PEYTON PLACE
Episode 44.
02-16-65
Letter from Catherine. Constance turns 36.
[Dorothy Malone was born 01-30-25. She was a few days over
40 when this episode aired.]
WA: It has been a disturbing evening for Constance Mackenzie and
Elliot Carson. For Allison, too, the evening has been unusual.
Intro: Elliot breaks glass in the framed photograph of Mr. Mackenzie.
Constance hears Paul Hanley drive up. She finishes picking up
the shards of broken glass.
Scene 1: Paul has driven Allison home in his British sports car. She
thanks him for driving her home. He apologizes for a remark he
had made. Allison gets out of the car and goes in the house.
Elliot comes out and asks Paul for a lift to the square.
Scene 2: Constance and Allison talk. Allison says that she is surprised
because she knows Elliot doesn't like Paul.
Scene 3: Elliot asks Paul why he brought Allison home. Paul asks Elliot
why he was visiting Constance. Elliot and Paul talk. Elliot
mentions that Allison is 18. Paul aggravates Elliot by noting
that 18 is a magic number in Peyton Place. That Elliot has
been in prison 18 years. His sister has been dead 18 years.
Constance has been widowed 18 years. Elliot glowers. He then
alludes to a destroyer and drifting in a life boat. Paul again
mentions prison. Elliot grabs Paul. Paul says, "Elliot, let
go of me."
Scene 4: Constance and Allison talk some more. Allison says she is
beginning to understand her mother. Referring to Elliot,
Allison says, "I don't think you are interested in him
romantically, but you are interested." They talk some more and
Constance makes reference to Allison's grandmother Swain.
[Constance is said to be Matthew's second cousin twice removed.
Allison refers to Matthew as Uncle Matt.]
Scene 5: In the Peyton square, Allison walks by the cannon and runs into
her uncle, Matthew Swain. She asks him to buy her some hot
chocolate. He declines. He says a girl can't always be that
lucky.
She goes alone into Mr. Hanley's Peyton Place Pharmacy and
orders a cup of hot chocolate. She asks what happened to his
soda jerk. Hanley says he fired the boy because he was always
flirting with the girls. [This creates a job opening which
Rita Jacks fills.]
Betty comes in. Allison asks Betty to join her. Betty orders
coffee. Allison tells Betty she is glad that Betty came back.
Betty says that she has just signed the annulment papers.
Allison pays for both. They both leave. Calvin Hanley clears
off the counter.
Scene 6: Outside the Pharmacy, Allison introduces Betty to her college
English instructor, Paul Hanley. Allison asks Paul if he is
thinking up dreadful questions to ask his students. Paul says
it was nice to meet Betty, excuses himself, and goes in the
Pharmacy.
Scene 7: Back inside the Pharmacy, Calvin Hanley frowns. Calvin is
annoyed that Paul has come in. Last time it was Paul who was
reluctant to come in. Paul turns the OPEN sign over
and pulls down the shade. He asks his father for some pain
killers. He infers that he wants his father to give him some
prescription drugs. Calvin says he needs a prescription for
tranquilizers. His father provides him with aspirin. He tells
his father that he thinks his father forced him to lie about
Elliot Carson. Calvin insists that Paul told the truth. Paul
turns the CLOSED sign back over and leaves.
Scene 8: A brief moderately humorous encounter between Dr. Rossi and a
bald-headed orderly. The orderly wants to know if the new
contraption is better than an old fashioned mustard plaster.
Mrs. Kramer is the patient. Rossi explains that it is
considerably more expensive. Elliot comes in and asks Rossi
when he will be able to take Eli home. Dr. Rossi tells Elliot
that Eli shouldn't stay in this climate. The winter could be
bad for his heart, that Eli should be taken to a warmer
climate, the sooner the better. Elliot tells the doctor that
Eli has a cousin in Florida. He says sarcastically that he has
other relatives on the French Riviera. Elliot says he has no
money.
Scene 9: On the phone at the Peyton Mills, Leslie tells lawyer Theodore
Dowell that he doesn't want a divorce for Rodney, he wants an
annulment. Leslie conversation on the phone with Dowell
infers that Dowell's wife is named "Louise". Matthew Swain
comes in to talk about Catherine's will and say that he is
executor. It was Catherine's final wish that the mill revert
to Martin Peyton. Leslie is told that attorney Wainwright is
there. He has an old letter from Catherine to Peyton which
explains the reason for the change in her will. In the letter,
Catherine questions Leslie's relationship with Julie Anderson.
Preview: Elliot talks to Constance. Leslie talks to Norman. Rodney
talks to Betty.
EC: Connie have a birthday dinner again with me tonight.
CM: I'm sorry, Elliot, I have to say no.
EC: Oh, I see.
LH: I'm going to testify that she wasn't really herself.
NH: If you do this to my mother's memory, I could see you
out begging with a tin cup and it wouldn't bother me
one bit.
RH: Go ahead, take them, you deserve them. Just like you
did the money he gave you in New york.
BA: Money, who gave me?
RH: The man you met.
Calvin Hanley says that he fired the soda jerk for flirting with girls.
Mrs. Kramer-patient at the hospital, only mentioned.
Bald-headed orderly talking about mustard plasters.
Constance Swain Mackenzie Carson-Dorothy Malone
Dorothy Malone is retired and living in Greater Dallas.
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