Wednesday, January
11, 1967
Note: The
episodes’ official numbering includes skipped numbers for pre-emptions, in
accordance with their numbering system (so that one could look at the number of
an episode and know what day of the week it aired on). I have elected to number
the episodes by what episode it actually is, but I will note the official numbering also.
This is the 140th episode, but the official number is 143 or 8.
My name is
Victoria Winters. It is night at Collinwood after a day of strange and
unexplained events. But the strangest event of all has just happened to a small
boy, and it defies explanation.
David cries out for Elizabeth,
and she comes to him.
Vicki arrives too.
He’s afraid of the painting.
He says he saw a face come right out of it. His mother’s face.
Liz tells him it was a bad
dream, but he insists it was real.
Liz says dreams sometimes seem
very real.
She asks why the painting is
there and Vicki tells her Sam painted it, that he didn’t want it, and that he
gave it to Vicki. Then David saw it and wanted it.
Liz says they can take the
painting away now. David doesn’t want it anymore, does he?
David says he guesses not, but
then when Liz goes over to take it down, he changes his mind and begs her to
let him keep it. She says they’ll talk about it in the morning.
Vicki and Liz tuck David back
into bed.
After they leave, David gets
back up and goes over to look at the painting.
Liz asks Vicki why she gave
David the painting. Vicki says it was an impulse; he seemed to want it so much.
She tells her how Laura felt about the painting.
Vicki asks whether they’ll
need her if David leaves with Laura.
Liz says she isn’t sure David
will be leaving. Laura needs to prove she can do more for David than Liz can,
and Liz isn’t sure that’s the case.
Vicki says, “Oh, but she needs
him so badly!” (A strange thing to say—is Vicki under Laura’s spell? Or the
forces fighting against Laura?)
Liz points out that the
important thing is whether David needs Laura. She seems to be the cause of his
nightmares. Her presence there seems to disturb him.
David sets his crystal ball on
the windowsill.
He gets up on something and looks at the portrait.
It’s morning in Collinsport,
and Sam is preparing to paint when there’s a knock on the door.
It’s Vicki and
David. David wants to thank him for the painting.
He likes that it looks like
his mother, and it’s scary, and he loves scary things. He asks why Sam painted
her that way, standing in flames. Sam says you can’t ask an artist why he
paints something, because he never knows the answer.
David tells Sam he painted
David’s dream. His mother is on fire, and it’s getting hotter and hotter.
Sam says maybe they both
travel on the same psychic wavelength.
He tells David there are
cookies and cider in the refrigerator. David still wants to know how Sam
painted his dream. Sam says it’s a coincidence. There’s not any real
connection.
David says he just thought it
was spooky. (David likes spooky things.)
When David goes to the
kitchen, Sam says David’s dream is the same as the vision he’s been having.
He
started another picture. It was going to be a seascape. He shows it to Vicki.
“It’s another woman on fire!”
Vicki says. She wants to know whether it’ll be Laura Collins again, and what
the empty space is going to be.
He doesn’t know.
Vicki says something strange
happened yesterday. Something made her take the painting, something made her
show it to David, something beyond her power.
David comes back and Vicki
says it’s time for them to go. Sam tells Vicki that some things are best
forgotten.
After Vicki and David leave, Sam begins, unwillingly, to paint.
When Vicki and David return,
Liz tells David his lunch is ready in the kitchen.
Vicki tells Liz she took David
to see Sam; he wanted to thank Sam for the painting.
Liz says she thinks that was a
mistake. Vicki asks why, but before Liz can answer, there’s a knock on the
door.
It’s
a policeman asking to see Laura.
It’s about the dead woman in Phoenix.
Liz says
she’ll take him to Laura’s cottage, but first he wants to show Liz some
personal effects found in the fire.
She
can identify the locket—a family heirloom; her brother gave it to Mrs. Collins
when they were married.

Vicki
said she saw this locket in Laura’s possession, and Laura told her a story
about it—how she clipped a lock of David’s hair and kept it in there.
Liz
says it can’t be the one she saw, because this is a family heirloom.
Vicki says it must be.
The
policeman opens the locket and finds a lock of hair.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexandra
Moltke
David Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. David Henesy
Elizabeth
Collins Stoddard
. . . . . Joan Bennett
Sam Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . David Ford
Lt. Dan Riley . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. John Connell
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
Directed by John Sedwick
Written by Ron Sproat
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