Friday, August 19,
1966
My name is
Victoria Winters. Here in Collinwood, I sit in a quiet room, teaching the son
of a frightened man—a man who seems to be impelled by constantly growing fear.
Sam wants to know if Bill
usually knocks when he comes into a man’s house.
He says he does, but Roger and
Sam were going at each other too loud to hear him.
Roger thinks Bill should be at
the plant. Bill thinks the same about Roger. He can’t help but ask himself why.
Roger claims Sam is doing a painting for him. Bill thinks between Roger and
Burke, Sam will be running out of paint.
Bill also thinks it’s odd for them to
argue so loudly about the price of a painting.
Roger says he’s going back to
the plant.
Bill declines to leave yet.
Burke calls to tell Carolyn he
found her ring. She claims to have been searching frantically for it.
He says
he could drop it off on his way to Bangor. She says that would be too
inconvenient for him and asks when he’s leaving. One o’clock. She says she’ll
meet him at the restaurant at 12:30, and he can give her the ring back then.
Sam talks about painting Burke
without knowing the inner man. Bill finds how an artist works interesting. He
suggests they have a drink—a stiff one. Sam didn’t know he drank so early in
the day. Bill says this could be a special day.
He wants to talk about Burke.
He should be a happy man now that he’s rich, shouldn’t he?
Sam says he wouldn’t know, as
he’s never had that much money.
Roger comes into the
restaurant. Burke is hanging around there. He wonders if Roger would like to
chat about his old friend, Sam Evans. Roger says they hardly know each other.
Burke says he thought Roger and Sam had been seeing a lot of each other lately.
Roger says he was talking with Sam about buying a painting.
Roger sees that Burke has
Carolyn’s ring, the ring Roger gave her for her sixteenth birthday. He’s upset
to think Carolyn gave it to Burke. Burke says Carolyn left it there and is
coming back to get it. Roger says he’ll save her the trouble by taking it to
her himself. He tells Burke to stay away from Carolyn and David.
Roger returns the ring to
Carolyn, much to her disappointment.
He asks her not to see Burke. She doesn’t
like Roger and Liz giving her orders. She says even if she can’t help, she’s
going to try.
Carolyn arrives at the
restaurant, pretending she hasn’t received the ring. He finds it in her purse.
(Why did she bring it?)
Burke says that’s an old play,
older than either of them.
She wants to know if his
business in Bangor has to do with her family. He says it isn’t, and he says she
can’t come. She wants to know when he’ll be leaving. Fifteen minutes. He goes
up to his room.
She calls Vicki and asks her
to tell her mother that she won’t be home for dinner because she has a big date
tonight.
Sam gets drunk and tells Bill
he’s afraid. Someone threatened to kill him. (No wonder Roger doesn’t trust him
to keep quiet!)
Bill plays on Sam’s fears to
try and get information out of him.
Sam says Roger Collins is
afraid of him too.
Bill wants to know why.
Sam says he’s the only thing
that stands between Roger Collins and a prison sentence.
He passes out and Bill covers
him up with a blanket.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . .Alexandra Moltke
Bill Malloy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . Frank Schofield
Roger Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . Louis Edmonds
Sam Evans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . David Ford
Carolyn Stoddard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . .Nancy Barrett
Burke Devlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . Mitchell Ryan
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