
stops him from going to the bathroom, saying Maggie has stockings hanging up in
there. He can wash up in the kitchen.
The phone rings. It’s Bill
Malloy for Burke. He wants to meet him in the hotel restaurant in ten minutes.
Burke leaves, and Roger tells Sam he could quite easily kill him.
Roger wants Sam to leave town.
Sam has thought about that, but he’s come to the conclusion that it’s no good. Roger
says he’ll give him money. Sam says he won’t take money from Roger. Roger says
he wasn’t so picky ten years ago. Sam tells him that part is over now. He wants
to know whether he should pack up his conscience along with his paints and
easel.
Bill and Burke meet. Burke
says maybe when his portrait is finished, he’ll give it to Liz Stoddard. Wouldn’t
he look good hanging in Collinwood?
Bill wants to make a deal with
Burke. If Burke will leave town, Bill will do his level best to clear Burke, to
prove he never committed that crime ten years ago. He just has to promise to
stay away from Liz and Carolyn and David.
Burke notices that he omitted
Roger.
Bill allows that’s so.
Sam would like Roger to leave
his house. Roger says his freedom and future are at stake, and he will take
every action to protect himself.
Sam tells him he wrote a
letter telling about everything, and if anything happens to him, the letter
will be read. It’s his insurance.
Roger wants to know who has
the letter.
“That would be like not paying
the premium.”
Roger demands to know who has
the letter.
Sam says to ask his sister or Bill
Malloy or that new woman up on the hill—
Bill Malloy arrives. “Did I
hear my name?”
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . .Alexandra Moltke
Roger Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . Louis Edmonds
Sam Evans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . David Ford
Bill Malloy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . Frank Schofield
Elizabeth
Collins Stoddard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan
Bennett
Burke Devlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . .Mitchell Ryan
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
Directed by John Sedwick
Story created
and written by
Art Wallace
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