Episode 142: Stop

Friday, January 13, 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 142nd episode, but the official number is 145 or 10.

My name is Victoria Winters. A strange force has caused me, against my will, to bring a painting to Collinwood—a painting so weird and mysterious that no one—not even the man who painted it—can explain it. For one, it holds an unusual fascination.

David is looking at the painting when Laura comes into his room. She wants to go out to lunch, but he doesn’t feel like eating. She thinks he’s disturbed, which he adamantly denies (in a disturbed way). He tells her he thinks the painting is trying to tell him something. Something bad.

He wants to know what it is.

David says he looks at the painting and sees light coming for him.

She asks him to go for a walk, but he wants to be alone.

Sam hasn’t read the morning paper in a week. He’s got his own disaster going on. He doesn’t want to paint. “I can see myself having an exhibition of fifty paintings of Laura Collins surrounded in flames.”

Later, Laura stops by, asking for Sam, but he’s not at home.

Laura is curious what Sam is working on now.

Maggie wonders whether Laura can explain Sam’s obsession with her.

Sam arrives home.

Maggie says she’s meeting Joe. “I want to get there early so I can see the surprised look on his face.”

Laura asks Sam why he did that atrocious painting of her.

Sam wants to know why he’s painting her. He shows her the latest painting.

Laura is not happy, and neither of them has answers for the other.

“I’m just saying that every time I start to paint, it comes out—you!”

Laura wants the paintings destroyed. She wants Sam to stop painting it. She says he will stop painting it.

Maggie and Joe arrive back at the cottage.

Maggie is tired of worrying about her father. She’s thinking of leaving town to get away from her nursemaid life. She says she doesn’t see much future for herself in Collinsport.

Joe says he’s there.

They kiss before going to look for her father.

Laura comes into David’s bedroom. The portrait glows, but only when Laura isn’t looking at it. She leaves.

Maggie and Joe bring Sam home, drunk as usual.

Joe says good night and goes.

Maggie says she’ll make some coffee.

Laura thinks about Sam.

Sam drops his cigarette on the newspaper (the newspaper was mentioned in the first act, by the way).

        Cast, In Order of Appearance

Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Alexandra Moltke

David Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  David Henesy

Laura Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Diana Millay

Sam Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  David Ford

Maggie Evans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Kathryn Leigh Scott

Joe Haskell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joel Crothers

Fashion by Ohrbach’s

Directed by John Sedwick

Story created and written by Malcolm Marmorstein