Wednesday, September
14, 1966
My name is
Victoria Winters. The great house of Collinwood perches on the crest of Widow’s
Hill in seeming isolation. Yet the long shadows of fear do reach out—touching others,
darkening their hearts with growing tension.
Joe comes into the Blue Whale
and Sam asks him to sit with him on this sad day. Joe says he didn’t know that
Bill was such a good friend of Sam’s. Sam’s says he was one of the best. He
then starts to grill Joe (mispronouncing Carolyn’s name while he does it). He
says soon there’ll be more things than the cannery closed.
Carolyn comes downstairs and
finds David reading. She tells him he should go outside, because that’s where
Liz wanted him to be today.
He starts asking about where
Bill’s body was, although he recognizes that everyone is sad.
What else would David like to
know? Whether his eyes were open or closed, how he was dressed?
No, just the exact spot where
his ody floated to shore.
Carolyn says she’s sick of
this house.
David thinks it’s fun. How
many kids get to live in a house with real ghosts?
David explains that he has
books dealing with tides and currents. It’s important to know where Bill landed
in the water. Then he can figure out where he came from.
Joe is explaining a similar
process the police are going through. Sam is worried that they can find out the
exact spot where Bill fell into the water. Joe imagines the police are working
on the tide charts right now.
The sheriff comes in and
stands in front of Sam. He asks to join them. He starts to give his unsolicited
opinion about Joe and Carolyn and advises Joe to take Carolyn out into the
country and enjoy the day.
David tells Carolyn he’s
figured out where Bill’s body was.
Carolyn thinks he’s being
morbid.
Joe arrives and they decide to
take a drive. She’d like to go ten thousand miles away from this place.
David asks Joe to help him
figure out the tides. He’s trying to solve a murder. Carolyn asks who said it
was murder?
The sheriff wants Sam to come
to his office for a talk.
Carolyn comes back downstairs
to find Joe and David deep in tides. She gets angry. She doesn’t like Bill’s
death being used as an exercise in mathematics.
They make up and leave David to
his mathematics.
Joe says his father can help him.
David says Roger would rip it
up because he’s scared.
At the sheriff’s office,
George asks Sam about the meeting. Sam says he was invited to it, and he went,
but he doesn’t know what it was about.
George says maybe they can
figure it out.
Does Sam remember Burke’s
manslaughter conviction? Did he think Burke was innocent?
Sam says he never thought
about it.
George thinks that’s strange,
considering he and Burke were such good friends back then. And it’s strange Sam
went to a meeting when he didn’t know what it was about.
Sam says he went because Bill
was a friend.
George questions Sam about his
movements that night.
“You think he was murdered,
don’t you?” Sam denies having anything to do with it.
George says that if what Burke
said is true, only Sam and Roger Collins would gain from Bill’s death.
The sheriff arrives at
Collinwood. David goes upstairs to tell his father.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . .Alexandra Moltke
Sam Evans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . David Ford
Joe Haskell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . Joel Crothers
David Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . David Henesy
Carolyn Stoddard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . Nancy Barrett
Sheriff George
Patterson. .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dana Elcar
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
Directed by Lela Swift
Story created
and written by
Art Wallace
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