PEYTON PLACE Episode 51. 03-11-65 Elliot finds the diary of his late wife. WA: Within his lonely beach cottage, Elliot Carson is making an important discovery. On his table, someone has placed a package. Its crude wrapping vividly recalled the tragedy that sent Elliot to prison. Inside is a diary, the intimate secrets of the murdered woman who was Elliot's wife. Intro: The ocean. Elliot drives up in his $50 coupe and goes into the cottage. He finds the diary of Elizabeth Hanley Carson wrapped in an old Peyton Place Clarion. The headline reads as follows: ELIZABETH CARSON MURDERED Scene 1: Elliot reads the diary and the voice of Elizabeth is heard speaking the words. Tomorrow, Elliot comes home. I wonder if he thinks everything will be just the same. Home is the hero and the town put on quite a show. The local authorities who were so glad he was out of the way, were shaking his hand today, telling him how happy there were to see him back. The gossips have been at it. Elliot thinks there have been other men. Well what did he expect. Four years is a long time. Now Elliot feels it's one man. We had a row about it just before he left for New York. I was almost tempted to tell him who it was, just to see the look on his face. Leslie just phoned. He thinks Catherine's found out about us and insists on coming here tonight to talk things out. Well we'll talk thing out all right. But If he thinks he is going to break this off, he is due for a shock. I have landed the biggest fish in Peyton Place. Why should I let him off the hook? Elliot silently expresses the name Leslie Harrington. Scene 2: At the mansion, Dr. Robert Morton talks to Leslie about Norman's testifying in the competency hearing for Catherine. He looks at the portrait of Samuel Peyton. Morton says that he will have to testify about Catherine. Leslie makes a veilled threat about Morton's competency. Morton admits that he failed Catherine as a doctor. Scene 3: Nurse Choate talks to Betty in her own very special nasty way. Betty failed to give a patient a scheduled alcohol rub. The patient had told Betty she didn't want the rub at that time. Choate says that she tries not to make moral judgments about her patients. Choate reminds Betty that she is there only on a trial basis. Scene 5: Rodney talks to Norman while waxing his skis. Raodney says that he is planning to take Allison up to Mt. Griswald to go skiing. Norman picks up a cue stick and makes a shot of the pool table. He ask Norman to go with them. Norman calls Rodney golden boy. Rodney tells Norman that he is a good skier. Norman says he is tired of going down hill. Scene 4: In the Book Gallery, John Pearson is trying to sell a large book order to Constance. Allison is wrapping packages. Pearson asks Constance to dinner, but she declines. Pearson says goodbye and leaves. Rodney honks and Allison goes outside. Rodney is parked in front of the real estate office. A "Property management" sign is painted on the window. He talks about Paul Hanley and waxes poetical. Allison laughs. Betty walks up and speaks briefly with Allison and Rodney. Betty tells them that she is now working at the hospital. Allison tells Rodney that Constance told her that Betty is a nurse's aid. Rodney helps Allison in the car with their skis on top. Rodney wonders is nurse's aides get paid. Scene 6: Betty goes in to Rossi's outer office and talks with Julie about Allison and Rodney. It makes Betty seem older. Betty wants to talk with Dr. Rossi. Betty says that George is coming home for a first visit and that she is fixing roast beef. Betty thinks that Julie is frightened. Rossi escorts a miss Lane out of his inner office. He greets Betty and offers to let Betty and her mother go to lunch. Betty asks to talk with the doctor a moment. Betty goes in his inner office and tells him that the work at the hospital is not for her. Rossi wants the whole truth. Betty explains that miss Choate doesn't like her and is being mean to her. Rossi tries to smooth things over and Betty agrees to stay. Scene 7: Betty and Julie go out on the street and walk past the Clarion and the Ships Chandlery. Scene 8: Elliot turns the Chandlery OPEN sign over. He talks with Mr. William Wainwright, Mr. Peyton's attorney, about Elizabeth and Leslie. Elliot asks where Wainwright first got the idea that Leslie was seeing Elizabeth. Elliot tells Wainwright that he has Elizabeth's diary. He says that he came back to Peyton Place for just one reason. He wants to trade the diary for getting his case re-opened, that he is not guilty of murder. Elliot and Wainwright come to an agreement and make a deal. Wainwright agrees to help. Scene 9: Leslie drives up in front of Chandlery and sees attorney William Wainwright coming out and shaking Elliot's hand. He has a worried look. Prewview: Leslie talks with Constance in front of the mantle with the photograph of Mr. Mackenzie. Rodney talks with Allison. Dr. Rossi talks to Paul. LH: Constance, you're the only person who can keep Elliot Carson from using that diary. CM: I can't. LH: You can't. Allison's mother. AM: I can't. That would be pretending. RH: You know, in another moment, you're going to have me believing that I'm on a blind date with a girl I've never met before. PH: You have been enjoying a social acquaintance with the lovely Mrs. Mackenzie. MR: You have been going around looking for trouble. Now do you want it from me or do you care where it comes from. Mr. John Pearson, book salesman-uncredited, also seen in episode 85. Miss Lane, patient of Dr. Rossi-uncredited. William Robert Wainwright-Gregory Morton. PREV HOME NEXT