Thursday, September
1, 1966
My name is
Victoria Winters. A new fear has struck at Collinwood, a fear rooted in the
disappearance of someone whose life has been involved with the family that
lives in this great house. A fear that reaches down from Widow’s Hill—and touches
others.
At work at the restaurant,
Maggie receives a call from her father, who is trying to find out where Bill
Malloy is. She promises to call Sam if she sees him.
Burke says she’s allowed to
talk to her father as long as it doesn’t interfere with his breakfast. He asks
how “old Sam” is, forgetting for the moment that his feelings about Sam have
changed. Burke asks if she’s seen Bill. She says he’s the third person to ask
her that (after Carolyn and her father). She wonders if Bill has quit his job
and gone to Tahiti.
Burke doubts that, and he’s
worried.
Maggie notes that she thought Burke
would be at the house this morning for his portrait sitting. He says he
canceled it. She thinks he seems worried something happened to Bill. He wonders
if her dad sounded worried when he asked about Bill too.
“No. He just asked me where he
was, that’s all.”
Burke says maybe Maggie’s
right and Bill did go to Tahiti. “Or some other, less exotic, place.”
Joe comes in for coffee and
doughnuts. She tells him Carolyn was there an hour ago, and he wants to know
how long Burke has been there—about a half hour.
Joe asks if she’s seen Bill.
“You too?”
“Why, has someone else been
asking about it?”
Burke says he has been, and
that Maggie hasn’t seen or heard from Bill today. He starts trying to grill Joe
about why he’s looking for Bill.
Burke says Bill is a friend of
his, and for some reason, he’s suddenly not around. He wants to know if Roger
has him looking.
Carolyn comes in and says she’s
having trouble with her carburetor. She calls Burke “one of [her] favorite
people,” which Joe doesn’t like. Burke leaves and Joe asks Carolyn if she wants
to have coffee with an impossible man.
She does.
Burke goes to Sam’s. He thinks
Bill’s not coming to the meeting last night got Sam off the hook.
Sam says maybe he realized he
was wrong. Burke says if he had, he would have walked into the office and said
so.
Sam says Bill is a man. Men
make mistakes. Sometimes they don’t like to admit it.
Carolyn and Joe discuss Bill.
Joe thinks maybe Burke has something to do with Bill’s disappearance. None of
this started happening till Burke came back.
Maggie wants to know if Burke
mentioned Sam to Carolyn. Carolyn says he hasn’t.
Maggie leaves the diner to its
own devices.
Carolyn and Joe bicker and
then laugh. He proposes again. Then he tells her about the crystal ball and
David’s prediction that Carolyn will marry Burke.
“Penny.”
“What?”
“For your thoughts.”
“I just don’t like the idea of
a crystal ball deciding my future.”
Sam starts drinking. Burke
says that won’t help. He thinks there are only two people who could benefit
from Bill’s disappearance—Sam and Roger.
Sam says Bill is one of the
best men he knew.
Past tense?
Maggie comes home. Burke says
he’s going “fishing” and leaves.
Carolyn takes Joe home to Collinwood.
Joe tells Carolyn he loves
her.
“In spite of everything I do
to you?”
Joe says he takes the bad with
the good.
When she wonders what will become of her, she says that she’ll become
Mrs. Joe Haskell and live happily ever after. She seems to like the idea. She
wishes she could forget about Burke and this house.
Someone is at the door.
Burke.
Burke and Joe wait while
Carolyn goes to get Roger. Burke advises Joe on joining the Collins clan. He
could move in. There’s plenty of room.
“Joe, just push aside the cobwebs, dig
up some dead bodies, hang your portrait on the wall, and you’re a member of the
clan.”
Carolyn comes back and tells
them Roger isn’t home.
As Burke leaves, he reminds
Joe to dig up the dead bodies first.
Carolyn wonders what he meant by that. Joe says it’s just a bad joke.
Maggie tells Sam she was
worried because everyone was talking about Bill Malloy. It seems to be
connected to Burke and Roger and Sam. How did he know Bill was missing?
Sam says she’s being too
inquisitive and she should go back to work and leave him to his. He becomes
angry.
She wants to know what it is
that ties him and Burke and Roger Collins together.
Sam selects paint colors, reds
and yellows and greens. “I think I’ll do it all in reds and greens.” With a
touch of yellow.
Maggie wonders where they are
all heading. She gives up and leaves.
“Toward death, Maggie,
darling. We’re all headed towards death.”
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . .Alexandra Moltke
Maggie Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . Kathryn Leigh Scott
Burke Devlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mitchell Ryan
Joe Haskell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . Joel Crothers
Carolyn Stoddard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . Nancy Barrett
Sam Evans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . David Ford
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
Directed by John Sedwick
Story created
and written by
Art Wallace
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