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Sam gives Maggie a letter for safe keeping.
← Dark Shadows (1966) episode 37 →
Episode number	37
Timeline	1967
First aired	August 16, 1966
Tape date	August 3, 1966
Narrated by	Victoria Winters
Written by	Art Wallace
Directed by	Lela Swift

Sam writes a letter and gives it to Maggie for protection. Roger admits to Victoria that he too has heard sobbing in the basement.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Memorable quotes 3 Dramatis personae 4 Background information and notes 5 Continuity and mistakes

[edit] Synopsis

My name is Victoria Winters. It's one o'clock in the morning, barely four hours since I've decided; once again to stay in Collinwood. And now sleep refuses to come, not only for me, but for a man whose tension, hour by hour, seems to be rising closer to the surface.

Roger calls Sam and is furious that he hasn't called Burke. Roger finds Vicki and berates her for 'eavesdropping.' He threatens to send her back and Vicki gloats that Liz practically begged her to remain at Collinwood. Sam keeps Maggie in the dark about his secret call. He's written a secret letter, which he gives Maggie. He tells her to keep it safe and unopened. He yells and then reiterates that she should only open it if something should happen to him. Maggie wishes Collinwood, which she suspects has something to do with the mystery letter, would burn to the ground. He says that that wouldn't help, ghosts are homeless. They laugh about sobbing ghosts. Vicki hears a sobbing come from downstairs at Collinwood. She tracks it to the basement, where Roger catches her. He berates her. Vicki again hears the sobbing. Ned Calder calls and Roger berates him, too. Vicki tells Roger that Liz was very anxious to speak with Ned. He again flips out at her, then acts all nicey-nice. He admits he heard the sobbing and that he’s heard it many times before. He tells her ghosts can seem "very, very real indeed."

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[edit] Dramatis personae

• ← Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins →
• ← Kathryn Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans →
• ← David Ford as Sam Evans →
• ← Alexandra Moltke as Victoria Winters →
• ← Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard → (voice only; uncredited)

[edit] Background information and notes

• Elizabeth Collins Stoddard does not appear in this episode, but her sobbing can be heard from the locked room in the basement.

[edit] Continuity and mistakes