Vicky, her ledger sheet with the name of Betty Hanscomb (the woman whose Sam Evans portrait looks eerily similar to Victoria), decides to take a few days off so she can seek answers about whether or not this woman is possibly a relative, mother, or someone close. Carolyn is flat infatuated with Burke Devlin, even calling him from his inn room to meet her for some coffee. She's ridiculously furious (soap opera furious) about Devlin's insistence that Vicky ride with him to Bangor (that's where Elizabeth's bank is located, on the ledger so Vicky wants to talk to owners about Hanscomb) instead of taking a bus. Carolyn turns cold to Vicky, her jealousy having brought forth irrationality and despair. Her "reversal" of feelings for Vicky leaves Elizabeth understandably surprised, especially since the girls left in such high spirits. It just took an offer for a ride by Burke to Vicky to turn Carolyn into a mournful and equally hostile crybaby. When Carolyn tells Elizabeth that Vicky was riding with Burke, possibly at that moment saying all she can about the Collins family, it basically hurled Ms. Winter under the bus. Can Vicky ever repair her relationship with Carolyn? This is the part of soap operas I don't particularly care all that much for. Carolyn's obsession with Burke has just grown to a fever pitch, yet he doesn't have the same feelings. This is really the foundation for how soap operas operate. One man or woman is obsessively in love or lust for another and when that object of affection doesn't feel the same, only typically nasty unpleasantness results.
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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