38

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Matthew threatens Burke.
← Dark Shadows (1966) episode 38 →
Episode number	38
Timeline	1967
First aired	August 17, 1966
Tape date	August 2, 1966
Narrated by	Victoria Winters
Written by	Art Wallace
Directed by	Lela Swift

Matthew threatens to kill Burke. Carolyn leaves her ring behind for Burke to find and return to her.

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. The gray light of morning has come again to Collinwood and the strange sounds of the night should seem thousands of miles away, yet I can still hear it in my mind; the helpless crying that filled the shadows of the great house on Widows' Hill—crying that had led me down musty stairs to a strange and forbidding door.

Matthew catches Vicki in the basement, where she claims she's looking for a book for David. Matthew distrusts her and tells her about the ghost of Josette Collins. He refuses to allow her in the locked room. He refuses to make trouble for Liz or tell Vicki how opening that room would make trouble for Liz. Burke's reading The Count of Monte Cristo and Carolyn likens the duö. Burke calls Carolyn on her jealousy of Vicki. Liz tells Matthew that he was responsible for Roger's accident, not Burke. She orders him to lie and take the blame for the faulty brake part. Matthew accepts the blame; he tells Liz about catching Vicki in the basement. Carolyn pursues Burke. Vicki tells Liz about Ned's call. Carolyn and Vicki talk about her 'missing' ring, ink for pens, and the sobbing in the basement, which Carolyn's heard for most of her life. She attributes it to ghosts and tells Vicki to 'get used to it' like the rest of the 'kooks' at Collinwood.

[edit] Memorable quotes

[edit] Dramatis personae

• ← Joan Bennett as ← Elizabeth Collins Stoddard →
• ← Mitchell Ryan as Burke Devlin →
• ← Nancy Barrett as Carolyn Stoddard →
• Thayer David as ← Matthew Morgan →
• ← Alexandra Moltke as Victoria Winters →
• ← Colleen Kelly as Susie → (uncredited)
• ← Collinsport Inn customer → (uncredited)

[edit] Background information and notes

• Thayer David takes over the role of Matthew Morgan from George Mitchell, beginning with this episode.

[edit] Continuity and mistakes

• Matthew tells Vicki that the sobbing she heard was Josette Collins and that other ghosts haunt Collinwood. Later on in episodes 122, 125 and 126, when he's confronted by Josette, Bill Malloy and the widows, he'll deny believing in ghosts.
• The blinking square, indicating a commercial break, can be seen slightly at the top right of the screen at the end of the final act.