Episode 79, scene 3. Your reviewer's tape has very weak sound. Some of the dialog is not audible. Parts of the transcription are only a guess from the context. Steven Cord comes in the Tavern and sits at the far end of the bar.] Ada walks over. AJ: Yes? SC: Bourbon. Water on the side. SC: Two cubes of ice, in the water. [Ada prepares the drink.] AJ: I hope this is all right. SC: It will be. SC: You're Ada. AJ: I'm Ada. Who are you? SC: Steven Cord. AJ: Oh, you're Hanna's son. How is she? SC: Fine. AJ: And how's Martin. I mean, Mr. Peyton? SC: He won't be back. AJ: Oh, I'm Sorry. I am sorry. SC: I didn't think you would be anything else. SC: Eddie's gone. AJ: Who told you that? SC: My mother. She told me. AJ: You have your Bourbon. You have your water and you have your two cubes of ice. Have it on the house and don't come back. SC: Ada? AJ: Mrs. Jacks. SC: Mrs. Jacks, I didn't come here to have an argument. AJ: That's good. SC: But I did come here for a reason. SC: I came to see you. AJ: Why? SC: Because I remembered you. I remembered you when I was a child. SC: You had long hair. Golden. Golden. To me it seemed Golden. You were very beautiful AJ: You needed a fairy godmother. SC: No fairy godmother for me. SC: Only a great king. AJ: Uh huh. SC: And two princes. SC: I saw the two princes tonight. SC: They were having dinner at the Inn with Dr. Rossi. SC: They didn't recognize me, of course. SC: There was some kind of an argument. SC: Thank you. SC: And one of them got up and left. SC: Norman Harrington. AJ: Why did you come back? SC: Norman, I mean. AJ: He was his mother's boy. He took her death hard, Never got over it. SC: How did he go for this father calling the mother a murderer. AJ: He didn't. SC: How about Rodney? AJ: Rodney is different. SC: Why was Norman so rotten. AJ: What's here in this town for you? SC: A job. AJ: That's all. SC: A place to drop in from time to time. AJ: That's all. SC: And to talk. AJ: About old times? SC: And you? [Steven attempts to pay for his drink.] AJ: That's on the house. [Rita is watching from the back room.] [Ada goes in to talk with Rita.] RJ: Who was that? AJ: Oh, someone who used to live here, when he was a kid. RJ: Who was it? AJ: His mother is Martin Peyton's house keeper. AJ: What did you do tonight? RJ: I saw a movie. AJ: Alone? RJ: Why not? I saw a couple of kids down there, but I didn't go out with them though. I thought maybe I would see Norman. AJ: Go slow, Rita. RJ: Why? AJ: From what I hear, Norman Harrington is all wrought up. RJ: Well, that's no reason not to just drop him. AJ: How would you like to go away, to school? RJ: You mean like to a girl's school, a finishing school? AJ: Yeah. I've got the money. RJ: Norman has a car. RJ: And then what? RJ: Mother, what's the trouble? AJ: This town never was good for me. It won't be good for you. [Ada goes in the bedroom.] Episode 79, scene 3 HOME