Friday, September
16, 1966
My name is
Victoria Winters. Collinwood at night, its towers a dark mass against a
threatening sky—a symbol of a mystery I cannot solve. A mystery that brings me
to a cottage not far from the waterfront. A cottage that might hold the answers
I’ve been waiting so long to hear.
Vicki and Maggie arrive at the
Evans cottage for dinner, Maggie carrying two bags of groceries. Vicki admires
Sam’s paintings.
She finds one of a woman who looks a lot like her.
Maggie wonders what will
happen if Vicki finds her answers and they’re not what she wants to hear. Vicki
says anything is better than not knowing. Look at Maggie. She can look at her
father and know who he is. She knows him.
Maggie wonders if she does.
Burke comes in to bother the
sheriff about arresting Roger.
Maggie says she’ll name Vicki
champion potato peeler when she writes her autobiography. She asks Vicki what
the kitchen is like in Collinwood.
Spooky, like the rest of the
house. “Well, you see every time you open the door of the oven, you’ve got to
be really careful, because there’s this old witch standing right behind, ready
to push you in and make a meal out of you.
And on top of the stove, instead of
burners, there’s open fires and huge cauldrons on top, and you have to stir and
stir.”
“Double, double, toil and
trouble.”
“No, actually, it’s just a
kitchen. It’s bigger than yours.”
Maggie notes that she’d never
set foot in Collinwood. Has Vicki ever seen a ghost? Vicki tells her about the
possible ghost she saw during the thunderstorm.
Maggie says she thinks the
trouble started about ten years ago, not a couple of hundred years.
Vicki asks if she means Burke’s
trial. Ever since she came there, people have been talking about it but not
telling her what happened.
Sam arrives home.
George shows Burke David’s
chart. They try to figure out where Bill hit the water. Burke says he isn’t
going to let Roger or Sam get away with murder. George says if Burke tries to
take things into his own hands, he will throw him in a cell and forget there
ever was a key.
Sam and Vicki visit. Vicki
tells him about her search and shows him the portrait. Does he remember who the
model was?
Sam says it’s hard to remember
after twenty-five years. Betty Hanscomb, that was it. She left town and died
before Vicki was even born, so she couldn’t have anything to do with this.
Maggie asks Sam to tell Vicki
about Burke’s accident.
He doesn’t want to, but
finally tells them Burke was drunk, hit someone with a car, and was convicted
for manslaughter.
They want more details. Roger’s
wife was in the car.
It started in a tavern, on the
Bangor road. Laura was Burke’s girl until Burke introduced her to Roger. They
were all drunk. They drove off together. Burke insisted he hadn’t been driving.
Roger and Laura testified it was Burke.
The phone rings. It’s the
sheriff, warning Sam to be wary of Burke if he comes around.
Sam tells Maggie to lock the
door, and they’ll sit down to eat.
Burke arrives and asks if they
have room for one more.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . Alexandra Moltke
Maggie Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . Kathryn Leigh Scott
Sheriff George
Patterson. .
. . . . . . . . . . Dana Elcar
Burke Devlin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . Mitchell Ryan
Sam Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
David Ford
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
Directed by John Sedwick
Story created
and written by
Art Wallace
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