" Daniel, please." " Krystie, listen to me." "I've thought for so many years that..." "That if this moment ever came, it would be different." "We'd be on a yacht, somewhere in the Caribbean." "I built one last year." "Do you know what I named her?" " What?" " The Krystie." "Are you surprised?" "We can sail on her, we can go anywhere you want." "Boy, I want you, Krystie, so much, so very much." "Daniel, being here with you these past few weeks..." "I've begun to feel more and more close to you and..." "I think you're one of the most wonderful people I've ever known." "Then what is it?" "Are you thinking about Blake?" "That you're his wife and the mother of his child?" "I'm thinking about something you said to me once." ""Know yourself." "More than anything, know yourself."" "And I do." "And I know this is wrong." "Krystie." "I've been in love with you since..." "Do you remember one hot August night back in Dayton?" "I came over to take your sister to a movie." "You answered the door, and you smiled." "And you said, "Hi, she'll only be a couple of minutes."" "Do you remember that?" "I've been in love with you ever since." "I never told her." "I never told you." "I didn't have to." "Because you knew it too, didn't you?" "No." "You didn't realise that that's why I didn't marry her?" "Why I left?" " No." " I can't believe that." "We have so much together, Krystie." "And you do want me." "You know you do." "You're right." "I am thinking about Blake." "You'll always be special to me." "But I love him." "And I always will." "Hello?" "Yes, she is here." "Put him on." "It's Prince Michael calling for you." "And remember, it's "Your Highness."" "Hello?" "Michael." "Yes." "Well, I'm sorry, but I've got other plans for dinner tonight." "Yes, we'll talk again later." "Bye." "Well, that was short and not very sweet." "Well, I didn't feel like talking." "And I don't feel like seeing him tonight." "But you told me you had a wonderful time with him yesterday." "I did." "But I only saw him to make a point to everyone." "Anyway, I don't feel romantically inclined today." "Do you realise you've just turned down, if not turned off, the catch of your generation?" "I thought he was a prince, Mommy, not a tuna fish." "Amanda, sometimes your sense of humour is as sorry as your judgement." "It's not Dex, is it?" "I mean, his negative attitude towards the prince isn't influencing you in any way?" "Well, why would it?" "It's just a question, Amanda." "Well, it's a stupid question." "Dex's opinions don't interest me and neither does the prince." "He can be nice enough, outwardly." "And he can bow and charm with the rest of his royal breed." "But he's also very autocratic." "And men like that, overbearing, dictatorial, and chauvinistic," "leave me cold." "I quite agree, darling." "But many women find him extremely attractive." "Well, I'm not one of them." " Hello?" "MAN Krystle." "I just wanted you to know that I wasn't very happy about our phone conversation this afternoon." "Now, please, don't hang up on me again." "But I didn't" "You intimated I was alone here with Alexis." "Well, I wasn't." "I was with Lady Mitchell and the Chinese representative and his associates." "And we were winding up some important business." "Now, does that answer all your questions?" "All right, Blake." "I'm sorry, I was mistaken." "But Alexis had been in your room earlier, hadn't she?" "Yes." "And she is in Acapulco." "In fact, everyone seems to be in Acapulco, except me." "And you seem to have time for them despite the heavy work schedule you told me about." "Look, it's late, and I'm tired." "I wanna go to bed." "All right, Krystle." " Good night." " Good night." "Krystina." "When are things going to be right again?" "When?" "I hope you two don't mind that I've ordered room service tonight." "That's fine with me." "I'd like to eat something and then go to bed early." " Senora Dexter." " Yes." "Yes, bring it in and set it up over here, please." "Down by the terrace." "Yes, that looks very nice." "Mommy, it looks like you've ordered half the hotel menu." "And the table setting's for four." "Yes, it is." "Good evening, everyone." "Good evening, Your Highness." "I invited Prince Michael to join us for dinner." "We met on the beach this afternoon." "Mrs. Dexter said I had a long and lonely face." ""Dinner with the family," she asked." ""Oh, yes," I replied." "And not without tangible thanks." " Oh." "Your Highness, they're absolutely exquisite." "Thank you." "Amanda, aren't they beautiful?" " Come and sit down." " Thank you." "Would you put that one there?" "Put that one over there on the table." "And, Dex, would you please do the honours and open the champagne?" "Of course." " It's hard to believe." " What is?" "That two mature adults would actually discuss oil leases and Mr. Han Li Su at a midnight supper in Acapulco." "Well, hopefully Mr. Han Li Su will believe it when I deliver that memo to him in the morning." "You've been tremendously helpful, Ashley." "Tough going, this stuff." "very tiring." "Not really." "As a matter of fact, I'm gonna make you a proposition." "I've been doing a photographic essay lately for a book I'm working on." "Ah." "And having gotten to know and admire me, you wanna do a whole chapter about me, is that right?" "Ten pages at the least." "In colour, of course." "Ah, colour and black and white." "I want the world to see how dynamic you are, no matter what the shadings." "Actually, I'm being very serious." "Well, I'm very flattered." "Well, shall we seal the contract with a dance?" "Yes, yes, of course." "You know that this is the first time that a lady has ever asked me to dance." "Pretty aggressive, aren't I?" " You dance beautifully." " I know." "You're as immodest as my husband was." "It's nice to see that you're able to smile so easily when you talk about him." "We had a good marriage." "We laughed a lot." "When he knew he was getting sick he said:" ""We'd better laugh, darling, because a frown won't cure anything."" "We had a good marriage." "But things end, things begin." "Why?" "Why did I encourage them to go dancing?" "Because I thought they'd enjoy it." "Does that answer your question?" "No, I wanna know why you're trying to push your daughter into His Highness' arms?" "Would you prefer that I pushed her into someone else's arms?" "For example, yours?" "What the hell are you talking about?" "Dex, nobody understands the working of the male psyche better than I do." "And nobody's more tolerant or even amused at a little casual, harmless flirtation." "But this time, I think you might be going a little too far, husband dear." "Well, there's an implication, an unsavoury one, hiding somewhere in that haystack of words." "How clever of the Wyoming farm boy." "Can you find it?" "Well, if it has to do with Amanda and me, my feelings for her are" "Oh, I'm sure that your feelings for her as pure" "Pure as the driven snow." "And how could you possibly enjoy playing psychological mother-daughter games." " Come on, Alexis, I'm not doing that." " Good." "Because if you are enjoying such a sick little pastime, Dex," "I think that you and I had better start talking about divorce." "What?" "Look, you've misunderstood everything." "There's never been any feeling between me and any other woman since I met the only one in the world that I love, have ever loved and ever will love." "Oh, you really expect me to believe that?" "All right, Alexis." "I'll prove it to you." "Oh, no." "No, you don't." "Don't you try your unfailing sexual charms on me, because I'm not interested." "And I'm now going for a walk on the beach, alone." "Now, that wouldn't possibly be a book about Arabians, now would it?" "Well, as a matter of fact, it's poetry about Arabians." "Oh, Jeff, listen to this, it was written over a thousand years ago." "My mare Kept always close to my tent" "Has ever been to me A most invaluable possession" "And I will keep her as my own So long as a man" "Barefoot or not Walks on the face of the Earth" "Moved?" "Makes me wanna cry." "It was the feeling I put into it." "Ha, ha." "Oh." "This just came for you by mail." "Oh, thank you." "What's this supposed to mean?" "What is it?" "Why is somebody sending me pictures like this?" "And who is sending them?" "I woke up and you were gone." "I guess I'll be having breakfast alone." "Again." "Well, Nikki, it is after 9." "Yes, you will be having breakfast alone." " What's wrong, Jeff?" " Nothing." "You've been in a rotten mood lately." "You realise that." "Well, if it's of any comfort to you, it has nothing to do with us." "That's just the trouble." "You're not sharing anything with me." "Jeff, you keep locking me out." "Nikki, I have to take a shower." "Damn it, Jeff." "Aren't you ever gonna give me a chance to show you I can be a good wife to you?" "I wanna mean as much to you as Fallon did." "Now, look, Nikki," "I don't want you to talk about Fallon, not ever." "And especially not in this house." "Why not?" "Is her name so sacred in this house?" "Was she any better than me?" "Not too much, from what I've heard." "Wasn't there a sexy chauffeur named Michael?" "And a sexy doctor named Toscanni?" "And what about half your father-in-law's sexy football team?" "Do you want me to continue, Jeff?" "The list is a real long one, Jeff." "Ending with Peter De vilbis on the day she was supposed to marry you again." "Why, you little" "Oh, Jeff." "Jeff, I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I know your feelings for her run so deep." "And they always will, but" "Jeff, I have feelings too." "Come to bed with me." "If you want me to beg, I'll beg." "Please." "Please come to bed with me." "I have to go to the office." "With Blake gone the company is my responsibility." "I have to get going." "I'll meet you in half an hour?" "Fine." "Bye." "You're a very handsome father, but you're not a totally pleased one." "What is it?" "Don't you like the prince?" "Oh." "I find him very smart and dedicated to the best interest of his people." "But I really don't know much about him." "Listen, Amanda, what I think is very unimportant." "Why don't you just go out and have a good time with him?" "Oh." "Thank you, Daddy." " See you later." " Goodbye, darling." "Barbara, what was the name of that private investigator the company used on the Saunders' case last year?" "Nelson." "Good." "Thank you very much." " You enjoyed our day together?" " very much." "I didn't know there were many interesting places to explore around Acapulco." "Well, let's just say, in my efforts to avoid the press, who sometimes make my life a royal nightmare," "I've become rather adept at inventing little ways to protect my privacy." "How about one more game of backgammon?" "Or one more kiss?" "I have to go, Michael." " To the other man?" " What?" "Well, I always have the feeling that there's someone else in your life." "Am I wrong?" "Not exactly." "That's exceedingly vague." "So is the relationship." "Have you ever slept with him?" "What kind of question is that?" "I'd rather not pursue this." " I've offended you." " Yes." "Are you angry with me?" " I just" " I don't think you are." "In fact, you're falling in love with me, despite that other man." "Whoever he is." "Oh, I don't know, Michael." "There's so much about myself I don't know, or about anything anymore." "Stay with me." "Forget him, Amanda." "Let me love you." " Ashley." " Hello, Alexis." "Forgive me for keeping you waiting." "You did." "What is your husband up to?" "What does he want, Alexis?" "Would you mind explaining what you're talking about?" "I just learned that Mr. Dexter has convinced the head of the Chinese delegation that Blake is allowing one of the companies the Chinese don't trust into the oil leases." "Now, it isn't true, but the suggestion has annoyed and angered the Chinese enough that they wanna withdraw their lease agreements from Denver-Carrington." "In order to do what?" " You don't know?" " No, I don't." "In order to place them with Dexter lnternational and Colbyco." "You do have a vested interest in the latter." "Oh, yes, I have a vested interest in both companies." "After all, Dex is my husband." "And we share and share alike." "At least in most things." "But since he's not here to defend himself," "I'm sure he'll share my resentment at this slanderous and idiotic accusation." "You set me up, Alexis." "The Chinese didn't want to discuss oil leases." "So you manipulated me into helping Blake so that you could steal them away through your husband." "Oh, now, that's flattering, it truly is, because it makes me out to be very, very clever." "Let me be honest with you, Ashley." "Honest?" "You, Alexis?" "Don't tax yourself." "You might not survive it." "I love the idea, and I wish I'd thought of it." "But I didn't." "Not this time." " I don't believe that." " Don't you?" "Well, you wouldn't be here if you did, would you?" "But then, I don't think you'd be here at all if it wasn't for Blake Carrington." "Oh." "Admit it." "This has less to do with business than it has with you wanting Blake." "Watch out, Alexis." "You keep this up and you won't be able to survive anything." "Oh." "Did I hit a nerve underneath that cool New England facade?" "Don't be fooled, Alexis." "Remember the Boston Tea Party." "Where have you been all night?" " Well, like the little kid said, "Out."" " Oh, out?" "Doing more surreptitious business with the Chinese?" "Well, you've obviously been talking to Ashley Mitchell." "Oh, yes, I certainly have." "Well, let's forget about her." "Let's talk about you." "Now, do you really mind the fact that I'm screwing up Blake's deal?" "I only did it to please you, to make you happy." "Isn't that what you've wanted all along?" "What am I?" "Your gilded welfare case as it were?" "Heh, heh, heh." "As it were." "I loathe people making decisions about my welfare without discussing it with me." "Oh." "The picture." "Us." "What we're all about, it's finally clear to me." "I do something, anything, and it's wrong." "All you care about is controlling everyone and everything." "Well, I am sick of it, damn it." "I'm sick of the whole thing." "Oh, are you?" "Well, that makes us even." "Because you don't do anything to make me happy." "You did it to soothe your guilty conscience, and I am sick of that." " Where are you going?" "Look, you've got the leases." "Like it or not, they're yours." "And you can do with them what you want." "I asked you where you were going." "Obviously, out." "Well, don't bother to come back." "claudia:" "Hello, Michael." "Hello, Mrs. Carrington." " Hi, Jeanette." "I'm here to take Danny." "Is he going to spend the morning with you?" " Yes, he is." " Oh, that's wonderful." "Rita must be getting him ready." "I'll tell her you're here." "Thanks." " Hi, Steven." "steven:" "Hi." "I really appreciate your letting me see him." "Well, he seems happy." "I don't think there's any problem." "Could we talk for a little bit?" "Sure." "Come on." "I really hope that you'll be able to get over your anger toward me." "I want you to get over it soon so that we can both be friends again." "I don't know if that's going to be possible." "Why?" "Why not?" "Because you don't trust me." "Claudia, my relationship with Luke is finished." "I intend to lead a normal family life, and if you're not gonna share it with me," "I'm going to find another woman." "Oh, Steven, if I could really believe that, it would..." "But you don't, do you?" "And that's the problem." "Hello, Daddy." "Hey there, ace." "Baby, you ready to go to the park with a lady you always used to give a kiss to?" "Aw." "That makes me real happy." "Daddy, why don't you look happy too?" "I am, Danny, I am." "Look, you go ahead and have fun now, okay?" "Are you gonna stay with us again?" "I miss you." "I miss you too." "That file is confidential." "What are you doing with it?" "Well, what does it look like I'm doing?" "I'm looking over the overall plans for the South China Sea area." "I am Blake's second-in-command, if I have to remind you." "And if I have to remind you, I'm his son." "I've just spent months touring around Europe and the near East doing essential work for this company." "Which makes you heir apparent, correct?" "Yes." "Now put that file back where it belongs." "Did you hear me?" "Yes, I heard you." "Am I to understand that you've finally decided to sober up after that long binge you've been on?" "You've actually ditched the playboy mantle?" "Yes, that's in the past now." "It's over." "Is it?" "Really?" "Or is this just a temporary return to normalcy." "An act?" "There's no real guarantee that you're still not unfit." "An unfit father, an unfit son-in-law, an unfit member of this corporation, not to mention society." "Do you know something, Adam?" "If your morals were a fraction better than the Borgias," "I might take what you're saying seriously." "But knowing who you are and what you are," "I don't even hear you." "Now, I want you to get this very clear." "I'm a major stockholder of Denver-Carrington." "Which gives me the corporate and personal right to order you the hell out of this office." "Everything that we ordered is here, Mr. Reece." "Good, Pete." "Good." " Mr. Reece." " Yeah?" "I've brought someone here to see you." "Cover that." "What do you want?" "Well, I've changed my mind." "I'm going to Paraguay with you." "Well?" "This particular job is the most dangerous I've ever undertaken." "I need cool thinkers around me, not hotheads." "So even if you're warm around the collar because of some fight with your wife" "Maybe I'm not the man for the job, that it?" "Forget maybe not." "Definitely not." "Daniel, I'm the only one that knows the terrain." "I know the contacts." "It's gonna be rough." "very rough." "I think you're forgetting how good I am under fire." "There'll be a lot of it." "I know that." "You need me." "Check that case." "I'm glad you changed your mind, Dex." "I do need you." "Blake, I have to talk to you." "Oh." "Sorry, I didn't realise you had company." "Past tense." "He had company." "I'm just leaving." "You don't have to go on my account." "Only on your account, Alexis." "I'll talk to you later." "So you did it again?" "Sabotaged your company?" "Used underhanded methods to undermine you with the Chinese?" "Oh, Blake, you're beginning to sound like a broken record." "Yes." "One that obviously amuses you." "You're also confusing amused with happy." "As in, I'm always happy to strike a good deal with someone." "It's not gonna work, Alexis." "You know me well enough to know by now that no one and nothing is gonna get in the way of my getting those leases." "The deal I mean is with you." "What the hell are you talking about, anyway?" "A deal." "It's not a foreign word to you, is it, Blake?" "Deals." "They're our lifeblood and the lifeblood of our empires." "And I have one for you." "An absolutely beautiful deal." "I'll turn down the Chinese offer with a proviso." "Being what?" "That you give me those leases you were going to auction." "Is that a deal?" " Deal." " Good." "Let's shake hands and make it official." "Good night, Blake." "Alexis." " Yes?" " You could have had it all." " I know." "Why are you settling for less?" "Maybe because I'm tired of being constantly at war with you." "After all, we were married for seven years, and some of those were pretty good years." "And we do have four children." "I think it would be nice if we could finally be friends." "I thought you were asleep." "Well, I'm not." "In fact, I'm very wide awake." "Do you always count on your fingers?" "Yes." "I failed math endlessly." "Let me guess." "You're adding up the number of times I've kissed you and you returned my kisses." "No, I'm figuring out how many hours left we have together before my father takes me back to Denver." "Now that the lease agreement is done." "I'm leaving Acapulco a much poorer man." "I lost those leases and my heart too." "But you haven't lost me." "Not yet, anyway." "I don't think I will be telephoning you, Amanda." "I want you to understand what I'm going to tell you now." "When I get back home, I will be preparing for a party." "A 21st birthday celebration for the Duchess of Branagh." "She must be very important, very special." "A cousin?" "She is my fiancee." "I see." "Amanda, this is an affair of state." "An engagement to please my father." "I never expected to meet anyone like you." "To fall in love with you." "Michael, you're acting as if I'm devastated by this news." "I know that you are hurt." "How could you possibly know that?" "How could you know anything about me after what amounts to a few hours that we've spent together?" "Michael, what we had was fun, but it's over." "And I have things to do, people to see." "People who mean something to me." "Amanda." "I want you to know, always, that I care for you very much." "And that someday I'll prove it to you." "Save it, Michael, for your Duchess of Whatever, your future princess and bed mate." "This commoner has to change." "Now, will you let go of me?" "Yes, yes, I know these things take time." "I understand that." "But why has it taken so long to trace the source of those envelopes?" "Mr. Nelson, I..." "I will talk to you when I get back to Denver, Mr. Nelson." "All right, goodbye." "Hello, Daddy." "Amanda, where the devil have you been?" " I've been worried about you." " But I called." "One phone call to say that you were gonna be late and then you don't come home at all?" "In my opinion, that's not good enough." "First Mommy, then Dex, now you." "All of you telling me how I should behave, what I should do, what I should think." "Do you know what it's like having everyone against you?" "Do you know what it's like having everything go wrong?" "What is it, darling?" "What's wrong?" " What's the matter?" " I would rather not talk about it." "Well, perhaps I can help." "No, there's nothing you can do." "Just hold me." "Thank you for coming down." "I know you were with your daughter." " What is it, Daniel?" " I came to say goodbye." "I have to leave Denver on business." "I'll be gone for a while." "I'm not sure how long." " Where are you going?" " South." "I can be contacted almost immediately with this number in case you wanna talk to me." "I think we've said everything there is to say to one another." "I don't think so." "In fact, I know we haven't." "Why don't you admit it?" "Krystie, what are you afraid of?" "Are you afraid Blake will take away your daughter the way he took away Alexis' children?" "I love Blake." "Can't you understand that?" "No, because I don't believe it." "Krystie, I'm as rich as Blake Carrington." "I'm as powerful." "If you ever came to me to stay with me, there's no way on God's Earth I'd let him take your daughter away." "One of us would end up a dead man before I would let that happen." "Goodbye, Krystie." "Krystie." "I love you." "And I'll be back for you." "How is my lady in distress?" "Oh, much less distressed now that you're here." "Thanks for helping me, Adam." " Now, what is wrong with your car?" " Well, I" "There's Steven and Luke." "Claudia?" "He promised me, Adam." "He promised me." "Well, as a wise man once said, Steven, "One of us has to go."" "And since you're the boss' son," "I guess I'm the one that has to pack it in." "Luke, if there's any way that I can help you get settled somewhere else." "No, I've got plenty of contacts, Steven." "I can manage this on my own." "Hey, don't look so down." "It just hasn't worked out for the two of us, my friend." "Do you understand why?" "Luke, I care for you." "But I love Claudia." "And the life I want, if I'm ever gonna be at peace with myself, is a life with a family." "Straight." "Because that other lifestyle could never really satisfy me." "The gay lifestyle, Steven." "You don't have to whisper it." "They don't stone us in the village square anymore." "It's not that bad." "The gay lifestyle." "Steven" "About all this." "Well, I just hope you made the right decision." "How about buying me a cup of coffee?" "Why, sure." "Sit down, won't you?" "I..." "I was hoping that I would see you before I left." "You said that I could photograph you." "What better place to start than right here, now." "And on the plane on the way back to Denver if you don't mind giving me a lift." "No, no, I'm sure there's gonna be plenty of room." "About that photographic essay, you know, I did have one done on me before." "And the experience, to put it mildly, was a pain in the rear." "I don't like cameras clicking all around me 15 and 16 hours a day." "I'll be as unobtrusive as a mouse." "That's a promise." "All right." "All right." "Portrait of a tycoon looking particularly attractive in his glasses." "Oh, I'm so sorry." "Oh, that's all right." "No, please, don't pick it up, no." "I'll get it." "Thank you." "I'm really sorry if my doing this is upsetting you." "I don't have to come along if you don't want me to." "If I'm upset, it has nothing to do with you, believe me." "I'm sorry." "I don't want this." "Claudia, it was for the best that you saw Steven with Luke." "Now you'll be able to deal with the reality of your situation." " And stop trying to save my marriage?" " Yes." " Why did he lie to me, Adam?" "Why?" " I don't know." "Look, you're tense, and you're overwrought." "You should try to relax and get some rest." "I can't rest." "Hold my hand." "I can't be alone tonight." "Stay with me." "Oh, Blake." "Welcome home." " How was your flight?" " very good." "How are you?" "I'm fine." "What's wrong?" "There's something I've got to show you." "Something I think we have to talk about." "I..." "I fell off my horse." "He..." "He was concerned and..." "And he kissed me." "And then what happened?" "Nothing happened." "Blake, I love you." "I wouldn't have allowed anything to happen." "You don't really trust me, do you?" "It's not a question of trust." "It's a question of do you want him or do you want me?"