Dynasty s01e09 Episode Script

Jeanette, I wanna talk to Peter Burroughs.
Get him on the telephone for me, will you? This hour? Get him for me.
I'll be in the library.
[ Blake .]
No.
! No.
! No, Peter.
! [ Blake .]
No.
! No.
! No, Peter.
! Blaisdel.
Matthew Blaisdel.
Well, I've just come from a party at the Patricks' and I heard that somebody gave him the money to fish the bit out of that rig of his.
Well, it means that he's started up his operation, that's what it means.
I wanna know who it was that gave him that money.
Yes.
Yes, indeed, I have my suspicions.
Yes.
Yes, I suspect it could be Patrick.
Or it could be Harrison or MacReady or Wilson or Manning or Colby.
You name it.
Correction, Peter.
You find out.
They're your friends, Blake.
Hmm? Colby, Harrison and the others.
They're old friends.
It wasn't one of them.
How do you know that? Because I know them.
I feel it.
Well, let me tell you something about friends, Krystle my friends.
[ Sighs .]
In this business, your only friend is a dead enemy.
The minute you hit the ground, these friends will turn on you like a pack of hungry dogs.
Why do you say that? Well, because if the situation was reversed I would do the same to them.
You're trembling.
It's just that it's cold in here, and I don't enjoy seeing you upset.
You know something? You are the only person in this whole, burntout world that I feel comfortable with.
I mean really comfortable.
That's awfully nice to hear.
Sometimes the pressures are so heavy that I know.
Now, Fallon.
She's never been easy but I think she's beginning to come around now that she's married toJeff.
Notice any change in her? Yes.
Now, Steven He'll come around too, Blake.
You'll see.
[ Chuckles .]
""Blake.
'' You know, when Steven was born his mother wanted to name him ""Blake,'' and I said Well, I said no.
I had no reason why.
I just said, ""Let's name him after your father.
'' You think the boy might have sensed that? Do you think that could've affected him in some way? I don't think so.
Krystle, our child, when we have one and I know we're gonna have one soon we'll call him Blake, all right? Our child, the one that you will give me.
Hi, honey.
Be ready in a minute.
I'm looking for a job.
Why? Well I want a job.
It's piping hot, so blow on it.
Claudia, things financially, they're not that rough.
In fact, they're getting pretty good again.
I know that.
I'm glad.
I wanna go to work.
Maybe that's a better way of putting it.
What about Lindsay? Don't you think she needs you more than you need a job? Well, of course she does.
She's at school most of the day.
Anyway, I don't plan on working nights.
I'll be home every day from 4:00 to 5:00.
Claudia, I can support my family.
I don't need for anyone to think otherwise.
Matthew, nobody's gonna think that.
Good.
It's settled.
No more talk of work and jobs and all that.
Matthew, it is not settled.
It's not settled at all.
Don't worry.
Nobody's going to say that Matthew Blaisdel needs hormone shots just 'cause his wife's got a parttime job.
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean that.
Look.
I never went to college, you know? I'm not blaming you for that.
I made you a mother at 1 6.
You didn't do it by yourself, you know.
I know, but Well, it seems that you had so much goin' for ya I mean ahead of you and all.
You never got to go to college.
You didn't even finish [ Claudia .]
It doesn't matter.
We were kids.
We got into trouble.
We made a mistake.
We have to figure a way to stop punishing each other, to forgive each other for that, huh? I know.
H Breakfast is ready.
No.
I'm not very hungry.
And I'm late.
No.
It's early.
I'm really late, and I have to go.
Hey, Matthew! Tom, you got a problem? Yeah.
I thought the rig was runnin' pretty smooth, but something funny started happening.
I think maybe you'd better take a look at that B.
O.
P.
Why don't you get Walter to do it? I gotta make a phone call.
Wait a minute.
Walter's sacked out.
He's been working all night.
You really don't want me to wake him up, do you? Not if you value your life.
All right.
Let's take a look.
Listen, I told my brotherinlaw to stop by and see you.
He's a good roughneck.
You know what I'm thinkin'? Somebody pulled this screw out.
That's why we twisted off.
And I think I know who did it.
So the bartender comes in.
He's looking at an orangutan.
He says, ""Look, man, you're costin' me money.
'' The orangutan looks up and says, ""If you're charging them 1 0 bucks a bourbon like you're charging me, man, you're gonna lose them and me at the same time.
'' [ Man .]
Ooh! Hey, you run 'em again, I'm gonna start cryin' a lot.
Hey.
How you doin', Matthew? Fine.
Just fine.
Thought I'd catch up with you at the rig.
Well, I'm just takin' a break.
Man's entitled.
Sure is.
Besides, I'm celebratin; You got all the money again to start up with the work.
How'd you get it, anyway? I made it a practice never to discuss my business with other people.
Good idea.
So what's on your mind? Oh, beer, a little conversation.
Well, sounds good to me, 'cept my friend here, the hustler has just left me something to play with.
Steven Carrington didn't twist us off.
He was set up.
You sayin' that I did that, Matthew? Take it anyway you want.
Well, why don't you go back and ask young Miss Carrington about it, huh? I'm askin' you.
Well, a kinda question like that could end up with you chewin' on a cue stick [ Men Laughing .]
if you get my meaning.
Why don't you go back and ask your sissy friend? I'd rather have a sissy for a friend than a sneak and a coward.
Are you sayin' that about me, Matt? I don't see anyone else in this room that fits that description.
[ Man .]
Hey.
! Come on.
! Hey, fellas.
! [ Continues, Indistinct .]
Break it up.
! Break it up.
! Come on,you guys.
! Break it up.
! Hey.
! [ Continues Shouting, Indistinct .]
Get up here! Let's go! Come on! [ Men Yelling .]
[ Matthew .]
Get up! Get up! [ Gasping .]
Who paid ya? You're crazy! Who paid ya to twist us off? Let me go! You're crazy! [ Gasping .]
Who? I did it on my own.
[ Gasping .]
Who? Damn you! Who? Carrington's people.
[ Gasping .]
I'm gonna give you some advice.
I don't wanna see your miserable face again.
You got that? Well, Matthew, you look like you've been in some kind of a scrape.
You've probably heard about it by now.
And who was the unlucky man at the other end of those sometimes notorious fists? Names don't mean anything.
None of my business, huh? Well, can I pour you a drink? No.
How 'bout a Havana? I know you don't want your old job back.
Heard your good news.
You're in business again, you and Walter.
That's right, Blake.
Well, all right then, Matthew, what are you here for? I wanna know what kind of man would let his son take the rap for something he didn't do for something his own father set up.
Oh.
That, huh? So I'm suspected of that, am I? The trouble with you, Matthew, is two things: One, you're as quick with your accusations as you are sometimes with your fists.
And two,you're really very emotional, aren't you? I mean, under that cool layer of hide, there sits an emotional streak that says something to me that you're not cut out for that new managerial position of yours.
You know, Blake, I used to respect you.
I used to think you were the smartest man I'd ever known, but you're losin' it.
You're dyin'in it.
You're operating the old way.
Trouble is, the day of the old tycoon the oil baron is over.
And like them, you don't have any values anymore.
You don't give a damn about anybody or anything.
Oh, come on, Matthew.
You're talking about America, the American dream.
Laissezfaire.
Mother.
Apple pie.
Petroleum.
I'm talkin' about how you poison just about every damn thing you touch.
Just about everything, huh? Including my wife? Does that include the only thing that you really want? I know you, Matthew.
We've been friends, and we've been enemies too.
I know one thing about you, that you're honest.
So you look me right in the eye and you tell me that you still don't think about Krystle every night and every day.
Day and night.
You do that, and I'll call off my dogs.
Oh, Mrs.
Gunnerson, is that for me? No.
It's for Steven.
Do you know if he's still in his room? Uh, I think so.
Oh, Mrs.
Gunnerson, I forgot something.
I'm going back upstairs.
Why don't you just give that to me? I'll give it to him.
Mrs.
Gunnerson? Of course.
Get thee behind me, Satan! [ Screams, Gasps .]
Uh, it's for you, Steven.
Well, how about that? Well, it could've been for me.
The ""Steven'' isn't very clear.
Besides, I thought it might be an emergency from Jeff in the Middle East dodging all the cross fire and stuff.
You don't like him being there.
Well, I think it was pretty dumb of his uncle to send him now.
Well, Cecil Colby obviously knows that he's gonna do a pretty good job.
Otherwise, he would've sent somebody else.
Aren't you gonna open it? Yes, I am.
Well, who do you think it's from, Stevie? Oh, I know who it's from.
Are you at least talking to me? Look, Mrs.
Nemerover's holding the part open for you.
I don't wanna do it.
Well, you don't have to kiss him.
What are your parents going to say? I don't know.
I don't care.
Look, your mom told my mom that she's nearly finished making your costume Would you lay off about my parents, Tania, please? I'm sorry.
Lindsay, what's with you? Are you in trouble? I mean, when you cut class You wanna know where I went? I'll tell you, and I don't care who you tell.
I went to the county clerk's office to check on my parents' marriage certificate.
[ Sobbing .]
I found out they had to get married because of me.
Oh.
Well, hey, that's okay.
I mean, come on.
You're not the first one that's happened to.
And it's not your fault.
Well, I mean, it's not your parents' fault either.
Maybe they couldn't help themselves.
Oh, Lindsay, it's not the end of the world.
Hi, darling.
Hi.
You have an accident? Nothing big.
You look tired.
Well, I guess I am.
I don't know.
I just felt like I wanted to come home and spend a little time with my family.
Walter's handling things, and Bobby's come back.
Is that the dress Lindsay's wearin' for the play? That's pretty.
Where is she? She's upstairs in bed.
This early? She said she wasn't feeling well.
I think there's something going around.
I'll fix you some pork chops, okay? They're really good.
No, honey.
I ate with the crew.
Are you sure? I'm sure.
I'm gonna go look in on Lindsay.
Here you are.
I didn't ask for that.
Well, I know, but I thought you might want some.
Krystle, I'm busy.
You see, I'm tryin' to make some sense out of this mess.
Can't it wait till morning? Are you coming to bed? Yeah.
In a while.
Soon.
Soon.
Hi! Hello, Fallon.
Did you have a good time? Yes, I did.
Sorry to disappoint you.
Why would that disappoint me? Well, because my husband's out of town and according to your bourgeois ethical system I should've been locked in my room with a Bronte novel.
In case you're interested, my escort tonight was Muffins Begley you know, of Begley Bed I mean, Begley Bread.
Begley Bread and muffins, and pastries, whatever.
Is Dad home? Is Steven home? Oh.
Good night.
Backgammon, anyone? Monopoly? Steal the Old Man's Bundle? Anything to cheer up a deserted old wife.
How 'bout lettin' a little old brother get some sleep? Why? What did you do today that you're so tired? I spent the whole day thinking.
Oh! God knows that can be worse than work.
Thinking about what? About what I'm going to do.
Well, there's Dad's offer.
Don't sell him short, Stevie.
Okay.
I've waited all day to ask, and that's a record.
Who'd you get the telegram from? You know that, Fallon.
Your Ted? Ted.
And Ted said? Or said Ted? That he was going to be in Los Angeles tomorrow and that he was going to be in San Francisco the day after and he wanted me to meet him at either place, okay? Well, the question is, is it okay with you? I mean, do you wanna meet him or be with him in either place? I'm not sure.
Steven, remember when you were little? You had every little girl in this place doing flipflops all over you.
How did you feel then about those girls? I was attracted.
And that they were very pretty, a lot of them.
Well, some of them still are.
And they're still doing flipflops too.
Have you ever tried with one of them? Have you ever tried with any girl? You haven't, have you? Steven, if you haven't even tried how are you gonna know who you really are or what you are? Maybe I'll never know, Fallon.
I don't know why we are what we are.
We haven't had a mother around for a very long time.
That could be it.
Ohh.
Here I am, the scandal of Colorado, and here you are Blake Carrington's mistake.
Boy, we are a pair.
Phew.
Well, whatever we are, I know one thing: You're scared.
And so am I.
Lots of stuff still scares me like I won't amount to anything that I won't measure up to Blake Carrington.
Remember how after our mother left, I couldn't sleep for six months? I used to come in here, and we'd hold hands in the dark wondering where she went and why she went and never knowing.
Remember how I used to tell you how much I loved you and cared about you? No.
I don't remember any of that.
Well, I'm telling you again now.
I got word you wanted to see me.
Yeah.
I still owe you a half week's wages.
Is that all? No.
When I apologize to a man, I like to do it facetoface.
Apologize? For what? It was Ed who twisted us off.
I know that.
We all do.
I'm offering you your job back, Steven, if you still want it.
I don't want it, Matthew.
Steven, people make mistakes.
They Mistakes? You call it a mistake.
I call it something else.
Like what? Like I wonder if you and the rest would've been so quick to condemn one of the others.
Well, what are you tryin' to say? You know damn well what I'm tryin'to say.
! Matthew, they strung me up.
They took a rope, tied it around my ankles, hoisted me up and let me hang there.
And you you didn't even talk to me.
You just took it for granted that ""the faggot'' did it.
Mrs.
Blaisdel? Yes? It's Ed, from out on the rig.
Oh, Ed.
Hi.
How are you? I guess you bet against ever seeing me in a bookstore, huh? Well What happened to your face? Did you get in that accident out at the drill site? Oh, didn't Matthew tell you? Oh, well, him and me, we had a disagreement, guess you'd call it.
Anyway, I'm not workin' there anymore.
I'm sorry.
That's okay.
I didn't care for the job.
Tell you the truth, I don't care for your husband.
That doesn't go for you.
I mean given how you were in that place, locked up and everything.
I was in a hospital, Ed.
I wasn't locked up.
There's a difference.
Well, whatever.
Well, still, it can't be too much fun bein' married to Matthew behavin' the way he does.
And how does he behave, Ed? You mean to say you don't know? [ Huffs .]
Hey, l Do you got a book on orchids? I got a friend tells me that I should have a hobby you know, something to do in my spare time? And he says that to raise orchids is really pretty easy.
All you have to have is a little moss and a little, um Ed, look, you came here to tell me something, so why don't you just tell me? Well, um all the time that you were in that place, you know your fairhaired Matthew Blaisdel, he was foolin' around with another woman.
I mean, everybody knew about it and I just figured that you got a perfect right to know too.
You're a fine credit to the human race, Ed.
You really deserve a medal.
What woman? [ Stuttering .]
Well, maybe I said too much already.
What woman, Ed? Well, the one that is married to Blake Carrington.
Name of Krystle.
You all right, Ms.
Blaisdel? Get the hell out of here, Ed.
[ Woman On P.
A.
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TransAllied Flight Number 1 38 departing Los Angeles International to Kansas City is ready for boarding at Gate 3 2.
Mr.
Ted Dinard, please report to the front desk.
Mr.
Ted Dinard, please report to the front desk.
[ On P.
A.
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Mr.
Ted Dinard, report to the front desk, please.
Will Mr.
Ted Dinard please report to the front desk? Hi.
I'm Ted Dinard.
Oh, yes, sir.
That young lady right there.
Hi.
I'm Fallon Colby.
Steven Carrington's sister.
Hello.
Hello.
I happen to know you're on your way to San Francisco from L.
A.
Why don't you just turn in your ticket and let me give you a lift? You know, somehow I always imagined that the private Carrington jet would be a 7 47.
Well, we thought about it, but we figured it might be a bit much.
Besides, who wants to climb stairs? Oh? I thought you and my brother lived together for a while in a walkup.
Perry Street, wasn't it? Yes.
Perry Street.
I still live there.
You don't sound like a New Yorker.
You're not, are you? I'm from North Dakota originally.
But I never really felt I belonged there.
Because you're gay? No.
I hated the weather.
Oh.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Fallon, you're not spending $50 a minute on fuel to talk to me about geography and cold winters.
Oh, don't let that worry you.
We fly this crate around whenever, wherever we want.
It's a tax writeoff.
You want me out of your brother's life.
Yes, I do.
And if you care about him at all, you will.
Why? Can you tell me why? Because you're gonna cost him everything.
Because someday he's gonna say he threw it all away.
Threw what away, Fallon? His father's love, for one thing, and his father's respect.
Steven may not care to admit that, but he wants it very much.
Hmm.
Not to mention the Carrington power.
That too.
Mm.
Power to do what, Fallon? Make a fortune? That, yes.
You know, you don't even allow that Steven maybe just maybe doesn't want the power or the money.
Ted, Steven comes from a world where culls and cripples and homosexuals are taken behind a barn and slaughtered before they can be given a chance to breed.
There is a certain charm about you, you know that? Well, I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is.
Fallon, who the hell is more perverted me or Blake Carrington, who goes around crushing human souls? I read about him, hear about him strangling corporations the people inside those corporations, and for what, Fallon? More money? I mean, how many millions does he have to have? Me, I'm not askin' for a whole lot out of life.
Steven isn't asking for much either.
Don't you think Steven has the right to choose what kind of life he's going to live? Don't you think you should at least give him some more time? You're not going anyplace, except right now to San Francisco.
Fallon Fallon, have you ever loved anybody? Well, of course.
I I mean, really loved somebody.
More than money or power more than your own life even.
I'm sorry.
I guess I haven't.
It's all right.
Don't be sorry.
You're probably lucky.
One more question.
Have you ever had the lobster at Nat's in San Francisco? No, I haven't.
Would you join me? I mean, since neither one of us seems to be ""going anyplace''? Hmm? Hi.
You know, I've been thinkin' about what we were talkin' about.
Well, you know, the business of going to see Dr.
Jordan together.
I, uh I think maybe I'm ready to give it a shot.
I don't want to.
But it was your idea.
I've changed my mind.
What do you mean, you changed your mind? Is somethin' somethin' wrong? Ed, your drilleryour exdriller came to see me today at the bookstore.
Yeah? What'd he want? Wanted to talk to me.
About what? Orchids.
Orchids? I'm going to bed, Matthew.
I'm gonna turn out the light.
Sorry I'm late, darling, but you know how the girls are when we get together.
Blake, are you all right? Blake? This what you looking for? Your birth control pills? [ Case Snaps Open .]
She loves me.
[ Snaps .]
She loves me not.
She loves me.
She loves me not.
What are you doing? Doing what? Why are you doing that? I thought we had some kind of an understanding something we were going to share a child that we were gonna have together a child that we both wanted very, very much.
Blake, I need some time to sort things out.
Sort things out? I thought you knew everything about me before we got married about my desire for that child.
Is it that I'm surrounded by people who can only betray me people who say that they believe in me and then don't? My son is in love with another man.
My daughter is in love with sex.
She's probably still sleeping with every player on my football team.
My wife Who knows what my wife is doing behind my back.
What are you doing? Blake, you don't look well.
I'm gonna call the doctor.
No! Don't! Come over here! Blake! You're my wife! You do what I tell you to do when I tell you to do it.
Blake! Stop, Blake! Blake, you're choking me! No.
No.
No! [ Gasping .]
No! No!