"Yes, I realise you're with Nemork News, but all requests of this nature have to go through Public Relations." " oil exploration." "That's Kystle Carrington." "Her extension is 39." " You're welcome." " Sory, I've nothing to say." " This is wonderful." "And awful." " l know, Marcia." "Mr. Carrington's office." "Well, while you sit here peacefully in your office, the phones are ringing off their hooks in the rest of the building." " Really?" " Really." "It seems that eveybody wants to interview Blake Carrington." "forbes Maga_íne, fortune, World fínance, Tíme." "is Newsweeh ignoring me?" "Apparently." "They've only called twice today." " How about some coffee?" " No, thank you." "I lust got off the phone with Fred Palmer, the editor of World fínance." "It seems they wanna do a cover stoy." "A cover on me?" "Only if they show me with a beautiful public relations lady I know who happens to be carying my baby." "Well, the problem is they want the baby's handsome father." "And the stoy of how he pulled off the coup in the China Sea." "Well, I hope to get it pulled off by next week." "I still have $20 million to go on that hundred I agreed to pay for the leases." "Blake, Palmer indicated that his reporter may ask a sticm question." "Only one?" "Well, basically, it's this:" "Why is Blake Carrington dealing with Rashid Ahmed when eveyone knows that he was double-crossed by him two years ago?" "It's simply I agreed to deal with Ahmed, even though I don't trust him, because not one cent of that money is going through the man's hands." "It's being paid directly to the government that he's representing." "Now, if that government wants to pay Ahmed a commission, well, that's their business." "And my business right now is to steal a kiss from my public relations chief." "Arthur Wilde says this case was marked closed." "I have thought that you'd laid the past to rest by now." "I didn't come here for platitudes." "And, obviously, you thought wrongly otherwise I wouldn't be here." "The note my father left, may I please see it?" "Just to know what his last thoughts were." "That note was addressed to Mr. Blake Carrington, and we didn't reveal its contents to the press at the specific request of Mr. Carrington." "Mr. Carrington told me what my father wrote." "Please, sit down." "I lust wanna see those words for myself." "It's the only way that I'm gonna be able to end this nightmare I've been having." "These awful dreams that my father didn't write the note, someone else did." "Someone who killed him and then made it look like a suicide." "Mrs. Colby, I understand how hard it is to accept the idea that somebody you love could be capable of taking his own life, but both Mr. Carrington and your husband were in the house when your father pulled the trigger." "And it was his handwriting on the note." "There's no question about that." "But if it'll help you any, I have a copy of it here." "Mr. Carríngton, the políce are bound to díscover ít was I who set the fíre." "I tríed to stop that evíl woman from ruíníng yet another lífe and faíled." "I pray my death wíll satísfy her need for vengeance." "Joseph." "That evíl woman." "Thank you, Lieutenant Taylor." "I finally understand what my father's death was about." "Steven." "Nobody announced you, Adam." "I'm announcing myself." "I lust talked to mother's secretay and he said she's in Hong Kong." " Guess that's where she is." " Don't get cute with me." " What's she doing?" " Working." " At what?" " At undoing what you did." "She's gone to pick up whatever oil leases might've been left over from the deal Blake made, thanks to the stolen report you handed in." "Stolen?" "Be vey careful, Steven." "I put as much into that report as you." "More, in fact." "Oh, save it, Adam." "I'm not in the mood for your damn bull right now." " And what about Blake?" " What about him?" "Have you told him mother's in Hong Kong?" " No, I haven't." " Why not?" "Because I'm not the resident house-spy." "What Alexis does is her business, lust as it's my business to run Colbyco while she's gone." "Now, I've got a lot of work to do, Adam, so why don't you just get out of here." "Son, I somehow get the feeling that your mind is not on this championship match." "Still thinking about North Dakota, huh?" "That cemetey where Kirby found out about her mother?" "Actually, I was thinking about my own mother." "How unnecessay, how cruel it was of her to throw the truth at Kirby the way she did." "Cruel?" "Well, your mother can win prizes at that sort of thing if she sets her mind to it." " But in this case" " Don't say she had an excuse." "Well, she did." "You." "You see, in her mind, Alexis was protecting her son." "She always believes that she's on the side of the angels." "And she always iustifies eveything she does with a firm conviction that it's right." "When I told you this afternoon that she was in Hong Kong, I wondered, then, what she was really up to over there." "is she on the side of the angels this time, Father?" "I don't care what side she's on." "Nothing or no one is going to stop us now." "Hello." "Champy?" "According to the hotel waiter, that's Chinese for champagne." "Really?" "But that bottle is French, isn't it?" "Let's see, it's smuggled across the border of the people's republic, and it's Bulgarian." "Bulgarian?" "Oh, my God, what year?" "Just kidding, just kidding." "It's really vey French and it's gonna reflect on your bill." "Thank you." "By the way, Mark, what are you doing in my suite?" "It's time for dinner, I thought I'd take you out." "After we share a little champagne." "Well, that's vey gallant of you, but I already have a dinner date." "So why don't you take this like a good Mark and go and enioy yourself with some of those charming tarts who've been following you around." "You're dismissing me?" "Oh, that's vey perceptive of you, Mark." "Yes, I'm dismissing you." "Have a good evening." "Don't wait up for me." " Rashid." " Good evening, my dear." "Come in." "I am certain this is going to be a good evening." "I'm sure it will be." "Now that you've had a chance to weigh my proposition, do I ruin Blake Carrington, or don't I?" "Alexis Colby's suite, please." "I see." "No, no message. I'll ty later." "Oh, by the way, when do you think my room will be ready?" "Thank you." " Scotch rocks, please." " Same here." "That's right, Jennings, it's me." "The iealous lover following his lady friend halfway around the world." "You know, Jennings, it's none of your business why I'm in Hong Kong, but I'm gonna tell you anyway." "Alexis and I have a corporation." "That's right, Dex-Lex or Lex-Dex." "Never can remember which one of you is on top." "It's Lex-Dex, and that's the point." "She and I should both be on top when it comes to making a deal." "You're talking as if this was one of your joint ventures." "What about Colbyco?" "The lady happens to be pretty heavily involved in that corporation as well." "Well, maybe I can talk her out of that." "Why would she listen?" "Because on her own, she could screw up whatever deal she's going after." "With me, there'd be no screwup." "Well, here's to your modesty, Dexter, if not your smarts." "Look, I'm around." "I can't help but know what's going on." "You've got nothing to wory about if you're worried about being double-dealed." "Care for a pretzel?" "So I've got nothing to wory about?" "Not unless you're into silk." "The lady's on a shopping spree, Dexter." "You go to Vegas to gamble, and you come here to shop." "Okay, so I flew a few miles on a dumb hunch." "Look, as long as I'm here, I'd like to buy you that drink." "And I'll go do a little shopping myself." "It's nice to see you, Jennings." "Terrific seeing you, Dexter." "is that your decree of divorce from Kirby?" "And you had no intention of telling me about it." "Yes, that's right, Adam." "You see, it's my affair, not yours." "I'm sure that Kirby's received her copy." "When she wants to tell you, she will." "Jeff, this animosity between us, isn't it about time we really ended it and faced the truth?" "What truth?" "That eveything is gonna be all right all around." "You and Fallon will be married again." "You never should've been divorced in the first place, you know that." "Kirby and I are gonna get married." "Eveything is gonna be right." "Once, not too long ago while Kirby was in the hospital, you and I shook hands." "It turned out that was only a gesture." "Well, this time, I'd like it to come from the heart." "Adam, don't press your luck." "You got lust about all you're gonna get from me." "Now, you." "Open." "Get rid of that junk." "Who the hell are you?" "It is a question I should ask you." " Or better still, phone hotel security." " Darling, what's going on out there?" "Dex." "Oh, my God." "Happy hour's over." "You get dressed." "If you wanna leave here alive, take the back door." "Alexis, with your permission, I should like to deal with this whining dog." "Oh, Rashid." "Listen, this is a private matter." "Please go, Rashid." "Please." "Now, lust who the hell do you think you are?" "I am the same guy who had a talk with you the other day about the two of us believed in one thing." " You remember?" " Oh, really?" "No." "Well, I'll remind you." "The word was fidelity." "I was leaving for Los Angeles, you made some crack about me meeting up with Hollywood types." "And I told you that I hadn't slept with any type after I'd met you." " So what?" " After I'd fallen in love with you." "Except I didn't know that what I'd fallen for was a slut." "A slut with the morals of a dog in perpetual heat." "Nice to see the real you, Alexis." "Oh, you" "Dex, what's wrong?" "No, Alexis, it's what's right." "Finally, for me." "We're through." "You overrated cowboy." "You thought you own me?" "Well, nobody owns Alexis." "Alrighty, so you wanna buy a gun." "Now, are we talking about a gun for sport like a rifle?" "Or are we talking about a handgun?" "A handgun." "Handgun." "Well, in that case, I'm gonna have to ask you for some identification." "You know, to prove that you're 21 years old." " You have a driver's licence with you?" " Yes." "Yes." "Could I see it, please?" "Boy, things are getting harder to see all the time." " Is that missus or miss?" " It's miss." "Thank you." "Well, let me tell you something, young lady." "Guns can be vey dangerous." "Deadly in fact." "Now, is there some particular reason you want one?" "Yes, there is." "I live alone." "And, well, it's pretty obvious, isn't it?" "Yeah, well, self-preservation." "Yes, it is obvious." "Yeah, that's a good idea." "All right, well, let me see what we got here." "And then I'd like you to tell me where l could take some lessons." "I mean, if I own one, I should know how to shoot it." "You know, I can see through that smile of yours that you're scared beneath it." "Frightened of something." "Now, if there is someone or something that is threatening you, I think you ought to tell the police, not ty to handle this by yourself." "Well, yes, I am frightened." "But the police can't move in with me." "My apartment's been burglarised twice while I was at work." "And it may happen again, and I may be there the next time, and there's no point in me having a gun if I don't know how to use it." "Well, it sounds to me like you don't intend to miss the target." "Oh, no, I don't intend to miss the target at all." "Here, let me fix your tie." "Need I remind you that when one is to be interviewed by World fínance Maga_íne" "One should look like a world-class financial figure." "Exactly." "You sure you don't want me at the interview?" "Yes, I'm sure." " In case you need some quick data?" " l can always phone you." " Well, I may not answer." " l'll send you a wire." "Probably won't read it." "Darling, I appreciate you wanting to be with me, but I do have all the facts I need right at my fingertips." "But there is something else behind all this, isn't there?" "Come on now." "Come on, what is it?" "Well, they're sending their top reporter, Gordon Wales." "Which rhymes, as they say in the trade, with tough as nails." "Now, we both know that on occasion, you lose your temper." "And we both know how explosive this oil deal can be." "So I thought that if I was there, I might be able to help you." "I love you worying about me." "But the Carringtons have never been known to be exactly pushovers." "And I think your Mr. Tough-As-Nails will have met his match." "Well, something tells me I've just met mine." "Correct." "Now, I want you and my child to stay put, do you hear?" "Bye." "I thought this was to be an interview, Mr. Wales, not an inquisition." "I'll call it what you like, Mr. Carrington, but the entire business world wants to know why you and Rashid Ahmed are in this together." "I've already answered that question." "I see no point going back over it again." "All right, then let's talk about the political implications of this deal you made." "As I said in my N statement, there is nothing political about this, it's pure business." "Business that is good for Denver-Carrington and good for this county." "A prime new source of oil." "How many governments are in that area?" "Two." "Are they friendly?" "No." "Does each claim jurisdiction?" "Yes." "is Blake Carrington obviously siding with one of them?" "Yes." "Are you interviewing me?" "Are you writing an editorial based on your own misconceptions?" "Siding?" "Yes." "I'm siding with the future of this county and its need for energy." "Now, do you want me to repeat that into this thing?" "No, no." "That's loud and clear enough." "Yeah, Tracy Kendall." "What about her?" "Oh, she was your party's PR person until you resigned, right?" "Right." "Oh, I hear you axed her from your public relations staff." "She went with you to Hong Kong, but she didn't come back with you." "What happened?" "Was she worried about the public relations' consequences of this deal, so you lust, what, got rid of her?" "Once again, you're wrong, Mr. Wales." "And this misguidedly aggressive attitude of yours is beginning to bore me now." "Just as it's annoyed me right from the start." "So let's say that this interview is over." "Well, of course, I'll send you a copy of the article." "Make that two copies." "One for me, one for my legal staff." "We're both leaving late for work this morning." "At least, you have an excuse." "Oh, what I have is a husband with spies stationed around the house to report if I step outside the front door a moment before the appointed time." "I'll get it, Mrs. Carrington." "Thank you, Elizabeth." "Hello?" "It's for you, Miss Claudia." "The same man who phoned the night you returned from South America." "I'll take it if you want me to." "Yes, please." " Hello?" " Claudía." "Matthew, it's Kystle." "What are you tying to do?" "We need you, Líndsay and I." "We're a famíly." "I said it's Kystle." "What do you want?" "Where are you?" "We need you, Claudía." "What are you talking about?" "I told you it was Matthew." "I told eveybody it was Matthew." "It was Matthew's voice, but it was strange." "I told him it was me, but he kept on talking to you." "He said, "We need you, Lindsay and I." "We want you home with us."" "What else did he say?" "Well, something like, "We're a family, we belong together."" "That's exactly what he said both times before." " Are you sure?" " Yes." "Well, it's almost as if it were a recording." "A recording?" "Yes." "When I was at the sanatorium, and Matthew was in the Middle East, he sent me a tape-recorded letter." "Only, I never received it." "And then she told Matthew when he got back that it never arrived." "Who's she?" "His mother." "It never arrived, she said." "But did it?" "I know a way we can find out." " Horseback riding?" "Right now?" " If not, sooner." "I'm not dressed for it." "I've got a lot of work to do." "You're dressed lust fine and the work can wait." "And this has to do with our son's 2nd birthday." "_e55." "So you wanna bring a bunch of 2-year-olds here and have a party." "It's gonna be chaos." "Not to mention pandemonium." "You know, I think you're right. I think it'd be chaos and pandemonium." "In that case, I think we should have it on the Carrington lawn." "You wanna move a mery-go-round there for the party?" "Why not?" "I gotta hand it to you, you are a super father." "I promised you that I wouldn't press you on the subject, but have you told yourself yet that I'm pretty good husband material too?" "I mean, I am a free man as of yesterday." "You lust give me a nod, we'll run off and see a preacher." "Go on." "Go talk to the man about renting these horses." "I'll catch us a brass ring." "Hello, this is Fallon Colby." "I was a patient of Dr. Walcott's when I suffered a skull fracture." "I need to talk to him now." "Well, when can I reach him?" "No, I'll call back." "Thank you." " We won't be long, Frederick." " Yes, Mrs. Carrington." "Emily, you're early again as usual." "Mother Blaisdel, may we come in?" "Of course." "This is Kystle Carrington." "I know. I recognised you from your photos in the newspaper." "Nice to see you again, Claudia, dear." "But why the surprise visit?" "I know you answered most of my questions last time about Matthew, but you didn't get around to talking about the tape." "Tape?" "You know, the one that Matthew sent me years ago." "The one that you forgot to give me and then said that you lost." "Claudia, dear, if you've come back to hound me about something in the past, about something that I already apologised for" "Mrs. Blaisdel, we're here to ask you some questions about the tape." "Now, we have a good reason to believe it still exists." "We both heard it." "How could you have heard it?" "Because I took the call for Claudia." "And it didn't make sense." "Matthew's voice kept talking to Claudia, not me." "Now, if you know anything about this, it might be better if you tell us now rather than the police." "I know nothing about this." "I wonder if the police will believe that." "This man came by to see me." "He asked for my cooperation." "He said he'd pay me $500 by giving him the tape." "I asked him why he wanted it, and he said something about using it to upset Mrs. Steven Carrington." "And because I felt, then, as I feel now, that you have no right to happiness in your new marriage after what you did to my son, to my Matthew," "I gave him the tape I kept." "What's the man's name, Mrs. Blaisdel?" "I don't think I have to tell you that, neither of you." "Oh, yes, you do." "Who's been doing this to me?" "Who, damn it, who?" "And where is Claudia now?" "I dropped her off at La Mirage." "She said she wanted to be alone in her office for a while." "In the car, she kept asking, why would a man she'd never met torture her like this?" "I have my doubts that the man wanted to do it." "But I can make a pretty good guess as to the woman who might want Claudia out of her son's life." "Alexis?" "Blake, do you really think she's capable of doing this?" "Can you think of anything that Alexis isn't capable of doing?" "Darling, you've handled this vey well, but I think it's my turn to handle it now." "Yeah?" "You got a bad habit of tying to keep me out of here when I decide to come in." "All right, all right, what do you want?" "I just found out that you're back doing some more of your shady work for my ex-wife." " So what?" " Claudia Carrington, that's what." "Those anonymous packages, those taped phone calls, I wanna know about them." "Did you hear what I said?" "I wanna know about them." "I don't know what you're talking about." "Now, let go of me and get the hell out of here." "Claudía." "We need you, Líndsay and I." "We need you, Claudía." "We're a famíly." "Claudía." "We need you, Líndsay and I." "All right, how much did she pay you to do it?" "And how long was this suppose to go on?" "If you're talking about Alexis Colby, forget it." "I hate that woman as much as you do." "So if you'll lust forget what you found here today, I'll go through with my plan to get even with her." "Look, the woman did me dirt." "All of this is lust part of a plan to get even with her." "I'll plant the tape at her office and then tip off the cops." "When her son finds out, he's gonna hate her for what he thinks that she did to his wife." "That'll destroy Alexis Colby." "You scum." "What kind of a man are you anyway, playing games with somebody's sanity?" "I told you, Carrington, to get revenge on Alexis Colby." "All right." "Sergeant." "Now tell it to the police." "Let me read you your rights, Mr. Hess." ""You have the right to remain silent."" "Well, I didn't think I'd do it, but I got all the grime off from the well." "Sweetheart, you already have your answer." "Can't you lust put it all out of your mind?" "I've been thinking about Matthew's mother." "And what the detective asked me." "Do I wanna bring charges against her?" "I know that I can't." "She lost her son and her granddaughter." "I can't add to her suffering." "Now, all that's in my mind is the future with you and Danny." "My beautiful future." "I'm lust going to have a drink, thank you." "It's true." "They say if you stay in Hong Kong long enough, you're bound to run into somebody you know." "I thought you went home." "Blake Carrington did, a couple of days ago." "He left me behind." "Well, you don't seem too happy about it." "He fired me." "I'm not exactly ecstatic about losing my job." "Must've had a good reason." "Well, I'll tell you about it someday." "Maybe." "Buy you one of these?" "One for the lady, bartender, make mine a double." "So tell me, what is it you're not celebrating, Dex?" "Betrayal." "Let me guess." "Alexis Colby." "You guess well." "Another guy?" "You guess vey well for a great-looking girl." "That's sexist." "All right, a great-looking woman." "Better?" "No." "My ability to guess well has nothing to do with my sex." "Sex." "I like the way you say that word." "Two strangers in a strange place, what else is there to talk about?" "is that a smile of satisfaction?" "Yes, it is." "Two strangers of yore have become extremely compatible." "It seems as though I've opened up an old wound." "No." "The result of an alley cat l ran into." "Tracy, I want you to do something for me." "Something vey special." "I'm talking about out of bed and when we get back to Denver." "I want you to take a job." "Oh, I intend to." "This working girl has to." "I want you to take a job with Alexis." "Maybe not such a bad idea." "But suppose she's not in the market for a public relations person?" "Oh, she will be." "When you let her know some of the information you have, information about Denver-Carrington." "You're as excited about this as you were about sex a little while ago." "You are a complete man." "The most complete." "Dex, what's behind all this?" "It's simple." "I'm in business with the lady." "And to know her is to distrust her." "So if you're at all interested, you can earn yourself two salaries for the job." "One from Mrs. Colby and one from me." "Along with a little fooling around in our spare time?" "Does that appeal to you?" "It appeals to me." "Oh, so vey much." "Blake, I just talked to Andrew Laird." "He said that the last loan was approved." "You just put together $1 OO million." "And already wired to Hong Kong." "How about that?" "Well, how about you?" "Taking on a terrific deal like this, a gamble." "I think even my Uncle Cecil would be applauding right now." "Thank you, Jeff, but I'm not quite sure about that." "You know, Cecil inherited his money, and he played his cards vey cautiously." "Maybe that's why Denver-Carrington, which was lust a newcomer 25 years ago, was able to compete with a giant like Colbyco." "I know, not as big yet, but this deal is going to do it." "One thing I am sure of though," "Alexis will not applaud." "Well, Alexis has been running Colbyco exactly the way my uncle structured it." "I think the only real gamble she's taken is when Dex Dexter says do this or do that." "Oh, how I'd like to see Alexis' face when she tries to get in on this China Sea deal." "When she finds out that the only areas that don't belong to me are worthless." " Good evening." " Good evening." "That better?" " Better than what?" " Than whom." "Than the way your hysterical lover of earlier might kiss you." "Dex-Dex is my ex-lover and someone who should never have been in my life in the first place." "Let's talk about more important things." "First, more importantly for me, let me give you this." "Open it, please." "It's a gift I chose for you from am outrageously expensive antique shop." "It's outrageously sweet of you, Rashid." "Legend has it that it belonged to the empress of Tibet." "Reputedly the most beautiful woman in all of Asia, that her people gave it to her when her troops won a victoy over the Mongols, so that she might witness her beautiful smile as empress and conqueror." "It's absolutely beautiful, Rashid." "I'll treasure it forever." "Now, how are things proceeding with our deal?" "Vey well indeed." "And when is it going to happen?" "Alexis, I play it carefully, but I play it well." "I know you play it well, Rashid, but when?" "For $5 million, I think at least I deserve a timetable." "Alexis, when it happens, you will not miss it, because the explosion will be heard all over the financial world." "And Blake Carrington will be dead financially." "Blake's funeral." "Finally."