Dynasty s02e14 Episode Script

-Yes, who is it? - It's Joseph.
Oh, well, come in, Joseph.
- Well, good morning.
- Morning.
Mr.
Carrington? Yes, what is it? Is something wrong? Well, I've been thinking.
Since you can see again, and since you still don't want anyone to know about it Yes? Well, if there's a plan that you have in mind, couldn't I be more helpful to you if I knew what it was? Well, thank you very much, but what I have in mind, I'm gonna have to do by myself.
Incidentally, Joseph, there's no need for you to sleep here anymore.
If anybody asks, just say that I'm getting used to my blindness.
Yes.
All right.
Hello, Steven.
Mother.
Well, I'm glad to see that you're still keeping yourself in shape even at your advanced age.
You know, when you were a little boy, you used to brag to me: "Mummy, I did 20 push-ups today.
" Well, I think that now might be a good time to get a few things settled between us about your little wife.
She has a name, Mother.
Sammy Jo.
Sammy Jo.
Yes, I keep trying to remember that.
Maybe one day I shall.
Or maybe not? Preferably not.
Steven, why did you tell her that Fallon wasn't Blake's daughter? - I never did.
- Then how did she find out? Do you talk in your sleep? No.
She overheard us the day you came in and pulled me out of Dad's room.
When you read me the riot act.
Well, she heard just enough to ask a few questions.
Well, you didn't have to answer them.
There was no gun to your head.
What do you mean, gun to my head? We're married.
Well, what's that got to do with it? A lot.
We're man and wife.
We trust each other.
You know, maybe if you and Dad had trusted each other a little more-- That's enough, Steven.
Look, I told her to forget what she heard.
She said she would.
And she will.
I'm sure she will.
That's like telling a rattlesnake to forget how to strike.
Look, you pass the word on to your wife, Steven.
If I ever hear of another time that she has breathed a word about Fallon's paternity, I will personally attach tiny hand grenades to each of the wheels on her roller skates, watch her do one of her ever-loving pirouettes and applaud as she explodes into a thousand smithereens.
Is that understood? - Hi.
- Good morning.
Did you lose my phone number again? I've been driving around since dawn.
Come on in.
- I couldn't sleep.
- Want some coffee? No, thank you.
What's bothering you, Fallon? Well, I wanted to talk to you about the way my mother came to see you.
That's okay.
Just call it a maternal gesture.
- It's okay.
- It isn't okay.
She Sit down.
She had no right to try and turn you around about me.
I'm so ashamed.
What are you ashamed of? You had nothing to do with it.
I really didn't, you know? I hope you believe that.
I believe you.
As far as the visit's concerned, Iet's say I was more entertained than anything else.
Because I mean so little to you? Oh, no, Fallon.
That's not it.
You know, if we had met sooner, you know, maybe This other woman, are you in love with her? Well, it's the last thing in the world I planned on.
Yes, I am.
Well, I guess Goodbye, Nick.
I-- Goodbye.
- Toscanni here.
- Nick, Blake Carrington.
I guess we missed each other at the hearing last Tuesday, huh? Yeah, well, Blake, I had an emergency call.
I hope you got a little more time this morning, because I must talk to you.
Oh, say, in my office about 1 1? Blake, what's this all about? Can't we handle it on the phone? If we could, would I ask you to come to my office? All right, I'll see you at 1 1.
Right.
- Joseph, is that you? - It's me, Blake.
Oh, Krystle.
Come in, sit down, won't you? I've been waiting for Joseph to read the editorials to me, but later.
I was hoping that you'd be free to have lunch with me today here at home.
Are you? - Yes, I'd love to.
- Good.
It's been awful seeing you eat all your meals alone.
Well, I didn't think I'd be very good company.
Anyway, at lunch, there's something rather important that I wanted to talk to you about.
Something like what? Just something.
I'll see you then, all right? All right.
Oh, and while you're here, would you be good enough to call up and ask them to bring my car around front? Sure.
And I'd like very much for you to go on that field trip with Jeff tomorrow.
Is that why you asked me to meet you here? How many times do we have to go through this damn waltz? You really don't wanna work for me, do you? I mean, for Denver-Carrington.
- That's right.
- That's right.
You wanna be a racing car driver.
How many times do we have to go through that ridiculous waltz? You know something? If you'd spend some time with Jeff, some of his more industrious qualities might rub off on you, including a sense of responsibility.
Look, do me a favor, Dad.
Give up on this son.
Why don't you adopt Jeff? Sorry, I was delayed downstairs.
You have a visitor.
The ex-Mrs.
Carrington.
I'll be outside.
Blake.
Alexis, I'm very sorry but I'm busy.
Didn't Marcia tell you that? Yes.
Yes, she did.
But I have to talk to you, Blake.
It's about Steven's wife.
She's been charging things to him.
What sort of things? Well, a full-length mink coat for one.
I saw her myself ordering it at the furrier's the other day.
And then Deirdre called me this morning and told me that she had seen her admiring a very expensive emerald brooch at Carlyle's.
And I overheard her telling one of the servants that she just loved the Jaguars and was planning on buying one for herself soon.
Not the cat.
You mean the car.
Definitely not the cat.
Well, doesn't she know that Steven can't possibly afford to pay for all those things? Yes, of course, she does.
I told her that myself.
Then she threw me one of her cheap little dime-store smirks and stalked off.
Blake, I know you're busy and I probably could have telephoned you about this, but I was in town shopping.
Oh, that awful letter's been on my mind.
What letter? Well, you mustn't be angry at Fallon for telling me about it.
She was so upset and so am l.
Oh, Blake, how could anybody be so cruel to you? Thank you for your concern, Alexis, but it's not that important.
Blake, it is important.
A poison-pen letter about Krystle and Nick Toscanni having an affair.
It's vicious.
Well, letters like that belong in the trash can and that's the end of it.
- No, no, it's not the end of it.
- What do you mean by that? Well, I've been thinking.
Maybe it's somebody from the old days.
Somebody who really hated you for your success and bore you a grudge.
Now, they knew that you couldn't see the handwriting, but maybe if I saw it, I could recognize Well, didn't Fallon tell you? That letter was not handwritten.
The words were cut out and pasted together.
No, no, she didn't tell me.
She was too distraught.
You're upset.
I'm sorry I brought it up.
I was only trying to help.
No, no, no, I understand.
And you are right.
I do have an enemy out there, but I'll deal with him.
I'll deal with him by myself.
It's so wonderful to see you like this again.
That splendid Carrington pride.
It's what I always used to love most about you when we were married.
And in ltaly, and now this morning.
I suppose that's taking advantage of you.
But isn't that what you did that night at Rashid's villa? In the garden, that kiss? Which I apologized for.
Yes, but I'm not apologizing.
- Yes? - Excuse me, sir.
Dr.
Toscanni is here.
Oh, well, send him in please, Marcia.
Well, I better be going.
I'm sure you both have a lot to talk about.
Remember how you once said to me: "Whoever hurts me or my family, we never fail to pay them back"? - Did I say that? - Right in this office.
Well, you know me, Blake.
Brought up on ltalian operas.
Lots of passion, big emotions.
How about revenge? Now, that's a big emotion.
I know how that feels.
The overwhelming need to pay back a man who has ruined your life.
Wait a minute, Blake.
Did you get me here to talk about who threw the bomb? No, not my revenge.
Yours.
Against me.
Now, what the hell are you talking about? - Where'd you get this weird idea? - Weird? I've checked into your family background.
I know about your half-brother, Gianni Mullaney.
I know that you blame me for his death.
Well, for some godforsaken reason, you're holding me to blame for your brother's death, aren't you? And you came here to Denver so you could-- Make you pay.
That's right.
- Thank God, it's out in the open.
- Except that it's absolutely wrong.
I never knew anything at all about your brother being in jail.
Now, don't you hand me that crud.
A kid gets locked up on drug charges and they forget to notify the people he worked for? I was notified.
They sent me a cable.
But I got it a week later out in the field.
It was half the world away.
I was in lndonesia.
If you want proof, you can check my itinerary-- Forget it.
- ltineraries can be altered.
- Well, mine wasn't.
- You listen-- - You listen.
One word from you could've saved my brother's life.
One word.
But you conveniently lost your voice, didn't you? All right.
In your book, I'm devious and I'm corrupt and you don't believe me.
But do you honestly believe that I'd be stupid enough to tell you any of this if my hands weren't clean? Do you? Nick, you've got no reason to bear a grudge against me and you know it.
That's a lot of rug you're trying to pull from underneath me.
You know, I've been carrying this for a long time.
Waking up in the middle of the night seeing my brother Kid brother just In that prison there alone, nobody to help him.
Just hanging there in a cell.
And here we are standing face-to-face.
And you're talking to me and What you say, it sounds almost logical.
It is, because it's honest.
And in your emotional state, you could have been misled, you know? I guess maybe I did you an injustice.
- You mean that? - Yes.
Well, you didn't actually do anything.
You planned a vendetta but you didn't do anything.
- Or did you? - No, Blake, I didn't do anything.
But I guess that tears things with us.
Why? Why? You're too valuable a man to lose.
Unless, of course, you feel uncomfortable about something.
- No, Blake.
I can live with it.
- Good, good.
Well, Nick, as far as I'm concerned, this meeting clears the air.
Shall we shake on it? Thank you, Blake.
Thank you very much.
Marcia, will you call my wife and confirm the fact that I'll be home for lunch? And I expect her to be there.
Here's to good fortune.
Is it about Lindsay? My people finally managed it.
We've traced your daughter.
Oh, my God.
Where? Where is she? Tracking her down was quite a job, Claudia.
I know.
I'm very grateful to you.
Quite a job.
We-- We had a whole platoon of my men working on it all through South America.
Must have cost a lot of money.
Listen, I will pay back every penny that you spent.
I promise.
It doesn't matter.
The money means nothing to me, you know that.
What are you getting at? I'm a businessman.
I make deals.
A good deal is one in which both sides get what they want.
- I want my daughter.
- Of course you do.
And I want something from you.
Access to Denver-Carrington's oil-shale extraction process.
There's a camera in here.
It's very easy to operate.
In a few minutes of your lunch hour next week, I want you to take a couple of snapshots for me.
You want me to spy for you? Hardly that, Claudia.
I'd call it returning a favor, between two people who need each other's What's the word? Services.
- You won't do it.
- No, I can't.
- Can't you? - No.
Why not? Out of loyalty to Blake Carrington, your benefactor? "He paid the hospital bills after the accident.
He let me live in his house for a while.
He got me a job with his company.
" These were the very words you used, remember? Yes, I remember.
Well, isn't it too bad you can't say now: "He's the one who knows where my daughter is, finally"? What is it, Claudia? Don't you really want her back? Of course I want her back.
You know there isn't anything I wouldn't do to get her.
But I'm not gonna turn into a thief for it.
- Excuse me.
- Well, at least you can stay for lunch.
It's already been ordered.
And we'll drop the entire matter.
- Did you find them? - Yes, they're here.
You're gonna have to be my eyes, Jeff.
You check out those oil leases.
If they look good to you, buy them.
That's one hell of a responsibility.
- What if I'm wrong? - I trust your judgment.
You won't be wrong.
And after all, now, you have a double stake in bringing in some winners.
My interests and those of my grandchild.
I feel I should be honest with you about Fallon and me.
I know.
Things are not going smoothly, that's pretty obvious.
But who knows? Who knows? After the child is born-- After the child is born, Fallon gets her divorce and I get the child.
That's been the agreement between us.
It's about time one of us told you.
Jeff, I don't wanna lose my grandchild.
Well, you won't.
I promise.
We'll be nearby.
And I don't wanna lose you.
Lose me? How? You'll have the pleasure of my terrific company five days a week.
And I'll even throw in the weekends.
After the divorce, if there is a divorce, how would you feel about my legally adopting you? Are you serious? Never been more serious about an offer in my life.
Forgive me.
I'm truly honored.
But I just can't.
I was born a Colby.
I guess I'll just have to stay that way.
Well, the offer is open, remember that.
I better get these back to the office and check them out.
I'll talk to you soon.
Hanged himself? - No.
- I didn't mean to upset you.
And I hope you realize that I had nothing to do with the boy's death.
I do.
Of course I do.
And you're not upset with me? - No.
- Good.
In fact, I'm still pretty annoyed with Toscanni, very annoyed, for potentially using my family to avenge himself against me.
Namely you.
Me? What are you talking about? - Don't you know? - No.
You've never been alone with him? No.
How about those sessions I set up for you after you lost the baby? Well, a few times then.
And he never showed any interest in you other than professional? Blake, now you are upsetting me.
Why? I'm not accusing you of anything, Krystle.
I'm not even accusing Toscanni.
I'm merely talking hypothetically about some men who seek revenge.
Of course, the classic tactic is for the avenger to turn the enemy's woman against the enemy.
To poison her mind.
To use her.
To use her soul and her body.
But I know you, I know what kind of a woman you are.
Strong and moral.
Able to resist whatever kind of damage he might have tried to cause us.
You know, I was just about to call you when you phoned.
Why? Why? Because I've missed you.
I've missed just hearing your voice even.
Oh, Krystle, it's good to see you again.
- Don't, Nick.
- Hey, what's the matter? Blake told me about your meeting this morning.
I see.
He wondered about us.
There wasn't much you could tell him, was there? He wondered if you'd been using me to destroy him.
What? Oh, my God, come on.
- Did he actually say that? - He implied that.
- Tell me he was wrong, Nick.
- He was.
Look at me and tell me.
Krystle, listen to me, just for a second.
- In the beginning, maybe there was-- - There was what? I don't know, some such notion-- Notion? You call trying to seduce a man's wife a notion? - What kind of a man are you? - Krystle, no.
I love you.
Please, believe me.
I-- I'm ashamed of myself.
Ashamed and disgusted I almost divorced my husband for you.
You've got it all down, don't you? You gonna walk out on me, walk.
Go on.
But you're wrong, damn it.
You're wrong! How very nice to see you haven't forgotten your uncle.
This doesn't mean you've had a change of heart about coming back to Colbyco? You ought to know by now how I feel about your way of doing business.
Then what is it you suddenly needed to see me about? Those oil shale lands at Devil's Canyon I researched for you when I was working here.
Denver-Carrington is thinking about picking up the options you dropped.
My leftovers? How very appropriate.
We'd like to buy the findings you commissioned at the time.
It would give us a head start of several months.
Obviously.
We're willing to pay the full cost of the assessments you had made.
Tell me, Jeff, did Blake send you on this errand? No, it was my idea.
That shows some initiative.
Do you really expect me to give a head start to my competitor? Don't you think you owe him that at least, Uncle Cecil? I don't owe Blake Carrington the time of day.
Even after you stuck it to him on those offshore oil leases? Which your father-in-law would never have dreamt of doing to me.
No, he wouldn't have.
You know, sometimes you make me almost ashamed of being a Colby.
Then change your name.
I won't mind.
I just might do that.
Really? To what? Carrington.
Blake offered to adopt me.
I said no.
But considering what you've done to our name Send in Mrs.
Blaisdel, please.
Come in, Claudia.
Come in.
Well, the short time you've been in Denver, you've made quite a name for yourself, Dr.
Toscanni.
I don't know about that, Mr.
Crayford, but I guess I've helped a few people.
Let me ask you something.
Why would you wanna give up a profitable practice like yours to get a job on staff with us? That's like a colonel wanting to be a corporal again.
I guess it is.
Well, I worked in a hospital in New York.
New York is where I'm from and Well, I know it's no short-cut to getting rich, but I liked what I was doing.
And you don't like what you're doing now? No, not any longer.
Babysitting for spoiled rich wives or spoiled athletes, it's just not my idea of what a doctor's all about.
Well, I don't often hear doctors complaining about making a lucrative living.
I guess not.
I can't avoid the cliche.
I came into medicine to help people who needed to live and Well, I think it's all there in the application I filled out.
Forgive me, but you're not in any kind of legal difficulty, are you? What does a guy have to do to get a job around this place? Twenty years with Albert Schweitzer? No, I'm not in any difficulty, legal or otherwise.
Well, I'll contact the head of Psychiatric Services and go over your rather impressive credentials here.
Be my guest.
For instance, this item on Vietnam.
You transferred from neurosurgery, where I'm sure they desperately needed you, to psychiatry? - May I ask why? - Yes, I had no choice.
I was hit by shrapnel and I was obliged to retool.
All right.
We'll keep in touch.
- Good meeting you, doctor.
- Nice meeting you.
Take a letter to a Dr.
Morris Adman, the surgeon general's office, Department of the Army, Washington, D.
C.
Dear Morrie, is it possible to do a computer rundown on a Dr.
Nicholas Toscanni, served and wounded in Vietnam? Fallon.
Oh, what a lovely surprise.
How did you know I'd been out shopping for you? I didn't.
Well, I spent half the day picking out the prettiest layette.
What's wrong? I'm sick.
Darling, you're pregnant.
Of course you're sick.
I'm sick about that miserable letter we sent Daddy.
How could you make me take part in that? Well, you didn't appear to be too sick about it at the time.
I didn't know what I was doing.
I wasn't thinking.
But I'm thinking now and I just know how much I've hurt him.
I'm gonna tell him.
I have to.
I think that that would be a very serious mistake, Fallon.
Don't worry, Mother.
I'll leave your name out of it.
Oh, that doesn't worry me.
It's you that worries me.
Your disoriented thinking about all of this.
That letter told the truth, Fallon.
I mean, it was you who convinced me that Krystle and Nick were having an affair.
Look, all I know is that I hurt my father cruelly.
I'm probably being punished for it now because I lost the man I love.
But I'm not gonna lose both of them, so I'm going to tell him.
I wouldn't do that if I were you.
What's Nick going to say about this? I mean, how's he going to feel when he knows that you sent that letter? That you were part of that cruel plot? You'd do that? Well, let's put it this way, darling: I'd do anything to prevent you from running to your father.
Let's face it.
We're doing him a kindness by getting Krystle out of his life.
And that's what we're talking about now, Krystle.
Not you, not me, not Nick.
Just Krystle.
- Yes? - Mrs.
Carrington is here to see you.
Oh, thank you.
Krystle? Yes.
Oh, you've come to pick me up? I came to read something to you.
"Why do so many frustrated wives end up in bed with their shrinks? Ask your wife.
" Apparently, someone's already read this to you.
Yes.
Well, I think you owe me something, Blake.
An honest confrontation.
Really? On what honest grounds? If I hadn't accidentally found this letter, how long would you've continued with the charade? Until I had the truth, all of it.
The truth.
You wanna know the truth about Nick and me? I'll make it easy on you.
Yes, I was attracted to him.
You were attracted to him.
But I fought it.
But you fought it.
- It wasn't easy, I'll admit that.
But-- - But what? But I never forgot I was your wife.
So now you expect me to believe you about Nick Toscanni while you don't believe me about Alexis in Rome.
Believe what you like, Blake.
I don't care.
I just don't care anymore.
Oh, Krystle, come in.
I'm just making a delivery, Alexis.
Oh, that's very sweet of you.
Thanks.
Well, I suppose you're wondering what I was doing in Blake's office.
We had some problems that we had to discuss about that girl that Steven's married to.
My niece.
Yes, your money-grabbing little niece, who's been drawing rather heavily on the Carrington credit.
I thought Blake should know what she's been up to.
After all, Steven's his son too.
All this sudden concern about Steven.
I've always been concerned about my children, Krystle.
That's why I moved back here.
Now, I'm busy.
That it? No.
I think the reason you moved back here was the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks.
Because that's where the money is.
Do go on.
This is so colorful.
Even when Steven almost drowned, what it meant to you was still another chance to move closer to Blake.
The brilliant way you arranged for Blake to join you in Rome without me.
Another little Alexis ploy, wasn't it? And I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find your fine, artistic hands behind that letter some ghoul wrote my husband about me.
Letter? What letter? I don't know what you're talking about? Oh, you know what I'm talking about, Alexis.
What was it you said to me about Blake and you? "Two people meant to be together.
" Yes, that's how we started out our marriage, Blake and l.
A union, a bond that was strengthened when I gave him two children.
And that's a bond that you can never have with him, Krystle.
You're right, Alexis.
You and Blake do deserve each other.
And there is a connecting flight from Chicago? Thank you.
Mrs.
Carrington, will you be gone for very long? Yes, Jeanette.
I don't know why you're going, but I wish you wouldn't.
The house just won't be the same without you.
I mean that, Mrs.
Carrington.
I have to go, Jeanette.
I just have to.
I have to.
There you go, Mrs.
Carrington.
The flight has been delayed, but only for 20 minutes.
You'll be in Seat 2A.
Have a good trip now.
Thank you.
Your attention, please.
Flight 203 to Cleveland and Dayton, Ohio-- There she is.
--now boarding at Gate 6.
Please have your blue boarding pass out of the envelope for collection.
Krystle? Krystle? - Blake, what are you doing here? - I've got to talk to you.
My plane leaves in a few minutes.
I have to board now.
Joseph, tell them that Mrs.
Carrington will be late in boarding.
Look, I want to go now.
There's nothing to talk about.
At least you can tell me where you're going.
- Back where I came from.
- To Ohio? Yes.
Back to where people are what they are, not wearing a dozen faces.
But you've got no one back there.
You've got no family, no-- I have friends, Blake.
People I went to school with.
Common people, as Alexis would say, but wonderful people.
Friends.
Yes, but your home is here.
Alexis has got nothing to do with that.
- Doesn't she? - No.
Well, tell her.
And while you're at it, tell her she can have that divorce she's always wanted for you.
And she can have you and your world.
Krystle.
Krystle, you're my world.
My only world.
Then it's a sad world, Blake.
Filled with manipulations and deceptions and your not trusting me.
I'm sorry about that, but you know what I've been going through.
I know, Blake.
I know.
But I just wanted to help you but you wouldn't let me.
I didn't want pity.
I made that clear to everyone.
I didn't want pity.
It wasn't pity.
It was caring.
I was caring about someone who didn't wanna be cared about.
Excuse me, but they say if Mrs.
Carrington doesn't board now, she's going to lose her seat.
There are standbys.
Yeah, standbys who wanna go home just like I do, Blake.
I'm leaving.
Krystle, wait.
Please.
I know that I'm gonna be a whole person again.
And when I am, I'll make plans for the two of us.
Things that we haven't been able to do.
Like our honeymoon.
We never did complete our honeymoon.
We'll go anywhere you want for as long as you want.
- We've been through this, Blake.
- I know.
I know I'm difficult.
I know I'm a complicated man but I love you.
I need you.
You don't have to move in with me.
You don't have to do anything you don't want to do.
Just be near me.
For a while longer, please? Just a while longer.
I can't.
This is the final call for Flight 203.
All passengers should now be onboard.
Thank you.
You'll see, it'll work.
We'll make it work.
Why did you phone me? Hey, even shrinks need to talk sometimes.
Wouldn't it have been better to leave things as they were? I mean, you said it all this morning, didn't you? No, I didn't, Fallon.
What I said this morning wasn't true.
I know that now.
Yeah, you're what a woman should be.
You're honest, not calculating.
I get women who crawl into my office every day.
Like parasites.
They hate their lives.
They can't make a commitment to true emotions because they're afraid.
You're not like that.
You don't tease, you don't do numbers on people.
Is that what you called to tell me? I called you to tell you to have your baby.
Get your divorce.
No more secret meetings.
Everything out in the open.
I want us to be together.
Nick, that woman you said you were in love with was-- Was, Fallon.
That's right.
Was.