Bill goes to the restaurant and asks Maggie a bunch of questions about Sam. As he is getting ready to leave, Vicki comes in and Maggie asks her questions about Collinwood. When Vicki leaves, Sam comes in.
Joe goes to the Blue Whale and finds Bill day-drinking. As Joe is getting ready to leave, Sam comes in and he and Bill have a conversation about what Sam told Bill when he was about to pass out drunk. Joe then goes to Collinwood and talks to Vicki about Carolyn.
Vicki’s scenes are, strictly speaking, filler. Alexandra Moltke Isles seems to have known that her character was stuck in a dead end. She plays Vicki very brightly, with maximum excitement, as if she doesn’t get out much and is thrilled that people are paying attention to her. When Joe leaves, she stands in the foyer staring off into space, looking hopeless:
On the one hand, that’s a sign of bad things to come for Vicki. Her great story-line, her winning David’s friendship, is still to come, but once that is complete her character will go completely to waste.
On the other hand, Mrs Isles’ performance in this episode is the first example of a resource they will draw on to introduce all sorts of alarming characters into the cast. That resource is the keen loneliness of the residents of Collinwood. Several times people will turn up whom the Collinses ought by all rights to throw out on the street immediately, most notably a certain cousin from England who will present himself at the house next spring. But they are isolated in their big dark house, battered by hostility, stung by betrayal, and desperate to find someone they can trust.
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