"Krystle." "Yes?" "I've been meaning to ask you something." "I" "Please look at me." "And please answer me." "You owe me some answers." "About Mark." "You never told me how you met him, why you decided to marry him." "Blake, what's the point?" "Well," "I just wanna know what was so special about him that now you insist on handling the divorce on a personal basis when it'd be so much simpler just to turn it over to my lawyers." "Now, that's something" "That's something I think that I have a right to know." "Blake, it's a private thing that I have to deal with my way." "And if it weren't for this mess about the divorce not being legal, that man would be out of my life completely now." "Then you'd rather not talk about it." "That's right." "I wouldn't." "Yes?" "Yes, what is it, Joseph?" "There's a call for you from a Mr. Axted in Hong Kong." "It's on your private line in the library." "I explained it was the middle of the night but the operator insists it's urgent." "Thank you." "Probably located Steven." "Remember this?" "Sure, we were on our honeymoon." "Nice old locket." "Belonged to my grandmother." "And I'm gonna wear it all the time you're in New York." "Then I'll have you close to me." "Oh, I'm gonna miss you like crazy." "But the minute you hit it big, then I can come travel with you and we can do the tour together." "What's wrong?" "They just changed their minds." "I just heard about it." "I guess I'm just not good enough for the circuit." "No." "No." "No, they're wrong." "You're gonna be a superstar one day." "I just know it." "You're gonna be one of the best." "Oh, it scares me how much I need you." "I couldn't make it without you." "I love being needed by you." "It'll make me love you even more." "Blake, what's wrong?" "What is it?" "The phone call?" "There was an oil-rig explosion in the Java Sea near Bali." "Five men are missing, presumed to be dead." "Steven is one of them." "Steven?" "Oh, Blake." "I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry." "No need to be sorry." "My son isn't dead." " But you said he was in an explosion" " I'm not sure about that." "All they're going on is a shortwave-radio report and that's not good enough for me, you hear, I wanna know." "They're not going to write Steven off." "I won't allow them." "I tell you, I won't allow them." "Yes, that's right, Paul." "No, I want the" "Yes, I want the Lear ready right now." "Los Angeles." "They're all booked from here on tonight's flight to Singapore and I'll need the time in L.A. to pry loose a reservation." "Right." "I don't know." "Does it make any sense to go flying halfway around the world?" "To Singapore and then to Bali?" "I mean, Colbyco has people working there." "We can check it out for you." "No, thanks, Jeff, I'm gonna check this out myself." "I can't shake the feeling that Steven is alive out there calling out to me." "I feel closer to him at this moment than I've ever felt before." "Well, I've got to go." "I've got to go and find him and bring him back." "Daddy, please change your mind and take me with you?" "If Steven's alive, then we'll find him together." "There is no if." "He is alive." "And I have got to do this alone." "It's just between Steven and me." "Fallon," "I wish there was something I could do." "I know how you must feel." "No, you don't." "Nobody knows how I feel." "Jeff?" "She's in so much pain now." "It's hard for her to let anyone be close." "Well, it seems like it's never been easy for Fallon." "Letting me get close to her." "Don't." "Kirby, the baby's bottle is warm and you have work to do." "Jeanette, would you excuse us, please?" "Yes, Mr. Carrington." "What are you doing?" "Well, I'm packing to go with you." "I can't let you go through this alone." "Krystle, it was my fault that Steven went out there." "Now, I made the situation and I'm going to set it right, and I have to do it alone." "Now try to understand that." "No, I can't understand that." "I'm your wife." "My place is with you." "Not now." "Not this time." "I" "I have to go." "I'll be in touch when I have some news." "Blake, please." "Please." "Don't shut me out." "You need me now." "I don't need anybody to help me fight my battles, Krystle." "Not even me." "Nobody." "Well, look who's here." "My favourite brother-in-law." "Your only brother-in-law." "So let's cut the crud for once, okay, Adam?" "I wanna speak to Alexis." "Mother's upstairs, not to be disturbed, she said." "She said?" "Or is it that you don't want me to see her?" "Look, I concede that you are the big man at Colbyco now, but whether you like it or not, Alexis looks to me for guidance." "So whatever you want to tell her, you can tell me." "Well, this isn't business." "It's a family matter." "Is it?" "I've learned one thing since being anointed a latter-day Carrington." "There's nothing to do with this family that is not business." "Well, look." "Her son, Steven, your brother, is missing, presumed dead." "Oh, my God, Jeff." "Look, I think it really would be better if I broke the news to Mother." "You understand?" "Fallon?" "They told me you were here in Steven's room." "I'd just like to be left alone for a while, okay?" "That's not a lot to ask, is it?" "Of course not." "But" "But what?" "I guess I'll just never understand this family." "At a time when most people need to pull together, you go off by yourselves like wounded bears." "Well, that's just the way we are." "So if you can't understand that, you might at least respect it." "The thing is, it's not just your grief, yours and your father's." "I love Steven too." "For a long time, he was the only friend I had in the house." "And it breaks my heart when I" "Would you please?" "I don't wanna talk about it." "Would you please just go away?" "I don't imagine you'll be going into the hotel today." "So if you need anything to be done," "I could do it for you." "I have to be there in a little while." "Have to?" "Why?" "Clear up some things with Mark." "You're really something else, aren't you?" "You can't wait for my father to go away and look for whatever's left of my brother so you can rush off and take a tennis lesson or whatever one does with a discarded husband." "I'll let that pass, Fallon, because I know how upset you are." "But the only reason Mark's in my life right now is because you and your mother worked so hard to put him there." "And the only reason I'm going to see him now is to make sure he gets out of my life." "For good, this time." "I feel so drained, so numb." "I can't cry anymore, Adam." "I just feel too much pain." "I know." "I know how deep it is and I feel it with you." "Thank God I have you." "Mother." "Yes?" "I'm wondering..." "Considering how Father feels about you, do you think going there to see him unannounced is really the wise thing to do?" "I can't cry for my loss without crying for Blake's loss too." "Having to send Jeff with the terrible news, too broken up to come himself." "I think you're too generous, giving him the benefit of a very large doubt." "I know you can't understand it." "No one can unless they've had children of their own." "But this is no time to hold onto hatred, Adam." "I'll change." "Do you think you'll be able to leave in about half an hour?" "I'll try." "Darling." "What a terrible day this is for us all." "What's he doing here?" "Darling, can't you forget your hostilities for once?" "Adam is Steven's brother and yours too." "Not to me, he isn't." "Please, Fallon." "It's all right, Mother." "Now is not the time for my sister and me to settle our differences." "It was right here in this room that Steven told us all how much we'd failed him." "Then he left." "And now he's never coming back." "As I recall it, Mother, he told us all to go to hell." "Oh, no, he didn't mean that." "He couldn't have." "In his own tortured mind, he loved all of us." "Mother, none of this is going to bring him back to us." "You're right." "What I have to do now is to pull myself together before I see Blake." "Seeing Daddy is gonna be a little bit difficult." "He's on his way to Los Angeles to catch a flight to Bali." "On his way to Bali?" "Alone?" "Yeah." "He said he felt this was something that he should do himself." "He felt?" "What about me?" "All I did was give birth to your brother while your father was tied up in a board meeting." "Well, we certainly all owe you a great debt of gratitude," " don't we, Krystle?" " What are you talking about?" "I'm talking about you and your miserable family and that trashy little niece of yours." "Alexis, Sammy Jo is gone." "Now, I know you're upset about Steven." "We all are." "But I don't think this is the time to" "I think that it's about time that I told you just how upset and how tormented that I am." "Because if you hadn't brought that little tramp into this house," "Steven would be alive today." "Alexis, I'm going to ignore that because I know that you're in pain right now." "You're right, I am." "But I don't want your pity." "Because I hate her for what she did." "And I hate you for your part in it." "And I blame both of you for killing my son." "Alexis, why did Sammy Jo leave this house?" "Because you bought her off." "You paid her to get out of Steven's life." "Yes." "Well, the fact is, if she had stayed, maybe they could have made a go of it." "Made a go of it." "There was nothing between them." "There was." "Oh, really?" "What?" " Love?" " Yes." "A very fragile but special kind of love." "I am sorry for you, Alexis." "You've lost your son." "But I'm sorry for myself too, because I loved Steven very much and I will not fight with you on his grave." "Very nice." "Good volley, Barbie." "Yeah, I feel like my net game's really starting to cook, finally." "You ready?" "Hey, Mark." "There's no way I can handle a serve like that." "You darn near took my head off." "I'm sorry, Barbie." "Look, let's wind it up for today and I'll give you an extra half-hour tomorrow, okay?" " Okay." " Thanks for understanding." "Heard about your stepson." "I'm sorry." "Any hope?" "Blake thinks so." "I'm praying there is." "What are you doing here, Krystle?" "Come to take off what's left of my hide?" "I came to apologise to you for accusing you of lying about our divorce not being legal." "And now you believe me." "I went to Mexico to check it out." "You were telling the truth." " Hi, Mark, can we have a game?" " Later, honey." "Anytime you say, I'll be waiting." "Can we talk?" "Yeah, you wanna talk, talk." "Can we go someplace a little more private?" "My place." "Don't worry, I'm not hitting the booze like I did in the old days." "You'll be safe." "Promise." "I'll file right here in Colorado, the grounds will be irretrievable breakdown of the marriage and desertion." "Sounds about right." "Takes about three months, and then it'll be done." "We can both get on with our lives." "You could have sent a lawyer to tell me all this." "Why didn't you?" "Oh, I felt that it was really my problem and I should settle it myself." "Is that the only reason?" "Even though our lives have gone in different directions, Mark, we did share some wonderful years." "I didn't want it to end up with lawyers and hostility and nothing else." "Okay, I guess that's what I was hoping to hear." "And thank you for not mentioning the not-so-wonderful problems during those wonderful years." "You deserve your happiness too, Krystle." "Go ahead with the divorce proceedings and I won't do anything to hold them up." "Thank you." "I feel better about this." "And I just hope that when the dust settles, we can still be friends." "Of course we can." "I want that too." "Do you really mean that?" "I do." " Sir?" " Thank you, no." "Would you like something to drink?" "Excuse me, madam, but this is our first-class lounge." "It's not my fault that this airline didn't have enough space to sell me a first-class ticket." "I'm looking for someone." "You'll have to speak to our chief steward." "Alexis, what in the devil are you doing here?" "That's a letter from Steven." "Yes, yes, it's a letter that he wrote to Fallon." "When did she get it?" "A couple of days ago." "Couple of days ago?" "Probably the last words that we'll ever hear from my son and you were all trying to keep it from me?" "Now, will you keep your voice down and not make a scene?" "It's just like it was with the baby, isn't it?" "I had to hear from a stranger that he was kidnapped." "And you're still treating me like I don't exist," "like I don't have any feelings about my own flesh and blood, flying off on a trip without even a phone call to search for my son's body." "Alexis, this is between me and my son." "It has nothing to do with you." "Nothing to do with me." "Oh, my God." "What kind of a monster are you?" "My son is dead." "It's my son too" "Stop." "Stop it." "I don't wanna hear another word about Steven being dead." "You understand?" "Maybe you're willing to accept it, but I am not." "Do you hear me?" "Do you?" "What's the matter?" "What is it?" "The bottom." "There's nothing there." "Oh, God." "I was thinking about Steven." "How he's probably dead somewhere at the bottom of the ocean where nobody will ever find him." "Don't think about him that way, Fallon." "Remember him alive." "The things about him that made him so special to you." "I know that you and I got off to a rocky start." "And when I came out with Alexis yesterday..." "Well, I was pretty rough on you yesterday." "But I understand that." "That's why I came back today." "Because I was hoping we'd be able to get past your feeling that I'm intruding on your grief." "I know I never met Steven, but I'd like to have known him." "Growing up alone the way I did," "I'd have given a lot for a kid brother." "And a sister." "It must be a special kind of friendship." "Steven was very special to me." "He was the only one who understood how my head worked, and my heart." "I know I could never take his place, and I'm not asking for that." "Just a chance to be your brother." "I don't know, Adam." "Right now, it's just a little too painful to think about." "But in time?" "We'll see." "Hi." "He just fell asleep." "Okay." "Hi." "Better?" "Yes, that's better." "I was hoping I'd run into you." "I wanted to apologise for the other night at Fallon's party." "What for?" "Oh, I came on pretty strong." "It happens sometimes." "Especially when I meet a girl who turns me on as much as you do." "You know, you keep talking like that and another apology is going to be in order." "You're quite a challenge, just in case you didn't know that." "You see, up till now, I haven't met too many girls who pretended to turn off to me." "What makes you think I'm pretending?" "Fair enough." "But I think you owe me a sporting chance at changing your mind." "So how about dinner and some dancing tomorrow night?" "I don't believe it." "You just lost a brother and you're talking about going out dancing?" "If that is supposed to annihilate me, you're gonna have to do better." "You see, Steven is just a name to me." "You, on the other hand, are someone, a very attractive someone, whom I could care a lot about." "So are we on?" "No." "We are not on." "I have to work tomorrow night." "That's tomorrow night." "With the little prince." "But there'll be a night after that one." "Without the little prince." "With just you and me." "Look forward to it, Kirby." "I do." "I happened to be downtown on another errand." "It was something rather personal that I wanted to discuss with you." "I didn't want to do it at the house." "There's no problem." "What do you wanna talk about, Joseph?" " May I?" " Please." "It's about my daughter, Kirby." "Kirby?" "What about her?" "Well, I expect you still think of her as a child." "She's not a child anymore." "I don't understand why you're telling me all of this." "Well, she's obviously come home still with that childhood crush on you very much alive." "Except that matters are more serious now." "That's why I'm here, to ask" "No, to tell you that I would be grateful if you would not encourage her that" "Wait, wait." "Wait." "You see, it's" "I said wait!" "Encouraging?" "What are you talking about?" "Well, you're separated from your wife." "Your room is down the hall from where Kirby is." "And so you think I am a rapist?" "Huh?" "These insinuations, what evidence do you have?" "What?" "Tell me!" "Are you finished?" "I'm sorry, I" "I" "I don't know." "I don't know what's coming over me." "You knew my uncle Cecil, right?" "Yes." "Not well, but, yes." "I" "I wonder if his presence is getting back at me for turning on him when he was alive." "It seems that the more time that I spend in this office, the worse I feel, I" "Well, you've been working too hard, really, much too hard." "This tragedy with Steven." "It was thoughtless of me to come here at a time like this with my troubles." "No, you were right." "You don't have to worry about Kirby." "Thank you." "There's a visitor here to see you." "The front gate passed him through when he identified himself as Sammy Jo's father." "Frank?" " What does he want?" " I'll find out, if you wish." "No, send him in." "Krystle." "My, my, my." "Don't you look fine." "What are you doing here, Frank?" "I was racing down in Colorado Springs." "I had some time, I thought I'd pop up here and see my little girl." "Only this fellow out here tells me she doesn't live here anymore." "No, she doesn't." "But I'm deeply touched to hear that you care." "What's that supposed to mean?" "Of course I care, she's my little girl." "Sure you do." "That's why you left her here a year ago and wrote me that "Dear Krystle" letter about how you had better things to do than to look after her." "Listen, Krystle, I was really messed up then." "That was Bedelia, my ex-lady." "She got all she could out of me and then she ran out." "Running out seems to run in your side of the family, Frank." "I know I didn't do right by Sammy Jo." "That's why I'm here." "I heard on the radio about her husband being killed." "I'm really sorry about that." "I came to give whatever comfort I can as a father." "And maybe try to get your hands on some of Steven's money?" "Oh, stop, Krystle." "You're wrong about that, you're dead wrong." "I've never been wrong about you, Frank." "From the first day my sister first brought you around," "I knew the kind of man you were." "I only regret I didn't talk her out of marrying you and ruining her life." "Thank you." "Now, you'd better leave." "I'm not going anywhere until you tell me where Sammy Jo went to." "I don't know where she is." "She didn't even have the decency to tell me." "Krystle, I have rights." "Now, my little girl is bound to come into some money and I want her to get it." "Get out, Frank." "Or I'll have you thrown out." "You take care of yourself, Krystle." "What have you been doing?" "That's what I wanna know." "We're almost 48 hours since the explosion and you don't have one scrap of information about the survivors?" " Maybe Steven was picked up by" " No, Alexis, please." "Well, what about it?" "You think we haven't been trying, huh?" "I haven't been out of this place since that rig blew." "We haven't slept, been living on cold coffee and stale sandwiches." "And I feel like that radiophone is growing out of my ear." "All right, Cassidy, now, I realise it's been rough on you too." "But what I'm trying to understand is why there's been no information." "Look, this is the area we're talking about." "It's huge." "Thousands of square miles of open sea." " Where was the rig?" " Right here." "That's open sea, it's isolated." "Yesterday, we had search planes over the area but they didn't find anything." "Today, we got a typhoon moving in and that grounds the planes." "Now, I understand that the foreman of the rig survived, is that right?" "That's right." "He was still on the wreckage when the rescue chopper got there." "Well, can we talk to the man?" " Well, where is he?" " Have you questioned him?" "He's in a hospital in south Borneo." "We'll have him down here when the weather clears." " Then you haven't talked to him?" " Not yet." "Communications from here to there, they're lousy." "But, soon as we can, we'll fly him down here and then we can" "That's not good enough." "I'm gonna fly up there myself and find out what he knows." "Did you hear what I just told you?" "There's a typhoon coming in." "You'll never make it." "Even if you find a pilot fool enough to try." "Well, then you're gonna find me one that's fool enough." "Carrington, why can't you listen to reason?" "Do it." "I don't know why Daddy hasn't called yet." "At least to tell us he arrived safely." "I'm sure he'll call the minute he knows something." " Hello?" " Is this the Carrington residence?" "Mark?" "It's Fallon." "Is there a problem at the hotel?" "No problem." "I'm downtown and I'm calling to talk to Krystle." "Is she there?" "Yeah, she's here." "It's for you." "Mark, what is it?" "La Mirage in an hour?" "I guess I could." "I don't understand." "What's it about?" "Well, it seems we overlooked one item in this according-to-Hoyle divorce." "The property settlement." "Thought you were smart last night, didn't you, Krystle?" "Throwing me out of that big, fancy house of yours." "What do you want, Frank?" "Nobody treats me like trash, Krystle." "Nobody." "Don't turn your back on me when I'm talking." " You're hurting me." " Now, my Sammy Jo is the widow of Carrington, and she's entitled to plenty." "Hey, get away from her." "Hey, I know you, you're the brother-in-law." "You stay out of this." "This is a family thing." "It's between Krystle and me." "Oh, well, if it's a family squabble, that's okay, because I'm family too." "Now, listen, Frank, if I ever catch you putting your hands on this lady again, do you know what I'm gonna do?" "I'm gonna break your ugly good-old-boy neck." "Now take off." "Get going." "It's all right, baby." "He won't be back." "Come on." "Can I order you anything?" "A cup of coffee?" "A beer?" "No, I'm all right, really." "If you hadn't come along when you did..." "Well, thanks doesn't seem to cover it." "No thanks required." "The property settlement you talked about on the phone, exactly what did you have in mind?" "Oh, that." "Coming up." "Go ahead." "Open it." "It's your property." "Oh, Mark." "Remember when you lost it and you wondered if maybe I knew what had happened to it?" "Well, you were right, of course." "I took it and I pawned it." "Then when I came back from Mexico and you were gone," "I got it out of hock." "Kept it ever since to remember you by." "Well, it's yours again." "Let's just call it our property settlement, okay?" "Okay." "Cassidy, damn it." "It's midnight." "Do you know how long I've been sitting by that phone, waiting to hear from you?" "Anybody ever dared tell you, Mr. Carrington, you're not much fun to deal with." "I'm sorry." "You've been very decent." "I'm sorry I've been so demanding and bad-tempered." "Well, if it was my kid out there, I'd probably be a little testy myself." "You are a little testy yourself." "Now, do you have anything to tell me?" "Yeah." "I found a pilot who's fool enough to fly you." "Well, actually, you got a little break in the weather." "That storm's veering to the north a bit." "Otherwise, I can tell you, you'd never have got anybody to chance it, no matter how much money you throw around." " Okay?" " Okay." "Tomorrow morning, I'll pick you up at 6, we leave for the airport." "Well, that's not necessary." "I can get off to the airport by myself." "It's necessary if I'm going with you, which I am." "You see, those five missing guys were like my kids." "They're my responsibility, anyway." "Well, I'll be glad to have you as company." "Oh, you'd better be." "I'm the fool who's gonna fly you." " I absolutely detest this place." " Good night" "My room is full of insects." "The entire hotel staff don't speak ten words of English between them and I've got this dreadful feeling that the news that we're waiting for can only be bad." "Alexis, there's a plane leaving for the States in the morning." "Now, why don't you book yourself a seat on it?" "Blake, please, don't let's fight." "I really want to believe that Steven is still alive." "Why don't we have some supper together and share some memories of our child?" "Yes?" "Yes, operator, I'd" "Yes, I did put a call in to the United States." "Yes, I'm ready to talk right now." "Hello?" "Yes, Daddy, I can hear you perfectly." "What's the news there?" "Well, I'm flying out in the morning to see the foreman of the oil rig." "I'm hoping that he'll have something to tell us about Steven." "Well, something good, I hope." "Well, I'll know more after I talk to the man." "Fallon, would you get Krystle and put her on, please?" "She's not here, Daddy." "She's out at La Mirage." "Mark Jennings phoned and she took off to meet him." " Again?" " Yes." "Well..." "Give her my love, will you?" "I'll call you soon." "Bye, darling." "Bye." "What do you think, Blake?" "Shall I order something from room service?" "If we share anything, it's our love for our children." "So let's not punish each other." "You mean that I will comfort you and, of course, you'll comfort me?" "Yes, that's what I mean." "This is no time for either of us to be alone." "My God, how many ways can you try to destroy my marriage?" "You dug up Mark Jennings, you brought him to Denver to make trouble between Krystle and me." "Now you wanna spend the night with me, an event which you will certainly let Krystle in on the first time you see her." "I have no intention of ever spending the night with you again." "And as for Mark Jennings, you should thank me for bringing him back." "Oh, yes?" "Why would I do that?" "Oh, you'll find out soon enough." " I'll find out what?" " Wait." "Just you wait." "I never like to spoil the ending of a play." "Or a movie, or a book." "A romantic tragedy." "Some people might call it a farce." "Now what the hell does that mean?" "That means that what you thought you had, you never really had at all."