Episode 143: Vague and Drunk and Impossible

Monday, January 16, 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 143rd episode, but the official number is 146 or 11.

My name is Victoria Winters. A painting has caused great concern among those at Collinwood—particularly for one, who is the subject of the painting—and another, the man who painted it.

Laura causes Sam to drop his cigarette onto the newspaper as he’s falling asleep. 

 Liz interrupts her. 

She calls Laura’s name, but Laura doesn’t respond. 

Liz touches her shoulder. 
Laura has gremlin face.

Sam wakes up and tries to put out the fire with his hands, which is not a good result. 
Maggie comes in and puts out the fire, covering it with a rug or blanket and stomping on it.

Liz asks Laura what’s wrong. Laura comes out of her trance and passes it off as being lost in thought. 

Liz thinks the expression on her face was frightening.

Maggie wraps Sam’s hands in cold, wet towels and calls the doctor. She tells him it could have been worse.

Sam thinks Laura burned his hands. 
Maggie thinks it’s just that Sam fell asleep with a lighted cigarette by some newspapers. (She seems more reasonable, you have to admit.)

Sam wonders what he can say to convince her. He says Laura told him she’d see to it that he stopped painting.

Liz tells Laura they need to take a look at where they stand. Liz doesn’t think she is making good progress with David. His nightmares are growing worse.

Laura blames the painting. Liz doesn’t think that’s the whole answer.

Laura thinks she needs to spend more time with David. They need to take the painting away.

Liz doesn’t understand why he painted it; it’s not even his style.

Laura says she went to see Sam. “He was vague and drunk and impossible.” And he started another similar painting. He needs to stop. He’s ruining everything and she hasn’t much time.

Liz wonders what she means by that.

Just that she hasn’t been able to do what she set out to do.

Roger arrives home, and they bring him into the conversation.

Roger thinks Laura and David are getting along well.

Laura blames the painting.

Roger says he’ll get rid of the painting, and he’ll stop Sam from painting more.

There’s a knock on the door. It’s Maggie, wanting to see Laura. Maggie tells them Sam burned his hands.

Maggie tells them her father is convinced Mrs. Collins started the fire.

Laura says that’s absurd. 
Roger says he’s going to talk to Sam, and he goes off to do so.

Liz assures Maggie they’ll find answers, sooner or later.

Roger arrives at Sam’s.

“Your wife burned my hands,” Sam says.

Roger thinks this is absurd.

Sam says she has some kind of hypnotic influence.

Roger wants him to stop accusing Roger’s wife of impossible things.

Roger goes to destroy the new painting, but it has a hole in it. Sam says the fire was nowhere near it.

             Cast, In Order of Appearance

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fashion by Ohrbach’s

Directed by Lela Swift

Written by Malcolm Marmorstein

Episode 141: The Impossible Locket

Thursday, January 12, 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 141st episode, but the official number is 144 or 9.
My name is Victoria Winters. For one member of the Collins family, the past is shrouded in mystery, and I’m just beginning to suspect that the mystery surrounding her is deeper and stranger than I’ve ever imagined.

Vicki says that this must be the locket that Laura was wearing the day she moved into Matthew’s cottage.

The detective says that’s impossible. This one was found in the ruins of a burned-out apartment only last week.

Vicki says there must be two of them.

Liz says that could only be if Laura had a copy made.

Vicki wants to know why David’s hair is in this one when Laura said it was in the other one. Liz thinks Vicki must have misunderstood. Vicki asks to come along to the cottage.

Laura tells the policeman that all of the effects belong to her.

He asks her a few questions about her apartment. The woman who died there was locked in from the inside, so she must have had a key.

Well, a cleaning woman who used to work for Laura had a key at one point. Margaret something.

She’s sure no one else would have had access.

Liz and the detective leave. Vicki asks Laura about the locket.

Laura says she told Vicki about the locket, but she wasn’t wearing it at the time. There isn’t another one.

Vicki is mistaken.

Vicki says it’s time for her to get back to the house.

Vicki asks Lt. Riley about the woman found in Phoenix. Time of death hasn’t been established yet.

Vicki finds that Frank Garner has come to deliver some contracts for Liz. He says it’s really an excuse to see Vicki. They sit by the fire and talk.

 Vicki tells him strange things have been happening since Mrs. Collins came back. 

She tells him about the locket. 

Even if there are two lockets, why should Mrs. Collins lie about it?

Liz hears everything (not too surprising).

Frank wants to know why Laura would lie to her. How could the same object show up in two different places?

Liz tells Vicki it’s impossible, and she relents.

Liz goes upstairs, and Vicki tells Frank about the strange things that have been happening, David’s dream and the painting, and how Vicki is being compelled to do things against her will. 

She didn’t even want to go to the cottage earlier, but the words came out unbidden.

Frank says he’ll take her out later and she’ll feel better.

After they leave the room, the family book opens itself.

Liz comes down and Vicki says she’s going to go see David, but something makes her come into the drawing room.

Liz asks her if she was thinking of the locket. Wasn’t she looking at it in the book?

Vicki says she wasn’t.

Josette looked after her when Matthew held her hostage.

There’s a picture of Josette wearing the locket. 

 

Vicki wonders if it’s a message from Josette. 

Vicki decides she needs to go for a walk.

 

 Cast, In Order of Appearance

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

Lt. Dan Riley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   John Connell

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

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard . . . . . Joan Bennett

Frank Garner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Conard Fowkes

Fashion by Ohrbach’s

Directed by John Sedwick

Written by Ron Sproat