EPISODE # 1946
PROLOGUE
FADE IN: INT. DETECTIVE PERRY'S OFFICE CUBICLE: DAY FOLLOWING # 1945
(CLOSEUP OF TAPE RECORDER. PULL BACK AS PERRY'S HAND COMES IN AND STARTS IT. PORTABLE MODEL IS IN SIGHT. HE HAS OBVIOUSLY TRANSFERRED INFO FROM PORTABLE CASSETTES TO ONE LARGE REEL, FROM # 1937 ACT III)
BILL'S VOICE: Well possible there were problems in his personal life, however I think his wife could fill you in better in that area.
PERRY'S VOICE: Are you saying he and his wife weren't getting along?
BILL'S VOICE: No. I'm not saying that, I simply mean she would know better what problems besides depression over the heart attack might be bothering Mickey.
PERRY'S VOICE: Are you and she pretty close?
BILL'S VOICE: We've known each other since our internship. As a matter of fact, I introduced Laura and Mickey.
(PERRY STOPS TAPE AND FAST FORWARDS TO # 1939 ACT III)
DOUG'S VOICE: The whole Linda Patterson business had left him depressed and this was the topper.
PERRY'S VOICE: Linda Patterson?
DOUG'S VOICE: Ah, a girl who had worked for him...pretty, blonde secretary and who had left to get married.
PERRY'S VOICE: Oh, you mean Mickey was upset because she left?
DOUG'S VOICE: In a way, anyway I'm sure as the family said he was depressed.
(PERRY FAST FORWARDS TAPE TO # 1939 ACT IV)
ADDIE'S VOICE: I think so but I'm not sure how he felt about Bill doing the operation.
PERRY'S VOICE: His brother Bill?
ADDIE'S VOICE: That's right. I thought later I probably shouldn't have mentioned Bill's doing such a great job, particularly knowing how much he'd resented Bill in the past.
(PERRY FAST FORWARDS TAPE TO # 1941 PROLOGUE)
JULIE'S VOICE: His secretary.
PERRY'S VOICE: The Linda Patterson affair.
JULIE'S VOICE: Oh, you know about that?
PERRY'S VOICE: Yes.
JULIE'S VOICE: Well, then, you know why Mickey couldn't very well blame Laura and Bill for being in love. No wonder he was afraid Laura would ask him for a divorce.
(PERRY FAST FORWARDS TAPE TO # 1941 ACT IV)
PERRY'S VOICE: Mrs. Horton, I want you to think back to the afternoon of the day your son disappeared. Your husband said you two went back to the hospital between 1:30 and 2:00 in the afternoon?
ALICE'S VOICE: Yes, that's right.
PERRY'S VOICE: And you called your daughter-in-law Laura at home?
ALICE'S VOICE: Yes.
PERRY'S VOICE: And your son Bill here?
ALICE'S VOICE: Yes, but...
PERRY'S VOICE: When did you next see or talk to them?
ALICE'S VOICE: About an hour later. I talked to Bill at the David Martin Clinic. He has an office there.
PERRY'S VOICE: And where did you reach Mickey's wife?
ALICE'S VOICE: Well, actually, she was at the Clinic with Bill in his office. I remember thinking she should be at the hospital.
PERRY'S VOICE: But then she did come to the hospital?
ALICE'S VOICE: They both did about twenty minutes later. They arrived together.
(PERRY FAST FORWARDS TAPE TO # 1943 ACT IV)
MIKE'S VOICE: It's just that I felt guilty about how I had treated Uncle Bill and Mom after I saw them kissing, not knowing it was Dad's fault.
PERRY'S VOICE: How do you think they feel about each other now?
MIKE'S VOICE: I guess they still like each other a lot but we talked about it and they agreed there was nothing they could do about it while Dad was in the shape he's in.
(PERRT STOPS THE TAPE...REPLAYS ALICE...STOPS IT...THINKS...PICKS UP PHONE, DIALS AND SAYS)
PERRY: Doctor Thomas Horton's office please.
DISSOLVE TO: INT. JULIE'S APARTMENT
(DOUG IS HANDING JULIE A CHECK)
DOUG: I've been carrying this check around for a week. I don't know why I forgot it...Mickey's disappearance...the Club...whatever I apologize and hope it didn't incconvenience you.
JULIE: Not a bit. I used my charge plates and the bills have yet to arrive.
DOUG: Sweet are the uses of credit...and Julie, thank you for letting your mother do this. It means a lot to her not only because she's really come to care for David, but because you accepted it without any resentment.
JULIE: No doubt I'm mellowing...Anyway there's no sense in denying David things just because Mother holds the purse strings, is there?
DOUG (realizing how she bristles under compliments or gratitude): No sense at all.
JULIE: And I do appreciate her doing it. I may even let her help me out if I go to Brazil with the Andersons.
(GO TO DOUG AND FADE TO BLACK)
FILM: HOUR GLASS (31 seconds)
FADE TO: BLACK
COMMERCIAL POSITION # 1
ACT ONE
FADE IN: INT. TOM'S OFFICE
(TOM AND LAURA SEATED)
TOM: So Sergeant Perry said he'd like to see me late this afternoon if I was going to be in. Of course, I told him I'd arrange to be here.
LAURA: Did he sound as if he might have something new to report?
TOM: When I asked him, he said 'not actually.'
LAURA: What does that mean?
TOM: I don't know...and another call came in and I had to hang up.
LAURA: Well, at lease we know they haven't given up. They're still working on the case.
TOM: Oh, Laura, the police would tell us if they felt they had reached a dead end.
(IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE CHOICE OF WORDS, TOM FEELS, AND LOOKS FOR ANOTHER TOPIC)
TOM: How's Mike doing these days?
LAURA: A pretty unhappy boy, Tom. I don't think his talk with Sergeant Perry helped very much. He doesn't eat and mopes around. It worries me.
TOM: Would you like me to drop around and see him?
LAURA: Yes, I think so...a man might be more reassuring to him right now.
TOM: I'll prescribe some vitamins to job his appetite and let him show me that lab he has in your basement. And how about you, Laura, you've lost some weight, too, haven't you?
LAURA: I suppose so. I've been deliberately over-scheduling myself. If I keep very busy I don't have time to think about...anything.
TOM: I told Alice I thought that was what you were doing. She's been concerned that you were avoiding her since the night you were at the house with Addie.
LAURA: Not intentionally perhaps but I suppose I have been evading contact.
TOM: Don't do it, Laura. Alice is regretting the whole unfortunate incident. She realizes she went too far.
LAURA: I overreacted. I understood her feelings but I couldn't handle it. I'd had a terrible day and I was exhausted. No, the truth is, Tom, there was just enough validity in her accusations to unnerve me.
TOM: We all know that Alice has been thinking emotionally rather than logically. The blow-up was hard on you, Laura, but in a way, I think it was a good thing for Alice.
LAURA (smiling ruefully): Maybe for me, too. I'm always telling my patients too much self-control doesn't solve problems...it merely postpones them.
TOM: Why don't you give her a ring when you have a minute. There's no use in letting this situation gorw into something strained and awkward.
LAURA: I will Tom...I'll call her just as soon as I get back to my office.
TOM: And how do you think Bill's been looking?
(TOM MEANS IT INNOCENTLY ENOUGH BUT LAURA IS UPTIGHT)
LAURA: I haven't seen Bill, Tom. I haven't even talked to him on the phone. He hasn't seen Mike...for all I know, he may not even be in Salem...I don't know how Bill's looking.
TOM: Laura dear, please...I wasn't checking up on you.
LAURA (looking at him stricken): I overreacted again, didn't I? Oh, Tom, what's happening to me?
(SHE GOES INTO HIS ARMS FOR COMFORT)
FADE TO BLACK FOR COMMERCIAL POSITION # 2