Episode 111: Trust

Wednesday, November 30, 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 (this is the 111th episode, but the official number is 113), but I will note the official numbering also. 

My name is Victoria Winters. Collinwood is still living up to its name as a ghost-ridden house, where deaths have gone unsolved—except that, in this case, the murderer is known; only his whereabouts are unknown. But much like a wounded animal at bay, he has taken refuge in the one place where he thinks he’ll be safe. The old house has already been searched thoroughly, so Matthew Morgan feels this is one place the police will not look again.

Matthew wanders around the old house.

Mrs. Johnson tells Burke that Matthew killed Bill and tried to kill Vicki. Burke has a hard time believing this, in spite of the fact that Matthew strangled him too.

Mrs. Johnson asks if maybe Burke was wrong about the manslaughter case too. Burke doesn’t think so.

He asks her to stay at Collinwood even though the Malloy case is solved.

Mrs. Johnson says she has no intention of leaving. Roger Collins is really still responsible, because none of this would have happened except for that old case.

After Mrs. Johnson leaves, David comes to call. He’s disappointed that his father wasn’t arrested and put in jail forever. He hates Roger because of how he used to treat David’s mother. And he still thinks Roger killed Bill Malloy. He saw it in his crystal ball.

Burke says crystal balls show things in riddles. He doesn’t like to see an innocent person punished.

David thinks he could ask Josette Collins or Bill Malloy. They’re ghosts to other people, but they’re real to him. He’s worried Vicki might be the third girl who’s supposed to go over the cliff in the legend.

Burke asks whether that girl isn’t supposed to be a Collins.

David says she could be a Collins. She doesn’t know herself.

He saw Mrs. Johnson in the street and thinks she had been to see Burke.

Burke says she could have been going anywhere.

Mrs. Johnson is looking in drawers at Collinwood.

David comes home and she tells him he should hang up his coat.

He hangs up his coat. Then he says he saw her in town, and he thinks she was to see Burke Devlin. David thinks he and Burke and she all hate his father. He can tell by the way she looks at Roger.

She says she’s grateful to have her job. David says Roger didn’t hire her; Aunt Elizabeth did. She says she works for everyone there, regardless of who hired her.

David decides to go and see if the ghosts can give him any ideas for finding evidence that can be proven—at the old house.

He talks to Josette’s picture, asking where Matthew is. 
Matthew grabs him.

David tells Matthew not to run away, to stay so they can investigate and prove Roger did it. David will bring him food. He’ll be safe there.

Matthew agrees to trust David.

        Cast, In Order of Appearance

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

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

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

Mrs. Sarah Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clarice Blackburn

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

Fashion by Ohrbach’s

Directed by John Sedwick

Written by Francis Swann

Episode 104: Endangered

Thursday, November 17, 1966

My name is Victoria Winters. Instead of being a home, Collinwood has turned into a chamber of horrors for me. At least I expected to be safe inside my locked room. But at Collinwood, locks don’t seem to fulfill the function for which they were designed. Last night, someone definitely entered my room. Only my screams frightened away the intruder.

Vicki tells Liz that someone with a key tried to get into her room. Liz says she’ll have Matthew put another lock on the door and only Vicki will have the key. She suggests it was a prowler. 

Vicki finds it odd that a prowler would go to the only room that doesn’t contain anything of value. 

Liz says maybe because they didn’t know the house well. 
Vicki wonders if they might know the house too well.

Matthew agrees to put an inside bolt on Vicki’s door.

Vicki calls the hotel for Burke, but she’s forgotten he was going to Bangor for the day.

She tries returning Maggie’s call but Sam answers. 

He tells her he’s really the one who wanted to talk with here anyway. 
He wants to meet her at the Blue Whale to talk. She agrees to meet him after dark. She tells him to tell Maggie that she found out something more about what they were talking about the other day.

Liz comes back and Vicki asks if she told David about what happened. Liz assures Vicki she didn’t. Vicki goes upstairs for lessons.

Liz calls Roger at work and leaves a message for him to call back, saying it’s urgent.

After dark, Roger comes home. Liz asks if he got her message. 
He says he came home as soon as he could. She says she asked for him to call back.

She confronts him about Vicki’s intruder.

He tries to make it sound like she’s imagining things. After all, she was “held prisoner by a small nine-year-old boy” and claims she saw a ghost. She’s either imagining things or knows something.

Matthew comes in and tells Liz the bolt has been added to the door, and there is no sign of its having been forced. He leaves.

Roger goes back to his old song about how Vicki should leave for her own safety. After learning of her appointment in town, he says he is going to run to town and try to find her.

(Which is it, Roger, is she imagining things or is she in danger?)

Vicki meets Sam at the Blue Whale. She tells him about what happened the night before.

Sam admits that he doesn’t have any information about the portrait of Betty Hanscomb, which was his excue for the meeting. He wants to ask Vicki a question about what she told Maggie.

She only wants to talk about it with Maggie. She asks him to just tell Maggie to forget about their conversation.

He wants to know what she knows about Bill Malloy’s death. 
She says they should discuss it with Burke Devlin. Sam goes into his usual Burke Devlin panic. 
What is she going to tell him about how Sam acted? He offers to give Vicki a ride home, but she says no. (Considering how much of this story hinges on drunk driving, that’s a good call.)

Sam calls the hotel to find out when Burke will be back from Bangor, but they don’t know.

Vicki is walking down the road when a car comes along and tries to run her down.

Vicki comes home and tells Liz what happened.

“Mrs. Stoddard, who’s doing this to me? Who wants to kill me?”

Liz can’t believe anyone would want to kill her. She suggests calling the sheriff, but Vicki thinks it wouldn’t do any good. 
Liz says it’s too bad Roger didn’t see Vicki in town.

He said he was going to look for her in town.

“Maybe he found me.”

Liz goes to get something to calm her down.

Vicki calls Burke, who has returned to his room, and she tells him what just happened.

Liz returns. Vicki doesn’t want to take the medicine, but then she does when Liz asks whether she’s afraid of her.

        Cast, In Order of Appearance

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

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Joan Bennett

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

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

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

 Fashion by Ohrbach’s

Directed by John Sedwick

Written by Francis Swann