"Joseph, would you please ask Alfred to bring the car around?" "I'm going to the hospital to get my husband." "You will have some breakfast first." "Coffee at least?" "No." "He's been there with Jeff all night without any rest." "I'd like to go now." "Thank you." "Would you have my chauffeur standing by to take me to Denver Memorial?" "Mother." "Good morning." "And may I give you some advice?" "I've had just about enough of your good advice, thank you, Adam." "Instead of rushing off to the hospital, you should be spending your time preparing for your visit" "later this morning to Denver-Carrington where you are going to deliver Blake his head." "Or have you forgotten our itinerary?" "I'm not going." "Not today." "You've got to." "How does that plain but pithy old adage go?" "Oh, shut up, Adam, just shut up." "Those tests, they're still bothering you, aren't they?" "Of course they are." "What if they show that Jeff was poisoned?" "And then what if the doctors and the police start asking questions?" "You forget one "what if."'" "What if no one finds a trace of that compound?" "They will." "You know they will." "What I know is, one," "I'll take care of remodeling Jeff's office today." "And two, if you leave here now, if you go anywhere near that hospital in your present state, a state bordering on hysteria, Mother, they won't have to ask any questions because you have the word "guilty" written across your beautiful face," "and in your very fathomable eyes." "So I'm sorry, but I can't allow you to go." "Allow me?" "Are you ordering me around, Adam?" "Look at yourself." "Look at what's happening to you." "Let me get you a sedative." "I don't take sedatives." "Then let me go to the hospital in your place." "It's for your sake, you know." " And yours?" " And mine, yes." "Do I have to remind you that we're in this together?" "Jeff, it's all right." "I'm here with you." "Where?" "You're in the hospital." "Denver Memorial." "Why?" "Well, you collapsed at La Mirage yesterday on the tennis court." "And I came here in the ambulance with you and I've been sitting here with you since then." "Collapse..." "I remember falling." "Why didn't they take me home?" "Why did they drag me here?" "Well, because obviously there's a problem." "The doctors don't know what the answer is yet." "But they'll find it." "I'm sure of that." "I've insisted that they keep the lab open all night to work on this." " You insisted." "You're full of concern." " Easy." "Yes, of course, I'm concerned." "Just like you said yesterday, full of concern." "I had to come down on you yesterday, Jeff." "Because you attacked Fallon." "Now, she is your wife but she's also my daughter." "Look, we'll get this all sorted out when you're feeling better." "Sometimes I" "I can't tell them apart." "My dreams from" "You and Fallon came in to my office yesterday." "Did I sign some kind of a paper?" "Yes." "You signed a consent to divorce." "And right now Fallon is in Haiti to get the divorce." "Which makes you very sad." "Yes, it makes me sad." "I'd like to believe that." "I really would." "But that's not the way it is, is it?" "With either of us, is it?" "You'll be rid of me soon and I'll be rid of you." "All of you damned Carringtons." " Joseph." " How is Mr. Jeffrey?" "He's resting quietly at the moment." "Fallon's on the phone from Haiti." "That's twice this morning." "I assured her that her son was fine, but she's very anxious to know about Mr. Jeffrey also." "All right." "I'll take it in the library." "The way he feels about all of us, there's just no reaching him, Fallon." "No." "No, the doctors don't know what's wrong with him, at least not yet." "But they're working on it." "Well, you'll let me know as soon as they find out." "Please, Daddy." "All right, darling." "Bye." "Goodbye." "That's right." "There's panelling under this paint." "I'd like it removed, the walls replastered and painted." " I'll let you know about the colour." " Sure thing, Mr. Carrington." "I'll take the panels down real careful, then you can save them to use for another office." " They're" " I don't want them saved." "I want them removed, cut up and burned." "Burned?" "The way those things cost?" "You're kidding." "Do I look as if I'm kidding?" "I'll get on it right away." "Mother's taking over that office, in case you're wondering, Gerald." "Jeff's office?" "Jeff's former office." "Barbara, would you mind clearing out Mr. Colby's desk?" "And she wants it redecorated again?" "But it was done over just a few months ago." "And definitely not to her taste." "Adam, come on." "Cecil had it done over just before he passed away." "Then Jeff." "Three times in six months?" "Tell me something, counsellor, are you involved in budgetary matters now?" "Look, the colour did not suit my mother, your employer." "This change in decor was a personal request from her." "And now that your protector at Colbyco is temporarily out of commission," "lying in a hospital bed, you'd be wise not to make a case against anything the lady, my mother and your employer, wants done." "Oh, Joseph, you don't have to wait." "I'll stay here with Danny until Kirby gets back with Little Blake." "Mr. Carrington." "Yes?" "I believe you know that as manager of the household," "I've always made it a point to see that the house is properly staffed." "Yes, of course I know that." "Yes." "Well, it's my opinion now that the house is understaffed." "We have two infants under the same roof and one nursemaid." "Kirby." "Kirby." "Yes." "Kirby." "Well, I should like your permission to start interviewing some nannies." "Now, I mean two, not one." "Don't tell me you're planning to do your own daughter out of a job." "I think it's about time." "After all, I didn't send her off to the Sorbonne to study classical French and the humanities for this." "All right, Joseph." "You get on the phone and you ask them to send over some women with the best references." "But I want you to know this, old friend." "That if Kirby wants that job, and Fallon wants her in it, that you're gonna be up against two very strong, very independent young women." "And the final decision is gonna be theirs." "Yes." "I'll start the interviews anyway." "So this is where you are when you should be taking a nap." "Well, darling, I'm tired but I'm not that tired." "You are going to take a nap." "All right, all right." " Something for me?" " Well, in a way." "It's from Sammy Jo." "She sent us her address in New York." "Oh, good." "Good." "We need that for the adoption papers." ""I'm having fun, meeting a lot of people who say I should have no problem becoming a model." "And my only sadness is this:" "that I'm sure now that being a mother just isn't for me." "But I know how much you and Mr. Carrington want Danny, and I'm ready to sign the adoption papers as soon as you send them to me." "Love, your niece."'" "You're happy about that but you're sad for her, aren't you?" "Darling, I know what you're feeling, your concern about finalising the adoption papers, but you feel something's gonna go wrong." "But nothing will, I assure you." "It's not that, Blake." "I was thinking about Steven." "And how he never lived to see his beautiful son." "We both would have loved for him to have seen his beautiful son." "Good evening, Ben." "You are trying to visualise what you will look like?" "Can you blame me?" "Every damned time you've changed bandages, you've refused to let me look at myself." "Well, I want the first impression to be the very best possible one." "Is that so difficult to understand?" "Being me, like this, is difficult, doctor." "The waiting." "The waiting." "Well, sit down, let me have a look." "Well, I have good news for you." "The swelling has gone down and the bandages will come off tomorrow morning." "Ben, where will you be going once you're released from the hospital?" "Listen, if your accident happened at work," "I can notify your company for possible insurance coverage about your medical bills." "The accident did involve work." "I was blown off an oil rig." "But I'm not going back to that company." "You don't have to worry about the money, doctor." "I'll get myself another job and you'll all be paid in time." "Well, we'll talk about that some other time." "Ben, there is one more question I'd like to ask you." "You said your surname is Reynolds." "Yet when they brought you here, you were wearing a belt with the initial C on it." "May I ask you why?" "The day before the accident, I borrowed the belt from a friend." "Charlie Cunningham." "Two C's." "Is that enough for you, doctor?" "I'll see, you tomorrow morning, Ben." "Good night." "Bonjour, boss." "Good morning." "I'll just have coffee and a croissant, please." "The maid told me you moved in next door this morning." "That's right." "Mine was uncomfortable and the room next to you was available." "You see, the redhead who had it picked up her decree this morning, so she took off to find some poor guy to marry and hate and blame her miseries on." "You seem to know a lot about the redhead." "It gets lonely around here at night." "So I went down to the bar after I left you for a bit of company." " And I found her." " I'll bet she hated that." "I guess I was the exception." "But there is a limit to what I can take." "So we talked and drank and drank and talked." "And then I went to bed." "Alone." "In case you're interested." "I'm sorry about our misunderstanding last night, Mark." "Look, I can understand why you would think what you did." "Wanna share a papaya?" "No, thanks." "You see, Fallon, a guy like me grows up looking a certain way." "Good legs." "There was a girl, a teenager, who actually wrote a poem about my legs once." "I was- I was embarrassed by the truth of it." "Which was?" "That lots of ladies are ready to judge a book by its deep-tanned cover, fighting to offer you their favours." "Which you accept because it's fun." "And easy." "Easy as pie and tennis." "How are things back home at La Mirage with the tennis?" "Oh, no problem." "And no lessons for a couple of days." "Word's out that the pro has a pulled muscle." "Boy, I must have really bored you just now, didn't I?" "No, you didn't." "Then I'd like to show you the decent guy in me." "Because it is there too, even though it doesn't show that often." "I can't, Mark." "I have an appointment with my lawyer this afternoon." "I don't know how long it'll take." "Besides, I'm not really here for the local colour." "Fallon Colby came here for one reason:" "to be Fallon Carrington again, right?" "Right." "I wanna get it over with and get back and see my son again." "Thanks anyway." "I appreciate it." "And that girl was right." "You do have kind of poetic legs." "Darling, time to get up." "You told me." "I know." "I know." "One hour's nap." "No more." "Gotta go to work." "Since when do you do everything that I tell you to do?" "Oh, on and off these past couple of years." "You know something?" "I welcome the chance to get back to the problems on my desk." "At least I can solve those." "Unlike the one with Jeff." "Jeff." "In a matter of months I seem to have lost two sons." "First Steven and now..." "Blake, once the doctors find out what's wrong with Jeff, he'll go back to being the same loving person he's always been." "I called the hospital again a little while ago." "They are no closer to diagnosing what's wrong with him than when I brought him in there." " What did they say?" " They're baffled." "They feel it's got to be something neurological." "But what and why, nobody seems to know." "Dr. Staunch to Emergency Room 3." " Dr. Staunch to Emergency Room 3." " Jeff?" "I happened to be in the neighbourhood and thought I'd stop by." "Okay with you?" "Sure." "So how are they treating you, pretty nurses and those ever-preoccupied-looking doctors?" "Oh, they're all right." "They keep taking blood samples, that's about it." "Still nothing, I assume?" "No results?" "They don't know what it is yet?" "No." "Jeff, the real reason I'm here is to say that if I'd suspected something was wrong," "I could have taken part of the workload away from you." "Why didn't you say something?" "Did I sign a paper?" "Paper?" "Where?" "In my office." "What kind of paper?" "Fallon." "Who needs her?" "She wanted to get rid of me anyway." "Yes." "You signed a divorce consent agreement." "It was just like Blake, wasn't it?" "To come in on you when you're feeling lousy and twist your arm." "Take advantage of the fact that you weren't yourself." "Did I sign another paper?" "With you?" "Jeff, you sign a hundred papers a day with me." "Any particular one you had in mind?" "No, no, I guess not." "It's so mixed-up in my head." "Blake..." "Yes?" "Blake's not all of what you said just now." "He's got the lab." "The lab?" "What about the lab?" "He's kept the lab open all night so they could find out what's wrong with me." "I should think so." "It's the least he can do for you." "Dr. E. Ling, please call the operator." "So you see, we really don't know what it is with your brother-in-law." "We've eliminated a dozen things that it can't be, which leaves us with a few hundred that it might." "Are you saying that even the experts in this place can't always come up with a diagnosis?" "I'm sorry, but yes." "I don't want it set up for tomorrow, I want it today." "I don't care how sorry you" "I see." "Then there's nothing I can do about it, is there?" "Hello?" "I've just come from the hospital." "I've got some information for you." "Information?" "What kind of information?" "Well, it's important." "It's very important." "I'll be there as soon as I can, so don't leave." "Hello." "May I come in?" "You are in." "And who the hell let you in?" "Your secretary." "When I told her who I was, that I had only a few minutes to visit with you..." "May I sit down for those few minutes?" "I'd rather you didn't, Dr. Edwards, I'm in a hurry." "Busy with your new life here in Denver?" "Very busy." "Well, you used to keep things hopping up in Montana too, didn't you?" "Always on the move, our brilliant young attorney." "Why exactly are you here?" "I was on my way to see my sister in St. Louis." "The plane lays over for about an hour, so I thought you might be happy to see your grandmother's old doctor." "My grandmother who never was my grandmother is dead." "I have a father now and a mother." "I'm on my way to see her, so you'll have to excuse me." "Son, maybe Kate wasn't your grandmother, but she loved you." "Well, let's just say that out of respect for her memory," "I wanted to see that you were still..." "Still in good shape." "Well, look around you, doctor." "Look around at this office, at my desk, the rest of the furniture here." "Do you think I'm doing all right?" "Does all this satisfy your sense of respect for Kate Torrance?" " Michael" " It's Adam." "What's wrong?" "Your being here is wrong." "That should be obvious." "You're not well, boy, are you?" "I'm very well." "Those eyes are just a little too bright again." "And there's that tautness in you." "Do your parents know what happened to you?" "That a high-school kid wanted to experiment once with a few assorted drugs?" "There's nothing to know." "I saw the promised visions." "It all passed and I got over it." "So you haven't told them." "There was nothing to tell." "Son, I nursed you for months." "I went through the breakdown with you." "I never wanna hear that word again." "It's nothing to be ashamed of." "But it's nothing to forget either." "We don't know what those drugs might have done." "Dr. Edwards, I believe you have a plane to catch." "Will you please stop that pacing?" "I want to know what it takes to convince you everything's under control where Jeff is concerned?" " Is it?" " Yes." "I've been to the hospital." "I've seen him." "I can verify the fact that he suspects nothing." "I've talked to doctors and lab technicians and I know they haven't a clue as to the cause of his condition." "You know, you know." "Supposing someone starts to know what you've done?" "We've done and are fast undoing." "Tell me, Mother, why do you insist on going to the hospital instead of straight to see Blake?" "Because there's more to this situation than who wins or loses." "I know that to you, Jeff is just a pawn." "He's a fine human being who was there when I needed him." "When Cecil died, he was the only one who was..." " And now he's in a great deal of pain." " If he's in pain, they'll give him a pill." "I am talking about anguish." "The kind of anguish that you feel when someone you love turns against you." " You mean Fallon." " Yes, Fallon." "She's just like her father." "And he turned against me." "I would have thought, Adam, that you of all people would have understood that." "Maybe you've got more of your father's blood running through your veins than I suspected." "Perhaps I should go to the hospital with you." "We can arrange for a transfusion." "That won't be necessary, thank you." "I shall go alone." "And don't worry." "I won't let them find out what's wrong with Jeff." "And I won't leave it to you, or to chance." "You will make everything right." "Don't I always?" "Didn't I, with you, the once Michael Torrance and now Adam Carrington?" "I didn't know if they'd let you have visitors, so I didn't bother to ask." "Hello, Kirby." "How are you?" "How am I?" "My God, Jeff, how are you?" "You're the one we've all been so worried about." "I'm still here." "And I'm gonna stick around." "Even if they never find out what's the matter with me." "Well, you know, maybe, just" "Just maybe," "I know what's the matter with you." "The good Dr. Anders." "Well, maybe I just understand it better than all these doctors here." "If you wanna talk about Fallon, I don't wanna talk about Fallon." "Well, you have to." "Jeff," "I know that" "I know you did what you did." "Attacked her." "And I know she's gone for a divorce." "But I want you to listen to me, to hear me say what I'd never have said about her if I didn't think there was any chance of you getting back together." "There is no chance, Kirby, so don't waste your breath." "It isn't a waste." "It's important." "I like Fallon." "I always have." "Ever since we were kids." "I know you loved her." "But I honestly think that, for you, she was always a sickness." "She drove you to do what you did." "Not because she meant to, but because she just wasn't the kind of woman who believed in you and trusted you so much that it hurt." "You know, that beautiful hurt when you think:" ""My God, I love this person so much," "I don't know what I'd do if he left me even for a day."'" "I mean, I know that hurt, Jeff." "I lived it." "In Paris." "It almost drove me to suicide." "But that hurt's finally healed." "And now you need healing." "You need to be with a woman who loves you." "Really loves you." "Really loves you with all of her soul." "With everything inside of her." "Someone who's loved you from the first minute she saw you." "That love growing, growing more and more." "My love for you." "So if you want me to," "let me be with you, because I want to so much." "So very much." "Jeff?" "So much for pouring out your heart, Kirby." "Joseph, when you see Kirby, would you tell her that although it was good to see Jeannette in the nursery, I'm sorry I missed her?" "And that you enjoyed the visit with the children nonetheless?" "That's right, I did." "Let's talk, shall we?" "What do you wanna talk about, Adam?" "I meant what I said at dinner last night." "You can help Jeff, of whom you've always been so fond." "By coming to work for Colbyco." "As a translator." "I remember, Adam." "I know how loyal you are to Fallon." "Oh, you do?" "I also know that you can't be happy as a nursemaid." "Now, she gets back in a couple of days." "You can talk it over with her and then give me a oui or non." "Which is the extent of my French." "Well, not mine." "I can say anything I choose." "I can be as strong as I want." "Would you like an answer?" "I'll give you one." "Yes." "As in oui?" "As in yes." "Without telling Fallon?" "I'll tell Fallon the minute she gets back." "I'll tell her to find a replacement." "It's time people stopped pirouetting to her tune, her selfish Carrington tune." "Jeff." "Hello, Alexis." "Darling." "How are you?" "Oh, will you put those there?" "And roses on the nightstand." " There you go." " Thank you, Mrs. Colby." "Thank you." "And this is for you." "It's a gardenia," "like the one that you brought me all those years ago the day that I left Denver." "I'll never forget it." "Thanks." "Jeff, I just want you to know that Fallon's divorce is not going to change anything between us." "As far as I'm concerned, you and I are family and we always will be." "As for Adam, well, I know that you and he have had your differences." "But you have my assurance, that's all going to be behind you." "From now on, it's going to be you and I at the helm of Colbyco." "We'll make Cecil's empire bigger than ever." "And no one is going to come between us." "Right now, my main concern is that you get well and strong again." "Not in this dreadful hospital where poor Cecil died, but in one of the most wonderful spas in the world." "In Switzerland." "Switzerland?" "You'll be flown there by private air ambulance tomorrow." "You're so weak." "It will be so good for you." "Now," "I want you to close your eyes and get some rest." "And think of a wonderful and beautiful place far away from here." "And about how much Alexis loves the man who was once a little boy who brought her a beautiful gardenia." "Good morning, Ben." "Will you sit over here?" "You must be very anxious about today." "Tell me something, doctor." "If I don't like the results of what I see, is the next surgery on the house?" ""On the house."'" "I'm not quite familiar with that expression." "Are you, Sister?" "He means, "With no charge."'" "Well, the answer is no, Ben." "Some ointment, please." "Now, are you ready for a look?" "Are you pleased?" "My eyes are the same colour anyway." "I just wonder if my loving wife would be able to pick me out in a crowd." "Thank you," "Dr. Chen, for giving me a face I'll be able to live with." "I owe you a lot more than just money." "Don't be concerned about that little scar near your right temple." "It'll fade in no time." "We'll leave you now." "Hello, Hilda." "Hello, Mrs. Colby." "I was just visiting the babies and I realised I was thirsty." "I wondered if you had any cold champagne." "Well, nothing opened." "Well, that's one of life's easier problems to remedy, isn't it, Hilda?" "Rita, would you open a bottle of champagne for Mrs. Colby?" "So how have you been, Hilda?" "Oh, fine, just fine." "The roast smells divine." "What are you serving with it?" "Potatoes, of course, and broccoli." "How nostalgic." "And how delicious I know it will be." "Thank you." "Rita, isn't it?" "Quiet little thing." "Like a mouse." "I was just passing by and I heard your voice." "I didn't know I was giving a party." "I was just telling Hilda I came to see the babies." "Have you visited with Jeff today, Krystle?" "Yes, Blake and I went this morning." "He doesn't look well." "Don't worry." "I'm sure he'll be himself again soon." "I'm gonna see to that." "Something the matter?" "Just that you're an incredible contrast in moods, Alexis." "That sounds almost profound coming from you." "Last night you were in a state of hysteria over Jeff." "Now it's party time." "Well, of course, I was upset last night, and rightly so." "But I was certainly not hysterical." "Well, it seemed to me you were out of control." ""Out of control"?" "Is that what it means when I care about a man who means so much to me?" "Who really counted in my life?" "Who was there when I really needed him?" "How you do protest." "What did I do, Alexis?" "Touch a nerve?" "Blake, tell me, why'd you ask me here?" "I wanted to talk about Alexis." "You mean, my new and rather formidable boss." "Of course, you know the climate between us." "You were in Cecil's office that day." "You read the will." "Cecil's act of vengeance against me." "The Logan Rhinewood thing." ""Thing."' You could put it that way." "Let me put it this way:" "I am sure that Cecil cooked up that thing with Alexis." "Well, she says not." "She could swear that on a stack of a hundred Bibles and I wouldn't believe her." "Just as right now I don't trust her with Jeff." "Meaning exactly what, Blake?" "Well, he's sick." "Nobody knows what's wrong with him." "But in this present condition, and knowing Alexis," "I can see her plotting to make whatever's wrong with him work to her advantage." "Now, this is a warning, Gerald, a friendly warning to somebody closely connected with Colbyco." "Now, I'm not gonna ask you to spy on her and report back to me." "Obviously, I can't do that." "You work for the woman." "But I am suggesting" "In a "friendly fashion."'" "In a very friendly fashion." "As two old friends, both of whom love Jeff," "I'm suggesting that if you see anything like that developing, that you step in and you warn my ex-wife." "You tell her, "Hands off."'" "And remind her that Denver-Carrington is a big company, and powerful." "And if she" " If she does anything to hurt Jeff, anything, that there's gonna be war between her and me." "All-out war." "No holds barred." "I'll see to it that Colbyco goes down the drain if I have to if she even thinks of hurting that boy." "There's the evening star." "Make a wish and tell it." "That isn't fair." "I'll tell you mine." "I wish there were other women in the world like you, who could spend the day with me just talking and listening." "Nobody'd believe we didn't go to bed together." "You bet they wouldn't." "Strange." "What is?" "My mother." "What do you mean?" "I was just thinking about how she brought us together." "I mean, when she went to New York, it was to bring you back to Denver to lure Krystle away." "That didn't work." "But still, somehow, she got us to meet, to know one another," "like one another." "Fallon, I'd like to kiss you." "Mark, don't spoil it." "Fallon" "I'm gonna make my wish." "Why don't we go for a walk on the beach?" "And then I'll see you to your door." "All right." "Alexis, I've had a very long, hard day, and I've just come from a tough meeting." "Now, whatever it is, I am not in the mood for it." "I couldn't care less about your mood, Blake." "I'm here on business." "My business." "Here's a photocopy of a document that I've got in my safe." "What the devil is this all about?" "Exactly what it reads." "Jeff has assigned voting control of his shares in Colbyco, plus his son's shares in Denver-Carrington to me." "And this was signed yesterday." " That's right." " And yesterday" "Jeff was a very sick young man, not in his right mind." "He still isn't." "Oh, really?" "Because anyone who turns against Blake Carrington must be insane." "I'm sorry, darling, but some good things do come to pass." "A chunk of this, a chunk of that, a chunk of one's good fortune." "Plus power." "Now, I don't know how you manoeuvred this, Alexis, but" "Manoeuvred?" "Me?" "But if you think I'm gonna hold still while Jeff turns his son's birthright over to you, then you are the one who's insane." "Be careful, Blake, and begin to talk to me a little more civilly." "You see, your grandson's share of Denver-Carrington, plus the shares that Cecil worked so hard to amass, are now worth more than 50 percent of your company." "Which means that you are now working for me." "I'll see you in hell before that happens." "That's the future." "Let's continue talking about the present." "In a few days, I intend to call a meeting of both Colbyco and Denver-Carrington for SEC notification." "SEC?" "For SEC notification of a merger of the two companies." "With guess who at the helm." "I'll give you a clue." "She's female." "Very." "She's quite beautiful, or so she's been told." "Even by you." "And she's smart." "Perhaps even brilliant." "Yes?" "Oh, yes, doctor." "And what do they show?" "Evidence of what?" "I see." "Yeah." "Thank you very much." "What was all that about?" "The laboratory people have found evidence of a neurotoxin in Jeff's system." " What?" " My God." "How could he have ever come in contact with a poisonous chemical?" "And where?"