Victoria Winters

  
Victoria Winters is the first character 
that we meet in our tour of Collinsport, 
Maine.  She has been sent to Collinwood, 
the famous estate with a huge past, by 
train from New York.  She was hired by
Elizabeth Collins Stoddard to
be governess of young David Collins.  
This was done against the wishes
 of David's father, Roger Collins,
and by strange reasons.  Although the 
Collins family has a long 
history, and the name "Collins" is a 
big name in Collinsport, the history 
of  Miss Winters is limited.  She was 
left on the door step of a foundling 
home as an infant.  The only thing 
that Vicki has of her mother's is the 
single note that was found attached to                  Alexandra Moltke has appeared in 333 episodes. 
her baby blanket.                                      Her only role was "Victoria Winters I" (1966-1968, 1795)
     Victoria believed that this job
may uncover things about her past.
Things happen that cause Victoria to
almost wish that she had not made her journey.  First, there is her encounter with Burke Devlin, a man
 who is investigating the Collins Family.  She found Burke very odd, but believed that this first 
encounter was much more innocennt then  Roger and Elizabeth liked to make it out to be.  
They question Vicki,which angers her.  In the midst of all of 
this, young David greets her simply with the phrase, "I hate you."

     Could it get any worse?  Apparently so.  She awoke one night to the sound of sobbing.  Eventually, 
she traced the sounds to the basement of Collinwood.  There, she was found out by the hired hand, 
Matthew Morgan, who warned her to mind her own business.  He later explained to her that Elizabeth 
hired him eighteen years ago as a caretaker after she fired 
the entire Collinwood staff.

     In addition, she was also warned by Maggie Evans and her father, Sam Evans.  Maggie, who
 warned her to leave Collinsport and never look back.  Sam told her the story of Josette Collins, 
and explains to her some other strange but true facts.  One of
 which was the fact that Elizabeth had not left the house in eighteen years.  Sam asked Vicki to tell 
Roger that he would like to speak with him, and she returned to Collinwood. 

     Upon her arrival, she finds that David has packed her things hoping that it would make her leave.  
"I'm not going anywhere!" she exclaimed when, in fact, the only thing keeping her there was the 
thought of possibly finding out something about her past.
  After a talk Elizabeth had with David, Vicki finds out that the reason David wants her to leave is 
because he thought that her 
being there would keep his mother, Laura Collins, from returning to Collinwood.
Elizabeth had explained to David that the reason Laura could not be with him was because 
she was ill.

   Victoria asks Elizabeth, "Why WAS I hired, Mrs. Stoddard?" and she was demanded 
to know what she might know about 
Vicki's past.Elizabeth told Victoria that she knows nothing about her past, and 
"didn't appreciate being interrogated."

     After this conversation, Vicki wondered if what Elizabeth had said was true; she didn't know 
anything of her past. She called the foundling home in 
which she grew up in in order to inquire
 of Elizabeth's statements.  They told her that they
had never heard of Elizabeth Stoddard or Collinwood until 
she lefted for the job.  Carolyn, Elizabeth's daughter, told 
her mother that Vicki made the inquirery to the foundling home, and Elizabeth told Vicki that she
 "didn't appreciate being checked up on."

    Carolyn told Victoria the story of Widow's Hill, and Vicki's
questions about Collinsport increase in number.  Roger told
Elizabeth of Vicki talking to Burke Devlin, who is a threat to
the family; Burke wanted to buy Collinwood, and Roger believed
that Burke blamed his arrest eighteen years ago on him.
Roger meets Vicki at Widow's Hill and told her of the 
conversation he had with Elizabeth.  He asked her to stay 
away from Burke as he is a threat to the family, and he
also exclaimed his believe that Vicki should pack her things
and go back to New York.

  Victoria went to talk with Matthew Morgan, he revealed to her
 that Burke was convicted of manslaughter, and that Roger has returned
 to Collinwood a month before from Augusta without his wife, Laura.
 On her way back to the house Victoria found Burke 
in the garage with a wrench in his hand, and he claimed he was
 admiring Roger's car. 

    After finding out that Victoria has been talking with
 Matthew, Elizabeth warned Victoria to stay out of his way as he
 was very protective and could be dangerous if he felt the need
 to be. 

       Victoria discovered David trying  to plant a bleeder valve in Victoria's room;
 he claims it was a seashell, which he gives
 her.  David told Victoria that Collinwood is full of ghosts and
she would see them if she stays long enough. He gives her another
 present, a magazine on "building and fixing" things.  David also
asked if his father planned use his car that evening.

  It becomes obvious to the viewer that David wants to see his
father dead, in fact, he tells Victoria just that.  David
hated his father and wanted him to die.David wants to know if his father is going to send him away.  
Despite of that, Victoria
 told Roger that she believed David was warming up to her, but
 Roger warned her that he believes his son is trouble. 

   Victoria eventually told Elizabeth that she saw Burke hanging
 around Roger's car.  Elizabeth mysteriously disregards telling
Roger of this knowledge.

   After talking with Victoria about wanting to kill his father,
 David told her that he will try to give his father another chance. But when David tried to talk
 with his father, Roger brushes him off.  David holds his grudge, and watches Roger drive off
 in his car just before it crashes.

As Roger recovers, Bill Malloy tells him that the bleeder 
valve was removed.  Following this, Vicki tells Roger that
she saw Burke standing in the garage next to Roger's car with
a wrench.  Roger desides that he's going to have Burke 
convicted.

As it turns out, the missing bleeder valve was found in David's
room.  When Vicki goes to show the valve to Elizabeth, the
valve is missing.  The valve was later found in Burke's sofa
by Burke, and David is found out as the guilty party.

  Meanwhile, Matthew Morgan finds Victoria in the basment again.
He warns her once again that she better mind her own business...
or else.  It becomes evident to Vicki that Morgan means business
when Bill Malloy makes the mistake of getting too interested
in the Collin's family.  He winds up dead.

Roger is first accused of Malloy's murder, but it is later 
discovered that Matthew Morgan was responsible.  Matthew
tried to kill Vicki, too.

Roger's wife, Laura, returns so she can have a divorce and
get David.  As it turns out, she is an evil being called a 
phoenix.  A phoenix is a creature that burns itself when it
knows it's going to die.  Laura planned to take David with
her to the other side, but Vicki saves David before he gets
burned (literally).  

The most dynamic thing that happens to this character is what
happened to her during a seance.  She switched places with
someone back in 1795.  Because Victoria is from the sixties,
and she knows things about the future, she is convicted as
a witch.  During her hanging, she is brought back to the 
present time.

                       


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