"Why are you looking at me that way?" "I told you Mark Jennings doesn't mean a thing to me." "Jeff, stay away from me." "Stop." "You're hurting me." "Jeff, you're strangling me." "Please." "Jeff, no." "Wait a minute, Jeff." "What is it?" "Nothing, I" "I just had a nightmare, I guess." "You all right?" "Sammy Jo?" "Can we talk?" "Sammy Jo?" "Sweat it out, Aunt Krystle." "I owe you one." "I owe all of you." "I thought I'd find you here with your new grandson." "And my old one." "He ought to be going off to college pretty soon." "And this little guy." "I don't know." "I guess I lost track of time." "The longer I look at him, the more of Steven I think I see in him." "And I'm" "I'm feeling things that I didn't know I could feel anymore." "Darling, you don't ever have to hide your feelings from me." "Don't expect me to give up all my defences without a struggle, you know." "No." "That would be asking for too much." "You really are a marvel." "Do you know that?" "The hell that I've put you through." "Most women would have given up a long time ago." " I was very worried about you." " No, no, no, I mean" "I'm not just talking about my obsession about Steven being alive after that oil rig disaster." "I'm talking about my jealousy." "And the unfair, rotten things that I said to you about the locket that Mark returned to you." "That was the past." " The sooner it's forgotten, the better." " Well, I won't forget." "I won't forget your patience, your forgiveness and how much you mean to me." "Fallon's son and Steven's son." "Both under my roof." "I tell you I feel truly blessed." "I'm happy about Sammy Jo too." "I feel that somehow she's a changed young woman." " Do you?" " Yes." "More grown up, more compassionate." "And she seems to have forgiven us for not completely accepting her before." "I hope she has." "Don't you think she's changed?" "No, it's just" "I guess I expect the worst from my side of the family." "Conditioned reflex." "Let's go to bed." " Joseph." " Yes, Mrs. Carrington." "Have you seen my niece this morning?" "Yes." "She's having breakfast." "Thank you." "Elizabeth, would you mind telling the kitchen that I ordered sausages and bacon?" "Good morning." "Morning." "I'd like to know what you meant last night when you implied that you and the baby aren't going to be staying here." "Well, now, Aunt Krystle, that shouldn't come as any huge surprise." "I mean, when Steven brought me home to his dear family," "I don't recall anyone making me feel welcome or wanted around here." "Including you, Aunt Krystle." "Look, time's passed and things have changed." "And what I'd like is for all of us to forget what happened and start over again." "Start fresh." "Start fresh." "You know, I really hoped I'd never see this place again." "Or anybody in it." "Except Steven's death changed all that." "Then why did it take you a month to get in touch?" "It just so happened I was a little tied up having Steven's baby." "While you're at it, is there any little nagging question you've been itching to ask me?" "Such as?" "Such as, "ls Danny really Steven's baby?"" "And don't tell me that never crossed your mind." "All you have to do is count back nine months before he was born." "I was living right here with Steven." "Sorry if that disappoints you." "Will you please get that enormous chip off your shoulder?" "And try to understand how much Steven's loss has affected everyone." "And how much we want to accept Steven's baby and you." "I believe you about wanting the baby." "I mean, I know how it nearly blew you away when you lost your own." "Yes, it did." "And that's another reason why you and Danny staying here means so much to us." "Well, then," "I guess it'd be worth a whole lot to you and Mr. Carrington to make me change my mind." "Or if it isn't, I can always decide what to do with him after I get to New York." "What do you mean, "do with him"?" "Just what it sounds like." "Lots of people want babies." "You don't mean that." "Don't I?" "Well, that's for you to figure out, Aunt Krystle." "Jeff." "Jeff?" "Hello, Mother." "Adam, have you and Jeff been at each other's throats again?" "I don't have a clue to what you're talking about." "Oh, don't you?" "Well, I just passed him in the corridor and he looked like somebody so furious that he would explode if you spoke to him." " Now what is going on?" " Nothing." "Not a thing." " Not between the two of us anyway." " Something wrong with the business?" " Something I should have been told?" " Of course not." "You know that if there were paper clips missing and being sold in the black market, you would be the first to know." "Well, I really feel as though I've been neglecting business matters recently." "That's understandable." "You've had an awful lot on your mind, dealing with Steven's tragedy." "Yes, but life has to go on, Adam." "And I think that I would feel better, much, much better putting my mind to work on some of the problems of Colbyco." "There aren't any problems." "Oh, I'm sure there aren't, darling." "But just so I can feel as confident as you are," "I'm gonna call a conference next week." "Just you and me and Jeff." "And I want a full report on all of our operations all over the world." "All of them?" "All of them." "I'll let you know exactly when I want the meeting set." "Stan?" "Adam Carrington." "I have a job for you." "It's a family matter that requires absolute discretion." "Mother would like to make a substantial gift of Colbyco stock to her grandson, my nephew." "And naturally, she'd like to be as generous as Blake Carrington." "So we'd like you to find out for her exactly how many shares of Denver-Carrington are registered in the name of Blake Carrington Colby." "Jeff Colby's son." "Mark?" "Are you there?" "You don't mind, do you?" "I'm never in the mood for music at this time of the day." "No, no." "Why should I?" "Even though I'm always in the mood." "For music." "How long have you been here, Alexis?" "Oh, I just arrived." "You really should keep your door locked, you know, if you don't want unexpected guests popping in." "Well, consider you've got an open invitation." "Barge in any time." "Just happen to be in the neighbourhood today?" "Colour me Greek." "I came bearing gifts." "A gift, actually." " For you." " My own private Helen of Troy." "The face that launched a thousand passions." "Give or take a few." "I guess I ought to say something like, "You shouldn't have."'" "Oh, but I should." "It's little enough to repay what you did for me." "You saved my life, Mark." "My sanity, anyway." "I was pretty much near the brink when I came here yesterday." "It's fantastic, Alexis," "I really don't know what else to say." "Well, you just said it." "What, Alexis?" "Well, yesterday you were making plans to leave here." "That's right." "Have you changed your mind?" "I don't know." "My suitcases are still packed." "Well, I can understand that you're disappointed that things didn't work out between you and Krystle, but" "But what?" "Well, La Mirage is a mecca for rich, attractive women and a man like you, an attractive man..." "Hey, how come we're talking about a lot of other people all of a sudden?" "I thought we were talking about you and me." "Weren't we?" "Yes." "Is it so difficult for you to tell me you don't want me to go?" "Yes." "It's damned hard, Mark." "But I don't want you to leave." "You see, most of the men that I've known have not really made me happy." "Well, I'm not going anywhere for two hours." "Two hours?" "Yes." "Then I'm going up to Court 3." "I've got a clinic on serve and volley." "This is Mrs. Colby." "Would you tell my chauffeur that I'm staying for lunch and that he can come back and pick me up in two hours?" "Thank you." "She doesn't care about anything but money." "To get her to New York to become a model." "And she offered to leave the baby with us if we pay her?" "Offered?" "She dangled little Danny like bait." "Well, darling, what do you wanna do about it?" "What do I-?" "Blake, that's your grandson that Sammy Jo wants to use for money." " Steven's baby." " And hers too." "Well, yes." "I don't trust her." "If she goes, she can just hand the baby to any stranger to raise." " Don't you understand that?" " Yes, yes, I understand that, but it's going to be all right." "Because we're going to make it all right." "Come in." "Samantha, sit down, won't you?" "Thanks, but I'd just as soon not waste time getting comfortable." "All right." "We won't waste each other's time." "I think you'll find this amount more than you had in mind." "Just a minute." "I'd like you to understand the conditions of this deal." "What conditions?" "Well, what you're offering to do with Danny amounts to selling him." "And selling a child is a violation of the law." "It's a felony." "And even if it weren't illegal," "Krystle and I would find it morally repulsive to buy a baby and we'd never do it." "So that money is yours and so is your baby." "Mr. Carrington, I don't understand one word you're saying to me." "And I asked you something." "What conditions?" "Go to New York or wherever." "But take your son." "And forget about being a model for a few years." "Just be a mother to Danny." "Like full-time?" "Exactly." "And be saddled with a baby?" "And give that baby the love that he needs." "Because he's Steven's son." "That's what this is really about, isn't it?" "Partly." "Yes, yes, of course." "Because he's Steven's son." "And a biological mistake." "Now, you listen to me." "Both of you." "Steven is dead and I'm alive." "And nothing and nobody is gonna stop me from doing what I wanna do." " Sammy Jo." " Samantha." "Danny has to be the most important thing in your life." "I just don't want you to realise it when it's too late." "I don't care what you want, Aunt Krystle." "What's important is me." "I have one life and one body." "And I wanna use it for me." "All right." "Then Krystle and I will take care of your child." "But we will not buy him from you." "And I guarantee you, we will not let anyone else buy him from you either." "So, what's your decision?" "Okay." "I'll leave the baby with you." "Until I make it big and come back for him." "And I'll get by without your money." "I don't need it." "I think you will." "You are my son's widow." "I'm going to arrange a monthly support for you." "I guess it wouldn't look great in every newspaper in the country if somebody named Carrington had to go on welfare, would it?" "My heart hurts for her." "For what she's throwing away." "These precious first years with her baby." "Yes, but she's throwing away something that she never wanted." "God help her." "Sally, I must have tried Mr. Jennings' line a dozen times and it's always busy." "Would you try it for me?" "Still busy?" "No, don't bother." "I'll just walk over there myself." "Thanks." "You know, this is not a terrific vintage." "I thought it was pretty good for jug wine." "Well, it's warm and it's got no bubbles." "You know, I think that my next present to you is going to be one of those tiny little refrigerators for cooling champagne." "I mean, under the circumstances, I don't think it would be too discreet to order room service." "Not in your daughter's hotel, no." "Mark, are you in there?" "It's Fallon." "I've been trying to get you on the phone." "Don't even think of answering that door." "I guess my phone must be off the hook." "And I'm not dressed." "What do you want, Fallon?" "Well, to talk over a proposal for a charity tennis tournament." "It came in the morning mail." "Mark, do we have to talk through the door like this?" " Mark?" " Listen." "Let me catch up with you at your office a little later, okay?" "Oh, okay." "Meanwhile you catch up on whatever it is you're up to in there." "You heard what the lady said." " Mr. Carrington." " Joseph." "I brought a present for my new nephew." "I'll take it up to the nursery." "At the moment, the child is out with his mother and Mrs. Carrington, but I'll be pleased to give them your gift when they return." " Thank you, Joseph." " I'll grab a look at my other nephew" " as long as I'm here." " He is asleep." " Where's Kirby?" " In the library." "Thank you, Joseph." "I stopped by to drop off a present for Danny." "Good." "And now you're leaving." "Am I?" "Adam, let go." "Will you let go of me, for God's sake?" "Just because I gave in to you once, does not mean it's gonna happen again." "Don't give me that, Kirby." "You wanted me that night as much as I wanted you." "I didn't." "I don't." "Then why did it happen?" "Because you're so damned much like him." "Jean-Paul." "That was his name, wasn't it?" "I heard it bandied about a bit." "You're two of a kind." "You're both so sure of yourselves." "So arrogant." "What a naive little idiot I was." "How I trembled at his touch the first time he made love to me." "And every time it happened, he swore he wanted me forever." "Are you gonna tell that to me too?" "Lie to me like he did?" "Do you have a wife to go back to when you get tired of me like he did?" "No, Kirby." "Don't mention us in the same breath." "I'm not asking you to marry me, but I want you." "And if two people want each other, why not?" "Because I don't want you." "Now leave me alone or I'm gonna call the security guards." "The security guards." "Who work for my father." "Gerald." "Darling, I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting." "But I was all tied up with an old friend and I just couldn't break away." "That's perfectly all right, Alexis." "Thank you." "White roses." "How virginal." "And two dozen." "How extravagant." "Am I paying you too much, perhaps?" "Oh, undoubtedly." "But aren't I worth it?" "Undoubtedly." "Would you like a drink?" "No, thank you very much." "Now the reason that I wanted to see you, my dear and favourite counsellor, is that ever since poor Cecil died," "I realise that I have been seriously out of touch." "So, I've decided that it's time that I got into harness." "I want a complete rundown on every Colbyco deal currently in negotiation." "It's not a problem, is it?" "Oh, no." "Well, not for me." "I just don't see why you wanna bore yourself with business when you've got good people running things for you." "Good men, Gerald." "You know, I'm beginning to resent this masculine monopoly in the oil business." "Well, there's a reason for it." "With most of the world's oil supply coming out of Arab countries?" "Those boys believe a woman's place is in a harem." "Gerald, don't ever forget who saved your job on that Ahmed deal." "If it hadn't been for me, you could be guarding a harem." "Which would make you my dear and favourite eunuch, wouldn't it?" "All right." "I'll have status reports on all our deals for you in 24 hours." " How's that?" " Good." "I knew I could count on you." "The other reason I wanted to see you, Gerald, is that I'm very concerned about Jeff's health." "He hasn't seemed at all well lately." "Think that I've placed too much burden on his shoulders?" "Oh, they're very reliable shoulders, though." "You know, on the other hand," "Adam might benefit from a little more guidance from you." "Do you really think so?" "Well, don't get me wrong, your son's a very bright young man." "There's no doubt about that." "But, you know, he's" "Well, he can be a little impetuous at times." "Now, with one's children, a controlling hand can't hurt, I always say." "With one's children." "And one's children's wives." "How many times have I told you to stay away from the men in this family?" "You are inviting another disaster for yourself." "Oh, a disaster like Jean-Paul you mean, Papa?" "Obviously, you haven't forgiven me for that mistake." "You never will." "It's not a question of forgiveness." "You can't understand, can you?" "That I never wanted to lie to you." "The only thing I hated worse than lying was hurting you." "I have survived the hurt." "It's you I am concerned about." "Then understand me." "Understand that, as a child in this house," "I thought I was an equal with Steven and Fallon." "And when I found out that that wasn't so, that I was some kind of second-class citizen..." "Second-class?" "Why?" "Because you're my daughter?" "I take pride in my work, Kirby." "I have the respect and trust of my employer." "But that isn't enough for me." "What?" "What more do you want?" "The upstairs world." "I tasted it in Paris." "Jean-Paul taught me about good foods and fine wines and beautiful clothes." "And he taught me something else." "That I have something some men want." "And next time I'm going to make sure that I get what I want in return." "Yes." "Respectability." "Not to be the downstairs girl that you try and take to bed, but the upstairs girl you marry." "Oh, and you know what they say." "Knowing what you want is the first step to achieving it." "Scotch." "Well, I just hope I didn't come knocking at that well-known inappropriate time." "Surely you're not suggesting I had a girl in my room." "You?" "With a girl?" "Heaven forfend." "Anyway, how could there be anyone else in my life but you, Fallon?" "You're the only one I ever wanted and you turned me down." "It's a terrible way to treat the hired help." "Well, who knows?" "A girl can always change her mind." "Anytime you feel a change coming on." "Well, when it happens, I'll let you know." "Provided, your phone isn't off the hook." "Jeff, what are you doing here?" "Why are you looking at me like that?" "Jeff, stay away from me." "Did you hear me?" "What are you doing here?" "Stop, you're hurting me." "Jeff, you're strangling me." "What's the matter with you?" "Are you drunk?" "Have you lost your mind?" "Please." "Jeff, no." "Well, if you find it, call me." "Jeff." "No." "No." "All right, now that you've managed to bully your way past my receptionist, what is this urgent business you want to see me about?" "It's about Steven." "Since he's no longer here to be able to do it for himself, it's up to you and me to do it for him." "Do what for him?" "Get his child away from that dreadful girl forever." "So, how do we go about it?" "We don't." "It's already been taken care of." "How?" "Sammy Jo." "Oh, God, how I loathe that name." "That girl." "Well, she's going to New York to become a model and she's leaving her baby to be brought up by Krystle and me." "She's leaving the baby to be brought up by Krystle?" "How dare you turn over my own flesh and blood to an ex-stenographer." "Krystle is my wife and don't you ever forget it." "And where do I come in?" "Am I supposed to beg your wife's permission every time I want to see my own son's child?" "Of course not." "You can see him any time you want to." "I'd never deny you that right." "That's big of you, Blake." "But the fact remains that that child will no longer be Steven's." "It will belong to Krystle." "Well, you cost her the life of her own child, damn it." "Now, she can give this baby all that love that she has so much of." "What about me?" "I've got a lot of love too to give that child." "Your brand of love, Alexis, he can manage very well without." "Believe me." "I should know." "Joseph says you wanna speak to me." "Yes, privately, outside in my car." "No." "You wanna talk to me, let's talk in the conservatory." "On neutral ground." "All right." "Here we are." "Neutral ground." "Does this satisfy you?" "I won't be satisfied till I never see you or hear your voice again." "I assure you that the feeling is completely mutual." "So let's get this over with as quickly as possible." "I'm listening." "Blake tells me that you plan on leaving the baby with him and your sterling aunt." "So have you signed any papers yet?" " No." " Good." "Very good." "So whatever Blake has offered, I'll better it generously." "So that I can have the baby left in my care and custody." "What for?" "Why do you want Danny?" "Because he's Steven's child." "A part of him." "Oh, bull." "Boy, is that bull." "You just want him to keep him away from Krystle." "Now, listen to me, you little tramp." "I really wish I had time to jerk you around, Alexis." "I'd love to let you throw money at me, trying to outbid Mr. Carrington for Danny." "I said I would better his offer." "Didn't you hear me?" "Yes, I did." "So start bettering." "What am I offered?" "You can name your price, my dear." "Whatever you want." "From you?" "Nothing." "You haven't got enough to even get my attention, Alexis." "Because what I really want is to see you eating your rotten heart out over my baby." "Well, lady, start eating." "Because Danny stays right where he is." "What's the matter?" "Didn't one tramp hear what the other tramp just said?" "I had to do it, Danny." "You'll understand why." "When I'm somebody." "That's a pretty speech." "It's lucky the baby is so small he won't know what kind of a heartless person his mother really is." "Well, I expect you'll tell him someday, Fallon." "I know I can count on you for all that meanness and spite." "Why, Samantha, child, we didn't know nothing about meanness and spite hereabouts till you came around." "The really funny thing is, I think you believe that." "At least I know what I am, Fallon." "But how about you?" "Do you really know who or what you are?" "You're not leaving now?" "There's no point in putting it off." "I just came to say goodbye to you." "Nobody expected you to leave so soon." "New York's a long drive." "Look, if things don't work out for you there, you're always welcome back here." "It's gonna work out in New York." "I won't let it not work out." "Well, if determination can do it, you'll make it." "You keep in touch." "Let us know where you're living and how you are and if you need anything." "I'll keep in touch." "For a while, anyway." "At least until we get all the details ironed out." "What details?" "You know, when..." "When I decided to come here with Danny, it was really to pay all of you back." "Blake and I finally figured that out." "That little baby." "He gave me the edge I needed." "I got a lot of mileage out of him." "I get the feeling it wasn't as much fun as you thought it was going to be." "No." "Aunt Krystle, listen." "I've thought all this out and I don't want any argument." " Argument about what?" " The baby." "I want you and Mr. Carrington to adopt Danny." "Adopt?" " But you said when you made it big" " That I would come back for him." "But I know I wouldn't." "I'm not the mothering kind and I never will be." "Do you really know that?" "How can you be sure?" "I'm sure." "And you know I'm right, don't you?" "You take him." "Be the mother I can never be." "Deal?" "Be sure about this." "Please." "I'm sure." "I thought you'd never get here." "I know, I'm sorry, darling." "But I figured I'd better be armed with answers to your questions, so I stayed on long enough to meet with my attorneys." "Am I permitted to pour myself a late afternoon drink before we start?" "If you absolutely must." "How about one for you?" "I want answers and information." "And I can't wait." "All right." "Go ahead." "Fire away." "Well, tell me what the lawyers said." "Is the adoption process complicated?" "Will it take long?" "Well, it's not all that complicated." "But obviously it's going to take some time." "Papers have to be drawn and then they have to be filed down at the adoption court, and then they have to be sent on to Sammy Jo for signing." "Which means we'll have to wait till she lets us know where she's staying in New York." "Now, of course, we'll petition for the earliest possible court hearing and that's pretty much a formality." "But before then, the court is going to be sending their people around to satisfy themselves that you're gonna make the world's most sensational mother." "And with any luck, I'll be okay too." "What's the matter, darling?" "Is something wrong?" "Blake, we're not married." "And we can't get married until my divorce with Mark is final." "What will the court think about that?" "Well, we had no way of knowing that your Mexican divorce wasn't legal." "I'm sure they'll understand that." "So as soon as you're legally free, then I'm going to sweep you off to city hall and I'm gonna pay the man the fee and then we will dash down to the adoption court on our honeymoon." "You're thinking about Steven, aren't you?" "You know, for the first time since we called off that search for him," "I feel at peace." "I know my son is gone, but I swear on his memory that I'm gonna give that little baby upstairs the understanding," "and the unquestioned love that I never gave Steven while he was alive." " Sister Agnes." " Yes?" "Sister Agnes, come quickly." "Finally." "I think he's coming around." "It would appear so." "I thought he might be Dutch." "Apparently not." "Perhaps English." "Or American." "Good morning, young man." "Do you understand me?" "I think he does, doctor." "I imagine you feel confused." "Disoriented." "That's to be expected after what you've been through." "Are you following what I'm saying?" "I think that was "yes."'" "You are in a hospital in Singapore." "A freighter picked you up in the Java Sea, clinging onto a piece of wreckage." "That was a few weeks ago." "You've been in a coma since then." "I'm Dr. Chen Ling, a plastic surgeon." "I've spent much time with you because of the injuries." "The very severe injuries to your face." "Can you tell us-?" "Tell us, your name?" "Where you are from?" "Who should we contact that you're here?" "Can you say anything at all?" "Normal sleep." "At least he's not comatose." "But he didn't even try to answer your questions." "Well, it's a lot to expect of the young man." "After what he's been through." "But he's on his way back to the real world." "Whoever he is, we'll find out soon." "There you go." "Oh, I can't believe it yet." "This baby's gonna be ours." "Yes, he is." "Nobody is gonna take him away from us." "Ever."