Tuesday, October
18, 1966
My name is
Victoria Winters. In spite of a coroner’s decision, a critical question is
still being asked—even in Collinwood—was a man’s death accidental, or was he
murdered? A question that continues to occupy the mind of a strange and
troubled boy.
Vicki
wants David to do his math problems, but he’s more interested in his crystal
ball. Isn’t solving a murderer more important than math? And Burke is going to
prove that David’s father killed Bill Malloy.
Burke
invites himself to sit with the sheriff. He tells how he went to Lookout Point
to find the fountain pen—and didn’t find it. (And wasn’t there at the same time
as Carolyn, surprisingly.)
The sheriff isn’t impressed.
He tells Burke there was no murder.
David becomes interested in
Vicki’s fountain pen.
Burke tries to convince the
sheriff to ask Roger about the fountain pen. The sheriff isn’t interested. It
was an accidental death. He leaves before he has to punch Burke.
David says Mrs. Johnson is
coming to work for them. And he’s going to be a millionaire when he grows up.
He’s going in to partnership with Burke Devlin.
Vicki wonders who owned the pen.
Roger comes in and says Vicki
should keep the pen. Then he tries to walk out of the room with it when the
phone rings. David points it out.
Roger answers the phone. It’s
Burke.
He says he’s at the Blue Whale (he looks like he’s at the pay phone at
the restaurant), and he expects Roger there in ten minutes—with his fountain
pen.
Roger arrives at the
restaurant, where Burke is waiting for him.
“I want my pen,” Burke says.
Roger admits he lost it. He
says he’s sorry, but he’ll buy Burke another one.
Burke says Roger lost it at
Lookout Point, when he went to meet Bill Malloy and killed him.
The sheriff walks in and tells
Burke the case is closed.
Burke tells Roger that someone
must have found the pen and when they realize what it means, everything will
come tumbling down around Roger’s head.
David admires Vicki’s pen. He
wishes he had a pen like that. Vicki says maybe she’ll give it to him someday—if
he does his lessons and works hard. He says never mind; he knew there was a
catch. He asks where she found it.
“Well, I don’t think I should
tell you.”
“Why not? You told me it was
on a beach.”
“Well, you might go run down
and pick up all the others that are there.”
“There are more?”
“There are thousands of them. They’re
scattered all over the beach like silver dust—big ones, giant ones, tiny ones, fat
ones, thin ones—all sizes and shapes.”
David says he’s serious.
Vicki advises him to look in
his crystal ball.
Roger comes in and asks Vicki
to come down to the drawing room for a talk.
Roger tells Vicki that the
phone call was Burke asking to meet Roger in town and he did. Burke made
another threat and Vicki should think about his offer of a job in Florida. He
can even pay her two or three thousand dollars to make up for all she’s been through.
David rushes in with something
to tell Vicki. Roger says they’re having a private conversation, but Vicki says
it doesn’t matter; she isn’t going to change her mind.
David closes the doors on
Roger.
He tells Vicki he knows she found the pen at Lookout Point—he saw it in
his crystal ball.
Roger takes the pen from David’s
room.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexandra Moltke
David Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. David Henesy
Burke Devlin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. Mitchell Ryan
Sheriff George
Patterson . .
. . . . Dana Elcar
Roger Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. Louis Edmonds
Fashion by
Ohrbach’s
Directed by John
Sedewick
Story created
and written by Art Wallace
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