PEYTON PLACE Episode 198. 03-24-66 Stella confesses her lie to John Fowler. Rodney is exonerated. WA: Convicted of second degree murder, Rodney Harrington awaits sentencing in Peyton County Jail. Stella Chernak finds herself in a different prison. The prison of her past. Outside Doctors Hospital, Stella's former boyfriend, Richard Jensen, waits for her to deliver the price of her freedom, a handbag filled with stolen narcotics. Intro: Rodney pacing to and fro in his jail cell. Scene 1: In Dr. Rossi's office in Doctors Hospital, Stella is pacing. She looks out the window and sees Richard Jensen in the parking lot. [Repeat of episode 197, scene 10]. Scene 2: Dr. Rossi and Allison come out of the hospital, and talk about Allison's flair for writing. [A setup to explain her escaping to New York.] They walk right past Richard Jensen. Elliot calls to Dr. Rossi and to Allison. Scene 3: Dr. Rossi talks to Richard Jensen addressing him as "Fred Blair." Rossi tells him he needs to talk with Mr. Larson the hospital purchasing agent. Scene 4: Rossi walks up to his office door and finds it locked. Stella is inside. He goes back to the corridor and asks a nurse Carr to find him a "pass" key. He goes back in his office. Stella tells Rossi that the keys weren't misplaced. She opens her purse to show him the narcotics that she has taken. She says, "What's the matter, you can't believe I'm a thief?" [This is an improper use of the archaic term "Pass Key." A pass key is intended for use with warded locks which "passes" by all wards. Wards are what allow the proper key to work, and others to fail.] Scene 5: In the Peyton Pharmacy, Elliot reads Allison's manuscript and compliments her on her writing. Elliot tells her that "we are all the sum total of our life experiences." Allison asks him what he would have done if Constance had married someone else while he was in prison. He tells her that he would have found someone else. Scene 6: Back in Dr. Rossi's office, Rossi interrogates Stella, "Why, Stella, Why?" Stella explains that it was because of a man. Stella allows that she was born to stay in the gutter. Scene 7: Outside Richard Jensen waits. Steven walks up and tells Jensen that he was supposed to be in Steven's law office. Steven takes Jensen to Doctors Hospital to Rossi's office. Jensen makes up a lame story. Steven doesn't even begin to buy it. Jensen makes a run for it and is restrained by two orderlies near the Information Desk. Scene 8: In his jail cell, Rodney talks with Leslie. Leslie leaves speaking briefly to the desk clerk. Scene 9: John Fowler checks in with police Sgt. William Wilson Walker, the desk clerk, and is told there has been a disturbance at Doctors Hospital. Scene 10: Leslie talks with John Fowler. Fowler reminds Leslie that he sent an innocent man to prison and that he doesn't have that on his conscience. He leaves the police station. The phone rings. It is Stella calling from Dr. Rossi's office. She confesses to John Fowler that her testimony was a lie. Dr. Rossi talks to Steven in the reception area. Stella comes out of the office and asks Steven for legal advice. He says, "sure." [Steven seldom turns down clients. One exception, however, was Sandy's divorce from Lee, later in the story.] Preview: Steven tells Rodney he has been cleared of the murder charge and conviction. Peyton talks to Hannah about Steven. Elliot tells off John Fowler. RH: I don't believe it. SC: It will hit you slowly, Rod. But it will hit you. MP: I haven't forgotten anything, no matter what you may think, Hannah. Steven is very much on my mind. EC: I will offer you the same courtesy you offered Rodney Harrington. How do you plead, Fowler? Guilty or just incompetent? Richard Jensen, aka Fred Blair-Don Gordon Nurse Carr-uncredited. PREV HOME NEXT