Recap: Krystle checks in on Kristina and is slightly alarmed when Nurse Johnson says that she was restless throughout the night, but eventually fell asleep (sucking her thumb). A few seconds later, Kristina wakes up and complains about always being sooo tired, and Krystle urges her to close her eyes and go back to sleep. She then chides Nurse Johnson for not letting her know about Kristina's restlessness and instructs her to let her know if there's even the most minuscule irregularity in her general status...and Nurse Johnson snippily tells her that she's being overprotective and haughtily reminds her that she's been taking care of children for a very long time, to which Krystle just-as-haughtily retorts that she will decide what's best for her daughter. Adam is in his Carlton Hotel suite, dreaming of when his faux (?) grandmother adamantly insisted that he is, in fact, the long lost Adam Carrington. Adam writhes around, crying, "You lied to me!" - just as Dana enters the suite and rushes into the bedroom to see whassup with all the shrieking. She pleads with him to share with her what has him so freaked out, but he declines 'cause he's not in the mood "for a scene". Dana says she's worried sick about him and his constant boozing, implores him to not treat her this way, and reminds him that she's the woman he's about to marry. Adam snaps, "Except I'm not your husband yet! You don't own me yet!", and Dana stares back at him with a stunned, wide-eyed expression before heading towards the door. She whirls around and whimperingly reminds him that she loves him...and he gently returns her I love you, suggests they chalk this up to a lover's quarrel, and blames his hangover for his bitchitude. Sarah tells Blake she feels a lot better than she did yesterday, in that she no longer has the strong desire to kill herself. Blake suggests she might it helpful to seek out some professional counselling asap - an excellent idea for a woman who just lost her entire family (!) - but she tells him she doesn't need therapy and nonsensically explains, "Where I come from, we handle these things ourselves." Blake's like, "Er, OK" and says again how pleased they all are to have her as their guest and tells her that if she ever wants to get out of the house and do some sightseeing, Gerard can arrange a car/driver to ferry her around town. Sarah thanks him, but declines the offer 'cause she'd much prefer to stay close to Krystle and Kristina. Leslie is eating breakfast and chatting on the phone with Clay when Ben enters the room and remarks on the friendly conversation she just had with the playboy. Leslie asks him what he has against Clay, but Ben refuses to explain himself and says it's generally a bad idea to indulge in any hanky panky with someone she works with. Leslie doesn't buy that and asks him if his beef is really with Clay's father, and Ben insists that he's merely a jealous pa who wants to spend more time with his up-until-now estranged daughter. Leslie assures him that there's room enough in her life for both him and Clay, then changes the subject and mentions that she's planning to attend Dana's surprise bridal shower this evening. Sarah runs into Dominique at the mansion and calls her suicide attempt a stupid mistake she's facing up to...and that she owes it to the memory of her husband and daughter to move on with her life. Dominique concurs wholeheartedly and says she's soooooo glad she's in Denver under the protective umbrella of the [dysfunctional] Carrington clan. At Delta Rho, Sammy Jo finds Steven hanging by the fenced horse corral, watching Danny pet Valez. When Danny heads off with Valez and the groom, Sammy Jo apologizes to Steven for ambushing him last night with a smoochfest. He insists that she did nothing wrong - but she argues that she broke the rules of their 'no canoodling' bargain and vows to never ever do that again. Alexis finds Adam drinking tomato juice (either that or a Bloody Mary) in the lounge of the Carlton Hotel. She admonishes him for skipping an important breakfast meeting, and Adam remarks on the bizarreness of a grown man even having a power meeting with his mother - right?? - then says he decided to take the day off to celebrate the new him. A bemused Alexis lets that odd remark go and asks him why in blazes he would invite a creepy pedo like Neil McVane to Dirk's cocktail party, and Adam mumbles that the pedo must have finagled his way in and weakly denies having anything to do with it. He then orders a scotch on the rocks, prompting Alexis to remark that his cranky 'tude and constant day drinking isn't like him...and Adam growls that she merely thinks she knows him well, then declares, "Well...Alexis Colby...you don't."
Krystle and Jeannette hover over Kristina as she happily plays with her toys. Sarah suddenly pokes her head into the room, then hastily backs out...and Krystle notices her disappearance and rushes out to the hallway to ask her why she didn't come all the way in. Sarah says she didn't want to intrude on her alone time with her daughter, and Krystle reminds her that were it not for her, she wouldn't even have these special moments with Kristina, and insists that she join their playtime. Steven stops by ColbyCo to chat with Alexis about Dana's bridal shower. Alexis tells him she's done an about-face regarding her future daughter-in-law and says she now thinks Dana is good for Adam, then expresses deep concern that something is stressing him out to the point that he's skipping work and binge-drinking. She asks Steven if he wouldn't mind trying to uncover what's going on there, and Steven looks less than thrilled by the task, but agrees to do his best. At Denver Carrington, Blake and Dex are going over the most recent reports on the pipeline project. Dex tells Blake it's soooo nice of him and Krystle to welcome Sarah into their home, then chides himself for not recognizing the signs that she was suicidal. Blake says he's not sure how Sarah really is, since it's obvious that she's desperately trying to hold herself together. He says it might help if she spent time with an old friend and suggests that Dex drop by the mansion sometime soon to hang out with her. Krystle has invited Sarah to go riding with her...and the two sit atop their trotting horses and talk about the first night they met: on the airstrip. Sarah says she feels as though they're sisters 'cause of all the recent pain they've had to share and endure, and Krystle concurs that indeed they do have a lot in common, to which Sarah replies, "Like our beautiful little daughters." Krystle stares back at her with kind of a weirded out expression, and an oblivious Sarah kicks her horse to get it to start galloping. Dana meets up with Dr. Edwards at the Carlton Hotel's outdoor dining patio and tells him she gets the strong sense that he doesn't approve of her pending marriage to Adam...and Dr. Edwards chides her for the "rude and uncalled for" remark. An unfazed Dana asks him if she hit a nerve and asks him if the rumors were true about Adam having a nervous breakdown when he lived in Billings, and Dr. Edwards admits that, yeah, he might know a few less than flattering things about her betrothed - but firmly tells her he isn't going to reveal anything sickness-related 'cause of doctor-patient confidentiality...along with the fear of Adam getting some psychopath-style revenge on him for daring to open his mouth about his serious mental health issues.
Over at ColbyCo, Alexis tells Michael she doesn't have time for his annoyingly relentless 'let's do business deals together as if we're equals' blather and gives him exactly one minute to explain why in the hell he's in her orbit right now. Michael warns that she'd better take the time to update him on whatever business she's been doing with Dirk Maurier, to which Alexis snippily retorts that 1) she never agreed to keep him in the loop about every move she makes, and 2) she paid him in full for the Four Crossings land deal and now owes him nothing. Michael warns, "Nobody dumps me that easily" - despite Amanda dumping him really easily by moving to London - and says he has it on good authority that she's been negotiating business deals with Dirk and wants in. Alexis wearily tells him his minute is up and firmly declares, "You and I are finished. Through." In the next scene, Michael has reported the conversation to Neil, who predicts that Alexis will use him until she's had enough and then spit him out. He gets a faraway look on his maniacal looking face and adds, "She did it to me once. Once! But she'll never to it to me again." Michael tells Neil that his brazen nuttiness has inspired him to want to leap head-first into whatever senseless revenge plot he has in mind...and when Neil says it's going to cost, Michael assures him that he can get his hands on plenty o' cash. Michael makes a beeline over to Denver Carrington and tells Blake he's ready to sell him back his share of the crater - pretending as though he can't, in good conscience, stand in the way of his company extracting natural gas for the good of Colorado and the rest of the country. Blake growlingly calls him a user and says he'd love to see him crawl and beg for his money back were he not so eager to steel-toe him out of his life for good. He then agrees to buy him out for the cost of the investment, then snarls at him to get the hell out of his office. Adam drops by Dana's office to apologize for his shitty behavior earlier...and after they hug it out, she says she really really wants to know what's bugging him, adding that Dr. Edwards also seems worried about his deteriorating mental state. Adam prickles and demands to know exactly what she and the old doctor talked about, so she assures him that Dr. Edwards kept a tight lid on whatever secrets he's harboring, to which Adam cries, "There are no secrets! Will you ever understand that?" Dana points out that clearly something is wigging him out, and whatever it is is scaring the bejeezus out of her. She implores him to share his troubles with her - but Adam once again refuses and says he doesn't want her to worry about it, then vows "to make right" all that is scaring the bejeezus out of both of them. Sarah is reading a story to Kristina when Krystle enters the room and asks where Nurse Johnson is. Sarah just kind of shrugs and says she took a break awhile ago and hasn't been seen since. A few seconds later, Nurse Johnson returns, and Krystle asks her to step out into the hallway and reminds her that she was hired so that she could administer professional care to Kristina at any given moment. Nurse Johnson scrunches her face in a seriously? expression and points out that Kristina hadn't been left by herself, and that she was close by - downstairs in the kitchen, to be exact - and therefore easily reachable by intercom if Sarah had needed assistance. [That's kind of a fair point.] She snippily says she won't overstay her break again, to which Krystle snarls, "Please don't."
In the trailer office, Clay and Leslie are looking over the pipeline maps when they start bickering about the merits/evils of exposed piping. He's all, "Oooooh, I forgot I was working with a woman engineer" and jokingly proposes painting the steel pipe a shade of pastel. Leslie suggests he let one of his groupies pick out the shade, adding that she knows all about the women who drive all the way to the job site to ogle him...while she, on the other hand, finds him mediocre in looks 'cause she's waaaaay more into guys with brains. Clay says he too digs brains, but that "the idea of a little sex never turned me off." He then pulls her towards him and plants her lips with a big smooch - just as Sammy Jo enters the trailer office. Clay's all, "Oops, what are you doing here?", so she explains that she came by to pick up the spare key to Dana's apartment that Leslie, for some reason, has in her possession so that she and Dominique can start decorating for the bridal shower. After Clay excuses himself and exits the office, Leslie asks Sammy Jo exactly why she and Clay broke up...so Sammy Jo tells her that she fell out of love with the numb-brain about ten minutes after their quickie wedding. Leslie chews on that for a few seconds and asks if Clay also fell out of love with her, and Sammy Jo says she should direct that line of questioning at Clay, then makes it clear that she's soooo happy with her life now and has zero problem with her and Clay hooking up. Adam fibs his way into Neil's hotel suite at the Carlton, and is rifling through the drawers when Neil arrives. He once again refers to Adam as Mr. Torrence and smugly says that the negatives he's searching for aren't in those drawers. When Adam threatens violence, Neil informs him that his attorney is in possession of a letter that details "the truth" about Adam Carrington not really being Adam Carrington. He needles Adam further by declaring that he was never a Carrington, and Adam responds by lowering his head all hang-dog-like and dejectedly shuffling out of the suite. Incidentally, I find it puzzling and disappointing that he's so easily cowed by Neil...and not made of sterner stuff, considering the strong psychopathic tendencies he's so brazenly demonstrated over the years. A sad looking Sarah is sitting in the study at Carrington manor when Dex enters the room, clutches her hands, and implores her to hold on. Sarah assures him that her suicidal tendencies are mostly behind her, and that she feels safe at Carrington manor. Dex invites her out to dinner, and she agrees, with the caveat that she can't promise to be the best company. Sammy Jo runs into Alexis at the Carlton Hotel and tells her she just picked up Dana's bridal shower gift from the boutique: a slinky negligee. Alexis nosily asks her if Steven is happy shacking up with her at Delta Rho, and Sammy Jo says that Steven is happy whenever he's with Danny. Alexis follows up with a question about whether she and Steven are sharing anything more than just parental duties, and Sammy Jo firmly tells her it's none of her business. Alexis snippily decrees that Steven's happiness is always her business, then breezily says, "OK, whatever. See you at the shower!" and rushes off. LOL. Adam is driving while guzzling booze from a flask. He races through a stop sign and nearly collides with another car, prompting a nearby police officer to turn on his siren and pull him over. He sees the flask and asks Adam to hand it over...and in the next scene, Adam is languishing in a jail cell. While decorating Dana's apartment for the bridal shower, Dominique reflects on her failed marriage to Brady, remarking that one never knows how a marriage is going to turn out. Sammy Jo glumly mulls that over, then confides in Dominique her disappointment about her 'separate bedroom situation' with Steven. Dominique clucks sympathetically and says that the special bond parents share isn't always enough to guarantee romance...particularly when the father in the equation has come out of the closet and has made his non-hetero preferences abundantly clear. A few seconds later, Leslie arrives with the shower cake that features a kitschy looking bride and groom centerpiece.
Sarah informs Krystle and Blake that Kristina has a rash on her arms...and Krystle's like, "Sweet baby Jesus! A rash?!" before the three rush upstairs, where Nurse Johnson is looking over the red marks, remarking that they appeared a little while ago. A panicked Krystle calls the doctor, while Blake looks at the notepad the nurse was supposed to be using to keep a log of Kristina's health status and chides her for not making any notations during the last several hours. Nurse Johnson snippily says she has her own way of doing things...and when Blake accuses her of negligence, she imperiously says she's not prepared to take this kind of abuse. Blake growls back, "In that case, you won't mind leaving this house", and Nurse Johnson says she'd be more than happy to high-tail it outa there. After she huffs off, Krystle thanks Sarah for sticking so close to Kristina, and Blake puts the tot back into bed so that he and Krystle can once again hover over her worriedly. Steven has bailed Adam out of jail, and the two are en route to the Carlton Hotel. Steven jokingly tells Adam he should consider the bailout a secret bridal shower gift to Dana. Dr. Chadway drops by Carrington manor for a house call. He examines Kristina and quickly assures Blake and Krystle that the rash is just a minor skin irritation and nothing to worry about. When Krystle mentions that Kristina seems tired all the time, he says that that too is normal following major heart surgery. As everyone exits the bedroom, Sarah tells Krystle she'd be more than happy to watch over Kristina until they hire a new nurse, sadly remarking, "She's all that I have left of Cathy." Over at Dana's apartment, Dominique announces to the bridal shower partygoers that Krystle had a minor issue with Kristina and isn't going to be putting in an appearance at the shower 'cause doesn't want to leave the tot alone. A few seconds later, Dana arrives home and looks happily startled when everyone yells, "Surprise!" and applauds her imminent betrothal to Adam. After glasses of champagne are passed around, Alexis proposes a toast: "To the lovely girl who is soon going to marry my handsome son." While that's happening, Adam is in his hotel suite, doing his best to sober up with a cup of coffee. Steven tells him he was more than happy to help him out today, and that he told Dana they used to always be at each other's throats and treated each other more as strangers than brothers. An alarmed looking Adam asks him what Dana said about him, and Steven chuckles and says, "Nothing too bad", prompting Adam to get up from the table and mumble that he has to go do something pronto. Sarah tells Dex she's OK with going out to dinner - as long as the restaurant isn't too far from the mansion, 'cause she doesn't want to be away from Kristina too long [and says this as though the overly-pampered tot doesn't already have two parents and an army of servants devoted to her every comfort]. She rushes upstairs to change, leaving Dex staring after her concernedly. Adam drunkenly staggers over to Dana's apartment and makes it clear how deeply annoyed at her he is for talking to Steven, Blake, Dr. Edwards, and "God knows who else" about his current stress levels. Dana tells him she has no idea what he's talking about - but he rails that he can no longer pretend that everything's fine between them. He coldly adds that he's not even sure if he still loves her, and that the only thing he's sure of is how smothered he feels by her and everyone else, and that he's very desperate to get away. Dana asks him if he's feeling overwhelmed by the wedding, and he looks incredulous as he snaps, "What wedding? There's not going to be any damn wedding!" and pours champagne into a teacup, then chugs it like he's a college student on spring break...while a heartbroken Dana stares back at him in horrified bewilderment. Thanks for reading! If you are enjoying TVofYore's recaps, consider thanking me by buying me a "coffee"!
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