"Yes?" "Oh, yes, yes, I'll take it." "Chicago." "Peter Burroughs." "Good morning, Peter." "No, it's quite all right." "I'm awake." "Well, how do I know that Cecil Colby is actually going to transfer that money?" "You know, we're not talking about the refinancing of an automobile here." "We're talking about a major transfusion of corporate funds." "Suppose the board of directors says no?" "Yeah." "Of course Colby is my friend." "No." "No, I don't." "I don't trust him any more than he trusts me in this." "Because he has the heart of a rattlesnake and the soul of a streetwalker." "If it served his purpose to cut me off, he would." "Hold on a minute, Peter." "I got a call on my hotline." "Yes." "When?" "Good." "The funds were transferred 10 minutes ago." "Yes." "Darling, I think it'd be nice if you invited... our good friend Cecil Colby to drop by this afternoon." "Have a little lunch and a glass of champagne with us." "Uh, Mr. Carrington, phone call for you." "Hello?" "Steven." "It's Ted." "How are you?" "Fine." "You?" "Real good." "So, how's New York?" "Still, uh, holding up?" "Well, she was as of last night." "I'm here in Denver." "You're here?" "I took the redeye." "I just got in." "WhWhat are you doing here?" "Business." "How long?" "Oh, just overnight." "I've got this meeting with the Brigham people." "I want to try and sell them on one of my revolutionary ad campaigns." "You know, kidnap the account." "Uh, listen." "When can we get together?" "Talk over old times." "There's a bar here in the hotel." "Ted, II can't see you." "We made an agreement, and we have to leave it that way." "Hey, I'm I'm not asking for a lifetime commitment." "A half hour." "I've come all this way." "Steven?" "Okay." "Where are you staying?" "I'm at the Marlowe Towers." "Okay." "Morning, Steven." "You all right?" "II'm fine." "Who was that on the telephone?" "It was a guy that I work with... reminding me that, uh, I'm on the twonight shift." "Good morning." "Morning." "Daddy, anything in there about the party here Saturday night?" ""The Carringtons entertain the competition, Blaisdel and Lankershim"?" "I doubt it a lot." "Sorry, Steven." "No offense to your bosses." "Forgive me?" "I'll think about it." "You know, speaking of parties, I went to one the other night." "Boring." "Talk about the pits." "But you know, at one point, I went out onto the terrace... and I overheard this couple whispering in the shadows." "The two of them were married, but not to one another." "Quel scandale." "Aren't you going to finish your story?" "No, it's really a bore." "Nothing you wanna hear about." "Don't you want to tell us who the couple was?" "No, I don't think so." "Mrs. Carrington, Jeffrey Colby's here." "He would like to see you." "Shall I show him in?" "Uh, yes, ask him in, please." "Well." "Jeff Colby at this hour of the morning?" "I wonder what he wants." "Maybe he wants to go skinnydipping with me again." "Hey, are you with us?" "Don't you even care that somebody tried to seduce your sister?" "Good throw." "Good morning." "Morning, Jeff." "Good morning." "Morning, Fallon." "Morning." "I'm sorry to barge in on you." "Not at all." "Sit down.Join us." "Thanks." "Can Marie get you something to eat?" "No.Just coffee." "Black, please." "I tried to phone you yesterday, Krystle." "Unfortunately, I couldn't get ahold of you." "I" "We were all out." "Scattered, like big old pinrubies looking for their lost setting." "Well, anyway, I, uh, I wanted to apologize." "Saturday, the party." "Making a fool out of myself." "Fallon and me jumping into the pool." "Well, an apology isn't necessary." "But you're here and, uh, it's accepted." "Of course not." "It's perfectly acceptable to me as well." "Oh, thanks, sir." "I, uh, I guess I had too much to drink." "You had two bourbons, tops." "Is this how you showed me to do it, Jeff?" "You know, between the two of us, there wasn't any writing on that cigarette we smoked." "This is how you do it, right?" "Okay, we got stoned." "And it was my fault." "I really did let things get out of hand." "Oh, you're so noble, Jeff." "Why can't you be more like my brother?" "Hardworking, miserable... depressed, anxietyridden." "Fallon, get off of my back." "Steven, I was only kidding." "Excuse me." "Steven." "Yes?" "How's it going?" "What do you mean, how's it going?" "Well, I mean, how's it going?" "Oh, you mean how close are Matthew and Walter to bringing it in?" "What are their prospects?" "When do I think you can come in and take over their leases?" "Is that what you mean, Dad?" "You really think a lot of your father, don't you?" "You are now drilling at 4,200 feet." "They've just put an order in for 600 feet of new pipe." "A numbertwo mud pump jammed last Friday." "You want me to go on?" "I don't need you as a spy, Steven." "Steven." "Something to lighten your shift." "It's a new novel by Rupert Harper... and a box of chocolates from Harrods, mind you." "Harper and Harrods." "Sounds like a law firm." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "I, um, I hope you don't ever think that I'm being intrusive... like a stepmother watching over you." "I like it." "It's good, you being here with us, Krystle." "And Fallon, she'll get to feel the same." "You see, she's got this thing about my father... not wanting to share him, not with anybody." "Bye." "Bye." "My favorite kind of candies ittybitty chocolates." "Well, do you want them?" "Here." "No, thanks." "But I'll hog out on a batch tonight." "Eat as many as you want." "Whoa!" "Hey." "Sorry, Ed." "Hey, that's okay, Stevie." "It ain't often I get chances to rub shoulders... with the hoi polloi." "Hoi polloi, that's me." "It means "common folk" in Greek." "And inside, I'm just like everybody else." "Common as earth." "A Carrington, huh?" "Common as earth, huh?" "Yeah, sure, except you forgot to say it's manured with gold dust." "That's what I've always liked about you, Eddie." "Yeah, what's that, Bobby?" "Your nice way of putting things... and your terrific manners." "Papers are missing." "They'rejust plain gone is all." "Yep." "When's the last time you saw 'em?" "Well, I worked on them Friday night till 8:00." "I know I put 'em in here." "You know we had a situation like this right after the war... up there in the Yukon, when we were drilling around '45, '46." "The young fella working there was a nephew of our biggest competitor." "Had a lot of information missing." "Now that boy, he was a pretty good worker and a pretty nicelooking boy... till we found out he was the one taking the information, giving it to his uncle." "Changed his looks somewhat after that." "Morning." "Morning." "How's it going?" "Fair." "Did you have a good day off?" "Pretty good." "Went hiking." "Round these parts?" "No, uh, near Lagorda." "Here's the tax forms you asked me to fill out." "Oh, yeah." "I got something for you." "My wife asked me to return this with her thanks... for the, uh, party and the book." "I meant for her to keep it." "I guess she didn't realize that." "Anyway, it's got somebody else's name in it." "Uh, Ted something." "Oh, right, uh" "Well, I gotta work." "Suppose he was really hiking?" "It wasn't him, Walter." "Well, I never said it was." "Ted?" "It's Steven." "Okay, I'll meet you tonight." "Say about 7:30." "There's a, uh, a bar here in the hotel." "No, II won't be able to get back into town." "Now, there's a place over in Meadsburg." "It's right off the highway." "Uh, Avenue 17." "Yes?" "You interruptible?" "Seeing how it's you, yes." "You know, I think it was very nice ofJeff to drop by this morning." "Do you?" "I think it was jerky of him." "Well, you didn't seem to find him so hard to take Saturday night." "I understand that you kids... have some strange courting habits these days." "But if it works for you both, that's terrific." "Daddy, what do you mean courting habits?" "One courts when one is going to marry." "Mmhmm." "Mmhmm what?" "Did Cecil Colby say something to you?" "Well, maybe weddings are getting to be a contagious... if a somewhat benign disease in this house." "It was Cecil, wasn't it?" "You might say that he kind of touched on it." "He had no right to say anything to you." "It's my life." "Well, now, let's not be so hard on him." "We were at the club yesterday having a couple of drinks." "And one thing led to another." "All right, we don't have to talk about it." "Let's not." "It is your life, and you can move at your own pace." "But, Fallon, I hope you don't think that I'm interfering, but" "Daddy, you're really not going to let up on this, are you?" "I was about to say that if this thing did happen..." "I'd be very pleased." "I'd feel very good about it." "Now, you got a date for lunch?" "Yeah, I'm meeting someone." "Oh, anyone I know?" "Why ask me?" "You seem to know everything else." "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk." "Lady's moping." "Mind your own damn business and drive." "Am I gonna see you tonight?" "Just drive, please." "Listen." "About tonight?" "I got a date." "Pay her the $10 and enjoy." "That'll be the day." "Hello, Miss Carrington." "Oh, I do love your outfit." "Thank you." "I'd like to see Mr. Colby." "Is he in?" "Uh, yes, but he's in a board meeting now." "Well, could you please buzz him and tell him I'd like to see him as soon as he gets out?" "It's urgent." "Well, yes." "Could I offer you anything in the meantime?" "No, thank you." "All right." "Mr. Colby, Miss Carrington is here to see you." "Would you like a drink?" "I have an amusing white wine." "An Alsatian." "I just got a case." "No, thanks." "Hey, you're upset." "Come on." "Sit down." "I just spoke to my father a little while ago." "You told him that I'm going to marryJeff." "And?" "Why?" "Why shouldn't I have?" "Cecil, I've tried to live with this, but I just don't think that I" "Yes?" "That I can go through with it." "We're different." "We're so different, Jeff and I." "We have an agreement, you and I." "I know we do." "But why can't I marry you?" "Because that wouldn't benefit either of us." "And because we made a deal, and a deal is a deal." "Cecil, I wouldn't be good forJeff." "The two of us together would go very slowly and very quietly insane." "While you and I... we'd be something very special." "We were starting to get along." "That night." "That was very good between the two of us." "But people like us... we don't put personal pleasures first." "We do what's best in the larger scheme of things." "Now, what's best for you is that I bail out your father." "What's best for me is that you marry my nephew." "I'll take that drink now." "You'll have the wine?" "Anything." "Cecil, he hasn't even asked me yet." "What am I supposed to do, hit him over the head with a mallet?" "You're resourceful, my dear." "You'll find a way." "Dictation, anyone?" "Fallon." "Come on in." "What are you doing here?" "I don't know.Just here." "Smaller than your uncle's office." "Yes, a lot smaller." "And the plants are an appropriate two feet shorter." "At the least." "And that painting is tacky." "Well, I'll have it destroyed immediately." "Can I get you some coffee?" "No, thanks." "I will take lunch though." "It is about time for that around here, isn't it?" "Oh, sure." "It's, uh, just that I have a meeting though." "Okay, okay." "With you." "Well, that's better." "I mean, let's face it, Jeff, ColbyCo Oil can get along without you for a few hours." "Can't they?" "Hmm?" "Don't bother." "I'll be leaving with Mr. Colby." "Well, try to stay awake." "May I help you?" "Wanna come again on that?" "I asked, is there something I could do for you?" "Liverpool." "Like in the Beatles, correct?" "Incorrect." "London, as in Covent Garden." "Tower of" "Sorry, but I never 'eard of them two groups, luv." "I am Miss Carrington's driver." "She thinks she might have left her purse on your desk." "No, I don't think so." "What part of London?" "Chelsea." "Near the Embankment?" "Fulham Road." "Ah, memories." "Good pubs, great restaurants." "Don Luigi's." "Rajapur.Jade. You know them?" "All." "Well, sorry, there's no purse here." "I could check Mr. Colby's office." "She said specifically..." "Cecil Colby's private secretary's desk." "Do you mind a blunt question?" "Depends who's asking." "How about me?" "How about the question?" "What do you do with your nights when you get out of here?" "Well, first things first." "I usually dine." "Well, round these parts, we say "supper," ma'am." "I have been known to sup as well." "Pick me up at 7:00." "By the way, the name is Jennifer." "Michael." "Well, ciao." "Ciao." "Here's to you, Krystle." "In honor of your having married the secondrichest... and the secondhandsomest... and the secondsmartest man in Colorado." "The first being?" "I'm glad Blake won't be joining us for a bit... because there's something I've been wanting to give you." "It's a sort of, um, wedding present." "Well, you've already given us a beautiful present." "That was for you and Blake." "This is for you alone." "Uh, it's not something you can wear or drive... or even put up on your mantlepiece." "Something to eat then." "You baked cookies." "Well, in fact, it may be a bit hard for you to swallow." "It's advice." "Okay." "We're a different breed of cats, Blake and I." "And that's why I can say this to you, because we're alike." "Blake Carrington is a hunting animal." "He's sleek and fast." "But it's the hunt, the wanting, the chase... the running to ground that's exciting to him." "More even than the prize." "And I'm the prize?" "Here's my gift to you, Krystle." "Here's what I've brought you." "Figure out what it is that Blake wants most... and then don't give it to him." "That doesn't sound like very friendly advice to me." "That's the nice thing about a gift." "You can keep it, or you can throw it away." "Cecil, I don't understand this kind of talk." "I was afraid you might not." "I married Blake because I love him... and because I want to make him happy." "And I hope he feels the same about me." "I'm not somebody's prize." "I'm not a handful of oil leases." "I'm not somebody's mineral rights." "And I did not, as half the people in Colorado seem to believe... marry Blake Carrington because of his money." "That, my dear, was probably your first mistake." "But we can deal with that." "Okay." "It was wrong for me to say that." "I shouldn't tease you." "But for now, consider my gift carefully before you reject it." "If you remember this, it could help you." "Your husband is a dangerous hunter... because he's led the pride for so long." "He's willing to take more risks than perhaps he should... because he knows that he won't be able to fight off the pack forever." "Hello there, Cecil." "Oh, hi, Blake." "We were just talking about you." "All lies, I expect." "Worse... the truth." "Hello, Steven." "Ted." "So, this is the place." "Yeah, this is it." "You look good." "You do too." "Can't say as I care very much for your wardrobe." "The old man push you into working for him?" "No, uh, I'm working for some other people." "Your choice?" "Oh, yeah." "They're the enemy camp." "Good for you." "Well, so far so good." "So, how'd the meeting go?" "There was no meeting." "I just walked around Denver." "Took in the sights." "Not bad." "On a clear day like today, you can see a lot of images." "I mean, never having been here, but being where you grew up." "Are you planning on staying?" "Yes." "Look, when you left the apartment, you said you might come back." "I said might." "Yeah." "We, uh, have new neighbors." "Yeah." "It's a graduate student and his lady." "And their dog." "It's a collie, and it barks loud." "Now, did Lassie ever bark loud?" "Only when she had to save a kid from the river." "You see?" "That's exactly what I thought." "I thought, uh, Miss Brooks didn't allow pets." "Ah, they slip her 10 bucks a month." "Just goes to show you, anybody can get bought off." "Including the witch of Perry Street." "You want one of these?" "Yeah." "Sure." "Uh, couple more of these, please." "It's lonely there, Steven." "How 'bout you?" "Yeah, I get pretty lonely." "Nobody else?" "No." "Me neither." "Not that I haven't been approached." "I mean, uh... what with my winning ways and leaping accounts." "Clay Mariner you remember him?" "One of your bosses?" "Yeah." "Isn't he married?" "Mm." "He tried to hit on me." "He's such a" "Ted." "I've got to be honest with you." "I'm not particularly interested." "It's not that important to me." "Here you are." "Okay, buddy, be honest... about things that are important." "Why did you leave?" "I mean, we never even really talked about it." "You just You just came in and announced one day that you were splitting and you split." "I think the phrase is that I'm trying to find myself, to sort out my life." "The phrase used to be "I love you."" "Oh, Steven, look, I know about the social pressures." "I know that your father is Blake Carrington, and you don't want him to find out." "I He knows." "How did it go?" "Not very well." "Big scene?" "Scene." "Then why the hell don't you come home with me?" "What are you doing staying on here?" "Ted, I'm trying to put it all together." "I To decide when and if I really wanna come back." "You don't want me there if I don't wanna be there." "Do you understand that?" "Ted, I want you to understand." "And I want you to know that... images and and memories..." "I got them too." "And they're inside of me." "Deep inside." "I have to go." "No." "Um, dinner." "I can't." "I'm leaving tomorrow morning." "If you change your mind I won't." "I'll take care of that, Steven." "We'll stay in touch." "Are you asking me where Blaisdel is getting the money?" "Well, maybe he found it in a hollow tree." "You find out who's extending him the credit, and you do something about it." "And don't bother me again with this business until it's finished." "Well, now, we're a small bank." "But we are expanding." "And, of course, any help at all we can be to Mr. Carrington... would be an honor, to say the least." "So, Mr., um" "Michaels." "You know, I'm bad on names." "Shouldn't be, but I am." "Sorry." "And so whatever kind of help we can be to Denver Carrington" "As a matter of fact, Mr. Carrington sincerely hopes... that you will be helpful to us in this situation." "You see, I have been dispatched by Mr. Carrington... to tell you that he is not pleased." "About what?" "If I can get right to the point." "You, your bank, has been extending credit... to Matthew Blaisdel and Walter Lankershim." "And it's troubling Mr. Carrington." "I see." "Well, what does he plan to do about it?" "Sue?" "Revoke our charter?" "I'm just an associate of his, Mr. Hardesty." "I don't get in on the finer details." "You have very nicelooking children." "Healthy." "Shame the way some kids get themselves screwed up these days." "Dope, booze, into accidents." "I'd like to be able to tell Mr. Carrington... that credit will be withdrawn before the day is out." "Doesn't sound like good news, huh?" "No." "That was the bank." "They just cut off our credit." "Something funny." "Something awful funny." "And you walk into a bank and threaten a man." "And you tell him you're working for me... and you say you may hurt his children." "I didn't mean that." "I saw it in a movie." "Do you know what could have happened if that man hadn't phoned me?" "He could have phoned the F.B.I., and you'd be in jail... and I'd be right there along with you." "You've got top lawyers." "And I've got an idiot driver." "I'll go." "I mean, I'm fired, right?" "But I want you to know this." "I was just trying to help you." "Give you the best I've got." "Sit down." "I said sit down." "I hate to admit it, but you remind me of myself when I was younger." "You really do." "Michael, do you want to continue working for me?" "Yes, sir." "Sure." "How about a raise?" "Say, $100 more a week." "For doing what?" "Almost getting you thrown in jail?" "I thought you were gonna fire me." "Dumb as it was, it showed me some initiative." "I like that." "Now, you will continue to drive for me, but..." "I may, from time to time, ask you to do other things for me." "It will go unquestioned." "Understood?" "Yes, sir." "I expect loyalty." "Loyalty to me is more important than life." "Is that understood?" "Yes, sir." "And if you ever cross me... you'll wish you hadn't." "This is the longest lunch hour I've ever taken." "Jeff, that's not Chick Harmon." "Harmon?" "I thought you said Carmen." "Oh, no, no, no, leave it." "I like all that kind of good vintage stuff." "Mm." "I love it." "I'm Carmen, and you're Don "Josay."" "I thought it was "Hosay."" "Okay, "Hosay." Ole." "Dance with me." "Whoo!" "Whoo!" "Oh!" "Next time you steal the keys to your daddy's plane, you wanna check out the weather first?" "That is not my business." "Paul, don't you know how to drive this thing?" "Oh." "I love you, Fallon." "I want you so damn much." "Call." "Call." "Call." "Read 'em and weep." "Oh." "Take it." "Well, just remember I don't get mad, I get even." "Well, I guess I'd better go call Claudia." "Tell her I said hello." "Evening." "I'm back." "Yeah, you sure are." "We can smell you coming." "Any cheap bourbon around, you'll find it." "How's it been going?" "Guys all safe?" "Hey, Carrington." "Someone's been eating all your bonbons." "Sure hope they saved the tuttifruttis for you." "I think you'd better go take a cold shower and get some rest." "Mmmmm." "Take my chances when the lights go out?" "No, sir, boss." "I ain't gonna sleep in the same room with him." "I think you're gonna do what you're told." "Now go take a shower." "Yes, sir." "Me and you?" "We're gonna go do some work." "Sounds good." "Hey, who was that, huh?" "Who was that guy I saw you with in the restaurant, huh?" "None of your damn business." "It's all our business." "Cooped up here with a damn "prevert."" "Whoo.!" "You should have seen 'em." "Touching each other." "Almost kissing." "You sorry Hold it, hold it, hold it!" "The two of you knock it off." "Now, you, go outside and get some fresh air." "Go on." "Now what the hell's the matter with you?" "Nothing the matter with me." "How come you're sticking up for some "prevert," Blaisdel?" "Don't wanna see him all cut up and bruised?" "Keep him nice and smooth for yourself?" "You know, I'm gonna overlook you said that, Ed, 'cause you had a few drinks... and I need you for the crew." "But don't push it." "Hmm." "Well, you're calling me a drunk... and you're sticking up for the "prevert."" "Maybe you're one of them too, huh, Blaisdel?" "Maybe that's what drove your old lady into the nuthouse." "Thanks, but I would have taken him on." "About like that last fella you took on." "Now, you wanna tell me what that was all about?" "He saw me with a friend of mine." "A guy from New York." "We were roommates there." "So what?" "I had a roommate in college I still see." "Were you in love with him?" "What the hell kind of question is that?" "I was, Matthew." "You see, I cared about him very much." "And he cared about me, and he still does." "Maybe I still do too." "I don't know." "But I do know this." "I'm not ashamed of it." "It was what happened for nearly a year betweenbetween us." "I'm not ashamed of it." "I wanna stay on here if it's all right with you." "You do whatever you think's best, Steven." "Hello." "Hi, uh, guess what?" "We just flew back from Vegas." "We're married." "You're what?" "That's wonderful." "Well, congratulations." "I love it." "Jeff, congratulations." "Daddy!" "Oh, Fallon." " Darling, that is wonderful." "Just wonderful."