EPISODE 50
Vicki meets Carolyn on top of Widow's Hill. Carolyn says that when she's restless, she often goes up there to look at the stock footage. Liz is very upset about Malloy's disappearance, as he's been with Collinsco ever since he was an Assistant Swab 3rd Class, and Carolyn thinks that maybe the Widows can tell her what happened to him. Vicki tries to be the Voice of Reason, and assure Carolyn that there are no such things as ghosts, but is tripped up by Carolyn's asking "How do you know?" (There's usually a Gentleman's Agreement in these shows to never ask that question.)
At Collinwood, David tells Liz that he can't sleep. There are ghosts in his room! Liz sends him back up anyway, saying it must be as bad for the ghosts as it is for him. Vicki and Carolyn come back and help console Liz, who not only can't find Malloy, she can't find Roger either. (Have I mentioned that these episodes would be 2 minutes long if they took place in a time after cell phones had been invented?) Carolyn says not to worry. Malloy's only been absent from the last 4 episodes. Heck, it's been a lot longer than that since anyone saw Matthew.
Vicki tells Liz how Carolyn tried to scare her with ghost stories about The Widows. Liz says it's no joke. Two people have fallen off that hill... More or less. The number seems to change every time someone tells the story. But the point is that it's been prophesied that another person would fall off some day, and what if that person is Bill? Carolyn objects that around here, violent death isn't a prophesy, it's a lucky guess.
Heading back to her room, Vicki finds the word "Death" written on her mirror. Without any evidence or anything, she assumes David did it, and drags him in to clean it off. David claims innocence, and thinks the Widows did it. Vicki notices that the handwriting looks a lot like the homework he turns in. David says that proves it, because he always has his homework done by a ghost writer.
David runs out with the usual tears and threats, but Carolyn is spooked by the idea that maybe the Widows did do it. She points out that the word "Death" is written in Strike-a-Pose Rose lipstick. Carolyn doesn't wear that shade, and neither does Liz or Vicki, so where did it come from?? Vicki theorizes that maybe David has some weird private life that they don't know about... as opposed to the weird ones they do know about.
In the Drawing Room, Liz is grilling Roger about Malloy's disappearance. Vicki said he was there the night he disappeared, and that he and Roger were arguing about something. Roger claims Malloy was angry that he'd mismanaged some of the accounts at the office. He's annoyed at how plausible Liz finds this story to be. He says he went out after that in order to meet with Bill at his office, but Bill never showed up. They met at 11 o'clock at night rather than during business hours because Malloy had some names to call Roger that he didn't want the secretary overhearing. It's as simple as that.
Carolyn and Vicki come downstairs, still arguing about whether a ghost would wear Strike-a-Pose Rose lipstick, rather than some more somber shade (like Rise-From-The-Dead Red?). They leave, saying that they're going out to look for a wristwatch that Carolyn dropped on Widow's Hill in the opening scene. After they leave, David comes down, and prophesies that they won't find a watch, they'll find Death! Liz drags him back to bed by the ear, showing that she really knows how to spoil a grim pronouncement.
On Widow's Hill, Carolyn and Vicki see what looks like a dead body floating in the surf below. Rather than flying off the handle, they discuss the matter carefully and calmly between themselves. They look very carefully to make sure that it isn't a trick of the light or something, and after careful and thoughtful consideration, run off screaming at the top of their lungs.
