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| + | Waking up but still hysterical from a nightmare, David gets out of bed, opens the window, and steps up on the ledge as if to jump. Elizabeth enters and rushes over to grab him just in time before he falls out. Elizabeth tries to comfort him as he sobs with regret over having killed someone, but won't say who it was. |
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| − | the oddly-accented Dr. [[Reeves]] hopes [[Lucy Cameron]] doesn't have her baby early, so he can satisfy Bill Malloy’s desire to check the accident scene again (by nursing Roger while Bill is gone) before Bill has to take Roger home. Roger has to wear a sling for a day or two and tells Reeves that his brakes worked fine until he got ‘100 miles--100 miles, felt like 100 miles--100 feet’ up the Hill. Dr Reeves remembers the guy who died 10 years ago. |
+ | <nowiki> </nowiki>the oddly-accented Dr. [[Reeves]] hopes [[Lucy Cameron]] doesn't have her baby early, so he can satisfy Bill Malloy’s desire to check the accident scene again (by nursing Roger while Bill is gone) before Bill has to take Roger home. Roger has to wear a sling for a day or two and tells Reeves that his brakes worked fine until he got ‘100 miles--100 miles, felt like 100 miles--100 feet’ up the Hill. Dr Reeves remembers the guy who died 10 years ago. |
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David has a nightmare about Roger's car accident; Bill Malloy is certain the crash was caused deliberately.
Synopsis
- Opening narration
- My name is Victoria Winters. There is no sound in Collinwood. There's only the strangeness of the people around me: the strangeness of the woman who's brought me here; a woman who has not left her house in eighteen years; the strangeness of a small boy and the merciless devils that torment him.
Teaser
Waking up but still hysterical from a nightmare, David gets out of bed, opens the window, and steps up on the ledge as if to jump. Elizabeth enters and rushes over to grab him just in time before he falls out. Elizabeth tries to comfort him as he sobs with regret over having killed someone, but won't say who it was.
Act I
the oddly-accented Dr. Reeves hopes Lucy Cameron doesn't have her baby early, so he can satisfy Bill Malloy’s desire to check the accident scene again (by nursing Roger while Bill is gone) before Bill has to take Roger home. Roger has to wear a sling for a day or two and tells Reeves that his brakes worked fine until he got ‘100 miles--100 miles, felt like 100 miles--100 feet’ up the Hill. Dr Reeves remembers the guy who died 10 years ago.
Act II
David wants Elizabeth to recount his dream, which Elizabeth dismisses. Dr Reeves threatens to write a book about New England Secrets. Malloy tells Roger that his was not an accident.
Act III
He explains the mechanics of bleeder valves and brakes. Roger wants to attack, kill, or in some other way confront Burke. Elizabeth gives David a history quiz (Isaac Collins landed in the area in 1690) and David asks her if she loved her father, who died over 20 years ago. David has been having nightmares about his father's death, but Elizabeth doesn't see the connection.
Act IV
After learning from Elizabeth that Victoria saw Burke near his car, Roger scolds Burke and resolves to grill the governess.
Tag
Elizabeth talks to Bill about finding Carolyn. Roger plans to go to Victoria's room to interrogate her again. David lurks under the stairs.
Memorable quotes
- Bill: Do you know much about cars?
- Roger: You put the key in the ignition and the car starts. You turn it off and it stops. That's about it.
- Dr. Reeves: Maybe you don't realize just how lucky you are. A few stitches in your forehead, just a few contusions in one arm, bruised and sprained. By all the rules, I should've been signing your death certificate instead of helping you into a jacket.
- Roger: Well, I'm sorry to be breaking the rules, Doctor.
- Dr. Reeves: Well, that's all right. I get a bigger fee this way.
- Roger: (to Isaac Collins' portrait) Well, Isaac, what would you do if somebody had tried to kill you?
Dramatis personae
- ← Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard →
- ← Louis Edmonds as Roger Collins →
- ← Frank Schofield as Bill Malloy →
- ← David Henesy as David Collins →
- Fred Stewart as Dr. Reeves →
Background information and notes
Production
- First appearance of the character Dr. Reeves, portrayed by Fred Stewart.
Story
- Isaac Collins crossed the ocean in a small sailing ship during the year 1690, he landed in Frenchman's Bay.
- Elizabeth loved her father very much. He died over 20 years ago.
Bloopers and continuity errors
- Actor Louis Edmonds says the accident happened "a hundred miles" down the hill, then corrects himself with "seemed like a hundred miles - a hundred feet".
End credits announcements
- 'Where the Action Is' made its debut one year ago with top recording stars performing where the fun is. Come along for a real good time next, here on ABC.
- Dark Shadows is a Dan Curtis production.
External Links
Dark Shadows - Episode 17 on the IMDb
The Collinsport Historical Society - Dark Shadows Diary - Episode 17