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| Episode number | 123 |
| Timeline | 1966 |
| First aired | December 16, 1966 |
| Tape date | December 9, 1966 |
| Narrated by | Victoria Winters |
| Written by | Ron Sproat |
| Directed by | Lela Swift |
| Home video | DVD: TB C4D2 |
Matthew decides to kill Vicki while David attempts to procure help for her.
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[edit] Synopsis
Teaser
- My name is Victoria Winters. Night has fallen at Collinwood and in a few short hours my fate will be decided. In the deserted Old House where I am held captive, my captor must decide to free me or kill me... unless a small boy, who knows the secret of my whereabouts, tells what he knows.
David continues to call for Roger, who is fresh from securing the East Wing windows and on his way to securing the greenhouse before a storm starts.
Act I
David attempts to secure Roger's amnesty before telling him the secret. Roger's refusal causes David to tell him that Roger is going to be responsible for something terrible; Roger laments that now he'll get caught in the rain on the way back from the greenhouse. David says he hopes he catches pneumonia and dies! At the Old House, Matthew tells Vicki they are going to leave; he hears noises and investigates.
Act II
Matthew claims that his enemies are all around him, and threatens to kill Vicki. But she wisely offers to help him and be his friend and manages to talk him out of it. Matthew goes to get his car (which somehow has been missed by the deputies). Bill's ghost contacts David at Collinwood, imploring him to help Vicki. Roger sends David to bed.
Bill appears to Matthew in the woods, and warns him that someone at Collinwood will die tonight!
Act III
David rings Burke and leaves a message, imploring him to come to Collinwood post-haste concerning Miss Winters. Back at the Old House, Vicki manages to free herself just as Matthew returns. His mind has broken from the encounter with Malloy's ghost, and he thinks Vicki is Elizabeth. Matthew realizes they're at the Old House and Vicki, playing into his delusion that she's Liz, says they're looking for David. Matthew's memory returns and he becomes extremely violent with Vicki.
Burke shows up at Collinwood and rouses Roger, who refuses to get David. Matthew tells Vicki he's going to kill her because the Widows want a third girl. She reminds him, to no avail, of his plan to dump her in the woods. But Matthew is determined to kill her.
[edit] Memorable quotes
[edit] Dramatis personae
- Mitchell Ryan as Burke Devlin
- Thayer David as Matthew Morgan
- Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins
- David Henesy as David Collins
- ← Frank Schofield as Ghost of Bill Malloy → (uncredited)
- Alexandra Moltke as Victoria Winters
[edit] Background information and notes
- Matthew's belief that Vicki is Liz lends support to the idea that she is a Collins, perhaps Liz's illegitimate daughter. However, it must be noted that Matthew is also insane and that this was not the ORIGINAL idea for the story at the time (it was only later that the writers decided that Vicki was Liz's daughter, but the departure of Alexandra Moltke from the series in 1968 prevented this revelation). It would eventually come to light in the audio drama Return to Collinwood.
