The Collinsport Review

My name is Victoria Winters.
They're having a moment of quiet at Collinwood, but Roger still remembers how close he came to death.

Roger comes downstairs, and after lingering for a few moments, Elizabeth comes in the front door. She tells him Matthew has gone to town to look for David. Roger tells her she can tell him not to bother. Elizabeth asks why, and Roger says she's missed quite a few things, and that David tried to kill him. Elizabeth says that's not true, and asks where David is. "Where all criminals belong," Roger says, "under lock and key."

Elizabeth asks when David got home, and Roger says it was about three quarters of an hour ago. Roger asks why, when she phoned to tell him David was missing, she didn't tell him the reason.

Elizabeth says she wasn't sure. Roger doesn't believe that, and they go over the whole valve thing again. Elizabeth says that maybe it was something that looked like the piece. Roger dispels this hope by showing her the piece and telling her it came home with David. When Elizabeth asks how David could have done it, Roger doesn't recognize this as an existential question and says that all he needed was a wrench.

In the police station, Jonas calls his invisible deputy Harry and tells him to try to get a hold of Bill. This is an easy task for Harry, since Bill is right there. Jonas says to send him in.

Jonas has a problem, and he wants Bill to help him with it. He wants information on the Collins family. "Roger. His sister Elizabeth. All of them." [At the moment the nameless "all of them" consists of Carolyn and David, and this makes me think of the early Gilligan's Island theme, when the Professor and Mary Ann were described as "and the rest."]

Bill asks why Jonas is asking him, and Jonas says because he manages their fishing fleet and cannery, and he knows them better than anyone else in town.

Bill doesn't think that's a good reason. [It's a good reason for Jonas to ask him; it's not a good reason for him to tell Jonas anything.] This somehow segues into who tampered with Roger's brakes, and they both know it was Burke. Bill further knows that Burke had a P.I. in town before he arrived---and Jonas knows that, too! Jonas knows the facts of the case, but he doesn't have enough to do anything. Then he tells Bill to just answer some questions about one member of the Collins family: a nine year old boy named David.

In the drawing room, Elizabeth engages in her favorite hobby: staring out the French windows. Roger comes into the house and Elizabeth asks if he stopped Matthew in time. Roger did, but doesn't see what difference it makes. [Well, Roger, it might make some difference to Matthew, since hardly anyone likes to be sent off on a fool's errand even if they are being sent by the Collins family.]

Elizabeth asks if Roger told Matthew anything. Roger didn't. Then she wants to know who else knows about David trying to kill him. Roger doesn't care about who knows. All he can think about are the nine years he's spent living with that boy, and how they're over now.

Elizabeth says that David is still his son, and Roger says--guess what! That David's a monster and that he's been nothing but trouble to him since the day he was born. [I find this unlikely, unless by "trouble" Roger means he wasn't his wife's center of attention after David's birth. Because can you see Roger changing diapers, or even feeding David?] David and his mother have both been nothing but trouble. He tells Elizabeth that life with David and Laura was hell. [I'm almost positive this is the first time we've heard David's mother's name.]

Once again Elizabeth says that David is Roger's son. [When do you think it's going to sink in that Roger doesn't care if David is his son?]

This time Roger questions that. He married Laura right after Burke's trial, and Laura was Burke's girl. [Oh, really?] David was born almost eight months after they got married, and every time Roger looked at David, he saw Burke, and he hated him. He won't deny that.

Elizabeth is sure David is Roger's son. Roger asks why? Is it because he's deceitful, dishonest, because he tried to kill his own father?

We make one more pass around the "maybe he didn't know what would happen" subject. Roger says he's known David nine years, whereas Elizabeth has only known him for two months. And do you know what those nine years add up to? Roger holds up the infamous bleeder valve.

In the police station, Jonas asks Bill what David said. Bill asks if Jonas realizes that David is just a kid. [Well, he mere moments ago he describe him as being nine years old, so I'm going to guess that yes, he does know that.] Bill says that David and Roger must have had one humdinger of a fight because David said, "I hope he dies."

Jonas asks if he thinks David could really hate his father. Bill equivocates by saying he doesn't like him, and asks Jonas what he's getting at.

Jonas asks what they argued about, and Bill tells him Roger talked about sending David away.

Both men are appalled at the idea that David could have tried to kill Roger, but Jonas is thinking it.

Jonas tells the story of how David dropped and picked up the wrench, and that David's fingerprints are on it. Bill says that of course his fingerprints are on it, he handled it. Jonas tells him he never did like Burke for the crime because he's too smart to have gone through with it after being seen. [Then why were you just agreeing that you'd like to arrest Burke for it?]

Bill says that the car did crash, and Jonas says that he thinks Burke's story is true. Then he shows him a picture of some fingerprints, with Burke's fingerprint covering part of David's.

Bill says that doesn't prove anything, and Jonas agrees. Bill asks what Jonas intends to do about it. Jonas doesn't know.

Roger is standing around the drawing room when Elizabeth comes in. She's been up talking to David, who wouldn't answer her. She pleaded with him to tell her it wasn't true, but he wouldn't say anything. [I can understand that. After all, he's told all kinds of other people it isn't true, and they haven't believe him.]

Elizabeth doesn't know what to do, but Roger does. "David isn't a normal child, for whatever reason." [Yes, for whatever reason.] He needs special help.

But, Elizabeth protests, he's so frightened. Roger says he should be frightened. Once again, Roger wants to send David away. But this is his home, Elizabeth says.

If he were older, he'd be sent to prison, Roger says, and Elizabeth answers that he isn't older. Roger says if he told the sheriff, he'd call the juvenile authorities.

Elizabeth tells Roger he's wrong, that David shouldn't be sent away. Roger tells her that David tried to kill him! Kill him! and now she wants David to go on living there so he can try it again.

Elizabeth has an answer for that. Maybe David didn't know what would happen!

[Are you starting to suspect I'm making this up? If it was me reading this, I'd be suspecting that, but I swear to you, I'm not.]

By now even Roger is fed up with this same argument. He asks Elizabeth what's next, a loose rock? Some rat poison in his coffee? He's tried to be as forgiving as possible--

Elizabeth--along with the rest of the civilized world--doubts this. But Roger has been trying to deal with David for nine years! [No! Really??]

Finally--finally!--Elizabeth asks Roger what he thinks those years were like for David, surrounded by a hate he didn't know how to deal with or even understand. Not that she's trying to excuse David, but she wants to help him. She then (metaphorically) throws the infamous bleeder valve in Roger's face and says it adds up to more than nine years, it adds up to a boy lying on his bed, trembling with fear, afraid of everything and everyone.

I'm to be blamed for that, Roger says, and Elizabeth essentially says yes, she's seen how Roger treats him, driving him deeper and deeper into his own fears.

And that excuses him? Roger asks again, and Elizabeth says, again, that nothing excuses him, but he's been forced to live his lifetime with Roger's guilts.

Guilts? Roger challenges. Just what does she mean by that?

Elizabeth backs down. She shouldn't have said that. But she wants to help his son

Ah, but maybe David isn't his son!

[I'm getting a headache. Will somebody please slow down this merry-go-round so I can jump off?]

Elizabeth will have none of that. He belongs to them--and she points at the portraits in the drawing room--Jeremiah, Isaac, Benjamin. David is the last of the line, and he needs their help. Elizabeth has made up her mind.

What does she expect him to do? Roger asks

To remember that David's not a criminal, and to leave him alone while Elizabeth and Victoria give him the happiness he deserves.

Just then, Jonas comes to the door, looking for Roger. Jonas comes into the drawing room, and Roger starts making veiled remarks about the family.

Roger asks if Jonas has arrested Burke, and laughs at the irony of it if he has.

Jonas says he never liked Burke for the crime, and Roger cuts him off to say how right he was, and go on and on about how unjust they were to Burke. Elizabeth is getting very angry with him.

You remember the wrench? Well, Jonas could be wrong, but--

And before he has a chance to say anything else, Roger asks if it's about David. [At this moment Roger has less to worry about from David than he does from Elizabeth.]

Yes, Jonas says, there were prints on the wrench.

This time Elizabeth interrupts him to tell him that the whole thing was just an accident.

Now Roger is angry--and surprised, which goes to show he wasn't paying attention earlier.

Elizabeth says that the caretaker told her that the valve had been loose in the past and should have been fixed. He didn't want to say anything because of the accident.

"You mean it fell off by itself," Jonas half-asks, very skeptical.

Yes, Elizabeth says, and tells Roger to show him the valve. Roger, who is sulking, has to be told twice.

[The valve, by the way, sort of looks like a bullet.]

Jonas asks where it was found, and Elizabeth tells him by the side of the road, exactly where it fell. [I don't know how she knows that.]

Jonas, no dummy, says that what she's telling him is that she wants him to drop the whole thing, and Elizabeth says that since there are no criminals involved, there's no point continuing the investigation.

Elizabeth, double-checking, asks if there will be no further investigation. Why should there be, Jonas asks, when there's nothing to investigate? And now he's going to go home because he promised to take his wife to the movies.

Elizabeth shows him to the door, with Roger still sulking in the foyer doorway. As he's about to leave, Jonas tells Roger to give David his regards.

Now both Roger and Elizabeth are furious. Roger starts to sulk his way upstairs, but Elizabeth tells him she had no choice.

Roger says again that David is a monster, and that someday Elizabeth will regret protecting him.

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My name is Victoria Winters.
Both a brewing storm and angry spirits attack the house. The only sound is the storm, but the emptiness is filled with tension, and Victoria is alone.

Victoria comes downstairs [alone] and goes into the drawing room, where she closes the French windows. The lights flicker and go out, and the doors slam shut.

Fortunately there are matches on the mantlepiece, and Victoria lights one and throws it in the already-burning fire [no, I don't know why], then lights another and uses it to light a candle.

Then the doors open, showing the figure of a man illuminated by the lightning. Victoria asks who's there, but no one answers. Then a door slams.

Victoria huddles by her candle, until the lights come back on, then she blows it out and hesitantly leaves the drawing room. As she's going upstairs she hears another door slam, and Roger comes from the kitchen area. Victoria asks if he just came in, and he says yes, he just barely managed to miss the storm. [remember this]

Victoria tells him that when the lights went out, she saw a man standing in the doorway, and Roger says it must have been him, he was on his way down to fix the fuse. Victoria tells him she called out but got no answer. Roger says he didn't hear anything. He is, of course, not interested.

He asks where everyone else is, and Victoria says they're out looking for David. Roger is even less interested in this, and pours himself a drink.

Victoria asks if he isn't worried, David's only a little boy. Roger says he's worried about him for nine years, and now he has more pressing worries. [Does anyone believe Roger has ever worried about David?] Roger asks about Carolyn, and Victoria tells him she's gone to town because David was spotted there. When Roger says he knew about that, Victoria is even more incredulous that Roger would come back to Collinwood, knowing David was in town. Roger tells her about David trying to break into Burke's room, then goes on to say that's quite a combination: his son and Burke Devlin, the two people he dislikes the most.

Victoria tells him he has no reason to dislike Burke, then proceeds to tell him that it was David who tried to kill him, and that she found the infamous valve and-- You know the rest.

Roger doesn't believe her. It was Burke who tampered with his car, Burke! Burke! Burke!

Back in Burke's room, Burke is looking at the infamous bleeder valve when David comes out of the bathroom. Burke puts the valve in his pocket.

He asks if David is afraid of lightning, and David says he isn't. Burke says he isn't either, but he had a dog who was. David never had a dog. Burke thinks every boy should have a dog, and says he'll get him one, if he's in town long enough. David's excited about this until Burke says he'll ask Roger about it. Roger won't let David have anything.

"Mr. Devlin?" David says.

"Burke," Burke reminds him.

"You know something, Burke?" David asks. "You're nice."

"Thank you, Mr. Collins," Burke says.

"David," David corrects him.

Burke calls to have his car sent around, and David looks for the infamous bleeder valve, but he can't find it. Finally he puts on his coat and they leave.

In the car they talk, with Burke telling a story about how he snuck onto a costal freighter, got seasick, and thought he was going to die.

David asks if Burke meant what he said about them being friends, and when Burke says he did, David says they have to go back to Burke's room, he forgot something. Burke says no, David insists, but Burke refuses. When Burke asks what David forgot so he can send it to him, David, defeated says it wasn't anything. Burke accepts this as an answer, as everyone else does, but at least Burke knows what the real answer is.

In Victoria's room, Victoria tells Roger the story of finding, locking up, and having the infamous bleeder valve stolen. No, she doesn't know where David was after she locked it up, yes, she's sure it's the same piece, and look, here's a magazine--that belongs to David--that shows how to remove it.

Roger is very subdued, and tells Victoria he doesn't know whether to thank her or to hate her. He and David argued, and he never liked David, but he never pretended to. He says that last part as though it's some kind of badge of honor.

There's a knock at the front door and Victoria takes off running, hoping it's David. Roger lingers, looking at the magazine.

It is David, with Burke. Roger has followed Victoria downstairs, and asks Burke what he's doing there.

Bringing home David, whom he found wandering.

Roger starts yelling at David about trying to get into Burke's room. When Burke tells Roger that David isn't answering because he's frightened, Roger says he should be frightened, then he asks if David's been with Burke the whole time.

Burke says if he means the last fifteen minutes, then yes, they've been together the whole time. You see, Burke was driving through town, he saw David walking along and picked him up because the storm was getting ready to break [again. I don't really have a problem with this being inaccurate, since Burke was lying, but if Roger just missed the storm, shouldn't it be raining out? Neither David nor Burke was wet when they came in].

Roger thanks Burke in a dismissive way and tells David to go into the drawing room so he can talk to him.

Alone with Victoria, Burke asks if that's the Collinwood version of the woodshed. Victoria tells him they appreciate him bringing back David, but he should leave now. Since nobody ever listens to Victoria, Burke doesn't leave. He's curious about what's going on in the drawing room.

In the drawing room Roger yells at David about trying to kill him and David blames everything on Victoria because she tried to kill Roger. Roger doesn't believe this and makes David empty his pockets. There is no valve there. Roger thinks David threw it away. David wants to see Elizabeth, but Roger says Elizabeth can't help him because there's no help for a boy who tried to kill his father.

In the foyer, Burke talks about what a nice clock the Collinses have, how it's nearly two hundred years old [close enough] and probably one of the first things brought into the house. Victoria's response is to tell Burke to leave. Burke reminds Victoria of the night they met, and how he told Victoria she should go back where she came from. And he tells her this again. [I wonder how long it takes before they can have a conversation without Burke telling her to leave Collinwood.]

In the drawing room, Roger is showing David his magazine. You know the one. David asks where he got it, and when Roger tells him he got it from Victoria's room, David says he didn't put it there, and that Victoria is just trying to get him into trouble. [Yes, that's an excellent story you've got there, David. Victoria tried to kill your father just so she could get you in trouble.]

Roger comes out into the foyer and is displeased to see Burke still there. He tells him to leave, but doesn't wait to see if he does. He takes Victoria into the drawing room--well, really the doorway of the drawing room. Burke, standing right behind her, goes completely unnoticed throughout this next bit.

Victoria tells David that it's pointless to lie, then Roger starts questioning Victoria about-- You must know what about by this time.

Victoria says she was looking for her letter, and David says that's why she's lying about him, because he took her letter. Victoria defends herself, and accuses David of taking the valve.

Just then Burke makes his presence known and, holding up the infamous bleeder valve, asks if this is what they're looking for.

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My name is Victoria Winters.
David holds the key to an attempted murder, but he's disappeared.

Burke barges into the Sheriff's office to yell at him about searching his room. He tells Jonas to stay away from him.

Jonas points out that he's a suspect in a murder, and wants to know why, if he has nothing to hide, he's so worried.

Burke says he had no right to search his room without a warrant, and Jonas shows him the warrant. Burke asks what he was looking for--which should be on the warrant [hey, not for nothing have I been a L&O junkie all these years] and Jonas says, "This and that," then tells Burke he has a lot of nice clothes and asks where he got them. [I like this sheriff. I wish we'd seen more of him.]

Burke accuses Jonas of being in Roger Collins's pocket. Jonas takes umbrage at this. [I never get to use the word umbrage.] Burke goes on about how he's innocent and isn't going to prison again. Jonas picks up a file and says he has to take this to his deputy, but Burke should do some thinking about how a car went off the road and Roger was almost killed. And if Burke didn't do it, who did? [This is the first show I've ever seen where the police actually tell the wrongly-accused man that he should try and figure out who the real killer is. Usually they just get mad when he does that.]

David stands in the doorway of the restaurant. Maggie has found him in the lobby of the inn and brought him in to give him a sundae. He's unenthusiastic about this, but he does ask if he could work the fountain sometime. Maggie asks if his father knows where he is, and if he's coming to get him. David's answers don't match up, and Maggie says she has to make a call to her father to let him know where she is. David is eating his sundae--and says it's good with whipped cream.

Back in the sheriff's station, Burke is looking at wanted posters. He tells Jonas that he's been out of prison for five years because of his good behavior.

The phone rings, and it's Frank, Jonas's friend in New York. Jonas asks to call him back.

Burke is angry now, and says he has no idea who would want to kill Roger, but Jonas is to stay off his back. He slams out. Jonas returns Frank's call.

In the restaurant, Maggie teaches David how to make a sundae while she clumsily pumps him for information about why he was trying to get into Burke's room. David goes into sulk mode and tries to leave, but Maggie offers to have a sundae with him, so he goes back to his sundae-making.

Roger shows up, and instead of immediately handing David over to him, Maggie stands talking to him, giving David a chance to escape.

Not that Roger cares. He tells Maggie that David can find his own way home, but relents when she points out that it's now dark outside. He tells her to send David to his office if he comes back, and that he should "warn himself that he's in for a good, solid lecture." [Um, OK.]

Before he can leave, Maggie tells Roger that David was trying to get into Burke's room. Now Roger's interested, and wants to see David immediately, as soon as he's found. [Not that he's going to look for him himself or anything.]

Roger tries to leave, but Maggie stops him to ask about Sam, and how upset he's been lately. Roger doesn't know why she's asking him. Maggie says that Sam's been scared ever since he found out Burke was back in town, and thought Roger might know why. Roger continues to feign ignorance, until he hears that Burke has been over to visit Sam. Then he wants to know if they were talking about him.

Maggie jumps to the reasonable conclusion that Roger is involved in this somehow, but Roger plays it off as perfectly natural curiosity about why Burke should come to town and visit Sam. [Yeah, that, "Were they talking about me?" sounds like natural curiosity all right. Either that, or paranoia.]

Maggie tells him that there's nothing unusual about that because [repeat after me] Burke used to pose for Sam. Roger jumps to the conclusion that they were talking about Sam's paintings.

Maggie says sort of, but before she can explain, Burke comes in and tells Roger that Sam's going to do his portrait. Then he asks for some lobster roll. Maggie leaves, not unaware that he's just trying to get her out of the room.

Burke asks why it would upset Roger that he's seeing Sam. Roger says he doesn't see how Sam can paint Burke's portrait when he's leaving so soon. Burke explains again that his plans have changed.

Roger tells him that he's had his last chance, and Burke says that Roger still thinks he tried to kill him. [Yes, of course he does, it's only, what, the next day? Or maybe the same day.]

Roger says, "Now don't mess with me, Burke!" and Burke asks or what, he'll sic the sheriff on him? Roger calls him a convict who happened to pick up a little money, but he'll be back in prison soon.

Roger leaves, and Maggie comes back with Burke's food. Maggie tells Burke that it was David who was in his room, and that he was just looking around out of curiosity. Burke, a bit paranoid himself, seems to feel that David is one more Collins who is out to get him.

He asks Maggie to sit down, and even though she should get back to work [doing what, I'm not sure, they're the only two people there], she does. Burke wants to talk about Roger and Sam, to get information out of her. Had they been spending time together before he came back? Maggie realizes that the last time she saw Roger with her father, it was around the time of Burke's trial.

Roger has gone to the sheriff's office, to complain that Burke hasn't been arrested. Jonas says there seems to be something behind all this, but Roger overrides his suspicions with the patented Collins haughtiness and says he just wants to see Burke arrested.

Jonas tells Roger what Frank told him. Burke buys companies and sells them at a profit. Jonas says there is one curious thing: two weeks before Burke came to town, a private investigator he'd hired came to dig up all the information he could on the Collins family. Jonas then asks Roger the same question he asked Burke: who else would want to kill Roger? [I'd like to know how Frank knows a) that Burke hired a P.I., and b) what he hired him to do. New York is not Collinsport, the police have a lot more to do than Jonas Carter and his lone deputy.]

In the restaurant, Maggie is worried about David. Burke pays her for his dinner and leaves, and after putting the money in the cash register, she leaves the room.

Whereupon we discover where David has been hiding: in the phone booth. He sneaks out and leaves the restaurant.

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My name is Victoria Winters.
She's come to Collinwood to unlock the echoes of her past, but they lurk in the corners and murmur in unused rooms.

Once again the creepy door to the unused part of he house opens, and this time David comes out. Victoria catches him, and David tries to give her back his letter. Victoria asks why he did it, and David says he just wanted to read it, but of course Victoria is talking about the bleeder valve, which she then shows him.

David asks where she got it, and when Victoria tells him, he says she's lying and just wants to get him in trouble. Victoria says she's going to show it to his aunt. David tries to take it away from her, and they struggle. Victoria tries to lock herself in her room, but David gets in. After another struggle she gets the valve locked in one of her drawers. David, like a small, fierce, angry dog demands to have the valve back, but Victoria says that first he should let her show him where she found it. She follows him to the door of her room, and when he's in the hall, she slams the door and locks it.

Roger goes to the police station. Jonas says he was expecting him. Roger is disappointed that Jonas didn't arrest Burke. Jonas calls Harry and sends him for his lunch, asking if Roger wants anything. Of course he doesn't. Then Jonas says they don't have the kind of evidence they need on Burke.

Victoria calls to David in the hall that his father will be coming home soon.

Jonas has gotten his lunch. He's disappointed with his condiments.

Roger insults Jonas, says that Jonas is afraid of Burke because he's rich, but the Collins family is very important in Collinsport. Jonas says that he's not going to manufacture evidence. Roger protests that's not what he meant, but Jonas tells him to go back to his big fancy house and let him do his job!

Roger wants to know if Jonas has searched Burke's room, and Jonas replies that he doesn't believe he'd find anything, since anyone who would hang onto the infamous bleeder valve would have to be a fool or a psychotic. [David Collins: Fool or Psychotic?]

David leaves the hallway in front of Victoria's room. Somehow knowing this, Victoria comes out of her room.

David is trying to leave the house when Elizabeth comes in. She stops him, wanting to know what's going on, and after some struggle, he tells her he has to get away because Victoria tried to hurt him. She grabbed at him and tried to drag him into her room. Elizabeth wants to know what David did, and he says he borrowed Victoria's letter and Victoria got mad.

Elizabeth doesn't blame her for that, but doesn't believe that Victoria would hit him. David says that Victoria hates him and is going to make up all kinds of stories about him.

What kind of stories? Elizabeth asks, and David says anything that will get him trouble, and that she'll even blame him for Roger's accident.

Just then Victoria comes into the drawing room.

Elizabeth asks Victoria if it's true she tried to hit David, and Victoria asks to speak to Elizabeth alone.

Back in the police station, Jonas comes back with a search warrant. He checks to see if Burke is in his room. Then he gets a call from Mrs. Turner who thought her dog had been stolen. Roger is speechless with disinterest.

Roger thinks he's going with Jonas on the search, but Jonas tells him he's not a law enforcement official and to go home.

David is listening at the drawing room door, but it's hard to tell if he can hear anything.

Victoria tells Elizabeth her letter being missing and going to David's room to look for it. No, she didn't find it there. She gets that far when Elizabeth asks if Victoria hurt David. No, she didn't, it was David who tried to hurt her. He was like a madman. Victoria was afraid of him.

Instead of just telling Elizabeth what she found, Victoria tries to lead up to it, and Elizabeth interrupts her, trying to speed things along. [I nominate Elizabeth Collins Stoddard for sainthood.] The accident, Victoria says, and Elizabeth doesn't seem to believe her.

Then the phone rings. It's Roger, complaining that Jonas doesn't do what he's told when he's told to. David picks up the extension in the foyer to listen. Elizabeth tells him to get over it, though not in those words, and hangs up.

She tells Victoria that the sheriff is searching Burke's room, and if he finds the missing valve, that would end their discussion. Victoria tells her that the sheriff won't find it because it's in Victoria's dresser drawer. Elizabeth is disbelieving. Victoria goes on that she remembers Roger saying how easy it is to remove that valve, that even a child could do it. Elizabeth doesn't want to hear anymore.

Victoria tells her that David became frantic when he saw she had the valve. Elizabeth says she must have made a mistake. Victoria tells her it's in her dresser drawer, if Elizabeth wants to see it. They go to Victoria's room.

Elizabeth is still skeptical; maybe she mistook it for another piece of mechanical equipment. No, Victoria say, Roger showed her a drawing of it.

Victoria unlocks her drawer, but the infamous bleeder valve is gone!

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