Monday, September
12, 1966
My name is
Victoria Winters. Barely twelve hours have passed since Carolyn Stoddard and I
had thought the tragic legend of Collinwood had become a reality and we had
seen a dead body, lying at the foot of Widow’s Hill. Twelve hours that have
brought no answers, either to me or to her.
Liz gives Carolyn her watch.
Carolyn apologizes for being such an idiot as to think she saw a dead body last
night. Liz tells Carolyn she and Miss Winters were right. There was a dead man
at the foot of the cliff.
The phone rings and someone
from the sheriff’s office tells Carolyn they just found Bill Malloy’s body. Liz
and Carolyn are both griefstricken. Liz tells her how Matthew pushed the body back
into the water.
Liz tells Carolyn to get
dressed and she calls Roger, who isn’t there.
Roger comes into the Blue
Whale to find Sam—who is there. He finds the Blue Whale very comforting now. An
oasis in a world of horror. Roger says he should have been a poet.
“I should have been many
things other than what I am.”
They discuss Bill Malloy’s
presumed death. Roger says no one knows for sure it’s Bill until the body’s
found again.
Sam says he has news for
Roger.
Carolyn helps Vicki make her
bed—or starts to.
She tells Vicki about Bill, “the nicest, sweetest man” she’s
ever known, and how much she hates this world.
Roger calls the sheriff’s
office and reports back to Sam that there is going to be an autopsy. Roger says
he will do everything to see justice done if Bill was murdered. He tells Sam he
told the sheriff about the meeting the night before. Sam wants to know what he’s
supposed to say.
“Precisely what I tell you to
say.”
Carolyn says there’s so much
we want to do in life, but it can suddenly be cut short. Bill always wanted to
have a month on a tropical island. Carolyn thinks if you have a dream, you have
to go after it.
Liz comes in and tells Carolyn
to get dressed. Carolyn hugs her.
Liz tells Vicki that David
should play outside and Vicki can do whatever she would like today.
Vicki says she has been putting off doing something that has to do with a man called Evans.
Vicki says she has been putting off doing something that has to do with a man called Evans.
Sam thinks the lies are piling
up like an inverted pyramid that will topple over of its own weight.
“Not if we stand together,”
Roger says. He tells Sam that he would be arrested as an accessory after the
fact if Bill had had his meeting. And now that Bill is dead, Sam has a motive.
“No more than you.”
It’s their word against Burke’s
now that Bill is dead.
Carolyn wonders if Liz will
put Bill’s name in the family book. Vicki notes that’s just for Collinses.
(They should put Bill’s name in the book.)
Vicki asks Carolyn about Sam Evans. She says Roger tried to discourage her from having dinner with Sam and Maggie.
She wonders if Sam knows something about Vicki that Roger doesn’t want her to know. Carolyn thinks this unlikely.
Roger returns home. Liz asks if
he’s heard about Bill.
He says it’s very sad. He’d been hoping that Matthew had made a mistake. He thinks they should close the plant for the rest of the day, and Liz agrees.
He says it’s very sad. He’d been hoping that Matthew had made a mistake. He thinks they should close the plant for the rest of the day, and Liz agrees.
Carolyn lends Vicki her car.
Roger asks where Vicki is off
to. Some nonsense about Sam Evans, Carolyn tells him. Does he care?
Of course not. He hardly knows
the man.
That’s just what Carolyn told
Vicki.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . Alexandra Moltke
Carolyn Stoddard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . Nancy Barrett
Elizabeth
Collins Stoddard.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joan Bennett
Sam Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . David Ford
Roger Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . Louis Edmonds
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