Episode 1262

Aired: Tuesday April 27, 1971

After a repeat of Monday's close and the titles, we are at the Blue Whale. Sebastian is at the bar, drinking and looking depressed when Quentin and Julia enter. Quentin walks to the bar and tells Sebastian they need to talk. Sebastian remarks that "all I need to do is drink." Quentin buys him a drink and says "Now you can drink and we can talk." Sebastian tells him there's nothing to talk about. Julia tells him it concerns Roxanne and is very important. Sebastian tells her "You're asking the wrong man," before "hmphing" and going back to his drink. Quentin spins him around on his stool and grabs him by the collar saying "Well Shaw, then tell me who the right man is."

At the college, Stokes is coming out of his office when he sees Julia, Quentin and Sebastian. He says hello, and Quentin asks if Professor Anderson is around. Stokes says he isn't, but should back later that evening, "though I haven't seen him in some time. I do hope he is not ill." Sebastian looks nervous for a moment, and gets even antiser when Quentin starts asking Stokes how much he knows about Anderson and what his background is. Stokes tells Quentin that while Anderson has only been with the college a few months, his references were "impeccable." Quentin tells Stokes that he suspects Anderson knows more about Roxanne than he's letting on. Stokes puts his monocle in and says "Really?"

In Stokes' office, Stokes has been brought up to date by Quentin and Julia, and now knows that Sebastian was once Roxanne's servant. Sebastian claims that Roxanne no longer has any kind of hold on him. Quentin tells him he's certainly acting like a person under someone's power, and Sebastian gets evasive. Quentin grows more menacing to Sebastian as he tells him he knows he's hiding something, and if it endangers the Collins family or Daphne, he'll be very sorry, "very very sorry indeed, Shaw." Sebastian laughs at the notion of Daphne being in danger, and Quentin grabs him by the collar and asks him what he means by that. Sebastian answers "Ask Anderson."

Quentin lets Sebastian go, and Sebastian says "Yes, Anderson. There, I said it! I can't let him have power over me!" Julia says "Him?" and Sebastian tells them that Anderson has some kind of power over Roxanne, but he's not sure how much. When they press him on what kind of power, Sebastian admits that Anderson is "one of them" and that he could "prove" the connection with the photograph he discovered among Roxanne's things, but Anderson forced him to turn it over. Quentin and Julia think about the likelihood that Anderson is really controlling Carolyn, Roger and now Liz, and Stokes tells Sebastian that he will research Anderson's background to try to "hunt him down" since "If what Mr. Shaw says is true, he will surely never return here."