Dynasty - Season 8, Episode 2

"Dear Diary,
Today my body became one with my mistress, while my wife remains stuck in a sanitarium."

"The Siege Part 2"
Original airdate: 9/30/1987

Episode summary: Steven takes matters into his own hands and puts an end to Matthew Blaisdel's hostage-taking mayhem. Alexis hires Morgan Hess to investigate the handsome young stranger who saved her life. Adam informs Dana that he expects her to birth many Carrington heirs.

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Recap: Blake is in the study surrounded by police, anxiously wondering where in blazes Matthew has taken his family.The chief gets a call verifying that there's been no sign of Matthew and/or the hostages at any of the nearby airports...and a few seconds after that, an officer rushes in to report that several vehicles are missing from the garage. The chief orders APBs for the missing vehicles on all major roads and highways - just as another officer reports that they just found Dex sprawled belly-down on the back lawn, and that it looks as though he's been shot in the back.

Steven is driving with Matthew in the passenger seat...while the other hostages are being forcibly ferried by the goons in various other cars. When Steven asks where they're going, Matthew describes his ultimate destination as a magical place that Blake would never want him to see - a place to which he intends to take his beloved Krystle. Steven's all, "Er, OK..?" and warns that he's in a lot of trouble and really needs to release the hostages asap, but Matthew makes it clear that that ain't going to happen.

Over at the hospital, the doctor tells Blake and the police chief that they removed a bullet from Dex's back, and that he'll be unconscious for the next hour or so.

Alexis summons Morgan Hess to her ColbyCo office to find out everything he possibly can about the handsome young stranger who rescued her from drowning during the previous episode. Morgan mulls it over and decides that since it's not her "usual dirty linen" type investigative job, he's A-OK looking into this Good Samaritan.

Over at a Mojave Desert checkpoint office, Jeff hovers worriedly over Fallon as she starts to regain consciousness. She tells Jeff she remembers driving out to this remote area (for no apparent reason) ... and when it started to get dark, she saw something very odd that she felt strangely drawn to. She then closes her eyes and falls back asleep, and the doctor tells Jeff that, after being stranded in the desert all night, Fallon is lucky to have not suffered anything more serious than normal fatigue.

As Dex recovers from his injury, he tells Blake that Matthew began to get rough with Leslie, and that he did his best to stop it before crashing through a patio door and sprinting across the back lawn in a desperate attempt to get help - but then heard a gunshot and lost consciousness. And despite him not being conscious and laying incapacitated at the far end of the back lawn, he somehow recalls that Matthew ordered his goons to get everyone out of the mansion and onto what he described as "rugged terrain" associated with the initials LB. Blake chews on that for a few seconds and deduces that Matthew must have nonsensically dragged everyone over to the old Lankershim-Blaisdel oil excavation site.

"My supersonic hearing could be the thing that resolves this short-term crisis."

"Implausible, but yet impressive."

As Blake correctly assumed, the hostages are glumly sitting in the decrepit bunkhouse at the old Lankershim-Blaisdel worksite. Matthew steers Krystle into the adjacent bedroom for a private tête-à-tête...and, interestingly, she's sporting an entirely different hairdo from when the hostage-taking first took place at the mansion (during the previous episode). Matthew takes another swig of his medicine, then hands Krystle a small leather diary. He explains that, all those years ago, he journaled about their budding romance, at a time when his wife (Claudia) was temporarily committed to a mental hospital. He orders Krystle to read aloud some of the more cringey passages, and Krystle's all 'ugh - do I haaaaaave to?', then reluctantly obliges and reads his scribblings that I would have attributed to a blushingly lovesick schoolgirl, not a fully formed adult man:

"We hadn't planned it that way, it just happened. Went out dancing. When we got back to her apartment I found myself taking her into my arms, kissed her for the first time. Then we made love. Our bodies one."

Matthew tenderly tells Krystle he wants them to be happy like that again and assures her that she'll be so blissfully delighted when they arrive at his fantasy wonderland. A few seconds later, they hear the sound of a chopper approaching - and the camera pans over to Blake, who's in the chopper with the police, pointing at the ground and verifying that those are his cars parked outside of the Lankershim-Blaisdel bunkhouse.

Matthew rushes outside - just as the chopper hastily retreats so that the police can gather up more manpower. Matthew makes a beeline over to a nearby property owned by a rural yokel named Larry. Matthew reminds Larry that, back in the day, he gave lots of business to his dad (Willie), and in exchange he'd like a small favor: two cases of dynamite. Larry scrunches his dumb face and says he's supposed to file for a permit prior to acquiring dynamite - 'cause it's, uh, fucking dynamite - but Matthew says he has no time for that kind of bureaucracy and really really needs something explosive to clear out the stubborn rock from his [long defunct] oil well. He then pulls out a large wad of cash, which causes Larry to instantly perk up.

The listless hostages are sitting around a a table and picking at food when Matthew (along with his goon) enters the bunkhouse carrying two boxes of what I can only assume is the dynamite Larry just sold him. When Matthew tells the group that there's plenty more food available, Leslie snappishly retorts that she doesn't want his food, then rails at him for giving the order to shoot Dex. Matthew snappishly rejoins that he got shot 'cause he tried to escape, then exits the bunkhouse. Leslie throws a chair at the door while shrieking, "You monster!" ... and when Steven urges her to chill the fuck out, she barks back that he should be racking his brain to come up with a violently effective solution that can get them out of this pickle. Steven calmly says he'd much prefer to reason with Matthew, to which Leslie cries, "He's a lunatic!" and warns that if he doesn't do something quick, they all could die...including Danny, aka the son he's been letting down his whole life. As Sammy Jo hotly denies that stinging rebuke, Krystle rushes over to chide them for letting Matthew cause division among them, and assures them that Blake will surely rescue them from this ongoing nightmare. 

Matthew and his goon, meanwhile, are busy rigging the front of the bunkhouse with bundles of dynamite.

Across the continent in Honolulu, Adam and Dana frolic back to their hotel room after a carefree morning at the beach. Dana suggests they go downstairs for a honeymoon lunch - but Adam says in his weirdly intense gravelly voice that he'd much prefer to order room service after indulging in yet another marital doink. Dana nervously titters, "You're insatiable!" ... and after the two smooch, he coos about how much he looooooves her for the many children/heirs she's going to produce. Dana stares back at him with a troubled expression and says they have a lot to decide before starting a family, and he responds by putting his hands on either side of her face while breathily declaring, "The first thing I want is a baby" and then repeats what he just said while Dana starts to look visibly put out.

"Now that we're married, I want to impregnate you repeatedly."

"Sounds fun."

Leslie apologizes to Sammy Jo for calling Steven out about what a shit dad he is, and explains that she just really really wants to escape this dangerous situation asap. She then shares her ill-fated plan: climb out of a window in the next room and blindly make a run for it. A few seconds later, she slips into the adjacent room...and in the next scene is racing down a ravine in her pink bridesmaid dress and onto a highway. She sees an oncoming truck and tries to get the driver's attention - but he doesn't see her in time and continues along his merry way. Matthew suddenly appears out of nowhere, grabs her from behind and growlingly asks her why she's always doing things to anger him.

Matthew forcibly returns Leslie to the bunkhouse, where a goon grabs her and holds a knife to her throat. Steven intervenes and urges Leslie to express her deep regret at trying to escape, and Matthew seems satisfied enough with her under-duress apology and stabs the knife into a nearby wall. 

After Fallon gets an adequate amount of rest in the Mojave Desert checkpoint station, she and Jeff stop in at a local convenience store. A puzzled Jeff remarks on the unscuffed condition of her heeled boots, which seems to contradict her story about having wandered around aimlessly for hours the night before. He says it feels as though she's keeping something from him and asks her if she's regressing back to her 'my name is Randall 'cause I don't remember my real identity' phase...and Fallon scrunches her face in annoyance and says she's not lying about being unable to fully recall what happened last night. Jeff back pedals and suggests they find a motel so that she can get some more rest, and she agrees - but continues to look irked and discombobulated.

Alexis gets a call informing her that her family members are currently being held hostage. She's all, "Wha-a-a-a?" and says she'll be at the remote bunkhouse pronto.

Back at the bunkhouse, Gerard does his best to comfort a distressed Jeannette...and then the two talk about all the fun things they've been meaning to do - picnics, ice skating - but never made time for 'cause they were so busy spending every waking moment serving the Carringtons. An emboldened Gerard tells Jeannette he never had the courage to tell her how much he digs her, then bravely declares, "I love you" and Jeannette stares back at him tearfully and makes it clear that she digs his love declaration. Sweet!

Matthew summons Steven atop a rocky peak and says he'd looooove for him to come along to the magical place he plans to resettle in with Krystle - but Steven reminds him he has a son to take care of in Denver. Matthew places his pistol on a large rock to see if Steven is at all tempted to pick it up and shoot him...but when Steven doesn't take the bait, Matthew sneeringly says he doesn't have the kind of heartless gumption it takes to make it in Blake Carrington's world. He then picks up his pistol and says he needs to return to the bunkhouse to tell Krystle something uber important.

Matthew breaks it to Krystle that Blake had expressly given him his blessing to take her to Peru, then pointedly asks her about the state of their marriage, meaning do they still do the no pants dance from time to time? A mortified Krystle mutters that, yeah, they sometimes copulate whenever they find themselves laying atop the marital bed together, fibbing that he (Matthew) is the truly one she most craves in the sack...and with that said, Matthew smugly decrees, "It's settled. You'll leave with me." Krystle says she'll go anywhere with him, but only if he agrees to leave Kristina behind with Blake...and Matthew senses nothing amiss with that desperate sounding request and coos about how happy they're going to be in his magical fantasyland, and that maybe they'll even have a child of their own. Krystle refrains from reminding him that that ship has likely sailed 'cause by now she's in her mid-forties...and Matthew leans in for a smoochfest - but is suddenly interrupted by the police chief, who orders him through a bullhorn to surrender 'cause the bunkhouse is surrounded by law enforcement. 

"How often do and Blake hit the sheets?"

"I'm going to go with: mercifully infrequently."

Matthew races over to the door, smashes the glass window, and opens fire on the police like the reckless fuckwit he is. An alarmed Blake grabs the bullhorn from the chief and grimly informs Matthew that all of his goons are dead, then demands the release of his family now. By this time, Alexis has arrived by car and is all, "My faaaaaaaamily's in there!" ... and when Blake informs her that, yep, they've been held hostage since yesterday and explains that, after seven years of foraging in the Peruvian jungle, Matthew suddenly became nuttily obsessed with the idea of reclaiming Krystle. An outraged Alexis demands to be allowed to take personal action to rescue her loved ones, snarling, "I'm not sacrificing my family for that woman!" Lol..

In a California motel, Fallon is drawn to the window when she thinks she sees bright flashing lights from behind the curtain. It's at that point that she fully recalls the otherworldly events of the previous night: after driving to the Mojave Desert for no explained reason, she encountered a giant spaceship. (You heard me.) The aircraft hovered over her for a few seconds before parking itself a few feet away from her car...and when the panel door thing opened, an alien appeared and gestured at her to enter. Jeff eventually notices that Fallon is intensely staring out the motel room window and asks her whassup, and she tells him she wants to go home, as in Denver.

"OMG. Are the Dynasty writers really..?"

Jumping the shark in the form of an alien visitation? Yes, Fallon. Yes they are.

Sammy Jo steps outside of the bunkhouse and reports to Blake/the police that if Matthew can be guaranteed safe passage to Peru, he'll release everyone. Blake, who's apparently acting as the negotiator, agrees to the demand...and Matthew seems satisfied enough with that and irritably motions at the hostages to file out of the bunkhouse. When Krystle fails to appear, Blake tells the chief he's going in, and the hapless chief is all 'you're the boss, sir - run this operation however you see fit' ... so Blake enters the bunkhouse and finds Matthew standing beside Krystle with a pistol in his hand. He reminds Blake that he had assured him it'd be no problem to take Krystle to Peru, then snarks, "Were you lying, like always?" He then asks Krystle, "Which one of us do you belong to?" and so Krystle decides she "belongs" to goat daddy and runs into his arms. A peeved Matthew grunts, "Just as I thought" and says, at this point, he's just going to leave the situation in the hands of the gods. He clutches his head in pain, swigs some more medicine from his tiny bottle, then uncovers the many bundles of dynamite he planted inside the bunkhouse. He turns on the explode button, which activates a countdown from one minute.

Larry races onto the scene and tells the police that he'd been duped into illegally selling Matthew two boxes of dynamite, so Steven decides he needs to take charge of the situation, not least 'cause the dozens of police who are on-site are just milling around doing absolutely fuck all, and storms back into the bunkhouse. Steven boldly tells Matthew he's here to stop this madness now...and after ordering Blake to pull the wires from the ready-to-explode dynamite, he grabs the knife that Matthew had earlier stabbed into the wall and plunges it into Matthew's torso. A fatally wounded Matthew stares back at him incredulously and murmurs, "You surprise me, Steven", then collapses to the floor and dies instantly. As Steven stares down at his corpse in stunned bewilderment, Blake gently takes the knife from his trembling hand. 

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