PEYTON PLACE
Episode 81.
06-24-65
David Schuster plans to progressively limit the staff.
WA: Much has happened since the tragic night George Anderson shot
Elliot Carson. But there are two women in Peyton Place to whom
this is still a matter of vital personal concern. George's
wife, Julie, and his daughter Betty.
Intro: Julie and Betty walking near the square toward the Peyton Place
Bank Building and the upstairs law offices of Theodore Dowell
and Steven Cord.
Scene 1: Lawyer Theodore Dowell has been perusing a letter from Martin
Peyton and calls Steven into his office. He complains about
Peyton's order for a signed requisition for a stock
verification which has already taken place. Dowell asks Steven
to take some papers over to Schuster this afternoon. The phone
rings and he asks Judge Mark about his ruling on the [George]
Anderson case.
Julie and Betty go into the law office and meet up with Steven
in the outer office. Julie introduces Steven to her daughter,
Betty. Steven says they can go on in to talk with Theodore
Dowell. Dowell discusses the fact that George is a mental [or
insane] asylum and that he will remain there until he improves
enough to go to trial. Betty complains mentions that George is
behind bars. Julie wants George to be transferred back to
Greenvale sanitarium. It is inferred that Greenvale doesn't
have bars and is not a prison.
Julie tells Dowell that George is criminally insane and that
she wants a divorce. She is told that in Massachusetts,
insanity is not grounds for divorce.
Scene 2: Doctor Rossi comes out of Dr. Morton's office and is accosted
by a playful Claire Morton. Rossi tells Claire that he has
been invited to dinner at her parents' house. She tells Rossi
that her father doesn't know that she is married. Rossi says
that he has respect for her father. Claire admits that she
hasn't told her father that she is married. Betty walks by
speaking to Dr. Rossi.
Scene 3: Dr. Rossi drops in on Constance at the Book Gallery and asks
when she got back. He asks about Elliot. He observes that
everyone thinks marriage seems to agree with her. Allison
comes in and talks with Dr. Rossi and her mother. Rossi says
he has some patients in his [private] office upstairs. He
excuses himself and leaves. Allison asks Constance to have
dinner with her. Constance suggests that she go down to the
Chandlery and get her father. Allison complains that she and
Constance haven't had two minutes alone together.
Scene 4: Elliot Carson tells Eli he would like to do something for his
wife and daughter. Eli asks how it is working out with Allison
and Constance. Elliot tells about great grandfather Carson's
watch fob and that he is having it made into a bracelet.
Allison comes in and invites them to dinner.
Scene 5: Inside his inner office, David talks with a Mr. Boudreaux about
laying off men from the mill. [They shout]. He calls Marian,
his temporary secretary, into his office and asks her to select
men for layoff, and to base the selection on efficiency
ratings, not seniority. Marian goes back out to the outer
office. Doris Schuster goes in the inner office to talk with
David.
Doris goes in David's office and kisses him. She talks to him
about Elliot Carson and the time he spent in prison. She says
that Elliot Carson is not Allison's step-father, but rather her
father. David and Doris argue and shout at each other.
As Doris is leaving the office, Steven Cord introduces himself
to Doris and goes in the inner office to see Schuster.
Schuster asks Steven what he can do for him. Steven gives
Schuster some papers to sign. Steven leaves. Schuster paces
around the office.
Scene 6: Julie Anderson is sewing [on an ancient Singer®] as Betty
comes in the front door of the Anderson house. Julie is
startled when she notices Betty. [There is a dress on a
woman-a-kin.] Julie tells Betty that she can't divorce
George. Insanity is not grounds for divorce in the state of
Massachusetts. Julie says that she will start supper. The
chimes ring. Julie asks Betty to answer the door, and starts
upstairs. David Schuster has come over to ask Julie to return
to the mill to be his secretary.
Preview: David Schuster talks with Julie Anderson. Dr. Rossi talks with
nurse's aide, Betty. Rodney talks with Allison.
DS: I ask a lot of my secretaries, Mrs. Anderson. That's why
I have come to you. I have gathered you were more than
that to Harrington.
MR: Then I can assume you will apologize to miss Choate.
BA: Certainly doctor. I'll find her immediately and tell her
I'm sorry that she is a vicious, nagging old witch.
RH: The other night when I took you home. I wanted to stay.
AM: You could have.
Bracelet.
Judge Mark-on the phone
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