"Kirby." "Kirby." "Kirby, wait." " For God's sakes, give me a chance." " Let go of me." "I don't want you to follow me." "I don't want you anywhere near me." "A full-page ad in evey major newspaper in the county." "Not a sales pitch, but information." "I like it." "It's good. I'm proud of you." "Blake, what was discussed at the Los Angeles conference should be shared with the public." "Now, anyone who drives a car knows that the oil companies are making money." "What about the risks that you take?" "The cost for new oil leases, development, expansion." "The public should know about that." "I have a feeling that when you are through they will know about it." "We have an hour before we arrive in Denver." "I could start the campaign right now." "No, not right now." "I mean, we're 20, OOO feet above the clouds." "We're alone." "Now, the last thing on my mind right now is public relations." "Well, I don't need a full-page ad to know what's on your mind." " Oh, how I've missed that." " What?" "That little vein right there on your neck that throbs when you get excited." "You think it does that on purpose?" "I'm gonna have to do something about that." "Don't you dare." "I'm vey fond of that." "I'll be at the airport in an hour, Eric." "As soon as I arrive, be ready to take off." "No delays, all right?" "Should I take a photograph or are you planning on standing like that indefinitely?" "Actually, I'm always on the move." "Really?" "Then you can lust move right on out the door and I'll have my secretay explain how you got in." "Oh, I waited for him to leave his desk." "I felt that this should be private." "Why?" "We have nothing to say to each other." "On the contray." "You have manage to say no evey time we've met." "You said no to tar sands, you said no to dinner." "Well, you seem to thrive on rejection." "Well, we all thrive on something, don't we?" "With your eyes, and your incredible body, you would absolutely thrive in New Mexico." "New Mexico?" "I have a ranch there." "I know a narrow dirt road that winds itself like a snake through Navajo county." "Through orange maizes." "To a spot where the turquoise seems to float to the surface." "You should be draped in strands and strands of it." "Do I hear a no to that?" "Turquoise is a semiprecious stone, Mr. Dexter." "Again, you underestimate me." "Well, next to you, any stone would be semiprecious." "I really think you ought to go." "Excuse me, Mrs. Colby." "What is it, Pery?" "It's Tery." "Yes, of course, Tery." "Jack Hobson's here with the data you wanted for your trip." "Shall he come in?" "No, I'll see him in his office." " Oh, and, Tery." " Yes?" "You're new here." "If you want to continue working for me, I suggest that you knock or announce yourself before you come into this office." "Right, Mrs. Colby." "I appreciate your tenacity, Mr. Dexter, but I assure you that I have no interest whatsoever in tar sands, dinner or whatever it is that you want to drape me in." "Now, was that all you had in mind?" "Oh, I'll ty to think of something else by the time you get back and after I fix myself a drink." "A drink?" "Mrs. Colby should only be a few minutes, Mr. Dexter." "Aren't you going to wait?" "Oh, I'll be waiting, but at the right time and the right place." "Did you forget something?" " Where do you think you're going?" " Let go." " Where to, Adam?" " That isn't fair." "What is fair?" "How many times have you run away from me and thrown Fallon in my face?" "How many times have I had to soothe your wounded pride?" "And all the time there was Adam." "Not like you think." "Tell me something." "Did he rape you or is this just a sick little game?" "If you're so damn fascinated with him, why did you mary me?" "Because you asked me." " l loved you." " Enough to believe me?" "Adam raped me." "My God, you don't think I wanted it?" "If he did, why did you insist on going to that conference?" "Why did you end up at that motel room alone with him?" "I didn't want to be there." "He tricked me." "Don't you remember?" "I was terrified." "I called you." "I asked you to come and get me." "Well, you could have locked the door to keep him out. i asked you not to go." "Did I see something you wanted me to see?" "That it?" "You saw nothing." "I loved you." "But there was always Fallon." "I'd watch you pass by in the hallway." "I'd watch you come and go from the house unaware that I was even alive." "I was alone all the time." "Except there was Adam." "He was there, wasn't he?" "Yes, and that's why I accepted his invitation to dinner." "I needed someone to be with." "To treat me like a woman." "I swear, I never gave myself to him." "He took." "And then he tried to take over and over again." "And there was no one I could turn to." "My God, there still isn't." "I'm going to see Adam." "Have the car brought around immediately." "I'm on my way down." "Let me guess, fur-trimmed cape, gloves." "Can't be Palm Springs, so it's Switzerland or the North Pole." "Do I need a tux?" "You won't need anything, Mark." "You're not going." "Wait a minute, I'm your bodyguard." "Oh, well l don't need you o!" "n this trip." "Why don't you lust consider this a paid holiday." "Off to do something dirty, Alexis?" "Just put the luggage in the elevator, will you?" "I'm late." "When I want you to know about my affairs, Mark, you'll know." "And when I don't want you to know, you won't." "Oh, won't I?" "Adam Carrington, where can I find him?" "Last I saw, he was still at the top with the contractor." "Adam." "Still climbing to the top." "Where you're concerned I've had to lower myself." "You should have been here yesterday." "Where you're standing right now there was nothing but a 20-foot drop." "You raped her." "Did I?" "You damn near destroyed her." "She's a strong girl." "She has a mind of her own." "You forced yourself on her, the way you forced yourself on all of us." "Unlike the rest of you," "Kirby welcomed me with open arms." "If that was a blow for honour, you're too late." "She didn't have any to begin with." "And this is for Kirby." "She's too good to be your second choice." "is this what it was like?" "Was she scared for her life?" "No." "No!" "No!" "No!" "No!" "Kirby's child is a girl and I hope to God she never has to meet scum like her father." "I didn't know." "Oh, my God." "_e55 I didn't know." "I didn't know it was my baby." "I didn't know." "That's it, crawl." "That's how you'll get through the rest of your life." "Now, that was a super workout, Mr. De Vilbis." "He worked five-eighths of a mile in 58 and three." "Good, Charlie." "Vey good." "He's beautiful." "I'm gonna take him a couple of turns." "Okay." "Just like his father." "Beg your pardon?" "Poor Dex." "Just under 2 million in purses?" "Just over." "And still commanding the largest stud fee in South America." "Runs in the family." "Theirs." "Fallon, I thought you said you've never heard of Allegree." "I lied." "It's not uncommon when strange men come on to me." "A stranger, perhaps." "But strange?" "I like what most men like." "And what is that?" "Power, strength, speed and of course, beauty." "In which animal?" "All animals." "Especially, young, lithe creatures from Denver, Colorado." "Do you flatter all the women you meet?" "Or are you as demanding in your choices as you afe with your Thoroughbreds?" "I'm interested only in thoroughbreds." "Interesting." "Your profile is vey aristocratic." "Well, my mother is an Austrian baroness." "I knew it." "And I bet your father is a count." "Spanish or Portuguese?" "Portuguese." "But not a count." "You know, I went to school in Europe." "I loved it." "Why on earth would you leave it for Brazil?" "Opportunity." " Hi, darling." " Hi." "Did you get a promotion already?" "No." "No promotion." "Mother had to go to Canada. I'm filling in at a meeting this afternoon." "Oh, no." "Wanted to steal you away from this glass prison." "I have a momentous decision to make and I wanted you to help me make it." "Well, you know, I do charge a consulting fee." "What's the decision?" "It's either pink or blue or maybe a shimmering red." "Shimmering." "The colour doesn't matter." "Now, what are we talking about?" "It's the Carousel Ball." "You know, we're sitting at Alexis' table." "I don't want her to think I'm one of the waitresses." "You are going to look terrific no matter what you wear." "Well, your mother's tastes are a little more demanding than yours." "Claudia, Mother's vey fond of you." "She's only tying to help." "No, she's not." "She's tying to fix up my image." "Your image is fine." "Listen, instead of fighting her, why don't you take advantage of her interest." "When it come to clothes, she does know what she's talking about." "Yeah, it's true." "I mean, the best-dressed list two years in a row." "It's tough competition." "I didn't realise you two were competing against one another." "You're right, darling." "I mean, after all I am married to Denver's most attractive executive, so I may as well dress like I deserve to be." "In or out of clothes, the role suits you just fine." "Well, you're gonna be sory you didn't come with me." "Because this little revamp is gonna cost you a fortune." "Bennett, I want you to go straight to my office and give this to my secretay." "Blake." "What a coincidence." "And, Kystle, you're doing so well." "Do you have an extra copy of your press release?" "Which one?" "There have been several." "The one that appeared in the Financial section of this morning's paper." "I must say, it was the best fiction I've read in months." "I'd love you to autograph a copy for me." " Goodbye, Alexis." " Just a minute, Blake." "I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Alexis." "I had you in mind when I wrote it." "Tell me, how long did it take you to come up with the fantasy that Denver-Carrington's gromh outstrips Colbyco?" "Did you and Blake come up with that when you had nothing better to do?" "It's all fact and you know it." "And now so does eveyone else." "Have a nice flight." "Are you taking a plane?" "Oh, Kystle, what a wicked sense of humour." "I'm almost beginning to find you interesting." "It's a shame that Fallon decided to stay in Los Angeles." "The real entertainment is right here in Denver." "I'm here to pick up some papers." "Ruled or unruled." "We have all types of papers, all types of rules." "You mind?" "I've never minded in my life." "Which is one of the reasons I am where l am today." "Aren't you gonna at least ask where it is I am?" "I couldn't care less, Mark." "You should because we have a lot in common." "Like that piranha we both worked for, sonny boy." "The name is Steven, and if you don't like working for my mother, then get the hell out of here." "Before I'm nothing but a heap of bones at the bottom of her tank." "Let me tell you something." "My mother has accomplished more, lost more and fought back harder than anyone I know." "And I'm sick and tired of her being attacked by the likes of you." "What you think about her on your time is your business, but she's my mother and I love her." "So don't you ever, ever talk to me about her like that again." "Steven." "I'm sory." "Too much Scotch, I guess." "Forget what I said, huh?" "Mark can get out of line when he's been drinking." "He definitely had too much to drink." "And I tried to excuse him for it, but there's more, Kystle." "He hates Alexis." "It goes back a long time and it's building." "If it weren't for Joseph's letter, and your defending him I'd swear he tried to start that fire to kill Mother." "Steven, I'm not defending him." "But when he rescued us, there wasn't a moment's hesitation before he dragged Alexis from that fire." "Now that's a fact, not a defence." "Then what is it?" "What is he holding onto that makes him hate her so much?" "Well, I can't answer that." "Alexis is a vey complex woman who seems to inspire passion in people." "Now, you either love her or you hate her." "And she seems to enioy it either way." " Good evening." " Mrs. Colby." "Yes, I'm here to see Angus Stewart." "You're expected." "Thank you." "Well, you must've had strong headwinds." "I've been twiddling my thumbs for an hour waiting for you." "Well, you can lust go on twiddling them for another hour as far as I'm concerned because I'm here to see Angus Stewart." "Yes, he did say you'd called and he was vey sory he couldn't wait for you." "Couldn't wait for me?" "Where is he?" "Angus retired about an hour ago." "That's impossible. I've flown all the way up here to see him." "To make a deal for Northwest Tar Sand leases." "Well, deal." "With you?" "That's right. I own them." "I'll be damned if I'll deal with you." "Sure you will and we both know it." "You didn't fly all the way up here to turn around on your pride." "Now, you are more than just interested." "You are as hungy as I am." "There's more than enough here to satisfy both our appetites." "Now, lust to show there's no hard feelings, if you still want in, as the new owner, I'm willing to alter my last offer of fifty-fifty to sixty-forty." "Interested?" "Sixty-forty?" "You really mean that?" "Of course." "My 60, your 40." "I'll never take a lesser percentage." "Unless we make a deal now, in another five minutes the offer goes to seventy-thirty." "If I were you, I would take advantage of the sale price." "No, I never buy anything on sale, Mr. Dexter." "However, I am intrigued." "It's a deal." "I'm staying at the Wellington overnight." "I'll be here at the crack of dawn." "Have the papers drawn up and ready for me to sign, Mr. Dexter." "Otherwise, I'll walk right out of this door." "_e55." "What happened?" "I went for a walk, but evey time I turn a corner I met a brick wall." "Sory, lame joke." "No." "No jokes." "What happened?" "In a way it isn't." "Whichever way I turn, there it is." "I can't get around it and it's too high to climb." "Well, take it from one who's been there." "You can always get around it." "And where does it lead you?" "I'm sick and tired of detours." "Kirby?" "Good guess." "It's no guess. I've seen that look before only last time it was Fallon." "Nick Toscanni just crossed my mind." "You need to talk it through, Jeff." "Last time, you didn't." "But whatever it is about you and Kirby, you need to talk about it." "Do you ever think about going back and being a kid again?" "You had two choices in life." "What you wanted to do and what you ought to do." "Wanted usually won out." "It's not so simple now." "You have to do what's best for you." "I don't know what's best for me." "I don't know what's best for anyone anymore." "Kirby." "We've gotta talk." ""Flight 159 to Chicago." "Air Nord Atlantique 236 Chicago-Paris."" "The number for Sentinel Airlines, please." "Thank you." "What time does Flight 159 take off, please?" "Okay, thank you." "Saw the light on in your office." "I didn't know you were like me, working late." "Well, I am." "Oh, my God, Adam, what happened?" "You reiected me." "I threw myself off a smscraper." "Adam." "Tell me what's wrong, please." "Okay, look, you suggested going out to dinner and I said no." "But maybe..." "Maybe we ought to go out and have a bite." "I have something else on my mind, Tracy." "Yeah." "Whatever it is I'm sure it can wait." "Maybe it'd be a good idea for us to have a drink or two." "Look, I know what you're tying to do and thank you." "But tonight is lust not my night to be Prince Charming, okay?" "Okay, Adam." " Good night." " Good night." "Sentínel Aírlínes, flíght" " Flight 159?" " Oh, I'm sory, it just left." "Oh, we do have another flight in 12 hours." "What happened to you?" "We'll talk about that later, Iet's talk about now." "Did you miss your flight or did you decide not to leave?" "To where?" "It seems like my whole life, I've been running from one place to another." "I never arrived anywhere." "Kirby, what happened to us wasn't your fault or mine." " You don't have to run anymore." " It was my fault." "My father was right." "As soon as I started pretending to be something that I'm not, I lost the person that I need most: me." "Well, it's not a question of you or me anymore." "There's another life involved here." "And no matter what we may want to do, there's a responsibility to that child." "I have the responsibility, not you." "Did you think I was gonna let you run off like this now?" "I'm your husband." "And that's not going to change." "Not until after that child is born." "A sense of duty?" "I can't live like that anymore." "What do you want from me?" "To face the truth." "We never really belong to each other." "Should've known that right from the beginning." "The first time you kissed me, you closed your eyes and called me Fallon." "I was being poisoned." "I was sick, remember?" "I know that, but that was our beginning." "Don't you see?" "Right from the start, I came to you knowing that you were vulnerable and hurt." "And I'd loved you for so long, it didn't matter to me if your heart was still with Fallon." "The fact that you held me and said you loved me was enough." "But it isn't anymore." "I'm through running, through pretending." "Sentínel Aírlínes, pagíng Mr. Patríck Beatty." "Mr. Patríck Beatty, please use the whíte courtesy phone." "The baby deserves a name." "There's nothing wrong with mine." "I'll stay in Denver just long enough to end what I never should have begun:" "our life together." "I don't think I've had so much fun in a long, long time." "That movie was terrific." "Well, yes, it was." "I thought you would never stop laughing." "Yeah." "And the popcorn was good too." "Close your eyes." "Why?" "I don't want to." "I wanna look at you." "Do you mind?" "Come on, close your eyes." "All right." "What do you hear?" "Not a thing." "Neither do I." "If I didn't know better, I'd say we were alarmingly alone." "Well, since you're alarmingly beautiful this evening maybe that's the way it should be." "I gave the staff the night off." "Oh, then there's no one to answer my calls for help." "Then why bother to call?" "Do you know that you remind me of someone?" "Really?" "A surprisingly attractive chef that I once knew." "I can't remember where, but I seem to remember that she specialised in a certain regional cuisine." "Late at night, when all was still, and lust the crack of an egg could be heard through the dark, abandoned hallways." "I remember." "Region:" "Spanish." " Eggs: omelette." " Place: kitchen." "Chef: dazzling." "And if I know you, Blake Carrington, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes are all keeping a lonely vigil on the kitchen counter." "And there's nothing lonelier than a lonely tomato." "I'll put this in your room and move my things down the hall." "Well, it's your room." "I can move." "Please, let's lust leave it the way it is, all right?" "Kirby." "What the hell do you want?" "We have to talk." "No, we don't." "Listen to me." "Please." "I didn't know." "I didn't know it was my baby." "I didn't know." "We have unfinished business." "Oh, no, we don't." "It's finished." "I should have killed you when I had the chance." "That was my mistake." "You may live here and you may work in the same office, but as far as I'm concerned, you don't exist." "Well, you haven't lost your touch." "With omelettes?" "I confess, that omelette was a trick to keep you here." "I confess, I knew that." "Kystle, how many times have the two of us sat together, not even speaking, because we both knew so well what the other one was thinking?" "I wonder if we know now." "Perhaps not." "Maybe that's the way it should be." "A sense of mystey." "Isn't that what keeps romance alive?" "You are a mystey to me." "I discover more about you evey day." "You always said you could look in my eyes and know exactly what I was feeling." "Well, I'm looking a little deeper now than I used to." "And what do you see?" "A woman changing." "A woman who shares evey day of my life." "My ioy and my pain, my frustrations, my challenges." "Eveything." "She's my friend, my partner and my love." "Well, this new woman has a job to report to" " in the morning so" " Kystle, don't make me say goodbye to you again." "Not tonight." "Stay with me." "Please." "Sory I'm late. I had to change." "Well, I see that you haven't bother to." "But I won't let that bother me." "Well." "Sealed with a kiss, partner." "No grudge?" "Grudges." "Grudges are for children." "After all, we are consenting adults." "Anyway, with those flowers in my suite and that wonderful invitation to dinner, what woman in her right mind wouldn't succumb to such a gallant as you?" "Could I have some champagne now?" "You know, Dex, I really admire you." "Not only for your business sense, but your charm as well." "Oh, but charm does come easy when there's a woman like you close by." "Well, thank you." "As far as business is concerned, that I learned at my grandfather's knee." "Nice." "Farnsworth Dexter, the mining giant." "Yeah, I knew you'd do your homework." "Uranium, I believe." "He's rather a legend in Wyoming." "And, the legend continues." "As does yours." "I adore poached salmon." "I hear it's wonderful here." "Only the best to celebrate our joint venture." "I ordered a cold supper just in case we choose to eat later." "After we've worked up an appetite?" "Admirable foresight." "Would you hold this for me?" "Where are you going?" "Home." "Nobody takes me to the cleaners and to bed in the same day, Mr. Dexter." "Good night." "To this night and to us." "To this night and to us." "I ordered these flowers in the hopes that you would stay with me tonight." "I set the candles in the hopes that you would stay with me." "I had this made in the hopes that you'd mary me." "Will you?" "Yes." "Yes, I'll mary you."