"Oh, Jeff." "Did you see Papa downstairs?" "He's acting vey strange." "I wonder if he's all right." "I think I should lust take him to a doctor and make him have a checkup." "What's the matter?" "What is it?" " l don't know how to tell you this." " Tell me what?" "Your father." "Sweetheart, he's not downstairs." "He's" " Oh, he's been in an accident." "Oh, he's in the hospital, I know." "Can you bring me to him, please?" " l can't, he's gone." " Gone where?" "You father is dead." "No, no, no." "You have to believe me." "I was there, I saw it happen." "Saw what happen?" "Saw what happen?" "He shot himself." "I don't believe that." "Suicide?" "That's an ugly, horrible..." "My father would never" " Oh, no!" "Kirby!" "Goodbye, I didn't get a chance to say goodbye." "Or tell him how much I loved him." "I didn't get a chance." "Oh, Papa." "Lieutenant." "Blake." "Why the unexpected visit?" "I have some questions to ask you, Mrs. Colby." "Not again." "I've lust come out of the hospital and I'm exhausted." "Alexis, Joseph is dead." "What?" "Mr. Anders shot himself to death." "He left Mr. Carrington a note, I'd like to read it to you." ""Mr. Carrington, the police are bound to discover it was I who set the fire." "I tried to stop that evil woman from ruining yet another life and failed." "I pray my death will satisfy her need for vengeance." "Joseph."" "What exactly do you think that means?" "I have no idea what a suicide note from an obviously deranged man means." "Are you sure?" "Are you accusing of me of being the evil one in that note?" "There were two women in that cabin, you know." "No, ma'am, I'm not accusing you of anything." "Do you have anything else you'd like to add?" "No." "Well, you'll be hearing from me again, Mrs. Colby." "Good night." "You're lust gonna leave?" "What's gonna happen now?" "We're gonna follow through on all this." "Lieutenant." "I do have your word that you won't release the full contents of that note to the press, only the fact that Joseph confessed to setting that fire?" "Thank you vey much." "Well, now that he's gone with his ridiculous accusations, would you like some champagne?" "I'd like you to answer me the way you didn't answer him." "What did Joseph mean in that note about "satisfying her need for vengeance"?" " And whose life was he referring to?" " l don't know." "Alexis, the man is dead." "And he made an accusation against you before he died." "Joseph was a fool." "He should have known that I would never have told Kirby the truth about her sainted mother." "Oh, my God, that's what he meant about ruining another life." "I lust threw that threat at him to put him in his place." "To put him in his grave." "That was not my fault." "He tried to kill me, and then again at the hospital." "Was it somebody else who tried to smother me?" "Steven said it was a nightmare but..." "Was it?" "Maybe it was real?" "I'm not gonna let you change the subject, do you hear?" "Now, Joseph killed himself." "He was a decent, moral man who loved his daughter more than his own life." "Now, because of you, I'm gonna have to lie to Kirby." "Lie to protect her from knowing what her mother was." "Joseph died to keep that secret." "How noble of you, Blake, to lie." "Do I applaud now, shout "bravo," or just remain terribly impressed?" "Well, I am not impressed." "Many things suit you, Blake, but being sanctimonious isn't one of them." "Joseph, a decent and moral man?" "What he really was was your paid house spy who liked nothing better than to badmouth me whenever he could." "Well, it's a pity he didn't tell me about you and that sey, young wife of his." "The attic nympho, wasn't that her sobriquet?" "You'll do anything, say anything to justify yourself, won't you?" "Well, if you tell Kirby one thing about her mother, I warn you, what Joseph attempted and failed to do, I will finish." "I don't understand." "Joseph confessed he set the fire but gave no reason why?" "Well, I would have to guess, Steven, that our mother gave him more than enough reason to ty and kill her." "She always did treat him as if he was dirt." "Fallon, can't you ever give her the benefit of the doubt, ever?" "Look, I probably shouldn't say anything, but this is no time for the two of you to be at each other." "Tomorrow Claudia is released from High Meadow." "Her big day." "I wanted to share it with her but now I... I wonder if I should cancel going up there to drive her back." "You promised her you'd go." "It means a lot to her." "Daddy." "Dad." "Thank you for being here, Steven." "We haven't been getting along vey well lately but I realise the pain you must be feeling." "You know what Joseph meant to me too." "Well, I've gotta be getting back to Danny." " Good night." " Good night." "Good night." "Daddy, don't let him go." "Whatever is wrong between the two of you, can't you just ty and make it right?" "What if something should happen in our family?" "You'd look back on all this and regret you didn't make your peace sooner." "Fallon, no matter how hard I ty, I can't make it right." "I can't make it stay right." "It's as if we live in two different worlds." "Thank you for coming too, Kystle." "It's really vey kind of you." "I couldn't not come, Blake." "I know what Joseph meant to this family." " Blake." " Oh, Jeff, how's Kirby?" "She's tying to fight off the sedative Dr. Winfield gave her, asking me questions I can't answer." "Will you help me?" "So many memories begin coming back to me." "Three kids." "Steven and I and Kirby growing up together." "And Joseph always there, looking after his little girl." "I remember the look on his face one time on his birthday." "Kirby giving him a little card that said, "l love my daddy."" "He must have been so desperate to have been driven to leaving her." "Kirby." "I'm so vey sory." "Why would my father wanna kill Alexis Colby?" "What did she do to him?" "It wasn't what she did to him, it was obviously what she planned to do to me." "Do to you?" "You see, more than anything in the world," "Alexis wants to take over my company and eveything I have." "Your father's loyalty and love for me and my family was boundless." "He must have decided that on his own, he would ty to stop her." "When that failed, he did a tragically wrong thing." " But he took his own life." " Yes." "Such a waste of a fine and precious life." "And sadly, it solved- Didn't solve anything." "Kirby, I can't bring him back." "But I can do what he would have wanted." "I don't want you and Jeff to move out of this house ever." "You're part of the family and you always will be." "All right?" "You keep walking out on him." "He's your father, Steven." "That's right, Chris." "He's my father and I'll handle this my way." "Look, the only reason I went over to that house was to ty to share this tragedy with my sister and to offer him my condolences." "I did that, there was nothing else to stay for." "How about one more ty?" "To tell him that we're friends, not lovers." "We're two guys who live in the same house with separate bedrooms." "Ty moving the pyramids." "Well, then maybe you better give your ex-wife a call in New York." "What does she have to do with this?" " She phoned a little while ago." " And?" "When she found out why I was here and you weren't, she came on vey hostile." "I quote," ""You're living with Steven and my son?"" "I got a good line on her during those divorce talks in New York." "She can be trouble, Steven." "So I'd suggest that you straighten this matter out with her." " Give her a callback, now." " No." "You lust said the key word, Chris." "Divorce." "I'm through with Sammy Jo, I've got custody of my son." "And I don't owe her any explanations." "It's the same thing with my father, Chris." "The same situation." "Settled." "I don't live for his approval anymore." "Nothing." "Nothing is ever going to change that man's mind about me." "So to hell with Blake Carrington." "Steven, I beg you to go back one more time." "Kystle, I'm glad you're still here." "I wanted to tell you that Lieutenant Merrill has promised that the charges against Mark Jennings will be dropped immediately." "Thank you for telling me." "I wanted you to know something else." "I'm sory, I'm truly sory." "I wasn't able to go along with your conviction that Mark was innocent." "You see, I now realise that my underlying personal resentment against the man probably coloured my judgement." "I've insisted to you that I'm not unfair." "And I guess in this instance, I was unfair." "That's vey honest of you, Blake." "I have the staff waiting for me in the libray." "I have to be going too." "Kystle, Kystle." "Kystle." "Kystle, I wanted to share the good news." "I found two notes at the front desk." "One from Fallon saying she does not accept my resignation." "And the other from the police telling me I'm a free man." "What do you say to that?" "Mark." "I'm so happy for you that it's over." " Let's talk about this in the morning." " Hey." "Look, I'm sory i got so carried away." "I know how you must feel about Joseph." " You were vey fond of him." " Yes, I was." "But I had to see you tonight." "To thank you for encouraging me to believe in myself." " You don't have to." " Oh, yes, I do." "You see, I'll never forget the look in Carrington's eyes after he put up that bail money for me." ""You're guilty as hell, Jennings, so let's lust call this a gesture for whatever reason."" " There's something you should know." " l already do." "You're lust like you've always been, Kystle." "You're warm and you're tender and you're loving." "He is tough and cynical and a manipulator." "I'm glad you finally wised up and dumped him." "Blake told me tonight that he was wrong about you." "Did he?" "Now suddenly he's the good guy and I'm the bad." "I didn't say that." "All I'm saying is that it was vey big of him to admit that." "Now, it's late." "Good night." "And in his way, Joseph looked after all of us." "Concerned for our problems." "Caring for our needs." "So many things that made him more than a major-domo, that made him our friend." "He lived by principles that a lot of people don't subscribe to these days." "And he had standards of excellence that I sometimes found myself envying." "He was an unusual man." "And we shall miss him." "I, especially, shall miss him." "Sleep well, dear, dear friend." "Well, High Meadow, can't say I'm exactly going to miss you." "But I am grateful." "For helping me to trust where l first distrusted." "Helping me to help myself." "Now I'm going out into the real world." "It's gonna be great. I know it." "It's just gonna be beautiful and great." "Thanks." "Oh, look." "These are from Fallon." "Aren't they lovely?" "I'm going to filch one of these, and present it to a vey beautiful woman." "On the occasion of this being the first time we've been alone together in a vey long time, I would like to say that it's about time and real nice." "Welcome to your future, Claudia." "Being here with you, Steven, I really like my present." "Funny." "Right now I'm thinking about the past." "A part of it, our past." "Go on." "You talk, it's good to talk." "Right now I'm thinking about the first time we were alone together." "At the cabin, that night." "Making love." "My first time making love to a woman." "The two of us." "Holding on to one another, not wanting to let go." "And you saying, "Make this-"" "Night last forever." "Make the stars wonder, where's the sun?" "Yes." "I haven't touched a woman since Sammy Jo." "And I haven't touched a man who mattered since you." "I'm certain that a maroon car was following us." "So keep your eyes open and if it shows up, I want you to come and find me immediately." "Yes, Mrs. Colby." "Well, that's great, Shery." "Big improvement on the forehand." "See you again soon, okay?" "Hello, Mark." "Hey, you finally come by to thank me." "You're welcome, Alexis." "Well, I'm enormously grateful to you, Mark." "And I lust wanted to talk to you for a few minutes." "About what?" "About how stupid it was of me to go out to that cabin unprotected when so many people had made threats against my life." "You see, I realise now that like so many rich and powerful women, I'm the logical target for jealous and angy men." "Men who are afraid that I'm going to betray their secrets." "Which is all your problem and not mine." "So..." "So that's exactly why I'm here, I wanna make it your problem." "And I wanna make it worth your while." "Mark, why should you waste yourself on the tennis court when it could be so much more intriguing working for me?" "You're not being vey clear, Alexis." "That's not like you." "All right." "I want you to use those rippling muscles for one purpose and one purpose only." "To protect me." "I want you to be my bodyguard, Mark." "Tell me something, is this offer your official, your tangible thank-you for saving your life?" "In a way, yes." "Well, let me tell you now, lady, so far as saving your life, if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't." "Fallon." "Darling, I wonder if you'd let me know where and when the services for Joseph are gonna be." "Sory, Blake's given orders you're not welcome there." "And you're not to be told the time and location." "Good God." "Does he really think he can keep that piece of information from me?" " If" " If what?" "You really want to attend services for a man who hated you so much, he wanted to kill you?" "Look, if you really wanna go and privately gloat, you'll have to find someone else who'll tell you where and when." "If you can find somebody who will." "You've helped pull me together again, Claudia." "You're so beautiful." "Steven, I wanna talk to you." "It's important." "All right." "You've got 60 seconds exactly." " Thousand one." " Stop it." "Thousand two." " Stop it." " Thousand three." " Thousand four." " l wanna talk to you." "It's about you and Blake, why didn't you tell me about this thing before?" "Because you're a vey sey woman and I didn't want you to turn all serious on me, okay?" " l'm turning serious on you." " Thousand five." " Steven," " Thousand six." "why didn't you tell me?" "Maybe because I didn't wanna rain on your graduation parade." "All your hard work." "I think your minute is up." "Steven." "Hey." "You're not gonna tell me you're on Blake's side, are you?" "No, of course not." "I'm not on Blake's side." "I'm not on your side." "I'm on Danny's side." "Come on, Danny has nothing to do with this." "Of course he does." "How many grandfathers does he have?" "How many?" "One." "Only one who's around." "One, well, my daughter, Lindsay, had one grandparent." "It was Matthew's mother." "She disapproved of the marriage from the start." "She never got over her feelings toward me." "Despite the fact that I dreaded evey visit to that woman, I never cut Lindsay off from her." "Because a grandparent's love is vey important to a child." "It's vey, vey important." "She used to say, "the children of my children are twice my children."" "In spite of my feelings, she loved Lindsay." "Oh, Steven." "If you don't make it up with Blake, how is your son ever going to know his grandfather's love?" "Would you go out on the terrace and see that the buffet is set up properly?" "Thank you." "Blake, I have something to do for a minute." " Would you take Kirby in, please?" " Oh, yes, of course." "Kystle." "I'm really concerned about Kirby." "Well, what do you mean?" "Well, I can't get her to talk about her father." "She never leaves our room." "She barely eats." "I beg her to eat for her sake and the baby's but I get nowhere." "Well, she's been through a terrible ordeal." "I know, I know, but she's gotta get over it sometime." "Look, you're her friend." "She feels close to you, she trusts you." "Would you talk to her?" "Well, I don't know what I can do but I'll talk to her." "Kirby." "Kirby." "Did you hear me?" "There are two lives you're responsible for now." " Yours" " And my baby's." "Yes." "Kystle, you know something?" "God is punishing me." "He took my father who did that terrible thing." "To take his own life, yes, what a terrible waste." "God isn't punishing you for that." "The fall from that horse was an accident." "No, it wasn't an accident." "I did it on purpose." "It was deliberate." "It was vey deliberate." "What are you talking about?" "I have to tell someone." "I have to tell someone." "I can't keep this inside of me any longer." "You said that you had to lose the baby because it wasn't Jeff's." "Was that true?" "Swear to me that you won't tell anyone, please." " No, I won't." " Promise." "Yes." "It's Adam's." "He raped me, the baby is Adam's." "Adam's?" " Does he know?" " Oh, God, no." "He never will." "Kystle, I would give my life if it were Jeff's." "Because it's Jeff that I love." "It's Jeff." "Kirby, you have to be strong enough to tell him." "I can't." "What if he leaves me?" "I would die." "What if he finds out later?" "is this something that you can live with?" "is it?" "Blake, you have to understand, the kind of custody case that you are considering launching is not an eveyday matter." "A grandfather challenging his son's right to raise his own child." "Now, that's not entirely accurate." "It's a grandfather challenging his gay son's right to raise their child in an unwholesome and unnatural environment." "All right, what about my rights to protect that baby's best interests?" "And what about the baby's rights?" "Well, let's say, at the moment, they're in some fairly uncharted territoy." "Now, what does that mean?" "It means, like so many other family issues, nobody can clearly define what those rights really are." "Conflicts between parents and grandparents often degenerate into bitterness that even the courts can't control." "Blake, listen to me." "My advice to you is don't jump into this thing." "I'm not lumping into anything, Andrew, I'm being pushed." "Only because of your antagonism toward Steven." "Look, the boy came over to you." "He shook your hand." "I grant you these are terrible times for you both." "But Blake, why don't you reach out to your son?" " Good morning." " Good morning." " Good morning." " l phoned your suite." "The desk said that you were here." " Oh, please don't go, Claudia." " No, it's okay, I have things to do." "I was wondering whether you'd given any thought to what we had discussed yesterday after the services." "I really have, I've given it a great deal of thought." "And a great deal of quiet gratitude to you." "But I really can't go back to work at Denver-Carrington." "I feel I've gotta kind of move out on my own." " You can understand that, can't you?" " Sure, of course." "Thank you." " l'll see you later." " All right." " May I loin you?" " Please." "That was vey nice of you, Blake." "Offering Claudia that job." "Well, she needed a lob and I'm not a total monster." "You know, sometimes it takes losing an old friend like Joseph to..." "Yes?" "To make you understand that none of us is an island." "My whole life long, I took pride in the thought that I didn't need anyone, that I could make it by myself." "That was a false pride, I know that now." "I realise how wrong I was in shutting you out so many times when you tried to share my problems, my pain." "So I came here this morning to let you know how much I need you." "How vey much I need you." "If only we hadn't lost the baby, our baby." "We'd still be together, I'm sure." "I thought of that so many times." "Well, I'm not going to press you for an answer but if you could at least think about becoming my wife again." "Would you do that, please?" "I'll think about it, Blake. I will." " You're busy." " l have some catching up to do." " Yes, I'm busy." " Well, this won't take long." "Just winding things up." "In case our paths don't cross in the next few days, I thought I'd say goodbye before I go back to Billings." "When?" "How regretful you do not look." "I didn't expect otherwise." "Brothers and sisters loving each other only happens in vey old-fashioned novels." "In real life, we're just like the animals." "We come out of the same litter, and once we've grown up, we don't even know one another." "Well, maybe there's something about you, Adam, that doesn't exactly inspire love." "Then what?" "Let's say mistrust." "It's a typical Fallon thought, typical Fallon word." "I wonder how one says "forever Fallon" in Latin?" "It ought to be inscribed on a corner of the family seal in red, blood red." "What about Dr. Edwards?" "What about him?" "You claimed you didn't even know the man and it turned out he knew you since you were a baby." "And then the business of your first court case." "The man who went berserk from mercuric oxide?" "And you denied having anything to do with that case." "So you tell me, Adam, how does one begin to love somebody they can't even trust?" "Spoken like the suspicious daughter of our suspicious mother." "Did you know she thought I was the one who put the torch to that cabin?" "How's that for family love?" "Goodbye, Fallon." "It's too bad you're not the girl I thought you were before I found out who you really are." "Billings, Montana." "Operator, I don't know if you can help me, but I need to locate a company there that manufactures mercuric oxide." "Oh, I came by to see Danny." "And to bring him something, how sweet." "Mrs. Gordon's giving him a bath right now." " l'll come back another time." " Oh, no, no, Kystle." "I insist that you come in." "I'd like to clear the air about something, Kystle." "What is it, Alexis?" "You can leave that there because I don't want you coming to this apartment anymore." " What?" " You've finally done it, haven't you?" "You have finally managed to alienate Fallon and Adam from me." "You don't need any help in alienating anybody, Alexis." "You do quite well on your own." "Well, Steven is my son and I will not hold still if you're tying to steal him away from me too." "My friendship with Steven goes back a long time." "Long before you made your triumphant return to Denver to mess up eveybody's life." "And I doubt that Steven will hold still anymore than I will for your dictating to either of us." "Steven." "Hello, darling." "Mother." "Kystle, did I break in on some sort of an argument?" "Argument?" "No, no, no." "We were just" "Excuse me." "Hello." "Yes, I lust got in, Dad." "What's on your mind?" "I'll get right to the point, Steven." " Is it about Danny?" " Yes." "About your son, my grandson." "I want the best for you both, you know that." "That being?" "For all of us to be together again." "You and Danny here at the house." "Me kind of hanging around, being the proud grandfather." "In other words, you want me to move out of the apartment." "That's right." "And if your friend Chris wants to stay on alone, fine." "Or perhaps he'd like to move to another place." "Chris." "So this little chat isn't just about Danny?" "The important thing is, consider what a wonderful home your son is going to have." "And also the same goes for you and me." " Would you like some more ice?" " No, thank you." "Andrew was right about my reaching out to you." "Andrew?" "What does your lanyer have to do with this?" "Well, we've been discussing this whole matter." "What were you going to do?" "Take me to court and force me back?" "Oh, God." "Not me, my son." " Now, look, Steven" " Discussing the whole matter of what?" "Suing me for custody of Danny, was that it?" "Yes, if I were driven to that kind of extreme." "But we could work it out, there are always ways." "There are always two ways, both of them Blake Carrington's." " That's a rotten thing to stay, Steven." " Rotten or not, it's true." "Look, Dad, I'm not coming back to live in your house and you can't take my son away from me." "All right, all right." "If you want to stay there then stay, but give me Danny." "And if Kystle comes back to me, I promise you that she'll raise the child the way he should be raised." "Kystle." "You screwed up and lost Kystle and now you hope this will bring her back, right?" "No, that's not true." "Steven, cooperate with me and I will drop all consideration of any legal action." "Legal action?" "Against me, to take Danny away from me?" "To help your son for his sake." "Don't you understand?" "No, I don't." "We don't need your damned help." " l'm not through with you yet." " Well, I'm through with you." "This isn't the end of it, Steven." "I'll see you in court." "I'm going to get my grandson."