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Matthew makes a startling confession to Elizabeth.
← Dark Shadows (1966) episode 53 →
Episode number	53
Timeline	1967
First aired	September 7, 1966
Tape date	August 24, 1966
Narrated by	Victoria Winters
Written by	Francis Swann
Directed by	John Sedwick

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. My home is now Collinwood. A strange brooding house where I tutor a small boy and try to teach him that ghosts are not perfectly natural visitors.

David interrogates Vicki about the events of the previous night. He asks if ghosts were chasing them and why she and Carolyn were screaming. Vicki tells him to look in his crystal ball; he already has and the answer would make her scream even louder. Then David tells her that someone in Collinsport wants to kill her, and when she's dead, he won't go to her funeral. David tells Vicki that his mother warned him about the spooky happenings at Collinwood. He suspects Roger stole his only picture of Laura. David accuses his father of lying, wanting to send him away, and wanting to beat him. Liz denies any activity the night before when David asks. David reports that Roger left very, very early in the morning. Liz takes a walk to Matthew's cottage. David vows to kill anyone who would hurt Liz. Joe comes to Collinwood looking for Liz, and asks about David's crystal ball. David again reasserts that he will never marry Carolyn. Vicki and Joe discuss the missing Malloy and the body and the watch. David eavesdrops and receives a scolding from Liz. Vicki goes up for David's lesson. Joe last saw Bill on the day before yesterday (46), or so he tells Liz. It's not like Malloy at all to be gone so long. Liz calls the sheriff (George) after Joe leaves with her concern about Bill Malloy. David attempts to skirt his transportation lesson by asking about the body (although he actually gets a bit of his lesson in). Liz tells the sheriff she’s not REALLY worried; Joe brings back Carolyn's watch. Liz phones the office to ask about Roger and to order a cover story on Malloy. David's still fixated on dead men, not transportation. He again asserts that the body was Malloy. Matthew's worried about Carolyn's hanging out at Widows' Hill (and speculates that Josette may have been lured to Widows' Hill by unnatural forces!). Matthew and Roger took a walk together on the beach this morning. David thinks Roger wasted Malloy. Morgan used to work for Jamison on the boats before coming to work for Liz. Liz orders Matthew to tell her the truth. He admits there was a body and that it was Bill Malloy. He pushed it back into the water!

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[edit] Dramatis personae

• ← Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard →
• ← Thayer David as Matthew Morgan →
• ← Joel Crothers as Joe Haskell →
• ← David Henesy as David Collins →
• ← Alexandra Moltke as Victoria Winters →

[edit] Background information and notes

[edit] Continuity and mistakes

• A boom mike shadow appears on the kitchen wall.

• Matthew speculates that Josette may have been compelled to jump from Widows' Hill by unnatural forces. This turns out to be prophetic as we indeed see that this is the case during the 1795 storyline!