"Mrs. Colby." " What is it?" " Mr. Carrington is here." "Good." "Send him in." "I haven't finished with him yet." "Finished what, Mother?" "Steven." "I thought it was your father." "I just saw him out there." "Judging by the way he was attacking the elevator button and the way you look right now, I'd say the two of you" "Yes, we were having one of our little rows." "Or not so little." "Darling, I've been batted about by that man before." "And I've survived." "Nothing that he nor anyone else can do can bring me down." "Would you like a brandy?" "No, thank you." "What happened?" "Nothing to wory about, darling." "He lust bombarded me with empty threats." "He threatened you?" "Yes, in so many words." "Well, if he did, I wanna know about it." "Darling." "Darling, I can handle Blake Carrington." "And with you by my side, I feel vey safe." "Thank God at least one of my children is still with me." "Now, Steven, you have been working vey hard, and I want you to go home and have an early night." "Now, that's orders from your mother and boss." "How about a trade-off?" "I'll go home if the boss lets me drop her off first." "You've been putting in some pretty heavy hours yourself." "Oh, that's vey considerate of you, darling, but I'm leaving from here." "I have a heavy date." "Anyone I know, Mrs. Colby?" "Yes, you do, Mr. Carrington." " But don't py." " All right." "Well, have a good time with whomever." "I intend to." "Give Danny a big kiss from me and say hello to Claudia." " l will." " Bye, darling." " Yes, Mrs. Colby?" " Come in, please." "Brian, I want you to call my son, Adam." "Tell him that I'm working late at the office tonight but that I want to see him at my apartment 8:" "OO, and no excuses." " Is that clear?" " Vey clear, Mrs. Colby." "I think this presentation is just fine." " Good." " Two things:" "First, I want you to be at that board meeting with me when Alexis throws in the towel." "Oh, I'll be there." "And, second, and much more important, dinner tonight, you and me." "What do you say?" "All right." "I think you'll like the restaurant." "You were that sure I'd say yes?" "Well, let's say that I was hoping that you would say yes." "Do you understand?" "All press releases go through me." "I can assure you, I, Tracy Kendall, do speak for Denver-Carrington." "Oh, Miss Grant, I thought you'd left for the day." "It's lust that the phone rang just as I was leaving and I rushed back in here and..." "Well, my feet were killing me." "I'm so sory i used your desk." "Tracy, relax." "It's been a tough day." "Oh, there is no excuse, Miss Grant." "It's Kystle." "And no excuses needed." " Now, sit back down" " No." " l lust couldn't." " Yes, you can." "Tracy, as long as we work together, you can sit anywhere you'd like." "I mean, who knows, maybe tomorrow I'll wanna sit at your desk." "Deal?" "Deal." "Tracy, let's have lunch together." "Oh, I'd like that." "You pick the place and we'll get to know each other better." "I'd like to know more about what you've done." "Oh, you mean, my few years on Madison Avenue before coming to Denver?" "I didn't know you worked in New York." "How exciting." "It was exciting." "And kind of a hassle too." "And the competition, forget it." "I mean, you talk about a jungle..." "That's why I like it here." "I mean, Denver is no small town, but the people here, there's sort of a humanity about them." "They're so down to earth." "Just nice." "Well, I have to go. I have a date." "Let me guess who." "A certain Mr. Blake Carrington?" "How'd you know?" "Oh, I don't know." "There's just" "There's sort of a glow about you that comes out whenever he's around." "And I see it now." "Well, don't work too late, understand?" "Yes, I do." "Good night, boss." "Mr. Colby insists on seeing you." "Hello, Jeff." "All right, Brian, you can go." "Good night." "What's wrong?" "Oh, Jeff, whatever you're thinking..." "What does an intended victim think when he's face to face with the woman who tried to kill him?" "Oh, you can't believe that." "You know I'd never hurt you." " Jeff, you don't know the facts." " Oh, yes, I do." "Ty Switzerland." "You had collapsed." "You were half out of your mind." "I was tying to save you." "By dragging me out of the hospital and off to your private clinic in Gstaad?" "Finish the job you started?" "No." "To protect you." "To help you get well." "Well, the living don't need your kind of help." "If I'd have known then what you're capable of, even though the doctors said my uncle Cecil died of a heart attack, I would have ordered an autopsy." "Oh, my God, you can't believe that." "You know that I loved your uncle, _e55." "As a black widow." "A merger with you is a signed death warrant." "In marriage or business." "Look, Jeff." "I can understand how you feel, but it's not what you think." "I've got a meeting that I can just cannot get out of." "Just give me until tomorrow and I promise you that you'll have all the facts and then you'll agree with me that the merger with Blake should go through." " Trust me." " You're not going anywhere." "You're hurting me." "Consider yourself lucm." "You almost killed me." "Neither of us are leaving this office until you pay me back in full." "All of my interest in Colbyco that you stole by poisoning me." "That's impossible." "Eveybody's gone for the night." "There are papers to be drawn up" "Get Gerald Wilson on the phone." "Get him over here." "Those papers are gonna be drawn up tonight." "I told you that I've got a meeting." "Well, if you wanna get to that meeting, get Gerald Wilson over here now." "I'm not leaving this office until I have that paper signed and in my hand." "Did you hear me?" "All right." "Did you understand that?" "Well, I understood the appétít part." "Same thing he said to us the first time we were here." "On our first evening out together." "He said, "Good appetite to you and to the vey beautiful lady."" "I think he's flirting with you." "The same as he did the first time." "I think this is the same wine as that first time." "It is." "It is a wine that I personally discovered" " In France during the war." " In France during the war." "Same table." "Same wine." "Same waiter." "Shall I guess the entrée?" "Veal with lemon, capers and sorrel." "What a good memoy the beautiful lady has." " You know what else I remember?" " What?" "How nervous I was." "That first night out with my handsome boss." "How my hand began to shake as I lifted my wine glass." "Well, now I'd like to make a confession." "My hand was shaking that night as well." "Really?" "Well, you might have told me." "Oh, I was too busy being Blake Carrington for you." "I fell in love with Blake Carrington that night." "That night you moved out of the house and went to La Mirage, I thought you'd fallen out of love." "I felt a coldness surround me." "An infinite coldness." "And I knew then that no matter what my life was, without you," "I would never feel that warmth again." "I'd lost you." "Given the chance, I'd never let that happen again." "You didn't lose me, Blake." "I just had to find myself first." "And that's the truth." "Blake told Fallon and me not to talk to anyone about what we discovered up in Billings." "There was no proof of anything." "How can we talk about suspicion to people who-?" "People who what?" "Aren't personally involved?" "I am." "I'm your wife." "What affects you, affects me." "I'm sory, sweetheart." "From now on, we will share eveything." " Eveything?" " Yes, of course." "Even your love?" "I can feel it, Jeff." "Evey time you look at me, I know I'm not the only one you're seeing." "I see the woman I love." "Which?" "Wife number two or wife number one?" "Oh, come on, I can't just block Fallon out of my life." "Then you both have that in common." "Sweetheart, I can't have just loved one person in my life anymore than you have." "Now, Fallon's a part of my life and she always will be." "But she's not my wife." "You are." "And I love you." "Then I want you to prove it to me." "Love me now." "Please?" "I know you couldn't make love with me last night and I understand that, really." "But I want you now." "I can't." "Not now." " Why not?" " Because too much is happening." "I can't get what Alexis did out of my mind." "All right, but when?" "Could you tell me when?" "I don't know. I'm sory, Kirby." "Love means more to me than just performance." "I wouldn't drink that if I were you, Adam." "You're going to need all your wits about you." "Good evening, Mother." "I've been waiting for you and the firing squad." "Where is it?" "I don't need one." "No, you do just fine on your own." " To us." " Us?" "After what you've done to me, there's no more "us."" "From now on, Adam, you're on your own." "And I'll be damned if I'll protect you anymore." "You framed me, Adam." "You tricked me into signing those papers." "And if you think that I'm gonna let you get away with it, you vastly underestimate me." "I may be guilty of some things." "Underestimating you, never." "Sometimes I think I don't even know you." "Who are you?" "My mother's son." "I might fight for my power, but I would never, ever kill for it." "Put to the test?" "I wonder." "After I signed my name to those papers, what dingy little corner did you sneak away to to write "mercuric oxide compound" on them and change them into purchasing orders?" "Do you have any proof of that?" "Do I have any proof?" "You know perfectly well that I had no idea what you were doing to Jeff until the night before he collapsed." "Well." "If you've already told Father about this, and if he believed you, I doubt vey much whether we'd be having this little chat, you and I." "I haven't said a word to Blake." "The reason is that you're going to tell him the truth." "That I'm innocent." "I've already told him my stoy and I have no intention of changing it." "But I did learn one lesson from you, Mother." "People do finally get what they deserve." "Adam, you can't do this to me." "Considering who my mother is, it's no effort at all." "Thank you, Blake." "It was a wonderful evening." "Was?" "Aren't you going to ask me in for a brandy or something?" "It'd be a shame to end a wonderful evening like this." "It was a wonderful evening, Blake, but..." "But?" "I know. I understand." "There will be other nights." "And you are a working girl." "You do need your sleep." "Good night." "Good night." "Well, thanks to you, my holdings in Colbyco are back where they belong, right in my pocket." " That was quick." " All in a night's work." "And signed by a woman who shall remain nameless." "By the way, do you know how many bars and restaurants are in Denver?" " No." " Oh, neither do I." "But I showed up here tonight, hoping to talk with someone who speaks my language." "What about Kirby?" "_e55..." "We've each made choices." "Right or wrong, we have to live with them." "is it that easy for you?" "I keep telling myself it's over." "But no matter how hard I ty, I keep seeing us together." "And that moment in Montana where we both wanted each other and made love." "What about the other moments?" "Like separate bedrooms and sitting down to a meal together and we don't even look at each other." "Yeah, well, look at us now and tell me." "No matter how hard we fight it, tell me that we don't belong together." "We don't, Jeff." "I can't belong." "I need to be free." "You are free, Fallon." "You've been free your whole life." "Eveything you've ever wanted." "Anything you've ever wanted." "But there's more to life." "There's commitment." "There's living and growing together." "For you, and that's fine." "But I can't be reined in. I- l need somebody who doesn't need me." "Who's in control of their own life." "Where eveything is possible." "A young Blake Carrington." "He doesn't have a name, Jeff." "Maybe he doesn't even exist." "I lust don't think that going backnrards is the answer for either one of us." "Who's there?" "Adam?" "Adam, is that you?" "is anybody there?" "Oh, God, I missed you last night." "I almost called you at 4 in the morning." "Oh, I wish you had." "I couldn't sleep." "We don't need telephones now." "Don't move. I'll be right back." " Hello?" " Steven, thank God you're there." " Mother, what is it?" " l heard somethíng." "I think there's someone in my apartment." "Have you checked around?" "No, I'm too terrífíed to move." "He could have got in from anywhere." "He could have come from the balcony or up the back stairs." "Mother, you live in a vey secure building." "I'm sure no one could get in without being seen." "Steven, they did before." "Look, maybe I'm being irrational but I'm frightened." "I am really scared." "All right, lock your bedroom door and call the security guard." "I'm on my way." "is she all right?" "I don't know." "I'm sory, Claudia." "Oh, don't wory about me." "You better hury." " Good evening, sir." " Good evening, Gerard." " Mr. Carrington." " Yes." "A Farnsworth Dexter phoned a little while ago." "Farnsworth Dexter?" "He said he was Sam Dexter's son calling from Wyoming." "Oh, yes, of course." "Did he mention anything about his father's condition?" "Only that it was the same." "He wanted you to know that he would be here in Denver in a few days and would like to drop by to see you before the big meeting, as he said." "Fine, thank you." "Good night." "Good night, sir." "There's nothing out there." "Did you check that service elevator?" "Eveything's been locked up." "The security guard is right." "No one's here or has been." "Oh, thank God." "Darling, what would I do without you?" "Now, what are sons for?" "Or a filial phrase to that effect." "Perhaps you should ask Adam that." " Adam?" " Yes." "Of both my sons, you are the only one I can trust." "You don't think Adam would...?" "Come on, Mother, I don't know what went on between you that sent him to work for Dad." " But he's not your enemy." " Are you sure?" "I really think that somebody was here." "And Adam does have a key." "No one entered the lobby or took the elevators." "No one was here." "And as for Adam, he may be tough to get along with, but you're the lady who gave birth to him." "He's your son." "Ty to get some sleep." "You'll feel better in the morning." "Good night, darling." "Where did you get this?" "From the old woman who said she was my grandmother." "The initials." ""A.A.C."" "What else-?" "What else did she say?" "She told me that my real name..." "Was Adam Alexander Carrington." "Operator." "I want Information in Billings, Montana, please." "Hello, Information?" "Yes, I'd like a listing for a Dr. Edwards, please." "No, no, I don't know his first name." "It's just Dr. Edwards." "Operator, please, hury up." "It's urgent that I find him." " Oh, good morning, Miss Grant." " Good morning." " Could you see that these get mailed?" " Sure thing." "Kystle." " What is it, Mark?" " l have to talk with you." "If it's about what happened the other night- lt is about what happened the other night." "I was drunk and I came on like an idiot." "I'm sory." "Mark, I'm not angy with you." "You did a stupid thing, but you also did something that I'll never forget." "You saved my life." "Now, what happened the other night, I don't ever want to have happen again." "Now, there can be nothing between us but friendship." "is that clear?" "Yeah, it's clear, Kystle." "Even to me." "You don't have to paint a picture." "That's right." "I want you to file a flight plan for Billings, Montana." "I'm leaving for the airport as soon as my chauffeur brings the car." "So have the plane ready to leave." "Morning." "Mark." "I told you that I didn't like unannounced visitors of any kind." "Especially your kind." "I'm gonna have the doorman throw you out." "I told him I was working for you." "As your bodyguard." "Really?" "Well." "That doesn't come as any surprise." "I knew that sooner or later, you'd find the offer too tempting to resist." "The offer?" "Or you?" "The lob is yours, Mark." "But I am way beyond your reach." "As, obviously, is Kystle." "That is why you're here, isn't it?" "What are you talking about?" "You know perfectly well what I'm talking about." "All right, your quarters are downstairs." "And you'll be on call 24 hours a day, whenever and wherever I need you." "When can you start?" "About a week." "But it's gonna cost you, Alexis." "Oh, Mark, I never discuss money matters with my employees." "Call Mr. Wade at Colbyco and I'm sure that he can come up with an acceptable figure." "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a few phone calls to make." "Goodbye, Mark." "Can I get you anything else, sir?" "No, thank you, Ellen." "Just some more coffee, please." " Mr. Carrington." " Yes?" "Mr. Dexter's here to see you, sir." "Oh, good." "Show him in, please, Gerard." "Yes, sir." "Mr. Dexter, sir." "Morning." "Good morning. I'm Dex Dexter." "Sit down, won't you?" " Care for some breakfast?" " Oh, I've already eaten." "But thank you." "I'll just have some coffee." "You've got a really great house." " It's beautiful." " Thank you vey much." "As I said in my message, I flew in from Wyoming early because I wanted to meet with you before the board meeting." "I'm glad you did." "As you undoubtedly know, your father and I have been friends for a lot of years." "He's a good man, and a decent one too." "I'm so sory to hear about that heart attack he had." "Well, it's gonna be a long and slow recovey, I'm afraid." "So I brought you this." "It's my father's power of attorney." "I'll be representing him in all of his business interests." "including tomorrow's Denver-Carrington board meeting." "Speaking of which, there's a rumour going around that the merger with Colbyco might be called off." "It's no rumour, I'm pleased to say." "I wonder if the pleasure is not all yours." "What does that mean?" "Meaning your difficulties with Alexis Colby, your ex-wife." "I trust they have no influence on your business sense." "That merger's being called off because it's the right move for Denver-Carrington." "It has nothing to do with my personal life." "Which, quite frankly, has nothing to do with you." "Oh, but it does." "As a member of your board of directors, I feel the merger to be of benefit for both companies regardless of your personal difficulties." "Now, I know my company, young man" "My name is Dex." "Just as yours is Blake." "There may be age between us, not experience or knowledge." "I've checked you out." "Rhodes scholar." "Graduated summa cum laude from the School of Mines." "However, it might interest you to know that this is not a school." "That diplomas are kept in file drawers." "Out of the way." "Where you tried to place my father." "What the devil are you talking about?" "Sam Dexter was a valued associate of mine." "The way I saw it, you could bend him as you wished." "Well, don't confuse the father with the son." "I rarely bend." "And I never break." "I'll see you at the meeting, Blake." "And thank you for the coffee." "It's late, Mrs. Colby." "I've had a vey busy day with patients." "And I have been waiting for you all day, doctor." " l've been through all this before." " Not with me, you haven't." "No, but with the boy's father." "After Adam went to Denver, Mr. Carrington had the same doubts." "You could have asked him instead of flying all the way to Billings." "Dr. Edwards, what I do or do not discuss with my ex-husband is no concern of yours." "I have my doubts about Adam's claim." "I was there when Kate Torrance brought the baby back from Denver, on the same day Adam Carrington was kidnapped." "But that doesn't prove a thing." "That child didn't then or ever bear the slightest resemblance to either of his supposed parents." "I am talking about blood ties, not resemblance." "No genuine son of mine could ever betray me so viciously." "Betray you?" "Yes, and I intend to disown him and expose him for the fraud that he really is." "I know him to be capable of violent flashes of temper, but surely a mother could forgive that." "Attempted murder cannot be forgiven." "Whatever he's done, however it looks, have you ever thought there may be an explanation for his actions?" "It was the drugs he took." "Those damned drugs." "Drugs?" "Adam was a loner here." "He never fit in." "And never knew why." "Only that there was something that separated him from those around him." "When there was no one to turn to, he took to so-called mind-expanding drugs." "They twist, destroy, and sometimes kill." "Oh, my God." "You know, I've seen Adam sit in that chair weeping hysterically one minute, and laughing out of control another." "Terrified of a private world where no one could reach him." "Yes, but he got out of it." "Other people can." "Oh, yeah, he survived." "But who knows what the residual effects are?" "What residual effects?" "Distorted judgement." "Paranoia." "Episodes in which he might do things that in his responsible mind, he'd never dream of doing." "Responsible mind." "If he were physically disabled, would you turn your back on him?" "No." "In a tragic way, he is, you know." "Don't destroy him, Mrs. Colby." "Help him." "Good morning, Blake." "Good morning." " Thought I'd get here early." " So I see." "Maybe it's because I never like being late for poker games." "Oh, is that what you think this is?" "Well, your ex-wife- l mean, I've never met the lady, but I hear she deals in vey high cards." "Then you should find this meeting vey instructive." "Good morning, Mrs. Colby." "Mr. Carrington's in the boardroom waiting." "Down the hall and to your left." "I know where it is, Marcia." "Kystle." "The typing pool is on the first floor, are you lost?" "I always know where l belong, Alexis." "But that's the ladies' room." "Are you lost?" "I heard you'd been re-hired." "But secretaries are neither wanted nor needed at this meeting." "You heard right." "Except I'm not a secretay anymore." "Any notes that I take will be for a press release." "I'll be sure and send you a copy." "Oh, that's vey considerate of you." "I can't wait to read your first attempt at literacy." "That now brings us to new business on the agenda." "In my opinion, there are" "Good morning, gentlemen." "Nick." "We waited for you as long as we could, Alexis." "And we opened the meeting." "Now, it's my understanding that you have a statement to make regarding the proposed merger between Colbyco and Denver-Carrington." "Now, if there's no obiection from any of you gentlemen, I'd like to get on with that statement." "You're absolutely right." "As much as I'd like to put this off, I'm afraid that we must all face the truth." "As I have." "This is the sad evidence, gentlemen, that even I could make a mistake." "Although I originally urged this board to vote for a merger, these documents have proven to me that, as head of Colbyco, I cannot, in all conscience, recommend such an action." " Is this some kind of-?" " The nerve." " How dare she-?" " Gentlemen, please." "This is painful, I know, but I must continue." "At one time, I envisioned both companies as oil giants." "Which, bonded together, would make histoy." "Unfortunately, subsequent research has proven that only Colbyco is a giant." "Denver-Carrington, by comparison, a mere dwarf." "A dwarf whose management has shown no potential for creative gromh." "My late husband, Cecil Colby, built an empire." "The stability and gromh of which he entrusted to me." "I cannot betray his trust by allowing Colbyco to cary the burden of Denver-Carrington." "I am therefore cancelling all plans for this merger as of today." "I will entertain a motion to adjourn." " So moved." " l second." "All in favour?" "All opposed?" "We're adjourned." "It may not be bitter wine, but I'll be damned if it has a sweet taste to it." " You won, Blake." " l take little joy in that." "Knowing that Alexis is walking around free after what she did to you." "Oh, don't wory." "She's not finished paying." "Not yet." "Congratulations." "That was one of the best performances I've ever seen." "Not now, Kystle." "I'm not in the mood for your gloating." "Gloating?" "I only commented on what I saw." "On what you thought you saw." "Tough morning?" "You cost me a great deal today, Adam." "Normally, I'd make you pay dearly for that." "But?" "You're my son." "And whatever you do, I'll always feel that bond between us." "You said" "That day you walked out on me, that I didn't love you." "You're wrong." "Maybe when you've suffered enough, paid enough, you'll understand that love has many forms." "Many pains." "And sacrifice is one of them." "Oh, God." "Don't bother to announce me." "We're old friends and we both love surprises." "This is Colbyco, Mr. Dexter." "That's what it says on the building." "My business with Denver-Carrington is terminated." "So, what are you doing here?" "Unfinished business." "Well, is that the start or the finish of your business?" "That depends on you." "I admired your style at the meeting." "I liked it even better just now." "Oh, why should that matter to me?" "Well, now that we know we have something in common, we can do business together." "I don't like the word "common," Mr. Dexter." "Oh, Dex." "I was saddled with my grandfather's first name, Farnsworth." "I chose not to use it." "And I choose with whom I do business." " You spoke of an empire." " That's right." " Well, I'm forming one." " Are you?" "How impressive." "And not with Blake Carrington." " You interested?" " Maybe." "Tar sands." "Canada." "Only four sites near the Athabasca River." "There's believed to be more oil locked in those sands than there is under all of Saudi Arabia." "Believed by whom?" "By me." "And you're never wrong?" "Hardly ever." "You know, extracting that oil can be a vey expensive process." "Well, Alexis Colby has never turned anything down because it was expensive." "But now add to that Colbyco's clout, my muscle." "Together we'll reap a profit beyond your imagination." "I might be interested." "Let's say, 80-20." "I was willing to give you 40 percent." "You underestimate your value, ma'am." "And you overestimate your appeal." "I think we're pretty evenly matched." "Let's say, 50-50." "Fine." "If I were interested." " But you're not?" " No, I'm not." "That's your loss." "I guess you're not the vey smart woman I thought that you were." "But you're a fantastic woman to kiss." "Fantastic."