DS Episodes 138-175 [PREVIOUS SYNOPSES]

[Tony Ning Lew]

July 1994
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July 3, 1994 - July 4, 1995
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Pre-empted by 4th of July Twilight Zone Marathon
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July 5, 1995 - I
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Episode 138
Tape Date: December 28, 1966
Air Date: January 4, 1967 Wednesday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: Lela Swift

The sheriff tells Roger, "Sorry to break the news to you like
this, but I've heard that Laura was back in town and staying at the
Inn. I looked her up there, but found that she had moved here. She
had registered at the hotel 3 days ago, the time the fire in Phoenix
was." Roger replies, "This is preposterous. There must be an error.
Anyone can see that!" The sheriff tells him, "That's what I thought
at first, so I called Phoenix to confirm it. They say their ID is
positive." Roger asks, "How? Who identified the body?" The sheriff
replies, "No one. The body was burned beyond recognition. The fire
destroyed the whole apartment building, but enough remained so they
could clearly see that it was in her apartment. The body was of a
woman of the right age, and she was the only resident of the building
not accounted for." Roger, not satisfied with this, tells the sheriff,
"It must be some sort of mistake." The sheriff agrees, saying, "Yes,
it might be. She might have been letting someone stay in her
apartment. I'd like to speak to your wife." Roger tells him Laura is
staying in the cottage.
Roger and the sheriff go to the cottage. The sheriff tells Laura
he'd like to ask her a few questions and asks "Where do you live?"
Laura replies, "443 Mesa St, Arizona." The sheriff asks, "When were
you last there?" Laura replies, "about 8 or 9 days ago." The sheriff
asks, "But you arrived here only 3 days ago. What were you doing all
that time?" Laura explains, "I took the train to St. Louis and spent
a couple of days there. Then I took the train to Boston. From there,
I took the bus here." The sheriff tells her, "There was a fire in
you apartment building 3 days ago. The whole building was destroyed.
Everyone got out safely except for one person. The body of a woman
burned to death was found in your apartment. Was there anyone staying
in your apartment?" Laura replies, "No." The sheriff asks, "Do you
have any idea who it might be?" Laura replies, "No, no idea at all."
Burke Devlin and Carolyn arrive outside the front doors of
Collinwood. Burke remarks, "I guess it would be best not for me to
go in there." Carolyn jokes, "You'd better not. They've got the whole
place booby trapped against you." He kisses her goodnight. She opens
the door and asks him to come in for a few minutes. He jokes, "What
about the booby traps?" They go in. No one is around. They go and sit
by the fire. Carolyn remarks, "How nice and warm! Too bad I've got
to go back out in the cold later to take Laura's bags to her." Burke
tells her, "No need to bother. I'll save you the trouble and take
them to her for you."
Roger returns to Collinwood. He sees Laura's bags nad Burke's coat
in the foyer. He goes into the drawing room and find Burke and Carolyn
there. Furious, he shouts, "Carolyn! This man is not welcome in this
house! He represents the destruction of this family and you with it!"
Burke retorts, "I represent honesty and truth!" Roger orders him to
leaves. Burke nonchantly remarks, "I was just leaving anyway."
Laura stares into the fire at the cottage. There's a knock at the
door.
Roger tells Carolyn, "Don't forget to take Laura's bags to her."
Carolyn replies, "I don't need to. Burke volunteered to do it."
Roger shouts, "WHAT?!" As soon as Carolyn goes upstairs, Roger goes to
a gun rack.
Burke asks Laura about what she plans to do about the manslaughter
charge. Laura tells him, "I already told you. I can't do anything
about that until I've got David." Suddenly, the door bursts open
and Roger comes in holding a shotgun.
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July 5, 1995 - II
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Episode 139
Tape Date: December 29, 1966
Air Date: January 5, 1967 Thursday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: Lela Swift

Roger shouts, "Stay away from my wife!" Burke replies, "And if I
refuse?" Roger replies, "I'll kill you. Nothing would give me more
pleasure." Burke replies, "Then shoot me!" He starts to walk toward
Roger. Roger warns him, "One more step and I'll shoot!", but Burke
keeps approaching, saying, "Go ahead! Shoot!" Burke grabs the gun
from Roger. Laura begs Burke, "Please go. For my sake." Burke replies,
"OK. I'll go. For you." Roger asks Laura, "What did he want here?"
Laura replies, "Nothing. He was just bringing my bags here." Roger
asks, "What were you talking about? His manslaughter charge?" Laura
tells him, "We were talking about David. All I want is David. I have
no interest in the past. It'll be the happiest day of my life when I
get David and leave." After Roger leaves, Laura stares into the fire
again. In David's room, a voice calls, "David... David..." David
tosses and turns in bed.
The next morning, Vicky awakens David. She tells him, "It's time
you got up! It's 10:30 in the morning!" David groggily explains,
"I kept waking up last night! I kept having that dream again. My
mother was in the middle of a room, surrounded by fire, calling,
"David... David..." Vicky tells him, "I think I know why you keep
having those dreams. It's because your mind is on your mother. In
the back of your mind, you really want to see her." Roger comes into
David's room and tells David, "Your mother is staying in Matthew's
cottage. You and I are going to see her." David refuses, saying,
"There's something scary about her!" Roger replies, "That's
ridiculous! Now come with me or I'll give you a sound spanking!"
David goes and grabs Vicky. Vicky tells him, "It's all right. Go get
washed up, David." David shouts to Roger "I'm not going to see her
and you can't make me!" and runs off. Roger asks Vicky, "What am I
going to do?" Vicky replies, "I don't think spanking is the answer. I
think I know why he's afraid of his mother. What he's really afraid
of is that she'll reject him. I saw a lot of this a the foundling
home. I think the best thing to do would be to arrange to have them
meet 'accidently'." She volunteers to engineer such a meeting, then
asks, "The sheriff was here last night, wasn't he?" Roger replies,
"Yes. How did you know?" Vicky replies, "I saw his car parked outside
from my window. What did he want? Is there a problem" Roger replies,
"No, it was just another example of his incompetence. It would appear
that a body was found in a fire in Laura's apartment and the Phoenix
police department thought it was her. It would seem that the Phoenix
Police department is as incompetent as ours..."
Vicky takes a tray holding breakfast and coffee to the cabin.
Noticing the fire, she remarks, "I see you've built a fire." Laura
replies, "Yes. I always like a nice fire." She asks, "Does David
want to see me yet?" Vicky replies, "No, not yet, but I'm sure he
will after he gets over his stage fright." Laura asks, "Does he ever
talk about me?" Vicky replies, "All the time. He was always talking
about how much he loved you and wanted you to come back." Laura asks,
"Could you do me a favor? Could you get me a lock of his hair?"
Vicky, puzzled, asks, "A lock of his hair?" Laura shows her the
locket she's wearing and explains, "I have a lock of his baby hair in
this locket. It's an heirloom. Roger gave it to me on our wedding
night. I want a lock of his hair now to go with it." Vicky tells
Laura her idea of having her and David run into each other
"accidently". She tells her, "I take David out for a walk every day
after his lessons are done from 4:30 to 5:00. I think the greenhouse
would be a good place." Laura suggests Widow's Hill instead. Vicky
asks, "Widows Hill?" Laura explains, "When he was a little boy, I
used to take him there to look out at the ships. I think it he
might accept me more easily if we went to a place he had fond
memories of." Vicky agrees and tells her, "He needs you." Laura
replies, "And I need him. You have no idea how much. Nobody does..."
Vicky takes David on his usual afternoon walk. They go to Widow's
Hill. After walking around for awhile, David starts to get bored and
tells Vicky, "Let's go somewhere else." Vicky tries to keep him there
until Laura comes by pointing out into the distance and asking, "Hey!
Isn't that a ship?" David looks and replies, "I think so!" Vicky
asks, "Where do you think it's going?" David replies, "Maybe it's
an ocean liner going around the world to all sorts of places!" Laura
pops out and asks, "Like Madagascar? You remember how we used to talk
about far off places, how you asked me about Madagascar because you
liked the sound of the name, don't you? I know all about far away
places now. Please come to me, David!" She stretches out her arms and
starts to walk toward him. David shrinks back in fear. Vicky, seeing
how close David is to the edge of the cliff, shouts, "David! Watch
out!" David falls off the cliff, just managing to grab the edge as
he goes over. Hanging on for his life, he screams, "Help me!"
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July 6, 1995 - I
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Episode 140
Tape Date: December 30, 1966
Air Date: January 6, 1967 Friday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: Lela Swift

Vicky screams, "DAVID!", grabs his arms and pulls him up. She asks,
"David! Why did you do that?" David replies, "I don't know. Something
about her eyes scare me." Vicky tells him, "David, look how much
you've hurt her. She came so far to see you and you won't see her.
Look. She's crying." David looks at Laura. Laura is indeed crying.
Vicky tells David, "She needs you, David. Go to her and give her the
love you both need." David pauses then goes to Laura.
In the drawing room at Collinwood, Roger puts a tray bearing a
pitcher of martinis he has just made on the coffee table and sits
down on the sofa beside Elizabeth. He pours one for himself and one
for her. Taking a sip from his, he remarks, "I wonder what the
Phoenix Tom-Tom or whatever they call the paper out there is
saying today." Elizabeth asks, "Phoenix? Why?" Roger tells her about
the body found in Laura's apartment. Elizabeth starts to talk about
David and Laura, but Roger interrupts, "It's your daughter you should
be worrying about right now." He tells her about Carolyn bringing
Burke into the house again and Burke going to Laura's cottage.
He concludes, "I'm sure he used Carolyn to get close to Laura."
David, Laura and Vicky come in. David excitedly tells Laura, "Come
up and see my room!" They go upstairs. Vicky goes into the drawing
room. Roger asks, "How did you do it?" Vicky tells them about what
happened, about how Laura broke down and cried and David went to
her. She concludes by saying, "I was afraid he was going to say
what he said after the first time he saw her but he didn't."
Elizabeth asks, "And what was that?" Vicky replies, "That she wasn't
his mother." Elizabeth remarks, "Why on Earth would he say a thing
like that?"
Everyone is sitting at the kitchen table having dinner. David has
just finished his desert, some kind of ice cream or pudding in a
long goblet. Elizabeth remarks to Laura, "Is something wrong? You
haven't touched your dinner." Laura replies, "No, I'm just not very
hungry tonight." Roger jokes, "Maybe I should get Mrs. Johnson a more
up-to-date cookbook." David exclaims, "Yeah! Maybe we could have
hamburgers for dinner every night!" David and Roger, both having
finished, excuse themselves and leave. Elizabeth tells Laura of
David's strange statement that she wasn't his mother. She then warns
her against seeing Burke Devlin, saying, "He's out to destroy the
family. Seeing him could endanger your chances of getting David."
Laura assure her, "He was a good friend of mine at one time, but
I have no intention of becoming an ally of his now."
In the drawing room, Roger tells Vicky, "I thought I told you
not to mention what David said to Elizabeth." Vicky replies, "David
was so insistent that that wasn't his mother that I thought it would
be best to bring it out into the opens to clear it up." Roger remarks,
"I've got a way to do that ." He calls to David, who's busy poking
into the fire with a poker, and tells him to come to the sofa.
He asks him, "Why did you that wasn't your mother?" David replies,
"I don't know." Roger opens a photo album and shows David a picture
and asks, "Is that your mother?" David replies, "Yes." He shows
David a few more picture, asking each time, "Is that your mother?"
Each time David replies, "Yes." Roger concludes, "Granted, those
picture are 10 years old, but surely you've got to see that the woman
staying here is the same woman, that she is your mother". David
replies, "Yes." Laura, who's standing outside in the foyer, hears
this. She walks into the drawing room and says, "Oh! Family
pictures!" She sits down to look at them with David. Roger tells
Vicky, "I think we should leave them alone." They exit the drawing
room.
David asks Laura, "What it like where you come from?" Laura
replies, "Some people call it paradise. It's very warm there, not
cold like it is here. There are flowers everywhere, and the smell
is wonderful. You can even smell cinnamon in the air." David remarks,
"MMMM! I like cinnamon toast!" Laura continues, "And there are lots
of tall pine trees everywhere, perfect nesting places for the
phoenix." David asks, "The phoenix? What's that?" Laura starts to
recount the legend of the Phoenix to him. When he hears the part
about how old the phoenix gets, living to 100 years*, he exclaims,
"Wow! That's old!", Laura tells him, "But it never looks old. It
looks beautiful to the end, then after a hundred years..." Vicky,
who's outside in the drawing room, possibly eavesdropping, hears this,
the drawing room doors being ajar a few inches. Laura explains
to David how the phoenix builds a fire and burns itself up when it
feels itself getting old and is reborn from the ashes. Suddenly,
a mysterious wind blows the front doors open, then the drawing room
doors. Laura looks and sees Vicky standing there.

*This is inconsistent with the story she told Maggie where it
was 500 years.
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July 6, 1995 - II
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Episode 141
Tape Date: January 2, 1967
Air Date: January 9, 1967 Monday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

It is the next morning. Vicky goes into the drawing room and finds
David in there drawing on a piece of paper, using the top of the
piano as a tabletop. Vicky takes a look at the drawing and asks,
"What's that?" David replies, "It's a bird, a phoenix bird. My
mother told me a story about it." Vicky asks, "What that all around
it?" David replies, "Fire. That's the best part of the story. Every
100 years the phoenix burns itself to death and then comes back to
life from the ashes!" David asks, "Do you think my mother really
loves me?" Vicky replies, "Of course she does." David remarks, "Well,
I have a way to prove it." Vicky tells him, "Come on, it's time for
your lessons." As they leave the drawing room, they run into Laura,
who is just coming in through the front door, in the foyer. Laura
remarks, "Up early, huh, David?" David dejectedly tells her, "Miss
Winters is taking me up to give me my lessons." Laura asks Vicky,
"Could you do me a favor? Could you give David a day off and let
him spend the day with me?" Vicky, certain that Roger and Elizabeth
would approve, replies, "Sure. I could use a day off. I have a friend
in town I haven't seen in awhile." Vicky leaves. Laura and David
start to discuss what to do. David tells Laura, "There's a place
I'd like to show you."
Maggie walks into the living room of the Evan's cottage, probably
from the kitchen, as she is carrying a cup of coffee. She is dressed
in a housedress. There's a knock at the door. Maggie answers. It's
Vicky. Vicky tells her, "I have a day off today and thought I'd drop
by." Maggie replies, "Perfect timing! Today's my day off too!" Vicky
asks, "Where's your father?" Maggie replies, "Out taking a walk. I'm
a firm fan of morning constitutionals." She explains, "That's because
the Blue Whale doesn't open until 12:01. I don't like it much when
he takes an afternoon walk. How are you?" Vicky replies, "Good, but
I might not have a job at Collinwood soon." She explains that Laura
might be taking David away soon, leaving no need for a governess
there. Maggie asks, "And how's Roger getting along with Mrs. Collins?"
Vicky tells her, "Fine." Maggie asks, "He doesn't act like he's under
a lot of pressure?" Vicky replies, "No. Why are you so interested in
Roger?" Maggie explains, "It isn't really Roger I'm interested in,
it's my pop. Ever since Mrs. Collins came back to town, he's been
acting strangely. I wondered if Roger was too. And strange things
have been happening."
David takes Laura to the old house. He asks, "Ever been in here
before?" Laura replies, "No, but I've heard of it." David tells her,
"I took you here to meet my friends." Laura, puzzled asks, "Friends?
But no one could possibly live here." David explains, "My friends
are ghosts." Laura, not seeming to like the place much, tells him,
"Come on, let's go. I don't like this game.", but David insists,
"Come meet my friends." He points the flashlight at the portrait
of Josette. Recognizing it, Laura remarks, "Why, that's Josette
Collins." David replies, "Uh-huh. She's one of my friends." He
calls to the portrait and asks Josette to appear, but nothing happens.
Laura tells him, "Come on, let's go." David, disappointed, turns to
leave, but suddenly gets an idea and tells Laura, "I know what's
wrong! I know why she didn't appear. There's two of us here. She's
never appeared when there was more than one person here! I'll leave
you alone here and she'll come!" David runs off. Suddenly, the
portrait of Josette starts to glow. Laura stares at it. We hear the
sound of the front door as David comes back in. The portrait suddenly
stops glowing. David comes back into the room and asks Laura, "Did
she appear?" Laura replies, "No." David asks, "Did you see ANYTHING?"
Laura lies, "No. Not a thing." David is very disappointed. They leave.
As soon as they do, the portrait starts to glow again.
Vicky asks Maggie, "What strange things?" Maggie tells her, "He's
been painting a picture. A strange, disturbing picture. He claims
he isn't painting it of his own free will. He says he feels like
something's forcing him to do it." Maggie uncovers the painting on
its easel and shows it to her. It is the painting of Laura standing
surrounded by fire. You can now clearly see another aspect of it.
In front of Laura, a little to the right of center*, is an unpainted
spot about chest high in what looks like the shape of a child's
head, as if something is to be painted in there later. Sam returns
from his walk. He sees that the painting is uncovered, becomes
furious, and yells at Maggie, "You showed this to Vicky, didn't you?
Didn't I tell you not to show this to anyone?" Vicky tries to defend
Maggie, saying, "It's my fault. I was curious." Sam asks, "Promise
me, Vicky, don't tell anyone about this." Vicky promises not to.
She asks, "Is it true what Maggie says, that you feel as though some
force were forcing you to paint this?" Sam repies, "Yes." Maggie
tells Sam, "Tell her when it started." Sam replies, "It started the
first time I saw Laura Collins."
Back in the drawing room at Collinwood, David is showing Laura his
drawing of the phoenix. He asks, "Do you know any other stories?"
Laura replies, "Yes, and I might tell them to you if you ever visit
me after I leave." David asks, "You mean you're not staying here?"
Laura replies, "No, I'm going back to that place I told you about."
David asks, "Is it a long way there?" Laura replies, "Yes, hundreds
and hundreds of miles away." David asks, "Is it hard to get there?"
Laura replies, "No, all you have to do is really want to be there."
Back at the Evan's Cottage, Sam stares at the painting.
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July 7, 1995 - I
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Episode 142
Tape Date: January 3, 1967
Air Date: January 10, 1967 Tuesday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: John Sedwick

Sam asks, "What is it? What's making me do this?" Maggie assures
him there's a logical reason, that he's been painting Laura because
he's had her on his mind. Sam exclaims, "I'm going to destroy that
painting! I'm going to throw it into the sea!" He takes it from the
easel and moves to go outside and do just that, but Vicky stops him
and says, "Wait! I want that painting!" Sam asks, "Why?" Vicky
replies, "I don't know. There's something about it." Sam tells her,
"Your right. There's something about it. That's why I want to destroy
it." Vicky begs, "Don't destroy it. Let me buy it!" Sam gives it to
her, saying, "You want it that badly? Here it is!" Vicky asks what's
supposed to go in the unpainted spot. Sam replies, "I don't know"
and leaves. Vicky tells Maggie, "I think this painting is important
for some reason, I think there's some meaning behind it." Maggie
replies, "I wonder what Laura Collins will say when she sees it."
David and Laura are sitting in front of the fireplace in the
drawing room. David remarks, "You're pretty beautiful for a mother.
You're more like a movie star!" He remarks that he really likes
Burke Devlin and asks her why she didn't marry him. She tells him,
"Things didn't work out." She asks him, "How do you feel about your
father?" David replies, "I don't like him so much." Laura asks why.
David replies, "Because I don't think he likes me." Laura tells
him, "David, soon you'll have to make an important choice..."
They are interrupted by Vicky coming in through the front door.
David runs into the foyer to greet her. Laura follows him. David
sees that Vicky is holding a package. He asks her what it is. Vicky
replies, "Something for my room." David remarks, "It looks like a
painting!" Vicky replies that it is. David asks, "Let's see it!.
Laura echoes, "Yes, lets see it." Vicky unwraps it. Laura is shocked.
David exclaims, "It's my dream!" Laura asks, "Where did you get it
from?" Vicky answers, "From Sam Evans. He gave it to me." David asks,
"How did he know about my dream?" Laura asks, "You had a dream like
this?" Vicky tells her, "Yes. He first had it the first night you
came here." Laura asks Vicky, "Why did he give it to you?" Vicky
explains, "He was going to throw it away so I took it. It seemed
like a waste to throw it away." Laura asks, "What are you going to
do with it?" Vicky replies, "I don't know." David asks, "Can I have
it for my room?" Laura objects that it's a horrible painting and not
something for his room. They argue. Finally, Laura gives in and David
happily runs up to his room with the painting. Laura tells Vicky,
"I'm very upset about that painting." Vicky replies, "I don't know
why I brought it here. It's almost as if I were compelled to..."
Laura asks, "I want you to do me a favor. When the opportunity
presents itself, I want you to take it away from David!"
Vicky goes upstairs and tries to convince David not to hang the
painting up in his room, saying it would upset Laura. David protests,
"But she said it was OK." Vicky explains, "She only said OK because
you wanted it, but she's really not happy about it." David, not
listening, hangs it up over his dresser anyway. He remarks, "It
almost looks like it belongs here..." Laura comes in. She tells
David, "I've given it a second thought and I've decided it's not a
good idea for you to hang this in your room" and starts to take the
painting off the wall, but David stops her, shouting, "Don't take
it! If you take it, I'll never speak to you again!" Laura replies,
"Very well, David. I guess you'll just have to learn for yourself..."
and leaves.
Sam comes back to the Evan's cottage from a walk. He excitedly
tells Maggie, "I've just got this great new idea for a seascape! I
saw a battered old hulk, half in and half out of the sea! I'm going
to get started right now!" Maggie protests, "Isn't it a little late
for that?" Sam replies, "No, I want to get just a few lines down
before I go to bed." Maggie tells him, "Goodnight, Pop" and goes to
bed. Sam goes to his easel and starts to make a preliminary sketch.
Suddenly, a look of horror crosses his face. He drops his brush.
The sketch he has made is not of an old hulk, but of a woman
surrounded by fire...
David is sleeping in bed. The painting of Laura suddenly starts
to glow. A ghostly head of Laura materializes from it. It starts to
get bigger and bigger and starts to float toward David. He wakes up,
sees it and screams, "STOP IT! NO! STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY!"
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July 7, 1995 - II
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Episode 143
Tape Date: January 4, 1967
Air Date: January 11, 1967 Wednesday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

David screams, "Aunt Elizabeth! Come here!" Elizabeth comes
running into the room. The head is no longer there. Elizabeth asks,
"What's wrong?" David tells her, "It's that painting!" Vicky comes
in and asks what happened. Elizabeth explains, "Something in that
painting scared him." David explains what happened. Elizabeth
remarks,"It must have been a dream." David insists, "No it wasn't.
I was wide awake when it happened", but Elizabeth concludes it
must have been a dream. Elizabeth asks where the painting came from.
Vicky replies, "Sam Evans" Elizabeth asks why he would paint something
like that. Vicky replies, "He says he doesn't know." Elizabeth tells
David she doesn't think he should have such a painting and starts to
take it, but Davdi refuses to let her, saying, "I have a feeling I
need it!"
Vicky and Elizbeth go down into the drawing room. Elizabeth tells
Vicky that she's worried about the effect the painting is having on
David and asks why she gave it to him. Vicky replies, "I don't know.
It was almost as if some impulse compelled me to." She asks, "By the
way, Miss Stoddard, I understand that David will be leaving with
Mrs. Collins soon. That means you'll no longer be in need of a
governess here..." Elizabeth replies, "He might not be leaving with
her. I agreed to let her take him under two conditions, that he
wanted to, and that she could show that it would be better for him.
I'm not so sure now. These dreams..."
In his room, David is staring at the portrait.
Sam is home alone, Maggie having gone to work. There's a knock at
the door. Sam opens it. Vicky tells him, "I've brought you a
visitor. David wanted to say thank you for the picture." David thanks
him and asks, "Why did you paint my mother standing in fire?" Sam
replies, "Never asks a painter why he painted something. We never
know." David asks, "But why did you paint my dream? It's exactly like
it. Even my mother's expression's like in the dream!" Sam asks, "Tell
me more about your dream." David tells him, "In my dream, my mother
is standing in the middle of a room, surrounded by fire, calling me.
The fires are everywhere, and they keep getting worse. Finally, the
fire and smoke get so bad I can't see her anymore and the dreams
end." Sam jokes, "David, I know how I painted your dream. We must
be on the same psychic wavelength. In fact, I know what you want
right now. Apple cider and cookies. You like apple cider and cookies,
don't you?" David replies that he does. Sam tells him there's some
in the kitchen and sends him in there. After David leaves the room,
Sam tells Vicky, "I didn't want to say this while the boy was here,
but his dream matches the visions I've been having EXACTLY!" He
tells her, "I painted another painting yesterday. Another horrible
painting. It was supposed to be a landscape, but didn't end up as
one." He shows it to her. It is of another woman standing in fire,
this one dressed in a toga like dress, wings sprouting from her back,
an unpainted spot in front of her. This time, it doesn't look like
Laura. Vicky asks, "Is this one going to end up looking like Laura
Collins too?" Sam replies, "The first one didn't start off as Laura
Collins. It just ended up that way..." Vicky points at the unpainted
spot and asks, "What's going to go here?" Sam replies, "I don't
know." Vicky remarks, "It looks like she's holding something. I
wonder what it is?" She tells Sam that she doesn't know why she
showed and gave the first one to David, that she feels as though
something compelled her to do it. Sam replies, "That's just the
feeling I've been having". He tells her he's determined to stop and
will destroy the painting.
After Vicky and David leave, Sam pours himself a drink. He then
looks at the painting on the easel and goes to it, as if compelled.
He picks up a brush and starts painting...
Vicky and David return to Collinwood. Elizabeth tells David, "Mrs.
Johnson has been looking all over for you! It's time for lunch!" She
sends David to the kitchen to eat lunch. Elizabeth asks Vicky, "Where
have you two been?" Vicky replies, "I took Davdi to see Sam Evans."
Elizabeth tells her, "I don't think that was such a good idea...",
but before she can finish, there's a knock at the front door.
Elizabeth answers. A man introduces himself as, "Lt. Dan Reilly.
State Police" and asks "Is there a Laura Collins staying here?"
Elizabeth replies, "Yes she is. What is this all about?" Reilly
replies, "I have a few questions to ask her. There was a fire at her
residence in Phoenix." Elizabeth replies, "Yes. I heard about it.
She's staying in the cottage. I'm her sister-in-law." Reilly
remarks, "Sister in law? Then perhaps you could help too. I have
some personal effects from Mrs. Collins' apartment. Maybe you could
identify them. They go into the drawing room. Reilly remarks,
"This'll only take a few minutes. There's not much that survived
the fire. Only a few pieces of jewelry." He empties them out of an
envelope onto the desk. Elizabeth starts to go through them. The
first four, she doesn't recognize, "No... No... No... No...", but
on the fifth one, she tells Reily, "Yes. This one I recognize. It's
a family heirloom. I'd recognize it anywhere. Roger gave it to Laura
on their wedding night." Vicky, recognizing something, asks, "Mrs.
Stoddard, could I have a look at that?" Elizabeth hands it to her.
Vicky looks at it for a second then says, "There must be two of
these. I saw Mrs. Collins wearing on just like it." Elizabeth
remarks, "That's impossible. There's only one of these in existence.
You must be mistaken." Vicky replies, "No, I remember it clearly. I
remember because Mrs. Collins and I talked about it. She said there
was a lock of David's hair in it." Elizbeth remarks, "Yes, that's
true. Laura clipped a lock of David's hair just after he was born
and put it in the locket. I remember." Reilly says, "Let's see if
there's a lock of hair in this one",and tries open the locket. At
first, he has trouble opening and remarks, "The fire fused the
catch pretty good." Finally, he manages to open it. Inside is a
lock of hair....
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July 10, 1995 - I
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Episode 144
Tape Date: January 5, 1967
Air Date: January 12, 1967 Thursday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

Inside the locket is a lock of hair and a picture of David
when he was much younger. Elizabeth tells Vicky that this is the
locket and that she must have been mistaken when she thought she saw
Laura wearing it. As Elizabeth and Reilly prepare to go to the
cottage, Vicky asks to go too, saying, "I want to see the look
on Mrs. Collins' face when she sees this locket!"
They go to the cottage. Lt. Reilly tells Laura, "I have a few
questions to ask you about the fire in Phoenix." He tells her there's
some jewellry that survived the fire which he'd like her to look at.
She looks at and identifies all the pieces and signs a statement to
that effect. Reilly asks, "Did anyone else have keys to your apart-
ment?" At first Laura says, "No,", but then thinks awhile and says,
"Oh yes, I had a cleaning woman. Her name was Margeret. I don't
know her last name. I let her go 2 months ago. She had a key. I
don't remember if she ever gave it back." Lt. Reilly asks Laura to
describe her. Laura tells him, "She was of medium height, blond hair,
slender, of Scandinavian background, I think." Lt. Reilly remarks,
"You mean pretty much like you." Laura answers, "Why yes, except
she was about 10 years older." Lt. Reilly asks for the housekeeper's
full name, but Laura replies, "I don't know it. I don't think I ever
did." Reilly, satisfied with this, leaves, and Elizabeth goes with
him, but Vicky stays, saying, "I want to talk to Mrs. Collins about
something."
Vicky asks Laura, "Weren't you wearing that locket like this one
the other day?" Laura denies that she was, saying, "How could I when
it was in Phoenix?" Vicky remarks, "But I'm sure you were wearing
it. I remember you telling me a lock of David's hair was inside."
Laura replies, "Yes, I do remember talking to you about that, but
I wasn't wearing the locket. Perhaps you remember the conversation
and imagined the locket." Vicky says, "Yes, that must be it" and
leaves, but she doesn't really look satisfied with the explanation.
Vicky, on her way back to Collinwood, runs into Lt. Reilly, who's
just leaving, outside the front doors of Collinwood. She asks him
about the body. He tells her it was burned beyond recognition. Vicky
asks him what he's going to do next. He tells her, "Try looking for
the cleaning woman. That's about all we can do."
Vicky goes inside and is surprised to find Frank Garner in
the drawing room with Elizabeth. Frank jokes to Vicky, "I brought
some advertising contracts for the cannery for Mrs. Stoddard to sign
- actually an excuse to see Miss Vicky Winters!" As Elizabeth signs
the contracts, Vicky and Frank talk. Vicky tells Frank, "Strange
things have been happening since Mrs. Collins came back." She tells
him about the locket and tells him, "I think Mrs. Collins lied to
me." Elizbeth gives the signed contracts to Frank and tells Vicky,
"Excuse me, but I couldn't help hearing what you were saying. You
must be mistaken about seeing her wear it. There's only one locket
like that and I'd recognize it anywere." She offers to prove this
to Vicky by showing her a photo album and showing her all the Collins
women wearing it down through the centuries, but Vicky declines,
admitting, "I must have been mistaken if you're so sure." Elizabeth
leaves to see David. Vicky tells Frank, "It's not just the locket.
Other strange things have been happening too." She tells him about
David's dreams, and about how she showed and gave him the painting,
having seemingly been compelled to do so. Frank invites her to have
dinner with him at 7:00, saying she needs to get out of the house.
She sees him to the door and he leaves. While they are out of the
room, the photo album mysteriously opens by itself.
Elizabeth comes back downstairs, having finished talking with
David. Vicky, on her way up, tells Elizabeth that she has a dinner
date with Frank, who's left. Vicky goes about three fourths of the
way up the stairs, then for some reason comes back down and walks
into the drawing room, joining Elizabeth in there. Elizabeth remarks,
"I thought you had gone up to your room." Vicky seems to snap out
of a trance and says, puzzled, "I don't know why I came back down
here. It's as if I were compelled to..." Elizabeth remarks, "Maybe
you had that locket on your mind. I see you did look at that book.
It's open to a picture of Josette Collins", gesturing at the open
album. Vicky swears, "But I didn't! No one touched that book! I can
swear that it was closed when Frank and I left this room! Josette
Collins?" Elizabeth replies, "Yes, Josette Collins what the first
to own that locket. It was given to her at her wedding." Vicky
wonders, "Could this be a sign from Josette Collins? When I was
being held prisoner at the old house, I felt she was looking over
me..." Befuddled, she tells Elizabeth, "I think I need to take a
walk and get some fresh air."
Vicky goes and takes a walk on the beach. Unknown to her, Laura
is spying on her from behing some trees...
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July 10, 1995 - II
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Episode 145
Tape Date: January 6, 1967
Air Date: January 13, 1967 Friday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: John Sedwick

Laura goes into David's room and finds him staring at the picture.
She tries to get him away from it by asking him if he'd like to join
her for lunch, but he refuses and continues to stare at the painting.
He tells her, "It's strange, but I think this picture is trying to
tell me something. Some kind of warning." Laura replies, "Nonsense.
It must be your imagination." David tells her about seeing the
ghostly head. Laura snaps, "Let's not talk about this anymore. Let's
go for a walk.", but David replies, "I don't feel like going for a
walk. I feel like being alone." Laura, in a disappointed voice,
replies, "Perhaps later", and leaves.
At the Evan's cottage, Maggie offers the newspaper to Sam, asking,
"Read the paper yet?" but Sam replies, "No. In fact, I haven't read
the paper for a week. I have other things on my mind." Maggie asks,
"What? Another painting?" Sam replies, "No. Every painting I've
tried to do lately turns out the same, no matter what I try to paint.
Imagine me putting on an exhibition of my work. Fifty paintings,
all of Laura Collins standing in fire. I think I'll go take a walk",
and leaves.
Maggie dresses for a date and prepares to leave. There's a knock
at the door. Maggie answers. It's Laura. She asks for Sam. Maggie
tells her, "He's not home and I don't know when he will be." Laura
looks around and remarks, "This place hasn't changed in 10 years."
Maggie laughs and tells her, "And it didn't change much in the 10
years before that. Pop believes in keeping furniture forever." Maggie
tells Laura, "You know, ever since you came back, strange things
have been happening." Laura replies, "I have no idea why." Sam
returns and is surprised to see Laura there. Maggie tells them she
has to get going and leaves. Laura asks Sam, "Why did you do that
atrocious portrait of me?" Sam replies, "I don't know. I'd like YOU
to tell ME why. What's going on?" He shows her the painting on the
easel, the one of the woman with wings. He tells her, "I seem to
have lost control. Every time I do a painting, it ends up YOU. I
thought maybe you would know what's compelling me to do this." Laura
replies, "I have no idea, but the fact remains that YOU are doing
these paintings. I want you to stop." Sam replies, "I can't.
Everytime I paint, it ends up YOU." Laura tells him, "Stop painting,
then." Sam tells her, "I can't" Laura tells him, "Then perhaps I'll
have to see to it aht you stop." Sam asks, "Is that some kind of
threat?", but Laura just replies, "You WILL stop!" and leaves.
Maggie and Joe return from a date. Maggie notices Sam isn't
home and moans, "He must be at the Blue Whale..." They go to get
him.
Maggie and Joe return with Sam. Joe says goodnight and leaves.
Sam is very, very drunk. He lights a cigarette. Maggie helps him
to take his coat off, as he is too drunk to do so himself. Sam
staggers to the sofa, grabs the newspapers lying about on it,
pushes them to the floor, then lies down. Maggie tells him, "I'll
go make some strong coffee" and goes into the kitchen.
At the Collinwood , Laura goes and sits in front of the
fireplace.
At the Evan's cottage, Sam is lying on the couch, smoking his
cigarette.
At the Collinwood , Laura stares strangely into the firs.
At the Evan's cottage, Sam falls asleep. The cigarette drops from
his fingers onto the newspaper lying on the floor. Smoke starts to
come up as they start to smoulder.
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June 11, 1995 - I
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Episode 146
Tape Date: January 9, 1967
Air Date: January 16, 1967 Monday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: Lela Swift

At the Evan's Cottage, the newspaper starts to burn.
At Collinwood, Elizabeth goes into the drawing room, sees Laura
sitting by the fire and calls, "Laura? Laura?", but Laura, who seems
to be in some sort of trance, doesn't respond.
At the Evan's Cottage, the newspaper catches and really starts to
burn.
At Collinwood, Elizabeth goes up to Laura and taps her on the
shoulder. Laura snaps out of it.
At the Evan's cottage Sam wakes up and screams, "FIRE! MAGGIE!
FIRE!" Not thinking clearly, he grabs at the fire with his hands,
perhaps trying to put it out, and burns himself. Maggie comes into
the room and smothers the fire with the blanket Sam was covered with.
Sam screams, "My hands! She burned my hands!"
At Collinwood, Elizabeth asks, "Laura, what is it?" Laura replies,
"Nothing, you just startled me, that's all." Elizabeth asks, "What
were you doing?" Laura replies, "Nothing. Just thinking, that's all.
My mind was a thousand miles away." Elizabeth remarks, "That
expression on your face..." Laura replies, "I hope it wasn't too
unflattering. As I said, I was thinking." Elizabeth tells her, "It
was more than unflattering. It was frightening."
Sam's hands are now wrapped in cloth. Maggie has called the doctor.
Sam tells her, "She said she'd get me. She kept her word!" Maggie
asks, "Who?" Sam replies, "Laura Collins. She kept her word. She
did this to me!" Maggie replies, "That's ridiculous. She had nothing
to do with it. It was your own fault. I told you to be careful with
that cigarette", but Sam continues to insist that Laura was
responsible. Maggie gets upset with Sam's unrational claim.
Elizabeth tells Laura, "I had something I wanted to talk to you
about. I'm not pleased with the way you're progressing with David.
He's been avoiding you. He seems apprehensive, afraid of you."
Laura replies, "That's just a phase", but Elizabeth continues, "He's
been having nightmares." Laura counters, "Those are just dreams",
but Elizabeth replies, "Recurring dreams are evidence of disturbance."
Laura blames it on the portrait and insists that it be removed. Roger
comes into the room and asks what they're talking about. Elizabeth
tells him. Roger remarks, "He's always had dreams. This isn't anything
new." Laura insists, "It's the painting." Elizabeth continues,
"David's relationship with Laura isn't progressing. I'm having second
thoughts about letting her have him." Laura again insists that it's
the painting that's affecting David. Roger tells her, "I'll take care
of it." Laura tells him, "Sam Evans has painted another one." Roger
tells her, "I'll go to him and make him stop." There's a knock at
the door. Roger answers. It's Maggie. She asks to speak to Laura.
Roger takes her into the drawing room. Roger remarks, "I was just
about to go to your house to speak to your father." Maggie tells him,
"That wouldn't be such a good idea right now." She tells them about
the accident and says, "That's what I came here to talk to Mrs.
Collins about." Roger asks, "Why?" Maggie explains, "My father is
convinced that Mrs. Collins is somehow responsible for the fire."
Laura exclaims, "That's absurd!" Maggie replies, "Yes it is, but I
didn't know who else to go to. He's obsessed with you for some
reason." Roger leaves, saying, "I'll talk to him." Maggie tells
Laura, "My father claims you threatened him, he claims that you told
him you'd make him stop painting those paintings of you." Laura
replies, "Yes I did." Elizabeth asks, "And did you do anything to
make him stop?" Laura replies, "Yes. I told Roger about it."
Roger goes to the Evan's cottage and confronts Sam. He asks,
"Now what's all this nonsense you're saying about my wife?" Sam
replies, "She's somehow responsible for this fire. I know it."
Roger asks, "What do you mean? Are you saying she snuck in here and
lit that newspaper on fire?" Sam replies, "No, but I think she did
it. I don't know how, but she did it." Roger dismisses his claims,
calling them, "The ravings of an alcohol filled mind of a fool."
He asks, "I understand you've made another painting of my wife.
Where is it?" Sam points at the covered painting on the easel and
replies, "There." Roger remarks, "Good. I'll destroy it." He goes
to it, uncovers it and says, "Oh, I see that won't be necessary.
It's already been destroyed." Sam, surprised, says, "What?" and goes
and looks at the painting and sees that the middle of the picture
has been burned. He gasps, "How can that be? Roger, the fire! It
wasn't anywhere near the painting!"
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July 11, 1995 - II
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Episode 147
Tape Date: January 10, 1967
Air Date: January 17, 1967 Tuesday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: Lela Swift

Roger goes to David's room and finds that David isn't there. He
goes and starts to take the painting off the wall. David comes in
and asks, "What are you doing?" Roger replies, "Taking this down and
putting it in the rubbish where it belongs." David shouts, "NO!
IT'S MINE" and refuses to let him take it down. He tells him,
"I have the feeling that I'm supposed to have it, that it's somehow
important, that it means something!" Roger asks what he means but
David can't give a coherent explanation of what he means. Roger
tells him, "This is grotesque. I don't wan't you thinking of your
mother this way, I wan't you to think of her as the kind, loving woman
she is." David shouts, "You want her to take me away, don't you? You
just want to get rid of me!" and plops down in bed, crying. Roger
tries to convince him that this isn't true, that he just wants what's
best for him. David tells him, "I don't want to go with her.
Something about her scares me!" Roger replies, "It's just the picture
frightening you. I'll get rid of it." David shouts, "No! If you do,
I'll never speak to my mother again!" Vicky comes in and asks,
"What's going on?" David shouts, "He wants to take my picture away,
and if he does, I'll never speak to my mother again!" Roger gives up
and tells him, "All right. I'll let you keep it." Vicky tells David,
"Your lunch is ready. Go and eat." David leaves. Roger asks Vicky,
"What do you make of all this?" Vicky replies, "I think David is a
very disturbed boy." She tells him she thinks the painting is having
a bad effect on him and asks, "What could have made Sam Evans paint
such a thing?" Roger remarks, "Sam Evans won't be painting anything
for awhile" and tells her about the fire at the Evan's cottage.
Vicky remarks, "What is it about fire? Something strange is going
on. Everything seems to be happening with fire lately. The fire in
Phoenix. David's dreams. Sam's paintings. And now this. And it all
started when Mrs. Collins returned." Roger dismisses it as coincidence.
Laura comes in and asks, "Where's David?" Roger tells Vicky to take
Laura down to David. After they leave, Roger reaches up to take down
the picture but suddenly stops, a strange expression crossing his
face. He leaves without taking the picture.
Vicky and Laura walk down into the foyer. David, having finished
lunch, comes out of the door under the stairs. Laura asks, "Would
you like to come and spend the day with me ?" David replies, "No,
I have a lot of schoolwork to do." Laura tells him, "I'm sure Miss
Winters will give you a day off." Vicky replies, "Sure", but David
shouts, "I can't!" and runs upstairs to his room.
In his room at the Collinsport Inn, Burke Devlin is looking at
a photograph of Laura. There's a knock at the door. It's Vicky.
Burke lets her in and asks what she wants. Vicky replies, "I need
to talk to you." Sitting down on the couch, she sees the photo Burke
was looking at on the coffee table. She looks at it and asks "Isn't
that Mrs. Collins?" Burke replies, "Yes. It was taken a long time
ago." Vicky asks, "You knew her very well, didn't you?" Burke replies,
"I was in love with her." Vicky asks, "What happened?" Burke replies,
"She married Roger." Vicky tells Burke, "I don't trust Mrs. Collins.
She lied to me." She tells him about the locket. Burke, who's
interested in something other than the locket, asks, "How's Roger
been getting along with her? Has he been acting nervous?" Vicky
replies, "No, not at all. They've been getting along very well, in
fact." Burke remarks, "Now, THAT'S interesting." The phone rings.
Burke answers. It's Laura. She tells him, "I want to talk to you. Are
you alone?" Burke replies that he isn't. Laura asks, "Let's meet
somewhere else, then. Remember where we used to meet at the pier?
Yes? See you there in an hour." After Burke hangs up, Vicky continues,
"I don't know why I have these doubts about Mrs. Collins." Burke
replies, "I have some doubts about her myself - ones I intend
to clear up. Soon."
Burke is waiting at the pier. Laura finally shows up. Burke asks,
"What do you want?" She tells him, "I need your help with David."
He asks, "How could I help you with David?" She tells him, "For some
reason, he seems frightened of me. Now, he admires you a lot. He
talks about you constantly." Burke remarks, "Yes, he does get along
well with me. Better than with his own father." Laura replies, "There
might be a reason for that." Burke asks, "What do you mean by that?",
but Laura refuses to elaborate. She continues, "You have a lot of
influence on him. I want you to talk to him." Burke asks, "And what
will I get in return? Would you testify at a re-trial?" Laura replies
that she would. Laura starts reminiscing about the old times when
they used to meet at the pier. Burke remarks, "I should hate you,
but I don't. Everytime we meet, something happens to me." He kisses
her.
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July 12, 1995 - I
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Episode 148
Tape Date: January 11, 1967
Air Date: January 18, 1967 Wednesday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: Lela Swift

In Frank Garners' office, Lt. Reilly is talking with Frank Garner.
He tells him, "It's an outside possibility, but the Arizona Police
think that it's possible the woman found in Laura Collin's room was
murdered. They think she might have been incompacitated BEFORE the
fire." Frank protests that it seems far-fetched, but Reilly replies,
"No, not really. We have several facts. First, Mrs. Collins has a
history of mental illness and is capable of violence. Second, they've
found that the fire started in Mrs. Collins' apartment. Third, no one
saw Mrs. Collins leave when she said she did." Frank protests,
"Thousands of people travel every day. Just because no one rememberes
seeing her at the train station doesn't mean she wasn't there." Lt.
Reilly replies, "Yes, but there was a witness who saw her in the
apartment building on the day of the fire."
Vicky goes to Burke's room, having received a call from him.
Burke tells her, "I was worried about your doubts about Mrs. Collins.
I was wrong about her. She's a wonderful woman. I think the best
thing for David would be to go with her. I want you to help bring
them together." Vicky is shocked at Burke's sudden change in
attidude.
Frank Garner and Lt. Reilly continue to discuss Phoenix. Frank is
still doubtful about what Reilly is saying. The phone rings. Frank
answers and tells his secretary, "Tell her to wait a minute." Lt.
Reilly finishes talking to Frank and leaves. Vicky is sent in. She
tells Frank, "I came her to ask your advice about something."
She remarks, "Was that Lt. Reilly I just saw leaving?" Frank replies,
"Yes. As the Collins family lawyer, I feel it's my responsibility
to keep abreast of the investigation in Phoenix. I've learned a few
new facts, and I don't like them."
In his hotel room, Burke is talking to someone on the phone,
probably Blair, telling him, "No, I won't be in Logansport tomorrow,
or the next day, and probably not the day after that either. YOU take
care of it. That's what you're paid for!" Carolyn comes in. Burke
finishes his phone call and hangs up. Carolyn complains to him about
how he hasn't seen her for awhile.
Frank tells Vicky, "They think it might have been murder. They
even have a suspect. However, the witness, a Mrs. Hensworthy, is
elderly and her eyesight isn't very good." Vicky asks, "Is it someone
Mrs. Collins knows?" Frank replies, "Yes. It's Mrs. Collins." Vicky
exclaims, "That's impossible! She said she left Phoenix five days
before the fire!" Frank replies, "That's what she says, but is she
telling the truth?"
Burke tells Carolyn, "I think it would be best if we didn't see
each other anymore." Carolyn asks, "Best for who? Laura Collins?
Maybe my mother and Uncle Roger were right. Maybe you WERE just
using me and now you've just found someone else!" They get into an
argument. Burke tells Carolyn, "Sorry. I don't anything more to say
to you. Just goodbye..."
Frank asks Vicky, "Oh yes, you said you wanted my advice on
something. What was it?" Vicky tells her about what Burke Devlin
asked her to do. She tells him, "But I've made my decision now that
I've heard what you have to tell me. I may be wrong, but I'm going to
de everything I can to keep her AWAY from David!"
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July 12, 1995 - II
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Episode 149
Tape Date: January 12, 1967
Air Date: January 19, 1967 Thursday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: Lela Swift

It is now night. At the Evan's cottage, Sam Evans is pacing
around nervously.
Carolyn returns to Collinwood, slamming the front doors in anger
as she comes in. Vicky, who's in the foyer, asks, "What's the matter?"
Carolyn tells her about her breakup with Burke.
Sam is still pacing around nervously. Maggie comes home from work.
She tells him, "Had to work late. We had a late rush. Three people!"
She asks him if he wants something to eat. He declines, saying, "I'm
not hungry." in a very depressed tone of voice. Maggie tries to cheer
him up by telling him, "Cheer up. You'll be painting again soon", but
Sam sarcasatically replies, "Painting what? Seascapes? Landscapes?
Or a thousand more interpretations of Laura Collins standing in
fire?" He tells her that strange things are still happening. He
show her the burned painting and asks, "How could this have happened?
The fire was all the way across the room and nowhere near the
painting!" Maggie suggests, "Well, a spark could have floated across
the room", but Sam asks, "Yeah? Then why wasn't the cover burned? The
painting was covered by this cloth, but the cloth wasn't burned, only
the painting under it." He tells her, "I've been getting a strange
feeling. I have a feeling the other painting is going to be destroyed
by fire soon too. I feel the urge to go up to Collinwood to see it.
I get this strange feeling that it's going to be finished soon, that
that blank spot on it won't be blank much longer."
Vicky and Carolyn are still in the drawing room talking. Roger
comes in. Vicky excuses herself, saying she has to go see what David
is doing. Carolyn tells Roger about her breakup with Burke. She
tells him, "I lost the Burke Devlin derby, and you won't guess who
I lost it to." Roger replies, "Laura" right away. Carolyn asks him
how he knew. Roger replies, "Laura's up to her old predictable self."
In David's room, the ghost of Josette Collins appear. She goes up
to the picture of Laura and lifts her right arm up, as if to touch
it.
Vicky returns to the drawing room and tells Roger that she's
managed to convince David to go shopping with Mrs. Johnson. Roger
asks, "How did you manage that?" Vicky replies, "It's going to cost
you a set of toy soldiers." Roger tells her he's glad she's managed
to get David away from that "horrible painting." There's a knock
at the front door. Vicky answers. She's surprised to see it's Sam
Evans. Sam comes in and asks to speak to Roger. Vicky takes him into
the drawing room. Sam tells Roger, "I'd like to see that painting."
Roger asks, "What for?" Sam replies, "I don't know. I just get this
strange feeling that I have to see it. Can I?" Roger replies, "I
suppose so. David's not home so I supposed we could borrow it.
Vicky, could you go and bring it down please?" Vicky goes up to
David's room. There, she seems to smell something strange and sniffs
the air. She then looks at the picture and is shocked to see that
the blank space has been filled in - with David's image. She screams.
Downstairs, everyone hears Vicky scream. Carolyn asks, "Wasn't
that Vicky?" They start out of the drawing room to go upstairs to
see what's wrong, but see Vicky running down the stairs with the
picture. She shows it to them. Sam exclaims, "I knew it!" Roger
asks, "What does this mean, Evans?" Sam replies, "I don't know."
Roger remarks, "But this space was blank just this morning." Sam
touches David's picture and remarks, "Dry. It couldn't have been
blank this morning. Oil paint takes days to dry." Vicky tells him,
"I saw it too this morning. It WAS blank." Roger asks, "Who could've
done this?" Sam replies, "The same power that forced me to paint it
in the first place..." Vicky tells them, "I think I know who did it.
Up in David's room, I smelled something. Jasmine perfume. No one in
this house wears jasmine perfume, but I've smelled it once before.
When I saw Josette Collins at the old house." Roger dismisses this as
her imagination. Vicky asks, "I wonder what David's reaction will
be when he sees what's happened to the portrait." Roger replies,
"I don't intend for him to ever see it." Sam asks, "What are you
going to do?" Roger replies, "This!" and throws it into the fireplace.
As the painting burns, the room suddenly fills with the bloodcurdling
sound of a woman screaming.
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July 13, 1995 - I
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Episode 150
Tape Date: January 13, 1967
Air Date: January 20, 1967 Friday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: Lela Swift

Sam has left and Carolyn has gone upstairs. Vicky asks, "Where
could that scream have come from? It sounded like it was coming
from the fireplace!" Roger replies, "Oh, it was probably just the
wind in the chimney. There's got to be a logical reason, Vicky!"
Vicky asks, "Then what logical answer is there for David's face
being painted in the picture?" Roger replies, "I'm sick of hearing
about that painting! Let's just forget it!" Vicky replies, "It won't
be that easy to just forget about it. What's David's reaction going
to be when he finds out you've destroyed it? How are you going to
tell him?" Elizabeth, who's just come into the room, asks, "Tell
David what?" Roger tells her he's destroyed the painting. Vicky
suggests, "Maybe you should tell her the whole story", excuses
herself and leaves. Elizabeth asks, "Whole story?" Roger tells her
about David's face being in the picture. Elizabeth asks, "How did
that happen?" Roger replies, "I don't know."
David returns from shopping and goes to his room carrying a large
gift-wrapped box. He notices that the painting is missing and shouts,
"My painting! My painting!"
David runs down into the drawing room and asks Roger, "Where's my
painting? You took it, didn't you?" He demands, "It's mine! Give it
back to me!" Roger refuses, saying, "That picture is bad for you.
Look at the nightmares it's been giving you." David insists, saying,
"It's important! It's trying to say something to me! I know it!
Give it back to me!" Roger tells him, "I can't. I destroyed it."
David moans, "No... No... You burned it, didn't you?" Roger asks,
"How did you know that?" David runs to the fire and moans, "You
burned my painting! I'll never see it again." He shouts, "You hate
me! You all hate me!" and runs off. Vicky, who's just walked into
the foyer from the door under the stairs, asks, "What happened?"
Elizabeth tells her.
Elizabeth tells Roger, "I don't like the effect Laura is having
on David. I think I'm going to tell her she can't see David anymore."
Vicky goes up to David's room and tries to calm David down.
Elizabeth goes to the cottage and tells Laura she doesn't think
she should see David anymore because of the effect she's having on
him. They get into an argument. Laura insists that David's behavior
is just a phase and asks to talk to him. Elizabeth tells her, "That
wouldn't be a good idea right now. Roger's just destroyed his
painting and David is quite distraught."
David asks Vicky to tell him the story of the phoenix his mother
had told him. She tells it. David starts to fall asleep.
Elizabeth returns to Collinwood and tells Roger what happened at
the cottage. Vicky comes down and tells them she's managed to put
David to sleep.
David is sleeping. Suddenly, Laura appears in the room and says,
"David! I'm here, David! I've come to you!" David awakens and is
surprised to see her there. She asks, "Why are you crying?" He
tells her it's because his painting has been destroyed. She gives
him her handkerchief to wipe his tears. She tells him, "We're going
to spend more time together! I'm never going to leave you. I'm
going to take you with me!" David asks, "Are you leaving?" Laura
replies, "I might have to, but don't worry. I'll never leave without
you!" David turns to get the handkerchief, which he's put on the
pillow, and wipes his nose. When he turns back, Laura is gone...
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July 13, 1995 - II
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Episode 151
Tape Date: January 16, 1967
Air Date: January 23, 1967 Monday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: John Sedwick

It is the next morning. Elizabeth goes to David's room and
tells him, "Time to wake up!" David wakes up and explains why
he's slept so late, "I didn't get to sleep for a long time last
night. I was pretty upset until my mother came and visited me."
Elizabeth tells him, "She couldn't have. It must've been a dream."
David insists it wasn't and tells her, "I'll prove it!" He hands
Elizabeth Laura's handkerchief and tells her, "This is her
handkerchief." Elizabeth looks at it and remarks, "Yes it is."
Elizabeth and Roger are having breakfast in the kitchen.
Elizabeth exclaims, "I won't have it! I won't have her seeing
David!" Roger replies, "It's not your decision. David is my son and
hers. And I think it would be good for David to go with his mother."
Elizabeth angrily warns him, "While your living here, you're going to
abide by my wishes. Don't force me to make you leave." They get into
an argument. Carolyn comes in for breakfast. Roger leaves. Carolyn
asks Elizabeth, "How's David?" Elizabeth replies, "Fine. He's in
an excellent mood." Carolyn is surprised and says, "I thought he'd
be quite distraught because of the painting. He had a strange
attachment to that painting." Elizabeth replies, "I don't think it
was so strange. It WAS a painting of his mother." Carolyn remarks,
"She's not much of a mother." Elizabeth tells her, "Don't talk
that way about your elders!" Carolyn replies, "She's not that much
older than me. We enjoy the same playmates." Elizabeth asks her what
she means. Carolyn tells her about Burke and Laura. She remarks,
"They both have grievances against this family. Now what do you think
would be the best way for them to get at us?" Elizabeth exclaims,
"David! The last of the Collinses. Laura must leave! She must go
immediately!"
Roger goes to David's room and talks to him about things "only
a mother can give him." He is clearly preparing him for the idea
of his leaving with Laura.
Roger is in the drawing room doing a crossword puzzle. Carolyn
comes in. She asks, "What are you going to do about Burke and Laura?
It's clear they're plotting against us." Roger replies, "I'll put
a stop to that. You just watch!"
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July 14, 1995 - I (Overslept, missed about 5-10 minutes)
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Episode 152
Tape Date: January 17, 1967
Air Date: January 24, 1967 Tuesday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: John Sedwick

Frank Garner goes to the cottage to talk to Laura about the
divorce.
After Frank leaves, Vicky shows up at the cottage. She tells
Laura that Elizabeth is very angry that she visited David after
she told her not to see him. She tells her, "Mrs. Stoddard has
told me to keep David away from you." Laura remarks, "Vicky, I
know you don't like me..." Vicky interrupts, "That's not true.
It's just that ever since you came back, so many strange things
have happened." She enumerates them. Laura protests, "But I have
nothing to do with them!" She reaches out to tend the fire. With
her bare hands. Vicky screams, "Watch out! You'll burn yourself!"
Laura pulls her hand back and replies, "Yes. I'll have to be more
careful. I wasn't thinking." She tells Vicky, "I thought you of
all people would realize how important it is for David to see his
mother, what with you coming from a foundling home. Maybe you could
arrange some more 'accidental' meetings. Mrs. Stoddard would never
have to know." Vicky replies, "I'll have to think about it!" and
leaves. She seems somewhat distraught. Laura's words have hit home.
Vicky returns to Collinwood and tells Elizabeth, "Mrs. Stoddard,
I can't do what you told me to do. I just can't keep David from his
mother. It's wrong." Elizabeth tells Vicky she thinks she (Vicky)
is wrong and sternly tells her to do as told. Vicky nods. Roger
comes into the room and asks, "Well, what's going on here?" Elizabeth
replies, "Nothing. Just clearing the air." Vicky leaves. There's a
knock at the door. Roger answers. It's Frank Garner. Frank tells them
that he's talked to Laura about the divorce. He tells them that Laura
doesn't want any financial settlement, that all she wants is David.
He tells them that Laura wants it done right away because she fears
there might be an investigation in Phoenix and she might have to
leave and she wants to have it done before that. Roger tells him
to do so and get the papers drawn up, but Elizabeth tells Frank,
"No. Wait. I don't want to give David to her until we find out
the truth about what happened in Phoenix." Roger protests, "But
this is MY divorce". But Elizabeth is insistent that nothing be
done until the matter in Phoenix is cleared up. They argue. Roger
appears to give up and says, "Very well. Come on, Frank. I'll show
you to the door." At the door, Roger whispers to Frank, "Frank, you
just draw up those papers." Frank protests, "But Mrs. Stoddard..."
Roger tells him, "I'll take care of her. You just draw up those
papers." Frank leaves. As Roger is walking back to the drawing
room, the phone rings. He answers. He exclaims, "That's impossible!
I don't believe it! OK, we'll be waiting for you." After he hangs
up, Elizabeth asks, "What was that?" Roger tells her, "The Phoenix
police have positively identified that woman who died in the fire.
They say it's Laura Collins." Elizabeth gasps, "Then who's that
woman staying in the cottage?!"
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July 14, 1995 - II
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Episode 153
Tape Date: January 18, 1967
Air Date: January 25, 1967 Wednesday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

Roger tells Elizabeth, "That IS Laura staying at the cottage.
It's obvious that the Phoenix police have made a mistake."
There's a knock at the door. Roger remarks, "That must be Reilly
right now. Let's get this all sorted out." He lets Reilly in. Reilly
shows them a report from the Phoenix police department showing that
the woman's blood type and, more importantly, dental charts match
those of Laura Murdoch Collins. Roger remarks, "That's absurd!"
Reilly tells them, "I'm going to have to ask Mrs. Collins a few
questions."
Vicky and Frank Garner are having dinner at the Blue Whale. Frank
sips at his glass of wine and remarks, "I developed quite a taste for
this stuff when I was in Paris." Vicky asks, "You've been to Paris?"
Frank replies, "Yes. I went to school there." Vicky remarks, "When I
was little, I used to dream about going to far away places like
Paris." Frank tells Vicky he has a lot of reservations about Laura.
Roger, Elizabeth and Reilly go to the cottage to talk to Laura.
Roger sarcastically tells her, "Laura, how does it feel to be a
dead woman?" Laura asks, "What?" Roger explains, "According to the
Phoenix police department, you died in that fire in Phoenix a couple
of weeks ago." Reilly tells her about the physical evidence. Roger
tells Reilly, "This is all nonsense and I'll prove it. " He asks
Laura, "Laura, before David was born, what were we planning to
name him?" Laura replies, "Charles Andrew." Roger turns to Elizabeth
and asks, "That's right. Remember, Liz?" Elizabeth replies, "Yes."
He then asks Laura, "What was our address when we lived in Augusta?
Laura replies, "427 Hilldale Ave." Roger says, "Right" and asks,
"We used to have a dog. A cocker spaniel. What was its name?"
Laura replies, "We just called it 'dog' because that's what David
called it." Roger turns to Reilly and tells him, "This proves that
this is Laura. An imposter couldn't possibly have known the answers
to these questions. The Phoenix police must be mistaken." Reilly
replies, "Yes, they probably are, but I'll still have to asks Mrs.
Collins to submit to a physical examination." Laura replies, "Yes,
of course." Reilly tells her, "All right. I'll pick you up tomorrow
at your convenience. I'll call you first to arrange a time." Roger
tells Elizabeth to take Lt. Reilly back to the house, saying he'd
like to talk to Laura in private. After Elizabeth and Reilly leave,
Roger tells Laura, "I have the feeling you know something you're
not telling." Laura denies this.
Frank is driving Vicky back to Collinwood. Vicky asks, "Tell me
more about Paris." Frank starts to tell her about his student days,
"Well, first of all, I lived on the right bank, not the left, where
students are traditionally supposed to live..." He notices she
doesn't seem to be listening, stops and asks, "Vicky. You're not
listening. What's the matter?" Vicky replies, "Jasmine! The smell
of jasmine! It's all over!" Frank sniffs and remarks, "I don't smell
anything." Vicky suddenly tells him, "Take a right at the next
road." Frank, puzzled, asks, "But why? That's not the way back to
Collinwood." Vicky replies, "That's where we're supposed to go."
Frank takes the right. Vicky tells him, "All right. Stay on this
road and take a left when I tell you." Frank asks, "Where are we
going?" Vicky replies, "I don't know. I just know this is where
supposed to be on this road. We're going where we're supposed to
go."
Vicky tells Frank, "Stop! Right here. This is where we're
supposed to go!" She points to a small building in the distance
and says, "There. That house." Frank looks and says, "Vicky. I don't
think that's a house. Look at those things behind it. Those are
gravestones. We're at the edge of a graveyard.
At Collinwood, Elizabeth and Roger argue about Laura, Elizabeth
wanting to evict her immediately.
Vicky runs up to the door of the building and starts to bang on
the door. Frank comes running up behind her. He asks, "Vicky! What's
the matter? Why did you burst out of the car like that?" Vicky
replies, "I don't know. I just know I have to be here." She continues
to knock on the door. Frank tells her, "Come on, Vicky. Let's go.
This isn't a house. It's a chapel or something. There's not going
to be anyone here at this time of night." Vicky replies, "No. Wait.
I hear footsteps." The door opens...
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July 17, 1995 - I
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Episode 154
Tape Date: January 19, 1967
Air Date: January 26, 1967 Thursday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

A very old man opens the door and invites them in. Frank asks,
"Where are we?" The old man asks, "Didn't you see all the names?"
Frank asks, "Names?" The old man replies, "Yes. On the headstones.
The name 'Stockbridge' is on almost all of them. This is the
Stockbridge family graveyard." They go in and look around. It is
dark and dusty inside. Vicky sees a book lying on a table and asks,
"Is that a record of everyone buried here?" The old man replies,
"Yes. Date of birth, date of death and where they're buried. But
that's not all. The rest is up here.", pointing to his head.
He opens a page at random and reads, "P. Agthorn Stockbridge,
Born 1713, died 1731." He adds, "Trampled by a horse." Frank remarks
to Vicky, "It's musty in here", but is surprised when Vicky replies,
"No it isn't. It smells like jasmine." Vicky points to a door
and asks, "What's in there?" The old man replies, "Oh, no. You
mustn't go in there. I've never let anyone in there." He explains
that it is a special tomb for those who have died a violent death,
like the young man he referred to earlier. Vicky begs to be let in
there. Finally, the old man relents and takes them in there. Frank
coughs and tells Vicky, "It's so musty in here I can hardly breath!"
But once again Vicky tells him it smells like jasmine to her. The
old man points out the grave of P. Agthorn Stockbridge on a wall.
Frank asks, "What did the P. stand for?" The old man replies, "I
don't know. The Stockbridges were never very interested in first
names, just their own family name and the names of the families
that married into them." The old man reads out a few other graves
to them. "V. Spencer Stockbridge. 1687-1780. Died by murder....
L. Murdoch Stockbridge. 1735-1767." Frank interrupts and asks, "Who
was he?" The old man corrects him, "Not he. She. L. Murdoch
Stockbridge. Died by fire." Suddenly, Vicky starts to cough and
complains, "The air! It's so musty! But how can that be? Just a
moment ago, it smelled like jasmine!" But Frank is not listening.
He exclaims, "The name! I knew there was something familiar about
it! I've seen it hundreds of times! Laura Murdoch! Laura Murdoch
Collins!"
In the drawing room at Collinwood, Mrs. Johnson is asking Roger if
he'd like a cup of coffee. Roger tells her he doesn't. Laura comes
into the room. Roger, obviously to get Mrs. Johnson out of the room,
tells Mrs. Johnson that he's changed his mind and would like some
coffee for his brandy. Mrs. Johnson leaves. Roger asks Laura, "Have
you decided to give ma a full explanation?" Laura insists, "I have
nothing to tell you. I don't know anything about what happened in
Phoenix." Roger tells her, "You can lie to the police, Laura, but
don't lie to me. I'm waiting Laura, and I'm waiting for the truth!"
Laura continues to insist she knows nothing. Roger tells Laura that
Elizabeth is having second thoughts about letting her have David
because of what happened in Phoenix and tells her she'd better start
explaining. Roger adds, "And that's not all. There's another thing.
You and Burke Devlin." Outside, Mrs. Johnson, returning with a tray
of coffee, pauses in the foyer and eavesdrops. Roger asks Laura,
"What are you two plotting?" Laura replies, "Nothing. I'm not
planning to help him in the least. I'm just pretending to go along
with him to keep him pacified. Don't worry about Burke. I can handle
him." Mrs. Johnson accidently makes a noise with the coffee tray.
Roger and Laura hear. Mrs. Johnson quickly comes into the drawing
room, announces, "Coffee's ready", puts down the coffee, excuses
herself and leaves. Laura asks Roger, "How much do you think she
heard?" Roger replies, "I don't know." Laura remarks, "Maybe
nothing." Roger replies, "Maybe everything."
Frank and Vicky return to Collinwood. Outside the doors, Vicky
asks Frank, "Are you sure you didn't smell jasmine at all while we
were there?" Frank replies that he didn't. Vicky tell him, "I know
what it was. I'm sure Josette Collins was trying to tells us about
Laura Murdoch Collins" Frank asks, "Now why would Josette Collins
want us to know that Laura Collins was the descendant of a Laura
Murdoch Stockbridge?" Vicky replies, "I don't know." She invites
him in for a drink. He accepts, saying, "As long as it's a stiff
one. I need one after all this!" They go in.
Roger, seeing Frank, jokes, "Ah, our legal light." As Frank pours
himself a drink, Vicky goes and sits beside Laura on the couch and
asks her about her family. Laura asks why she is asking. Vicky lies,
"David often asks me about his ancestors. I can tell him all about
his father's side, but nothing to tell him about his mother's
family." Laura tells her, "I come from one of the oldest and finest
families in town..." Across the room, Roger tells Frank, "Oh, Frank.
Reilly was here earlier. Let me tell you what he told me." Laura
hears this and tells Roger, "Oh, let's not talk about that now", but
Roger insists on telling Frank about it. Roger announces, in a very
sarcastic voice, "The Phoenix Police Department have positively,
conclusively identified the woman who burned to death in that fire
in Phoenix." Vicky asks, "They have?" Roger replies, "Yes. The
lady who was burned to death in that fire has been proven
conclusively to be Laura Murdoch Collilns." Vicky mutters, "Laura
Murdoch Collins. Died by fire..." Roger laughs and asks, "I think
that's absurd, don't you?"
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July 17, 1995 - II
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Episode 155
Tape Date: January 20, 1967
Air Date: January 27, 1967 Friday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

Mrs. Johnson goes to Burke's room at the Collinsport Inn and
asks Burke, "You think Mrs. Collins is going to help you bring
down the Collins Family, don't you?" Burke replies, "Yes." Mrs.
Johnson asks, "How?" Burke replies, "By testifying at a re-trial
that it was Roger at the wheel." Mrs. Johnson asks, "How can you
be so sure she'll do this?" Burke replies, "She told me she would."
Mrs. Johnson announces, "Mrs. Collins is a liar." Burke tells her,
"Those are strong words, Mrs. Johnson. You'd better have proof."
Mrs. Johnson replies, "I have evidence from her own lips."
She tells him about the conversation she overheard between Laura and
Roger. After hearing her account, Burke angrily shouts, "Pacify me?!
Handle me?!"
David is visiting Laura at the cottage. Laura tells David, "You'd
better be going back. It's almost dinner time. Now you're sure nobody
knows you came here?" David assures her that nobody does. Laura
tells him, "Good. Now you mustn't ever tells anyone about you visits
to me. Especially your Aunt Elizabeth." David remarks, "I don't
know why why Aunt Elizabeth doesn't want me to see you anymore."
Laura replies, "She just doen't understand how much we need each
other." David sees a box on a table and asks, "What's this?"
Laura explains, "A music box. Would you like to hear it play?"
She opens the top and the music box plays. She tells him, "Like it?
It's yours." She pauses, then adds, "But I think you'd better keep
it here." David begs her to let him bring it back to Collinwood,
promising, "I'll keep it hidden!" She finally gives in.
David returns to Collinwood and runs into Elizabeth in the foyer.
Elizabeth asks, "Where have you been?" David lies, "At the beach."
Elizabeth notices that he seems to be hiding something behind his
back and asks, "What do you have there?" David shows her. Elizabeth
asks, "Where did you get that?" David lies, "I found it on the
beach." Elizabeth tells him, "No, I've seen this before. I recognize
it. It belongs to your mother. I've seen it on a table at the
cottage. She gave it to you, didn't she?" David lamely replies, "No.
I found it on the beach. Maybe SHE lost it there!" Elizabeth tells
him, "You're lying David. Why?" David shouts, "BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T
UNDERSTAND!" Elizabeth takes him into the drawing room and explains
to him why she doesn't want him seeing his mother and explains she's
forbidding him from seeing his mother because she(Elizabeth) loves
him. David shouts, "Well, I don't love you! You're mean and I hate
you!" and runs off.
Burke goes to the cottage and confronts Laura. Laura starts to
cry. Burke is affected by this and calms down.
At Collinwood, Elizabeth puts on her coat and goes out the
front door.
Laura tells Burke that she lied to Roger, that she said what she
did to him so he would give her custody of David. Burke tells her
he believes her and kisses her. Suddenly, they hear a voice shout,
"LAURA!" They look and see that Elizabeth has come in. Burke says,
"Let me explain..", but Laura tells him to leave, saying she'll
talk to Elizabeth. Burke leaves. Laura starts to talk to Elizabeth
about Burke, but Elizabeth tells her, "It's not you and Burke I'm
interested in, it's you and David. I know all about your secret
meeting with him, about how you encouraged him to lie about it."
She orders her to leave Collinwood. Laura replies, "Tonight? I need
more time." Elizabeth tells her, "You have plenty of time. I want you
to leave by tomorrow at the latest! You're never going to get David!"
Laura retorts, "I'm going to get David and you're not going to be
able to stop me!" Elizabeth asks, "What do you mean?" Laura replies,
"You'll find out!" Elizabeth shouts, "Leave! Now! Do you hear me?"
Laura replies, "Yes. I hear you." Elizabeth replies, "Good!" and
leaves. Laura goes and sits down by the fire.
Elizabeth returns to Collinwood and looks for Roger.
At the cottage, Laura stares into the fire strangely.
Elizabeth, having not found Roger in the drawing room, goes into
the foyer. Suddenly, she starts to walk unsteadily, as if she were
dizzy. She starts up the stairs. She seems to get more unsteady with
each step. Halfway up, she stops, shouts, "Roger! Vicky! Somebody,
help me!" and falls all the way down the stairs.
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July 18, 1995 - I
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Episode 156
Tape Date: January 23, 1967
Air Date: January 30, 1967 Monday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: Lela Swift

Roger, hearing Elizabeth's screams, comes running out of the
bedroom hallway. He sees Elizabeth at the foot of the stairs and
runs down to her. He is soon joined by Vicky, who has also heard
Elizabeth's screams. Elizabeth regains conciousness. Roger tells
Vicky to get a doctor, but Elizabeth insists, "No, that won't be
necessary. I'm fine. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm expecting
a call from Metcalf and I've got to give Mrs. Johnson the menu for
tomorrow." Vicky and Roger are shocked. They tell her, "It's 10 at
night. You've already given Mrs. Johnson the menu for tomorrow, and
the call from Metcalf came at 3:30 in the afternoon." They find
that Elizabeth can't remember anything that happened after mid
morning.
Joe is at the Blue Whale. Carolyn walks in. She goes to the bar
and asks if Burke has been in and is told he hasn't. Joe goes up
to her and asks, "Aren't you even going to say hello?" Carolyn
replies, "I didn't think you wanted me to." They strike up a
conversation. Carolyn asks if they could remain friends. Joe
replies, "No. I think it would be better if we stayed away from
one another." The phone rings. The bartender answers. He tells
Carolyn it's for her and gives it to her. Over the phone, Roger
tells Carolyn that something's happened to Elizabeth. Carolyn asks,
"What?" Roger replies, "We don't know. The doctor is here with her
right now."
Carolyn rushes home. In the foyer, Roger tells her, "The doctor
left half an hour ago. He doesn't know what happened to her. All
he knows is that it wasn't a heart attack or stroke." Carolyn tells
him, "I've got to see her!"
Carolyn goes to see her mother. She finds her in a very confused
state. Elizabeth tells Carolyn that she isn't sick, that something's
happened to her. She begs, "Please help me! Why doesn't someone
help me?"
Carolyn goes downstairs and tells Vicky that Elizabeth keeps
saying that she thinks something's going to happen to her.
It is 2:00 at night. Elizabeth starts muttering, "The storm...
the cottage... I remember going out into the storm..." Suddenly,
she awakens and exclaims, "I remember! I remember what happened
now! I remember going to the cottage and telling Laura to leave.."
She shouts, "Roger! Vicky! Come quickly! I remember now!" She gets
out of bed, looking very excited, but suddenly stops when she sees
a figure standing in front of the window, silhouetted by the
lightning. Elizabeth demands, "Who is it?", but the figure doesn't
answer. Elizabeth screams. The figure disappears. Roger and Vicky
come running into the room and ask Elizabeth what's wrong. She
mumbles, "The bird. High up against the sky. The fire, the waves
against the rocks. The bird, the fire, the stones.... The bird, the
fire, the stones..." and collapses into unconciousness.
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July 18, 1995 - II
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Episode 157
Tape Date: January 24, 1967
Air Date: January 31, 1967 Tuesday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: Lela Swift

It is early the next morning. Vicky awakens in the drawing
room, apparently having fallen asleep in a chair there. She mutters
to herself, still half asleep, "The stones... The stones..." She
awakens fully and smells jasmine in the air. She exclaims, "Josette!
I know you're here! Please help me understand those words Mrs.
Stoddard said!... Yes! The stones, those are the headstones in the
graveyard, aren't they. No, Josette, don't leave now!!" But the
smell of jasmine disappears.
Vicky comes back down the stairs into the foyer and into the
drawing room. She is now dressed in a coat to go out. There's a
knock at the door. Vicky quickly goes and answers it. It's Frank
Garner. He asks, "Why did you call to come down here?" Vicky tells
him, "I'll tell you later." Frank protests, "When you called me at
5 in the morning, you'd told me you'd tell me when I got here..."
Roger comes down the stairs and asks, "What's going on down here?"
Vicky tells him, "I just called Frank to ask him to take me out for
a drive after all that's happened." Frank asks, "What's happened?"
Roger tells him about Elizabeth. Frank asks, "Is there anything I
can do?" Roger replies, "No, just take Vicky out for her drive. It'll
do her some good."
After leaving Roger, Frank asks Vicky, "Where are we going? And
don't tell me we're just going out for a drive." Vicky replies,
"We're going back to the cemetary. Back to the crypt!"
Frank and Vicky go back to the cemetary and knock at the door of
the crypt for a long time. There is no answer. Vicky keeps knocking
and shouts, "Do you hear me?" A voice from behing replies, "I hear
you." Frank and Vicky turn and see the old man coming up the walk.
He tells them, "The storm knocked over some of the gravestones and
I've got to check the records to see where they go." He opens the
door and lets them in. The old man mutters, "I've got to check my
records to see where the stones go." Vicky asks, "You must have
pretty complete records of this cemetary." The old man replies,
"Not just this one, but also the other one seven miles up the
road, the one they had to move when the town became too big for
both the living and the dead." Vicky asks if he has records of any
other Laura Murdoch's. The old man asks, "What's the surname? I
can't do anything for you without the last name." Vicky tells her
she doesn't know, just Laura Murdoch with any last name. The old
man recalls, "Yes, I do seem to remember another Laura Murdoch
something, but I can't remember the last name." Suddenly, Vicky
remarks that she smells jasmine in the room. No one else smells it.
A book mysteriously pulls out of a bookshelf and falls to the
ground. No one sees it doing so, but Vicky, Frank and the old man
quickly turn when they hear it hit the ground. Frank goes and picks
it up. He remarks, "Laura Murdoch Radcliffe." The old man exclaims,
"Yes! That's the one I was thinking of. Laura Murdoch Radcliffe!"
Vicky asks, "Frank, how did you know?" He shows her the book and
tells her, "Look at the page this book opened to." She looks at it
and reads, "Laura Murdoch Radcliffe." The old man leaves, saying,
"I think I have some more complete records of her." Vicky reads the
book and exclaims, "Frank! Look at the dates! Laura Murdoch Radcliffe,
1846-1867! Don't you see? Laura Murdoch Stockbridge died in 1767,
exactly 100 years before. And..." Frank finishes for her, "And it's
now 1967, exactly 100 years after." The old man returns with another
book, saying "Found her! Here she is!." He reads from it, "Laura
Murdoch Radcliffe, married Robert Radcliffe..." He pauses and
exclaims, "Now that's strange. It doesn't list who her parents
were. Now that's NEVER done!" Vicky asks, "Does it say anything
else about her?" The old man replies, "Just the way she died."
Frank asks, "How?" The old man hands the book to Frank. Frank reads,
"Laura Murdoch Radcliffe. 1840-1867 Died by fire..."
Lt. Reilly drops by Collinwood and tells Roger that the lab
reports have come back. Roger, who has other things on his mind, is
very irritated that Reilly is bothering him and is trying to get
rid of him. Reilly tells him that the woman in the cottage has been
positively identified as Laura Collins. Roger angrily tells him,
"Of course she is. I told you she was." Frank and Vicky return.
Roger sarcastically tells them, "Lt. Reilly has come here to tell
us something fantastic. Laura IS Laura!" and leaves. Reilly tells
Frank and Vicky about the reports. Frank asks, "And the body in
Phoenix?" Reilly replies, "Frankly, we're stumped on that. Both the
woman in the cottage AND the woman who died in the fire identify 100%
positive as Laura Collins. We're just going to close the case with
with woman in the fire as unidentified." He remarks, "If I
weren't a sane man, I'd think there were TWO Laura Collinses." and
leaves. Vicky remarks, "Or maybe four..."
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Episode 158
Tape Date: January 25, 1967
Air Date: February 1, 1967 Wednesday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: Lela Swift

The doctor is called again to examine Elizabeth. He is with Roger
in her room, examining her. He goes to Roger and tells him, "This
is the strangest case I've ever seen. Never seen anything like it."
Roger asks, "What is it?" The doctor replies, "Let's talk about it
outside." Roger and the doctor go downstairs. In the foyer, the
doctor tells Roger, "I can't find anything physically wrong with
her. Every test I've done comes out OK. But there are tests I can't
do here." He suggests that Elizabeth be taken to a hospital in Boston
for further tests and asks, "Do I have your permission to do this?."
Roger replies, "You have my permission, but that's not the problem.
The problem will be getting hers. It'll take a stick of dynamite
to get her out of this house." The doctor replies, "It'll have to
be done."
Carolyn and Vicky are inside the drawing room. Roger comes in and
tells them what the doctor said. Carolyn tells him, "It'll be hard
to convince her to leave the house." Roger replies, "We'll have to
try."
Roger goes upstairs and tells Elizabeth the doctor wants her to
go to a hospital in Boston. Elizabeth exclaims, "That's inpossible!
I won't leave this house. It's just fatigue, that's all, nothing
more. A few days rest and I'll be fine." Roger tries to convince her
she needs to go to Boston, but she refuses. She asks to speak to
Carolyn. Roger brings Carolyn, who's just outside, in. Elizabeth
tells Carolyn, "You're my daughter and they can't do anything to
me without your permission." She asks her to promise not to let them
take her to the hospital. Carolyn replies, "I can't do that, Mother."
Elizabeth asks to speak to her lawyer. Carolyn leaves.
Elizabeth asks to speak to Vicky. Roger gets Vicky. Elizabeth
tells him she'd like to speak to Vicky alone. Roger leaves. Elizabeth
tells Vicky, "Laura is going to try to take every advantage of my
absence to see David. Make sure she doesn't! You've got to keep
David away from his mother!" Vicky asks, "But what if his father
wants him to see her?" Elizabeth moans, "Nobody can help me..."
Vicky leaves. A few seconds later, Elizabeth turns and is surprised
to see Laura standing in her room. She asks, "What are you doing
here?" Laura replies, "I came to pay you a visit." Elizabeth asks,
"Why did they let you up here?" Laura replies, "They don't know I'm
up here." Elizabeth asks, "What do you want?" Laura answers, "Only
what's mine. My son." Elizabeth exclaims, "NO!". Laura calmly
replies, "You can't stop me. I told you, you can't stand in my way!"
She tells her, "Rest. You're going to have a nice long rest."
Elizabeth replies, "I won't! I won't let you have Davied! There's
something about you. But I can't quite remember what..." Laura
tells her, "And you won't. Your memories are disappearing into the
fog. Time is stopping for you, coming to a halt. No past, no future,
only the nothingness of limbo..."
Downstairs, Carolyn and Roger argue about sending Elizabeth to
the hospital. A voice asks, "What's all the excitement?" Roget turns
and is surprised to see Laura standing in the doorway. He remarks,
"Oh. I didn't hear you come in" and tells her about Elizabeth, how
she's sick and will have to go to a hospital in Boston. Laura
remarks, "How awful. I'm terribly sorry." Carolyn asks, in a very
sarcastic voice, "Are you really?" Laura replies, "Yes. Yes I am."
Carolyn tells her, "You probably think this is very convenient for
you. Well, it won't be so easy!" and leaves. Roger tells Laura,
"Elizabeth was really adamant about you not getting David." Laura
asks,"But how will she be able to stop me when she's in the
hospital?" Roger replies, "Don't underestimate her. As long as she
can talk, she can give orders to Carolyn or her lawyer to stop you."
Laura mutters, "That may not be a problem." Suddenly, Carolyn,
upstairs, screams. Roger and Vicky rush into Elizabeth's room.
Elizabeth is lying in bed, catatonic, unable to move or speak.
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Episode 159
Tape Date: January 27, 1967
Air Date: February 2, 1967 Thursday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: Lela Swift

Vicky is downstairs alone. There's a knock at the door. She
answers. It's Frank Garner. He asks, "What happened? You message
said it was urgent!" Vicky tells him about Elizabeth and says, "I
think Laura Collins had something to do with her illness!" Frank
asks, "How?" Vicky replies, "I don't know. It's just a strong
feeling I have." She explains, "Mrs. Stoddard wanted to see you,
but it's too late now." Vicky remarks on all the strange things
that have been happening. Frank replies, "Well, I can't help you
with that. I deal in facts, not the supernatural." He thinks for a
moment then says, "But I think I know someone who can. There's
a professor at Dartmouth who specializes in the study of the
supernatural. A Professor Guthrie. I think we should call him."
Laura is indeed taking advantage of Elizabeth's illness to see
David. After a day of fun, they race to the cottage. David wins.
Laura tells him, "We used to do that all the time when you were
little. Only, then, I used to let you win. Now you win all by
yourself." They sit down by the fire to warm themselves. David
asks, "Can I tend the fire?" Laura replies, "Sure." David takes
a poker and starts poking in the fire. Laura tells him, "You can
put another log on it if you want." David does. The fire burns
high. Laura tells him, "You can come here and take care of the
fire anytime you want. It's burning hight now, but it'll be almost
out tomorrow morning. Come here tomorrow morning, have breakfast
with me and put another log on the fire. It would be nice if you
could come over and spend the night sometime. No one will ever come
between us, David!" David asks, "Who would want to?" Laura replies,
"There was someone, but that won't happen now..."
The clock strikes 9:00 PM at Collinwood. Vicky is pacing around
nervously. David comes in through the front doors. Vicky asks,
"Where have you been?" David replies, "Out." Vicky asks, "Out
where?" David replies, "With my mother at the cottage. I'm going
to be spending a lot of time with my mother." Vicky tells him, "I
want to talk to you" and takes him into the drawing room. She tells
him, "You Aunt Elizabeth is in the hospital. She left me some orders.
She told me she's concerned about the amount of studying you've been
doing. You're going to have to spend more time at your lessons. We're
going to start right after breakfast tomorrow." David protests, "But
I'm going to have breakfast with my mother tomorrow! Then she's going
to let me tend the fire!" Vicky, shocked, gasps, "She lets you play
with the fire?!" She tells him, "Well, she can come over here and
have breakfast, but you're going to have stay here and start your
lessons right afterward." David shouts, "You're just trying to keep
me from my mother!" Laura, who's just come in, tells David, "David,
Miss Winters would never do that, I'm sure." David runs to her. Laura
tells him to apoligize to Vicky. David tells Laura, "She's just
trying to give me all this work to keep me away from you!" Laura
asks Vicky, "Are you?" Vicky lies, "No, of course not. He's just
behind in his studies, that's all." Laura remarks, "I had no idea
he was behind in his studies!" She tells David, "Maybe you should
stay in all day tomorrow and catch up with your lessons. Then we can
go out the next day." Vicky interrupts, "He's pretty far behind. I
don't think he'll be able to catch up in a day." Laura asks, "How
long, then?" Vicky replies "I'm not sure." Laura tells David to go
to bed so he can be up "bright and early" tomorrow morning to start
on his lessons. David leaves.
Laura tells Vicky, "You used to be so helpful to me, Vicky.
What's happened? Does Mrs. Stoddard have anything to do wit this?"
Vicky denies that anything's happened, saying she's just carrying out
her responsiblities. Laura tells her, "No matter what, I WILL get
David!"
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Episode 160
Tape Date: January 26, 1967
Air Date: February 3, 1967 Friday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: Lela Swift

Carolyn is sitting in Elizabeth's room watching over her. Vicky
comes in and asks how Elizabeth is. Carolyn replies, "No change.
Not a movement, not a blink, nothing." Vicky asks, "Carolyn, why
don't you go downstairs and get something to eat. I'll watch over
her while you're away." Carolyn refuses to leave her mother, saying,
"I have the feeling she's trying to tell me something." She turns
to Elizabeth and asks, "Mother, try to talk to me! What are you
trying to tell me?" But Elizabeth does not answer. Vicky tells her,
"Carolyn, you know, your mother should really be in a hospital.
That's what the doctor recommended." But Carolyn replies, "No. It was
her last wish to me that she not be taken from the house. I'm not
going to go against her wishes just because of the word of one doctor.
I'm going to call specialists to see what they say." Vicky tells her,
"Oh, yes. There is a specialist coming. A Dr. Peter Guthrie. Frank
Garner called him." After Vicky leaves the room, Roger comes in.
He asks Carolyn how Elizabeth is. Carolyhn replies, "The same."
Roger tells her, "She should really be in a hospital", but Carolyn
insists that she be kept at Collinwood, saying, "That's what she
wanted and that's the way it's going to be!"
There's a knock at the front door. Vicky answers. It's Dr. Peter
Guthrie. They go into the drawing room to talk. Dr. Guthrie tells
Vicky his speciality is parapsychology. Vicky asks, "You mean ESP?"
Guthrie replies, "Yes, but much more than that. I investigate all
other sorts of psychic phenomena too." He tells her she should
present him as a psychologist to the family, though. He asks to
see Elizabeth. As they exit the drawing room, they run into Roger
coming down the stairs into the foyer. Vicky introduces him and
Guthrie to one another. Roger tells Guthrie, "I hopw you can convince
my niece to have my sister moved to a hospital." Guthrie replies,
"Mr. Collins, if what I suspect is true, Mrs. Stoddard won't spend
another minute in this house!"
Vicky takes Guthrie to Elizabeth's room. Carolyn is in there with
Elizabeth. Guthrie tells Carolyn he's a psycholigist, saying he
thinks Elizabeth has a psychsomatic illness. Carolyn asks, "You
mean you think it's mental?" Guthrie replies, "Yes. I talked to her
doctor and what he told me leads me to believe so." He asks some
questions about Elizabeth. He asks about what she was doing just
before her illness. Carolyn tells him about how she kept talking
about forgetting something, about how she said she remembers going
out the front door, then remember coming back in but not remember
where she went or what she did. Guthrie remarks that it sounds like
Elizabeth has been the victim of some sort of mental trauma, that
memory loss of this sort seems to indicate this. He examines her.
He tries to talk to her, but she doesn't reply. He claps loudly
next to her ear. No response. He hits her elbow with a reflex-testing
mallet. No movement. He shines a pen flashlight into her eyes.
No response. He tells Carolyn, "Mrs. Stoddard. Your mother is in
a trance!" Carolyn asks, "A trance?" Guthrie replies, "Yes, a trance.
It's as if she'd been put under a hypnotic spell. Vicky asks, "How
can that be?" Guthrie replies, "I don't know, but she'll have to be
taken to a hospital." Carolyn tells him, "No, we can't. It was her
wish that she be kept here." But Guthrie tells her, "Miss Stoddard,
it's essential that she be taken from here. The influenced that
caused her condition could still be in this house." Carolyn asks,
"What influence?" Guthrie replies, "I don't know. But this condition
might be permanent." Carolyn gasps, "Oh, no!" Guthrie continues,
"Moving her out of this house will give her the best chance of
recovery. Do I have your permission to move her?" Carolyn replies,
"Yes." Guthrie tells Carolyn and Vicky that he'll have to stay at
Collinwood for awhile to try to find out the cause of Elizabeth's
illness, but that they should keep his real motive for being here
as secret as possible. Carolyn looks at her mother and asks Guthrie,
"Can she see us?" Guthrie replies, "Her eyes can only see the
nameless terror that put her in this condition."
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July 20, 1995 - II
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Episode 161
Tape Date: January 30, 1967
Air Date: February 6, 1967 Monday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: John Sedwick

Elizabeth has been moved to a hospital*. Vicky and Carolyn are
having breakfast in the kitchen. Carolyn is very depressed and
isn't eating. Vicky tells her, "You've got to eat something." Carolyn
moans, "It was her last wish that she not be taken from this house,
and I've broken my promise not to." Vicky tells her, "You had no
choice. The doctor said you had to." Carolyn remarks, "I have the
feeling I'm never going to see my mother again." Vicky tells her,
"She's not going to die. Physically, she's in perfect condition."
Carolyn says, "But if she does die, I'll never forgive myself for
ignoring her last wish." Guthrie comes down to breakfasst. They
ask him if he's discovered anything. He replies, "Not yet. These
things take time." He tells them, "I believe there's some sort of
psychic condittion around here. That's why we needed to move her."
Carolyn asks, "But what would want to harm my mother?" Guthrie
replies, "That's what I hope to find out."
Carolyn leaves the kitchen. She runs into Roger in the foyer.
He tells her, "I have something I want to talk to you about." They
go into the drawing room. Roger asks, "What's going on around here?
Why's this Dr. Guthrie still here?" Carolyn replies, "To help
mother." Roger asks, "But how can he help here? She's no longer
here." Carolyn evades the question, saying, "I'm in charge here
and as long as I want him here, he'll stay."
Guthrie questions Vicky in the kitchen about things around
Collinwood. Vicky tells him about Laura wanting to take David and
Elizabeth not wanting her to. Guthrie asks about David. Vicky tells
him, "He's an unusual boy." She tells him about his going to the
old house to see ghosts. She tells him that the ghost of Josette
Collins haunts the place. Guthrie remarks, "Maybe he just has a
lively imagination." Vicky replies, "No. I've seen her myself!"
Guthrie exits the kitchen. He runs into Roger in the foyer
and tells him he'd like to ask him a few questions. Roger is
very cold to Guthrie. He tells him, "Sorry, I haven't got the
time" and goes into the drawing room. Guthrie follows him in
there and tells him, "I'm trying to help your sister." Roger
remarks, "You should be at the hospital, then." Guthrie tells
him, "I'm trying to establish the cause of her condition." He
asks about the relationship between Elizabeth and Laura, but
Roger refuses to talk to him. Vicky comes into the room. She
asks, "Am I interrupting anything?" Roger replies, "No, I was
just leaving" and leaves. Vicky asks Guthrie, "Not much luck
talking to Roger, huh?" Guthrie replies, "No indeed." Vicky asks,
"What's your next move?" Guthrie replies, "I think I'll get to
know young David. I think I'll get him to go down to the old
house with me. I'd like to see what happens..."

* Joan Bennett, the actress who played Elizabeth Collins Stoddard,
was a famous movie actress in her youth. She accepted the part
because he career had faded. Nonetheless, she was still a fairly
well known name in the '60's and the Dark Shadows producers hired
her for that reason, giving her a special contract that gave her
some time off every year. So every year during Dark Shadow's five
year run, the writers would have something happen to her and she
would be shuffled off to the hospital, not to be seen for several
weeks. This is the first time.
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Episode 162
Tape Date: February 2, 1967
Air Date: February 7, 1967 Tuesday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

It is the next day. All the tests on Elizabeth at the hospital
have come back negative. Vicky asks, "Could Mrs. Collins be behind
this?" Guthrie replies, "That's a possibility". Vicky tells him,
"I need to know because Mrs. Stoddard wanted me to keep her from
David, and I want to know whether I should do so or not." Guthrie
replies, "If I were you, I'd do everything in my power to keep
that boy from Mrs. Collins." Vicky asks, "So you do suspect her?"
Guthrie replies, "I wouldn't go that far, but I will say this.
There is a force here strong enough to put Mrs. Stoddard in the
hospital, and it appears that the greatest amount of friction here
is between Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Stoddard." Guthrie tells Vicky,
"I have a few more questions to ask you. Frank Garner told me
a little about your compulsion to go to the crypt and what happened
there. Can you tell me a little more about that?" Vicky tells him
about it. Guthrie asks, "And you feel Josette Collins had something
to do with this?" Vicky replies, "Yes. I smelled jasmine perfume
there." She explains how she also smelled jasmine perfume when she
saw Josette at the old house. He asks, "Did you really see her?"
Vicky replies, "Yes." Guthrie asks, "Has anyone else seen her?"
Vicky tells him, "Yes, David has." She tells him, "I think
Josette is trying to tell me something about Mrs. Collins."
David is with Laura at the cottage. They talk about him staying
over for the night. David tells Laura that Vicky probably won't want
to let him. Laura asks David if he's given any more thought to
leaving with her. He tells her, "Yes, I've thought about it. I'm
not sure I want to leave Collinwood." She tells him, "You'll
like it where I'm going to take you. I'm not going to force you to
make a decision now, but you'll have to sooner or later. We don't
have that much time."
David returns to Collinwood. He calls, "Vicky!", but there's no
answer. He goes into the drawing room and runs into Guthrie there.
Guthrie tells him Vicky isn't there. Guthrie remarks, "I understand
you've seen some ghosts." David replies that he has. Guthrie asks
him to tell him about them. David, surprised that Guthrie is
interested, tells him about Bill Malloy's ghost, then about Josette
Collin's ghost. He suggests to Guthrie, "Let's go to the old house.
That's where she usually appears." Vicky, who's been out looking
for David, comes into the room and tells him he has some lessons to
do. David replies, "I can't right now. I'm going to the old house
with Mr. Guthrie. And afterwards, I'm going to see my mother."
Vicky tells him, "No you aren't. You have a lot of work to do."
David retorts, "Yes I am. And I'm going to stay with her tonight
and there's nothing you can do about it!" Vicky replies, "We'll
see."
David takes Guthrie to the old house and shows him the portrait
of Josette. Guthrie asks David to describe Josette's ghost. David
tells him, "She's always wearing a long white dress, and there's
this sweet perfume smell everytime she appears." Guthrie asks,
"Does it smell like jasmine?" David replies, "Yes, I think so."
Guthrie asks, "Why does she haunt the old house?" David replies,
"Because she killed herself by jumping off Widow's Hill." Guthrie
asks, "Why?" David replies, "Nobody knows. I wish she'd appear now.
I need to ask her a question. I need to know whether I should stay
at Collinwood or go with my mother."
Vicky goes to the cottage to talk to Laura. She tells her, "David
is falling behind in his schoolwork again. He told me he's planning
to spend the night here. I don't think that would be a good idea."
Laura replies, "I'm sure I can have him do his schoolwork while
he's here." Vicky objects, "But he'll have to wake up very early
to catch up on his work..." Laura interjects, "What's wrong? I've
already told you I'll see to it that he does his work. Tell me
the truth. You want to keep him away from me, don't you?" She
warns Vicky, "Don't try to get between me and David. It wouldn't
be wise. In fact, it would be very unwise."
Guthrie remarks to David, "It looks to me like Josette Collins
isn't going to appear." David replies, "She can't. She only appears
to one person at a time." Guthrie tells him, "In that case, I guess
I'll go look around" and goes upstairs. David talks to Josette's
portrait, saying, "Josette, please appear. I need to ask you a
question. I need to know whether to go with mother or not."
Suddenly, he exclaims, "I smell your perfume! You're here!"
The portrait of Josette starts to glow. David exclaims, "You've
got to tell me what to do!" Suddenly, the picture changes. It is
no longer a portrait of Josette, but the picture of Laura standing
in fire, the one that Roger destroyed, with David's face painted in.
David shouts, "THAT'S MY PICTURE!!!"
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Episode 163
Tape Date: February 1, 1967
Air Date: February 8, 1967 Wednesday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: John Sedwick

Guthrie, hearing David shout, shouts, "David! What's the matter?"
from upstairs. The picture fades away, becoming the portrait of
Josette again. Guthrie comes running downstairs. He asks, "What's
the matter, David?" David sees that the picture is gone and shouts,
"My picture! What happened to it? It's gone!" Guthrie, puzzled,
remarks, "But it's hanging right there." David tells him, "No, not
that one. MY picture, the one of my mother. It was there where the
painting of Josette was." Guthrie asks about the picture. David
describes it to him. He tells him about how the giant Laura head
materialized out of it one time and scared him. He adds, "But it
was different this time. There used to be a blank space in it,
but this time it was filled in. With me!"
Roger goes to the cottage to talk to Laura about taking David.
She tells him, "I've got to get around Liz's wishes. She's got
Vicky and Carolyn carrying out her orders. I've got to spend more
time with David to win him over. I've got to stop Vicky from
interfering. I need just one night. One night and he'll be mine
completely! " Roger tells her, "I'll take care of Vicky." Laura
asks, "and Elizabeth?" Roger replies, "By the time she gets out
of the hospital, it'll be all over except for the shouting."
David comes running in. He exclaims, "Mother! Mother! I've got
something trememdous to tell you! I saw my picture!" Roger
exclaims, "That's impossible!" David replies, "I saw it at the old
house. I took Mr.Guthrie there. He wanted to see Josette Collin's
ghost." He recounts what happened there. Roger angrily says, "I'm
going to tave a talk with the good Dr. Guthrie!" and stomps off.
David tells Laura, "This time, the painting was different. Instead
of the blank space, I was in it with you. What do you think that
means?" Laura replies, "Maybe that you should leave with me and be
with me forever." She asks, "You do want to spend the night here
with me, don't you?" David replies, "Yes, but what about my father?"
Laura tells him, "I've already talked to your father and got his
permission." She asks, "And how about not just tonight, but forever?"
David replies, "I don't know. I'd miss my Aunt Elizabeth and Miss
Winters." She asks him about Guthrie. He tells her Guthrie's been
asking a lot of questions about everything.
Roger goes to the old house and tells Guthrie, "I don't want you
around my son. He has all sorts of fantasies about ghosts and
such. We try to discourage him, and you're encouraging him!"
Guthrie goes to the cottage to question Laura. As a pretext, he
tells her, "I came to see if David's here." She tells him he isn't.
Guthrie tries to question Laura, without being obvious about it.
To see her reaction, he mentions how strange Elizabeth's illness is,
saying, "It's like nothing I've ever seen. It's like nothing from
this world. It's almost like it's from another world." He asks,
"Do you believe in other world's, Mrs. Collins?" Laura replies,
"I don't know. Why should it concern me when there are so many
infinite possiblities in this one?"
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Episode 164
Tape Date: January 31, 1967
Air Date: February 9, 1967 Thursday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

In the drawing room at Collinwood, Guthrie asks Vicky, "You're
sure David never saw the painting after it was filled in?" Vicky
replies that she is. Guthrie asks, "And you're sure no one could have
told him about it?" She tells him, "No. I'm sure no one would have.
If only Mrs. Stoddard could talk and tells us who was behind all
this." Guthrie tells her, "Well, remember she could talk briefly
before she got sick. She said that she had suffered a memory
lapse of some sort, that she remembers going out to see someone
but couldn't rememeber who it was or what happened. Now whoever
that was must have had reason to think it important that she forget."
Vicky tell him, "It must have been a stranger. Everyone on the
estate says it wasn't them she saw." Guthrie asks, "Now about the
artist you said painted that picture. A Samuel Evans, wasn't it?"
Vicky replies, "Yes. But he didn't paint just one picture of Laura,
he painted several. It was strange. He said he felt as though he
had been compelled to do those paintings by some force against
his will." Guthrie tells Vicky he'd like to talk to Sam. Vicky
tells him, "We'd better check with his daughter first to avoid
embarassament. When things are not going well for Sam, he tends to
drink." She tells him about Sam's injury to his hands.
At the Evan's cottage, Sam, who is still unable to paint because
of his burned hands, still bandaged, complains to Maggie, "I don't
know if I can make it through another day. A man who has nothing
to do gets mighty thirsty." Maggie asks him to try and suggests a
nice walk. Sam replies, "And go past the Blue Whale? I don't think I
could stand the temptation." Maggie tells, "Well, go the other way,
to the beach." Sam tells her, "I can't. Everything I go past the
beach, I see a painting, a seascape in my head. It'll only make
me think of painting."
Vicky and Guthrie go to the Collinsport Inn. Vicky lies to Maggie
that Guthrie is someone interested in her father's work and asks if
it would be OK for him to drop by and the cottage and see her father.
Maggie replies, "Sure! He'll be happy to see someone interested in
his work!" Burke comes into the diner. He sees Vicky and tells her
he'd like to talk to her. He sees Guthrie and adds, "If I'm not
interrupting." Guthrie tells him, "Oh, no." He tells Vicky, "I can
go myself. You showed me where to turn off."
Sam is pacing around the cottage, bored and irritated. There's
a knock at the door. Sam grumbles, "Go away!", but Guthrie comes in
anyway, pretending he didn't hear clearly, saying, "Did you say come
in?" He asks, "You ARE Samuel Evans, aren't you?" Sam replies, "SAM
Evans. I haven't been Samuel since I was 7 years old." Guthrie lies
that he's an admirer of his work and would like to browse around.
Sam replies, "Go ahead" and waves him toward the stack of paintings
leaning against the window. Guthrie goes through them and, not
finding any of Laura among them, remarks, "These seem to be mostly
landscapes, but I see that you do portraiture too. I'm more
interested in the portraiture. Do you have more?" Sam replies, "No.
I only do those by commision", but by this time Guthrie has already
started to go through some painting stored under a table. Sam, in a
very uneasy voice, tries to get him to stop, telling him, "No! Those
are all rejects, canvasses I plan to paint over." But Guthrie
replies, "I find that an artist is not always the best judge of his
own work. Some of these might turn out to be quite good" and
continues to go through the paintings. He pulls out the one burned
through the center and asks, "What happened to this one? This was
of Mrs. Laura Collins, wasn't it?" Sam lies, "No." Guthrie remarks,
"But I heard you painted several." Sam tell him, "No. I didn't, and
I didn't paint this. WHO ARE YOU? GET OUT!" Guthrie tells him, "You
say you didn't paint this portrait of Mrs. Collins? I believe you."
Sam, startled, remarks, "You do? Why? Who are you?" Guthrie replies,
"Someone who might be able to find out who did paint this picture."
Guthrie tells Sam he's a psychologist who's trying to get to the
bottom of everything that's been happening, that he was told about
him and the paintings by Vicky.
At the diner, Burke tells Vicky, "The last time we met, things
got a little heated. I don't think our difference of opinion about
Laura should get between us." They both apoligize to each other
about getting angry last time. But alas, they get into another
argument about Laura. They finish arguing and go into the lobby.
Burke tells Vicky that he wishes a speedy recovery for Elizabeth.
Seeing the dubious look on Vicky's face, he says, "No. Really. I
wouldn't want to see her out of the game before I've had my innings.
She's a tough fighter. I saw her on the night she got sick. You
would've thought the thunder and lightning came from her, not the
storm." Vicky asks, "You saw her that night? Where?" Burke replies,
"Yes. At the cottage. I only saw her briefly. She came, and I left.
It looked like she was really about to have a go at Laura." Guthrie
returns. Burke and Guthrie have a brief "fight" about who's going to
drive Vicky home. Burke "loses" and leaves. Vicky tells Guthrie
what she learned from Burke about Elizabeth's whereabouts during
her memory lapse.
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July 24, 1995 - II
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Episode 165
Tape Date: February 3, 1967
Air Date: February 10, 1967 Friday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

It is now night. At Collinwood, Vicky walks into the foyer and
finds David coming down the stairs carrying what looks like a child's
toy suitcase. He heads for the door. Vicky asks, "David! Where are
you going?" David replies, "To see my mother at the cottage." Vicky
tells him, "No. It's too late." She grabs the suitcase and tries to
take it from him. He refuses to let her have it. They struggle.
The suitcase opens, and the contents fall out. Vicky sees them
and exclaims, "David! Your pyjamas!" David tells her, "I'm going
to spend the night with my mother!" Vicky tells him, "Look, David,
we're not going to argue about this again." A male voice announces,
"No. Indeed we're not." It is Roger, who's just walked into the
foyer. He tells Vicky, "I've given him my permission to stay over."
Vicky asks, "Could I talk to you?" Roger replies, "OK." David shouts,
"You're going to let her talk you out of it!" and runs upstairs,
upset. Vicky and Roger go into the drawing room to talk. Vicky
tells Roger she thinks it would be unwise to let David spend the
night with his mother. But she does not tells him about what she
learned from Burke, saying only, "I think she has a bad effect on
him." Carolyn comes into the room and asks, "What's wrong with
David? He's sitting in the hallway outside his room with his toy
suitcase looking very depressed." Roger explains, "Vicky doesn't
want him to spend the night with his mother." Carolyn remarks,
"Vicky doesn't want David to spend the night with his mother?
That settles it, then. He's not going to spend the night with his
mother. Mother left me in charge of the house, and I'll take
Vicky's recommendation about what's good for David." Roger angrily
tells them, "I think you have both exceeded your authority. He's MY
son and I'm not going to let you two tell me what I can or cannot
do with my own son! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take
David to his mother!" and leaves.
Carolyn tells Vicky, "I don't like the idea of David spending the
night with his mother either. I have a feeling she's somehow
responsible for what's happened to Mother, but I have no proof. It's
just a feeling. I can tell you feel the same way." Vicky replies
that she does and tells her, "I think I may have found some proof."
Guthrie comes in. Vicky tells Carolyn what she learned from Burke.
Roger takes David to the Cottage. Laura remarks, "You're late.
I thought you'd changed you mind and wasn't coming." David explains,
"Miss Winters tried to stop me."
Carolyn exclaims, "I'm going to march right down to the cottage
and find out what this is all about!" Guthrie tells her, "Don't.
We have no real proof she did anything. It would be best if she
didn't know we suspect her. I have something in mind. You both
know the meaning of the word 'seance', don't you?" They reply
that the do. Guthrie tells them he's thinking of having one.
Carolyn asks Vicky, "Vicky, don't you thing you should tell Dr.
Guthrie about David?" Vicky tells Guthrie that David is spending the
night with his mother. Guthrie remarks, "I thought Mrs. Stoddard was
against that." Vicky tells him, "Roger insisted, and there was no
way we could stop him." Carolyn remarks, "Well, we can now. We've
got to tell him about what Vicky found out." Guthrie tells her, "No,
if we do, he'll probably go down there and confront her. I think the
boy's safe enough with her, for tonight, at least. From what I hear,
she's trying to win him over. She won't do anything to harm him.
We can't have her knowing we suspect her. If she did, she wouldn't
agree to take part in the seance, and we need her cooperation."
In the cottage, David falls asleep in Laura's arms. Laura is
sitting on the sofa, holding him contentedly. Suddenly, she gives
a start and exclaims, "I know you're here! You're here, Josette!
You're here in this room!" The ghost of Josette appears and starts
to reach out toward David with her arms and starts to walk toward
them slowly. Laura tells her, "What do you want? Leave me alone,
Josette! He's mine, and as long as I hold him in my arms, you have
no power over him! Stay away, Josette!" Josette stops. Laura tells
her, "Now go away and never bother us again!" Josette disappears.
David awakens and asks Laura, "Mother, who was here just right now?
I have a feeling someone was." Laura lies, "No one was, dear. Go
back to sleep."
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July 25, 1995 - I
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Episode 166
Tape Date: February 6, 1967
Air Date: February 13, 1967 Monday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: Lela Swift

It is the next morning. The clock in the foyer at Collinwood
shows 11:20. In the drawing room, Vicky is playing a game of
solitaire. Carolyn is pacing about nervously. She asks, "Where
could he be? He should be back by now! We shouldn't have let
him stay there! Something could've happened to him! I feel that
every minute David is out of this house he's in terrible danger."
Vicky tells her, "We can't put David under lock and key. THere's
nothing we can do about it if your Uncle Roger wants to let him
see his mother." Carolyn replies, "There is someting I can do. I
can make Laura leave!" Vicky warns against it, saying, "But what
if she takes him with her? What will you mother think then when
she comes back? Besides, we need her here for what Dr. Guthrie
has in mind." David returns. Carolyn hugs him, shouting, "Thank
God you're back!" David remarks, "You would've thought I'd been
away for 100 years, not just overnight." Carolyn asks him, "Did
you enjoy yourself?" David replies, "Yes. I'm going to do it
again tonight!" Carolyn, her expression suddenly turning stern,
tells him, "David, I think we should talk about this first..."
David shouts, "I will and you can't stop me!" Asked if anything
happened last night, David replies, "No. Nothing could have. Josette
was watching over me. I know because I could smell her perfume.
Josette was watching over my mother's house." There's a knock at
the door. Carolyn goes to answer. It's Joe Haskell. He tells
Carolyn, "The accountant sent me to get a ledger your mother has
here." Carolyn remarks nervously, "It's been a long time." Joe
replies, "Yes it has." He gives her his sympathy for her mother.
They talk about Elizabeth for awhile, and the town's gossip about
it. Carolyn broaches the subject of getting back together, saying
"I'm free again, Joe", but Joe replies, "I'm not." Carolyn,
disappointed, turns to go upstairs, saying, "I'll get you the
ledger." Joe asks, "Carolyn. We're still friends, right?" Carolyn
replies, "Sure."
Vicky asks David, "And you wern't scared?" David replies, "No.
It was a nice dream. Mother held me in her arms all night long.
I can't believe I used to be afraid of her. How silly!"
Sam is at the bar of the Blue Whale, drinking and laughing with
the other bar patrons. Maggie is sitting at a table with Joe, looking
worried. Joe tells her, "Come on, Maggie, you're here with ME. Let
you father have his fun. With you two, sometimes you can't tell the
difference between parent and child." He jokes, "You'd better take
some care of ME or I'll go fishing. There's plenty of fish in the
sea, and I'm getting bites every day." Maggie remarks, "I get a
feeling the fish you're talking about aren't in the ocean." Joe tells
her, "I had to go to Collinwood today. Guess who I saw there." Maggie
remarks, "So you were doing some fishing there, eh? Well, you won't
find any fish up there. Just a big stone crab. Joe, if you want to
get your head bitten off again, don't let ME stop you." Joe tells
Maggie he told Carolyn no. At the bar, Sam laughs uproariously
again. Maggie goes to check on him. Sam tells Maggie about Guthrie.
Maggie tells Sam, "You've had enough". Sam replies, "They don't MAKE
enough!"
Burke comes into the Blue Whale. Seeing Joe, he sits down at
Joe's table and asks, "Joe, how about a truce?" Joe replies, "Sure,
why not? The object of our affections is no longer the object of
mine." Burke tells him, "I was about to tell you the same thing..."
Maggie returns to the table. She remarks on how strange Guthrie is.
She tells them that although he's supposed to be at Collinwood to
help Elizabeth, he's been asking Sam questions that have nothing
to do with her Elizabeth, questions about those paintings of Laura
Collins, and about Laura Collins herself. Burke excuses himself,
saying, "Maggie, I think I'll go buy your father a drink."
Burke goes to the bar and says, "Hello, Evans. What's this about
this Guthrie fellow?" Sam replies, "He said he was interested in my
work. He was especially interested in those paintings of Laura being
consumed by fire..."
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July 25, 1995 - II
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Episode 167
Tape Date: February 7, 1967
Air Date: February 14, 1967 Tuesday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: Lela Swift

Vicky is talking with Dr. Guthrie. She tells him, "He said that
it was dark and he couldn't see where he was, but that his mother
was holding his hand, and from the sound, he thought he was near
the sea. He said he had the strange feeling they were the only two
people in an infinite world, that they were going toward a distant
light, that as they went toward the light, there was a roaring that
got louder and louder. He said they kept going toward the light,
and the closer they got, the louder the roaring sound got. Finally,
they got to the light and were about to fling themselves into it,
but then he woke up. That was David's dream." Guthrie remarks, "Maybe
it wasn't a dream." Vicky asks, "What do you mean?" Guthrie replies,
"Maybe it was a vision. What disturbs me the most is the fact that
David said he wasn't scared by this vision." Vicky asks, "What could
be responsible for it?" Guthrie replies, "That's what I intend to
find out."
At the cottage, Laura is arguing with Roger. She tells him, "I
want David NOW." Roger replies, "That's impossible. What's the
hurry?" Laura is evasive on this. She begs him to let her have
David now. Roger replies, "I'm sorry, Laura. I can't." Laura
asks him, "What would you say if I went to Burke Devlin and said
the word 'manslaughter' to him?" Roger tells her, "Go ahead!"
Laura threatens to testify against him. Roger tells her, "You can't.
If you do, you'll be found guilty of perjury and you'll never get
custody of David." Laura dejectedly says, "Ok. You win for now."
Roger replies, "For good, Laura."
Vicky asks Guthrie, "How will we find out?" Guthrie replies,
"By contacting someone who can help us. You've said you've felt
that Josette Collins has been giving you clues. That's probably all
she has in her powers to give up. With the seance, we'll be giving
her more power to communicate." He tells her, "But everyone will
have to be there." Vicky tells him she doesn't think it would be
wise to have David there. At first, Guthrie is disagrees, saying
he thinks it would be best if David were at the seance, but Vicky
manages to argue him out of it.
Later, Vicky, Guthrie, Carolyn and Roger are in the drawing room.
Guthrie tells Roger about the seance and asks him to participate.
Roger flatly refuses, saying, "It's nothing but superstitious
nonsense! Is THIS how you're helping Liz? It's noting but quackery!",
implying that Guthrie is a quack. He turns to leave. Guthrie tells
him, "Wait. You want me to leave this house, don't you? There's
a way to hasten that." Roger turns back and sarcastically asks,
"A simple request?" Guthrie replies, "No. But if we have this
seance and it fails, then there's really no reason for me to stay
because there's nothing more I'd be able to do." Roger tells him,
"Then by all means, let's start then!" Guthrie tells him, "Not right
now. I'll tell you the time later." Guthrie leaves. Roger leaves.
Carolyn remarks, "It'll be even harder to convince Laura to
participate. You know, maybe I'll go down and let her know we know
she lied about not seeing Mother that night. I'd like to see the
look on her face when I tell her!" Vicky reminds her, "Dr. Guthrie
told us it was important she not know we suspect her." Carolyn
replies, "I'm not going to tell her we suspect her, just that we
know she lied about not seeing Mother." Vicky warns her, "But what
about what happened to your mother. It could happen to you..."
But Carolyn, determined, replies, "I'm not afraid of her!"
Carolyn goes down to the cottage. She lies, "I was taking a walk
and the weather turned cold all of a sudden. I was near here so I
dropped in to see if you had a scarf I could borrow." Laura replies,
"Sure. I'll get you one." Carolyn looks out the window and remarks,
"Nice view. Too bad you weren't looking out on the night of the
storm. Maybe you could've seen what happened to Mother. You know,
I've been wondering about something. Why didn't my mother come here
when the storm started? I have a feeling she was nearer here than
the house when it did. In fact I get the feeling she DID come here,
that she was here in this very room." Laura replies, "All right,
Carolyn, what are you getting at? If you have something to say,
say it!" Carolyn replies, "All right. Why did you lie? Vicky learned
from Burke that Mother came here that night. Why did you lie?"
Laura replies, "Oh, I just thought it wasn't worth mentioning.
She was only here for a moment. She said she was taking a walk and
the storm started. She said she was close to here so she dropped
by to see if I might not be more comfortable in the main house
during the storm. I said no and she left. That's all. Do you
still want this scarf?" Carolyn replies, coldly, "No. It's not
necessary now. Amazing how fast the weather changes around here,
isn't it?" and leaves.
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July 26, 1995 - I
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Episode 168
Tape Date: February 8, 1967
Air Date: February 15, 1967 Wednesday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: Lela Swift

It is a little later. Laura is sitting in the cottage, thinking.
There's a knock at the door. Laura shouts, "Who is it?" A voice
replies, "It's Burke. Let me in!" Laura refuses, saying, "No. I
don't want any more trouble." But Burke tells her, "I have something
urgent to tell you. Something that effects what you're trying to do!"
Laura lets him in. Burke tells Laura that there's a man in town named
Guthrie. Laura replies, "Yes, I know. He's just a doctor. He's here
to study the psychological aspects of Mrs. Stoddard's collapse."
Burke replies, "So why's he asking so many questions about you?"
Laura tells him, "He knows about the conflict between me and Mrs.
Stoddard. He probably just wants to know what effect it had on
Elizabeth." Burke tells her, "Did you know he's been talking to
Sam Evans? He asked him about those painting and about you, not
Liz. From what I've been able to find out, all he seems to be
interested in is YOU. Now why is this? I don't think he's a doctor.
He doesn't ask the questions you'd expect a doctor to ask. Everyone
says this, not just me. I think he's a detective." Laura asks,
"Why would a detective want to know about me?" Burke replies, "That
body in Phoenix..."
Sam is still at the Blue Whale, drinking. Guthrie comes in, sees
him and exclaims, "Hello!" Sam jokes, "I'm just here indulging in
my favorite hobby. Would you like to give it a try?" Guthrie
declines, saying, "No, I'm here to meet Burke Devlin. He called
and left me a message asking me to meet him here." He remarks, "You
never did tell me how you burned your hands." Sam replies, "I didn't
burn my hands. Laura Collins did." Guthrie asks, "What do you mean?"
Sam replies, "You'd never believe me" and declines to tell him.
Guthrie promises, "Yes I will" and presses him on it. Finally Sam
tells him, "Laura Collins told me she'd stop me from making any more
paintings of her." Guthrie asks, "She threatened you?" Sam replies,
"Yes", and tells him what happened. He recounts, "I had been
indulging in my favorite hobby. Now, my favorite hobby has caused
many things, but sleepiness has never been one of them. This time it
did. I fell asleep and had a strange dream in which I saw Laura
Collins, surrounded by fire. When I woke up, I saw real fire. I had
dropped my cigarette onto a pile of newspapers on the floor. Now I
don't know why I did this - I know better than to touch fire with
my bare hands - but I did and burned them. I felt as if something
COMPELLED me to do it!" Guthrie tells him, "Thank you. You've helped
me a great deal. The pieces are starting to fit together." Burke
shows up. He and Guthrie go to a table.
Burke demands, "Who are you?" Guthrie replies, "Who do you think
I am?" Burke answers, "I don't know, but I'm going to find out!"
Guthrie remarks, "You seem suspicious." Burke replies, "Your
questions are strange for a doctor." Guthrie asks Burke, "You
saw Mrs. Stoddard when she went to the cottage on the night of
the storm. What happened between Mrs. Stoddard and Mrs. Collins?"
Burke replies, "I wouldn't know. I left right after she arrived."
Guthrie goes to the cottage. He tells Laura, "I'd like to ask
you a few questions. I understand you saw Mrs. Stoddard the day
she collapsed. Why did she come to see you about?" Laura replies,
"Just to see if I were comfortable here." Guthrie asks, "That's
all?" Laura answers, "Yes. That's all. Sorry I can't be of any more
help." Guthrie replies, "Maybe you have. I guess I'd better be
leaving before the rain starts." He turns to leave, but turns back
and tells Laura, "Oh, Mrs. Collins. One more thing. Would you
accept an invitation to a seance." Laura asks, "A seance?" Guthrie
asks, "You know what a seance, don't you. It's a meeting to contact
the dead. It's going to be up at Collinwood." Laura asks, "Who do
you want to contact?" Guthrie answers, "Josette Collins. Some of us
think she might be able to tell us something about what's happening."
Laura declines, saying, "I don't think so." Guthrie tells her, "Well,
think about it." Laura asks, "Who'll be there?" Guthrie replies
cryptically, "There'll be those of us who are invited, and those who
are uninvited..."
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July 26, 1995 - II
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Episode 169
Tape Date: February 9, 1967
Air Date: February 16, 1967 Thursday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: Lela Swift

Guthrie returns to Collinwood. Carolyn opens the door for him.
Guthrie tells Carolyn, "I've just been to the cottage to invite
Mrs. Collins to the seance." Carolyn asks, "What did she say?"
Guthrie replies, "She declined." Carolyn asks, "Are you still
planning to have the seance?" Guthrie tells her, "Yes. In fact,
I believe it might have better results without Mrs. Collins. She's
hostile to what we have to do and might hinder communication."
Vicky comes down into the drawing room. She finds Carolyn in
there with Guthrie. Carolyn asks, "David asleep?" Vicky replies,
"No. The storm's keeping him awake. Vicky asks Guthrie, "When's the
seance?" Guthrie replies, "In an in an hour or so, or when David's
asleep." Vicky asks, "Who's going to be there?" Guthrie tells her,
"Oh, just me, you, Carolyn and Roger." Vicky remarks, "What about
Mrs. Collins? I thought she was going to be there." Guthrie replies,
"No, she won't be coming." There's a knock at the door. Vicky
answers. It's Frank Garner. Vicky asks, "What are you doing here?"
Garner replies, "Roger called me and asked me to come. He said it was
an emergency. Do you know what he was talking about?" Vicky replies,
"No." Roger comes into the foyer and tells Garner, "You're here.
Good." Garnar asks,"What's so urgent?" Roger tells him, "Let's go
into the study to talk."
In the study, Roger tells Garner why he called him. Garner
exclaims, "That's the only reason you called me? I'd hardly call
that an emergency!" Roger tells him, "I'm not satisfied with how
you're handling on my divorce case. It's taking far too long."
Garner replies, "That can't be helped. These things take time."
Roger tells him, "Well, do your best to expedite things. My wife's
been pressing me to give her custody of David." Garner asks, "Is that
all?" Roger replies, "No. There's one more thing. I want to ask you
about my legal rights to the house and cannery while Elizabeth is
in the hospital." Garner tells him, "Well, legally control of the
house and cannery are in the hands of the closest next of kin, and
by law that's Carolyn." Roger protests, "But's she's little more
than a child! She's not mature enough. I've disagreed with some of
the decisions she's made recently. Isn't there something you can
do?" Garner replies, "Legally, she's an adult. There's nothing I can
do for you here."
Carolyn is pacing around in the drawing room nervously. Vicky
comes downstairs and into the drawing room. She tells Carolyn,
"David's asleep. Where's Dr. Guthrie?" Carolyn replies, "In the
study making some notes." Carolyn tells Vicky, "I'm really worried
about my mother. What if she NEVER recovers?" Vicky tries to assure
her, "I'm sure she'll get better". Frank, having finished with Roger,
comes into the drawing room. Carolyn asks him, "Please take me to
see my mother!", but Frank replies, "No. I saw your mother this
morning. The doctors feel it would be better for her if she didn't
receive any visits from family members." Carolyn starts to get
hysterical and shouts, "NO! I know you're lying to me! They told
you she was never going to recover, that she was going to die!
Nobody can help. The doctors don't know what to do and Guthrie's
nothing but a quack. All he's going to do is hold this stupid seance!"
Guthrie, who's been in the foyer, comes in and tells Carolyn, "I'm
sorry you think that way, Miss Stoddard. Should we call it off, then?"
Carolyn cries, "Yes! I know I'm never going to see my mother again!"
and runs upstairs.
Vicky asks Frank, "Frank, what DID the doctors say, really?"
Frank replies, "It isn't good." Vicky asks, "They don't hold much
hope for her?" Frank answers, "At this point, practically none.
They've had absolutely no success in finding out what's wrong with
her." Vicky asks Guthrie, "There's nothing you can do? You're
not going to go on with the seance?" Guthrie replies, "Not if Miss
Stoddard is is against it." Vicky begs him to reconsider, saying,
"She just got hysterical. I'm sure she's for anything that will
help her mother." Carolyn, who's come downstairs and been in the
foyer, comes into the room and says, "Vicky is right." She apoligizes
to Guthrie for calling him a quack and asks him to go on with the
seance. He accepts her apology and tells her the seance will be in
a few minutes. Frank asks, "Do you want me to stay?" Guthrie replies,
"No. Just family members." He takes Frank over to the side of the
room and tells him quietly, "I wish I were really as confident about
what I'm about to do as I pretend to be with the two girls. To be
honest, I'm terrified ." Frank asks, "Terrified of what? Of failure?"
Guthrie replies, "Yes. Of failure. And of success." Frank, puzzled,
asks, "Of success?" Guthrie replies, "Yes. We may call up something
so strong, so strange, so impossible for the human mind to comprehend,
that we may not be able to control it..."
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July 27, 1995 - I
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Episode 170
Tape Date: February 10, 1967
Air Date: February 17, 1967 Friday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: Lela Swift

Vicky tells Carolyn she's got a bad feeling about the seance,
that she's convince something terrible is going to happen to her.
Mrs. Johnson sets the furniture up as requested. She remarks that
she is very dubious about all this. Guthrie sets up a small tape
recorder (reel-to-reel. No casettes in 1967...). He turns it on and
asks, "Mrs. Jonhson, would you like to say anything?" Mrs. Jonsnson
replies, "No, thank you, I don't." Guthrie replays the tape: "Mrs.
Johnson, would you like to say anything?...No, thank you, I don't!"
He remarks, "You have a fine voice, Mrs. Johnson." Mrs. Johnson, who
looks like she's never seen a tape recorder before, gasps, "Why,
that doesn't sound anything at all like me!"*
Everyone gathers in the drawing room. Guthrie has them all sit
at the table. Guthrie announces, "The object here is to contact the
ghost of Josette Collins. Now, we're pretty sure she's been trying
to contact us and tell us something. She will either appear to us
or speak to one of us." Guthrie tells everyone to put their hands
flat on the table, fingers spread and touching those of their
neighbor to either side, forming a circle which, he tells them,
"you must keep this circle unbroken at all times!" The seance
starts. Guthrie calls out,"Josette Collins, Josette Collins, I'm
calling you, Josette Collins." He keeps repeating this. Vicky face
starts to contort in a strange expression. Carolyn, concerned,
asks, "Vicky?" Guthrie warns her, "No, leave her alone! Contact is
being made!" Vicky starts to moan softly. Guthrie exclaims,
"Something's here!" Vicky's moans start to get louder. Guthrie
announces, "It's getting closer!" Vicky continues to moan louder
and louder. Suddenly, the drawing room doors open. Standing in the
doorway is a cloaked figure!
A bright flash of lightning reveals the cloaked figure go be...
Laura Collins. Guthrie exclaims, "Mrs. Collins!" Vicky, who's fallen
out of the trance, gasps, "What is it?" Laura apoligizes, "Sorry
to interrupt." Roger asks, "Laura, I thought you weren't going to
come to the seance." Laura replies, "I changed my mind." Guthrie
asks Vicky, "What happened, Miss Winters?" Vicky replies, "I felt
I was in this long corridor. I felt the presence of Josette. I heard
all you voices, but it seemed like you were all very far away."
Guthrie remarks, "Excellent! That means Josette is eager to
communicate with us. Would you like to try again, Miss Winters?"
Vicky pauses for a moment, as if reluctant, but then annouces,
"All right!" like a trooper. They start the seance again, this time
with Laura present. Guthrie calls out to Josette just as he did the
first time. As he calls, the portrait of Josette at the old house
starts to glow. Josette appears and comes down from the portrait on
her invisible stairs.
At Collinwood, Laura suddenly seems to give a start, as if she
senses something. Vicky starts moaning again like she did the first
time. Guthrie continues to call out to Josette. Vicky starts to moan
louder and louder. Guthrie commands, "Speak to us, speak to us,
Josette!" Carolyn starts to smell Jasmine and exclaims, "She's here!
Josette! I smell Jasmine, her perfume!" Vicky starts to speak.
Roger gasps, "She's speaking in French!" Carolyn protests, "But Vicky
doesn't speak French!" Vicky continues to speak in French. "...Le
petit garcon...Le feu...le presence du mal... cette personne
s'appelle... cette personne s'appelle...AHHHHHHH!"** She screams and
faints without finishing her last sentence.

* Mrs. Johnson acts as if she never saw a tape recorder before.
In 1967, this was possible.

** Having only a smattering of French, I only got these few words.
They mean, "The little boy! The fire! The presence of the
evil! That person is named... That person is named...
AHHHHHHH!" (Note that in French nouns and demonstratives
have genders. Here, "Cette personne" is feminine and
therefore refers to a woman.
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Episode 171
Tape Date: February 13, 1967
Air Date: February 20, 1967 Monday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

The lights are turned on. Guthrie tells everyone, "Miss Winters
is all right. She's just fainted." Vicky regains conciousness and
asks, "What happened?" Guthrie tells her, "You fainted." Vicky asks,
"Did anything happen this time?" Carolyn tells her, "You spoke. In
French." Vicky exclaims, "But I don't speak French!" Carolyn tells
her, "It was Josette." Vicky asks, "What did she say?" Carolyn
replies, "I don't know. I don't know any French." Roger turns to
Laura and says, "Laura, you do. What did she say?" Laura replies,
"She wasn't very coherent. I didn't pay much attention to what she
said." Guthrie announces, "But I did. She spoke of someone who
sleeps without sleeping and dreams without dreaming. She mentioned
a little boy who she said was in great danger. She spole of fires
that have occured throughout the centuries. She said that there
would be another one soon. She said there was an evil presence
in this house and started to name it but screamed and fainted."
He tells Vicky, "I think some hostile force prevented you from
saying more." He asks her, "Do you remember what you were about
to say?" Vicky replies, "Sorry. I don't remember saying anything
at all." Guthrie asks, "Could you tell us what you DO remember?
It may be of help." Vickly tells them, "I was out of this room,
somewhere else. There was fire everywhere, all around me, falling
from the sky, and I started to burn alive!" She gets quite distraught
remembering this. Carolyn takes her up to her room. Roger tells
Guthrie, "I'm going to take my wife back to the cottage. I want to
have a word with you when I return." Guthrie rewinds the tape a bit
and replays Vicky saying, "Cette personne s'appelle...Cette personne
s'appelle AHHHHH!"
At the cottage, Roger tells Laura, "Well, we don't have to worry
about Dr. Guthrie anymore. He promised to leave after the seance."
He asks, "Don't laugh, but do you suppose there could be anything
to this?" Laura asks, "You're not starting to believe in this
supernatural nonsense, are you?" Roger replies, "Of course not."
Laura tells her, "Vicky was just babbling, hallucinating." Roger
reminds her, "But in French! How do you expain that? Vicky doesn't
speak French." Laura replies, "There must be a logical explanation."*
In Vicky's room, Vicky tells Carolyn, "I can't stop thinking about
those words I said!" Carolyn muses, "The little boy who's in danger.
That must be David. Josette must be trying to protect him." Vicky
wonders, "It must be those fires I was talking about. Maybe she's
trying to warn us David is in danger of dying in a fire. But when
and where?" Guthrie comes up and tells Vicky, "I just came up to see
if you were all right. Are you?" Vicky replies that she is. Carolyn
asks, "What stopped Vicky?" Guthrie replies, "Another force. Another
force at least as powerful as Josette." Carolyn remarks, "You mean
my Aunt Laura." Guthrie carefully replies, "We have no proof of
that. All we know is that it is a powerful, hostile force. I think
it might be a good idea for us to try again. At the old house, where
Josette powers are the strongest." Vicky asks, "Will I have to
participate again?" Guthrie replies, "Yes. Josette seems to like to
speak through you." Vicky moans, "No..." Guthrie assures her, "I
didn't say we would do it again. It was just a suggestion. We won't
hold another seance except as a last resort. I don't want to put
you through this again unless it's absolutely neccessary" He tells
her, "Good night, Miss Winters" and leaves.
Roger is in the drawing room. Carolyn and Guthrie come down.
Roger tells Guthrie, "I have only one word to say to you. Goodbye."
Guthrie replies, "But I'm not leaving, Mr. Collins." Roger angrily
protests, "But you said you were leaving after the seance!" Guthrie
replies, "I said I'd leave if the seance failed. It did not. It
succeeded. Sorry if you misunderstood, Mr. Collins." They get into
an argument. Carolyn interrupts, saying, "It's not your house, Uncle
Roger, it's mine and you can't prevent me from letting whoever I
want to come here come here, and If I say Dr. Guthrie can stay,
he can stay and I do!" Roger protests, "Something's strange about
him! What kind of psychologist holds seances ?!" Carolyn replies,
"Dr. Guthrie is my only hope, the only hope I have of of ever
seeing my mother again! Goodnight!"
It is now 2:15. Vicky suddenly awakens and demands, "Who is it?
Who's in the room? I know you're here!" Laura steps out of the
shadows and apoligizes, "Oh, I startled you, Vicky. I'm sorry".
Vicky asks, "What do you want?" Laura replies, "i just wanted to
see if you wer all right. Are you?" Vicky tells her that she is.
Laura tells her, "I was worried about you. That was a terrible
experience you had tonight. I hope it never happens again." Vicky
tells her, "Me too!" Laura tells her, "You know what? I have a
feeling that it's not good for you being in this house. I think
it would be best for you to leave Collinwood." Vicky asks, "Why?"
Laura replies, "I don't really know. It's just a feeling I have.
Anyway, David'll be leaving with me soon and you're going to have
to find another family to work with anyway. Think about it." Vicky
replies, "All right, Mrs. Collins." Suddenly, she notices that Laura
is no longer there and exclaims, "Mrs. Collins! Mrs. Collins!"
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Episode 172
Tape Date: February 14, 1967
Air Date: February 21, 1967 Tuesday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: John Sedwick

Mrs. Johnson is at the cottage doing some dusting. Laura tells her,
"Be careful! Those things are fragile!" Mrs. Johnson replies, "So
am I!" Laura asks, "What do you mean?" Mrs. Johnson explains, "It's
my nerves. What was Miss Winters screaming about last night?" Laura
lies, "I don't know." Mrs. Johnson remarks, "That Dr. Guthrie, I'd
like to know what he's doctoring. If he's working on Mrs. Stoddard,
then what's he doing here when she's lying in Boston? And what kind
of psychology was he practicing last night? I smell someting fishy
and it's not the wind off the bay!" Mrs. Johnson starts to poke at
the fire. Laura shouts, "Mrs. Johnson! What are you doing?" Mrs.
Johnson replies, "Putting out the fire so I can clean the hearth."
Laura tells her, "NO! Don't touch that fire. It's cold in here!"
Mrs. Johnson protests, "But it'll only take a few minutes." But
Laura insists, "NO! Don't touch that fire! I want it burning all
the time!" Mrs. Johnson replies, "Yes, Mrs. Collins" and leaves.
Mrs. Johnson goes to the Collinsport Inn and goes to Burke's room.
She tells him that a seance was held at Collinwood last night with
the objective of helping Elizabeth. Burke remarks, "A seance. That's
something to contact ghosts, isn't it? I'd think a doctor would be
able to do more for Liz than a ghost." Mrs. Johnson tells him, "It
was Dr. Guthrie who held the seance!" Burke asks Mrs. Johnson,
"Could you do me a favor? Could you keep Dr. Guthrie away from
Vicky?" Mrs. Johnson replies that she will.
After Mrs. Johnson leaves, Burke makes a telephone call. He tells
the person on the other side, "Grant? I want you to run a check on
a Dr. Peter Guthrie....No, you won't get on it tomorrow, you'll
get on it NOW. I want to know everything about him IMMEDIATELY!"
Dr. Guthrie tries to go upstairs to see Vicky, bur Mrs. Johnson
refuses to let him, saying "I've been given instructions not to let
you."
Later, Laura tries to go upstairs to see Vicky. Mrs. Johnson
refuses to let her up either. Laura tells her, "All right. I'll
go up and see David, then." Mrs. Johnson tells her, "He's not up
there. He's out with Miss Carolyn. She thought it would be better
if he were out of the house with Miss Winters like this." Laura
hears Carolyn say, "Jasmine" and asks, "What's that?" Mrs. Johnson
replies, "Oh, that's Dr. Guthrie doing his homework."
Laura goes into the drawing room and finds Dr. Guthrie listening
to a tape of the seance, making notes as he listens. Guthrie sees
her, stops the tape and says, "Good afternood, Mrs. Collins." They
discuss the seance briefly. Laura tells him she thinks it was a
failure because Vicky fainted before she could say much. Guthrie
replies, "On the contrary, I learned many things from it." Laura
asks, "Like what?" Guthrie declines to tell her, saying, "I haven't
reached any definite conclusions yet." He gestures toward the
tape recorder and tells her, "I'm using modern methods of research.
I taped the seance." Laura remarks, "Oh, I didn't know."
Burke barges into the cottage. Laura complains, "It's considered
good manners to knock before coming in." Burke demands, "I'd like
to know what's going on here!" She tells him she doesn't know. He
asks about Guthrie. She tells him, "I have a feeling he's trying to
block us. He's going to have to be stopped." Burke replies, "Yes. But
how?" Laura replies, "By any means necessary."
At Collinwood, Guthrie suddenly starts shouting, "Mrs. Johnson!
Mrs. Johnson! Would you please come here quickly?" Mrs. Johnson
comes into the drawing room. Guthrie asks her, "Mrs. Johnson, did you
touch anything on this table while you were dusting in here?" She
replies that she didn't. He asks, "You didn't touch the tape
recorder?" She replies, "No. I wouldn't touch that thing with a ten
foot pole!" He asks her, "Did you see anyone coming in or out of this
room?" She replies, "No. Why?" He tells her, "Listen to this" and
starts to tape recorder. But instead of the seance, there is only a
strange crackling sound. Mrs. Johnson remarks, "Sounds like a fire
crackling." Guthrie replies, "Yes. The sound of fire..."
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Episode 173
Tape Date: February 15, 1967
Air Date: February 22, 1967 Wednesday
Writer: Malcolm Marmorstein
Director: John Sedwick

Laura begs Burke to convince David to go away with her, saying
"You have a lot of influence with him".
Vicky is in the drawing room putting some roses into a vase.
David comes into the room and demands, "I want to talk to you!"
Vicky remarks, "Aren't these roses nice? Dr. Guthrie sent them
to me because I wasn't feeling well." David replies, "I don't
care. I have something I want to talk to you about! I heard you
had a seance last night!" Vicky asks, "How did you find out?"
David tells her, "Mrs. Johnson told me." Vicky tells him, "Well,
she shouldn't have. I'll have to talk to her about that." David
tells Vicky he's upset he wasn't invited, saying, "Josette's MY
friend! I should've been there!" Vicky puts her hand on David's
shoulder and tries to calm him down. David pulls away, shouts,
"Don't touch me! You can't make up!" and runs off.
Laura tells Burke, "Now is the time for me to act with David."
Burke replies, "I'll help". Laura tells him, "I've got to hurry."
Burke asks, "Why?" Laura replies, "We've got to act while Liz is
in the hospital. That was hard to arrange." Burke, puzzled, asks,
"Arrange? What do you mean?" Laura, realizing her faux pas, replies,
"Nothing. Just that it was hard to convince Roger and Carolyn to
move her out of the house into the hospital." Burke tells her,
"Well, I can't just march up to Collinwood and ask for David."
Laura suggests, "Why don't you try old house or the old fishing
shack? If you want me to help you, you've got to help me - to get
David."
Burke goes down to the fishing shack and finds David there
trying to untangle a coil of rope. He takes the rope from him
and starts to help him untangle it and suggests, "Why don't we rent
a boat, go out into the bay and go fishing one of these days? It's
been some time since I had a rod and reel in my hands." David asks,
"Isn't it a little cold out in the bay this time of year?" Burke
replies, "I have an old fishing jacket you can borrow. It should
reach just to about your knees." David is ecstatic. Burke remarks,
"You don't have much fun around here, do you?" David replies,
"No." Burke asks, "How do you like your mother?" David replies,
"I don't really know. Before she came back, I always thought about
her, but when she came back, I was afraid of her for some reason.
Now, I don't really know." Burke suggests, "Maybe it would be a good
idea if you went away with her." David replies, "I don't mind going
with her for a little while, but forever? I don't know." Vicky
comes into the shack and exclaims, "David! That's where you've been!
I've been looking all over for you! Don't EVER run off like that
again!" David excitedly asks Burke, "Burke! Tell her about the
fishing trip!" Burke tells Vicky he wants to take David fishing out
on the bay. Vicky replies, "No, not now. It's too cold. Ask me again
in the spring." David, upset, screams, "I'm going to go see my
mother. You can't stop me! My father gave me permission!" and runs
off. Burke asks Vicky how she is, telling her, "I know about what
happened last night." Vicky replies, "Fine. Word travels fast
around here, doesn't it?" They discuss the seance. Burke asks,
"What's all this opposition to Laura?" Vicky replies, "A lot of
strange things have happened since she came back." She enumerates
them. She adds, "And she was the last person to see Mrs. Stoddard
before she got sick, and lied about it."
David goes to the cabin. He tells Laura Burke invited him to go on
a fishing trip, but Vicky wouldn't let him. Laura tells him, "If you
went away with me, I'd have let you go." David tells her, "Burke
tells me I should go away with you." Laura asks, "And?" David replies,
"I'll have to think about it." He asks her, "Mother, what's a
seance?" She lies that she doesn't know. David asks, "Why'd you go,
then?" Laura lies, "I didn't go. I just happened to be there, that's
all." He asks her to tell him about it. She lies, "There's nothing
to tell. Vicky got upset and fainted, that's all. She's the high-
strung, hysterical type." She adds, "David, never listen to such
people. If she ever says anything bad about me, don't listen."
Burke comes in and tells David, "It's starting to get dark outside.
I think you should be going back home, David." David leaves. Burke
tells Laura, "I want to talk to you!" He tells her, "I've just
talked to Vicky about you and there's a few things I'd like you
to explain." He enumerates the mysterious things Vicky mentioned,
the paintings, Sam's accident, etc. Laura replies, "How could I
have been responsible for all those things? It would take a
supernatural being to do all that! Touch me! I'm nothing but
flesh and blood." She takes his hand and puts it on her cheek.
He leaves it there for a moment then pulls his hand back and says,
"Laura, don't work on me." She tells him, "Please, think of the
future. Think of you and me..."
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Episode 174
Tape Date: February 16, 1967
Air Date: February 23, 1967 Thursday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

Frank Garner comes to Collinwood, having been called earlier
by Guthrie and told about the seance and the tape he had made of
it. Guthrie tells him, "Something's happened to the tape since I
talked to you. The seance is no longer on it." Frank asks, "You
mean you accidently erased it?" Guthrie replies, "No, that's what
I thought at first." He plays the tape and remarks, "At first I
thought it was static, but it isn't. Listen closely. The sound
is unmistakable." Frank listens and asks, "Fire?" Guthrie replies,
"Yes. Fire. If only I could fit the pieces together." Frank asks,
"You think you'd get a life sized portrait of Laura Collins, don't
you?" Guthrie replies, "I wouldn't be surprised." Frank tells Garner,
"By the way, they're going to close the case in Phoenix. Reilly's
brought them a mountain of physical tests indicating that Laura
Collins is alive and well and staying here. They're stumped and don't
know what to do next. How's Mrs. Stoddard doing?" Guthrie replies,
"I've spoken to Dr. Landis and he tells me she's doing better."
Carolyn, who's just walked in and heard this, demands, "She's
better? Tell me!" Guthrie replies, "Yes. She's better." Carolyn
asks, "Can I see her?" Guthrie reconsiders his words, "Well, perhaps
better is not the word I should have used. Let's say she's slightly
improved. Her pulse and temperature are much closer to normal now.
But she still can't talk or move and Dr. Landis still doesn't think
family members should visit her yet." He adds, "But we have learned
one thing. Distance seems to be helping her. Distance from Collinwood
and whatever hostile force is here..."
Joe Haskell comes to Collinwood with some papers for Guthrie to
sign. Carolyn tells Joe that Guthrie and Garner have gone somewhere
but will be back soon. They talk. Joe asks, "How's your mother?"
Carolyn replies, "Improving. A little. They still won't let us see
her." She tells him, "I feel alone, so alone." He reminds her,
"We're still friends." She hugs him.
In Arizona, at a Phoenix Police Department office, Lt. Dan Reilly
and a Lt. Costa are signing some papers. They finish, and both give
out sighs of relief. Lt. Reilly remarks, "Glad to see this case
closed. I'm not a drinking man, but this case almost drove me to it."
Lt. Costa replies, "I know what you mean." Lt. Reilly tells Lt. Costa,
"Well, now that this is all over, I guess I'll be taking the fastest
jet I can find home." Lt. Costa tells him, "Finished? Sorry, not yet.
The body hasn't been released for burial yet. You've finished signing
the police department forms, but as the person who identified Laura
Collins as being alive in Maine, you've got to sign the morgue's
interminable set of forms too."
Joe tells Carolyn, "There are some rumors around town about this
Dr. Guthrie. People are saying he's not a doctor at all. They're
saying he's a cop. A cop from Phoenix investigating Laura's
implication in that fire there." Carolyn assures Joe that Guthrie
is indeed a doctor.
Lt. Costa and Lt. Reilly are at the Phoenix morgue. Having
finished signing the morgue's forms, Lt. Reilly calls Frank Garner
at Collinwood and tells him, "I was told by your office that I could
find you here. I just called to tell you the case in Phoenix is
now officially closed." Garner thanks him for calling and telling
him and hangs up. He tells the rest of the people in the drawing
room, Guthrie, Joe and Carolyn. Carolyn is disappointed that the case
has been closed, saying, "I hoped that they could learn something
that could help Mother."
In Phoenix, Lt. Costa goes over to the drawer holding the
mysterious body. He looks at the sticker and remarks to Lt. Reilly,
"Look. It still says, 'Laura Murdoch Collins'. They still haven't
changed it back to 'body unidentified'." Reilly replies, "They're
probably as confused as the rest of us." Costa opens the drawer
to take a last look. He exclaims, "It can't be!" Reilly looks and
suggests, "Maybe this is the wrong drawer." Costa replies, "No, this
is the right drawer." He pulls the slab out. It is empty...
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July 31, 1995 - II
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Episode 175
Tape Date: February 17, 1967
Air Date: February 24, 1967 Friday
Writer: Ron Sproat
Director: John Sedwick

At Collinwood, Guthrie tells Vicky about the body in Phoenix
being missing. Vicky asks, "How is that possible? They must've made
a mistake!" Guthrie replies, "No, they've checked it over and over
again." He adds, "I can't wait to talk to Mrs. Collins about this!"
Vicky remarks to Guthrie how there seems to one common denominator
in all the strange things that have happened: fire.
At the cottage, Burke tells Laura, "I've had Dr. Guthrie
investigated. He's no ordinary psychologist. He's a parapsychologist.
That means he studies the supernatural. Now what I want to know is,
Why did they bring in such a man, and why is he so interested in YOU?"
Laura replies that she doesn't know.
Guthrie tells Vicky, "I can't wait to talk to Mrs. Collins about
the body. I'm anxious to see her reaction!" There's a knock at the
door. Vicky tells Guthrie, "Oh, that's probably Mrs. Johnson."
Guthrie tells her, "Can you do me one thing, Miss Winters? If that's
Mrs. Collins, would you mind not telling her about the body?" Vicky
replies, "Of course." Guthrie tells her he'll be going for a walk
but will be back soon. Vicky goes to open the door. It's Burke
Devlin. Vicky tells him, "I can't let you in." Guthrie comes by on
his way out, tells Vicky he'll be back later and leaves. Burke
asks, "Exactly why is he so interested in Laura?" Vicky, seemingly
upset by the question, walks inside. Burke follows her into the
drawing room. Vicky tells him, "He's just trying to do everything
he can to help Mrs. Stoddard." Burke remarks, "He suspects Laura,
doesn't he?" Vicky doesn't answer. Burke asks, "Let me put it this
way, then. Why don't YOU trust Laura? I know you suspect her of
having something to do with all this. Tell me." Vicky replies,
"I can't." Burke pressures her to tell him and she replies, "All
right. But you probably won't believe me." Vicky tells him, "I think
Josette Collins has been trying to tell me something." She tells him
about the crypt Josette lead her to, about all the apparent ancestors
of Laura Murdoch Collins, all the the same name, Laura Murdoch
followed by a married surname, about how they all died by fire,
about the body in Phoenix begin gone, etc. She tells him, "Then
there's the fact that she lied about seeing Mrs. Stoddard just before
she got sick." She asks, "Am I wrong to not trust her?"
Guthrie goes to the cottage and asks Laura, "Mind if I speak to
you for a moment?" Laura replies, "Sorry, not now. I'm tired and
would like to rest awhile." But Guthrie continues, "I got some news
just a few minutes ago from Phoenix." Laura replies, "That could
have nothing to do with me and doesn't interest me." Guthrie
continues, "They decided to bury the body, but found that it had
disappeared." Laura exclaims, "Gone?! But that's impossible! They
must be mistaken!" She starts to rail against the stupidity of the
Phoenix police, saying she'd expect such a thing from them. Guthrie
tells her, "What does this mean, the fact that the body's
disappeared? I saw that expression on your face. I know you know
something you're not telling me." Laura denies this and tells Guthrie,
"Now go away and leave me alone. I'm not going to warn you again!"
Guthrie asks, "That sounds like a threat. Is it?" Laura replies,
"You'll find out. Now go back to Collinwood!" Guthrie asks, "And if
I refuse?" Before Laura can answer, the front door opens and Burke
Devlin comes in. Laura tells him, "Burke! Do something! This man is
bothering me and refuses to leave!" Guthrie remarks, "That won't
be necessary. Goodbye" and leaves.
Burke asks Laura, "Why did you lie about seeing Mrs. Stoddard on
the night she got sick?" Laura replies, "Please, Burke. I can't
talk about that right now." Burke replies, "OK. But I'll be back.
In the meantime, you'd better come up with some straightfoward
answers" and leaves.
Peter Guthries returns to Collinwood. He calls out, "Vicky?" and
goes into the drawing room.
At the cottage, Laura goes and sits by the fire and stares into
it strangely.
At Collinwood, Dr. Guthrie takes off his glasses and rubs his
eyes with his hand, as if he's feeling strangely. He calls out,
"Vicky! Vicky!" a few more times and starts to stumble around then
falls to the floor next to the fireplace, unconscious.
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