PEYTON PLACE Episode 197. 03-22-66 Martin Peyton visits Rodney in jail. WA: Steven Cord waits for a long shot to come in. A long shot named Richard Jensen. The one person who might be able to break Stella Chernak's determined perjury. The one person who might free Steven's client, Rodney Harrington, from the verdict, guilty of murder. Intro: People walking on the wharf. In the Cider Barrel, Steven looks out the steamed up window. He clears the window with his hand. Scene 1: Steven Cord waits in the Cider Barrel for Richard Jensen. Jensen finally arrives and comes in. Jensen orders "whatever he's having." Charlie asks, "with or without a cinnamon stick." Jensen says, "Surprise me." Charlie tells Steven he wasn't able to talk to Stella. Jensen has a mug of cider with a cinnamon stick. Charlie asks for 25 cents. Steven pays. Steven tells Jensen to be at his office at 4:30 and leaves. Jensen asks about a phone. Leaving the door open, Jensen walks out and goes to a pay phone and calls Stella. In his office, Rossi answers and hands the phone to Stella. She pretends it is Fred Blair. They chat for a while. Scene 2: Rita rushes out of the Pharmacy and goes in the Chandlery to see Norman, who is assisting Eli Carson. Rita is uneasy about the upcoming dinner with Martin Peyton. Rita tells Norman that she is scared. Rita wants Norman to get them out of it. Rita says she is not going. And she means it. Eli, as is his custom to intercede [intrude], gives Rita a condensed course in etiquette. He says to watch Peyton out of the corner of her eye. They practice for the dinner. Rita says, "I insist that you call me Mrs. Harrington." Scene 3: Martin Peyton and Betty enter the Peyton Place Police Department and Peyton talks with police Sgt. William Wilson Walker. The Walker asks what is in the package. Peyton says that he has gunpowder in the package for Rodney to breakout. Walker asks to examine the package, but Peyton refuses. Walker insists and Peyton complies. Scene 4: Martin Peyton goes to visit Rodney in his cell. He complains about that meddlesome policeman outside [Walker] inspecting the package. Peyton has brought Rodney two books, "Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son" and "Pilgrims' Progress." Rodney asks his grandfather to sit down. Rodney says the jail routine is very dull. Peyton encourages his grandson not to give up. Rodney tells his grandfather that there are four days until the sentencing. Peyton asks Rodney what he wants out of life. He inquires if Rodney if he would like to run the mill. Rodney says no, that he wants to be his own man. Scene 5: Leslie Harrington comes into the Police Department and talks to his former daughter-in-law, Betty. Betty tells him that Peyton is inside talking with Rodney. When Peyton returns he fusses at Leslie for bothering Betty. Leslie tells Peyton to stay away from Rodney. Peyton leaves with Betty. Scene 6: Elliot goes in the Book Gallery to talk with Constance. While Elliot waits, Constance tells Mrs. Barrows that she found the book that she had wanted and that she will wrap it for her. He talks about Allison typing away in his newspaper office. Allison says that she doesnt want to show him what she is writing yet. [The writers are again setting-up the viewers for Allison running away to New York.] Scene 7: In Dr. Rossi's office, Allison has just come to find Rossi reading her book. He asks her when she wrote it. She tells him that she wrote it this morning. He invites her to sit down. Rossi says that he wants an autographed copy of the first edition when it is published. She talks about coming out of the coma. He reads from the book out loud. He says it is nice. She wants help writing about the people. Stella comes in and tells the doctor that she finished the report on the research project. Rossi and Stella give each other rather strange looks. She leaves. Rossi tells Allison that Stella now has no one to love, since Joe and Gus are dead. No one to need. [We assume that Anna Chernak is still alive, but Rossi didn't consider or acknowledge her]. He says that if Stella were to read Allison's work it might help her. Scene 8: A brief shot of Stella taking a controlled substance from a drug cabinet. She closes the cabinet. Scene 9: Steven Cord calls the Colonial Post Inn and asks for Richard Jensen. Jensen does not answer the phone in his room. Steven asks for them to tell Jensen that Steven is waiting in his office. Scene 10: Stella locks the cabinet, wipes away any latent prints, and goes back in Dr. Rossi's office. Out the office window she sees Richard Jensen waiting in the parking lot. Preview: Allison talks to Elliot. John Fowler talks harshly to Leslie. Richard Jensen yells at Stella as he is being restrained by orderlies. AM: If Rodney were free, would you feel differently about him and me, about our future together? JF: If you want to contest the verdict there are channels to accommodate you. I am not one of them. You sent a man, you knew was innocent, to prison. I don't have that on my conscience. RJ: I'll get those two years. You owe me. You owe me for those two years. You owe me, Stella. Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son" Pilgrims Progress. PREV HOME NEXT