"Okay, fellas, let's move out." "Come on." "Oh, dear God." "Let her be all right, please." "Excuse me." "Fallon." "Hey, take it easy." "Who's the woman that was driving that car?" "I don't know." "This is the guy who was driving the truck." "Fallon!" " Whoa, now." " The woman, where is she?" "That's what we'd like to know." "This is a hit-and-run." "How did you know it was a woman?" "Who are you?" "My name is Colby." "She's my ex-wife." "The truck driver, he knows, doesn't he?" "He swerved to avoid hitting this car." "He hit his head, he was unconscious." "By the time he came to, there was no trace of her." "I'll tell you, it's a miracle she walked away from that." " I gotta ask you questions." " After I find her." "Wait a minute, fella, whoa." "Now, you're not get anywhere on your own, you're just much too upset." "Just get in the squad car and we'll find her, okay?" "Let's go." "All right." "I just saw the last of the guests out." "I should have gone with Jeff." "This waiting." "This interminable waiting." "He'll be back soon." "Jeff will find her." "She must have been frightened by something tonight." "Fallon was never really frightened by anything." "I remember her first day at school when she was 6 years old." "I drove her there, left her at the classroom door." "And she" " She just kissed me goodbye, waved once." "That quick, happy wave of hers and then she disappeared inside." "She was excited, looking forward to a new experience, and totally without fear." "And I..." "I was the one who was close to tears." "Damn." "Why don't they come back?" "Hello, Steven." "You can go now, Dexter." " I'm dismissed, that it?" " I can handle things for my mother." " We don't need you tonight." " The good and caring son." "Except there's nothing left to be handled." "My lawyer's getting the bail hearing started and your" "Your lawyer?" "Who the hell authorised you to call in a lawyer?" "Look, nobody has to authorise me to do anything." "I phoned him on my own." "You know, I thought you were a better man than to let some petty jealousy come before your mother's welfare." "The assistant DA has blood in his eyes." "The night court is adjourned, the judge was about to leave for a couple days when he got the call." "Not exactly your happiest twosome." "Liam Farley, Steven Carrington." "How's my mother taking this?" "Take your hands off me." "Your Honour, I am not going back to that cell with those wretched women." "I can't go back there." "You won't have to, Mrs. Colby." "At least not for long." "If we can settle your bail." "Then what are you waiting for?" "Steven, Dex, you can't believe what it's like there." " The foul language." "I'm not going back." " lt'll be all right." "Mr. Farley, please have your client sit down." "Mrs. Colby, please." "Let's get on with this." "Mr. Dalton, please, for the prosecution." "And briefly, please." "Mrs. Colby has been accused of a capital crime." "The premeditated murder of one Mark Jennings." "An alleged murder without an eyewitness." "An accusation that is a total travesty, Your Honour." "Now, her defence will prove that Mrs. Colby is innocent, and Mrs. Colby has every intention of remaining in Denver to face the charge and to see her name cleared." "I've reviewed the basics of this case, sketchy as they are for the moment." "True, there were no witnesses." "But the police have sufficiently good reason for arresting the suspect." "I therefore set bail at $2 million." "All rise." "But it's the middle of the night." "Oh, God." "How quickly can you get the money?" "How long do I have to stay locked up in this hideous place?" "I cannot go up there again." "It's only an hour, maybe less." "I promise you, Alexis, I'll have the money by then." "I promise you that." "What's happening to us, Steven?" "To me, to Fallon?" "Oh, God, Steven." "I don't know." "I really don't know." "My Danny." "Isn't he the handsomest little boy ever?" "Why did I give him up, Adam?" "Maybe because you thought you were doing the best thing for him?" "I did at the time." "I honestly did." "I just never realised how painful it was gonna be." "And now, I do want my son back." "So much to be with him and make a home for him." " Well, then do it." " What?" "Talk to Steven, forget about the past and compromise." "Find a way to share custody of Danny." "It will never happen." "Steven hates me." "I'm sorry, Samantha, I've got to go." "I should be with my father." "Adam, Auntie Krystle's with him." "Why don't you leave him alone for a while?" "What do you think of me, Adam?" "Oh, I think you're a beautiful girl." "And I think you're incredibly attractive." "Do you care about me at all?" "Find yourself thinking about me a lot, the way I think about you?" "Day and night," "lying in bed?" "The two of us together." "Just the two of us, alone." "Oh, I think about you, Samantha." "Yes, I do." "But now is not the time to talk about us." "And there's Steven." "What about Steven?" "I've already had enough trouble with my brother." "I don't want to make matters worse." "He wouldn't have to know anything." "This is such a big house." "Lots of private places." "Nice ones." "Oh, Samantha, I think the wine is getting to you." "And I really should see if there's any news about Fallon." "Steven, darling, would you call the house?" "Find out if there's any word about Fallon." "Sure." " Can I pour you a brandy?" " Yes, please." " Gerard, may I speak with Mrs. Carrington, please?" "Krystle, it's Steven." "Are they back yet?" "Okay." "Thanks." "Right." "You don't have to say it." "Jeff still hasn't found her, has he?" "No, he hasn't." "Why don't you go home, darling?" "There's nothing that you can do here." "And the minute that you hear anything, call me." "I'll be waiting." "All right." "Good night." "Good night." "Here we are." "I don't really want it." "Oh, Dex, I'm so tired and exhausted." "I feel drained." "For the first time in my life, all the fight's gone out of me." "Oh, Dex." "Hold me." "I need you tonight." "I need you." "Jeff." "Where's Fallon?" "She's missing." "Missing?" "What does that mean?" "We found her car and..." "There was an accident." "Except there was no trace of her." "She must be hurt." "Did you check the hospitals?" "Yes, we checked the hospitals." "And?" "Didn't you hear me?" "There's no trace of her." "Then why didn't you go out and look for her and try to find her?" "What do you think I've been doing for the past five hours?" "The police and I have looked for her." "We've talked to everyone." "They put an all-points bulletin out in Greeley, Boulder, Colorado Springs." " There's no trace of her." " Then you haven't done enough." " My daughter is gone and you" " I want her back as much as you do." "I love her as much as you do." "Something happened to Fallon?" "You wouldn't be here if something terrible hadn't happened to her." "We don't know anything yet." "Jeff was out half the night looking for her." "He's out now." "Well, what about the police?" "Can't they do anything about this?" "First they arrest me, wrongly." "And then they can't even find our daughter." "They're doing as much as they can." "They have a special force working around the clock." "Alexis, whatever has happened between us in the past is not important now." "What is important is our child." "Now, I have been wracking my brain all night trying to figure out where Fallon might have gone." "Do you have any idea where she might be?" "No." "Do you really think I'd keep that information from you?" "I had to ask you." "I do know that she told Steven that she was having excruciating headaches." "We really should have paid more attention to her, Blake, as her parents." "As two people who love her and who care for her." "We do love our children." "I'll let you know if I hear anything." "Blake." "I've never seen you so defeated." ""And so then the Royal Mouse went to the castle to see the Good King."" " Daddy." " Hmm?" "Where's Mommy?" "Mommy..." "Mommy had to go away for a little while." "But she'll be back as soon as she can." "Come on." "Come on." "Oh." "Uh-oh." "Oh." "Bear hug." " Uh-oh." " Ugh." "Bear hug." "It's time to take Little Blake for a walk." "There." " Ha, ha." " Grandpa." "Hi." "There are times when I look in those big eyes of yours and do you know who I see when she was your age?" "Mommy." "Right." "Yeah." " All right, Martha, he's all yours." "Come on." " He's gotten big, hasn't he?" " Yes, and heavy too." "I had to see him." "I needed to see him." "Just as I need to see Fallon again, desperately." "So did I." "Thank God he's too young to realise what's happening." "You heard anything from the police?" "No, there's no word yet." "There's still looking door-to-door." "I asked them to make an announcement that I'm putting up $100,000 reward for any information that might help." "Let me put up part of the money." "No, Blake." "I know what the company's going through right now." "Leave finding Fallon to me." "I'll bring her home." "I swear I will." "I understand you've doubled Jeff's reward." "Yes." "I hope it'll do some good." "Fallon is my child just as you are, Adam." "I thought that you might have come on your own to comfort me when I needed it." "Since you didn't, I decided to swallow my pride and ask you here." "I meant to get in touch." "Tell me something, Adam." "And I want the truth." "Do you believe I'm guilty of murdering Mark Jennings?" " No, I don't." " You hesitated before answering." "But then a good lawyer always hesitates before answering, don't they?" "Speaking of good lawyers," "I've hired the best criminal attorney in the country to defend me." "Warren Ballard." "I very much want you to work with him." "To be on the defence team." "What?" "I knew you'd be surprised." "Well, yes, I am." "We may be mother and son, but we haven't exactly been friends recently." "That's true, but that's all in the past, Adam." "What's important are the operative words that you just used." ""Mother, son."" "The son I welcomed when nobody else would." "The son I loved when everyone doubted his birthright." "The son who not only has my blood, but my brains." "You trust me enough to put your fate in my hands?" "Yes." "I trust you." "And I love you." "Then I'll do my very best to defend you, Mother." "But you're going to have to tell me everything about your relationship with Mark Jennings." "You're going to have to be absolutely honest." "Adam, when have I ever been anything but honest?" " Blake?" " Yes?" " Where are you going?" " Oh, just going for a drive." "Well, I'll come with you." "Well, I'm all right, you know, you don't have to come with me." "But I want to." "All right." "I'll get my jacket." "The first field to come in." "How did you know that?" "Oh, one of your scrapbooks." "I remember the snapshot." "You standing over there, grinning away." "Holding up a handwritten sign, "Carrington 1."" "Yes, that was the beginning of Denver-Carrington 25 years ago." "Now it's gone." "Everything, gone." "No, Blake." "The money's gone, but you still have something worth a lot more." "Your family." "Children." "Another child, our child, on the way." "And Fallon." "Do I still have her?" "Yes." "She's going to come back, Blake." "You know her." "You know nothing on this earth will keep her from her son." "Or Jeff or you." "Just like nothing would ever keep me away from you." "Is that because you love me?" "Yes." "Because I love you very much." "Or is it because you're the kind of person you are?" "The kind of person who would stay with me no matter what." "Maybe even just out of pity." "Pity?" "What are you talking about?" "Didn't you hear me?" "I love you." "That's the only reason I'm with you." "When are you going to understand that?" "Oh, Krystle." "I don't know what I'm going to do." "For the first time in my life, I" "I don't know what I'm gonna do." "Ever mine" "You want me sleepless" "You loving me" "Who is it?" "Oh, Brady." "God, Brady." "In the flesh." "And one gorgeous husband to see." "You don't look so bad yourself." "And you certainly feel good." "Come in, come in." "Brady, what are you doing here?" "Funny, I came to ask you the same question." "What will you have to drink?" "Oh, whatever you have." "You were supposed to meet me in L.A. three days ago." "Well, I phoned." "I told you that I love it here." "It's beautiful here." "It's a great place to rest." "To rest?" "With all this construction going on?" "This hotel must be one hell of a noise palace during the day." "Now what are you up to, Dominique?" "Oh, what am I up to." "What am I up to?" "Still admiring you." "Your panache and your charm and your just-about-everything." "In case you forgot, my name is Brady Lloyd." "And I've been married to you, Mrs. Lloyd, too long not to know when" "When I am up to something." "All right, I confess." "I am here to do a little business." "Without consulting me?" "I said a little business, Brady." "I'm not in New York trying to buy the Trump Tower or the George Washington Bridge." "Whatever the business." "Since when do you go it alone?" "Remember me, baby?" "I'm the guy that took a few talented, unknown kids and parlayed them into a billion-dollar recording business." "In a lot of circles, my advice is considered very valuable." "Oh, Brady." "You're beginning to sound like your own press releases." "You do have that habit, you know." "Part of my panache and charm, not to mention, ego." "Dominique," "what kind of business?" "Property." "Right here in Denver." "Maybe even buying this hotel." "What about that place in Tahoe you were so interested in?" "Oh, well, I'm no longer interested." "And that's a woman's prerogative." "That's sexist talk." "From a lady that you still find sexy, I hope." "Kind of, yeah." "Sexy and fun and all that good, good stuff." "Brady." "Brady, maybe in the morning, you should talk to whoever's in charge here" "At the moment I think it's Claudia Carrington." " and arrange..." "Arrange for me to perform here." " You can't be serious." " I'm" " You think I'm crazy." " I know you're crazy." " But I" "I find this place restful." "I need a rest." "And I have to start singing again." "Now, can you tell me a better place than Denver for me to get to know the American audience?" "I mean, just a short engagement, Brady." "I don't ask for much, really." "I really don't." "Brady, I don't ask for much." "You usually ask for the world." "Well, now I'm just asking for a very handsome part of the world." "Just you." "I haven't seen you for two whole weeks." "And that's too long." "You know what I'd like more than anything in the world, Adam?" "What's that?" "Is for you to play hooky from the office this afternoon." "Take me and Danny on a picnic." "Sorry, Samantha, I'd love to, but I have an awful lot of work to do today." "Sammy Jo, I wanna talk to you." "We'll have to wait till later." "Mrs. Gordon is expecting me." "We're taking Danny out." "Steven, maybe this is none of my business, but don't you think it'd be better for your son if you and his mother could find a way of getting along?" "I don't think it is any of your business, Adam." "Although his mother seems to be now" "No, oh, no, you've got that all wrong." "I have no designs on the lady and I have every intention of keeping out of that situation." "There's enough going on in this family right now." "Steven, your friendship is very important to me, especially now." "Let's be friends as well as brothers, okay?" "Fair enough." "I heard from Mother that you'll be working with Warren Ballard on her defence." "That's good." "Except that even with a genius like Ballard, it isn't gonna be easy getting information out of her." "Each time that I feel I'm about to make some progress, either she gets upset or her friend steps in with his alternatives and his advisements." " Dexter." " Dexter." "I guess he feels that since he put up the bail money, he's entitled to play ersatz attorney." "Well, not for long." "I'm gonna be going over the books at Colbyco today to try to figure out which account I can pull from to pay him back." "Gerard." "Oh, yes, Mr. Carrington?" "I wanna speak to my father before I leave." "Do you know when he'll be down?" "No, sir." "In fact, I think he's still asleep." "He paced up and down the halls all last night and finally went back to the master bedroom at dawn or nearly." "Thank you." "It's the loss of his empire." "I guess watching over a billion dollars disappear is enough to wipe out anyone." "Even him." "If it were only that, he could deal with it, somehow eventually." "It's Fallon." "That's what's really killing him." "I thought you might want some coffee." "Thank you." "I" " I was just about to get dressed." " Would you like me" " to have your breakfast sent up?" " No, no." "I'm really not very hungry." "Blake, there are a few things I'd like to go over with you." "First, the lawyers have been calling." "They want to know what you intend to do about liquidating some personal assets." "And Claudia called too from La Mirage about cancelling some further work." "And the press wants a statement about Fallon." " There's some problems" " Damn it." "Why are you doing this to me?" "Why are you bothering me with this now?" "Because you have to pull yourself together, and stop shutting out the world." "Start dealing with things as they happen to be." "Tell the lawyers that I'll be back to them in a day or two with a plan of action." "Tell Claudia to go ahead at La Mirage any way she thinks is best." "As for the press..." "Well, you are the director of Public Relations." "You tell them whatever you think is right." "Lillian, please bring in a set of books marked CSO-1." "Hello." "Steven, I was wondering if you'd like to get away from everything." "Take in a movie tonight, have dinner somewhere quiet." "Just the two of us?" "I wish I could, sweetheart, but I've come across a problem in the books and I'd better stay here till I straighten it out." " What sort of problem?" " I'm not sure yet." "And I'm not sure how long it's going to take." " Okay." " Bye-bye." "Bye." "Here are the books you asked for, Mr. Carrington." "Thanks." "And, Lillian, please hold all calls unless it's something about my sister." "Anything about her." " Yes, sir." " Thanks." "It's something about Fallon, isn't it?" "No, there's still no word." "Then what's the emergency that's so important that it couldn't wait until morning for you to tell me?" "Try $5 million." "Meaning what?" "Meaning that I spent the day and night going through Colbyco's sacred books and I found a not-so-sacred bookkeeping error." "And the more I investigated, the more I realised it was no error." "Well, we'll just have to fire somebody in Bookkeeping, won't we?" "Will we?" "You tell me." "I don't like your tone of voice, Steven." "I'm your mother, not one of your stenographers." "My mother, who found a way to withdraw $5 million in cash and took that cash to Hong Kong." "What are you talking about?" "I phoned the bank." "They confirmed that you withdrew $5 million on the day you left for Hong Kong." "Did you use it to buy those few bolts of silk there, mother?" "Or to pay off Rashid Ahmed?" "To bribe him in order to sabotage Blake's oil deal?" "I resent your jumping to those outrageous conclusions." "Well, I'm jumping, Mother." "I'll even jump to the conclusion that you killed Mark Jennings to stop him from talking because he knew about this." "My God, do you realise what you've just said?" "I realise it, yes." "Well, then, you better retract that right now." "I can't." "Steven, I assure you that I had absolutely nothing to do with Mark Jennings' death." "As for Rashid Ahmed and that money, do I have to remind you, of all people, that it was Colbyco who started the search for oil in that area?" "And your father, knowing this, ruthlessly squeezed me out of our part of the negotiations." "So I acted the only way I could." "The only way that I could." "I did exactly what he would have done had the tables been turned." "Don't." "Don't try to excuse yourself to me." "There is nothing about you that I can believe in anymore." "Nothing." "Steven, I can't believe you're talking to me like this." "This information." "What do you intend to do with it?" "Tell my father." "Tell Blake?" "Why?" "What's the point?" "Telling him isn't going to get him back his money or Denver-Carrington." "Steven." "Don't tell your father." "I don't know how you can sleep at night." "But if I ever want to again, I have no choice." "Krystle, where's Dad?" "Oh, he's out riding." "You look tired." "You look as if you've been up all night." "I was." "I saw Alexis and drove around for hours." "Steven." "Whatever it is you wanna see your father about, try to remember he's had a lot to handle these past few days." "All I know is I have to talk to him." "Sammy Jo, you are wrong." "You are just so wrong." "I am not." "And even if I were, I'm Danny's mother, not you." "And if I say it's safe for him to play with this toy, then it is." "And I want this nervous Nellie of a nanny to give him the truck back now." "But it isn't suitable for him, Mrs. Carrington." " These sharp edges are very" " Mrs. Gordon, give that to me, please." " Could you take Danny out, please?" " Yes." "Come, sweet love." "There we go." "There we go." "I'm gonna say this straight, Sammy Jo." "I want you out of this house." "My gay ex-husband saying it straight?" "That must be kind of hard, Steven." "A real chore for you." "I want you out within the hour." "I've had enough of you." "We've all had enough of you." "And what would you say if I told you the first thing I'd do would be to sue for custody of Danny?" "Then I'll see you in court." "Now get the hell out of here." "Steven, go after her." "Try to make peace with her, for Danny's sake." " Because she can be dangerous." " Yes, she can be very dangerous." "Look, Claudia, she's been making our lives miserable and I want it to stop." "She wants to sue, great." "I'll tear her apart in court." "And I'll keep custody of my son." "If I know anything in life, I know that." "Hey." "You mean, "Good morning."" "I mean, "Hey, the lady who married the rich man."" "Or once-rich man, but who still runs this house." "Steven just told me I have to leave." "I think you should tell him I'm staying." "You know something, Sammy Jo?" "If it had been up to me, you would have out of here weeks ago." "I'm as sick of you as Steven and Claudia and everyone else." "Aunt Krystle, listen." "Please." "I know I'm not perfect." "I'm really afraid." "I mean, my modelling contract fell through." "What am I gonna do?" "Where do I go?" "I don't know." "That's your problem." "But I don't think it'll be much of one." "You have a way of coping with situations." "I'm sure you'll find a way to handle this one." "This isn't what I had in mind." "Let me show you the original plans." "See" " Come in." " Mrs. Carrington?" " Hi." "Look, I'll talk to you later." " Come in." " I'm not too early, am I?" "No, not at all." " How are you enjoying your stay here?" " Hi." "Okay, okay." "And my wife likes it too." "In fact, that's what I've come to talk to you about." "Well, Dominique seems to like La Mirage." "She wants to stay on for a while." "She thinks this might be just the right place to break in her new act." "So the question is, will you put her to work?" "You know, for a week, ten days?" "Well, I heard her sing the other night." "I'd love to, Mr. Lloyd." "Call me Brady, please." "Brady, I'll have to check with Mr. Carrington first, but I don't think there will be any objection." " Please, sit down." " Oh, thank you." "Good, Claudia." "It is okay if I call you that?" ""Mrs. Carrington" would not respond." "Claudia." "A name that conjures up an image of a more romantic time." "You know, it's almost as much fun doing business with you as it is listening to you." "I'll let you in on something, Claudia." "My mama used to say I had a way with words when I was a little boy." "And her dream was for me to grow up and write poems for a greeting card company." "Was she disappointed when you turned out to be a mere music tycoon?" "Well, when I didn't win a prize for an oatmeal-jingle contest," "I guess she kind of resigned herself to my doing just about anything." "About the entertainment, I'll let you know as soon as possible." " Well, thank you very much." " Sure." " It's nice talking to you." " Yeah." "I see." "Would you like me to talk to Steven?" "No, Adam." "It wouldn't do any good." "Besides, it's really time for me to get back to New York, and to work." " So I'd like to ask you for a favour." " Sure, what is it?" "Would you drive me to the airport today?" "And would you convince Mrs. Gordon to let us take Danny?" "I wanna be with him till the last possible minute." "I don't mean to bring up sad memories, but you were a father." "Even for only a few minutes of that poor baby's life." "You can understand how I feel, can't you?" "Sure." "I love this place." "I love it very much." "I wonder how long I can keep it." "As long as you want, Dad, if you'll just pull yourself out of this mood you're in." "I know how upset you are about losing Denver-Carrington and about Fallon." "And I respect your right to grieve, but not to just let your whole life slip away without a fight." "Dad, Alexis betrayed you." "In Hong Kong, the oil deal." "She" "Yes?" "Go on." "She paid Rashid Ahmed $5 million to get those people to abandon you." "To ruin the deal for you." "You got proof of that?" "Yes." "Absolute proof?" "Yes." "I guess I always knew that she was the one behind it." "I just didn't want to believe it." "Not even of her." "What are you going to do?" "I'm gonna teach her a lesson." "A lesson that she's never going to forget." "I'll pay her back." "I'll bury her." "Just the way she's tried to bury me." "Thank you, son." "I know what it cost you to tell me this." "Now I've got to get going on things." "I've got to raise enough money to get back into business." "We'll take a mortgage on this house, all right?" " Yes." " I'm gonna set up a meeting with Jeff and whoever's in charge of investigating Fallon's disappearance and we'll get going on that a lot faster than we have been going." "It's so good to see you smiling again." "Oh, Blake, it's so good to see you like this again." "Well, I can't sit around and brood." "That's not gonna do anybody any good." "I can start to get Denver-Carrington back on its feet." "I started out with nothing once." "A young guy with a dream and 10,000 hard-earned dollars, and look what I did with that." "Come here." "Flight 417 to New York." "Okay, Danny?" "Oh, Adam, I left my scarf in the car." "Will you check in for me?" " I'll be there in a minute." " Okay." "Taxi." "My two best dresses were in those suitcases, honey lamb." "But if everything goes the way I plan, your mom's gonna have more." "Lots more." "Come on."