Recap: As the Delta Rho stable goes up in flames, the ranch hands race around to fetch a hose and call the Fire Department. Jeff arrives, dips his jacket into a trough of water, and heads toward the burning building. As he's doing that, Gibson emerges at the stable entrance...and Jeff punches him and orders the ranch hands to subdue him until the police arrive. He then goes inside the stable, spots Sammy Jo lying unconscious next to some hay, and covers her with his wet jacket before picking her up and carrying her to safety. Fallon drops by Sergeant Zorelli's apartment to admonish him for bedding her, then dumping her. He reminds her that he's investigating a murder...and that if his captain found out he was doinking her in the process, he'd be in very big trouble. Fallon shoots back that Blake is extremely pissed off at her 'cause of their affair, and that the rest of her family considers her a traitor. Zorelli tells she she prolly shouldn't be here right now...but as she heads towards the door, he grabs her and envelopes her in a desperate hug. He murmurs, "This is crazy.." before the two start amorously smooching. [Nope, still no chemistry happening between these two.] Meanwhile, at Delta Rho..
Alexis is back from Natumbe - hurray! - and is in her suite, unpacking her clothes and jewelry while informing Adam that she's fairly confident she greased the right palms in order to get re-possession of her in limbo oil tankers, and expects them to be en route to the U.S. shortly. Adam changes the subject to gossip about how Virginia threw a drink in Dex's face the other night...and that Dex and Sable appear to have a flirty sort of chemistry, a revelation that does not please Alexis. Dex arrives at the mansion and heads over to the solarium to talk to Virginia. He hands her a letter that explains his side of the story when he knew her as a teenage hooker - but she remains defiantly mute as she rips the letter in front of him. Adam, who has been eavesdropping on the exchange, quickly scuttles off as Dex gives up trying to have a two-way conversation with Virginia. Dex heads over to the library, where Blake has gathered up all of the blueprints and maps associated with the lake property. He tells Dex he no longer wants to store the stuff in the mansion - given the pesky murder investigation that might bring light to the tri-family's shameful secret - and asks him to put it in a safe place. Blake then recounts that, at the genesis of this secret, there were three people in the know: Blake's pa, Dex's pa, and Jason's pa. Of the three, only Dex's pa is still alive...and when Blake suggests getting him re-involved, Dex expresses reluctance at the thought of burdening his elderly father. Blake insists that it's absolutely necessary, self-piteously grumbling, "My heart cringes at the nature of the crimes that this collection has been associated with."
Virginia pieces together Dex's ripped letter and reads it. She tears up while pressing the pieces of paper against her chest. As Sergeant Zorelli and Fallon are getting it on in his apartment, a police officer phones and leaves a message on the machine about the shooting/fire at Delta Rho. Zorelli grabs the phone as Fallon's all, "Wha-a-a-a?!" ... and soon the two learn that Sammy Jo was shot, and that the arsonist was also wounded. Zorelli hastily gets dressed and offers to give Fallon a lift to the hospital. Sable phones Hamilton Stone to instruct him to undo all of the progress Alexis made in Natumbe with getting her oil tankers back. After the call, Sable informs Joanna that she ran into Dex at the casino where Fritz Heath gambles, and then comes right out and asks Joanna if she and Dex have hit the sheets. Joanna keeps mum about her hookup with Dex and says she's merely trying to get intel out of him, while Sable admits to being interested in Dex - but only insofar as she could use the dalliance to stick it to Alexis. At the hospital, Sammy Jo sees Gibson get wheeled past her gurney and tells Jeff she knows that guy from somewhere. After she's rushed to the ER, Blake arrives in the waiting room...as do Fallon and Sergeant Zorelli, a few seconds later. The doctor pops by to inform everyone that Sammy Jo is stable, has no major internal damage, but still needs surgery to fix up her wound. Sergeant Zorelli expresses to Blake how sorry he is about this attack, to which Blake sourly retorts, "I think my family can do very well without your concern." At ColbyCo, Dex tells Alexis he's discovered that Fritz Heath is a degenerate gambler, which explains why he's been "dipping into the till". Alexis disinterestedly snarks, "Forget Heath. What about Sable? Have you been dipping into her too?" Dex rightly points out that since the two of them no longer have a relationship largely due to her mistreatment of him, she has no right to an opinion about who he's bedding...particularly at a time when she should be 100% focused on her empire, which is fast going down the tubes. Alexis whines that she just spent three weeks in the misery that is Natumbe, and that the only thing that kept her going was the prospect of the two of them coupling up again. Dex cooingly assures her he's not sleeping with Sable, but insists that the two of them have irreconcilable differences. Alexis contorts her face into a demented expression as she purrs, "Then let's reconcile" and proceeds to press her face against his and bite down hard on his lip. As Dex is all, "Ouch!" at his painful looking lip wound, Alexis breathily pronounces that some things are worth waiting for...then leans in for an amorous smooch that Dex somehow looks really into [despite the blood that's now dripping from his lower lip].
Jeff and Blake are visiting Sammy Jo in the hospital when Sable drops by to ask what in blazes happened at Delta Rho. Sammy Jo gives her a brief summary of the attack, then says she remembers seeing the assailant at the Carlton Hotel restaurant back when she and Krystle dined there together...and that Krystle reportedly saw him emerge from the lake when she vaguely remembered being up at the cabin. Jeff wonders aloud what this man could possibly be after, while Sable stares worriedly into space. Adam calls Alexis (as she dines in the Carlton Hotel patio restaurant) and tells her he just got off the phone with Natumbe's Minister of Commerce, who informed him that ColbyCo's oil tankers are being held for the next 24 hours so they can - surprise! - be sold at a public auction. Alexis expresses her deep annoyance and tells Adam to connect her to the minister asap. A few seconds later, Fallon arrives and tells her mother about the weird dreams she's been having about Roger Grimes, and Alexis scrunches her face confusedly and points out that that's more than weird, given that she was only five years old when Roger was last alive. She urges Fallon to put the corpse out of her mind and not involve herself in any of this...then gets a follow-up phone call from Adam, telling her he passed along her message to the Natumbeian Minister of Commerce, who promised that everything with her oil tankers is going to be A-OK [though: not]. Back at the mansion, Adam spots Virginia leaving her bedroom, so he sneaks in to rifle through her stuff...and quickly finds the ripped letter that Dex had written to her. He looks intrigued by the content and murmurs, "Well, well. Our sweet Virginia. Who'd have thought it?" When Virginia returns unexpectedly a few seconds later, Adam hides in the closet and waits there until she changes and heads into the adjoining bathroom for a shower. He then slips out and looks delighted with his clever sneakiness. Later, Adam meets up with Alexis at the Carlton Hotel and grimly reports that her substantial bribes don't appear to have satisfied the Minister of Commerce...and that the public auctioning of her oil tankers is set to take place in two hours. Alexis orders Adam to get in touch with Hamilton Stone to help her break through the red tape - then runs into Sable in the lobby. The two exchange their usual barrage of insults - but Alexis goes a step further and accuses Sable of chasing after Blake, and that Krystle's vegetative limbo must be cramping her style. She suggests dispatching a henchman to finish the job so that Blake can be fully single, and Sable stares back at her incredulously and admonishes her for delivering such a psychotically low blow. She insists that she cares for Blake as a platonic friend only, then menacingly threatens to pull the plug on her if she continues accusing Blake of murdering Roger Grimes.
Jeff is back at the hospital visiting with Sammy Jo...and informs Danny that today he's taking him to the circus, where they'll eat tons of junk food and have a super fun time. Once Danny is safely out of earshot, Sammy Jo asks Jeff if the police have found any interesting intel on her assailant, and he tells her he hasn't heard anything yet. While strolling around the lake property, Blake tells Dex that Krystle had a bizarre sighting of Roger's corpse, along with another man who emerged from the water, who turns out to be the same man that shot Sammy Jo. Blake muses about whether he could be after the collection. He then pulls out an old map, tells Dex that the Delta Rho stable was the first location in which the collection was buried - but was then re-buried beneath what he calls "the big lake". Dex asks him why he didn't just destroy the collection, knowing that someone might one day come after it, and Blake says he felt it was wrong to discard something so precious. He's also hopeful that, once the shame of it has worn off, someone will stumble upon it, dig it all up, and do some good with it - but until then he wants to keep it hidden so that he never ever has to explain how it got there. He solemnly warns Dex, "That could bring ruin to all of us." Adam returns to the mansion that evening and finds Virginia outside, taking photographs of the full moon. He gushes about how wonderful it is to have someone so artistic at Carrington manor...then marvels about how amaaaazing it is that she has remained warm and sensitive after everything she's been through. When she asks him what he means by that, he reveals that he knows about her years surviving on the streets when she was a teenager...and insinuates that he found this out from Alexis, who must have learned about it from Dex. As Virginia tears up, Adam hugs her and creepily assures her that everything will be OK, and that her scandalous secret is safe with him. Gibson phones Sable and tells her he's in the hospital, under police guard, and needs her to get him outa here. When Sable snarkishly retorts that the consequences of his foolish actions are not her responsibility, he threatens to blab to everyone that she was the one who brought him to Denver...and so Sable irritably promises to do whatever she can to get him released. During dinner at the mansion, Gerard tells Blake that the security team outside allowed Sergeant Zorelli through the gates, so Blake gets up and barrels over to the vestibule, trailed by the rest of the family. Zorelli angrily informs Blake that he's been taken off the Roger Grimes murder case and has been demoted to desk duty, accuses Blake of pulling strings to make that happen, and bitchily snaps, "You happy now?!" Blake calls his demotion "good sense" ... and the two bicker back and forth, blah blah - until Blake lunges at him and stupidly growls, "Get him outa here before I kill him..." Zorelli smugly replies, "I'll remember you said that, Mr. Carrington" before he's dragged out by Blake's security goons.
Fallon rushes outside after Zorelli and points out that Blake may not have had anything to do with him being thrown off the murder case...particularly considering that the Captain had expressly warned him to not investigate anything about Roger Grimes's demise two short episodes ago. Fallon then gets into the passenger seat and asks him not to drive away mad...and Zorelli tenderly touches her face and urges her to go back into the mansion. Fallon refuses and stays put...and when he asks her if she's sure this is what she wants, she reacts by stubbornly refusing to budge. In the mansion, Adam apologizes to Virginia for their earlier conversation, then wankingly explains that he feels like he can really talk to her. He offers to show her a photo of his infant son, then steers her into his bedroom so he can show her a framed photo of the tot. He says it really really bothers him that his son isn't going to grow up a Carrington, and likens the situation to when he was kidnapped as a baby and then later was never treated as a full Carrington. Virginia assures him that Blake loooooves him, as was evidenced by appointing him as his best man when he re-married Krystle. Adam sits on the edge of the bed, pulls her towards him, and says he feels awful for what she went through during her teenage hooking years - but that it kinda makes him like her even more. He coos, "You're sooooo beautiful" and creepily asks for permission to kiss her - but then leans in before she has a chance to reply. Virginia says she's not sure the two of them hooking up is a good idea [no it's not, Virginia...no, it's not], and Adam reacts by gripping her tightly and moaning about how looooong it's been since he aggressively dipped his wick into an unsuspecting woman. He breathily pronounces, "I think I could fall in love with you" and smooches her amorously before mounting her for some even more amorous kissing action. Bleeeeeeech. Joanna informs Sable that she heard back from Hamilton Stone with some good news about Alexis's oil tankers. She then hands Sable some paperwork and what looks like a framed photo, and Sable looks it over and chuckles delightedly. While enjoying some post-coital afterglow, Virginia clarifies to Adam that Dex wasn't the man who put her out on the street; to the contrary, she met him as a hero. Before Adam has a chance to chew on that unwelcome tidbit, he gets a troubling phone call about the fate of Alexis's oil tankers. He abruptly gets dressed and promises Virginia he'll make up for his hasty exit. Sable drops by Alexis's suite at the Carlton Hotel to smugly deliver what she calls "good news from Natumbe". She shows Alexis the framed aerial photograph of the seized ColbyCo oil tankers, then gleefully assures her they're in good hands...meaning her good hands after she purchased them at the public auction for ten cents on the dollar. As Alexis stares back at her in stunned horror, Sable reminds her that she had once declared that she would possess everything she (Alexis) owns...and as she sashays towards the door, a distraught Alexis stares despondently into space. Thanks for reading! If you are enjoying TVofYore's recaps, consider thanking me by buying me a "coffee"!
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