"Where the hell is Adam anyway?" "Probably hiding under some rock somewhere." "Daddy's tying to find him, so" "Still no sign of him." "Why don't you both go on home?" "Aren't you coming?" "I have a dinner at the university I can't cancel." "I'm the speaker." "Oh, about Adam" "Yeah, about Adam." "If I ever get my hands on him" "Jeff, no." "Now, if he happens to show up at the house before I get back, I want you to promise me that you won't say anything to him." "What?" "I will talk to him about this, this matter, lust as soon as I can, all right?" "No." "It's not all right." "As far as I'm concerned, he nearly killed Jeff with that poison." "There's nothing you can say that's gonna change that." "Now, listen to me, young lady." "I have made the same mistake that you may be making right now." "I don't wanna do it again." "I thought that Mark Jennings set fire to that cabin." "Kystle begged me to give him the benefit of the doubt, and I didn't." "Wrongly, I didn't." "You're talking about one thing and I'm talking about another, damn it." "Come on, Fallon." "We're both a little tired now." "Okay." "Sory, Daddy." "That's all right, darling. I'm sory too." "See you later, Blake." "Okay." "Mercuric oxide compound, that right?" "Yes, that's right." "Man who filled the two orders retired." "Didn't know that, did you?" "No, I didn't." "Went back to the old homestead." "Canada, Canada, Canada." "That's all he'd talk about." "I'd like to look at the orders to verify them, please." "Oh, sure thing." "Oh, and there's a third one about six months earlier." "Nope. I don't find anything." "Well, never mind." "These two will do." "And they are in order." "Thank you." "Oh, that baby is so adorable." "I was almost tempted to wake him up." "You won't forget to give him this, will you, Claudia?" "No, of course not." "So cute. I couldn't resist buying it." "Oh, I feel so happy today." "Blake was defeated." "Steven got his son." "And I finally got a chance to tell that court what kind of a man Blake Carrington really is." "Do I seem to be gloating, Claudia?" "I'm not vey good at reading your looks." "I'm sure you spoke the truth as you saw it." "But there's always more than one side to the truth." "I like specifics." "Darling, be more specific." "All right, I will." "In spite of today's verdict, Blake is still Danny's grandfather." "And I have to make Steven see that nothing poisons that relationship." "Well, of course." "As his caring wife." "As a woman who's been through the same kind of thing with Lindsay and with Matthew's mother." "She was a hostile woman to me." "But I know that she loved my daughter." "And I never interfered with that love." "Well, Claudia, I think that's absolutely splendid of you." "And what exactly is my splendid wife up to now?" "Oh, darling, hi." " Hi, darling." " Hi." "Mother, what a nice surprise." "Well, I just dropped in to see Danny." "And to tell you that we have to fly to San Francisco tomorrow morning." "Tomorrow?" "Why so sudden?" "Darling, it's not sudden." "I told you about it days ago." "The trial must have pushed it out of your mind." "Probably." "I want to find out what's really going on with Colbyco's chief of West Coast operations." "Steven." "Don't frown, darling." "It will just be a lunch meeting." "And you'll be back in plenty of time to tuck Danny in and have dinner with your lovely wife." "I'll pick you up at 9." "On the dot." "You hate it." "Oíl Qua_erly magazine is going to hate it." "You're wrong. I love it." "And so will the magazine." "It's a fine piece of work." "And it's a nice going-away present." "Oh, Bill." "I wish this weren't your last day." "You'll be so busy running things around here, you won't even know I'm gone." "Bill Rocknrell here." "Hello, Bíll." "It's Krystle." "I'm glad I caught you." "Kystle, it's been a long time." "What can I do for you?" "Well, I'd like to take you to lunch tomorrow." "My treat." "Oh, that's a hard one to turn down on two counts:" "the lady and the treat." "Well, I've got a motive, Bill." "I understand that you're leaving as head of public relations for Denver-Carrington, and Blake has offered me the job." "I'd líke to talk to you about ít." "Of course, Kystle." "Name the place and the time." "La Mirage, 1:" "OO." "Fine. I'll see you there." "Bye-bye." "Tracy." "You know I recommended you to take over my job." "Know it?" "I practically forced you at gunpoint." "No, you didn't, because you didn't have to." "I'm sory, but it's academic now." "Meaning?" "Meaning Blake Carrington has decided otherwise." "He's giving the lob to his former wife." "So..." "The elevator lust went up without me, huh?" "Hey, hey, hey, don't you force a smile with me." "You're damn good at this iob, and we both know it." "In the two months since I've hired you, you've lived up to your background in evey possible way." "And I'm bright and experienced and I turned out some fantastic work." "Deserve the job." "But I didn't get it." "So I will still be a terrific assistant." "Oh, I'll be in touch." "And about the job, I'm sory, kid." "Don't be." "It is not the end of the world." "Just feels like it." "Bye." " Who is it?" " It's Mark." "Hello." "I was down at the bar for an hour hoping you'd pass by." "You didn't." "So I've come up to ask you to join me for dinner and drinks." "How about it?" "I appreciate the invitation, but I got a lot of things on my mind." "Funny, I've got a lot of things on my mind too, and I thought I'd share them with you over a steak or salad or something." "Thanks, but I'm not vey hungy." "You lust don't wanna spend the time with me, right?" "Look, Kystle, I was your husband." "What we had together was good." "We can make it together now." "Not as friends, but as lovers." "Kystle, I'm asking you to mary me again and get out of Denver, the two of us, for good." "Mark, we're friends." "That's where it begins, and that's where it ends." " l don't believe that." " Mark..." " Sex was always good between us." " Let go of me." "Damn good." "And you know it." "Stop it." " Stop it." " You don't want me to stop." "You never wanted me to stop." "Please." "Get out of here." "I want you out of this room now." "Yes, Mr. Hutchinson, that's right." "I want you to be on the first morning flight to Anchorage." "Yes, as in Anchorage, Alaska." "Whatever you've got on your schedule in San Francisco tomorrow, I want you to cancel." "Do I make myself clear?" "Good." "Adam." "Hey, stop it." "Stop." "Cut it out!" "You're hurting me, Adam." "Time's up, is that it?" "Well, it's my money." "You're not being funny." "You're just too damn rough." "I've hurt you." "I'm sory, Shelley." "You're never exactly gentle with me anymore, Adam." "When we first started, it was good." "We had great times." "We had a few laughs." "As a matter of fact, I used to look forward to your phone calls." "But lately it seems like you just call me when you need to work out whatever's been bugging you with rough sex." "You can tell me about it if you like." "Hey." "Why don't we just talk?" "You know, rumours to the contray, I like to talk too." "And I'm a good listener." "Okay." "I've been under a lot of pressure recently." "And I didn't realise what it was doing to me." "Hey." "Mixing booze and pills isn't gonna help anything." "It will help me with this." " With what?" " A lie I have to tell." "So, what else is new in this real truthful world of ours?" "I'm gonna have to lie to a man who lives by the truth." "But if I tell him the truth, then I lose what I've been starved for my whole life." "Belonging." "But you're right." "It won't help." "I wonder if anything can." "Adam." "Yes, Father." "I've been waiting up for you." "I wanna talk to you right now." "My God, why didn't you come to me sooner with this?" "I am your father, you know." "And she is my mother." "Are you saying that Alexis was responsible for Jeff's poisoning?" "Do you have proof?" "No." "No, I don't." "Then what are you saying?" "I had a suspicion." "I told her about my first case, poisoning." "And when Fallon got into it, I decided to lie about it rather than involve Mother." "I didn't even know for sure that she'd done it, or how." "The how is simple." "But you were involved in it." "You were in charge of repainting Cecil Colby's office when Jeff took it over, weren't you?" "Yes. I was following her orders." "She personally chose the colour along with the paint." "Well, that explains the panels." "What about the panels?" "When Jeff collapsed, and Mother moved into his office, she told me that she was going to change the colour again and that the painter was to strip the wood panelling from the walls." "Not lust paint over it, but strip it and burn it." "Burn it?" "Yes, of course." "What better way to hide your crime than to order the evidence destroyed?" "Damn it, Adam." "If you'd only spoken to me about this sooner." "I guess I was a fool to say nothing and do nothing." "God knows what you're thinking." "and that you've been through hell tying to protect that woman." "Now that the truth is out, together, we're going to make it right." "We're going to make her pay." "All of this answers at least one question that stumped me." "If Adam had done it, what did he stand to gain from it?" "But Alexis, eveything." " l'm gonna get her." " No, no." "You're not gonna do anything right now." "For God's sakes, it was my life she was after." "Jeff, listen to him." "All right, I'm listening." "But it's my right to settle the score." "Why should I stay away and do nothing?" "Because there is no proof that Alexis is guilty." "It's only a theoy." "But at least Adam is cooperating with me, and I won't quit until I find that proof." "But until I do, I want you both to promise me that this is between Alexis and me, no one else." "I don't want a word to get out to anyone, not anyone." " Fallon?" " All right." "_e55?" "I'll give it some time, Blake." "Not much." " Jeff, good morning." " Kirby." "I've been waiting to have breakfast with you." "I'm really not in any mood to eat." "I just wanna get my jacket and go." "Then I wanna know what's the matter first." "Well, I can't say." "Maybe someday, but not right now." " Jeff." " Yeah?" "Can I make a suggestion?" "Take the day off." "Don't go anywhere near Colbyco today, because if you see Alexis, which you will, you're liable to be on the front page of evey newspaper tomorrow." "Don't wory, I wasn't planning on going anywhere near that building or that woman, just off to the field." "Good." "Don't blow up any wells." "The sparks you're giving off, you could." "Funny lady." "Can I give you a ride out to the stables?" "I needed a laugh." "I think it would be better for both of us if I walked." "I'm just offering you a friendly ride." "I'll wait for him to finish his oats, Jess." "Thanks, ma'am." "We both appreciate that." "Hello, Fallon." "Where's Jeff?" "Jeff?" "He's not riding." "He lust dropped me off." "What's the matter?" "Not that you really care." "Maybe I resent being left out of so much of his life lately." "His going up north with you instead of being with me." "His being closeted in the solarium this morning with you." "And my father." "It was a meeting he called." "Yes, but it was secretive." "Just like your trip to Montana, eveything is so secretive." "Why all the hostility all of a sudden?" "Go on, say it." "Whatever happened to that sweet servile girl of yesteyear?" "The major-domo's daughter." "You were never considered anything but a friend, Kirby." "You know that." "What I'm beginning to know is that you want him back." "No, Kirby." "No." "Look, maybe sometimes I thought I made a mistake divorcing him." "But that's all behind me now." "He's married to you now." "You're gonna have his baby." "He loves you." "If there's something happening between the two of you, something that's hurting your relationship, then it has to do with you and Jeff alone." "Frankly, I don't think he knows what it is." "So that leaves only me." "Yes." "Maybe you should ty talking to him about it." "Correction, Kirby, you should talk it out, whatever it is." "Kystle, I would give my life if it were Jeff's." "It's Jeff that I love." "Kirby, you have to be strong enough to tell him." "I can't." "What if he finds out later?" "is this something that you can live with?" "I can live with it." "I have to." "Why did I quit Denver-Carrington?" "Well, I've heard two versions." "One, that you're opening your own public-relations firm." "And two, that your image of Denver-Carrington and Blake's conflict." "Oh, that's hogwash." "Blake's a tough man, but he's honest and so am I." "And I told him a long time ago that I'd wanna branch out on my own someday." "There's no more." "I don't want you to feel the least bit uncomfortable taking over." "I am uncomfortable about one thing people are probably talking about already." "Hiring his ex-wife, a form of nepotism." " Yes." " Kystle." "It's a fact of business life." "The main thing is that you're good." "You've got more going for you than you realise." "You understand people." "It's vital." "It's why they call it public relations." "I never wrote a press release in my life." "Well, you've got a vey bright assistant, Tracy Kendall." "Use her." "And use your own vey good judgement." "You know, in six months, you may just find that I might ty and steal you away from Blake." "Now, do I get a kiss for all those lovely encouraging words?" "You certainly do." "Call me if you need me, Kystle." "And good luck." "Thank you." "Kystle." "What is it, Mark?" "I wanna apologise for last night." "I don't even wanna talk about it." "I had too much to drink. I'm sory." "Just forget it." "Have you talked to the painter?" "Confirmed it." "The panels were burned." "Well, nothing we can do about that." "Have you tracked down the companies that make mercuric oxide, Adam?" "There are four of them. I'll take two and you can take the other two." "No, no, I'll check them all out for myself." "The paint compound with mercuric oxide?" "Don't seem to be able to..." "Here we go." "Are these what you're looking for?" "Alexis." "What are you doing here?" "I think I'm doing a terrific iob on this banquet for Saturday night." "Who sits with whom and why." "What I mean is, why aren't you and Steven off to Maui or Bermuda or something?" "Or have honeymoons suddenly gone out of style?" "He had to fly to San Francisco on a business trip with your mother for the day." "You could've gone with him." "You two haven't even been married 48 hours and she's already swept him out of town." "Well, as far as I'm concerned, she can have him evey day of the week for lunch as long as I've got him back for dinner." "Watch out for my mother, Claudia." "Steven's vey special to her and..." "Just watch out for her." "Hi, Mrs. Gordon. I'm home." "I'll get it." " Hello?" " Hí, Claudía." "Hi, Steven. I just walked in." " Where are you calling from?" " San francísco." "You want me to pick you up at the airport?" "No, I'm afraíd not." "Can you talk up?" "It's a bad connection." "I won't be home for dinner." "In fact, I've gotta stay here overnight." "I'm stuck, Claudia." "Why?" "What happened?" "The guy we were supposed to see got his signals crossed and won't be back in San Francisco till the morning." "Didn't your mother know about this?" "No, of course she didn't know." "How's Danny, sweetheart?" "I told you, I lust walked in." "He's with Mrs. Gordon." "I'm sure he's fine." "Do you mind checking?" "No, of course I don't mind checking." "You're not angy, are you?" "Why should I be angy?" "I'll see you tomorrow, or whenever, Steven." "Bye." "Bye, Claudia." "She was obviously a bit upset." "A bit." "I'm sory, Steven." "I can put myself in her place." "The nursemaid's gone for the night." "And she's alone in the apartment with the baby." "I think that Claudia's pulled herself together beautifully, emotionally." "I mean, it can't have been an easy adjustment for her." "And there's something that I've been meaning to talk to you about." "What's that?" "I want us all to be closer." "I found this wonderful duplex in my apartment building." "It would be perfect for you and Claudia and Danny." "Mother." "And you don't have to wory about the money." "Steven, don't you see?" "This way, whenever we have to go away on trips, the poor girl won't feel abandoned." "I mean, she'll have the entire hotel staff at her beck and call." "Mother, Claudia doesn't feel abandoned." " Are you sure?" " Yes." "She lust resents my being dragged off on a wild-goose chase." "And to tell you the truth, so do I." "Don't spring any more of these surprise trips on me, Mother." "As far as moving, no, thank you." "Claudia and I have to make a life on our own." "That's right, Alexis is in California tonight." "But when she gets back to Denver tomorrow, I want you to have met with the district attorney." "Because you'd like to see Alexis prosecuted for attempted murder." "Because I'm going to see her prosecuted." "I want her to pay for all the suffering that she put Jeff through." "Okay, now, Blake, do you have this out of your system?" "What are you talking about?" "We have just come off a court case." "What I'm talking about is, it's about time you stopped running on your emotions and began to look at this from a legal point of view." "I don't care about that." "I'm looking at this from a human point of view." "I went through all that hell with Jeff." "I saw the boy suffer." "I saw his marriage to Fallon destroyed." "And why?" "Because Alexis saw that he stood in the way of her greed and her lust for power." "Blake, you hate the woman so intensely, you're letting it blind you to any other possibility." " Adam." " Yes, sir?" "You were living with your mother at this particular time, right?" "Yes, I was." "Then you must remember what she was like at that time." "How she acted." "Well, she appeared to be concerned about Jeff." "Did she ever once give you a clue that she might have been responsible for what was happening?" "She's vey good at covering up." "You know her, Mr. Laird." "And you know her a lot better than I do." "You know, I find it vey hard to believe that" "You find what hard to believe?" "That in all the hours you spent with her, she never once dropped her mask." "Well, she didn't." "You're sure of that?" "Yes, I'm vey sure." "Look, you have evidence." "I have two signed orders for a mercuric oxide compound signed by her." "Exactly." "Which isn't enough, young man." "Well, it should be." "Well, it is not." "And as a lanyer, you should know that." "Now, look, those purchase orders mean absolutely nothing unless we can produce the paint with which the poisonous compound was allegedly mixed." "Or produce the panels from Jeff's office." "You can't win a battle without weapons." "It's vey late." "And I have a busy day tomorrow, so I'll say good night." "Good night, Andrew." "Thank you for coming over." "Good night, Mr. Laird." "Good night." "I don't like it, Father." "The way he talked to me, it's as if... lt's as if what?" "He thinks I might be somehow involved in all this too." "Well, I don't." "Don't wory about not having any weapons, because I have one." "A good one." "I'll see you in the morning." "Good night." "_e55?" "Yeah." "I have to talk to you." "What is it, Kirby?" "Aren't you gonna turn around and look at me?" "I know how horrible I've been to live with lately." "Acting like a demon." "I'm sory." "I'm so sory. I love you." "I adore you." "I love you too, sweets." "You know that." "Well, I don't really know that anymore." "Not with what I've been putting you through." "Show me." "Show me how much." "Please?" "Make love to me." "What's wrong?" "It's late." "So what?" "It's late and the timing's wrong." "It feels like you're demanding something." "Something that you don't wanna give to me." "I'm tired." "Your mind's on someone else." "Fallon?" "No, of course not." "Then who?" "I can't say." " Why not?" " Because I can't." "It's complicated." "I'll tell you as soon as I can." "Hello. I'm Kystle." " You must be Tracy." " That's me." "Who, along with these Phalaenopsís, say welcome." "Oh, they're beautiful." "And the Ming." "Well, I know you have a collection of Ming at the mansion." "It's called buttering up the new boss." "I hope you're not allergic to these." "No, not at all." "I didn't think so." "I checked eveything out with Marcia." "You know, this may sound a little corny and, oh, a bit cliché, but I can't tell you how happy I was when I found out that I'd be working for you." "With me, Tracy, all right?" "Okay, with you." "You know, I've heard such good things about you." "And, well, I'm gonna need all the help I can get." "All right." "Well, I'm glad to see you two have met." "Hello, Mr. Carrington." "Welcome to Denver-Carrington." "Oh, Tracy, Bill Rocknrell phoned to say what a fine piece of work you did on that 25th-anniversay feature." "I'd like to look it over." "I ripped it up." " You did?" " Yes." "Well, I just wasn't satisfied with it." "Even though my ex-mentor was." "So it is back to the drawing board until I can come up with a layout that you truly deserve, Mr. Carrington." " l'll see you both later." " Bye." "Now, is this status enough for you?" "Well, corner office, two windows." "It seems status enough." "You forgot, one plant, one vey tall plant." "Oh, it is tall." "And nice." " Eveything is vey nice, Blake." " Good." "In that case, I'll put you on the payroll immediately." "You mean you haven't already?" "Guess it lust must have slipped my mind about you coming here." "I see." "Well, now that I am here, I want you to know that if I don't do a good job, you won't have to fire me, I'll quit." "I want that in writing." "You'll get it." "May I have something from you?" "Anything." "What?" "An honest answer." "Now that I've accepted this job, do you have any second thoughts about giving it to me?" "No, not for one minute." "In fact, I'm being vey selfish." "You see, your working here means that you'll be near me." "That's all I've ever wanted." "I know things aren't good between us right now." "One thing I don't wanna do is to make them any worse." "As far as I'm concerned, the worst is over, Dad." "I have Danny. I won and you lost." "I've always lost with you, Steven." "Even when you were a little boy, you were closer to your mother than you were to me." "When she came back here to Denver after all those years, she did eveything possible to alienate us." "You didn't do so bad on that score yourself." "So can we leave her out of this, please?" "No, I can't." "In a few minutes, I'm gonna be meeting with her." "And what may come to pass could make an even greater rift between you and me." "I don't want that to happen, but if it does, I'd like you to know that I'm sory." "Genuinely sory that..." "About that whole painful episode with little Danny." "You just said it, Dad." "It's behind us." "It's over." "No, not exactly." "On that night, the night when it all started, I came to your apartment with a gift for Danny." "Some shares of Denver-Carrington stock." "I'd still like him to have that stock." "Thank you." "But my son doesn't need anything except what I just fought to get him." "The right to grow up happy with and be loved by his own father." "Excuse me, Dad, but I really have a lot of work to do." "Yes?" "Send her in." "Aren't you gonna tell me what an unexpected pleasure this is, Adam?" "Or isn't it?" "What do you want, Mother?" "I just got back from San Francisco." "I haven't been to my office yet." "And I want a copy of that paper that I signed yesterday before I left." "The letter of intent to bid on the China Sea oil leases." "What an outrageously good memoy you have, Adam, considering all the chores that you have here at Denver-Carrington." "Yes, the letter." "I signed three of them, and you forgot to leave one for me." "It's too late." "I sent all three copies to Hong Kong." "Hong Kong." "Yes." "Sino Ventures, Mr. Lloyd Morrissey." "Correct." "Strange." "When I talked to my man in San Francisco, he wanted more information, so he called Hong Kong." "And?" "He doesn't exist." "Of course he does." "All you have to do" "He does not exist." "Just what are you tying to do?" "A deal for Blake?" "Edge me out so that you and Blake can take over yourselves?" "Well, whatever it is, you're not gonna get away with it." "Hello?" "Sure, I'll bring them right over." "Alexis." "I don't remember having made an appointment with you." "You didn't." "Well, if it's about that merger business- ln a way, it is." "Blake, I'm vey busy this afternoon." "If you want to make an appointment for tomorrow, just speak to my secretay." "Take your hands off me." "I wanna talk to you right now." "I told you I was busy." "Now, will you take your hands off me?" "Mercuric oxide mixed with paint." "What are you talking about?" "It's what we're going to be talking about in your office." "Unless you wanna discuss it out here, loud and clear." "No." "I'll see you in my office." "Ryan, Mr. Carrington and I don't want to be disturbed." "Now, lust what is this bizarre behaviour all about?" "It's about a woman who tried to murder Jeff." "The co-owner of Cecil Colby's empire." "You're mad." "That's a lie." "is it?" "I'll spare you the details." "You already know them." "But the weapon was mercuric oxide." "Here are the copies of the purchase orders for that poison." "Signed by you." "What?" "You were clever enough to destroy the rest of that evidence." "What evidence?" "Adam told me about the painter who burned those panels, on your orders, so I can't see to it that you're locked up behind bars where you belong." "Adam." "But I will see to it that you give back to Jeff control of his Colbyco stock." "The merger." "The non-merger, you mean." "Because you're gonna call it off officially at the next board meeting." "Well, you lust told me that you can't prove anything." "What makes you think I'm gonna go through with this preposterous suggestion?" "Not think, Alexis. I know." "I warn you, if you're even five minutes late for that board meeting, I will not only inform the board members about this whole sickening stoy, I'll go public with it." "I'll leak details to the press about an unnamed rich widow who was prepared to murder to get what she wanted." "There will be enough clues in the stoy to destroy your reputation for good here in Denver." "And in the oil business as well." "Not even five minutes late." "Remember." "Get me Adam Carrington." "Adam?" "Yes, Mother." "I want to see you at my apartment immediately." "I'm vey busy." "I can't make it for half an hour." "Can't you at least tell me what it's about now?" "You known damned well what this is all about, my dear son." "And your days of getting away with it have just ended."