PEYTON PLACE
Episode 230.
06-13-66
Betty searches the basement of the Peyton mansion.
WA: Hannah Cord has served Martin Peyton for many years, and for
many years she hated his daughter, Catherine, the symbol to
Hannah of the love Peyton could never give her. Catherine
has been dead for two years. And now, tonight, in Hannah's
mind, Catherine is, at long last, buried.
MEL: Catherine died in Doctors Hospital in Episode 20 which was
broadcast 11-24-64.
Intro: Hannah slashes the portrait of Catherine. [A repeat of scene
7 in episode 229, the previous episode. In episode 302 she
torches the replacement portrait, setting the mansion ablaze
and nearly killing Peyton.]
Scene 1: At the mansion, Hannah glares with satisfaction at the
slashed portrait, then picks up a heavy ornament and bangs
the front door outer knob, to make it appear that there had
been a break in. Martin enters and surveys the damage, and
immediately sees through Hannah's lie that either Ann Colby,
or her father Brian, broke in and did the damage.
Martin chastises Hannah for her inept lie and announces that
he is driving to Boston the next day to change his will,
leaving Steven outside.
Scene 2: Later that evening, in the living room of the mansion, Betty
notices that the portrait of Catherine is missing and
speculates with Rodney about what could have happened to it.
Rodney says that it is being cleaned. Rodney says that
Hannah told him the portrait was sent out to be cleaned.
Betty says that the portrait was cleaned just three months
ago. Rodney adds that he doesn't really like the portrait
because it doesn't capture his mother's true essence. [The
portrait looks much like Ann Howard, but no one seems to have
noticed.]
Scene 3: Chris enters the Cider Barrel and Sandy, who is there
working, scolds him for not eating his breakfast. Chris
orders a cup of coffee and tells her that Allison has offered
to be his reader. Sandy asks Chris why she can't read to
him. He tells her she wouldn't get past the first paragraph.
Allison wanders into the diner to get Chris.
As Allison and Chris leave for the library, Rodney comes in
and Sandy points out that Chris and Allison look like a
couple. Rodney can't accept this possibility because he
couldn't consider Chris to be a threat to his relationship
with Allison. Sandy turns on her evil charms again and
reminds Rodney about the previous evening. When he got off
on his boat last night he looked back at her. Rodney
denies it.
Scene 4: Outside Doctors Hospital, Lee Webber approaches Ann Howard
and tells her to stop questioning his brother Chris about the
accident. It is clear that Lee fears the investigation of
the accident far more than does Chris. Lee says she pushed
Chris, causing his blindness. She should let it go at that
and call off her dogs. Lee threatens to push, too.
Scene 5: Ann Howard rushes into the hospital and into Dr. Rossi's
office to express her fears concerning Lee Webber. She says
that Lee threatened her. Rossi tries to soothe her and she
tells him that she is glad she is not in this battle alone.
Dr. Morton comes into Dr. Rossi office's office interrupting
the tête-à-tête between Ann and Rossi.
Ann excuses herself and leaves. Morton has come to ask why
Rossi hasn't submitted a status report on Ann Howard. Dr.
Morton notes that all the others were excellent. Rossi tells
him that it is because he has a personal relationship with
Ann and submitting a report could not be truly objective.
Scene 7: In the library, Chris counts his paces to the stacks and
asks, "Am I standing in the ladies room?" Allison asks Miss
Hunt, the librarian, to look for some law books. Allison
goes to look for the "hard to find" books. While Allison is
away Chris mistakes a wall for an aisle. Allison notices and
Chris asks her if she is embarrassed. He explains that it
took him a long time to adjust to his blindness. Allison
talks about adjusting to the revelation of Elliot Carson
being her father. They share their tragic stories.
Scene 8: In front of the mansion, Thomas helps Martin and Hannah into
the limo and drives off. Betty Anderson Cord is bored. She
has too much time on her hands. [These days, when one has
too much time on his hands, one writes reviews of classic TV
serials.] With no dinner to cook and already having been to
the beauty parlor, she elects to go on a expedition in the
rather spaceous basement of the mansion.
Betty snoops through some old paintings and discovers the
slashed portrait of Catherine Peyton. She starts to touch
the surface of the portrait and a hand comes from out of
nowhere and grabs her wrist as the scene and the episode end.
[It is Rodney's hand.]
Preview: Steven talks with Ann. Dr. Rossi talks with Lee Webber.
Rodney talks to Betty.
SC: Call him.
AH: Now?
SC: Now. Your father is the only one who can give me the
answers I need.
MR: You stop threatening Ann Howard. Period.
LW: I don't buy that.
MR: You stay from Ann Howard, Punk.
RH: Listen, Mrs. Cord. You've got a husband. You've got a
home. You better concentrate on him or you're going to
rack up divorce number two before you know it.
Outside entrance to the library in the Peyton County Town Hall.
Basement of the Peyton mansion.
Rodney's boat.
The British spelling of parlor is parlour.
The plural of ultimatum is ultimata.
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