Dynasty - Season 9, Episode 15

"I see dead people."

"The Son Also Rises"
Original airdate: 3/16/1989

Episode summary: Sable and Dex continue to hit the sheets. Joanna considers accepting Adam's offer of a job at ColbyCo. Blake is worried that Alexis has somehow learned about his Nazi treasure secret.

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Recap: A frazzled Blake is in his Denver Carrington office, reading over various company reports while angrily muttering, "Absolutely incredible." When Jeff enters the room, Blake rails about how all the paperwork is a hot mess: the oil refinery projects (Adam's job), and the distribution figures (Fallon's job). Jeff defends Adam and Fallon by pointing out that they've all been doing their best during a chaotic, busy time at Denver Carrington, so Blake takes his anger down a notch and grumbles about how much he haaaaates seeing his family and company slowly fall apart. He then tells Jeff he wants pervy Adam out of his mansion and his company, and hopes that Fallon dumps her cop beau and returns to her senses. As for Alexis, he ominously vows, "I'll take care of her."

Adam stops by Joanna's suite and pretends he needs a cup of sugar...and while the two coquettishly flirt with what he really means by sugar, an intrigued Sable pokes her head out of her suite and discreetly eavesdrops. Joanna invites Adam inside and serves him a drink...and when Sable knocks on the door a few seconds later, Joanna panics and tells Adam to hide in the bedroom. She then lets in Sable, who lays it on thick about how brilliantly she (meaning Joanna) has come up with various ideas to help her get even with Alexis, including stealing her ships. Joanna points out that those were actually her ideas, and that Hamilton Stone was instrumental in seizing the ColbyCo ships in Natumbe. Sable motions at the two drink glasses on the table and is all, "Oops! You have a guest!" and bids her assistant a smarmy goodnight and leaves. Adam exits the bedroom and stares admiringly at Joanna while gushing about her devious mind, then says he'd really really like her to leave her job with Sable and come work at ColbyCo. Joanna promises to consider an employment offer that no longer entails being Sable's daily punching bag.

Sergeant Zorelli is at home, desperately trying to reach Fallon, when his colleague Rudy drops by. Rudy tells him he's here to pick up the surveillance photo of Fallon comparing Roger Grimes's corpse photo to the one where he's posing with Blake, and it suddenly dawns on Zorelli that Fallon must have stumbled across it in his drawer and then reacted by fleeing the apartment. He fibs and tells Rudy he must have misplaced the photo, then opens the drawer and pulls out the envelope containing the photo and - wink, wink - is like, "Oops, it's gone." Rudy, for whatever reason, decides to go along with the fib - but warns Zorelli that he's digging a hole for himself with the captain. 

Adam storms into Blake's office to complain that a couple of goons are hovering over him while he tries to work, which is maddening 'cause he's a director. Blake informs him that - surprise! - he's no longer a company director and is no longer authorized to view the more sensitive files. Adam growls at Blake for nearly killing him by knocking him down the stairs, and is now taking his job away. When Blake argues that he's done all of this to himself with his sleazy actions, Adam warns that he's not going to like having him as an enemy. Blake retorts, "Couldn't be worse than having you as a son" (ouch) ... and as Adam exits the office, he runs into Jeff and snarls, "I hope I don't miss you...when I take aim."

"I make a worrisome enemy, father."

"Be gone...before I get angry enough to throw you down the elevator shaft."

While strolling along the Carrington lake property, Sable asks Dex when Alexis is returning to Denver, and he tells her he has no idea, and that they got into a heated argument on the phone last time they spoke. He starts skipping rocks across the lake and ponders how long he and Alexis have been devoted to each other, and Sable tells him she has great respect for the love between two people...even if one of the people is Alexis. 

Sergeant Zorelli is in the lobby of the Denver Carrington building, barking at the receptionist to let Fallon know he's here 'cause they neeeeeed to talk [dude, you don't]. A few seconds later, Blake and Jeff enter the area. Blake snaps at Zorelli to get the hell out of his building, while Jeff tells the receptionist to call security...and two guards swiftly appear and force Zorelli to leave.

Sable asks Dex what he plans to do if Alexis publicly accuses Blake of murdering Roger Grimes, given that he (Dex) and Blake are hiding a deep dark Nazi secret that's buried beneath the lake. Dex says he's fairly certain that Alexis doesn't even know that the secret exists - but if she did, he'd have to do something to keep her from blowing the whole thing wide open. 

Tanner McBride arrives at Delta Rho via motorcycle with a gigantic stuffed bunny tied to the back. He explains to a delighted Sammy Jo, who's visiting with Jeff and Fallon, that the bunny is a gift for her, meant to replace the one he destroyed while ransacking her hospital room. Sammy Jo gaily gives him a tour of the stable, and Fallon remarks to Jeff how happy she looks with her handsome new friend and warns that Tanner could easily steal her away. Jeff reveals that he's not as troubled by the prospect of Sammy Jo and Tanner hooking up as he is by the prospect of her (Fallon) bumping uglies with Sergeant Zorelli.

Dex escorts Sable back to her hotel suite, and she invites him to stay for some champagne and a bite to eat. She tells him that if they're going to end their brief romance, they should do it "in a lovely way" ... and the two agree that they've greatly enjoyed their sexy time together. Sable proceeds to turn on the radio, which just happens to be playing tango music. She gets all touchy-feely with Dex while sexily swaying to the rhythm...and Dex gets up and dances with her before the two get amorous and start removing each other's clothing. Mmm hmm..

"I'm fine with putting an end to our fleeting romance. But first, a tango?"

"Why not? I have room on my dance card."

Over at the mansion, Blake tells Jeff he hasn't been able to reach Alexis, and is keeping his fingers crossed that whatever she's doing overseas continues to distract her from accusing him of murdering Roger Grimes. As he stares at Adam's silver baby rattle that he's been clutching, Jeff points out all of the problems Adam has had in his troubled life, including being kidnapped as a baby and then raised by a faux family. He says he actually feels sorry for the perv and thinks of them as brothers (well...sorta), and Blake reacts to that by thanking Jeff for being more of a son to him than Adam ever was.

Sable is hand feeding Dex caviar when they're interrupted by a knock at the door...and the visitor turns out to be Sable's buxom daughter, Monica. Sable introduces her to Dex, who's wearing just a towel...and Monica gives him an appreciative once over.

At Delta Rho, Tanner has cooked a hobo stew for Sammy Jo and Fallon. He tells them he often makes this stew for the teenage runaways who come to him for help, then says he cobbled together this particular stew largely from the contents of Sammy Jo's garbage can. When Sammy Jo stares at him looking alarmed and icked out, he assures her he was just kidding and chortles at her for being so sweetly gullible. 

"Thank you for cooking us dinner."

"Thank you for tossing so much edible food in your garbage can."

Sable and Monica enjoy some tea, while Dex gets dressed and re-emerges from the bedroom. Monica invites him to join them, says she's used to her mother's sexcapades and asks if she should be calling him Uncle Dex. Lol. She then bursts out laughing and assures him she wouldn't actually be joking about her mother's trysts if she were at all slutty, and Dex chuckles along and says he's definitely ready to call it a night and get the hell outa here. Once he's safely out of hearing range, Monica points out to Sable that hooking up with Dex is a super way to get revenge on Alexis, and Sable insists that that's not why she's spending time with him...but then admits it kinda/sorta is. 

At Delta Rho, Fallon is having another Roger Grimes nightmare, mumbling, "How could you miss me? You're dead!" [She should also be reminding the ghost: "I never actually knew you while you were alive!"] Sammy Jo turns the light on and asks her whassup with her muttering nonsensical gibberish in her sleep, and Fallon tells her she feels as though Roger Grimes was just here...and that she frequently dreams about him admonishing her for knockin' boots with Sergeant Zorelli. She then explains to Sammy Jo that she now considers Zorelli a traitor for secretly surveilling her so that he could capture the photo of Blake/Roger Grimes and then use it to threaten to charge Blake with murder. 

The next morning, Sable tells Monica she'd love it if she moved to Denver so they can team up and take over the reins of ColbyCo once it goes belly-up. Monica considers how much she hates her current job and that there's no familial reason to stay in L.A., not least 'cause her siblings don't live there anymore, and she seems to have zero interest in seeing her father.

Later, in the Carlton Hotel patio restaurant, Sable urges Monica to buy up more ColbyCo stock, anticipating that when she sues the company, the value of the stock will skyrocket. [This seems counter-intuitive to me - but then I'm a recapper, not a stockbroker investing in fictional oil companies.] Monica cautions her against indulging in any kind of insider trading - just as Joanna flounces over and frostily greets Monica by snarling, "Here to replace me, are you?" She says she needs to speak with Sable privately, and Monica gets up and heads off to the lounge.
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Sergeant Zorelli bursts into Sammy Jo's living room to talk to Fallon, and she decides to finally stop avoiding him and let him speak his peace. 

Monica spots Jeff enjoying a drink in the Carlton Hotel lounge...and after playfully sending an elastic slingshot his way, she joins him on the sofa. She expresses her condolences about Fallon leaving him for an alien (bwahaha!), and Jeff shoots back, "He's Italian, but he has papers." When she tells him she's decided to give Denver a try (after wrapping up her life in L.A.), he warns that she'd be walking into a war zone between her mom and Alexis...and a few seconds later, Sable interrupts their chat, snarls something bitchy at Jeff, and reminds Monica that she has a plane to catch. 

"I heard that Fallon left you for an alien."

"It was actually more a spaceship joyride than an adulterous affair."

Sergeant Zorelli explains to Fallon that, yeah, he put her under surveillance while she was in his office and happened to catch sight of a photo that proves Blake is a liar...but insists that he never passed along this evidence to his superiors 'cause of how much he loooooves her. Fallon slaps him across the face and shrieks, "Don't say that to me!" and yells at him to get out of her life. He glumly accepts her rejection, hands her the surveillance photo of Blake/Roger Grimes, and self-piteously urges her to keep it as a souvenir to commemorate how the best thing that's ever happened to him went kaput.

Joanna drops by Adam's suite to complain about Sable's ill treatment of her, and make it clear that she's very into the idea of an impromptu booty call. 

Jeff bursts into Blake's office with a copy of The Denver Mirror, where someone has written up a blurb about offering a reward for 'anyone with information concerning 1960s Carrington Estate Construction or Roger Grimes'. Sounds pretty specific. Jeff points out that Alexis must know about their deep dark secret, given that this is her newspaper...and Blake remarks on how insane it is that, despite the fact that she has been married to a Carrington, a Colby, and a Dexter, Alexis is willing to single-handedly destroy all three families. 

Egads!

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