Episodes 142,143 - Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Tony Lew
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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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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