Friday, November
18, 1966
My name is
Victoria Winters. Ever since I arrived at Collinwood, this gloomy old mansion
on the crest of Widow’s Hill has held nameless fears for me—most of it stemming
from the time I saw a dead man washed up at the foot of the cliff, a case that
has been declared an accident but not been marked closed by the sheriff.
Burke goes to the sheriff’s
office to demand that George reopen the Malloy case.
The sheriff tells him that
before something can be reopened, it has to be closed. 
The only way to get
people off their guard was to make them think the case was closed. That way
people aren’t looking at their neighbors suspiciously.
Burke says he has new evidence
from Vicki Winters. “She knows enough so that a half hour ago, someone tried to
kill her.” He tells George that Vicki has evidence pointing at Roger Collins.
“Hasn’t she ever heard of the
sheriff’s office?”
Burke says that Vicki, being
from New York, doesn’t understand George’s small-town subtleties. “She thinks
when you say you’re not interested in the case, that’s what you mean.” He tells
George about the person who must have had a duplicate key pushing Vicki’s door
open.
Roger returns home.
Liz asks
him whether he ran into Vicki. “I mean that figuratively, of course.” 
She tells
him about the car that tried to run Vicki down.
Liz wonders who is trying to
harm Vicki.
Roger wonders where Sam Evans
was.
Burke tells George about the
incident with the car.
He has a plan to bring some real evidence out into the
open—possibly tonight at Collinwood. George agrees.
Liz wants to know why Roger
asked about Sam Evans.
Roger thinks he might know
more about Vicki. He painted the portrait that resembles her.
Liz says that Sam couldn’t
have been the one who tried to get into Vicki’s room.
Roger says there’s no tangible
proof that anyone did.
Liz says she has Vicki’s word
and that’s good enough for her. When she saw Bill Malloy’s ghost, that door was
locked too.
Roger says that was a
hallucination.
“That seaweed on the floor was
no hallucination; we both saw it.”
They hear a car in the drive.
Liz looks out the window and
tells Roger it’s the sheriff’s car. She asks Roger to answer the door.
Roger greets George as “the
Sheriff of Nottingham” but is disappointed to see Burke.
Burke wants to see Vicki, but
Liz says she’s sedated after a driver almost ran her down.
They also discuss the intruder
in Vicki’s room. Roger suggests that she imagined it.
George asks if she usually
imagines things.
Liz says she’s normally a
perfectly well-adjusted girl.
“Sheriff, do you believe in
ghosts? . . . Miss Winters does. Miss Winters believes in a great deal of things
that most normal people don’t. She hears things that a lot of other people don’t
hear. She sees things that other people don’t see.”
“What about the pen she found?”
Burke asks.
He tells about giving it to Carolyn, how Roger took it away from
her before the meeting, and how Vicki found it.
Someone might have found it
before Vicki and lost it again. Possibly Bill Malloy.
(I don’t see how that would
work.)
Burke tells about the story
Roger told Vicki, about finding Bill Malloy’s body. The sheriff says that would
be an accessory after the fact. (That’s funny—when Matthew found the body, and
even pushed it back into the sea, the sheriff couldn’t find a law he broke to
charge him. Failure to report a death, interfering with a corpse, nothing!)
Burke pulls out his backup pen
to freak Roger out.
Roger says he doesn’t think it looks the same.
The sheriff would appreciate
it if Vicki and Carolyn could come to his office in the morning to identify the
pen. Burke says, “Pleasant dreams, Roger,” before leaving.
Liz tells Roger she’s going to
have some questions of her own before Vicki and Carolyn go to the sheriff’s
office. She wants the truth.
Roger says there’s something
he has to do right away and leaves the house.
He goes to where he buried the
pen and moves the rock covering its grave.
He digs it up. It’s still there.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexandra Moltke
Sheriff George
Patterson . .
. . . . Dana Elcar
Burke Devlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mitchell Ryan
Elizabeth
Collins Stoddard .
. . . Joan Bennett
Roger Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louis Edmonds
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
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