Wednesday, August
31, 1966
My name is
Victoria Winters. I can hardly remember how long I’ve been here at Collinwood,
how long I’ve been exposed to the fears that seem to pulse through the halls of
the great house on Widow’s Hill. And now another day has begun, not only for
me, but for a troubled boy.
David is searching through his
drawings and then around his room when Vicki comes in with his drawing of
Collinwood.
She tells him what a talented boy he is. She’d like to show it to a
real artist. He notices Vicki got a smudge on it.
He erases it.
After he finds
out she showed the drawing to his father, David tears it up. (He does have
something in common with Sam.)
David says she had no right to
steal it out of his room. (He’s right about that.)
Vicki tries to have a history
lesson, but David says he hates her.
And if she wants to tell Liz, he doesn’t
care.
Liz comes in and asks what it is he doesn’t care if she knows and whether
he’s being rude. Vicki covers for him.
There’s a package for David.
While he’s opening it, Vicki tells Liz he was mad because she took his drawing
without asking, and he’s not wrong.
Burke sent David a crystal
ball.
He runs off to call Burke and
thank him.
Liz thinks it’s too bad that
David is so fond of a man who hates his father.
David thanks Burke and tells
him about the drawing he made for him.
It’s torn, but he’ll make Burke another
one and hide it until he can give it to him.
Joe arrives to see Liz. “I
thought you only came to see Carolyn,” David observes.
David shows Joe the crystal
ball, which Joe guesses is the “biggest marble in the world.” David isn’t
amused.
Liz comes down. Joe has
contracts for her to sign.
Mr. Malloy hasn’t been in to work today.
His
housekeeper hasn’t seen him since last night and it looks like his bed hasn’t
been slept in.
Liz calls Mrs. Johnson and
asks her to call if she hears anything.
Vicki comes down looking for
David, who never returned to study after his phone call.
Hearing the talk about
Bill, she notes that he was there at Collinwood last night a little before ten
to see Roger. He was very upset. She says there was going to be some kind of
meeting last night. Hasn’t Mr. Malloy ever gone off before?
“No,” Liz says. “This is the
first time.”
David tells Joe’s future in
the hall. His time is up.
Joe thinks he should be studying. He asks him to find
Mr. Malloy in his crystal ball.
Joe thinks the crystal ball is a fake.
“You think you’re going to
marry Carolyn, don’t you?”
“Well, sure.”
“Well, you’re not. You’re
never going to marry her, never. The crystal ball told me.”
“It did? Did it tell you who
she would marry?”
“Yes, and it never lies. She’s
going to marry a friend of mine.”
“Ah, no kidding. What’s your
friend’s name?”
“Burke Devlin.” David runs
upstairs.
Vicki and Liz come out. Liz
thanks her for being helpful and Joe tells her that her student is back
upstairs. Liz says she’ll sign the contracts now. She asks him to make
inquiries about Bill also.
Joe leaves and Liz calls
Roger. She tells him she knows he saw Bill last night.
David is too distracted by his
crystal ball to pay attention to math.
He tells Vicki he saw in his crystal ball
that Bill Malloy is dead, killed by his father.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . .Alexandra Moltke
David Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . David Henesy
Elizabeth
Collins Stoddard
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan
Bennett
Joe Haskell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . Joel Crothers
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
Directed by Lela Swift
Story created
and written by
Art Wallace
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