Recap: Blake's black tie dinner breaks up soon after Krystle stops throwing plates around. Fallon escorts Sergeant Zorelli to his car, wondering aloud how it's possible that the body found at the lake hadn't decomposed. Zorelli points out that the bottom of the lake is extremely cold - but has no fathomable idea why the fish or whatever organisms live in the lake didn't feast on the corpse. That said, he points out that it shouldn't matter to her, 'cause the state of the body exonerates Krystle from a potential murder charge. He then tells her to call him if anyone happens to remember anything useful...and the two gaze at each other all smitten-like as he climbs into his car and drives off. Over at the Carlton Hotel, Adam is regaling Alexis with the story of Krystle's plate throwing...and after Alexis expresses bemusement about what in blazes could be going on with the woman, she declares that her top priority is getting her empire back in order. She plans to rid herself of any superfluous oil tankers and cut out the deadwood. Sammy Jo tells Jeff she wants to spend the night at Carrington manor to help Blake keep an eye on the increasingly erratic Krystle. Jeff gets all pissy about her not coming home with him and grumbles as he climbs into his car. A few seconds later, he's startled when he feels a foot caressing his shoulder...and is all, "Ack!" when he sees that Fallon has been hiding in his back seat. She gigglingly explains that she wanted to give him a debrief about the body in the morgue, and that she thinks she sorta/kinda recognizes the dead man. Jeff, who doesn't seem to give a rat's ass about that long ago murder, orders her out of his car...and she obliges, then leans in and indulges in a long smooch. Jeff looks visibly into being kissed by his ex-wife, then dives back into his car and drives off...and we see that Sammy Jo has been standing in front of an upstairs window, watching the PDA with an incensed expression on her face. Krystle emerges from the en suite bathroom and asks Blake if she hurt anyone while she was subconsciously throwing plates around. He assures her that everyone managed to duck in time, and that she needn't worry about anyone being seriously injured. She frets about possibly experiencing something horrific at the lake cabin, but Blake dismisses that notion and gazes at her lovingly while cooing, "I love you." The two smooch...and Krystle invites him to join her in bed and smilingly assures him that the two of them getting it on won't cause her to break. Even though there's clearly no predicting, from one minute to the next, when her brain is suddenly going to go full wiener. Alexis arrives at her ColbyCo office and finds it in complete disarray, with papers spread everywhere. She wakes Dex, who dozed off on her sofa and rails about what a mess he's made. Dex wryly counters that the entire company is a mess, specifically because 1) ColbyCo has two major bond payments due, and 2) the guaranteed revenue (needed for the bond payments) from TechnoCraft and Holston Keys haven't yet materialized. Alexis says he should talk to Fritz Heath (the accountant) ... and Dex informs her that Fritz has been incommunicado for the last several days, and that his paperwork/reports is suspiciously missing. A few seconds later, Fritz telephones to apologize to Alexis for being out of town longer than expected, and assures her he's on his way back to Denver. Alexis seems satisfied enough with that and tells Dex that she's decided to sell the Carlton Hotel and would appreciate his help with that transaction.
Adam is in his office, reading through Steven's confidential files, when Jeff drops by. Jeff acknowledges their mutual dislike for one another, and Adam concurs wholeheartedly and suggests they stay in their own lanes by dividing up the operations of Denver Carrington in the following manner:
Fallon is sunbathing at Carrington manor, dreaming about the corpse found at the lake. In her dream it comes to life (ew), then smiles at her and leans in for what looks to be a smooch - just as his face is replaced by a real life Dex, who's leaning in close, repeating her name. Fallon looks all discombobulated and tells Dex she just dreamed about the dead guy, so Dex tells her that the lake in which he was fished out had a lot of problems (with flooding) during the property's development phase 'cause of a three-way feud between the warring Carringtons, Dexters, and Colbys. Oh hell. Back at ColbyCo, Fritz explains to Alexis that he got bad news about his brother and had to leave town suddenly...and accidentally left the wrong forwarding number. Alexis decides that that sounds plausible enough, then tells him about the missing revenue from TechnoCraft and Holston Keys...and that Dex reported his paperwork/reports missing. Fritz opens his briefcase and pulls out a big ledger, promises to straighten out the revenue mess, and again apologizes for his recent absence. Sammy Jo is packing up hers/Danny's stuff at Delta Rho when Jeff drops by. He notices the suitcases and confusedly asks whassup, so Sammy Jo accuses him of lying to her and comes right out and asks him if he still loves Fallon. Jeff leaps to the conclusion that she somehow found out about his romp with Fallon at the end of Season 8 and sheepishly admits that, yeah, he doinked her in his apartment the night she (Sammy Jo) accepted his marriage proposal. Sammy Jo shoots him an incredulously hate-fuelled stink-eye as she bellows, "You bastard! I just saw you kissing her - but you slept with her?!" and then screams at him to get the hell out of her house.
On the wrong side of the tracks, Krystle is finishing up taking her daughter to her paediatrician appointment when an urchin child runs over, grabs Krystle's purse, and races off with it. Jeannette keeps watch over Kristina as Krystle runs after the child - until he trips and hurts his knee. Krystle catches up to him and is clucking sympathetically about his injury when his poverty-stricken mother (and several poor, Depression-era type children) emerge from an alleyway shack. The mom snappishly tells Krystle to leave her son alone, so Krystle explains that the little cretin stole her purse - but that she'd be more than happy to give him some cash so that he can see a doctor and get his knee looked at. The mom glares at her unhappily and retreats to her shack...and Kristina, who has arrived with Jeannette and is watching all of this in fascination, sadly remarks on the shitty little shack that that family is currently living in. Blake is at the lake property, mutely gazing out at the water when Sergeant Zorelli comes upon him from behind and says he continues to be curious about the dead body that was found here, namely 1) what held it to the bottom of the lake for so long, and 2) why its skull had a bullet in it. Blake's all, "I dunno" and tells Zorelli that if he intends to order divers to search the lake, he's going to need a warrant. A few seconds later, we see that Dex has appeared on the scene, and is silently watching the exchange from a distance. Sammy Jo recklessly drives over to the Carrington stables, quickly locates Fallon, and gives her a hard face punch that sends her flying into a giant container of water. As the two wrestle around inside the water container, Sammy Jo makes it clear that this is a revenge attack for her recent night of pleasure with Jeff. Fallon counters by chiding her for making a move on Jeff when the ink on their divorce papers was barely dry...and then the two climb out of the water container and begin rolling around in a giant puddle of mud ['cause why not?]. Fallon tells Sammy Jo she's more than welcome to date/marry/do whatever with Jeff...and Sammy Jo mulls over the prospect and decides she no longer has any use for the man. Fallon gigglingly asks what they're fighting for then...and Sammy Jo chucklingly realizes there is no real purpose to this elaborately dirty fight scene - other than the Dynasty writers somehow thought it made good sense to showcase a nostalgic shout-out to all of the contrived physical altercations (in ponds, mud, and whatnot) that Krystle and Alexis used to get into whenever they needed to get the rage out of their systems. Dex is giving a potential buyer a tour of the Carlton Hotel (with his lawyer in tow). Dex and the potential buyer (an attractive brunette) grab a table in the lounge, where they haggle over the purchase price by writing numbers on napkins and passing them back and forth - but don't actually settle on a final deal. Blake is back in the mansion's basement storage area, rifling through more old boxes. He comes across a ledger of 1963 cash disbursements, and tears out one of the pages to take upstairs with him. A few seconds later, he runs into a filthy/wet Fallon, who's giggling about how muddy she is after her scrap with Sammy Jo. Blake shakes his head in good-natured dismay as he declines to hug her, then gives a vague non-explanation about how he was downstairs "checking on some things". At the Carlton Hotel, Alexis tells Dex that order is being restored to her life...and that hopefully she no longer has to fear the crumbling of her empire. She happily summarizes..
Dex reminds her that earlier she had offered to give/sell him a valuable plot of land (near the Civic Center) - but she no longer seems interested in doing that. A few seconds later, Fritz drops by the suite to deliver some bad news: the eagerly awaited revenue from TechnoCraft and Holston Keys will not be forthcoming, 'cause both companies just went belly-up. This, in turn, means that ColbyCo won't have enough cash to pay the two major bond payments that will soon be due. He explains that her company's finances are in such bad shape 'cause Sean had invested a huge amount of money in junk bonds...around the time she thought it was a good idea to let him have full control of ColbyCo while she ran for governor.
Dex stares suspiciously at Fritz, noting that he's wearing a very expensive gold watch. After Fritz exits the suite, Dex tells Alexis he strongly suspects Fritz of colluding with Sean, given how unusual it is for an accountant to be wearing a $10,000 watch. Alexis absorbs that tidbit and looks poutishly alarmed by the ramifications of Fritz's alleged betrayal. Over at Denver Carrington, Adam treats Claire to an indoor picnic to see if she has any useful intel regarding Steven and the pipeline project...and also to faux declare that he really really wants to see Jeff succeed in the company. When Claire struggles to open the bottle of Chardonnay, Adam wraps his arms around her and gently coaxes the cork out while making icky innuendos. After taking a few sips of the wine, the two press against each other for a smooch...then get amorous on the carpet. In Los Angeles, Sable is practicing her fencing skills (you heard me) while dictating a memo to her secretary when Hamilton Stone drops by. He reports that Alexis was thrilled with the two oil tankers he managed to free...and Sable smiles devilishly at the thought of the rest of the tankers being sold at auction by the Natumbeian government for a fraction of what they're worth. Sable hints that she plans to get involved and place bids on what she calls "Colby ships", insisting they be owned by someone who has "earned a right to that family name" [and says this even though she only became a Colby by being Jason Colby's trophy wife prior to him smartening up and dumping her].
Blake gets a call from Dr. Hampton, who has bad news regarding Krystle's tests and scans. Blake says he was hoping for better results, then promises to let his wife know how fully dicked-up her brain has gotten. As he heads over to the conservatory to break the news to Krystle, Fallon emerges from the basement and rushes after him. When she enters the conservatory, she's startled to find a tearful Blake comforting a tearful Krystle. He solemnly asks Fallon to call the family together, 'cause they have a dramatically sad announcement to make. Thanks for reading! If you are enjoying TVofYore's recaps, consider thanking me by buying me a "coffee"!
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