Dynasty s02e02 Episode Script

All rise.
Do you have a verdict? We do, Your Honor.
Please hand the verdict to the bailiff.
The verdict appears to be in order.
Will the clerk please read the verdict? "People of the State of Colorado v.
Blake Carrington.
Docket number 81 -CD-1 34.
We, the jury in the above entitled case find the defendant, Blake Carrington, guilty.
" - No.
I did not-- - Sit down.
Order, or I'll clear this courtroom.
"Guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
Joanna Hill, foreman.
" Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is this your verdict? So say you one, so say you all? Yes.
Does the defense wish to have the jury polled? No, Your Honor.
The prosecution? No, Your Honor.
Mr.
Carrington, are you prepared for immediate sentence from this court? Yes, I am.
Please rise.
The defendant is hereby sentenced to two years in state prison.
On the recommendation of the jury, that sentence is hereby suspended and the defendant is placed on two years' probation.
Your Honor, I wanna make a statement to this court.
- I am not guilty.
- Blake, shut up.
This whole thing has been a travesty.
The only crime here has been the trial.
The real crime is letting this man off on probation.
Don't press your luck, Mr.
Carrington.
And Mr.
Dunham, one more outburst from you and I'll hold you in contempt.
This case is closed.
All rise.
That was a real smart move, Laird, not cross-examining the first Mrs.
Carrington.
I wonder what scared you off? Must have been something real tasty.
Krystle, would you excuse us both for a moment? Blake.
We didn't win, Blake, but we didn't lose.
There are worse things than probation.
I want my name cleared.
I want an appeal.
Now, you draw up the papers today.
Blake, know when to leave well enough alone.
Why? I didn't murder that boy.
Now, you get me that appeal.
To accomplish what? You have enough to contend with.
An appeal would only keep feeding them more bad publicity.
It would keep the story alive.
Trust me.
Why did she strap me into these? I've been in a mental institution.
I thought this was a hospital.
It is.
It is.
But we can't keep sedating you, and we can't release our patients until they're ready to leave.
- And you're not.
- I'm fine.
- Look, I've never been better.
- You're not fine.
You don't look fine.
Besides, we've got this thing about our patients trying to sneak out on us.
Pride.
Ego.
You know? Look, I will make sure that no one straps you down again, if you just give us a break.
Stay put for a while, huh? I have to find my daughter.
I know that.
You know that? Well, if you know it, why can't I go? Do you know that I also can't pay my bill? Do you know that too, doctor? Do you know that my husband left me? I don't have any money.
I'm broke.
The bills are of no concern, Mrs.
Blaisdel.
You can stay here as long as necessary.
Everything's been taken care of.
By who? Mr.
Carrington.
Blake Carrington.
Dad.
Can we talk? What's there to talk about, Steven? You got what you wanted, didn't you? The guards have cooperated to keep the press back but they're ten deep around the elevator downstairs.
Is there some back way out? Yes.
Come on.
What's the matter, darling, are you all right? I just need some air.
I'll talk to you later.
- Mr.
Carrington.
- Yes? Ty Meredith from Inside Finance Magazine.
- Home office, New York.
- What can I do for you? I'm doing a story on Denver-Carrington.
Specifically, how is this trial gonna affect the company, from your point of view? Well, I'll give you the headline.
- Blake, please, no-- - No, Andrew.
As a matter of fact, I'll give you the story.
Very brief.
Save your magazine gallons of ink.
Business as usual.
Well, how can that be, Mr.
Carrington? You've just been convicted of manslaughter.
Get your hand off of me.
Or what, sir? More manslaughter? No, just a punch in the gut.
- And I'd be happy to deliver it for him.
- All right.
You've had your chance, Mr.
Carrington.
I'm gonna write that article with or without your cooperation.
Thank you, Jeff.
Are you all right, Daddy? I'm all right, fine.
Blake, that guy, forget it.
- It's not important.
- lsn't it? I control Denver-Carrington with the proxies of stockholders who trust me.
How long are they gonna trust a man who's been branded a killer? Fourth-floor nurses' station, please.
Yes, I'd like to inquire about the condition of a patient.
Mrs.
Claudia Blaisdel.
Yes, I did call earlier.
Still stable? Thank you.
It's after 3.
Is it? I hadn't really noticed.
Bran muffins.
Bran muffins.
See, I have this nervous habit of getting up in the middle of the night and baking every time my father gets convicted of manslaughter.
And they just happen to be your father's favorite, Fallon, right? You know, I'm reminded of a little girl I used to know.
Used to come down to this kitchen the night before his birthday, every year, and very furiously whip up a surprise breakfast for him.
Of chocolate fudge.
She loved him very much then.
It's good to see that she still does.
You know what's good to see? That you're still his friend.
Despite the difference in our stations, yes, we're good friends, Mr.
Carrington and l.
Stay good friends with him, Joseph.
Because you and l, we're all he's really got left around here.
Well, that makes two of us that can't sleep.
- Would you like a brandy? - Yes.
Thanks.
What happened in the courtroom this morning was so unfair, Blake.
Miscarriages of justice are as old as the law itself.
Well, it's done.
At least for now.
Of course, I'll appeal.
I'll Do you know what I've been doing tonight? Taking stock of my life.
Business and personal.
And how I've always used force of one kind or another to get what I wanted.
Now, that night I could have ordered Ted Dinard out of my son's life, not pushed him or pushed him back, however it happened.
You didn't mean for him to die.
No, I didn't.
But He is dead.
And the cost There's got to be a better way.
Can I change? You have the strength to do anything you want.
Do you know what I want? I want to go back to bed.
Your bed.
Why? It's not a night to be alone, not for either of us.
What's the matter? I'm not a charity case.
I don't need to be pitied.
- It's not pity.
- What is it, then? Love.
When I left you that night, I was hurt.
And when I came back, I was still hurt.
But not anymore.
I love you, Blake.
And I need you.
It's that simple.
Oh, we're back to the old stand? Or did you just drop in to mend his socks? Your father and l were together last night.
Oh, I'll bet you were.
And I don't have to guess who mailed out the invitation.
Tell me something, Krystle.
Do you really think going to bed with him makes up for him being found guilty? I don't.
It's thanks to what you did, walked out of that courtroom when my mother was testifying, that swayed the jury against him.
I did not walk out on him.
I was sick.
But not too sick to bed down with him.
Look, I have a husband, you have a husband.
I stay out of your marriage, you stay out of mine.
- Is that an order--? - All right, now, that is enough.
This is still my house.
And from now on, it's going to be a united house.
If you want to continue to live in it, Fallon, you better get that straight.
Bravo.
Oh, are we at the opera? Did the fat lady sing her high C and expire gloriously? Your father is going through one of the roughest times in his life, and you attack Krystle for loving and supporting him.
Give me a break, Jeff.
Oh, are you going to punch me in the gut, or something equally spectacular? I mean I was impressed.
Can't you understand that she loves him, the way I love you and the way you should love me.
Why don't you go downstairs and join them for breakfast? Aren't you coming? I'm suddenly not hungry.
Neither am l, really.
Well, then suck on a grapefruit.
You do love grapefruit too.
- Hello.
- Hello, Mother Blaisdel, it's Claudia.
- What is it? - I have to talk to you.
Is it true what they said about you? About you and that man? - Yes.
- Yes.
It disgusted me, Claudia.
Just like you disgust me.
Do you realize how that made me feel? Do you? - Yes.
- Do you really? Yes, I do.
My son did everything for you.
No man was a better husband.
How many other men would have taken that overseas job in that Mideast hell, just so he could pay to keep you in that sanitarium? Matthew was very good to me.
He was a wonderful husband.
But he's taken Lindsay.
And-- And you blame him for that? Yes, I blame him for that.
She's my child too.
She's my daughter.
Look, Mother, please, if you know where they are-- Claudia, you don't expect me to tell you that.
Of course, I expect you to-- Look, I'm begging you.
Do you want me to beg you? I'm begging you.
Please tell me.
Claudia? Hi.
I came by yesterday but you were sleeping.
I'm here to I'm here to tell you how sorry I am for what I've done to you, to your life, about Matthew and Lindsay, and what's happened.
I don't blame you, Steven.
And you shouldn't blame yourself.
Nobody forced me to be with you.
Nobody forced me to be unfaithful to Matthew.
I've loved two people, Ted and you.
I've cost him his life, I've destroyed yours.
Steven, please go.
I don't want to be with anybody right now.
Maybe ever.
Please, go.
Yes? Mrs.
Carrington is here to see you, sir.
She is? Well, send her in, please, Marcia.
Hello, Blake.
What do you want here? To talk.
Well, if you'll forgive me, I'm busy.
You always were busy, Blake.
I like it.
Very nice.
Much bigger than the office that you used to have.
Excellent decorator.
Anyone I know? Blake, I'm sorry that I had to come back.
You didn't have to come back.
You're right.
I wanted to come back.
I wanted my revenge.
My sweet, sweet revenge.
Only it turned out, after I got it, not to be so sweet after all.
I heard the verdict and there was no satisfaction.
- No? - No.
Because I saw you standing there, so wounded and yet so proud.
Your pride was always one of your most attractive qualities, Blake.
You always did circle before you attacked, Alexis.
All right, what is it? - You still despise me, don't you? - That's a good enough word.
Sometimes I think that you despised me even before that night.
And I certainly know that you've despised me since.
But that was me and Roger Grimes.
That was not Steven.
What does Steven have to do with this? Don't take out on your son what you feel about his mother.
I'm not.
Now, is that it? No.
No, that is not it.
You do, Blake.
You do.
I saw the way you rejected him in that courtroom.
- It was disgusting.
- Disgusting? What was disgusting was the way you got up on that stand and said what you said.
I don't wanna talk about that.
I'm talking about our son.
He's a beautiful, sensitive young man.
Whose lifestyle-- Thanks to you, who made him into a mama's boy when he was a child.
--put me in that courtroom.
What about you? You've had him for 1 6 formative years.
You've had every opportunity to mold him into your image, your strong, macho image.
But I didn't.
And what we have instead is a beautiful, sensitive young man.
Exactly.
Who needs to be handled.
Who the devil are you to come in here and tell me how to manage or not manage my children? - I'm his mother.
- Their mother.
I was talking about Steven.
All right.
You came back.
You said what you had to do, both here and in the courtroom.
Now please leave.
This office, this building and this city.
Blake, I go or I stay where I choose.
Michael? Michael? - Oh, Joseph, where's Michael? - Yes? Excuse me a moment.
Red roses in the living room, yellows in the library.
- Yes, Fallon? - Where's Michael? In the kitchen, loading up on freebie? Not quite.
He's gone.
Gone where? Well, I don't know.
He doesn't work here anymore.
I fired him today.
You what? I dismissed him.
With a month's severance pay, of course.
Where's my father? He's about to have lunch in the dining room.
You want Michael hired back and Joseph scolded? Well, I said reprimanded, but scolded will do just fine.
Well, you lose this one, Fallon.
What does that mean? Joseph was simply carrying out my orders.
The decision to fire my chauffeur and your in-house stud was mine.
Michael paid for his mistakes.
Why'd you have to fire him? - Why? - Because he was lazy and inept.
That's why.
Now, I'm busy and I'm tired.
Oh, Daddy, I know you are.
I know what you've been through, how you felt in that court.
It was so unfair.
It was all that woman's fault.
You mean your mother? Don't call her that.
Please, don't.
She's nothing to me.
If she's anything, she's dirt.
How could she hate a man like you, a wonderful man like you? Hard to fathom, isn't it? Yeah.
So can I have Michael back? No.
He was fired at this wonderful man's order and he's not coming back.
And from now on, this family is going to shape up.
Take on a new look and stance.
The morally upright Carringtons.
- Is that it? - That's exactly it.
The judge put you on probation, not me.
Fallon, I will ignore that because I know you didn't mean it.
But from now on, you are going to learn to behave decently, if it kills you.
I don't need a carbon copy of your mother in this house.
And that's what you are sometimes.
And it sickens me, do you hear? It sickens me.
It's so nice to have you home for lunch.
I can't tell you how pleasant it is to get away for an hour.
Blake, I don't know if this is the right time or climate to talk about this, but-- Talk about what? Well, it's about Steven.
What about Steven? This morning, you talked about the whole family being united.
And yesterday in court, when Steven came up to you, he tried-- Not that again, damn it.
Twice in one day, from both wives.
Now, that's enough.
Krystle, the last subject on earth I wanna hear another word about are my children.
So help me, there are times when I wished I'd never had them.
You can't mean that.
I do mean it.
I mean it from my soul.
Where are you going? Upstairs.
I don't feel like lunch now.
No.
No, stay.
I want you to hear this.
That night that I forced you-- The night that I wanted you to have my child.
It was even a bigger mistake than you thought.
The last reward that I need is another child.
And you were quite right to be angry with me.
Blake, we've been through this.
Yes, but it's settled now.
Really settled.
I was wrong and you were right.
I don't need another child.
I'm sorry.
I'm really very sorry.
You're the last person I wanna take this out on.
Say something.
- What am I supposed to say? - Say that you forgive me.
I know, I know.
It's become a habit, my outbursts and then you saying: "Blake, that's all right, really.
It's-- Really, it's all right.
" We've been through so much together.
Please forgive me.
Please? I do.
Well, you're angry.
Outraged is a better word.
You really wanted to see him locked up, didn't you? Of course I wanted him locked up.
Didn't you? Now, when you agreed to testify, I assumed Don't assume, Mr.
Dunham.
I thought that good lawyers never assumed.
Blake Carrington was found guilty.
Isn't that what you wanted? You've scored your points.
You've helped to blacken a powerful man's name.
Isn't that enough for you? You're a very complicated woman, Mrs.
Carrington.
You know that? It's been said of me a few times.
In a few languages.
You volunteered to come up here and testify against Blake Carrington.
Which you did, very effectively.
And now you're telling me that this murderer should be allowed to walk around free.
I'm not telling you anything.
You invited me here, remember? To ask me something, no doubt.
To ask me what, Mr.
Dunham? In our conversation and your testimony.
Is there anything you haven't told us? Anything you left out.
Any closets with skeletons that you haven't opened up for us.
You're not very subtle, are you? Why don't you just come right out and say it? That you would love to have something else, anything on Blake Carrington.
Listen, Mrs.
Carrington, I just watched Blake Carrington destroy the lives of two people that I care very much about.
Matthew and Claudia Blaisdel.
For no reason.
There was no way those people could possibly hurt him.
Yes, you're right.
I want Blake Carrington and I want him real bad.
Well, I wish I could help you.
But I'm afraid there are no skeletons in my closet, Mr.
Dunham.
Come on, now.
Come on, Mrs.
Carrington.
Look.
When we talked that first time on the phone when you were in Acapulco, you certainly implied that there were some bones rattling around.
- Did l? - Yes, you did.
You filled me in on the Roger Grimes affair.
And then you said, "There'll be more.
" And that's a direct quote, Mrs.
Carrington.
"There'll be more.
" Must have been a bad connection on your end.
Thank you for lunch.
All right, Mrs.
Carrington, I know when to give up.
So I give up.
But if your memory should improve, get in touch with me, all right? I'll use that information where it'll do the most good.
Let me know when you go back to Mexico.
I'll have a car take you to the airport.
That's very kind of you, but I'm not leaving Denver yet.
Not until all my business is finished.
Who's in here? I.
I thought I saw the door open.
How did you get past the gate? I told the gateman who I was.
Need I remind you, Joseph? Need I remind you there is a present Mrs.
Carrington? Still the haughty major-domo.
But I really shouldn't complain.
After all, I'm the one who hired you and taught you.
You certainly appreciated it then.
I would appreciate knowing what you are doing here now.
I am revisiting my past.
Checking up on my progress as an artist.
I wasn't very good then, was l, Joseph? I'm not a critic.
Tinker, tailor, house spy, perjurer, but not a critic.
Oh, well, I don't suppose we can be everything to everyone.
Perjurer? I don't think-- In fact, I know that not all of what you said on the stand was true.
I see.
Does that mean that we are even, so to speak? Us, even? You have reminded me that I am simply a major-domo.
How could we ever be even? - I'd like to be alone here.
- Well, of course.
Alone with your tenderest memories.
Mrs.
Carrington, there's something that I think one of the servants should bring to you.
- Really? And what is that? - Yes.
It's a scrapbook that I've kept through the years.
What sort of scrapbook? It's about you.
Clippings from newspapers.
You know, those scandal sheets.
They sell so well in the local supermarkets these days.
Joseph, don't tell me that you read that trash.
Do you, Joseph? Alone, at night, in bed.
Well, it's the only way I've kept track of your travels and doings.
Titillating stuff.
Very titillating.
That party with those beach boys.
On the isle of Kauai, was it? And that terrible row on the Greek tycoon's yacht between you and his wife, that wretchedly unhappy woman.
Go on, Joseph.
You really want me to? It would take an hour to review your past.
You always were insolent.
You thrive on it, don't you? Well Depends on who my target is.
You just happen to be a built-in bull's-eye.
Poor, lonely Joseph.
Still the impotent voyeur.
I'd love to see the scrapbook, Joseph.
Do send it over.
That will be all.
Mr.
Carrington, Mr.
Laird.
Your usual? - Yes, Bernie, the usual.
- You look real chipper, counselor.
Well, I just won an argument with my friend here and I'm buying.
I'm gonna use the phone.
I'll be right back.
Well, Mr.
Prosecutor.
Mr.
Carrington.
Making notes in case there's an appeal? - Maybe.
- Not gonna be an appeal.
Really? No, we decided not to pursue it, even though I am innocent.
Innocent.
Let me remind you, Carrington, you were convicted.
You're a very lucky man just to be walking around on these streets.
Strange, isn't it, Dunham? How you always seem to make the wrong choices.
What's that supposed to mean? Well, I offered you a lot of money once to play on my football team.
You opted instead to go to law school.
What'd you do with your legal career? Another wrong choice.
You decided to advance your political career at my expense by using the accidental death of some homosexual who-- Wait a minute, pal.
Wait a minute.
Look, I don't even know if you're capable of understanding this.
I don't care whether Ted Dinard was a homosexual or a heterosexual or an asexual.
My job is to defend the rights of people-- All different kinds of people.
--by prosecuting violations of the law.
The law.
Now I know what they mean by that expression: "Justice is blind.
" It is blind.
Because of people like you, pal.
- Who is it? - It's Krystle.
Hello, Steven.
Krystle.
I tried calling quite a few times but there was no answer, so I thought I'd just drop by.
I'd like to talk to you about your father.
I'd rather not.
Steven, I'm not your father and I never tried to be your mother.
But I am your friend.
On that basis, may I come in? Someone to see you.
Well, Steven About the other day, sorry for being abrupt and walking away from you.
That's in the past, Dad.
- This is now.
- Yes.
You do realize that I was under considerable strain and pressure.
- I do.
- That verdict saying that I was guilty when I was not guilty.
But, as you say, that's in the past.
Now we Carringtons have to look into the future.
Make sure that our name stands for something that's good.
I've spoken to Fallon.
As for you, Steven, considering what's happened, I'm sure that you're ready to change some of your values.
My values? You'd like me to move back home again.
Well, it's nice to hear you use that word.
Because this is your home.
It always has been and always will be.
Go on working my way up with Denver-Carrington? That's right.
That's where your future is.
You know that.
And date the right kind of girls? I mean, say, the Randolphs' daughter.
You like her parents.
Yes, Krystle and I do like them.
They're good people.
Now, as for us, Iet me say that, on my part, I'm willing to make the first move to forgive you for having testified against me.
Me, your father, and some rather damaging testimony.
I told the truth.
You what? I told the truth, Dad.
And you forgiving me Well, let me say this: I don't forgive you.
Then why the hell did you come to this house? For some remorse.
Whose remorse? Yours.
Remorse.
To try to find some of it in your heart.
Just a little.
But it's just business at the same old stand, isn't it? You forgive me.
I can't believe you said that.
Steven.
Don't you walk away from me.
I'm your father.
With a father like you, I'd rather be an orphan.
Ted wasn't enough, was he? No, you're not gonna be satisfied until you've destroyed all of us.
I should have known that it wouldn't work.
How could it, Blake? The other evening, you said things would change around here.
They haven't.
Things? You're talking about me, aren't you? Are you walking out on me too, Krystle? Krystle? Krys-- Joseph? Joseph! Call Dr.
Miller immediately.
Oh, darling.
I know, it's this trial.
It's gotten to all of us, the strain.
It's not the strain.
I think I'm pregnant.
Dr.
Miller still up with Mrs.
Carrington? Why's he taking so long? I don't know.
I've come about something else.
Well, that can wait.
I must see the doctor first.
I'm sorry, but I think this is something you should look into now.
And just what do you think you are doing here? Hotels have always bored me.
Except maybe the du Cap in Antibes.
Why aren't you headed back to Acapulco? Maybe I'm getting tired of wandering.
Maybe I'm getting tired of all that Mexican food.
And that hot sun is so bad for one's skin.
All right, I asked you once, now I want a straight answer.
Just what do you think you're doing here? Exactly what it looks like.
This studio is mine, remember? You gave it to me when Steven was born, Iock, stock and barrel.
And no law in the country can change that.
Not even yours.
I'm moving in.