"Oh, my God." "Oh, my God." "Harold." "Harold, this is Mrs. Colby." "Call the police. I've been robbed." " Danny." " And his old man." "Just dropping by to thank the pretty lady." "Come on in." "What are you thanking me for?" "For what you did for us today on the witness stand." "Well, you're both vey welcome." "Hi." "The way things went today, I'm sure now that I will be keeping my son." "Well, I'm happy for you, Steven." "You don't look so happy." "What's the matter?" "Oh, it's lust this trial and what it's doing to the family." "I know." "And eveybody's going to get hurt." "Well, Blake's already been." "That testimony Alexis gave, damning him in such an unfair way." "He asked for it, Kystle." "He started this whole mess." "And there's a lot of truth in what my mother accused him of." "Boy, that man hates me." "Father, I wanna thank you for today." "lnviting me to come and live here with you." "And for tonight, all this." "For the first time, I feel like a real member of this family." "Well, if I'd known that you were this good of a pool player, I'd have invited you to move in here a long time ago." "But I'm the one who should thank you for accepting the invitation." "This moment that we're sharing, is as special to me as it is to you." "It's the kind of father-son relationship that I could never achieve with Steven." "You haven't lost him, if that's what you're thinking." "I've learned a few things about life and one of them is that nothing is really permanent." "Take you and me for example." "When I got to Denver and you seemed to reject me, I thought I'd never feel close to you." "Only to Alexis?" "But here we are." "I'll tell you something, I predict that one day soon" "Steven's gonna walk back through your front door." "Well, I appreciate what you're tying to say, Adam, but you're wrong." "Steven is a part of his mother's life." "Alexis made him her hostage when he was a little boy and she is never going to let him go." "Never." " l'll take care of these right away." " Thank you, Nadine." " Good morning, Mrs. Colby." " Good morning." "Good morning, Mother." "Good morning, darling." "I'm on my way to court and I wanted to stop by and see you and your new office." "And I wanted to buy the hatchet." "In whom?" "Vey funny, darling." "I realise, Adam, that I've hurt you unintentionally from time to time, but that's all in the past now." "Look, I want you to move back into my apartment." "You don't belong in Blake's house." "And I do belong with you." "Yes. I need you." "What about Fallon?" "She's footloose these days." "Your sister and I are not on the best of terms." "And your favourite, Steven and his son?" "Steven obviously prefers to be where he is." "Adam, you don't belong here, working for Blake, and I need you back at Colbyco." "Why?" "You have platoons of good lanyers over there." "Better than one who went to Yale." "Something you said to me once after you'd imbibed a little bit too much champagne." "Darling, we all say things that we don't mean occasionally." "Not you, Mother." "You're always vey direct in what you say." "Except for now." "Why are you really here?" "Adam, I'm alone." "I'm completely alone in that enormous penthouse and last night I could have been murdered." "The police told me that had I been there during that robbey, I could have been killed." "I'm vey sory to hear that." " Are you?" " Yes." "Well, then help me." "Come back to me." "I can't." "More honestly, I won't." "Oh, Adam." "Please understand what I'm going through." "Be smart, Adam." "Drop the hostility." " Smart?" " Yes." "Surely you must realise that when the Denver-Carrington-Colbyco merger goes through that your father is going to be working for me and so, my dear, will you." "I'll deal with that problem when it comes up." "Now I have a meeting to get to." "If you'll excuse me, Mother." "The night your brother Steven got back from Singapore, will you tell the court what happened that night, Mrs. Colby?" "My father and Steven arrived from the airport, we were all waiting for him at the house." "It was a beautiful moment, seeing him again." "We kissed and hugged and told him how happy we were that he was alive." "Then my stepmother, Kystle" "Kystle Carrington." " came down the stairs carying Steven's son and she handed him to him." "Do you remember what your brother said, if anything, when he first held his infant son?" "He said, "My son."" "He said it twice and he kissed the baby." "is there anything else special you remember about that night?" "Yes." "It was about 2 in the morning and I went into the nursey to check on the babies- Steven's and my own." " to see if they were asleep." "And when I walked in, Steven was standing over Danny's crib looking down at his son." "Go on." "Well, it was the way he did it." "It was vey tender and with a lot of love." " Paternal love." " Paternal love?" "Yes." "It was there from those first moments and it never changed." "Your Honour, eveything I've said about my brother today is the truth, but some things have been said about my father that aren't and I" "That's all, Mrs. Colby." "Thank you." "Mr. Laird, do you wish to cross-examine the witness?" "No, Your Honour, and I respectfully request a recess." "All right, Mr. Laird." "You may step down, Mrs. Colby." "This court will reconvene at 2:" "OO." "All rise." "My witness should be at my office by now." "I'll do my briefing in the car on the way back here." "About the briefing of that witness, Andrew." "Remember, I don't want my son degraded or humiliated." "We'll say what we have to, Blake." "Steven, I just couldn't stay away again." "I'm glad you came." "Well, I suppose we'd better go to lunch." "Blake." "Apparently, Andrew's choosing not to cross-examine me, why is that?" " l don't know." "You'll have to ask him." " He's gone." "What are you afraid of?" "That I'll reveal more truths about you in the courtroom?" "The day that I'm afraid of your truths, Alexis, there will be snowflakes in hell." "Would you like to have lunch?" "I have to get back to the hotel, I'm sory." "See you later." "Fallon." "What is it?" "Look, whatever our differences are, we're still both on the right side, Steven's side." "In our own separate fashions." "I want to ask you something." "Your father has denied me the right to see Little Blake under his roof." "He's told me to make a deal with you." "So let's make one." "I want you to bring the baby to see me." "Well, the baby has a routine and I'm vey busy at the hotel." "Excuse me, Mrs. Colby." " Yes?" " Yes?" "Well, the man lust said, "Mrs. Colby." The call is from Billings, Montana." "Oh, that's for me." "Thanks." " Yes?" " Mr. Carríngton, your mother's here to see you." "Send her in, Nadine." " Adam- - l know how persistent you are but I haven't changed my mind since this morning." "Well, maybe you should because lust possibly it's not healthy living where you are." "You see, I'm aware of the fact that Fallon has vey little love for her older brother." "She hasn't booby trapped my room yet." "Would you like some wine, Mother?" "No, I wouldn't." "And I don't think this is something to make jokes about." "I know Fallon a lot better than you do." "She's vey bright and she can be vey nasty." "I can look after myself." "Not if you don't know what's going on." "Oh, Adam." "Despite our differences, I'm still your mother." "And I don't want one of my children hurting the other." "So is there something in your past that you haven't told me about?" "My past is like the proverbial open book." "Open and kind of boring." "Well, Fallon isn't bored." "My instincts tell me that she's pying into it, tying to find some way of harming you." " How could Fallon harm me?" " l don't know." "Why else would she receive a phone call from Billings, Montana from someone who couldn't wait until she got back into her own office?" "It was probably someone wanting a reservation at La Mirage." "Well, they have a reservations clerk at La Mirage." "No, no." "This was a call that your sister was obviously waiting for from your hometown." "Yes, of course." "Some absurd notion she got from a senile doctor from Billings that I had something to do with a poison case, which I did not." "Poison?" "Does this have anything to do with Jeff?" "Only in Fallon's mind." "But not to wory, Mother, the old man assured her that he was mistaken." "Well, I hope that's the whole stoy, Adam." "I don't want any more unpleasant surprises." "The last time you surprised me, I kept my mouth shut even though, thanks to you, poor Jeff nearly died." "Jeff is alive and well." "Yes, luckily." "Let me warn you about something, Adam." "Even though I'm your mother, don't count on my maternal loyalties twice." "Montana?" "You wanna fly up to Billings now?" "I've cleared it with Daddy's pilot." "We can leave now and fly to Billings, find the man I'm looking for and be back home in time for dinner." "This guy Jud Barrows, you said he's a foreman there?" "He's an ex-foreman for a chemical plant that was sued by a worker who was poisoned by mercuric oxide." "He's the man who has all the answers we need." "Well, why don't you talk to him on the phone?" "Because now he's working on a ranch outside of town." "Ranches have phones." "Okay, I have this gut feeling that I'm not gonna be able to get vey far with this man by phone, or even in person alone." "That doesn't exactly sound like Fallon." "We both know I can take care of myself." "But I don't know about dealing with these backnroods types, which I figure this guy is." "So, Jeff, won't you help me?" "We can get to the bottom of this once and for all." "No, I don't know, Fallon." "I got a desk full of problems." "Jeff, you and I may have gone in totally different directions, but the one thing I've never made any bones about is this:" "You, Jeffrey Colby, are the single nicest man I've ever known in my entire life." "And ever since this happened, the thought that somebody could have actually done this to you" "Poisoned you." " has never gone away." "So won't you help me find out?" "Come with me now, this afternoon." "Well, I've always been a sucker for a lady in distress." "I'll put my problems on hold." "Mr. Carrington, I've been vey patient with your request for a delay, but if your counsel doesn't arrive in the next five minutes, I simply have to proceed without him." "Your Honour, I can only imagine that there's been a traffic tie-up somewhere and that he's on his way." "Judge Kendall, I ask the court's forgiveness for my tardiness, I" "Let's get on with it, Mr. Laird, we don't have all day." "All right, I would like to call my next witness." "Vey well." "I call Samantha Josephine Carrington to the stand." " Please state your name." " Samantha Josephine Carrington." "Place your left hand on this Bible and raise your right hand." "Do you swear that the testimony you may give before this court shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," " so help you God?" " l do." "Please be seated." "Oh, God." "Blake." "I'm the divorced wife of Steven Carrington and the mother of Steven Daniel Carrington." "Let's talk about Blake Carrington for a moment." "It's been intimated by some people that at one point he tried to buy your permission to adopt your son, is that true?" "No, it's not." "Mr. Carrington tried to get" "Tried to persuade me to stay in Denver and rear the baby myself." " But I didn't wanna do this." " Why not?" "And please answer a little more loudly, there's nothing to be frightened about." "I didn't wanna do this because of my career as a model." "I felt that Danny would have a better life with his grandfather than with me." "But afterwards, when Steven turned up alive and wanting custody of the baby, I agreed." "And tell us, please, are you happy that you came to this agreement?" " No, sir, I'm not." " You are not." "Would you please tell the court why you are not?" "Steven violated our bargain." "Please explain that." "The understanding was that he'd rear our child alone, not with a gay lover." "Your Honour, the witness is presuming that" " Proceed with your direct, Mr. Laird." " Yes, Your Honour." "Mrs. Carrington, when you were working in Hollywood for a brief time," " it was as a model, was it not?" " That's right." "And you worked specifically for a photographer named Dante Messina, is that true?" "Yes, Ace Messina." "Would you describe Mr. Messina for us physically?" "That is to say, was he a handsome man?" "Objection." "This line of questioning is totally irrelevant, Your Honour." "We will prove to the court in a moment, Your Honour, that it is relevant." "Overruled, Mr. Deegan." "The witness will answer the question." "Yes, I'd say Ace was a handsome man." "A handsome man." "Now, when Steven Carrington came to visit you in Hollywood, did he ever meet Mr. Messina?" "Yes, he did." "You're frowning." "Was there anything about that meeting to upset you?" " Yes." " What specifically?" "I found out later that while I was out of the room," " Steven made a pass at Ace." " Lying crap!" "Mr. Deegan, would you have your client refrain from interrupting these proceedings?" "Now, Mrs. Carrington, about a year later after you had had your child, and after Steven Carrington had come back from Indonesia, he came to visit you again this time in New York, is that correct?" "Yes, he wanted "to have a discussion about our future," as he put it." "I see." "Would you please tell us where this discussion took place?" "In a restaurant he dragged me to." "Was it a French restaurant?" "Italian?" "Chinese?" "It was a gay restaurant." "A gay restaurant." "Was there anything else about it that might be of interest to this court?" "Your Honour, Mr. Laird is leading the witness." " Rephrase the question, Mr. Laird." " Vey well." "A gay restaurant." "Now, why do you say that?" "It was vey obvious." "All you had to do was look around." "I found out that it was Steven's hangout with Ted Dinard, his former lover, when they were living together in New York." "The whole thing upset me." "Now, on the night in question, did anything else in particular happened to upset you?" "Yes." "Steven began to ogle another man." " Finally..." " And finally, what?" "He sent me home by taxi, so he could stay and like he said, "do his own thing."" "Liar." "You're lying!" "Sit down and be quiet, Mr. Carrington, or I'll have you held in contempt of this court, is that understood?" "I have no further questions of this witness, Your Honour." " Thank you, Mrs. Carrington." " Cross, Mr. Deegan?" "Damn it, Andrew." "I warned you not to go this far." "And I warned you when this started, that your priority had to be either your son or your grandson, and that you couldn't have it both ways." "Mrs. Carrington, why are you lying to this court?" "I'm not lying." "Are you saying these things, these vile untruths, simply to revenge yourself on your ex-husband?" "I want nothing from him, including revenge." "You want nothing from him?" "Isn't it true that you divorced Steven because he wasn't wealthy in his own right?" "If you're calling me a gold digger, you've got- l'm asking you a question." "I want an answer." "Yes or no?" "All right, I'll give it to you." "It's no." "I left Steven because all I ever wanted was a man I could love and who would love me back." "And only me." "Those are tears you're wiping from your eyes, I assume?" "Invisible as they are to the naked eye?" "Tell me, are you tying to paint yourself as the wounded party?" "What does that mean?" "Are you going to tell us how you lay alone in bed at night while your husband was out with other men?" "If so, you possibly know the names of these men?" "Do you?" "I don't know." "They didn't phone him on occasion?" "You didn't answer the phone on occasion?" "You didn't listen in on occasion to their assignation making?" "Mrs. Garrett?" "What is he tying to do to me?" "Mr. Deegan, you will stop harassing this witness." "Harassing this witness?" "I have no more questions." "The witness may step down." "Let's call for recess for 20 minutes." "All rise." "Listen, about Sammy Jo." "I just wanted you to know that I- l already know more than I want to, Blake." "Good afternoon." "Mr. Carrington." "You shouldn't be cooped up in the house on a day like this." "Beethoven wouldn't be." "That's why he called that "The Moonlight Sonata."" "On a day like this, Beethoven would be outside taking a walk." "If it's any of your business, which it isn't, I don't feel like walking." "A drive then, how about it?" "I had a light day thought I'd wanna have a swim, but I'd rather drive you into town for some fresh air and an ice cream soda." "Or a dill pickle." "Mother-to-be's choice." "Kirby, I meant what I said when I moved in yesterday." "You've got nothing to be afraid of from me anymore." "I'm happy for you about the baby, I only want you to be happy too." "Excuse me, Miss Kirby?" "Your husband's on the telephone, long distance." "Long distance?" "From where?" "He said Billings, Montana." "He's with Miss Fallon." "Thank you, Marie." "_e55?" "I'm all right." "Well, if I don't sound it, it's because I'm wondering what you're doing with Fallon." "Oh, I see." "No, I understand." "Goodbye." "As the expression goes, I couldn't help overhearing." "What's the problem?" "The plane- l don't know, something technical." "They can't fly back till tomorrow." "That's strange." "I mean, why couldn't they just take a commercial flight?" "Apparently, they're not finished with the business they went there for." "Something about a chemical company." "Oh, yes, I did make an advance toward Ace Messina in Hollywood." "Would you tell us about it?" "The creep was photographing my wife who was almost nude when I walked in on them." "And I picked him up bodily and flung him out of his studio so I could ty to persuade her to return with me." "Return to my life and our marriage." "That was the extent of my advance." "Now, let's go back to New York and your ex-wife's account of the restaurant where you allegedly dragged her." "Will you tell the court the true circumstances of her leaving?" "It wasn't because I was ogling another man." "That was not the question, Mr. Carrington." "Answer the question." "She left" " Or I should say, she walked out on me when she learned that if we did reconcile she would have to return with me to Denver and live on my income, and not my father's fortune." "I see." "One last question." "Tell us about your son and whether you consider yourself a good father to him." "I would never have returned to Denver, to my life as a Carrington, if my father hadn't informed me in Singapore that I had fathered a son." "From that moment on, and then from the moment when I took him from my stepmother and held him in my arms, my son, Danny, became the focal point of my life." "The most important part of my entire existence is the love and the nurturing of my son." "Thank you." "I have no more questions." "Mr. Laird, cross?" "It's interesting." "Vey interesting." "We've all been sitting here for two days now listening to witness after witness." "Some of them hostile to Steven Carrington and others warmly" "Oh, so warmly singing his praises as God's young gift to total goodness." "But the one distinctive area missing, intentional or otherwise, has been testimony shedding any light whatsoever on the one key issue in this case." "And that is the sexual preferences of Steven Carrington." "Now, we all know that he had a male lover in New York." "And we know that he lives with a male in an apartment here in Denver." "And that male happens to be his attorney, Mr. Christopher Deegan, who is representing him in this case." "Now, Steven, would you tell us, is Mr. Deegan your present lover?" "I refuse to answer that." "That's nobody's business but my own." "Please answer the question, Mr. Carrington." "Will you repeat the question, Mr. Laird?" "Yes, Your Honour." "is Mr. Deegan your present lover or isn't he?" "I won't answer that." "What he's asking in essence is if I'm guilty of being gay." "Well, nobody, not my father's lanyer, not you, not anybody in this courtroom or outside it has the right to ask this because there is no guilt in that issue." "Eveybody in this state and in this county has the right to live his own life the way he wants." "Provided he's a decent human, isn't a man entitled to raise his own child whether he's homosexual or not?" "I am and will always be Danny's father." "And a good one, no matter what my lifestyle is." "Mr. Carrington, this court is tying to decide what's in the best interest of your son." "So will you please give us an answer to Mr. Laird's question?" "You just got it." "Don't be impudent." "Now, is that all you have to say?" "That's my final answer." "This court is in recess until tomorrow morning at 1 O:" "OO, in which time it is vey likely that in the light of today's illuminating testimony, I will have a iudgement to render in this case." "You may you step down, Mr. Carrington." "All rise." "You lust made a big mistake." "A vey big mistake, Steven." "Why?" "Why for God's sake did you do it?" " Hello?" " Mother." "Oh, hello, Adam." "What can I do for you?" "I'm calling from my office, Mother." "I've lust heard from my contact in the China Sea offshore leases, the negotiations I was handling for Colbyco, and there are some routine papers that need signing." "May I bríng them around ín the morníng?" "Bring them around?" "Well, that's extremely conscientious of you, Adam, considering that you've just changed horses, as it were." "Mother." "Mother, no matter what horse I'm riding, I haven't forgotten the point you made, and so pointedly, this morning." "As soon as the merger is finalised, you are going to be the ringmaster of this megabuck circus." "Be here at 8:30, Adam." "I will." " Good night, Mother." " Bye." "I'll say it one more time, only because it's that important, Steven." "Go back on the stand tomorrow and answer the man's question." " Yes, please." " No way, Chris." "You heard what I said today." "My feelings haven't changed over two glasses of wine." "Look, I completely support you." "But we're not lovers, we're friends, that's all." "And I can't bear to see you lose your son for a principle." "Can't." "What kind of a father am I gonna make for Danny if I don 't have any principles to teach him and I'm not true to my own convictions?" "You're not going to make any kind of father if Danny's taken away from you." "And unless I can come up with a powerhouse summation tomorrow, that's probably the way it's going to be." "Where are you going?" "Back to my small office for a few hours to ty and devise a big miracle." " Night." " Night." "No." "He's right, Steven." "He's not right, damn it." "I'm sory." "But don't you see?" "I tried to tell my father and he wouldn't listen to me, that's why we're in court." "I've gotta win this thing on an honest principle that a man is entitled to live his own life the way he chooses." "Otherwise, evey time some guy walks in my door my father can make a federal case out of it." "I've gotta stand on my own principles, or else what kind of a man am I?" "I know." "It's so good to be here with you." "God, I need you." "Will you stay with me tonight, Claudia?" "I really want to, Steven, but there's something that I have to do." "That call was from the owner of the ranch." "Any word on Jud Barrows?" "He's moving cattle down to a lower range early in the morning." "He'll be able to meet with us tomorrow around noon." "By that time, Paul should have the plane back in shape so we'll be able to take off for home." "It's gonna be a relief to find out, finally, one way or the other." "A vey welcome relief." "Well, no matter which way it turns out, I'm really impressed with the way you've turned out." "A lot different from the girl-woman I married." "Are you gonna tell me about her?" "Not all, lust some of the more childlike moments like when we she'd creep out of our bed when something was troubling her and climb a tree out in the front and did nothing but brood." "But that girl-woman has turned out to be a lot more woman." " She takes action." " As a matter of fact, she does." "Tell me, Fallon, are you happy with the way it's turned out?" "You answer me first." "Are you?" "Before you do, I'll let you in on something." "I saw your look after you hung up from talking with Kirby this afternoon." "is she upset that you're marooned here with me?" "With Kirby's moods these days, it's hard to tell what she's feeling." "What's so funny?" "We're both evading the issue." "Here's to time-out." "Happy evasion." "I'd better order another bottle of wine, the night is young." " Your key, madam." " Thank you." "And your luggage." "Thank you vey much, kind sir." "You know, about your question at dinner, yes, I am happy right now." "I think, happier than I've been for a long time, how about you?" "I'm happy too, Jeff." "Can I repeat a confession I made to you once?" "Depends on the confession." "There's a part of me that's never going to stop loving you." " Oh, Jeff." " Never." "You're the first girl I ever loved, do you know that?" "Yes, I know that." "What are you thinking right now?" "What are you feeling?" "How this moment" "This moment what?" "I want you lust as much as you want me but" "No buts." "We're alone and we both want each other." "And the rest of the world is a million miles away." "Well, what did you wanna see me about, Blake?" "I had to come here." "I had to ty to make you understand what you wouldn't let me explain to you today in court." "When I agreed, reluctantly, to let Andrew question Sammy Jo on the stand, it was only to prove that Alexis' testimony was a lie." "That I bought little Danny for adoption." "But I had no idea that Sammy Jo would go that far." "That she would hurl all that- That poison at Steven." "I see." "I believe you." " Is that it?" " No." "No, not quite." "I know you, Kystle." "You're not a woman to say, "l told you so." So I'll say it for you." "You did tell me so." "You told me that if I went to court with this custody thing, that it would bring nothing but heartache to eveyone." "including myself." "Chris Deegan seems to think you've won." "That the iudge will rule in your favour tomorrow." "Andrew thinks the same." "But if I do win, it will be a hollow victoy that I've won." "A desperately hollow victoy." "Thank you for coming downstairs." "Thank you for hearing me out." " Who is it?" " Claudia Blaisdel." "You obviously have something you wanna talk about." "Well, it's late and I can't see you now." "Well, that's too bad because I'm going to see you." "What do you want?" "I want you to go back to that hearing tomorrow and retract those vicious lies that you told in court today." "Lies?" "Who the hell are you to call me a liar?" "Someone who knows the truth." "You painted a picture of Steven as not a man." "And I know for a fact that he is." "Oh, that's right." "The woman who taught Steven about sex but obviously wasn't good enough at it to land him." "Well, I did and I lived to regret it." "So you're welcome to him." "And as for me taking back one word of what I said, you really are a crazy lady still, in or out of that place where they had you locked up." "Sammy Jo, what you think of me doesn't mean a thing." "I couldn't care less." "But I am going to ask you now to think about your child." "How what happens in that court tomorrow could affect Danny for the rest of his life." "Which is none of your business, lady." "And Steven sure is a gutless wonder to send you here to fight his battles." "I know it's late and I know I should have called." "But what I have to say I- l just couldn't handle over the phone." "There's no time to waste, Steven." "Do you mind telling me what you're talking about?" "If you've ever believed in me, if you've ever trusted me, you've got to do so now and agree with what I say." "I'm not going to let you lose your son, Steven." "I'm not gonna let anyone ever take Danny away from you." "I can stop Blake. I've got the answer."