The original plotlines for CROSSROADS episode one by Peter Ling and Hazel Adair.
STORYLINES FOR CROSSROADS
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Monday, November 2nd.
We begin by establishing Meg Richardson at the Reception desk of the Motel. She is on the telephone – refusing a booking for tonight, because the Motel is full up, due to an advance booking for three rooms taken by a wedding party this evening.
Her daughter Jill is bothering her to let her go to the pictures tonight with her school friend Sarah, but Meg is adamant; what with the wedding party, and the meals to be cooked and served (until the new cook arrives, Meg is doing a lot of the Kitchen work herself, she and Jill will have all their time cut out.) In the middle of all this, a man arrives – Gillow, the over-seer of a road construction gang working on repairs to the main road that runs past the Motel. He is a rough-looking character, none too pleasant, and wants a room for tonight.
Jill is obviously a bit scared by his manner, but Meg has to pretend a calmness that she doesn’t feel as she tells him politely that the Motel is full up. He is disposed to argue, and almost turns downright abusive, but Meg manages to get rid of him. We realise that Meg’s job is not an easy one for a widow to tackle, with no man around the house.
The only man of the family, in fact is Sandy Richardson, aged fifteen, who now comes home from school. He mentions casually that it is Brian’s birthday today: Brian Jarvis being Meg’s nephew. Meg had completely forgotten the date. She is about to ring her sister Kitty when the phone goes. The Wedding party has been cancelled. Jill takes this opportunity to renew her request to go to the pictures as now Meg will not be needing her. Meg agrees, but is more concerned about the lobsters and wine she has bought specially for the party: suddenly she gets an idea, and rings Kitty to wish Brian a happy birthday, adding that she is sending Sandy over on the next bus with a rather unusual present for Brian.
Kitty Jarvis is serving in her newsagent’s shop. Brian comes home from work, and passing through the shop, greets his mother. She tells him that his father is getting the tea ready and that there are two letters for him – one from Australia; this must be from his sister Shirley, and one from Kitty’s brother, Uncle Andy, in Gibraltar. A minute or two later Sandy arrives with the lobsters and wine. (Comedy potential here, from customer’s reactions to the lobsters.) Sandy sees Patrick Wade passing through, enquires who he is, and learns this is Kitty’s new lodger.
