PEYTON PLACE Episode 210. 04-26-66 Allison questions her future with Rodney. WA: Seventeen years ago, Ann Howard was held responsible for a tragic accident, the blinding of another child. Last night, she felt compelled to return to the scene of the accident, the bluff outside Michael Rossi's beach house. Intro: The wharf. Dr. Rossi and Ann drive by the Shoreline Garage and Joe's Boat Repair. They park and get out to go in the Cider Barrel. Scene 1: Charlie is at the front counter of the Cider Barrel Cafe on the wharf as Dr. Rossi and Ann come in to eat breakfast and talk. Rossi orders two longshoremen's breakfasts. They recall the previous evening when Ann missed dinner because she had passed out after Rossi gave her a tranquilizer. Ann rambles on concerning her desire to find the truth about the incident at the bluff. She tells him that she went to see Steven, but he turned her down. Rossi warns her that her job as a therapist at Doctors Hospital could be threatened if her true reasons for coming back to town are revealed. It has never been easy to keep secrets in Peyton Place. Rossi says, "You know you can't keep a secret like that in a town like Peyton Place." This disturbs her and she rushes out without eating her breakfast. Scene 2: Steven Cord drives over to the Shoreline Garage to talk with Lee Webber. Steven begins making friendly overtures, reminding Lee how he liked to play with the Webber brothers and their friends. He says he always wanted to be like Lee. Lee doesn't buy this line and Steven gets back to the point inquiring about Chris. Lee says that even after three operations Chris will always be blind. But he will never be found on the town square selling pencils from a tin cup. He won't become a charity case because Lee paid his full tuition for college. Steven opines that if Lee hadn't paid Chris' way through college he could have owned the Shoreline Garage. Lee sarcastically thanks Steven for getting his boss off the murder rap because now he has the pleasure and opportunity of working for Rodney. The conversation ends on guarded terms and Lee is justifiably suspicious. Scene 3: In the Carson kitchen, Allison complains to her mother that her coldness (frigidity) might endanger her relationship with Rodney. Allison tells her mother about the incident at the Shoreline when Rodney danced with Sandy Webber. Allison says that confident girls like Sandy are a threat to her relationship with Rodney. Scene 4: Meanwhile, back at the mansion, Hannah, who is pecking on the typewriter, begins to interrogate Betty on the motives for Betty going back to work. She should be home, catering to her new husband's every need. Hannah cryptically [inferentially] warns Betty that the town will gossip about her working in the same house [under the same roof] where her ex-husband, Rodney, lives. Scene 5: Rodney is sipping coffee at the Cider Barrel as Sandy drops in. Charlie complains about Sandy quitting her job as waitress, twice. Her clientele leaves, she asks for her job back, and the clientele return. He is becoming tired of playing "ring around the counter, all over again." Sandy begins to flirt with Rodney but he tells her to back off because she is Lee's wife. Sandy picks up a rag and resumes her work at the Cider Barrel. She has been out of town, she explains, but now she's back. Scene 6: Rodney returns to the Shoreline Garage and finds Lee tightening lug nuts. Lee warns Rodney to stay away from his sweet, tender wife. However, he does take the opportunity to goad Rodney by pointing out how beautiful Sandy is. He tells a story about how he said "no" to Sandy when some fraternity boys wanted to make her Queen of the Dance or something. She cried every night for about a week and he felt so guilty that he went out and found a college boy to pick a fight with. Sandy hasn't had much of a life. Lee says he's more patient now, but he is really warning Rodney that he better "look but don't touch "his sweet, tender wife." Scene 7: In the therapy room of Doctors Hospital, Ann is teaching a little girl to bend her fingers while playing the piano. The little girl asks when her mother will be there. Ann tells her in about an hour. Steven Cord walks in and tells Ann that he will help her find out who really pushed Chris. He admits that he went along with the rest of the kids seventeen years ago and accused her of pushing Chris off the bluff. Ann was an easy mark because she was hysterical. He says that he owes it to her to help. Steven warns her that he might wind up proving that Ann really did the evil deed after all. Ann walks back over to the upright piano, sits, and hugs the little girl who is tickling the ivories. Preview: Steven talks with Ann. Allison talks with Sandy Webber. Hannah Cord talks with Martin Peyton. SC: You'll have to do more than guess, miss Howard. If you are going to refute those charges, you'll have to come up with an alternate set of facts. AM: Are you just friends with Lee Webber? SW: We're married. AM: That is what I thought. I bet that is what your husband thinks, too. HC: Ann Colby is back. It has happened. MP: Hannah. PREV HOME NEXT