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Sheriff Patterson informs Elizabeth that the coroner ruled Bill's death an accidental drowning.
== Synopsis ==
: My name is Victoria Winters. Yesterday is alive in the great house on Widows' Hill and with it the memory of sudden death. A death that seems to center the attention of many people on one office in Collinsport.
Sam Evans drops by the Sheriff's office, and is unnerved to find out that George has been waiting for him. The Sheriff jokes about his new batch of friends, making Sam more nervous. George says they'll know in a few hours whether Sam's a painter or a murder suspect.
David's upset that Elizabeth hasn't fired Victoria and tries to tattle on her. David tells Elizabeth he only likes her and Burke; Elizabeth doesn't like that. David resents Elizabeth's treating him like a child and turns on his aunt when he suspects she may have told the Sheriff that Burke killed Bill Malloy. David attempts to call Burke. Maggie and Sam chat about the determination -- Maggie's heard gossip that it's to be homicide. David runs off and Elizabeth is powerless to stop him.
The Sheriff visits Elizabeth and tells her that the Coroner has ruled Malloy's death accidental. Sam says that the Coroner's report won't end the talk of Malloy's death. David shows up at the Diner looking for Burke. David and Sam talk about art and Roger. Sam regrets that David is a Collins and tells Maggie that Burke will rampage if the Coroner's report doesn't favor him.
== Memorable quotes ==
: Maggie: Ooohhh, look at that brow. What have you been doing, thinking deep artistic thoughts? 
: Sam: You're looking at a man who has been thinking deep realistic thoughts.
: Maggie: Uh oh, that's bad.
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: David: But I like you.
: Elizabeth: That's only one person.
: David: I like Mr. Devlin. That makes two.
: Elizabeth: I don't think I like the company you're putting me in.
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: David: Are you an artist, Mr. Evans? 
: Sam: Am I an artist? Son, I can take a raging storm and turn it into something beautiful. I can take a buttercup and breathe eternal life into it.
: David: Gee, you must be a genius.
: Sam: Well, not quite.
== Dramatis personae ==
* ← Joan Bennett as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard →
* ← David Ford as Sam Evans →
* ← Dana Elcar as George Patterson →
* ← Kathryn Leigh Scott as Maggie Evans →
* ← David Henesy as David Collins →
== Background information and notes ==
=== Production ===
* Location footage: Sam on the main street. Cars hooting horns. A car pulls out of a driveway, and Sam enters the police station. Sam outside the hotel and him going in.
* At the police station, a poster behind Sheriff Patterson had a deer or a wolf on it. A poster in the hall appears to read "The Quiet Death".
=== Story ===
* TIMELINE: Burke and Roger both visited the police station that day. The coroner's report should be ready in a few hours.
== Bloopers and continuity errors ==
* As Sheriff Patterson talks to Sam, a boom microphone shadow appears.
*Joan Bennett seems to forget a line. After David tells Elizabeth he bets she told the sheriff that Burke killed Bill Malloy, she sighs, pauses, then looks at the teleprompter, pauses again, and then tells David to go to his room.
* When Maggie is talking to her father, Sam Evans, in the coffee shop she says "You and Mr. Evans are the leading pessimists of our time." It's unlikely she was scripted to say her father's surname here. She might have been meant to say Mr. Devlin or Mr. Collins. [Addendum: This is incorrect. Maggie says, "You, Mr. Evans, are the leading pessimist of our time," in mock seriousness. She does not say "You and Mr. Evans..."]
*In the final scene in the coffee shop, the shadow of David can be seen hovering outside the hotel front door as David Henesy waits for his cue to enter. Then David tells Maggie he called Burke on the house phone, but David went from the front entrance straight into the coffee shop.
== End credits announcements ==
* In the rugged mountains of Austria, Peter Murphy and Eva Wainwright risk their lives to aid a priest in his flight for freedom on The Man Who Never Was, in color tonight on ABC.
* Dark Shadows is a Dan Curtis Production.
==External Links ==
Dark Shadows - Episode 73 on the IMDb
The Collinsport Historical Society - Dark Shadows Diary - Episode 73
Dark Shadows Commentary- Episode 73: The company you're putting me in
Dark Shadows Before I Die- Episode 73: 10/5/66
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