"No, thanks." "My little travelling brother." "How was New York?" "Still there." "Still big." "You'd make a terrific travel agent." "Think about it." "I'll help myself, Ellen." "Mrs. Gunnerson made eggs Benedict if you'd prefer them to scrambled." "No, scrambled's fine." " Bacon?" " Yes, please." "I got in late last night and Joseph said that you were already home, that you were conked out." "You should have taken Daddy's plane." "Tom would have made up a bed for you." "Okay." "So it wasn't jet lag." "I figured things weren't gonna work out between you and Sammy Jo." "I'm sorry." "Are you, Fallon?" "Yeah, I am." "For you." "I didn't have the guts to tell you" "I thought it was doomed from the beginning." "Why didn't you?" "Well, I guess I respected the fact that you had to find that out for yourself." "Well." "I found out what she thinks about me." "And what some other people do too." "All right." "It's behind me." "Now it's move-ahead time." "If there's one thing I learned all those months on that rig, before and after it blew, it was to tackle each day as it happens and deal with it." "I'll buy that." "How about buying this?" "I've arranged with lndo-Asian Oil to have them send me the salary they owed me before the accident." "But it hasn't arrived yet and I'm nearly broke." "Broke?" "What about your own money?" "I talked to Andrew Laird." "Seems everybody thought I was dead and it's all tied up." "Will be for a while." "Figures." "Okay." "How much do you need?" "Three thousand." "That's not exactly walking-around money." "It's a retainer for a divorce lawyer, when I find one, and a deposit on an apartment for Danny and me." "You're moving out?" "Look, I don't know what's been happening around here." "But I have to guess it's something between you and Daddy." "Again." "You forgot the "again."'" "Steven, no jokes." "I mean, whatever happened, weigh what you do before you move out." "Do you realise how much easier life would be with you and the baby here?" "With somebody to look after him 24 hours a day" "Fallon, I asked for a loan." "Not a lecture." "Not a debate." " Forget about the money." " Steven." "Your temper is almost as bad as mine is sometimes." "Look, whatever it is you need, money or a place to live." "La Mirage." "You got it." "Who knows?" "One of these days, maybe I'll be able to negotiate a peace treaty between you and Daddy." "He doesn't want that, Fallon." "You know it and I know it." "Blake, may I talk to you about something?" " Yes." " It won't take long." "It's Steven." "What about Steven?" "Before you go, won't you just apologise to him?" "Apologise?" "There is nothing to apologise for." "Blake," "last night you said to Steven that" "That it wasn't right for Danny to grow up with his own father as an example." "Well, that's true, isn't it?" "That baby deserves the kind of influence that you could give him rather than the kind that my son would surround him with." "That's not the issue." "Because it doesn't matter what Steven's lifestyle is." "You mean his gayness?" "That is the polite word they're using for it nowadays, isn't it?" "I'm not finished." "Now, I know what you're going to say." "That no matter what Steven is, that Danny is still his child and no one should usurp a father's position." "That's what you're gonna tell me?" " Yes." " Well, I don't buy that and I never will." "I'm sorry." "I've got so many things on my mind today," "I really can't worry about my son." "There's that meeting this afternoon with that piranha, my son's mother, determined to devour my company." "So I've gotta really start preparing for this meeting." "I'll see you later." "Wish me luck." "Of course I do." "But, Blake." "You can't tell anyone, not even your son, how to live." "As I said, I'll see you later." "We'll talk about it then." "You're uncomfortable, Galloway." "Yes, I am." "All right, then tell me." "What else can we do?" "Nothing, that's what." "The woman's in the driver's seat." "And if Blake thinks he can change anything by try" "Good afternoon." "I see the required number is here." "And all in good health." "You all are in good health." "Sam?" "I'm fine, Blake." "Fine." "Good." "I'm relieved." "Because I thought that perhaps some Mongol plague had suddenly hit Denver this morning and this afternoon." "And I couldn't get any of you, my loyal board of directors, on the phone." "Jeff, what are you doing here?" "Protecting my interests." "Any objections?" "Of course not." "You do realise that this meeting has been called by my mother." "Yes, and I intend to monitor every word she says." "Good." "Well, let's go." "Good afternoon, gentlemen." "Mrs. Colby, good afternoon." "Sorry I'm a bit late." "Please be seated." "Blake, always good to see you." "Particularly on your abdication day." "I've abdicated nothing." "Yet." "This special meeting has been called by Mrs. Colby, who is, for the moment, the majority stockholder in Denver-Carrington." "I would like to suggest that we waive the reading of the minutes and any discussion of old business." "Good." "Then let's get down to some new business." "I presume that you've all read the bill of particulars that I've sent to you." "So let me lay out the situation." "Two oil giants, namely Colbyco and Denver-Carrington, their leaders being long-time friends, are going to form a merger." "A very natural joining of two very great forces, with combined assets that will set the rest of the financial world spinning." "Interest on Wall Street is already enormous." "As it is in London, Paris," "Bonn and Tokyo." "So that you know, the Colbyco board has already approved the merger, so all that I need now is your approval for final submissions to the proper governmental authorities." "Adam, may I have a glass of water, please?" "I'm a very direct woman." "If I do not get that approval" "And please understand that I have the controlling interest in Denver-Carrington." " I shall fire you all on the spot and replace you with a board that will approve of the merger." "So may I have a show of hands signifying aye?" "Aye." "Aye." "Apparently, Blake, you are the single nay among this quorum." "On the contrary." "I'm going to go along with the majority." "Splendid." "Thank you, gentlemen." "I intend to do great things for all of us." "Have a very good evening." "Jeff." "Well, thank you, gentlemen." "I thank each of you for your impressive vote of confidence in me." "Oh, come on, Blake, you voted yes too." "You made it unanimous." "Because, like the rest of us, you know that the only way to protect our interests, the only way, is to cooperate." "To protect your hides, you mean." "Your holdings in Denver-Carrington." "I don't give a damn about any one of you." "Not after what you just did to me." "Sam just said it, Blake." "You voted yes too." "I voted yes because this is my company." "Mine." "I worked as a rigger during the daytime." "At night I went to the School of Mines, winter and summers." "I studied and I sweat and I broke my back to learn the oil business." "The oil business that this country can't afford to do without." "And I clawed my way up to a point where I founded and built Denver-Carrington to where it is today." "And right now I've got a man in Washington seeing to it that it stays that way." "I voted yes because I won't give that woman a chance to remove me from a position where I can keep an eye on her." "I don't intend to let her make a move, not issue one memo, not give one order, not make one decision, not do anything without answering to me." " Good morning, Mr. Colby." " Good morning." "I have a special delivery letter for you." "Thank you." "How about that?" "Goodbye, sweetheart." "Mommy has to go to work." "I'll be back soon, though." "Fallon, look at this." " You won the Irish sweepstakes." " No." "Little Blake has been officially registered by my college." "Oh, yeah." "That cute little university back East." "What happens if when he grows up he decides he wants to go to Northwestern or Stanford?" "Because he'll want to go." "I'll pick him up and I'll tickle him until he says:" ""Daddy, Daddy, I'll go, I'll go."'" "Oh, he's gonna love it." "Well, you sure did." "What's so funny?" "I did." "I was thinking about the time that you picked me up to go to a party at Lenore's wearing that ridiculous raccoon coat." "You swore it belonged to F. Scott Fitzgerald." "God, that's right." "I remember." "And I remember I wouldn't take it off, either." "Yeah, and you remember our first dance?" "It shed all over my new gown." "Black velvet." "No, no, no." "As I remember it, I had to teach you how to do the foxtrot properly." "Oh, no, no, no." "It was I who had to teach you." "Well, maybe." "How did it go?" "Come on." " It went like I said it went." "Kind of" " Okay, which is?" "You go back, and then forward." " Back." " Yeah." "You start gliding, kind of" " I am gliding." "Let's do it again." " No, you're just getting flippy." " I am." "Let's do it again." " You're getting flippy." " I am gliding." " You can't do that." " Okay, ready?" "Here we go." "Ready?" " Okay." "Okay." "And then you go back, and then" " Fantastic." " That's what you" "That's great." "Those were fun days, weren't they?" "Yeah, I guess they were." "Whatever happened to them?" "That's lovely." "It's Chopin." "Lovely and sad." "Well, he didn't have a very happy life." "You're sad, aren't you, Kirby?" "Am I?" "Do you mind if I sit with you?" "No, not at all." "What's the matter?" "I'd like to be your friend." "That's nice to hear." "But really, I'm not sad." "All right." "Then let's just drop it." "Oh, Krystle." "Isn't it obvious?" "I mean, here I am, the new princess," "living under the same palace roof with my husband's ex-wife." "The all-time princess." "With a baby son to keep them in close contact." "Kirby, I understand." "There was a time when I was in a similar situation." "Now you're trying to cheer me up." "Who was your friend then?" "Steven." "While you were at the Sorbonne," "Alexis decided to come back into Blake's life." "She moved into the guest house and she was here constantly." "Even though Blake had" "Had put her out of his life a long time ago, she" "She still had the tie of the children." "So you're trying to assure me that" "Fallon is not a part of Jeff's life anymore." "Except for the child they share." "And she doesn't want to hurt your relationship with Jeff." "Come on, I've gotten to know her very well." "She's not a threat." "She's not like Alexis." "Mrs. Colby's office." "Blake Carrington phoning you, Mrs. Colby." "Thank you, David." "You can go." "Yes, Blake." "What can I do for you?" "I've got some papers here that your office sent over." "The way I read them, your people have juggled the figures on my company to the point where it would be laughable if it weren't so criminal." "Are you sending me off to jail, then?" "Might I have a pedicure first?" "I want a meeting with you today, Alexis." "Sorry, Blake, I'm all tied up all day." "Now look, I'm not gonna take no for an answer." "Especially not from you." "Well, that sounds like a line from the past." "Our past." "All right, I" " I have to be back at the apartment at 6:00." "I'll meet you there." "Your apartment?" "Well, you're running an empire now, aren't you?" "Why can't we meet at your office?" "Because at 6:00 I like to slip out of my shoes and into something more comfortable." "Like a drink." "Listen, Blake, you may think that you're a big man at the boardroom or barking down a phone, but I know a real man where it counts." "So please spare me your virile noises, all right?" "What's the matter?" "Are you afraid to meet me at my apartment?" "Or is it Krystle you're afraid of?" "It's neither." "All right." "All right, I'll meet you at your apartment or any other battleground at 6:00." "Bye." "Look at that." "You got one there, you got one there." "You're drinking too much." "Well." "Look at that." "Well, listen to him, huh?" "Listen to him." "Mrs. Carrington." "Get Danny to smile." "Come on, Danny, smile." "There's your daddy." "Give him a smile." "Perfect." "It'll be in all the papers." "Well, how's it been going?" "Oh, life in general or apartment hunting?" "Both." "Life's okay." "The hunt is lousy." "It's not easy finding a place that'll do for a baby." "And his father." "Well, does that mean you'll be staying here for a while?" "No." "I'm moving out to La Mirage while I keep looking." "Meanwhile, do you mind keeping an eye on this little guy?" "Of course not." "How could I mind?" "Some of my best moments of my day are with him." "What I do mind is" "Is what?" "What, Krystle?" "Is what's happening between you and your father." "Oh, I know, he can be as stubborn as you are." "But you're not helping the situation." "You were smiling a minute ago." "You're not smiling now." "I seem to have a way of bringing down everybody's mood in this house." "Your father's house." "The house you're moving out of." "Is it to get back at him?" "Because if it is, it's unfair." "To you, to him and to your child." "Tell me about it." "All right, I will." "You found out from Sammy Jo that Blake was not trying to use his money or his power to take Danny away from her." "What he did was loving and decent and caring." "Wanting only to care for your son." "Krystle," "I don't deny that he's got a lot of good qualities." "Admirable qualities." "And I wish more than anything that I could love him the way you do, but" "But what?" "What?" "There's too much pain in me where Blake Carrington's concerned." "Too many hurts." "Too many wounds." "And I don't think they're ever gonna heal." "So are you still willing to help me with little Danny boy?" "Of course I will." "I'll get a picture of you." " Come on, now." "Come on." " Okay." "Come on, smile." "Come on." "Still on the courts?" "Yes, my dear, I do realise that he is the tennis pro, thank you." "Afternoon, Mrs. Colby." "Oh, Mr. Hess." "Come in." "Nice place you have here." "I believe you told me that the last time you were here." "Did I?" "Well, I was right, it is nice." "I suppose your new offices are nice too." " Yes." " We might've had our meeting there." "Yes, we could." "But for discreet matters such as this," "I prefer no witnesses." "Thank you." ""A senatorial assistant." "Seventeen." "Youngest daughter of Governor-"" "Yes, that dreadful man." ""Evening of the 24th, Congressman McVane drove to a motel with girl." "Checked them in." "Name of motel:" "Xanadu." "Referring to a palace where Kublai Khan once sought his sexual pleasures."'" "Oh, how learned you are, Mr. Hess." "And how devastatingly interesting this is." ""Assignation the following weekend and the following."'" "Neal McVane and his Capitol Hill Lolita." "Mr. Hess?" "Mr. Hess, what are you doing out there?" "What's wrong?" "Oh, nothing." "But I'd appreciate it if you'd tell me if there's a back way out of this building." "Why?" "Oh, in my line of work there are always people you don't wanna see." "Like in lobbies." "And I have another case to get on." "And if you need any other information, you can call me at my office in, oh, let's say an hour." "Would that be okay?" "Fine, yes." "There's an elevator next to the service pantry down there." " Well, thank you, Mrs. Colby." " Thank you." "Goodbye, Mr. Hess." "I got your message while I was at Denver-Carrington." "They said it was urgent." "What's up?" "What's up is wonderment on my part." "What were you doing there in the first place?" "Blake called me and asked me to go over some evaluation reports of the company's assets as listed in the Colbyco brief." "So you trotted over to play footsie with the man you didn't trust not so long ago?" "You're a hard one to keep up with." "Even harder to keep up with than you, Adam?" "Just look at these." "Go on, look." "Geological reports made for Colbyco on Denver-Carrington's Louisiana oil reserves." "The LaFitte sector." "What about it?" "What are you trying to pull?" "Highway robbery?" "Those reserves are underestimated by 30 percent." "Get off your bronco, Mercedes cowboy." "I had an independent survey made." "I know the company that made it." "They're crooks." "They'd certify anything for a buck." "They charged a lot more for an honest survey." "Honest?" "Look me in the eye and say that." "All right." "I look you in the eye and what do I see?" "That maybe your head is still a bit screwed up." "Well, I can understand that." "Kirby can really get a man going." "She is, as they say, one sexy doll." " What?" " Didn't you hear me?" "Don't you ever talk about my wife that way again." " Do you hear me?" " Sorry." "That was chauvinist of me." "What I meant to say was she's one sexy" " One very sexy woman." "I ought to know." "How do you know?" "That night at the motel, she was fighting you off." "That night at the motel." "Well, if that's all Kirby chooses to tell you about us." "You miserable creep." "If you ever imply anything about my wife ever again." "Or I'll kill you." "So help me, I'll kill you." "Take your hands off me." "With pleasure." "For now." "Two-thirty?" "Court 5." "I look forward to it." "Right, Wednesday." "Okay, bye-bye." "I don't like wearing a glove." "Well, you're just gonna have to learn to if you want to strengthen that grip." "You do want to?" "I guess." "Here, try this one." " Fit?" " Yeah." " It fits." " Good." "Maybe that'll solve the problem that you're having with your racket." "Here." "Hey, you can't do that." "Well, why not?" "Because, then all the rest of my employees will think they can get away with the same sort of thing." "Well, I'll just have to cease being an employee." "I quit." "Don't quit." "Mother." "Nice surprise." "I don't think you'll find it so nice, Fallon, after what I have to say to you." "You see, I've been very concerned about you." "Why?" "Did I stay too long after the prom?" "Why don't you leave the jokes to me, darling?" "No, I've been very worried about you." "Ever since you told me that- What's his name?" "Mark?" " Mark Jennings had followed you to Haiti to become your good friend." "Why should that bother you?" "Because of the type of man that he obviously is." "That being?" "Do you really want me to tell you?" "Yes, I really wanna hear it." "Well, he's a male tramp." "Okay, Mother, you've said it." "I don't buy it." "Fallon, after what you told me, I had Jennings thoroughly investigated." "I found out that after he left Krystle, he embarked on a career of living off wealthy women." "Accepting gifts in return for nocturnal favours." "Throw in matinees too." "Not only in New York, but all over Europe." "So what?" "So what?" "Well, do you really want him to do the same thing here?" "I mean, it would be a pity if he created a scandal at La Mirage after it's doing so beautifully and is so successful." "Mother, I hired Mark because I like the way he plays tennis." "And that's why I'm keeping him." "Keeping him?" "Watch what you say, darling." "There are those who might misinterpret it, semantically." "If that's what you drove over here to tell me, please excuse me." "I have to shower and change." "Got a heavy date?" "I'm having cocktails with Lenore." "It's about as heavy as that information you just handed me." "David, I don't want to be disturbed." "Right, Mrs. Colby." "Well, I've overheard some news that we'd both better give some thought to." "Overheard?" "More accurately, eavesdropped." "I have ways as well, Mother." " What news?" " Washington has obviously informally agreed that they will be unable to rule on any proposed merger of Denver-Carrington and Colbyco until all the ramifications have been thoroughly examined, and that means a delay of weeks, maybe months." "Damn it." "Who did this to us?" "Your old admirer, McVane." "It seems he's ignored your warning." "That miserable scum." "He's just like all the rest of them." "I am sick and tired of being used by miserably ungrateful men." "Your being sick and tired is not going to erase the congressman's influence." "You wanna bet?" "David, get me Claire Maynard at The Chronicle, will you?" "You see, Adam, I'm no stranger to unfeeling men." "Starting with your father." "A woman begins her young adult life being soft," "Ioving and giving." "Then what it all comes down to finally is use or be used." "Hello?" "Miss Maynard, this is Alexis Colby." "I have a story for you that should make headlines between here and Washington." "Are you interested?" "Good." "Since my bill is temporarily on the cuff, shouldn't my sister have arranged a mother-in-law room instead of the deluxe setup you've put me in?" "There are no mother-in-law rooms at La Mirage." "It's great." "Thank you." "I'll see you later." "Where are you off to?" "Downtown to see Chris Deegan." "Oh, the lawyer." "Maybe it's none of my business, but why'd you choose him?" "I mean, calling your college club for a recommendation." "Are you sure he's any good?" "Do you need any more money?" "Fallon, I'm not consulting with him only because we went to the same college." "But because of what Chris Deegan accomplished in school." "When I was a freshman, he was president of the student body and he was always fighting for the right things." "I never met him then, but" "But there's that old school tie and that's why he won't rip you off?" "No." "That's not why." "Because nobody rips me off anymore." "I run my own life the way I want to." "Your kid brother's not a kid anymore, Fallon." "I'm sorry, do you want some coffee?" "No, thanks." "Okay." "Well, now that I know the details, I appreciate your seeking me out." "But I'm wondering if this fits the Carrington image." "See, my practise doesn't exactly run to millionaires." "Mr. Deegan" "Chris." "Give me a break." "My record collection isn't that much older than yours." "Chris." "Look, I don't give a damn about the Carrington image." "All I'm interested in is quickly ending a marriage that didn't work out." "Well, I can understand that." "That's why I'm in Denver." "I had one of those myself." "And when it was over I wanted to get as far away as possible from the scene of my failure." "Failure." "All right, you've got yourself a lawyer." "You may need me more than you think, because from your description of one Samantha Dean Carrington, the young lady's not just going to say yes to a quick no-trouble divorce" " and walk away." " I know that." "She never does anything without thinking about the payoff." "Big." "Which brings us to the subject of money." "You've made a point of disclaiming your father's." "Do you have any of your own?" "It's tied up." "But my mother's been wanting me to work in her company." "And I can do that." "You don't look too happy about that." "I'm not." "But it'll be worth it to get Sammy Jo out of my life once and for all." "She never should have been there in the first place." "I know what you mean." "Completely." "Completely?" "I don't know about that." "Anyway, you know where to reach me if you need any more information." " Oh, sure." "Here, let me get the door." " Oh, thank you." " Thank you." " We'll be in touch." "Adam." "Where's my mother?" "Our mother." "I don't know, Steven." "I just walked in." " Then I'll walk out, and wait." " Steven." "Come in, please." "Listen." "I'm sorry that you and I didn't hit it off all that well before you left for New York." " Forget it." " No." "I don't wanna forget it." "Not this time." "I mean that." "Just as I meant what I said the other day." "That having a kid brother in my life means a great deal to me." "You see," "I never learned how to get along in a family." "How to share." "I grew up in Montana." "Totally alone." "Lonely." "I thought that both my mother and my father were dead." "There was no brother, no sister to share my triumphs, hurts." "What about the woman who said she was your grandmother?" "Kate." "She was an old woman." "Good woman." "But she kept me in isolation." "Never let me go on trips with kids from school, things like that." "Now, she tried to get close to me, but she couldn't." "Now, of course, I realise that it was because of her guilt in kidnapping me." "That's all over with." "I have somebody I can be close to." "Steven, I truly wanna be friends with you." "Just because we're brothers doesn't make us friends." "What is going on here?" "It was nothing." "It's all been settled." "About the offer you made me to join you in Colbyco, Mother." "I'm accepting it." "Oh, Steven." "Oh, that's wonderful." "I'm" " I'm so thrilled." "And, Adam, I don't know what that little contretemps between the two of you was all about, but I don't want to see it happen again." " Is that understood?" " But, Mother" "Oh, Steven." "The two of us working together, finally." "It's like a dream come true." "We're going to build great things together, Steven." "And don't be angry at Adam." "He's going to come to love you." "As much as I do." "You'll see." "Well, you tried." "Still alone." "It is 6:30." "You're a half-hour late." "And tired." "You know how it is when you run an empire, Blake." "So many things to do and details to attend to." "I got tied up." " Didn't you order a drink?" " No." "Well, there's the bar." "Why don't you mix us a couple of martinis?" "I'd prefer to go over these papers, and right now, if you don't mind." "Blake, whatever it is that you've come here to complain about, couldn't it be handled by lawyers?" "I mean, they started it in the first place." "Yes, it was." "At your instruction." "Not only did they come up with a phoney evaluation of our LaFitte reserves." " Phoney?" " Yes, phoney." "But also our oil leases in the gulf." "And our refineries, and you name it." "Blake, I really am exhausted." "And I have to change." "That's all right with you?" "Yes, that's fine with me, but you and I have gotta go over this thing page by page, line by line until it's straightened out." "Is that clear?" " Hello." " Krystle." "Yes, Blake?" "Darling, don't hold dinner for me, because I don't know when I'm gonna be getting home." " Are you at the office?" " No, I'm at Alexis' apartment." " What?" " Believe me, it's not by choice." "But she's been indulging herself in some creative arithmetic and I'm gonna have it revised to my satisfaction before this night is over." "So, I'm sorry darling, but you can expect me when you'll see me." "All right?" "All right." "Was that Daddy?" " Yes." " What's keeping him?" "Alexis." "Why?" "What's he doing with her?" "Business." "Some business battle." "Knowing my mother, it's gonna be a dirty fight." "Why didn't you just tell him to come home?" "If they're gonna do battle, let them do it during office hours." "I guess he has to protect his position, as well as Jeff's." "You're right." "Still," "I can't shake this feeling that my mother just came back to Denver to get revenge." "Has she ever really changed?" "Look, why don't we go in the kitchen and tell Mrs. Gunnerson to take off and we'll make something goofy like hot dogs, baked beans and sauerkraut." "It just so happens I was raised on goofy dinners like that." "Maybe that's why you're so ugly." "Fallon." " Okay?" " Okay." "That's quite a change." "Well, it's a lot more comfortable." "You look very lovely." "Well." "Thank you, Blake." "When we were married, it used to be "dazzling."'" "But I will settle for "very lovely" tonight." "Well, I see you have a drink, so I'll have one myself and then we can discuss business." "Whom are you phoning?" "Take a guess." "Room service." "Dinner for two." "Guess again." "Your office, you forgot something." "No." "I'm calling my wife." "Why?" "I'm inviting her over to join us, right now." "Fine." "Forget the meeting." "We'll have it tomorrow." "Good." "Oh, by the way, Alexis, if that's the outfit that you do business in, you're gonna have to be a lot more dazzling before I let you rob me blind." " Just what exactly does that mean?" " You heard me." "If you think you're gonna rob me out of anything, you're very much mistaken." "Because I've got Neal McVane working for me in Washington." "I've got powerful contacts all over the world." "I know the oil industry." "And you?" "Well, you're just a rank amateur in this business, so watch out." "I've got weapons that'll blast you right out of this town." "Well, we'll see about that." "Oh, I hate you, Blake." "Oh, God." "I hate you!"