August 11, 1966--Episode 33

[the_collinsport_review]

[David Ford takes over the role of Sam Evans, previously played by Eddie Jones.]

My name is Victoria Winters.
She began her search in Collinwood, but the key has not been found, so the search goes on.

Victoria and Burke sit at a table at the Blue Whale. Burke said he never thought she'd come, and Victoria said she didn't either. Burke asks why she did come, and Victoria, after giving him an oblique answer, gives a clearer one: she's come all the way to Collinwood to find out who she is. It would be silly not to come into town to talk to him.

Their drinks arrive, and Burke does a little personality profiling about the sherry she's drinking. Victoria isn't the sherry type, Elizabeth is. Carolyn is the soda type, and Victoria is either a milk shake or champagne.

Burke tries to get Victoria into having dinner with him, but Victoria is only interested into seeing his report. He says that since they're already there, they should eat first, then he'll get the report, which is in his room. Victoria says she wants to go to Burke's room. Burke is surprised by this, but they go to his room.

In the drawing room, Joe is coming to. Carolyn is standing over him, and he has no idea how he got there. Carolyn says he floated in. He's been there an hour and a half. Joe is embarrassed, and as Carolyn goes to get him coffee, he asks if he did anything foolish. She tells him he did, he made an enemy: her.

Back with the coffee, they're rehashing his drunken tirade. Carolyn agrees that Elizabeth is angry with him. Joe explains that the reason he got drunk was the boat deal falling through. Carolyn is honestly sympathetic about this, and can see why he got so drunk. Joe further tells her about giving Burke a piece of his mind--but he's not sorry about that. Carolyn is displeased.

Victoria and Burke go to Burke's room. Burke is still trying to get Victoria to have dinner with him. He does manage to get them on a first name basis.

Victoria tells him she wants to see the report, and asks why he had her investigated. Burke tells her it's because she was coming to work at Collinwood. Victoria doesn't see that as a reason.

Burke says that her anxiousness makes him think she's hiding something, and she asks how she can be hiding something when she doesn't know anything about herself. That's the reason she's so anxious. Burke goes to get the report.

In the drawing room, Joe manages to stand up. He goes to look at the portrait over the fireplace at the portrait of Jeremiah, Carolyn's "great-grandfather." [Nowhere near enough greats there.] "The days when he wasn't drunk, those were the special ones." [Family history is fascinating. Who came up with these stories?]

Carolyn asks how much Joe had to drink, and he says he can't remember. Then he does remember that he didn't pay for his drinks. They get on the subject of Burke and have the same old Carolyn-likes-him, Joe-doesn't conversation. They kiss a couple of times, Carolyn asks Joe to apologize to him, and Joe refuses.

In Burke's room, Victoria is reading her report and Burke is ordering dinner for two from room service. When he gets off the phone, Burke asks if she's learned anything. But there's nothing in the report she doesn't already know.

Burke tells her that if she wants, he'll help her investigate her past. Victoria is suspicious, thinking that he has ulterior, Collins-hurting motives. Burke assures her he doesn't, but Victoria doesn't want to be involved in his quarrel with Roger.

Still, she show's him her "birth certificate" and tells him about how she started getting monthly letters with fifty dollars in them. That started when she was two. [They call them letters, but Victoria says that it was just an envelope with fifty dollars in it.] Since then she's wanted to know who sent them. She came to Collinwood because the letters were postmarked Bangor, Maine, and Collinsport is only fifty miles from Bangor. It seemed like there had to be a connection.

She also tells him about the story Roger told her about the anonymous donor. She hasn't had a chance to go to Bangor yet.

Burke tells her things are going to get much worse in Collinwood, and that--yes, she should leave. Victoria can't leave, so Burke tells her he'll try to help her.

[Now, see, if they ever established that Elizabeth was Victoria's mother, her relationship with Burke could be a Romeo and Juliet retelling.]

Joe comes to the door to pay Burke, who took care of his bar bill. He's still there when Victoria comes out of the bathroom from washing her hands. Joe acts as though he's caught them at something, and after he leaves, Victoria does, too.

[Jack Nicklaus defends his title in the Thunderbird Golf Tournament, Saturday and Sunday at four, three o'clock Central Time, in color, on ABC.]