MORIANI HOME
"I'm through dealing with you, Stan!
Get the hell out of my face or, I swear to God, you'll regret it!"
Katherine hears her husband's voice
come rumbling up from the foyer as she descends the staircase. An infuriated
slam of the door follows, forceful enough to make her pause on the stairs.
After a stretch of quiet, she resumes
walking. At the bottom of the staircase, she finds Nick standing by the
door. His breathing is heavy and his eyes stony; underneath his silver
mustache, his lips are clenched together in anger.
"What's the matter, dear?" Katherine
asks, taking a first step onto the hardwood floor. She finds that her voice
comes more tentatively than she would have imagined.
Seeing her there appears to startle
Nick, but only momentarily. "Nothing," he replies quickly. "It's nothing."
"Who was that man?" she asks despite
the building tension in her chest. "You sounded rather upset--"
"I told you, it's nothing. You don't
need to worry about it."
Before Katherine can say anything
else, he is gone. He walks slowly towards the kitchen, as though leaving
behind his wife is simply another part of leaving behind whatever altercation
just occurred with that man.
Who was that? Katherine wonders,
wanting to follow him and push for more information but knowing that she
will get nothing but more dead-end responses. Warnings from her son, from
Brent Taylor, the memory of questioning Nick over dinner and receiving
his calm reassurances -- it all comes rushing back to her now.
Tightening her grip on the letter
from Andrew, she turns and makes her way back upstairs, back to the study.
She reads the letter again, all hope of being able to discuss it forgotten
for now.
But focusing on the words, even though
they've become quite familiar to her in the last half-an-hour, is much
more difficult than she would have imagined. Her head is clouded with questions
and musings ... and with her own doubt.
Who was that man? she wonders
again as an unexpected shiver rattles her body.
END OF EPISODE #229
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