Episode # 3

SAME NIGHT AS EPISODES # 1-2 (Scenes 1-3)

(00:00-00:30) Opening Title with ED PRENTISS voiceover: "Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives. 'Days of Our Lives' - a new dramatic serial starring Macdonald Carey."

(00:30-02:52) Scene 1: Horton House-Living Room (Marie, Mickey, Addie, Ben)

[MARIE is walking down the stairs as the doorbell rings. MARIE opens the door to find ADDIE OLSON, her older sister and Addie’s husband BEN OLSON, both Julie’s parents, who burst in, along with MICKEY].

BEN: Oh, honestly, if it isn’t one thing with that kid, it’s another! She’s not happy unless she’s putting us through a ringer!

BEN: Yeah, I should think she would be! Oh, yeah, that’s a nice not that is, being arrested for shoplifting. Oh, say Mickey, you didn’t see any reporters around that precinct, did you?

ADDIE: Well I never liked that Carol Proctor, and Diane is just as bad. I told Julie time and time again not to hang around with them.

MICKEY: Well maybe their parents said the same thing about Julie.

MICKEY: Well, after all, Julie was the ringleader.

BEN: I thought you said the other girls egged her into it.

BEN (angry): Oh, and you don’t believe her?

MICKEY: Look, Ben, the detective saw her take that stole. He’s a detective, and he was an eyewitness.

BEN: Oh, so that spells “open-and-shut” case for you, huh? Huh, some lawyer.

MARIE: Will you two please stop arguing. Let’s go in there and talk this over calmly and quietly.

[MARIE, MICKEY, ADDIE and BEN walk from the foyer into the living room. ADDIE takes off her fur coat and hands it to MARIE, who then sees the dress she is wearing].

ADDIE: Oh, yes, I rather like it. It’s an original.

MARIE (as she hangs up the coat): Were you and Ben at a party?

ADDIE: The Palmers. Their daughter just announced her engagement to Rick Butler.

[Close in on MARIE’s face, which gets saddened at this news].

ADDIE: Now there was a catch you could have had if you’d just exerted yourself. Good money, family, handsome as a movie star. Oh why ever did you let him walk away?

MARIE: I didn’t. If you remember, Addie, he was the one who walked.

ADDIE: Oh, you could have won him back easily. But you sat around and nursed your hurt pride.

MARIE (smiling now): Well, it all happened for the best, Addie. If it hadn’t I would never have met Tony.

MARIE: Yes, Tony. The man I’m going to marry.

ADDIE: And you expect to live on a teacher’s salary?

MARIE: Addie, there’s some things you don’t understand. Tony and I love each other.

BEN (agitated): Ah, what are you two sisters mumbling about? We came here for a reason, didn’t we, Addie? Well, where’s Julie. Get her down here and let’s get to the bottom of this mess!