Episodes 140,141 - Monday, August 27, 2001
Tony Lew
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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