"The house is quiet." "Dinner must be over." "We still have to be quiet." "My father will hear us." "He has a sixth sense about these things." " Why, have you eloped before?" " Oh, yeah, two or three times, I don't know." "Well, in that case we better be quiet." "I have to make a phone call, quietly." "Derek?" "This is Jeff Colby." "Look, I'm sorry it's late, but I need you to fly me to Reno tonight." "Fine." "We could be at the airport in an hour." "There's gonna be two of us flying." "Right." "I never heard you mention a Derek." "He's my Uncle Cecil's pilot." "Don't worry, he's very used to flying at night." "It's us." "What about us?" "Are you absolutely sure you wanna marry me this quickly?" " You want a quick answer?" " Yeah." "Yes." "Then let's get packed." "The first one finished runs straight down to the kitchen and borrows a chilled bottle of champagne in case that flying icebox is dry." "I've made up my mind." "I'm not coming home, so forget it." "You can't mean that, Steven." "I damn well do mean that." "I" "Well, go on." "Finish it." "I've travelled a long way to have this talk." "Let me hear it." "I don't want to be a Carrington." "Isn't that clear enough, obvious enough?" "I had a chance to escape from you people, to lead my own life." "I don't wanna let go of that chance." "So let go of me, Dad, once and for all." "Let go." "You've got a son who's a Carrington." "Tell me you don't wanna see him." "A son." "How do you know he's mine?" "How will I ever know, really know?" "I have a wife who ran off to Hollywood, remember?" "I saw her there, naked in that studio, with that creep photographer." "He could be the father." "Anybody west of the Rockies could be the father." "He resembles you, Steven." "Which me?" "This me or the old me?" "He's got your eyes." "And" "And what?" "Go on." "You finish it." "I believed Sammy Jo when she said he was your son." "I think you should too." "So says the omnipotent and omniscient Blake Carrington." "Who happens to be your father." "Now you listen to me." "I've come halfway around the world, 7,000 miles, to find you because you're my son." "Now, if you let your own son go now," "I tell you that you're gonna live the same nightmare that I've been through." "If you run away from him and keep running as you say you want to do, there'll come a day when you want to stop running." " There will?" " Yes, there will." "A day when you decide that you wanna see him." "But it may be too late because he may not want to see you then." "That's going to turn you inside out for as long as you live." "Carrington Residence." "Hello, Joseph." "How are you?" "Fine, Mr. Carrington." "It's Daddy." "Is Mrs. Carrington or Fallon there?" "Yes, they're both awake." "In fact, here with me now." "Blake?" "Hello, darling." "I've got good news." "Wonderful news." "I have Steven here with me." "Oh, thank God." "Oh, he's alive." "Steven's alive, Fallon." "Well, can we talk with him, Blake?" "Is he well enough to say something to us?" "Yes, he is." "He's very well indeed." "Hold on." "Krystle?" "No, Steven, it's Fallon." "It is you, isn't it?" "Say something again, please." "It's me, sis." "And it's good hearing your voice." "Good hearing mine?" "Oh, Steven." "Oh, why are we wasting time talking on this dumb phone?" "You get on a plane with Daddy and come right home, you hear?" "Fallon," "I've had some surgery done to my face." "I don't look quite the same." "Don't worry, Fallon." "He's different, but he's still very handsome." "Yes, he's fine." "No, no." "No, really fine." "Look, put Krystle back on, will you, dear?" " Blake?" " Darling, we're gonna be heading for home in a couple of hours." "There's a flight straight through to San Francisco." "Now, will you have Paul meet us in San Francisco with the plane?" "We're on Flight 672 arriving at 4 p.m." "Yes." "And we'll fly with Paul and meet both of you." "Oh, no." "Krystle, no." "I don't want Steven's reunion with his family and with his child to take place in a cold airport." "I want it to be at home, under our own roof again." "I'll see" " We'll both see you within 24 hours." "All right." "Bye, darling." "Bye." "Joseph, tell everybody Steven's coming home." "Tell all the servants." "Get Jeff, Kirby, everyone." "All right, I guess we can begin." "Now, the contract of marriage is most solemn." "It is not to be entered into lightly, but with a deep realisation of the obligations and responsibilities." "Now, do you-?" "Do you, "Jeffrey Broderick Colby,"" "take this woman, "Kirby Alicia Anders,"" "to be your lawful wedded wife?" "I do." "All right." "And do you, "Kirby Alicia Anders,"" "take this man, Jerry-?" "I beg your pardon, "Jeffrey Broderick Colby"" "to be your lawful wedded husband?" "I do." "I do." "All right." "Now, do you promise to love and comfort one another in health, in adversity, in prosperity and do you promise to be faithful one to another so long as you both shall live?" " Yes." " Yes." "Exchange the rings." "All right." "And I now pronounce you husband and wife." "And the groom may kiss his bride." "Steven." "How about a drink?" "No." "But you go ahead." "Thank you." "You know, since we're going home," "I really should fill you in on a few things." "Now, I've already told you about your brother." "Adam." "Yes." "But you didn't tell me much about what he's like now." "You'll get to meet him." "Now, about your mother...?" "I heard about it on the radio when I was on the rig." "She married Cecil and then he died shortly after." "She got his money, I suppose." "Half of it." "Jeff got the other half." "Good for him." "Now, what's not so good is that Jeff and Fallon just got divorced." "I'm sorry." "But I always did see that coming, I guess." "Well, the important thing is that you're going home." "You're gonna see your baby." "Now, Sammy Jo named him Steven Daniel Carrington Jr." "We call him Danny." "He's a marvellous kid." "He's also the most beautiful." "I'm tired, Dad." "I think I'll go down and catch some sleep." " Is that okay with you?" " Of course." "Why's the baby with you?" "Why isn't he with his mother?" "Well, Sammy Jo's in New York." "She wants to become a model and" "And so she just dumped him on you and Krystle?" "Well, there's a little more to it than that." "I think I should explain, Steven." "Explain about Sammy Jo." "What's to explain?" "She told me once that she wanted no part of me." "I guess that included everything." "Even my child." "It's after midnight." "What are you doing here?" "Has something happened?" "Is it bad news about Steven?" "No, it's wonderful news." "He's alive, Alexis." "Steven's alive." "Are you sure?" "I just talked to Blake in Singapore." "Fallon talked to both of them." "Oh, thank God." "They were going to call you, but they were rushing to catch the first plane out." "So they're on their way back here?" "Is Steven all right?" "Blake said he was fine." "Only..." "Only what?" "He's had some plastic surgery." "He was burned in the accident." "His face" "Oh, my God." "His face?" "All I know is that he had some surgery and he looks different." "I wanted to tell you that in person." "Thank you." "At least he's alive." "And even if he does look different, he's still Steven." "He's still my baby." "They'll be home tomorrow night." "I want you and Adam to be there." "Well, we will." "Of course we will." " You'll phone me about the time?" " Yes." "Krystle?" "I just want you to know that I" "I really appreciate your coming over here tonight." "Goodbye." "Bye." " Good night, Joseph." " Good night, Mrs. Carrington." "Is something the matter?" "Oh, it's Kirby." "It's very late and neither my daughter nor Mr. Jeffrey have come home yet." "Now, she told Jeannette that she would be home at 10:00." "I can't help wondering if something has happened." "Well..." "You know, I had a very strange dream a little while ago." "Tell me about it." "Well, I was with this handsome, young prince who whisked me off to a private jet." "Absolutely private." "Can you believe that?" "Well, you do have strange dreams." "Go on." "And we flew to a glittering city somewhere in the middle of nowhere." "And then we met a justice of the peace" "who married me to the handsome, young prince." "And then you woke up this morning and you saw that you married a frog and you're disappointed." "You're nervous again." "Well, maybe I'm just wondering if" "If what?" "This isn't a classic case of the divorced man" "Go on." " marrying on the rebound." "There, I said it." "And I hope you're sorry you said it." "I am." "Just" " Just tell me one thing." "Just one thing." "Do you want me as much now as you wanted Fallon once?" "Yes." "And you are not to be compared to anyone else on this Earth of ours." "Okay?" "Oh, Mrs. Carrington," "I was just looking in on the babies." "Have you been here long?" "Just a little while." "I couldn't sleep." "That wonderful news about Steven," "I want to share it with his son." "Steven's son." "Well, I'm happy for Steven." "But I know how torn apart you were when you lost your own baby." "And you had such plans for this one." "I'm sorry for you." "Don't be sorry." "It's Steven's child." "Well," "I only hope that you can have" "Another one?" "I don't know what made me say that." "The excitement." "It's all right, Jeannette." "It's all right." "Mother, good news today." "Very good news." "Have you tracked down more of Blake's missing board members?" "Two more." "And they've both been wired notification of the Denver-Carrington board meeting next week when you will have Blake exactly where you want him." "Wonderful, darling." "But right now the only important thing is Steven's homecoming tonight." "I just talked to Krystle." "Steven and Blake are going to be at the house 8:00." "Then I'll be home at 7 to change." "Bye, Mother." "Bye." "Next, up." "Okay." "Again." "Really get down." "That's looking good." "That's good." "Excuse me for barging in, Mrs. Carrington." "But I was planning the menu for tonight when Steven returns" " and I'd like your approval." " Oh, of course." "You know, that exercise is more effective with a balancing stick." "I didn't list the hors d'oeuvres, but I'm planning to make them very, very special, naturally." "I'm going to have escargot with shallots en croute." "My Swedish meatballs with gooseberry sauce that Steven loves so and" "Mrs. Gunnerson." "This is a lovely menu." "And the hors d'oeuvres sound wonderful." "But I think you ought to stick to the menu that you already prepared." "I'd rather we be simple." "I understand, Mrs. Carrington." "Is it-?" "Is it true about his face?" "Yes, it's true." "Oh, I'm sorry." "It's just that I remember him all those years, growing up." "My dear sweet Steven." "And this operation they- They had to do on him." "In a way, it's" "It's like that Steven has just gone from us forever." "Well, we'll just have to wait and see." "Remember, I want you all to make Mr. Steven feel as comfortable as possible." "He's had very serious surgery and is still recovering, so you needn't stand stiff as soldiers." "We're most of us old friends welcoming back a very special friend." "Jeannette, would you tell Mrs. Gunnerson" " they should be here momentarily?" " Yes, Joseph, I'll do that." " Hello, darling." " Hello, Mother." "Hi." "Well, I have champagne on ice in the solarium." "Good." " Wonderful night." " Oh, it's a great night, Fallon." "Steven." "I'm so happy you're home." "You look great, Fallon." "I love you." "I love you." "Oh, Steven." " Mother." " Steven." "Oh, thank God." "Oh, you're alive." "Adam." "Steven, I want you to meet your brother, Adam." "I'm sure that your father must have told you about him." " Welcome home, Steven." " Thank you, Adam." "We're glad you're home, Steven." "We've missed you." " Welcome, Steven." " Thank you." "Now, before there's any more welcoming," "I think it's time for me to get a word in here." "I want to say this to all of you because all of you shared the unbearable grief with me when we thought we had lost Steven." "And now I want you to share the incredible joy of his homecoming." "I" "Welcome home, Steven." "This is your son." "My son." "My son." "Blake." "I know, I know, "Come to bed, Blake."'" " You must be very tired." " I am." "These last 36 hours have been so intense with" "With so many feelings rising up in me that are impossible to sort out." "Come on, sit over here." "Feelings and thoughts about Steven?" "How do you think he'll manage?" "I don't know." "He's still trying to get a grip on who he is." "And now he's got a child to deal with." "He'll love his child." "Did you see the way he looked at him?" " That will help him find his way." " I hope so." "I pray it." "I'm also hoping something else." "What?" "That being a father will somehow give Steven a different point of view about his own father." "And all that bitterness in him towards me will disappear." "It will." "You know that?" "I know it will." "There's something else that's bothering you, isn't there?" "What is it?" "Blake, I'm wondering..." "Do you think it was right not telling Steven about adopting little Danny?" "That Sammy Jo offered to sell him to us, even sell him to strangers if she had to?" "Well, Steven has already figured out that Sammy Jo was not interested in bringing up a child." "I tried to tell him on the plane and he walked away and I didn't pursue it." "All I can hope now is that I did the right thing." "And try to get some sleep." "Yes." "And try." "But I can always turn my head on my pillow and look at you." "A lot tougher things in life than that." "I figured I'd find you in here." "How many rooms in this house?" "Forty-four?" "Forty-five?" "Forty-five last count." "Well, this is one of the better ones." "There's a certain peace, a certain innocence." "No, this room is where we used to fling all our pillows and toys at each other until they gave us separate rooms." "And not without a howling fight, remember?" " Scissors." " Paper." " Scissors cut paper." " I can never win with you." "Never will." "Steven Daniel Carrington Jr." "He's the real reason for my coming home, Fallon." "I came back here only half-believing that he exists." "But standing there looking at him" "So little, so helpless." " there's a sudden reality to all of this." "And the question I'm asking myself" ""Will he always be so little and so helpless?"" "No." "Look at my son." "They grow up so fast, Steven." "Almost too fast." "The question I'm asking myself is:" ""Can I handle the responsibility of being a father?"" "Oh, that." "I know how you feel because I go through that myself." "I mean, a new mother can be just as scared as a new father." "But with enough love you just begin to get the hang of it." "He's so damned appealing." "How could she just...?" "Sammy Jo?" "There must have been some mother love in her or why did she have him in the first place?" "It must have been a rough time for her, being all alone." "I guess." "You still don't like her." "She is what she is." "I hardly even think about her, Steven." "When she showed up with the baby, did she talk to you?" "Say when she was coming back for him?" "I didn't really see her." "She mainly came here to see Daddy and Krystle." "Had she changed at all?" "Matured at all?" "I really didn't see her enough to know." "But I have seen enough of you to know that you're exhausted and you should hit the sack." "Am I right?" "You're right." "Good night, Fallon." "Good night, Steven." "And welcome home." "Now, I know that we're here to talk about your plans, but what do you think of this wonderful place that your sister has pulled off?" "Really nice." "But nothing she does surprises me." "Hello." "You two finally made it." "Well, I told Bennett to drive slowly." "He's been a maniac behind the wheel recently." "I think he thinks he's Mario Androni." "You wanna try "Andretti," Mother?" "Oh, whatever." "So we're finally here for lunch." "And I'm sure it's going to be absolutely fabulous." "It'll knock you out." "I've supervised it myself." "After all, this is Steven's first visit to my new emporium." "But before lunch I wanna take him on a personally guided tour." "Mark, I want you to meet my terrific brother, Steven." "Steven, this is Mark Jennings, a pretty terrific tennis pro." "Hello, Steven." "Good to see you" " and welcome back." " Thanks, thanks a lot." " Alexis." " Hello, Mark." "Mark, will you entertain my mother a little while while I show Steven around?" "Care to join me for a drink?" "Why not?" "Bob, club soda, please." "And, Alexis?" "A virgin mary." " You got that?" " I hear you, Mark." "Well, maybe you haven't noticed, but I'm wearing the pin that you gave me." "I see it." "I'm glad you really like it." "Well, I really like the man who gave it to me." "You know, there used to be an old romantic custom that when a male pinned a female that they became an item, as it were." "Which I thought that we were." "Or maybe I'm being overly romantic or maybe you've changed the rules of the game, but, well, I haven't even had a phone call since you came back from wherever it is that you went to." " Here we go." " Thank you." "Thank you, Bob." "Well, in the first place, I've been busy." "With your students." "Most of them female." "And in the second place?" "When I gave you the pin, Alexis, you were the one who spelled out the rules." "Nothing serious, no room for that in your life." "Well, that's something that you should be used to having lived your kind of gigolo life." "Should have suited you perfectly." "Just fun and games, correct?" "No, not correct." "You see, I'm not always in the mood for just fun and games." "Now if you'll excuse me, this gigolo has a lesson to give." "Bob, put my drink on Mrs. Colby's tab." "So did you and your brother hit it off last night?" "We hardly had a chance to talk." "Honey, you were so tired that you hardly had a chance to talk to anyone." "But I know that once you get to know him you'll really become good friends." "Mother, I would rather not get into what you've been hinting at, that I join Colbyco." "I'm not ready for a job yet, anywhere." "All right, we'll drop it." "For now." "You know what this reminds me of?" "That lunch that we had that first day when your father was on trial and you were the only person that was happy to see me again." "Do you remember?" "Oh, so many things have happened since then." "So many bad things and so many good things." "But the best thing that's happened is you." "You being back with us." "And with my son." "And with your son." "Let's talk a little bit about what happened before I left, Mother, all right?" "Yes, of course." "Let's talk about Danny's mother, Sammy Jo." "How you paid her once to get out of my life." "Yes, I paid her off." "And she took the money with no questions asked, with nothing but that moneygrubbing smirk on her face." "Now, I know that you don't wanna hear this, but I have no regrets about what I did because I'm not a hypocrite like your father." "Meaning what?" "Meaning I'd have bought off Sammy Jo a hundred times to get your baby away from her." "But Blake, ruthless as ever, beat me to it." "Beat you to it?" "Oh, he didn't tell you?" "No." "Well, he swears that he didn't buy little Danny but I know that he did." "For Krystle, his beloved but barren Krystle." "You know this all to be a fact, of course." "All I know is that Blake is smart enough to make it seem all aboveboard his manipulating the lawyers about a so-called adoption." "But the fact is it was a sale." "Your baby for bucks, to put it crudely but honestly." "But now that you're back, everything's changed." "You're damned right it's all changed." " Where are you going?" " lnto town." " Well, I'll drive back with you." " No." "Finish your lunch." "You seem to be enjoying it, Mother." "Steven, Joseph said you wanted to see me." "I really wanted to see my father, but he's not at his office." "So meanwhile I'd like you to give me some answers, Krystle." "What's the matter, Steven?" "Why didn't you both tell me the truth about my baby," " that my father bought him?" " Steven" "That he wrenched him away from his mother." " That's not true." " He's a big one at writing out cheques." "Did he give one to Sammy Jo?" "Yes, but he wrote the cheque so she could go to New York with the baby to take care of him." "But she said she didn't want to." "Wasn't that after she had a long and private talk with my father, after he convinced her that the baby could have a better life here?" "No, it wasn't like that." "I'd like to believe you." "Believe me, it's true." "I respect you, Krystle." "And I know that you defend the man because you love him." "And he loves you." "Maybe." "Maybe not." "I don't think I'll ever know." "What I do know is that he uses his power and his money to get whatever he wants." "Take it or buy it, that's his style." "I don't care how much money or power you have." "You don't go around taking people's babies." "I found this note on my desk." ""Missed you." "Be back later."'" "What did you want, Mark?" "And what happened to later?" "I wanted to ask you something, then I changed my mind, okay?" "Guess you decided you'd figure it out all by yourself, huh?" "I wanted to ask you out to dinner tonight at St. Dennis Club." "Some place a Carrington doesn't own." "So then why didn't you?" "I figured you wouldn't want to go with your brother being back." "Mark, I spent half the night talking with him and a good chunk of today." "Thankfully, he'll still be here tomorrow and every day after that." "So, what's the real reason?" "Well, maybe it occurred to me, Fallon, that we'd walk into the St. Dennis Club and people would be smiling behind their menus and their martinis." "Why?" "They'd be wondering what's a Carrington doing with the hired help and when's she gonna slip him the money for the bill?" "Jerry, catch." "Hold onto that for me, will you?" "You ready?" "So you're sure little Blake's all right?" "Good." "Well, I should be home in a little while, Jeannette." "Thanks." "So, Mr. Jennings, thank you for the lovely dinner." "It was fun." "How about a brandy?" "A toast to the man who saved my life twice." "First in this room, getting Jeff away from me." "And second, emotionally in Haiti." "Well, let's just say I believe in that old Chinese proverb, that when a man saves a woman's life then he's responsible for her from then on." "Very sexist." "But I'll drink to it anyway." "Fallon, I wanna make love to you." "How did Steven know about it?" "You didn't tell him." "Blake, he had lunch with Alexis today." "I hear there's a problem, Steven." "Why don't we get it out on the table?" " And talk about me?" " Yes, or at least what's on your mind." "Let's talk about the two of us, okay, Dad?" "I've changed." "Physically." "And a lot of other ways." "In spite of what you'd like me to think, you really haven't changed at all and I'm not sure you could." " Now, son, let's not start." " You don't want to argue," " to start clawing at one another?" " I just don't want to start" "You don't want to spoil the homecoming after all the embraces and emotion and tears." "Look, Dad, I know it and you know it." "To you I'm still the son you consider your disappointment, your mistake." "The son who was never a man." " Steven." "You don't" " Steven." "Let me tell you about Steven." "Do you wanna know how and why I'm standing here tonight?" "I spent 18 hours in that water burned and bleeding, holding on to a piece of wreckage, fighting to stay alive." "My friend, Ben, was dead when I reached him." "But I was determined I wouldn't die." "And I didn't." "They told me that when the freighter spotted me" "I was unconscious but still hanging on." "So I'm just as strong and tough as you are, Dad." "There's more than one kind of man." "You don't hold the lock on the title." " I know that, son." "I truly know that." " Do you?" "When you saw the chance to take my son and mould him in an image closer to your heart, to Blake Carrington's heart, you grabbed it, didn't you?" "You used your lousy money to persuade my wife to give you my son." "Now that is not true." "And I won't stand here and listen to that." "Because you never lie." "No, I don't, damn it." "I don't lie." "I understand how you picked up on this distorted picture of things." "You obviously got that from your mother." "I had hoped to spare you from the fact that Sammy Jo had so little maternal feeling, valued that child so little that she tried to sell the baby like" "Like a piece of goods." "Knowing you as I do, in your eyes that probably is the truth." "It is the truth." "I wonder if Sammy Jo saw it the same way." "I wonder if she didn't really come here hoping the Carringtons would take her back, would accept her." "But when they didn't" "I wonder if she didn't just settle for whatever she could get." "Where are you going?" "She doesn't even know I'm alive yet." "But she's going to." "And we'll take it from there." "I'm going to New York." "New York?" "But, my God, you just got home." "You're still weak." "And your life is here." "No, Dad." "No, my life is with my son." "And if I can make it work, with my son's mother." "Steven." "Steven."