Episode 38: The Great David Thayer takes the place of
crusty, uncouth Matthew Morgan, the caretaker and Elizabeth-supporter who tells
Victoria that she should stay out of the basement and Burke Devlin that if he
does anything to cause his boss trouble he’d kill him (!). Victoria just cannot
shake the loud echoing sobs that seemed to be coming from behind the storeroom
in the basement, asking Elizabeth, Matthew, and Carolyn if they heard them.
Matthew believes it is Josette Collins, who leaped off Widow’s Hill, committing
suicide, while Liz tells her it’s the wind through cracked windows in the
sealed-off section of Collinwood and the old pipes. Carolyn is all out for
Devlin, damn near begging to go with him to Bangor as he attends matters of
business. Devlin is clearly not interested but seems to be having fun teasing
Carolyn, as she, naively and delusionally, believes he will indeed take her,
even leaving a ring of hers as bait for him to call her at Collinwood. Carolyn
tells Vicky that she must get ready for a date to Bangor! Haha. Burke has her
wrapped around his finger. The scene between Matthew and Victoria, as always,
is rather awkward because the caretaker is adamant and persistent that she quit
snooping where she doesn’t belong. This obsessive loyalty is rather creepy, the
way Matthew, grumbling and ornery, his hair a shambled mess, a soot-slick
beard, orders others to not threaten the boss, willing to resort to violence to
make sure Elizabeth isn’t harmed in any way.
Burke interrupts what could have been a decent dinner between Maggie, her father, and Vicky, and he's sore, agenda-driven, and pointed in defending himself, while also demanding answers...answers Sam is willing to flee to protect. Sam's only link to Burke at all, besides Roger himself, is the letter he wrote to Maggie. He escapes out the back door while the others were in the living room and heads to Collins Port Inn where the letter is kept but the owner will not give it over to him. The letter is Maggie's and she will have to give permission before Sam can get his hands on it. Malloy's death looms large and will not go away--especially as long as Burke steamrolls throughout Collins Port, pissed off and unrestrained. He wants to know Sam's connection to the wrongful conviction and isn't about to just forget his presence at the meeting that night. Maggie just cannot believe that her father had anything at all to do with Malloy's death; Sam and Malloy were fr...
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