(08:12-12:20) Scene 3:
Horton Kitchen (Marie, Craig, Julie)
[JULIE is standing and
looking at a vase she just dropped. MARIE and CRAIG rush in]
MARIE: Julie, are you all
right?
JULIE: I didn't mean it!
It just slipped right out of my hand! It just slipped, I didn't mean it,
honestly!
CRAIG: Are you
hurt?
MARIE: No, I don't think
she is. Did you cut yourself, Julie?
JULIE: No, I was just
looking at the vase. It was so unusual, just like a rainbow, and then it fell. I
didn't mean it, I'm sorry!
MARIE: Why did you open it
Julie?
JULIE: Well, I didn't
really mean to. I was just sort of looking at the address and I saw it came from
Uncle Bill.
MARIE: So?
JULIE: Well, all the way
from Johns Hopkins.
MARIE: So, you opened it?
Despite what I told you about wanting to wait for Tony to open the
presents.
JULIE (annoyed): Well, I
said I was sorry.
MARIE: Yes, you said you
were sorry.
CRAIG: Well, at least she
wasn't hurt.
MARIE: Did you call your
home, Julie?
JULIE: Yes, I left a
message.
MARIE: Well, as soon as
your mother calls here, I...Ouch! (MARIE cuts herself on a piece of the vase she
was picking up)
CRAIG: Let me
see.
MARIE: No, don't worry
about it, it's just a surface cut.
CRAIG: Go put a bandage on
that, I'll take care of this.
MARIE: Oh, don't
bother.
CRAIG: No bother now.
Julie will help me, won't you, Julie?
JULIE (happier now):
Sure.
CRAIG: No go on, put a
bandage on that finger.
MARIE: I'll be right
back.
[MARIE exits, CRAIG
continues picking up the pieces of broken vase]
JULIE: She's mad at me, I
just know she is.
CRAIG: She's not mad,
Julie. It was an accident.
JULIE: Sure she is, you
heard her. It was a wedding present. That's all she talks about anymore is the
wedding.
CRAIG: You can't blame her
for that now, can you? A girl doesn't get married every day now.
JULIE: Well, I suppose
not. I may not get married at all.
CRAIG: No?
JULIE: Be like Mother and
Dad? Yeah.
CRAIG: Well, people are
different Julie. Your marriage might be the romance of the ages.
JULIE: I doubt that.
Besides I've never met anybody really romantic.
CRAIG: Well what's your
idea of romance?
JULIE (looks
longingly at Craig): Oh, I don't know. Someone who wears a uniform maybe and who
travels to all sorts of different and interesting
cities all over the country,
CRAIG: Oh, a
postman!
JULIE (laughs): No. What's
it like, Mr. Merritt?
CRAIG: Well, what's what
like Julie?
JULIE: Traveling all over
the country.
CRAIG: Oh, it's not so hot
really. The most I see is the inside of a hotel room and the pilot's compartment
of a plane.
JULIE: Well, at least the
hotels are different.
CRAIG: You see one, you've
seen them all.
JULIE: But the people are
interesting.
CRAIG: You know something,
Julie. The most interesting people I've met...they live right here in
Salem.
JULIE: Oh,
no!
CRAIG: You don't like
Salem very well, do you?
JULIE: Well, I like it
alright I guess. It's just that the people here don't like me.
CRAIG: Oh, Julie, your
family not only likes you, they love you. What about your friends?
JULIE: Hmm. My two
so-called friends just finked on me.
CRAIG:
Finked?
JULIE: Ratted! Told on me
so they could weasel out of some trouble themselves.
CRAIG: Are you in some
sort of trouble, Julie?
JULIE: Oh, well. Oh some
old store said that I stole this crummy piece of fur.and they're making trouble
with the police for me.
CRAIG: Piece of
fur?
JULIE: I didn't steal it!
CRAIG: Well, I can't
imagine you doing anything as foolish as that.
JULIE: You know, you're
just about the only person around here who gives me the benefit of the
doubt.
CRAIG: Well, as they say,
a man is innocent until he's proven guilty.
JULIE: Not with me. With
me it's just the opposite.
CRAIG: Well, I'm afraid
they're just not giving you the break you deserve.
JULIE (smiling broadly
now): Nobody talks to me like you do.
CRAIG: Well, maybe I'll
start a trend.
JULIE: Oh, no. I want it
to be special, just between you and me.
CRAIG: Well, you know
what's between you and me, Julie?
JULIE: No?
CRAIG (picks up the box
with glass pieces): A lot of broken glass.
DISSOLVE TO: MICKEY'S
OFFICE
(12:20-16:07) Scene 4:
Mickey's Office (Mickey, Ben)
[MICKEY is seated, working
at his desk. BEN enters without knocking]
MICKEY (surprised): Well,
has knocking gone out of style?
BEN: Your secretary said
you were alone.
MICKEY: Well does it occur
to you that I might be working?
BEN: Sure, it
occurs to me, but I haven't much time. I'm due back at the bank in a half hour.
Well what action have you had on Julie's case?
MICKEY:
Action?
BEN: Yes, action. You've
heard of it?
MICKEY: Ben, this may come
as a very complete surprise to you, but I do have other clients.
BEN: Well doesn't my
daughter, your niece, come first?
MICKEY: Not
necessarily.
BEN: Oh, that's a fine
attitude.
MICKEY: Julie's case is
progresssing just as it should.
BEN: Oh, in whose
estimation?
MICKEY: Mine.
BEN: Now I
told Harry Grill about the incidence this morning. He said if he were handling
it the whole thing would be tossed out on insufficient evidence.
MICKEY: Oh,
really? Did you tell him that one of the eyewitnesses was a detective? And that
they had the whole attempted theft recorded on
tape?
BEN: Now those are just
details.
MICKEY: Well they are
pretty damaging details for Julie.
BEN: You're pessimistic
about the whole thing, aren't you, Mickey?
MICKEY: I am
optimistic, Ben. There's a difference. Julie's in very serious trouble. Now if
you would just acknowledge that instead of running
around here trying to get this thing hushed up or rushed out of court we might
get somewhere.
BEN: Now law is just like
any other business. Deals are made every day.
MICKEY: Maybe so, but I'm
not aware of it.
BEN: Oh, well what's more
important? Your ideals or Julie?
MICKEY: Both. And in that
order!
BEN: All right. I promised
Addy we'd play it your way. So when's the case get to court?
MICKEY: Well there's a
different procedure for juvenile cases and this case won't even be held in
court.
BEN: Well is that
good?
MICKEY: Well it's good in
a way. It's less formal. There'll be a preliminary hearing in the judge's
private chambers.
BEN: Do you have a date on
that?
MICKEY: It's on the
calendar for next Tuesday.
BEN (outraged): Tuesday?!
Why didn't you tell me it was that soon?
MICKEY: Well, you didn't
ask, Ben.
BEN: Well, what do I have
to do, beg you for information? Now Tuesday doesn't give us much time to
prepare.
MICKEY: I am prepared,
Ben.
BEN: Well, I wish I could
be that sure. Who is the judge?
MICKEY: The judge is
Clinton Bridges.
BEN (happy to hear this):
Oh, Clint Bridges, huh?
MICKEY: Now wait a minute,
Ben.
BEN: What;s the
matter?
MICKEY: I am telling you,
once and for all, to lay off. Don't try to make any deals with Judge
Bridges.
BEN: Now what are you
trying to do, run my life?
MICKEY: I am trying to
tell you how this case is going to be conducted. No more attempted deals of any
kind!
BEN: Do you know why I am
in the top tax bracket?
MICKEY: Because your
father died and left you a bank.
BEN: It didn't
have a loan department then. I'm the one who built that. Now we've got most of
the property in Salem sown up. Do you realize what
that means in dollars and cents?
MICKEY: What are you
trying to prove, Ben?
BEN: I buy and sell people
like you all day long.
MICKEY: Well
isn't that dandy. What about your own daughter? Is she up on the auction block
too? While you're out buying and selling and wheeling
and dealing, what happens to Julie?
BEN: Well, when this case
is over...
MICKEY: I'm
not talking about this case. I am talking about a sixteen-year-old girl who's so
confused and bewildered, she doesn't know the
difference between right and wrong. And that's what your deals have done for
Julie. She has a sense of values about as crooked as
a jigsaw. Not the slightest idea about morality or integrity. And all you can
talk about is wheeling and dealing and deals and your
daughter's about to plunge herself right into a
volcano.
BEN: What are you getting
so steamed up about, anyway?
(16:07-20:53) Scene 5:
Horton Kitchen (Julie, Craig, Marie)/Boston: Telephone Booth
(Tony)
[CRAIG and JULIE are sated
at the kitchen table, each drinking a glass of apple cider.]
CRAIG: Ahh, that's nice.
Why do people always have to wait til fall for an apple cider?
JULIE: I don't know, it's
a custom I suppose.
[JULIE stands up to put
her glass in the sink]
CRAIG: Well I think I'm
going to start a campaign for apple cider all year round.
[MARIE
enters]
CRAIG: How's the
finger?
MARIE: Fine. Julie, did
you get the telephone?
JULIE: Yes, I thought
you'd want to get it.
CRAIG: She thought it was
Tony.
MARIE: Well, it wasn't. It
was your mother and she does want you home right away.
JULIE: I haven't finished
my cider yet.
MARIE: Oh yes you
have.
JULIE: Well I was going to
have some more.
MARIE: Julie, your mother
wants you home immiediately.
JULIE: Well how am I
supposed to get there?
MARIE: Same way you got
over here. By bus.
CRAIG: Well, I'd be glad
to drive her home.
JULIE (happy): You would?
Gee, thanks.
MARIE: Please, Craig,
she's suposed to get home under her own power.
CRAIG: Well, it's no
bother, really.
MARIE: Well, I know it
isn't but her father has laid down some ground rules and they are pretty
strict.
JULIE: My
father.
MARIE: And your
grandfather respects those rules, and so do I. He's left strict instructions
about them.
CRAIG: Well, I wouldn't
want to do anything to upset Dr. Horton.
MARIE: And he
would be upset too. He says it's vitally important for Julie to hold the mark.
Her case is coming up soon and we don't want anything
to spoil her chances
CRAIG: I'm sorry, Julie.
Another time, maybe.
JULIE (very annoyed):
Thanks a lot!
[JULIE exits
angrily]
MARIE: I apologize for her
manners. She's been under a strain lately.
CRAIG: Yeah, I know. She
told me about the whole sorry mess. All she needs is a little love and
attention.
MARIE: Yes,
but I have a feeling that my sister and brother-in-law are too concerned with
their standing in the social strata than they are
about Julie. It's status that's important to Ben and Addy...and Julie knows it.
That makes it worse.
CRAIG: Can I do
anything?
MARIE: Just cheer me up
when I get a little blue about it.
CRAIG: That's Tony's
job.
MARIE (laughs): I know.
You don't suppose he lost out on that fellowship and just doesn't want to tell
me?
CRAIG: Oh, no, no. Tony
would share everything with you. Even a defeat.
[The phone
rings]
CRAIG: That's probably him
right now.
MARIE: Oh, it's probably
Addy, just checking on Julie.
[MARIE answers the phone.
Show TONY, in a telephone booth, for a TWO-WAY conversation]
TONY: Hi,
MARIE: Tony! Oh, darling,
are you all right?
TONY: Oh, I'm fine now
that I'm talking to you. Hey, you know how much I love you? How much I miss
you?
MARIE: Oh, I miss you too,
darling. Oh it's just awful without you. Hey, your father's here, wait a minute,
I'll put him on.
[MARIE hands the phone to
CRAIG]
CRAIG: Hello,
son.
TONY: Hi, Dad, it's good
talking to you.
CRAIG: Have you had the
interview yet?
TONY: No, not yet.
Tomorrow. Tomorrow's the big day.
CRAIG (to Marie):
Tomorrow.
MARIE: Oh.
CRAIG: Well, look Tony,
there's a lot of things I want...Oh, I won't monopolize the phone. Your bride
wants to talk to you. Bye for now.
TONY: So long,
Dad.
[CRAIG hands the phone to
MARIE]
MARIE: Tony, are you
taking care of yourself? You've got enough to eat?
TONY: Sure. We eat home
mostly, to save money. Hey, Jim's a pretty good cook! He's teaching
me.
MARIE: That's fine, then
you can teach me.
TONY: The way to a man's
heart is through his stomach,
MARIE: That's what it says
on Mom's cookbook. Hey, Tony you sound a little tired.
TONY: No. Hey, I feel
great. I just can't wait to get home to you is all.
MARIE: Are you getting
enough sleep?
TONY: Yeah. Plenty. Hey I
feel fine. Hey, honey, listen, I've got to go. I just wanted to hear your voice
is all. Hey, bye darling.
MARIE: Bye, bye
honey.
[Stay with
TONY as he hangs up the phone. He gets another bout of a severe headache and
gets a terribly pained expression on his face. Then,
go back to MARIE and CRAIG as she hangs up the
phone].
CRAIG: Everything all
right?
MARIE: Everything's fine.
He sounded tired but happy.
CRAIG: Good.
MARIE: He says he can't
wait to get home. You want to know something? I can't wait either.
[MARIE and CRAIG share a
warm look as we fade to black]
(20:53-21:30) Closing Hour Glass, Theme,
Credits with ED PRENTISS voiceover: "Be sure to
join us for the next episode of 'Days of Our
Lives'."