Episode 123: Enemies Everywhere

Friday, December 15, 1966

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 122nd episode, but the official number is 124.

My name is Victoria Winters. Night has fallen at Collinwood, and in a few short hours my fate will be decided. In the deserted old house where I am held captive, my captor must decide to free me or kill me—unless a small boy who knows the secret of my whereabouts tells what he knows.

David tells Roger he needs to talk to him. He wants Roger to promise he won’t get in any trouble first. Roger refuses, so David decides not to tell him. He hopes Roger gets pneumonia (securing all the windows against the storm) and dies.

After Roger goes, David frets he wishes he knew what to do.

Matthew decides he’s leaving and taking Vicki with him. He hears a noise. 
Vicki says it’s the shutter banging in the wind. He says he can hear footsteps. 
Vicki thinks he’s imagining things. He listens and then goes out to check.

He comes back and tells Vicki his enemies are everywhere. She’s one of them.

“I’m not your enemy,” Vicki tells him. She’s going to cooperate with him and help him. He needs help, doesn’t he?

He admits he does.

He gags her again while he takes the food out to the car.

Vicki begins to work on the knots again.

The ghost of Bill Malloy appears to tell David to help Miss Winters. 
He disappears when Roger comes back.

Roger takes David upstairs to bed.

The ghost of Bill Malloy appears to Matthew and tells him someone will die at Collinwood tonight.

David sneaks downstairs to use the phone. He leaves a message at the Collinsport Inn for Burke, that he should come to Collinwood right away; it’s urgent; it’s about Miss Winters.

Vicki finally gets her wrists unbound.

When she reaches the door to leave, Matthew comes in. He apologizes for startling her, mistaking her for Liz.

She plays along. She says she’ll go to her room.

He stops her when he realizes this is the old house.

She says they were looking for David. Matthew is probably tired. He should lie down.

He says he just had a terrible dream. He saw the ghost of Bill Malloy in the woods. But what was he doing in the woods? But it wasn’t a dream. He was running from the police.

She’s not Mrs. Stoddard—she’s Miss Winters.

He grabs her.

Burke comes banging on the door of Collinwood, demanding that Roger get David.

Matthew ties Vicki back up. 
He says he has to kill her. She’ll always be trying to escape. 
And the ghosts want her dead. 
She’s the third girl.
 They’re waiting for her.
 He’ll find a way to do it quick and easy, so she won’t feel anything. 
He’ll be back soon. Then she’ll know.
 

        Cast, In Order of Appearance

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

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

Roger Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louis Edmonds

Matthew Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Thayer David

Bill Malloy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Frank Schofield

Burke Devlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Mitchell Ryan

Fashion by Ohrbach’s

Directed by Lela Swift

Written by Ron Sproat

Episode 57: A Fatal Disease

Tuesday, September 13, 1966

My name is Victoria Winters. The musty corridors of Collinwood are behind me at the moment. Ahead of me are the streets of Collinsport itself and a journey that might take me into the dead world of the past. A journey I hope will start in a small restaurant, on the main street of this very small town.

Burke comes down to the restaurant and tells Maggie he’s been busy with correspondence. Better than stewing about a missing man. It was Bill Malloy who gave him his start, told him not to be afraid to climb to the top of the mast. When he gets back, Burke is going to buy him the best meal he’s ever had in his life.

Maggie tells Burke the coast guard pulled Bill’s body out of the water about an hour ago. He’s dead.

Burke calls the sheriff’s office from the pay phone. 

The sheriff is away and the guy who is there doesn’t know anything or has been told not to say anything. Burke half expected this, but can’t believe it now that it’s happened. Bill was one of the few honest people Burke met in his life. That must be why he’s dead.

“You talk about honesty as if it were a disease.”

Burke says it can be sometimes. Maggie thinks he sounds like he things Bill was murdered. (Does it occur to Burke that his desire for justice was the catalyst for this?)

Maggie says her father took it pretty bad about Bill. They became good friends while Burke was away.

If Bill didn’t drown, what does Burke think did happen to him?

He had a fatal disease: honesty.

Vicki comes to the restaurant for lunch. They discuss Bill. Burke wants to know how Roger took the news. Vicki says he was very upset. He even closed the plant for the rest of the day.

Burke asks if he plans for an elegant marble memorial too. To the death of honesty.

Burke leaves and Maggie gets a call from the sheriff looking for Burke.

Vicki wants to know why Burke is acting like he thinks Roger isn’t sorry that Bill drowned.

Maggie says she’s been scared of Collinwood since she was a kid. Look at what happened to Bill Malloy. He worked for the Collins family too.

Vicki says she isn’t going to leave until she finds out there aren’t any answers to find about her past. She thinks maybe Maggie’s father can help her.

Burke arrives at the sheriff’s office, wanting to know the cause of Bill’s death. George says he doesn’t know yet. They’re doing the autopsy now.

Burke says he has a lot of questions. The sheriff says not to try doing his job for him.

He gets a call about the autopsy report and tells Burke to sit down.

He questions Burke about his movements on the night Bill disappeared. Burke wants to know if the sheriff knows about the meeting Bill called.

The sheriff wants to know why Bill would call a meeting to get Roger in trouble when he works for the Collins family. Burke wants to know if he talked to Sam yet.

Not yet.

Vicki goes into her spiel about the orphanage and the money and the mysterious job offer. Maggie doesn’t see how her father could know anything about any of that, but she invites Vicki to dinner to check it out anyway. Vicki says if she hadn’t been invited, she would have invited herself.

Burke tells George about his movements on the night before.

Why—was he murdered?

The autopsy report says he was drowned, but isn’t very helpful.

There are two people in town who didn’t want Bill to show up at that meeting—Roger and Sam.

Assuming Burke is telling the truth, the sheriff notes.

Burke returns to the restaurant in time to get turned down for coffee and then for dinner. She’s having dinner with Maggie and Sam, but maybe some other time.

Burke gets thoughtful. He tells Maggie that Vicki is a nice girl, but she’s always walking into the lion’s den.

 

        Cast, In Order of Appearance

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

Burke Devlin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mitchell Ryan

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

Sheriff George Patterson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dana Elcar

Fashion by Ohrbach’s

Directed by Lela Swift

Story created and written by Art Wallace