"Do you want me to put out a press release on that?" " Oh, I'd hold off for a few days, Charles." "Let the boys in the corner offices on Wall Street sweat it out." "Whatever you say." "You don't agree?" " Hm?" " Does it matter?" "Especially lately?" "They told me at the house you'd be here." "Sorry about standing you up the other day, Kristie." "I had to leave town, emergency." "Oh, well, I get the feeling that's not too unusual, Daniel." "And I promise not to do it to you again unless absolutely necessary." "Are you ready to go to work?" " Sure." " Good." " The mare is Desiree and the filly is Descalla." "Descalla's in the process of being halter-broken." "Let's see what you can do." "Now, remember, Kristie," "Arabian's a little more spirited than what you're used to." "Hello." "Hi, how are you?" "Aren't you a pretty girl?" "Yeah." "I'll take her." "It's okay." "Oh, oh." "So..." "I'm all right." "I'll get her." "Wait a minute." "When she settles down." "Now she's ready." "That's all right." "That's all right." "Come here, come here." "Come on, come." "Hold your arm firmly around her neck, that's it." "You have more control that way." "Come on, come on." "There we go, there we go." "That's more like it." "Come with me, Kristie." "I want you to see Sisimca." "She's one of our better show horses." "Well." "You did real well, Kristie." "Thanks." "I enjoyed it." "So did I." "I have to go home." "What do you think you're doing?" "Everybody I've talked to agrees with us about the symbols on the map." "This is becoming more and more a waste of time and money." "Can't we please just give it up and go home?" "No, not yet." "There's someone else in this town asking the same questions about Lieutenant Belvoir." "His travels with that stolen Inca statue." "But that's impossible." "Belvoir only left one map and we've got it." "No, there's another person looking for that statue." "It's an American woman." "Late 20s." "Brunette." "And you think that she could be Fallon." "Yes, I think so." "I hope so." "And we're not leaving here until we find her." "I'm sorry I'm late." "I, uh..." "I was up in the nursery a little while ago." "Kristina is more beautiful than ever, isn't she?" "Yes." "How was your flight?" "You must be very tired." "Oh, I am, a little." "But you look upset about something." "Oh." "I was driving home from Daniel Reece's farm when one of those four-wheel drive trucks ran me off the road." "Ran you off the road?" "You're not hurt, are you?" "No." "Did you happen to see who it was?" "No, but I did write down the licence number." "I'll take care of it." "You said that this all happened when you were coming home from Daniel Reece's farm?" "I've decided to take him up on his offer." "He's teaching me about breeding and training Arabians." "I see." "Does that mean that you're in business with Reece?" "Well, no." "But I plan to be." "That's expensive breeding horses, isn't it, Krystle?" "I'll find a way." "I'll go change." " Hello, darling." " Hello, Mummy." "I'm sorry about Grandfather." "Yes." "It's a pity you never met Tom Carrington, darling." "He was wonderful and we really did admire one another." "But apart from some nonsense about his will and that Deveraux woman controlling it," "I was happy that I was with him at the end." "And need I remind you, Amanda, he was not your grandfather." "You're not still keeping up this charade about Blake not being my father." "Yes, I am." "Because it's the truth." " Just like Nome was the truth, Alexis?" " Dex." "Oh, it's so good to see your husband." "Oh, it is." "You know it is." "What's the matter?" "You're not annoyed because I changed my mind about Alaska at the last minute and went to spend some time with a dying old man." "In Sumatra." "Well, he just happened to be dying in Sumatra." "With Blake Carrington." "Who just happens to be his son." "Look, Dex, if you think that I went to Sumatra to spend time with Blake, you're wrong." "And if you think I owe you any explanations you're wrong again." "Because I do as I please." "I always have and I always will." "Not if you wanna stay married to me, you won't." "Has he been this edgy ever since I've been gone?" "I don't know." "I've seen very little of him." "In fact, the only talk we had was about Daniel Reece." "Daniel Reece?" "A newspaper clipping I found about the both of them in Cambodia." "Cambodia?" "What on earth were they doing there together?" "They were on a mission, rescuing American soldiers who'd been missing in action." "How very heroic." "And dangerous." "Dex and Daniel Reece." "Interesting." "Oh, my God." " The map." "They certainly did a thorough job." "They didn't get the map." "It's Fallon's handwriting." "She's been in this room." "She's here somewhere." "I'm glad we have time to talk, finally." "Yes, so am I." "I just wanted you to know, Dominique, how sorry I am to have caused you all that pain by not believing you." "And do you know why I didn't believe you?" "Because when you first came here to Denver you didn't come directly to see me." "The reason I didn't is because I didn't know which I wanted more:" "to take my revenge against the Carringtons or to make you admit that I was one of them." "Well, when I sensed that you were playing games" "Well, you know how I feel about devious women." "Like Alexis?" "Yes." "That's the other thing I wanted to talk to you about." "If you're at all worried about Alexis breaking Tom's will, don't be." "Because she doesn't stand a chance if you and I stick together." "I know." "But are we together?" "We're family, Dominique." "We're Carringtons." "We're together, I assure you." "I'm very glad to hear that, Blake, especially since I phoned my attorney this morning to tell him to drop that lawsuit I filed against you." "How does your husband feel about that?" "Oh, he doesn't know anything about it." "And he's not going to like it." "But I'll make him understand." "Anyway, I have what I wanted." "A father." "Oh, how I wish I could've had him just a little bit longer." "Mr. Dexter, please." "Hello, darling." "Look, I'm in the middle of a meeting, Alexis." "Are you still so angry that you can't talk to your wife?" "Oh, Dex, I miss you." "Please come home." "Well, there's not much left to say, is there?" "I think there's a lot to say about Daniel Reece." "I'm sorry, Alexis." "Once again, you're wrong." "The subject is closed." "George?" "Darling, congratulations on your promotion." "Expect a case of champagne." "Oh, yes, of course I want something." "But nothing that's going to prejudice your precious position in the State Department." "I want to know everything there is to know about the adventures of Daniel Reece." "I've overlooked one important detail." "I don't have the millions it takes." "You could ask Blake for it." "Well, I'd like to do this on my own." "To prove to Blake you could?" "How do you think most people get money when they need it?" "Borrow it from banks." "But they have collateral, I don't." "And you have no way of raising money?" "Are you sure of it?" "Well, not that kind of money." "Kristie, you're just seeing the closed doors, not the way to open them." "Well, the only thing that's totally mine is Allegree." "Mm-hm." "Maybe I could find somebody who'd be interested in going into partnership with me." "Or more than one partner." "We could form a syndication for stud fees." "Right." "And I'd still own him." "Or at least a piece of him." "We could raise millions that way." "So you could." "This is Henry Harmon's number in Lexington, Kentucky." "I think he should handle the syndication for you." "He's the best." "Thank you, Daniel." "Yeah?" "Steven, one of my press pals got a couple of passes for me to the Broncos game tonight, wanna go?" "Oh, thanks, Luke, but I think I'm busy." "Think?" "Well, that's some refusal." "Claudia's due back from Washington." "Well, that's too bad." "Maybe another time." "Too bad?" "I don't think my wife returning qualifies as a calamity." "That's not what I meant, Steven." "I don't know what you mean, half the time, Luke." "Well, if you're confused, that's your problem." "You're not gonna blame it on me." "I'm not confused." "I know exactly what I want." "I wanna save my marriage." "And I'm going to save it, okay?" "Luke, wait." "I'm sorry." "I don't know what's wrong with me lately." "I've been fighting with everybody." "Try to understand." "Maybe someday you'll realise that I do understand, Steven." " We have been to every hole in Bolivia." "Found no trace of the statue, and not a hint that your beloved Fallon exists." "I wanna go home, Jeff, take me home, now." " You hear me?" " All right, we'll go home." "I wish I'd never laid eyes on this." "Burn it." "Burn it." "Put it and Fallon and everything that's ever stood in our way out of our lives forever." "Do it, Jeff." "Burn it." "All right." "Look at this." "The Church of the Nativity." "I have looked at it a million times." "So what?" "But what if this isn't a random page Belvoir tore from a travel book?" "What if this church is part of the clue?" " Good evening, Gerard." " Good evening." "I'm gonna be upstairs and I won't wanna be disturbed for about an hour." "Excuse me, sir, but you have a guest in the library." " A guest?" " Daniel Reece." "Forgive me, but I think he's more than a little irritated having been kept waiting." " He's been here since 5:30." " Hm." "Hello, Blake." "I'm very sorry about this, must be some" "I understand, traffic in this town can be unbearable." "It's that, I don't have to tell you what 45 minutes means out of a business day." "Huh." "I don't understand." "Are you saying that we had an appointment?" "Are you saying we didn't?" "That's exactly what I'm saying." "You mean somebody in your office didn't call and tell me to be here at 5:30?" "No, it must be a mistake." "Somebody's gonna have to be reprimanded, either my staff or yours." "Well, my staff doesn't make that kind of mistake." "And you're suggesting mine does?" "No, I'm just saying that when someone moves quickly, too quickly, that these kinds of things can happen." "Moves in what areas?" "Oh, say, in the area of invading new territory, for example." "You make it sound like I'm Attila the Hun, raping the countryside." "Oh, from what I hear, you're buying up everything that isn't bolted down between here and the Utah border." "Well, is there anything wrong with a man expanding his holdings?" "As long as a man doesn't get in my way," "I don't care what he buys." "I have a rule," "I never go after anything that can't be taken." "Does that rule hold only for companies or does it apply to wives as well?" "In the old days, Blake, men fought duels over cracks like that." "Well, fortunately, we're a little more civilised now, wouldn't you say?" "Yes." "Fortunately." "Good afternoon." "About that notion that my wife is gonna go into the horse-breeding business." "Yeah, what about it?" "What Krystle doesn't need is a hobby." "I couldn't agree more." "Now, this yearling, Charminade." "Good bloodlines, beautiful conformation." "I think you ought to go after her." "That's a pretty valuable filly, Daniel." "The bidding will probably start at $500,000 and go up from there." "So what?" "Once Harmon gets the syndication deal, probably by the end of the week, you'll have 2 or 3 million to work with." "Now, um," "I'll be right beside you at the auction, in case anything sh..." "What's the matter?" "I haven't had much time with Allegree." "Well, where is he going?" "To Kentucky?" "All that grass." "Standing at stud." "Ten, 15, mares a week." "It's not a bad life." "But you have to remember something, Kristie, this is a business not a hobby." "No matter what Blake Carrington says." "When did you talk to Blake about this?" "Yesterday." "It's not important." "He doesn't take my going into the horse business all that seriously, does he?" "Oh, he takes you seriously all right." "Perhaps a little too seriously." "Now, this colt here, Talbian." "What did he say?" "What did he say?" "That you were somehow in need of salvation." "From what?" "From me, I guess." "Well, that's ridiculous." "Yeah, well, that's what I tried to tell him." "Daniel, would you excuse me?" "There's something I have to take care of." "Could we continue this tomorrow?" "Sure." "So that's it." "You've made your decision." "You're going to work with Reece and the hell with the rest of us?" "That's Kristina, me, the whole family." "Blake, let me tell you something." "I've waited all my life for our baby." "And along with you, nothing is more important to me." "Kristina is never out of my mind." "And she's going to grow up knowing that I love her." "And when she's grown, I want her to be proud of me." "I am not doubting that." " Aren't you?" " No." "All right, maybe I'm beginning to doubt myself, who and what I've been all my life." "Up to now, I've been content to live my life through everybody else's eyes." "My life's been on hold for so many people," "listening to their problems, trying to help solve them." "I've been a passive person while everybody else does." "Well, now I want my chance to do." "And I don't want my life to slip away without having had that chance." "Krystle, there are so many things that you could do in your extra time." "Like what?" "Well, you could involve yourself with charity work." "Oh, Blake, I wasn't born rich." "And I'm still not all that comfortable being rich." "And I'm not comfortable giving speeches at benefits." "Sure, I enjoy an occasional afternoon at the country club, but that's about the extent of it in that world." "And suddenly your world is Arabian horses, is it?" "No, not suddenly." "I've always loved horses." "And if I'm making a mistake, let me at least find out for myself." "Then I'll go back to reading magazines and dispensing loving advice." "But until then, damn it, I'm going to do what I want to do." " Yes?" " Mr. Carrington." "A man from the Department of Motor Vehicles for you." "Oh, put him on please." "Hello?" "Yes." "There's no such licence plate registered in Colorado?" "Hello, Mrs. Dexter." "I hope I haven't kept you waiting too long." "Oh, please call me Alexis." "And if you have, it's my fault for arriving unexpectedly." "But I've managed to keep myself amused." "It's amazing what one can discover about a man by studying the walls of his inner sanctum." "And what have you learned about me?" "That you're very clever because your walls tell me absolutely nothing." "At least nothing that is about rescue missions." "Dex didn't talk." "Who did?" "Oh, I always find out whatever I want to." "Cambodia, the MlAs." "East Berlin, tunnelling dissidents to freedom." "And Beirut, helping to rescue kidnapped diplomats." "And other feats, equally top secret if not so heroic." "Exactly why did you come here?" "To tell you to keep my husband out of your exploits." "I think that's for Dex to decide, don't you?" "Oh, no." "You see, I have no desire to be a widow yet." "And if I do become one, you will regret it." "But there is one rescue mission that you could carry out here in Denver without my husband's help." "In fact, I think that you may already be planning it." "Krystle Carrington." "Poor thing trapped in that suffocating marriage." "Mrs. Dexter, I'm no Mark Jennings." "Don't manipulate me to break up a marriage simply because you don't like it." "That's right." "I know all about it." "In my line of business you learn to scout the terrain before you land, and you never, never leave your back undefended." "I like you, Mr. Reece." "And I think you'll find out that we do have quite a lot in common." "I hope that one day we can be friends." " Here's to you." " Oh, here's to you for overcoming insurmountable obstacles and getting Blake his meeting with the Chinese." "Well done." "And to you again, for making staid, old Washington come alive." "I mean that, Claudia." "And to kissing you last night." "Oh, Adam." "Oh, excuse me." "Steven." "Steven." "Where are you going?" "Why didn't you come over and say hello?" "I didn't wanna interrupt." "The conversation looked serious." "What I have to say can wait." "We're just finishing dinner." "Adam will be gone shortly." " We can talk." " It can wait." " Steven, why are you so angry?" " I'm not angry." "Well, you're certainly doing a good imitation of it." "Okay." "Why didn't you call to tell me when you were coming home?" "I go to the trouble of tracking you," "I find you having dinner with my brother." "We just got in an hour ago." "We only stopped in for a quick meal." "Steven, we're separated." "And it was your doing, it wasn't mine." " That's not the way I remember it." " You wanna have an argument." "You will go to any lengths to accomplish that." "I'll call you tomorrow." "Maybe we'll both be in a better mood by then." "I do wish you change your mind and come with me tonight, darling." "It's time that you met more of the right people in Denver." "I'm not really in the mood." "Well, tomorrow night there's a gala at the ballet." "Anthony Dowell of the Royal is dancing." "I'm sure you won't wanna miss that." "I'll have to." "I have other plans." "Blake's giving a dinner for Dominique and he expects me to be there to welcome her into the family." "And what about what I expect?" "It's important to him, Mummy." "Why is it that what Blake wants is so important and what I want doesn't matter?" "Now, I expect you to come to the ballet with me tomorrow night." "In fact, I insist that you do." "You don't really care if I come with you or not." "All you care about is having your own way with me, with Dex." "What happens between me and Dex is none of your business." "What do you expect me to do?" "Pretend I don't notice what's going on?" "Or maybe you're not so desperate to keep me here with you anymore to make up for all those years you denied me." "Do you want me to pack my bags and leave?" "No, I don't." "There are other ways of dealing with difficult children." "Like what?" "Cutting off my allowance?" "You know I don't give a damn about money and if I did, Blake would" "Oh, Blake." "You think he's the perfect father, don't you?" "Well, why don't you ask Steven what happened when his loving father chose to disapprove of his sexual tendencies." "Or ask Adam how quickly Blake opened his heart and his bank account to his long lost son" "I won't listen." "No, you won't because it's the truth and you know it." "Amanda." "Oh, God." "Are you all right?" "Yes, I'm fine." "Are you sure you're all right?" "She said she was fine." "I assume you've calm down enough to come home." "No." "I just need some clean shirts." "We have gone over every inch of the church and the grounds." "We have retraced every step that Belvoir made from the moment he stole the statue till the moment he died." "I know." "There's no statue." "And no Fallon." "Well, that is what you wanted me to say, isn't it?" "Well, I've said it." "Let's get out of here." "Jeff." ""Montana." Look at the name on that gravestone." "You think we could have been wrong about the meaning of the symbols?" "What if they don't represent Inca gods?" " Montana" " Is Spanish for mountain." "The next symbol is river." " Well..." " Let's check it out." "Look, look there." "Look." "Carlos del Rio." "Rio, river." "Jeff, I think we're on to something." "All right, the next symbol is sun." " That would be sol, right?" " Mm-hm." "Sanchez." "Gomez." " Luna, Escalante." " Wait a minute." "Luna, Luna." "Maybe we're misinterpreting the map." "Maybe this is a drawing of the moon, not the sun." "All right, we have mountain, river, moon." "Below the moon, there's an urn." "Jeff." "And there's the urn." "We'll cover it up and come back after it's dark." "There's something in here." "It's heavy." "Oh, Jeff." "Jeff, that's it." "That's it." "We've found it." "We certainly did." "Oh, it's beautiful." "The jewels are supposed to be inside." "I'll take that." "Fallon?" "Don't move." "The statue." "Give her the statue." " Like hell I will." " Just give it to her." "Oh!" "Drop it." "Drop it." "You're not Fallon." "Who are you?" "Damn it, answer me." "Who are you?" "All right." "Let's go over it again." "You never met Fallon?" "You never even saw her?" " You're sure?" "I told you." "The only reason I had her letter is that it happened to be in a file" "Professor Montera gave me on Belvoir and the statue." "You were right, Nikki." "This whole thing was a wild ghost chase." "Jeff, haven't you had enough to drink?" "Why?" "I have plenty to drink about." "I think I'm chasing Fallon when in fact, it's Miss Dern here, dedicated student of archaeology chasing us with a cute little gun." "Tell me, Miss Dern, are people in your field usually armed and dangerous?" "I got the gun when I found out you were after the statue." "I just couldn't let that statue get stolen away from this country," "like so many others before it." "Well, your worries are over because I don't give a damn about a statue, and I never did." "You can have the honour of giving it to the government and sticking it in a museum." "And spending the rest of your life writing papers about it." "Jeff." "You can't do that." "Not after what we've been through." "What I've been through." "Why are you doing this to me?" "It's not my fault you didn't find Fallon." "The statue doesn't belong to us." "No." "It doesn't." "Bolivia will be very grateful." "Thank you." "Good afternoon, Blake." "Sit down." "Did I hear you offer me a drink?" "No, you didn't." "Well, in that case, let's get down to business." "Let me guess." "Um, your father's will." "Knowing you, Alexis, you're gonna try your damndest to break that will." "I'd just like you to forget the idea." "Really?" "Why?" "Don't tell me it's because of good old time's sake." "Because you don't have a chance of succeeding." "And you want to save me the time, the trouble and the aggravation." "That's so very thoughtful of you, Blake." "I just want to hear you say that you're dropping the whole thing." "I've fought bigger battles than this." "Bands playing, confetti falling and big bucks trying to intimidate me." "very big bucks." "Except that this time the enemy is not something corporate, something impersonal, some grey entity with computers for a soul." "This time you're gonna be up against a family, a flesh-and-blood family." "And we're not gonna yield to your usual tactics." "As you may remember, there are three of us involved in this will," "Dominique, you and I." "Now, if I side with her, if I give her my support, you've had it." "Dominique." "Up until a few days ago, you barely knew she existed." "Yes, but now she's my half sister." "She's family." "And I will fight to the death for her." "You'd better believe that." "All right." "I don't need Tom's will to break that saloon singer into little pieces." "There's more than one way to destroy her." "You better believe that." "And I'll find it." "A toast." "A very special toast." "At this table tonight there's a wonderfully beautiful woman." "Correction, please." "And I'd better make that correction quickly." "At this table there are three wonderfully beautiful women." "But right now I'm talking about Dominique." "My half sister, Dominique." "Welcome to our table." "Welcome to your family." "Welcome." "Thank you, Blake, and thank you, Adam." "Thank you too, all of you." "My family." "This is a night I've dreamed of since I was a child." "A dream I never thought I'd see come true." "I only wish that my mother, Laura, were here and my father, Tom, to share in this" "very special moment." "I thank you." "That was beautifully said." "Thank you." "The ballet was divine." "How was Blake's little dinner?" "Oh, it was wonderful." "A garden of flowers on the table?" "Like versailles." "Sherbet after the fish course?" "Lime." "Lime?" "Hm." "And what was the entree?" "veal Provencale." "A bit on the peasant side, wouldn't you say?" "Krystle better keep a closer eye on Mrs. Gunnerson in the future." "And what of Dominique?" "Miss Show Biz herself." "How did she act when she became a bona fide Carrington, smiling through the tears, pulling out all the stops, bringing down the house of Carrington, as it were?" "Oh, she was beautiful." "I'm proud to have her as an aunt." "Auntie Dominique." "Do you really think that thieving parvenu is in any way related to you?" "Yes, I do." "In fact, we're having lunch next week." "If you'd care to join us." "No." "Thank you." "I want you to get me some information on Dominique Deveraux." "Her portfolio, the structure of her holdings and what the stock issues in her company are." "Yes, now." "I don't care how late it is." "I want to know everything about that woman." "Hi." "What's the matter?" "Hung-over?" "Yeah." "It was a bad, bad night." "No, Jeff, it was a wonderful night." "What's that supposed to mean?" "It means that you and I got married."