Dynasty - Season 9, Episode 3

Sable gives Dex's bare form an appreciative once-over

​"She's Back"
Original airdate: 12/1/1988

Episode summary: Blake and Krystle spend quality time together in Ohio before returning to Denver. Sable goes out of her way to hang out with Dex. The police continue investigating the homicide that occurred at the Carrington's lake house property.

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Recap: Blakes wakes up in Virginia's modest Dayton house and sees that Krystle is out in the backyard, chatting with her cousin. When Krystle sees Blake emerge from the patio door, she grins happily and rushes over for a hello hug...then tells him how weird it is that she has no memory of how she got here. When she tells him she does recall having really bad headaches and possibly taking too many pills, Blake says he really really wants to take her to see a brain specialist asap. Krystle insists she's fine [despite suddenly being in Ohio with no memory of having travelled there] and says she'd looooove to take this opportunity to show him her old stomping grounds. After she happily bounds into the house, Virginia tells Blake to pleeeeease take Krystle to a brain doctor...and, for the love of all that is holy, get to the bottom of why she acts normal one minute, then completely squirrelly the next.

Over in a Los Angeles hotel gym, Dex is pumping iron when Sable sashays over to him to superfluously report that Alexis jetted off to Natumbe with her escort Hamilton Stone, slyly suggesting that the two might end up in the sack together. Dex just rolls his eyes and asks her why she's ogling him as he exercises, so she gazes at him all intrigued-like, describes him as "the finest specimen in my cousin's collection", and figured she'd check in with him to see if there's anything they could do for one another. She cattily adds that she can't grasp why a hottie like him is satisfied to just follow Alexis around, so Dex explains that Alexis is the one woman on earth who has never bored him...then steers Sable towards the gym's closest exit in order to get her out of his orbit.

While strolling through an open Dayton field, Krystle natters at Blake about how much of her childhood was spent playing in nature and hanging out with Virginia. The two come upon her old playhouse...and inside Krystle finds an old music box and winds it up so they can dance together (yawn). In an effort to stir up some memories she may have repressed, Blake invokes their lake cabin - but Krystle insists that she hasn't been there in a very long time...and then the two exchange I love yous and lean in for a marital smooch.

Detective Zorelli arrives at the police station and banters in an annoyingly tropey '80s TV cop mode with a fellow officer about The Mysterious Case of the Body Found at the Carrington Lake Cabin. The cop says they've found a witness who thinks he may have seen Krystle fleeing the lake, and Zorelli perks up at that new lead.

Back in Dayton, Blake tells Virginia he's taking Krystle back to Denver today, then hopefully to Los Angeles tomorrow to get her head examined by a brain specialist. He tells her it's been soooooo hard holding in the [newly invented] secret about Krystle's deteriorating brain function since Season 2, and appreciates being able to open up to her about it. A few seconds later, Krystle emerges from the house, hugs her cousin goodbye, and then poses with her and Blake so that the limo driver can take an impromptu family portrait.

"Thanks for letting me openly talk about Krystle's brain injury, which has secretly been my deepest concern for the past seven years."

"It's been an honor just being part of this brazen rewriting of history."

Over at Denver Carrington, Steven's attractive secretary (Claire) enters Adam's office carrying a stack of files, and wankingly tells Adam she was sorry to hear about the unjust verdict in his surrogate baby custody case. She then says that since Steven has so abruptly skipped town, she's not sure whether she should remain at the company or start looking for another job...and Adam stares at her hungrily and says he'd be more than happy to have her replace his less hot secretary, Natalie. Claire squeals happily and sashays out of the office while Adam ogles her shapely behind.

Out in the office's reception area, Claire unceremoniously dumps the large stack of files she was carrying into the nearest trash can...which I found utterly perplexing, since - despite them (presumably) being Steven's files - they're also company property that probably shouldn't be dumped in the garbage.

After returning to Carrington manor, Krystle hugs her little daughter and coos about how much she loooooooves her and is sorry she so weirdly abandoned her. 

The police question Clarence, aka the man who claims to have witnessed Krystle running around the lake cabin property, hollering and carrying on like a lunatic. When the police press Clarence on whether or not he was sober at the time, he admits to having drank heavily...and so Sergeant Zorelli decides that his statement is fairly useless to the investigation. 

Adam once again gives his lawyer shit for failing to win the custody war with the Atkinsons. He then pressures the lawyer to lean on Jesse to see if he can be bought off, and the lawyer reminds him that he's an officer of the court and won't break the law. Adam threatens to spread word of his incompetence all over town, and snarlingly warns him to carefully consider his options.

Back in Los Angeles, Dex is relaxing on a pool floaty when Sable sneaks over to him and punctures the floaty with her hat pin. She chucklingly explains that he was getting too much sun, and Dex gamely chuckles along and climbs out of the pool to enjoy the large lunch spread that she took the liberty of ordering for the two of them. Dex asks her again why she keeps making an effort to hang out with him, so she breezily says she'd like them to become better acquainted, then pretends to be concerned about Alexis's current financial woes. Dex remarks on the interesting past history the two of them must share, so Sable tells him that she and Alexis have loathed each other since childhood...and claims that Alexis has always resented her for seeing her for the fraud she is. Dex argues that at least Alexis is resourceful enough to make things happen for herself, then asks Sable what she's doing with her life that's so great, and Sable cryptically replies, "Oh...I dabble in things", namely "art and some other investments". Dex looks unimpressed and says it doesn't sound like much, to which Sable counters, "Might surprise you" ... though it's highly doubtful, given that her primary life goal seems to have been to wed the rich Jason Colby in order to acquire whatever financial security he might provide, and then subsequently serve as his arm candy - as was made obvious in The Titans episode from Season 6:

Over at the Colby estate in Los Angeles, we get a lot of gratuitous footage of [Charlton Heston's wife] Sable rubbing lotion on her shapely legs before reaching for an expensive looking necklace as the camera slowly pans up to her face and reveals that it's the same actress who later plays Dylan's mom on Beverly Hills, 90210. She asks her husband why he caved to Blake and agreed to fly the family out to Denver for the party, so he explains that he really didn't feel like getting into a needless pissing match with Blake about it. He tells her he expects Miles to attend the party and take his "proper place" within the family firm despite his general doltishness when it comes to matters of business, then tells Sable he expects her to look especially hot on party night. She grins and purrs, "That's what I'm paid for" - yeesh - and the two start tonguing each other..

"I dabble, dilly-dally, and idle the days away."

"Sounds super fulfilling."

Back at Carrington manor, Fallon remarks to Jeff and Sammy Jo how weird it is that Krystle just disappeared for several days without explanation, so Sammy Jo cheekily points out, "Some people go off in space ships." Hee! Jeff chides her for the jab about Fallon's otherworldly encounter, then is all, "And speaking of people just disappearing.." and invokes the topic of Steven's hasty exit from Dynasty - just as Blake and Krystle enter the room and confusedly ask, "What about Steven?" Fallon drops the bombshell that Steven abruptly left Denver to live his life elsewhere, without having the decency to say goodbye to his own son, and Blake says he's proud of his sourpuss of a son for creating a life path of his own.

The family heads over to the dining room for dinner...and Fallon and Sammy Jo confront Adam about attempting to burn Steven's letters in the fireplace. Adam feigns innocence and says he has no idea how those notes could have ended up getting nearly destroyed...and the three bicker back and forth while Krystle becomes visibly distressed by all of the acrimony and grabs the tablecloth, and eventually pulls it towards herself while shrieking, "Stop it!!" As everyone glances over at her with startled expressions, Blake rushes to her side to give her a comforting canoodle...and she stares at him in bewilderment and says she has no memory of what just happened. A few seconds later, a manservant (not Gerard) enters the dining room to announce that Sergeant Zorelli is in the foyer and wants to discuss with Krystle the discovery of the dead body at the lake cabin. 

After the commercial break, Blake escorts Krystle to the foyer to see about answering Zorelli's questions. Krystle insists to the sergeant that she hasn't been out to the lake in a long time...but then looks visibly confused when Zorelli informs her that her car was covered in mud at the time it was stolen (apparently some witness corroborated this), and that her scarf was found fairly close to the body (a tidbit that Blake, Jeff, and Sammy Jo already knew). Zorelli asks Krystle if she wouldn't mind taking a trip down to the morgue to see if she recognizes the dead guy, and Blake makes it clear that he does not want to put his wife through that...while Krystle rails at Blake, Jeff, and Sammy Jo for knowing about proof that she'd been at the lake - but not telling her about it. 

"Did you, by chance, flee the lake cabin after committing or witnessing a grisly murder?"

"Nope. Doesn't ring a bell."

Krystle races up to her bedroom, rubs her sore head, then sits at her vanity table and looks anguished. 

Downstairs in the library, Blake explains to Fallon that he needs to take Krystle to California in order to be examined by Dr. Charles Hampton, who is a headache expert - and, in this bizarrely rewritten version of Dynasty history, took all of the specialized scans of Krystle's brain after her Season 2 horse fall...which somehow didn't raise any kind of alarm bells to Krystle that there might be something seriously wrong with her. Blake tells Fallon he's deeply troubled by having kept the seriousness of Krystle's condition a deep secret and concedes that "there might be a better way to handle this" - but that he doesn't know what that is, despite it being painfully obvious at this point that he really does need to break the news to Krystle that her brain has been on the fritz for around the last seven years. 

Krystle races down the staircase and towards an exit...and naturally none of the servants have been tasked with ensuring that she doesn't once again slip out and disappear for the second time in two days.

While en route to Delta Rho, Sammy Jo tells Jeff she can't imagine why the police would be interested in Krystle's diary...and that she knows this because she took the liberty of reading it. Jeff chides her for invading Krystle's privacy in such a shameless manner, then can't help asking if there was anything particularly juicy in it. Heh. [Also: no.]

Blake goes up to the bedroom and is concerned when Krystle is nowhere to be found.

At Delta Rho, Sammy Jo reveals to Jeff that Krystle often journaled about pounding waves (presumably her headaches) and that she was given a lifeline (presumably Blake). A few seconds later, Krystle bursts into the room and shrieks, "You've been hiding things from me!"

After the commercial break, Krystle agonizes about all the things she may have done but doesn't remember, including possibly witnessing a murder. Sammy Jo holds up her diary and informs her that she found it at the lake on the day the body was discovered, and so Krystle has no choice but to concede that, yep, she was definitely there around the time some rando was murdered.

Back at the mansion, an agitated Krystle asks Blake why he's lying to her, and Blake weakly insists he's not...and that her severe headaches could be caused by anything. When she wails about how she may have been involved in a murder, he condescendingly coos, "You're just upset, darling", to which Krystle implores him to not protect her from whatever reality she needs to confront. She then decides she should probably get a good look at the dead body in the morgue in case it stirs up any important recollections, and Blake ambles over to the phone to call Sergeant Zorelli.

"You're just having a series of harmless headaches."

"Really? 'Cause it feels more like a severe case of Get-me-off-this-show-itis."

The next morning, Adam apologizes to Blake for his part in last night's argument during dinner and promises to try to get along better with Fallon. The two then descend the staircase and greet Krystle...and as Blake and Krystle depart the mansion to jet off to Los Angeles, Adam glances around the opulent mansion with a sly grin on his face.

Fallon drops by Alexis's ColbyCo office and looks surprised to see Dex sitting behind her mother's desk. She whines about how useless she feels, being unable to 1) help her mother restore ColbyCo to its former glory, and 2) do anything to help Blake resolve Krystle's brain problems. Dex gaily decides that maybe a hot fudge sundae would cheer her up...and after some mild hemming and hawing about how ice cream will ruin her slim form, she ultimately decides 'sure, why the hell not?'

Across town at the morgue, Krystle has a look at the man who was found dead at the lake cabin and tells Sergeant Zorelli et. al. that she's never seen him before. Blake stares intensely at the dead man's face and murmurs, "Nooooo...", but then catches himself and tells the police that, nope, he also has no idea of the man's identity. When Zorelli presses him about his weird reaction, Blake insists that he's never seen the man before...but on his way out of the room, turns around and shoots the corpse a hateful glare. 

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