I would be interested to hear more about the context for the past two or three days' images in this series.
I've finally gotten the chance to get back to this. The captures/quotes in question:
Ep #4 - Victoria (referring to the woman and child in the painting):
'Do you know who this is?'
Ep #4 - Roger: 'Miss Winters. This room... and everything in it...
doesn't exist anymore.'come from scenes in Ep #4 that were actually scripted for the pilot, presumably as a followup to the scene in which David scared Victoria with a tarantula in a cigar box in his desk. The scenes were never included in the pilot but, thankfully, like the scene in reply #54, they were rescued and became a part of Ep #4.
As for context, Victoria is once again attempting to teach David when she sees him looking inside his desk. She demands to know what he has in there but is surprised this time when it turns out to be a small landscape painting. When asked where he got it, David replies that there are a lot of them in a room that he's not supposed to talk about or go to. He then hopes that Victoria isn't going to tell his father. She assures him she won't and suggests they put the painting back.
David leads Vicki to a locked room and produces keys, to which Victoria remarks she supposes she'd better not tell his father about those, either.
Once they enter the room, it becomes obvious that it was used as an artist's studio as it's filled with stacks of canvases, art supplies, and a covered painting on an easel. Victoria asks whose room it is, but an uneasy David simply replies that they should leave. However, Victoria studies some of the paintings and asks who painted them. David doesn't answer. She pulls the cover from the painting on the easel to reveal the image of a nude woman, seen from the back, and holding a child. The painting seems to mesmerize David. Victoria asks if he knows who the woman is. David doesn't answer - but the silence is soon broken by Roger demanding to know what they're doing in the room. Victoria covers for David by claiming that she simply asked David to show her around. A furious Roger tells her she has no business being in the room. At that, David runs out. Victoria apologizes and says she was just admiring the painting, to which Roger angrily retorts that she wasn't hired to admire anything. She was hired to teach David, not to break into areas of the house or their lives that don't concern her. He then orders Victoria to go downstairs, adding, with a touch of sadness to his voice, the line that is quoted with the second capture. She leaves, and then Roger glares at the painting.
Another interesting thing about Ep #4 is that though Wayne Tippet's name appears in the credits, Dr. Fisher is nowhere to be seen - though he is referenced in the scene at the sheriff's station when Deputy Harker informs the sheriff that Dr. Fisher and the coroner have taken Prof. Woodard's body to the hospital. The only thing that seems to exist from Tippet's part in Ep #4 appears to be a photo of a scene that took place at Collinwood with Roger, Elizabeth, Dr. Fisher, Mrs. Johnson and Julia listening to someone (presumably the sheriff) telling them something, which presumably took place after the scenes at the sheriff's station because Julia is wearing the same clothes as she does throughout the first several scenes of the ep.
