Wednesday, January
4, 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 135th episode, but the official number is 138.
My name is
Victoria Winters. The quiet of the night at Collinwood has been shattered by
some news—news so startling and strange that it is beyond belief.
Roger thinks that the report
about Laura’s death is erroneous. George says it was a positive identification.
The body was found in what was
left of her apartment. Everyone was accounted for except Laura. George would
like to talk with her.
Roger wants to make sure
George doesn’t plan to give her the third degree. George says he won’t; there’s
no accusation being made.
Roger takes George to the
cottage.
He asks her when she was last
at 443 Maple Street. She tells him about her travels.
He tells her about the fire.
He tells her the body was
identified as Laura Collins.
Roger wishes he wouldn’t be so
melodramatic.
Laura tells him no one was
staying in her apartment, and she doesn’t know who it could have been.
The sheriff leaves but Roger
stays behind.
Roger wonders whether this
will affect her taking David. She says she has another place she plans to take
David.
Burke drops Carolyn off, and
tells her how cute her nose is. They kiss. She doesn’t know whether she feels
younger when she’s with him or more mature.
She decides to have him come
in.
Burke is laying it on thick
with her. They snuggle next to the fire. He offers to take the suitcase down to
Laura’s cottage on his way out.
Roger returns to Collinwood
and sees Laura’s suitcase.
Carolyn asks whether he’s
being thoughtful or he just wants to see Laura. He says it’s just business.
Carolyn says she doesn’t know why she lets him get away with so much and he
says he’s irresistible. They are kissing when Roger comes in.
Roger says Burke isn’t
welcome. Carolyn is amused by the whole thing. Roger says he represents the
destroyer of this family and Carolyn along with it. He says Burke is about as
fascinating as the grim reaper.
Burke says Roger has played
the grim reaper often enough. Burke, on the other hand (who has been lying
right and left here), represents honesty and truth. He’s willing to speak the
truth anywhere (but he doesn’t).
Burke and Carolyn say
goodnight. She notes he’s very determined to deliver the suitcase.
Laura is communing with the
fire when Burke arrives.
He tells her what a treat it
is to see her and how rich he is. He’s not someone to be made a fool. She
doubts that could happen to him. He doubts it too, but he wants to be certain.
Roger asks Carolyn whether she
took the suitcase to Laura. She says it’s on his way.
He realizes Burke took it.
He says he wishes she hadn’t
done that.
She says she’s sorry, she
didn’t realize—(She never does, does she? A convenient excuse.)
Burke asks Laura for a
definite commitment. She says she can’t do anything till after she has David.
If Roger knew he was there, it would ruin her getting David.
Burke says he wanted revenge
against her, but seeing her again makes him feel inexplicably different. She
owes him years of life he never had, love he never had.
He starts pawing her and
doesn’t listen when she tells him no.
Roger bursts in with a gun.
Cast,
In Order of Appearance
Victoria Winters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . Alexandra Moltke
Sheriff George
Patterson . .
. . . . . . . . . . . Dana Elcar
Roger Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . Louis Edmonds
Laura Collins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . Diana Millay
Carolyn Stoddard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . Nancy Barrett
Burke Devlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . Mitchell Ryan
Fashion by Ohrbach’s
Directed by Lela Swift
Written by Malcolm Marmorstein
