Silver Heights Season One

[JT]

Silver Heights
Season One
Spring 1980
Episode One
"The Dinner Engagement"

Here's the storyline list for anyone who forgot:
The housewife Jacqueline Garner (aka Jackie) recieves a series of letters in the mail that contain frightening messages. She starts to fear for the lives of her husband (Frank) and and her two mid 20s daughters (Leigh and Rosemary).

Jackie's sister Cheryl Martin plans a surprise party for her husband (Charles), but his ex-wife (Gloria Burke) plots to make Cheryl's demise at the party.

Jackie and Cheryl's best friend, Marianne Norton decides to finally send her 12-year-old (Edward) son into public school, but has to constantly stand up for her son when he constantly gets into squabbles.

Jackie's archrival Jennifer McMillan gets in trouble with the law, and starts to still from her mother (Edna) whom she lives with.

Here it is:

Scene: Jacuqeline Garner's Driveway:
[Jackie is just getting the mail out of her mail box when Jennifer stop by in her car]
Jennifer: Hi Jackie.
Jackie: What do you want, Jennifer?
Jennifer: I wanted to invite you to a dinner engagement tommorrow night. You can bring your husband along, but those too jezabels you got for daughters wouldn't be welcome.
Jackie: Look, Jennifer, you better hightail it to that hell hole you call work, before I do something regretful.
Jennifer: In your dreams. [drives off]
[Jackie opens a letter and reads to herself:]
Jackie: "Miss Garner, this is a little friend.......wait.......I'm a big friend. You don't know me, but trust me, I know you, and you and I do not connect. I know your daughters, and I know that they dated the same man behind each other's backs too. I know everything about you.........you can just call me anonymous......."
[She stops reading and goes into her house]

Scene: The Martin Residence:
[Cheryl is on the phone]
Cheryl [into phone]: Yes, this is Cheryl Martin. Is this 'Cruise Catering'? You are? Good. I'm planning a party for next weekend and I looked you up in the yellow pages. I'm looking at about......between 50 and 150 people to feed, and it looks like your company has the best deal. Look, I'm already 10 minutes late to work, so I'll call you back when I get home. Remember my name, Cheryl Martin. C-H-E-R-Y-L M-A-R-T-I-N. You got that? Thank you, goodbye. [hangs up] Now I better get to the office before Mr. Hunter blows his top. [gets up from kitchen table, goes into the living room, and sees a large rattlesnake on the sofa] OH MY GOD!! OH MY GOD!! [runs into kitchen, comes back with a pistol] [shoots snake] Die! Die you filthy thing! What in the world......there's a note tied around him....[picks up note and reads it:] 'Before you plan to party hardy, I'll get back my man, and I'll try as hard as I can'[stops reading]......what in blue blazes is this all about.............

Scene: The Norton Residence:
[Marianne and Edward are having breakfast]
Marianne: So today is your first day of public school........it's a big day....
Edward: What's different about public school and private school?
Marianne: What do you mean, 'What's the difference?' Private school is a place where you can be around other children that are just like you.
Edward: Those kids were not like me. They were all rich snobs who were spoiled to the bone.
Marianne: And I suppose you want to be around a group of sweaty grease monkeys who smell like oil?
Edward: No! I want to be around average kids. Kids who reed comic books, not the Wall Street Journel. Kids who watch "Diff'rent Strokes" not "Meet the Press."
Marianne: I just want to give you the best, son. Ever since your father ran away with that floosie of a secretary, I've been worrying about you.
Edward: Well don't worry about. It's time for me to go catch the bus now. Everything is gonna be just fine, you'll see.

Scene: The Garners' Porch:
[It is nighttime, and Frank and Jackie are sitting on the swing talking]
Jackie: I got another one of those pesky letters.
Frank: I seriously think we should call the cops.
Jackie: No no, that'll only scare the guy away.
Frank: Yeah......well how have things been between you and that McMillan girl across the street.
Jackie: She actually got the nerve to ask me over for a dinner party tommorrow night! She said you could come, but she called our daughters jezabels.
Frank: One day, one day on this Earth, I know that you and all your friends are gonna go over to that girls house and tell her off. Just one day........one day.
Jackie: One day............that one day is tommorrow! Yeah! We'll show her. She'll see. God knows that she will see.
Frank: Jackie, you are one of a kind, you know that?

Scene: The McMillan Residence:
[Jennifer and Edna are watching television]
Jennifer: Mother, what do you see in these old black and white television programs?
Edna: They remind me of my youth. Back when times were simpler and the world was more calm and relaxed.
Jennifer: Well, I still think that the times are changing for the better.
Edna: Whatever you say, Jennifer, whatever you say.....[yawns].....I'm tired. I'm gonna go off to bed. Nighty-night.[she goes to her room]
Jennifer [whispering]: It's about time I got that old bat out of here. I need to pay a speeding ticket, and I'm definatly not gonna pay it with my own money. [takes money out of her mother's purse and puts it in her pocket]

Scene: The Norton Residence:
[Marianne and Edward come home]
Marianne: Why did you do it?
Edward: The guy was asking for it! He was there calling me a prepped up snob.
Marianne: As long as you know it's not true, don't worry about it.
Edward: But he said it in front of-
Marianne: A girl?
Edward: No.
Marianne: Son, we need to have a talk.
THE END
The next episode will be part of two of this one.

SILVER HEIGHTS
(C)1980, 2002
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[Sean Snow]

I loved it! It was great! Can't wait for #02!

[JWood201]

Good job! Keep posting 'em....