August 10, 1966--Episode 32

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My name is Victoria Winters.
It seems like years since she came to Collinwood and she's no closer to the answers she came to find. [I know how she feels, but at least I'm not looking for answers.]

Victoria stands in her room, holding her "birth certificate."

Elizabeth sits in the drawing room with just the fire in the fireplace for light. Carolyn comes home and turns on some lights. She asks repeatedly if Elizabeth is all right, and Elizabeth repeatedly says she is. Elizabeth says she was afraid Carolyn would be caught in the storm, and Carolyn says she was, too. [All right now. Was there ever a storm? Everybody who comes into the house seems to have just missed it, no matter when they come in.]

Carolyn asks where David is. Upstairs in his room.

Elizabeth tells Carolyn that she wants her, at least, to be happy. Please be happy. Then she tells her she wasn't home when David came home.

Carolyn already knows about Burke bringing him home because she went to the hotel. She asks if Elizabeth saw Burke, but Burke had already left when she got home.

And David won't speak to her, he's lying on his bed, terrified.

Carolyn says it's all over now, but Elizabeth says it'll go on and on. Elizabeth asks if Carolyn told anyone why she was looking for David. Carolyn didn't, which is good, because no-one must know.

How will they explain what happened to the car? Elizabeth has already told the sheriff that the brakes failed, it was an accident.

What about Burke? Carolyn asks. They tried to have him arrested, don't they owe him an apology?

Elizabeth doesn't care about Burke, she's worried about David. [I think Burke would be on Elizabeth's side on this one.] Carolyn says she'd rather have a friend like Burke than ten cousins like David the monster. Elizabeth suddenly doesn't want Carolyn calling him that. And she wants Carolyn to be happy, Carolyn is the only one who has a chance to be happy. She doesn't really know Burke, or what he's capable of.

Carolyn knows she likes him, but she's not ready to run off with him. Besides, he hasn't asked her to. Elizabeth is not amused.

At the Blue Whale, Joe is talking to a nearly empty glass of something alcoholic. It's about the size of a water glass, with one ice cube in it so if it's whiskey, I hope it's really watered down. [It isn't beer; we see beer later and it comes in a mug.] He asks if it loves him, then answers for it that yes, it loves him. Then he asks if it will marry him. No, it won't marry him. Why won't it marry him? Because it lives in a house on a hill, that's why.

Joe wants another drink. He calls for Andy [who's the bartender, I guess]. But Burke shows up and tells Andy to get Joe another drink and him a beer. Then he sits down with Joe, who doesn't want to drink with him. Burke tried to steal his girl, and he's telling him he's had enough to drink. He doesn't like Burke.

But Burke wants to know what's wrong, so Joe tells him that the guy he was going to buy the boat with is going to have a baby, so he can't afford to buy a boat. Burke tells him his offer to pay him to spy on the Collins family is still open.

In the drawing room, Carolyn and Elizabeth are drinking tea. Carolyn is appalled to find out that David isn't going anywhere. She tells Elizabeth that it won't be safe there, and Elizabeth says that in that case she should get married and leave the house.

Carolyn goes to Victoria's room. Now Victoria is lying on her bed, reading her birth certificate. Carolyn already knows it by heart: "Her name is Victoria, I can't take care of her." Then she says, "I wonder if the person who wrote that ever thought you'd end up here."

The conversation turns to David, and whether or not the whole family is crazy. Carolyn can't figure out what's the matter with her (Carolyn). She doesn't know who she is, either. Victoria asks if she can borrow Carolyn's car.

Carolyn says she can, then she says she can't marry Joe because the worst thing she could do to a nice guy like him is bring him into her family.

At the Blue Whale, Joe is getting drunker and Burke is trying to get him to stop drinking. Joe tells Burke he's a mouse because he's never told Carolyn how he feels. But he's been shoved and stepped on for the last time. Joe staggers from the bar.

Burke gets another beer and tells Andy to put Joe's drinks on his tab.

At Collinwood, Joe pounds on the door. Elizabeth, who has been talking to Victoria, lets him in. She doesn't seem particularly upset about Joe being drunk. Joe wants to see Carolyn, but Elizabeth and Victoria try to dissuade him. Joe goes up a couple of steps, but then Carolyn hears him and comes down. She tells him he's potted--and seems rather delighted by it. He wants everyone to go into the drawing room and talk. [Why not, everyone else does.]

Joe tells Carolyn to sit down, and Elizabeth starts to get annoyed. Joe tells Carolyn she'll never get married because she'll stay in her dungeon, keeping her mother company. Victoria tries to leave, but Joe wants her to hear this, too. He tells Victoria that Carolyn won't marry him because she's scared. Inside she's shaking like a rabbit, and it's all Elizabeth's fault. He says that her marriage to Carolyn's father put her in a prison, and then he tries to fall over.

Carolyn and Victoria help him to the sofa where he tells Victoria if she stays, she'll be in a prison too, and that he loves Carolyn. Then he passes out.

Carolyn tells her mother what Joe said isn't true. Elizabeth says nothing. She asks Victoria what got into him, and Victoria says that he loves her. Then she leaves.

Carolyn tells an unconscious Joe that what he said wasn't true.

At the Blue Whale, Victoria finds Burke and asks if she can sit down.

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