Welcome to a deliciously devious examination of gold digging strategies as displayed in Dynasty's Season 4, Episode 24 "The Check." This episode serves as the ultimate field guide to extracting wealth from the Denver elite – some methods brilliant, others spectacularly misguided. Mark Jennings emerges as our unexpected hero, demonstrating perfect timing and leverage when he blackmails Alexis Colby for $100,000 after catching her in a lie about Ahmed Rashid. His champagne-sipping, opportunity-seizing approach pays off handsomely as he secures his bag and promptly leaves town. Meanwhile, Tracy works both sides as Dexter's spy in Alexis's company, collecting double paychecks but risking everything with her emotional entanglement. The contrast couldn't be clearer when we witness Kirby's disastrous attempt at revenge against Alexis – a golden opportunity squandered by poor planning and a servant mindset. The episode brilliantly juxtaposes these gold-digging strategies against Blake Carrington's $100 million business crisis and the surprise reappearance of Sammy Jo, whose modeling contract dreams crumble alongside her relationship with an abusive advertising executive. Through each character's trajectory, we learn valuable lessons about target selection, strategic positioning, and knowing exactly when to cash out. Whether you're team Mark "Champagne Poppy" Jennings or fascinated by the psychological blocks preventing Kirby from leveraging her position, this breakdown will have you raising your own champagne flute to those who master the art of securing the bag. The episode ultimately teaches us that successful gold digging isn't just about proximity to wealth – it's about understanding power dynamics, recognizing opportunities, and maintaining the emotional detachment necessary to walk away at the perfect moment.
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I am so excited to bring thisepisode to you Today.
We're back in Denver ripping andrunning with the Carringtons,
only we're going to talk waymore about the bit players, the
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peripheral-ers, if you will.
Today's episode is amasterclass in gold digging and
being gold adjacent.
We are watching season four,episode 24, the check.
Cut the check.
That's what we all get up andgo to work for, right, a little
extra money.
But there are people who makeit their business to put
themselves on the path of otherswho are wealthier.
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This may be looked down on insome circles.
Sometimes it's not.
We talked about Anna NicoleSmith not too long ago and I've
given my opinions, but todaywe're going to talk about a
would-be gold digger.
If they understood theopportunity, was there a gold
digger supreme and a gold diggerwho got it just right until it
all went wrong.
So go ahead and pour yourselfoff something bubbly and bright
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as we jump into season four,episode 24 of dynasty, the check
.
So I mean, I never thought I'dsay this, but today we are
toasting to mark gigolo jenkins.
It's not same as jen, it's nothis name.
What is his name?
Mark Jennings, matter of fact,I watched this episode and I was
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so tickled that I said you knowwhat, when I have my something
bubbly and bright today, I'mgoing to make sure and drink it
out of a champagne flute.
So, in honor of KFED's patronsaint and icon, mark Jennings,
patron saint and icon, markjennings, I'm gonna drink this
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here raspberry tapachico and alittle grenadine out of my
champagne flute.
Oh, that's very pretty.
And I'm doing this becauseevery time we see mark, he is
either with a glass in hand orfresh off of a glass.
Baby boy is champagne poppy.
This entire episode we got toget through him.
We're going to talk aboutCurbitius and why she needs
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female role models and maybe amoney coach, and then a surprise
, somebody I had completely andtotally forgotten about.
But first we got to talk aboutsome of these bit players.
Speaking of bits, I got so hypewatching the show I don't know
why I got so excited for Markthat I decided it was time to
bring out my dynasty jewels.
I have been slowly collectingsome very fabulous costume
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jewelry, only to put on myearrings and realize they were
too heavy.
Went on Amazon after watching avideo on YouTube and found out
that they make different sizedbackings.
Now I've noticed this when youbuy jewelry, especially earrings
, obviously earrings the backing.
Sometimes it's really small,sometimes it's larger and
plastic, but they make differentones for heavier jewelry.
So come Tuesday I'm going to beset.
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Also, this beverage couldprobably use a little alcohol,
but it's not bad.
All right, where should webegin?
I know I said the bit player,so I think we can start with
Tracy without any incident.
First time we see Tracy, thisepisode she is in a steaming hot
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shower.
I mean, smoke is billowing,water pressure is on 10, and I
noticed immediately she has alarge and spacious shower.
That's not surprising becauseeven though Tracy may or may not
be a gold digger, shedefinitely is.
That's the speech she gave lasttime she talked to Crystal and
got the taste slapped out of hermouth.
Seems like she's found a coupletaste buds because she has
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developed a taste for Dexter,who happens to be the next
person who enters the scene inthis oversized shower.
So by my deduction I would sayTracy is this PR extraordinaire.
She's probably done a reallygood job, squirreled away a
little money, dated a few topdogs and created a pretty nice
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life for herself.
She's only adding to thatresume because now she's with
one of the heads of Lex Dex orDex Lex Exploration I don't
really know what they do Dexterand he has agreed to pay her a
double salary.
Let her tell it Now.
I thought when they were inHong Kong the decision was made
he would pay her salary.
She would then get a job withAlexis and then have a double
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salary that way.
But in the shower she'sfrustrated.
She's frustrated because shecould tell Dexter was frustrated
.
She could tell when they werein the sack that he wasn't all
that into it.
She wants to know, dexter,what's on your mind?
Are you worried about Alexis?
He doesn't even pick up thesubliminal that wasn't even
subliminal.
She's basically saying are youthinking about someone else
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while you're with me?
I want to know everything aboutthat woman.
I want to know every phone callshe makes.
I want to know whoever shetalks to.
And Trace is like you want toknow who else she dates.
I don't care about that.
He definitely cares about that,dex.
Dex is deep in his feelings andI don't blame him.
He's never had a baddie likeAlexis.
No one to challenge him, no oneto dismiss him, and I think
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it's probably 70 30.
He's really upset that they'renot together and that she
cheated on him, but I think he'salso 30 pissed off that she
dismissed him anyway.
Tracy's like okay, that's cute,you can continue to pay me a
double salary and I will be adouble agent for you, no problem
, but could you at least leaveher out of our bed Every time
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we're in bed together?
You're talking about her Nowshe's making it sound like this
is a long relationship.
Tell me, why didn't Alexis justget off the plane from Hong Kong
, like three hours ago?
Tracy and Dexter have beentogether a weekend and I'm
starting to see the cracks.
Like, okay, okay, okay, okay, Isee why.
Tracy, you are struggling withthe sassy seductress secretary
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school.
You, too clingy young lady, youwere jumping the gun.
He don't want you like that.
You got a job, get these threechecks and go about your life.
Definitely some daddy issues,though, but Tracy agrees, I'm
going to do my part.
You just a job, get these threechecks and go about your life.
Definitely some daddy issues,though, but Tracy agrees, I'm
gonna do my part.
You just leave this woman whenwe're intimate.
Can we just be intimate?
He's like cool, let me justshake it off and we can continue
.
I was very impressed, first andforemost, with the dubbing in
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this scene, because the showeris quite loud.
I was not joking about thewater pressure being phenomenal
and there being steam, but theydubbed the scene perfectly, and
the next time we see Miss Tracy,she is waiting for Alexis in
Alexis's office, after a kind ofa funny event.
We'll get to that.
So as Alexis comes into heroffice, douglas or so we think
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is Douglas Douglas hands hersome messages and he tells her
oh, miss, whatever Tracy's lastname is Kendall.
I think Miss Kendall is inthere for you.
She's like who let her in?
Thank you, douglas.
Oh, I'm not Douglas, I'm Jerome.
Jerome, look just like Douglas.
I don't know why Alexis runsthrough 50-lead male secretaries
, but I'm here for it.
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I'd like to celebrate it,matter of fact, when we raise my
champagne flute here's to you,alexis.
Guys, I highly recommend it.
I'm not joking when I tell youto pour yourself something
bubbly and bright, perhapssomething a little more exciting
than sparkling water, if that'snot your thing.
This flute got me in myfeelings, not my feelings.
This flute has me feelingmyself.
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Anyway, it's not about me rightnow.
Tracy is prepared.
Alexis is aware of who she is,because Dexter did put her on to
who you know, tracy beingBlake's ex PR lady.
I love this scene.
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It's not very long, but god,this woman is hilarious.
Tracy immediately stands up andshe's like Alexis Colby.
I'm so excited to be here.
You may have heard that Iparted ways from Denver
Carrington and I was hoping todo some great things here at
Colby Co and Alexis is like yes,darling, I heard about your job
, I know you left it.
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Alexis gets right to it.
So what did Blake do to makeyou leave?
Tracy says, well, no, it was amutual decision.
And Alexis is like okay, okay,okay, girl, sure it was.
And then she doesn't come rightout and say that she feels a
way about being fired.
But she's like you know, Iworked for Blake and I learned a
lot while I was there.
And Alexa's like you don't haveto tell me why you got fired or
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why you quit, I'm sure.
How does she put it?
Sure, it's because Blake isobsessed with his mediocre
wife's position, like basicallysaying we all know that you're
the real PR person, but I mean,that's his loss.
Unfortunately, I'm notinterested.
Tracy's like listen, I know, Iknow you would be.
I learned a whole lot, a lot ofthings that most people don't
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know about Blake Carrington.
I have a front row seat too.
I know a whole lot ofinformation.
And Alexis is like you know,people who have a lot of secrets
are only loyal to money.
How do I know you're not goingto flip on me?
Tracy seals the deal by quotingAlexis, basically saying I'm
loyal to the money, pledgeallegiance to the bag, something
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to that effect.
Alexis is impressed.
She thinks to herself.
This woman hates Blake, sheused to work for Blake and she's
about her money.
This is my kind of girl.
Welcome to Colby Co.
You are the second female toever work for this company,
probably going to be the last.
Tracy immediately goes out intothe lobby and makes a very loud
phone call and says Dex, I'm in.
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I understand this is television, but why are y'all telling all
y'all business?
My goodness, stealth.
Stealthiness is importantStealth.
I've been thinking about thisepisode long and hard and part
of me wishes I was a little bitbetter of a voice actor.
I might try this and just giveyou the point of view.
I would love to do this allfrom Dex's point of view,
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because he had an incredible dayon this day.
So let's go ahead and start atthe top.
At the beginning of this episodewe see Dex, dexter and some hot
to trot little blonde who looksa lot like Shelly Long fresh
off of a rendezvous.
Now he's giggling, he'ssniggling, he's having a good
old time, he's touchy-feely.
This girl's having the time ofher life.
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They're in Alexis's penthouseand they're about to get a
little champagne and go out onthe terrace and have a good time
.
You see mom's away at the opera.
So Mark has the whole mall tohimself that night.
Only why him and Miss BlondiePoo are, you know, touching and
feeling all over each other,complimenting each other on the
job.
Well done in the sack.
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Mark, in true side dude slashkept man slash, oldest son
fashion, here's the elevator andsees a little light flash
indicating that someone iscoming up to the penthouse.
There can only be one personcoming up to the penthouse Mom's
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home.
Oh crap, alexis is back.
Oh, my God, you got to go.
So he starts shuffling his boothing out the back way.
Thank God for that backstaircase, it is paying
dividends.
So as he ushers her out, markneeds to remind the audience
that he is athletic.
He grabs a champagne bucket,champagne, a couple flutes,
cause he's still gonna drink,and he uses his foot to open the
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sliding door and close it.
He goes out on the terrace justin enough time as he leaves
Alexis waltz into this penthouse.
Only she's not alone and she'spissed.
I can't believe.
You're waiting outside for me.
I was at the opera and here youcome with these accusations
it's Blake.
Blake is big pissed.
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Blake left the house to comecuss out his baby mother because
he feels like she had somethingto do with Ahmed Rashid and
this whole wolf ticket.
He's selling the world, makingBlake look like a crook and a
criminal and things.
Alexis was on a tour de force,acting just like I can't believe
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.
You would say that you thought Ipainted Jeff into a coma.
You thought I tried to kill himand I didn't.
You never believed me.
You never believe anything.
I say mind you.
She's doing this in this killeremerald green dress matching
jewels.
He's pissed.
Alexis, this smell like you.
I know you saw it.
I know you did.
He's like you're crazy.
You're crazy.
You're always blaming me.
You never believe me, blake,you never believe me, for
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whatever reason.
He buys this.
He's like damn, okay, I guessI'm sorry.
I guess you're right.
You're right, you're right, I'msorry, I ruined your opera
night.
I'm so sorry.
So as he leaves, we see Markout on the terrace sipping some
champagne.
Let me go ahead and have me alittle sip too.
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He's sipping champagne in acelebratory fashion because he
knows he's got her right wherehe wants her.
Mark has been playing his part.
He's been biting his timebiting his tongue, keeping quiet
.
He's been kicked out of everyroom he's been in and is finally
going to pay off because Mark,if you recall, was sent away in
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Hong Kong.
Alexis made one fatal mistakewhen she booked the rooms.
Although Mark had a separateroom, it was still an adjoining
room, so that means he could seeher room very, very clearly.
He could see the comings andgoings and when she kicked him
out, gave him some money andsent him downstairs to the
arcade.
On his way out he saw Ahmedmaking his way in.
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I just had a thought.
Dex Dexter also knows she waswith Ahmed Rashid, but I guess
he doesn't care, or maybe ithasn't.
The news hasn't really hit him,at least not on this episode
about Blake's company being inthe tank now because everyone
thinks he was like funding therebels or something.
That's neither here nor there.
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What's here or there is thatMark has gotten out.
He's got a way to get a big,fat payday, finally, after years
of chasing skirts, tennislessons to moderately rich
broads.
Sure, it's been fun, sure, itstrokes his ego, but I mean he
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don't need that.
What he needs is a fat payday.
Mark goes and takes acelebratory shower and polishes
off the bottle of champagne.
I'm assuming, because the nexttime we see him, he is in his
bathrobe a pair of flip-flopsand he is hollering downstairs.
Robe, pair of flip-flops, andhe is hollering downstairs.
Alexis, alexis, she's pissedbecause she's already in the bed
.
She's already been accosted byBlake with the truth.
She managed to snake her wayout of that, but she comes down
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the stairs in a fabulous robe,no doubt, mark.
What do you want?
Oh, you're drunk.
And he's like yeah, I'm drunk,I'm also rich.
Oh, you're drunk.
And he's like yeah, I'm drunk,I'm also rich, I'm also about to
get paid.
She's like what are you going onabout?
He's like I saw Blake here alittle while ago and I heard you
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tell him you had never laideyes on Rashida Med while you
were in Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, I saw Rashida Medleave your room more times than
a little bit.
Matter of fact, I heard you askhim to sabotage blake for five
million doll hairs.
So what I'm trying to tell you,baby girl, is you're about to
give me a raise and she's likewell damn, I can't believe this.
To my shock, she agrees.
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How much is this going to costme, mark?
How much is it going to cost meto shut you up 100K.
You guys know that the livingfrom ago is my Roman empire.
That would be around $300,000today.
That's good money.
Plus remember he had squirreledaway $20,000.
He knows what's up.
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It doesn't interest me.
Mark brings up a point.
He says you're the best liarI've ever met in my life and
you've got a ton of enemies.
Usually you just bulldoze overthem.
There's something aboutCarrington that has you shook,
though.
I wonder what he would do withthis information.
I would agree with that, eventhough my personal opinion is
that she could take him.
I don't know what it is abouthim either.
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There is something that she's.
She's always sort of circlingaround him looking for ways to
destroy him, but I don't know.
He doesn't.
I don't feel like it's an evenplaying field.
She could flatten him.
I don't think he could flattenher again.
She is running the number onecompany, he's running the number
two.
She is running the number onecompany, he's running the number
two.
Anyways, the next day, mark isenjoying yet another glass of
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dark liquor when all of a sudden, mcveigh, the congressman, the
pedo congressman comes up thatback stairway.
Mark says what the hell are youdoing?
See, mark had just received ahundred thousand dollar check
from Alexis.
So he was just kind of enjoyinghis time having a celebratory
beverage.
When McVeigh walks in he's likedude, how'd you get in here
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Back stairwell?
Alexis has made me use it a fewtimes.
You got any information on her?
Yet All this time I thoughtMark was reporting back to
McVeigh giving him all the tea.
Remember?
They made an agreement.
Mcveigh was like I'm going topay you, you're going to tell me
everything there is to knowabout Alexis and I'm going to
bring her down, I'm going toblackmail her.
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No-transcript.
Yes, he is a gold digger.
Yes, he is an opportunist, butwhat he ain't is a snitch.
For whatever reason, he is kindof protecting Alexis.
Or maybe he know McVeigh don'thave no money like that.
Who knows?
Either way, keeping quiet ispaying dividends and he wants to
continue this.
So he basically tells McVeigh.
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He basically tells him to leave.
Now I was a little disappointedin this scene because I thought
Mark was going to give him anAlexis read.
He starts it off.
He basically says why don't youleave?
The same way you came up, Ithought he was going to tell him
don't touch any girls on theway out.
Didn't say that.
Just tells him to leave and thenext time you want to talk to
me, don't do it here.
Wiggles his bushy eyebrows andsends McVaneigh on his way.
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Mcveigh can't believe it.
Did he just kick me out?
Yeah, he just kicked you out.
Also, mcveigh absolutely hasnothing on Mark at this time.
I just thought about that.
He can't go to.
He can't very well go to Alexisand say, hey, your bodyguard is
feeding me intel, because he'snot.
But what he can do is followMark Jennings around.
If he won't tell McVeigh anypersonal antidote about Alexis,
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then maybe McVeigh can see itfor himself.
Only when he follows Mark, tohis surprise, mark goes to the
Bank of Denver, deposits a heftycheck, flirts a little bit with
the banker lady she appreciateshis business, hands him a card
I guess it's a debit card, Idon't know.
I don't think it's a debit cardin 1984, but hands in my card,
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mark walks out.
We find out pretty quickly thatMcVeigh was there.
He's like hiding behind a pieceof paper, listening and
watching the whole transaction.
Mark is on one, you know he'sfeeling good about himself.
He is a champagne poppy.
He gets good and drunk again, Isuppose, and then he heads over
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to Denver Carrington, announceshimself in the offices of
Crystal Carrington and entersand the first thing he says he's
acting kind of funny, but he'slike man.
I remember when I didn't haveto go through so many hoops to
get to you.
He's like hey, mark, what areyou doing here?
She's keeping it very cute.
She's got her own thing toworry about, but she's being
very cordial.
Hey, hey, mark, what are youdoing here?
I just wanted to say hey, Ijust want to come by and tell
you you're amazing.
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Blah, blah, blah.
She can tell right away thathe's drunk.
She lived many years with himand it's alcohol abuse.
So she knows that he's drunkand he's like listen, he
basically tells her that hewanted to come and say goodbye
to the lady he's always loved.
You're so beautiful, thishaving a third.
And also, you know I'm sorryfor any trouble I brought to you
, but I just want you to knowyou're worth two, blake
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Carrington and 20 of me and, myGod, a world full of Alexis's.
Basically, you are just a gem.
You are a precious, preciouswoman, only woman I ever loved.
But yeah, I'm out of here.
I gave him that match.
I got what I needed.
He didn't really tell her what,he just explained.
You know I'm gonna go.
She really wants to know why.
She thinks it's something likeAlexis did something to him.
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He was like, look, she's inpain in the butt, but I mean I'm
not worried about her.
You, on the other hand, shouldbe looking over your shoulder
always.
This woman is, she's everythingyou think she is, and then some.
But love you.
They give each other a littlehug and it's really cute.
Love you, I'll see you later.
Goodbye.
Well, she feels, she just feelsfunny, like this is a weird
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scene now that I really thinkabout it.
She's like mark, just becareful, be careful.
I don't know why he goes.
Don't worry, girl, I got eyesin the back of my head.
Ain't nobody worried about me?
He's on his way to new york city.
I think three hundredthousand000 worth of money in
today's money.
In New York you could do somedamage, especially in the 80s,
especially in the early 80s.
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He probably is just fine.
Plus, he's still fine.
He's still got dimples, hestill knows how to play tennis.
He could run this, this wholescheme, over and over and over
again.
Now, is it a scheme?
Not really.
He kind of got lucky Mark isused to sort of mooching off
wealthy women.
He's used to sort of runninggame, but by saving a life he
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was then employed by anotherwealthy woman, even after he
banged her daughter, and he gotin and out.
As soon as he got the money hewent ahead and got out.
He didn't have to marry her.
He's not doing any weird favorsfor her.
That's how you get that goal.
That's a gold digger extreme.
He hadn't compromised hismorals in any way.
He's not embarrassed to be seen.
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Now he's got a hundred thousandreason to walk away in the last
20 that he's earned.
So good for you, mark.
He's tipsy the whole.
I hope he don't crash somewhere.
Now that I think about it.
Hope he don't fall outsomewhere.
He had drunk this entireepisode.
You know who's not drunk thoughour good sister kirby.
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I think before we jump intokirby theist, though, we need to
discuss blake and his big.
As you know, blake wasmortified when he turned on the
TV after a terrible announcementof a new marriage and found out
that this dude, dirt Dude, whohe has a terrible history with,
stabbed him in the back, set himup.
Imagine that.
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Imagine doing business to thetune of $100 million, only to
have someone you've nevertrusted in your life turn their
back on.
You, set you up.
It's embarrassing, it'sdevastating.
You went to go, cuss out yourex-wife and she's like I ain't
got nothing to do with that.
Why would you do business withsomeone who hates you?
Valid, valid point.
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So now Blake has to scramble, hehas to think really, really
fast and his thought is let mego to Hong Kong and I'll talk to
that government and see whatthey can do.
If I can just get thatgovernment to say hey, we didn't
buy any arms with this, we'reusing this for whatever projects
we said we were going to use itfor, then it'll all be cool,
it'll all be golden.
He says, adam, I want you tocome to Hong Kong with me.
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Okay, I need you.
Adam's like absolutely, bro,I'll be there.
What do you want me to do?
Blake says I want you to beready to go by 8am tomorrow.
We got to go to San Franciscofirst and then we're going to go
on the plane.
We're going to go to Hong Kong.
So while they're on the privateplane, he and Blake Adam and
Blake, that is are talking aboutlike dude, how did this happen?
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What went wrong.
Why do you think Rashid Ahmeddid this?
Blake says gosh, I mean, Ithink this was maybe a long time
coming.
I maybe underestimated that.
He was more upset with me thanI realized.
His brother, farouk, tried toset me up with a deal or
something one time and I kickedhim out of my office.
Maybe he was really embarrassed, adam's like or maybe mother
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had something to do with thisFunny thing is the night
previous after everything wentdown, the whole family was at
Fallon and Jeff's announcementof their engagement.
Right, the whole family, withthe exception of Fallon, heads
to Denver Carrington.
They're on the phone, they'retalking to press, they're doing
all this work trying to likefigure out what went wrong.
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When they get back to the thehouse, crystal's in the kitchen
in a fabulous robe drinking aglass of milk.
Blake comes in and they'retalking about this and, like
Blake goes oh, I don't know howall this happened.
I just can't believe he wouldturn his back on me like there's
got to be more to the story.
Crystal says well, yeah, alexisprobably knows the whole story,
so it's funny.
The next day on the plane, adam,who was Alexis's son says, says
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the exact same thing.
He's like I don't know whyyou're so chill about this.
You know mama had something todo with this.
Blake's like no, no, no, I madeenemies on my own.
Alexis is innocent this time.
And Adam's like you have got tobe kidding me.
You don't smell mother Chanelnumber five all over this.
Blake's like no man.
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I pissed off Farouk.
I accused him of killing, ofkidnapping my grandson, like
they were just waiting.
They were just waiting for me.
Adam's like you know what youbetter than me, because if it
was me and she double-crossed me, you know I get down, she'd be
out of here.
I like the tension between Adamand, uh, alexis, because, yeah,
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he's the son.
That can just never be enough.
It's all about Stephen, stephen,stephen.
Let's put a quick little pin inthis story and flip over to
Stephen, because this somethinghas come to light.
Stephen finally leaves hismama's office after three
episodes.
He goes to his office and canyou imagine that with a little
digging, probably two or threeswipes of the hanging folders,
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he finds the plans he thoughtAdam stole.
Now I have not gone back tofigure out which episode would
tell me if Adam took the plansor not.
I tend to believe he didn't.
And now Stephen's like dang.
He goes into Alexis's officeLike, oh, adam, an goes into
Alexis's office.
He's like I owe Adam an apology.
I just found those.
I found that paperwork.
I accused him of stealing.
And Alexis is like you knowwhat Good, good on you.
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You need to apologize to yourbrother.
But why the long face?
Stephen feels bad because he'slike if I hadn't made these
plans, it would have neverencouraged Adam to tell dad
about this South China deal andthen he wouldn't be in this
predicament.
Alexis is like honey, you know,this is not your fault.
Things happen.
Your dad messes with the wrongpeople Sometimes.
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Things happen, everything willbe fine.
Okay, back to Blake.
And Adam Blake insists thatthis is all his own fault and
that you just can't go willynilly accusing people of things,
because it's reallyembarrassing when you're wrong.
Adam just has a look on hisface like you know, it was my
mama.
You know this, I know this, butwhatever.
So they get to Hong Kong andthey are waiting for some
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representatives of thegovernment Obviously not Rashid
Ahmed, because nobody can findhim.
The only intel that they haveis that someone saw someone who
may or may not have looked likehim, boarding a private plane in
a private airport.
That's it.
Very, very useless information.
So these representatives ofthis nondescript government that
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comes in and they're, you know,having a quick little
conversation.
Hi, mr Carrington.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, we saw the news.
That's so whack.
I can't believe that.
Someone went on TV and saidthat, well, blake says listen,
we can put all this to bed.
I've got a lot of investors whoare very, very nervous and I've
got this time crunch.
I got to start digging soonerrather than later.
So can you guys put out a pressrelease for me and just say the
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money did not go to buy arms,it went to buy this went to buy,
you know, infrastructure orwhatever it was they were
working on.
It was totally just likehumanitarian efforts really.
Here's the thing Adam tried towarn Blake before they boarded
the plane that people dobusiness differently in
different parts of the world.
It's not this government's cupof tea to like go on TV talking
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and stuff.
They like to keep it very quiet.
They like to be Mark Jennings.
They like to sit back, betalking and stuff.
They like to keep it very quiet.
They like to be Mark Jennings.
They like to sit back, collecttheir check, do business quietly
and move on.
They're not really out therelike that.
They assure Blake hey, we don'tbuy guns, we don't do all that,
we're not trying to fight.
Okay, we're rich, we're pretty,we're not trying to fight, we
just want this infrastructureand whatnot.
So they say you know, that'snot really how we do business.
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I'm so, so sorry we're notgoing to be able to help you.
Well, blake gets mad and he putsthis.
He puts on his American,american, american trash.
I paid money.
You have a hundred million ofmy dollars and I want to see
some receipts.
I want to see somebody's ass ontelevision telling the whole
world what good guy I am.
And they're like that's cute orwhatever, but like like your
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son tried to told you this ain'tAmerica.
And the last thing we're goingto do is go on TV and mention
this, this country that wants toblow us up.
We're not going to even mentiontheir name because we don't
want smoke like that.
And, by the way, mr Carrington,we sold you oil leases.
We did not offer you protection, we did not offer you provision
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.
That's for you to work out.
You either make that businesswork or you don't.
Ain't that the American way?
Get over here, figure out howyou're going to dig in them
holes and that's it.
Sorry for you.
Blake's like dang, you're right, dang, you're right, you're
right, okay, dang, okay,everything's cool.
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So in America, crystal is tryingto be the PR woman and a solid
wife.
Only she feels like Blake's notreally giving her the full
details and he's not going to.
This is one of the biggerissues, and having a wife in a
position like that, she can't beyour PR person if you're not
going to be open.
It's like you can't have yourwife be your lawyer if you're
not going to be completelyhonest.
It's just a conflict ofinterest.
I learned from TV a long timeago that doctors are not allowed
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to perform surgery on theirfamily.
This makes a lot of sense.
You probably don't.
I don't know if lawyers havethat same sort of creed where
you just can't, you know,represent someone you know, a
wife or a kid or something.
Conflict of interest.
So Crystal is trying to do thisjob that she's not necessarily
versed in.
I won't say she's unqualified,but listen, she does not have
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any experience and this is a bigdeal.
So that reporter who did aninterview with Blake right after
the merger.
He comes back and, oh boy, hecan't wait to dig into them.
So basically, he tells Crystalthat that whole interview he did
with Blink is a wash, becausethat turned out to be a complete
and total lie.
So he wants to know hey, mrsDenver Carrington, what are the
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repercussions of him fundingthis other country with arms?
Crystal manages to keep it cool.
Crystal doesn't really know howto handle this.
This is new and this is big.
The repercussions are that thiscompany is probably sinking.
She's not comfortable sayingthat because Blake hasn't
actually told her that.
So she tells a man to get out.
He's like cool, go ahead andmake sure you read my article
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next week when it comes out.
So when they get home, I feellike Crystal calls me poor in 4K
because Blake comes back fromHong Kong and she's sitting in
the study with Fallon and Fallonis, you know, daddy's little
girl.
Daddy, you're gonna be okay,right?
You're gonna make sure you getthis money back, right?
Of course, darling, of course.
So once Fallon leaves,crystal's like Blake quit
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playing with me.
She's wearing this incredibleplum silk robe with a sequined
collar lapel.
What do you need sequins for ina bathrobe?
You need that when you're rich,because she don't want her
sleeping clothes to absorb anyof like the helps, air or
something.
I suppose she doesn't want toroll over in bed and smell like
she actually cleaned anything.
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So she's doing the extra.
She looks amazing in this role.
And she says Blake, stopplaying with me, stop putting me
on this pedestal Like I'm yourprecious little wife, I'm your
PR person.
You better tell me what's goingon.
And he's like okay, so here'sthe deal.
You know that a hundred milliondollars I um like put together
with all the contributors andwhatnot.
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All of that came with acondition.
I am on a time limit.
If I don't start digging, if Idon't find oil pretty soon
basically I could it's going tolook really bad and I'm going to
be a hundred million dollars inthe hole.
And she goes oh, so it's eitheryou start digging or you risk
losing Denver Carrington.
He's like yeah, so now sheunderstands kind of the weight
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of the situation.
And that's Blake's wholedilemma.
This episode is okay.
What do I do now?
So he's in trouble.
Kind of surprising.
But at the end of the day, youjust don't do business with your
worst enemy.
You don't do business withsomebody that you embarrass.
It's one thing to have a fight,it's quite another to embarrass
.
So I mean, he's not wrong.
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Rashida Med was probablywaiting in the cut to do
something to him eventually, butsometimes you deserve it,
sometimes you don't.
I would say he deserved it justa little bit.
Someone who doesn't deserve it,though, is my girl, claudia De
Steyer.
As you, they finally put thatwhole who's been sending her
violence and Matthew hips, don'tlie, blaisdell voice recording.
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It was the do dirt PI thatAlexis has embarrassed.
Oh my gosh, she's racking upthe enemies.
Anyway, in order to make surethis is fully put to bed,
stephen calls up Claudia onemorning and he tells her hey,
honey, honey, I need you to comedown to the police station.
We basically have to presscharges, blah, blah, blah.
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Put it on on record so that hecan be whatever, so they can get
rid of it.
I don't know if he's going tobe given prison time or whatever
.
The scene was interesting to mein another way, because Kirby
is there.
So Claudia is like are you sure, steven?
I really don't want to do this.
He's like yes, honey, just comeon down here and give the
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deposition and then you canleave.
I think he says deposition.
Enter Kirby.
Kirby's got a gun.
Kirby's got a gun Run aboveDaddy Doo.
You know what I mean.
I don't know what that songsays, but it fits so perfectly
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on this episode.
Kermit has a blicky and she'sgot a target.
Only she's so flusteredthroughout the entire episode.
You already know this is notgoing to go well.
At least I did Okay.
So when we first see kirby,she's sitting in the study
catching up with fallon.
One of the servants has pouredthem a little cute little tiny
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glass, which reminds me I'mthirsty.
Someone has poured them a tinyglass of brandy or whatever.
Right?
Fallon's telling kirbyeverything that happened to
blake.
Kirby's like oh my god, that'scrazy, I can't believe I missed
that.
And Fallon's like well, yeah,you missed the family meetings.
What she means is you missedthat terrible event I made
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everybody get dressed up for,even though we've been at the
kid's birthday party all day totell you I'm marrying the man
that you really love.
Why would Kirby want to bethere?
She knew what was up.
Kirby didn't really give anexplanation.
I'm assuming she was at theshooting range, but no one asked
because no one cares and we'llget to that in a second.
So Kirby's looking at Fallon andshe's starting to realize that
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Fallon looks like she's almostglowing and she's like, well,
you look really good.
Like what's, what's going on?
That's when Fallon tells heryeah, you missed the meeting
last night.
Kirby says, let me guess, jeffproposed to you and you accepted
.
It's probably that giant garnet, ja, ja ring on Fallon's finger
that gave it away.
She's like yes, yes, kirby,we're engaged to be married and
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I want you to be happy for me,just like I'm happy.
It is the audacity for me.
You don't get to say thatbecause, first and foremost, was
Fallon supportive when Kirbywas with Jeff?
She was not.
Why would you think?
This woman has to celebrateeverything you do?
It's a very entitled positionto come from, but that's par for
the course.
I would also like to point outthat even in this scene, even
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though Jeff's not even there inthis scene, there's still no
chemistry when she talks aboutJeff.
You are never going make mebelieve this under any
circumstances.
Ever, ever, ever I could bedangling over a cliff.
I will never be like, yeah,they was they, they loved each
other.
Never gonna happen anyway.
This news kind of makes Kirbysick to her stomach.
So the next time we see her uh,yeah, I suppose she's had a
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little bit of time to thinkabout it.
I guess kirby needs to wash theday off of her.
She realizes that, yeah, she'smissed out a lot in her life,
not because of her own hand, butbecause of other people.
So she goes upstairs, takes ashower, puts on a peach
nightgown and pets her gun tosleep.
She wants to soothe herselfwith the cold steel between her
fingers.
Only she's interrupted by arat-a-tat-tat at the door.
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She goes leaping across theroom and here we see adam.
So this is all the same nightthat everything went down.
I know she said last night,fallon said last night, but it
was it at.
This is all the same night.
Adam comes in and he's still inhis penguin suit.
He's like, hey, me and Blakeare gonna go to, uh, san
Francisco, and then we're gonnafly to Hong Kong to take care of
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business, and then when I comeback we're gonna make plans,
we're gonna get a marriagelicense and we're gonna make
babies.
She's like, damn, didn't I justcome off like toxic stuff?
Can I?
Can I recover a little bit?
She doesn't say that.
I said that.
Okay, sorry.
What she does say is okay.
Well, when?
How long are you leaving,remember?
She's already talked to alexisabout taking a job in paris.
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How this is all supposed towork out, I'm sure I don't know,
but she convinces adam thatshe's going to miss him and they
have a little scene togetherand, dare I say it, there is way
more passion between these twothan there is Jeff and Fallon.
Considering their past, this isa little bit disturbing.
So they have a little funbefore he's off and on his way.
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I hope she doesn't get knockedup now that I sit and think
about it.
The next morning Kirby is atBrecky.
She comes downstairs and it'svery clear clear, if you're
paying attention that she is.
She's not quite in her rightmind.
You know.
She's a little bit frustrated,she looks a little bit angry.
But she comes and she sits nowlooks like she's just been at
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the gym working out andClaudia's on the phone with
Steve and he's telling her sheneeds to come make a statement.
Blah, blah, blah.
Well, what?
Once Claudia hangs up the phone, she's like oh, hey, kirby, hey
, I'm so glad I caught you.
Why don't we throw a party forFallon?
Kirby's like wait a what?
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Why don't we throw anengagement party?
Or like a bachelorette partyfor Fallon.
Claudia's mean her sweet littleself, but.
But Kirby clearly thinks, girl,you talking crazy again.
Do I need to call the asylum?
Why would I throw her a party?
I'm not even a Carrington likethat.
That's what she said out of herown mouth.
I ain't even a Carrington likethat.
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I may never be no Carrington.
You throw a party for heryourself.
I am team Kirby in this, firstand foremost.
You don't get a repeat partyfor me for marrying the same
person.
You certainly don't get a partyfor marrying my ex-husband.
Kirby's also of the mind likewhat could we possibly give her?
She already has everything.
Claudia being the sweet littlesaint, she is the love.
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Even a Carrington needs love.
That sets Kirby off.
That's when she's like you knowwhat?
That ain't my sister, that youwant to be a Carrington, you
could be.
A Carrington needs love.
That sets Kirby off.
That's when she's like you knowwhat?
That ain't my sister, that youwant to be a Carrington.
You can be a Carrington.
You can give her whatever youneed.
I'm not Count me out O-U-T outMatter of fact, I got a blicky
for her mama.
That's her wedding gift.
That's her gift.
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She's going to go of Jeff as hegets older.
Think about it.
One day they're going to haveto sit him down and tell their
story of this, this star-crossedlovers, requainted love, blah,
blah, blah and it all felltogether.
He's going to have to explain,jeff, that is that he.
He, you know.
He slept with Aunt Claudia, heslept with Aunt Kirby, he slept
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with mom twice mom used to hookup with his uncle, um, and then
he's gonna be like yeah, andthen I let your mom name you
after your grandpa because Idon't have a spine.
And then I gave up my rightfulthrone on the on the stepsby Co,
which is the biggest company inDenver, to be a second rate
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pseudo son to your grandpabecause I don't have a spine.
So the baby's gonna be likewait a minute, wait a minute,
wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,hold up.
Let me make sure I understandthis right.
My name is Blake Carrington,colby, because you don't have a
spine.
I am really a Colby.
My grandma runs Colby Co, whichis a bigger company, which
means I could be in a biggermansion, which means I've been
sharing a nursery with my babycousin.
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For what exactly?
That kid's half hillbilly?
I am blue blood through andthrough.
What do I look like sharingamenities.
I'd be super pissed if I foundout that my dad chose to be
second rate.
If you want to live this lifeof a bleeding heart because you
chasing behind my mama with 15hyphens behind her name, that's
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you, my guy point me in thedirection of the Colby mansion,
please, or the very least, mygrandmother's penthouse.
That's neither here nor there,because his auntie, or future
auntie, aunt Kirby and justCarrington, needs another shower
so she can work up a nerve.
She picks up the phone.
She calls alexis, carrington,colby, alexis, uh, it's me kirby
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.
Uh, remember, we talked aboutparis.
You still got a job for me inparis.
Alexis is like kirby, are youokay?
We just talked about thisyesterday.
Yes, absolutely okay.
Fine, um, I want to talk to youin person about it.
Okay, can you be at my officein an hour?
No, no, I can't.
I can't get down there in anhour.
Alexis is like okay, how abouttomorrow 9am?
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Yes, yes, I can do tomorrow at9am, but I'm picking you up.
Alexis is picking me up.
Yes, I'm picking you uptomorrow 9amm.
Click.
Alexis pays this dust.
She is completely unbothered.
I was actually shocked.
I'm like would she ride in acar?
What kind of car is Kirbypicking her up in?
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I was very, very concerned withit, you'll be happy to know.
And surprise, she picks her upin a Ford Mustang.
I'm shocked.
I didn't think Alexis would getin a Mustang, but she does.
Kirby nervously picks her upand she drives her over to her
old house.
And this is where things startto get interesting.
Kirby jumps out.
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She's got on a leather jacket.
Kirby is a very she don't looklike a lot of people, if that
makes sense.
She has a unique look.
I'm not saying that she'sstrange looking or anything, but
not many people look like her.
She's got these large doe eyes,dark hair all the way past her
butt.
She's just very unique looking.
She stands out, she drives ared Mustang through a
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residential neighborhood, pullsup to a house that's been empty
for 20 plus years with a womanwearing a ginormous gray cloak
fur hat with like fur trim on it.
It is so dope though.
It's gray on the outside, linedwith gray fur, but when you
flip it over it's red, matchesher other outfit that's
underneath it.
Oh, love it anyway.
They pull up in this mustang.
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Kirby's like you don't recognizethis house.
Does this bring back anymemories?
Well, let's just know where amI.
This is my house, oh, okay.
Okay, this is my father's house.
Actually, it hadn't been myhouse since my dad left after my
mom died.
Oh, it doesn't have much to saybecause this is not what she
showed up for.
So they did end up going to thehouse and Kirby makes a comment
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about how empty it is.
Yeah, it's been so empty.
It's been this way since myfather left, since my mother
killed herself and my fatherleft to live in the mansion.
Did you ever think about them?
Did you ever wonder about them?
Alexa's like no, and I don'trecognize this house because
when I hire help, they come tome.
Dang she right.
Weird thing is this house stillhas all the furniture.
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Ruth saw this, I think, onepisode what two or three of the
beginning of this seasonfurniture still covered up.
They have this house.
That's just been sitting there.
It's not running out nothing.
Kirby thinks this is the perfectplace to kill Alexis.
So, mind you, alexis thinksthey're talking about Adam.
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She thinks they're talkingabout a position in Paris.
She believes that they aremeeting at this house so that no
one in the family knows they'remeeting.
That way, nobody can point yourfingers later on.
Only Kirby is so nervous andjust jittery this whole time it
starts to annoy Alexis.
She's like girl, do not comehere, talk about your dead
parents, I'm out.
She goes to turn.
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And god bless Kirby, eventhough she's been petting this
pet gun to sleep every singlenight she's been playing with it
.
She couldn't pull it out firstquick enough.
She starts fumbling anddumbling with the purse.
Next thing, you know, a nosyneighbor comes through, or a
good neighbor, where it dependson how you look at.
He's with the neighborhoodwatch.
He's like hey, hey, nobody'slived in this house for 20 years
.
I saw this red mustang, tworich bras come strolling in.
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I thought I'd come by to seewhat's up.
Y'all buying the house or no?
Alexa's like man, I ain'tbuying this house.
What do I look like living here?
Could you point me in thedirection of a phone?
He's like yeah, I can help youout.
Meanwhile, kirby's like it's myhouse.
Ladies and gentlemen, be good orbe good at it.
What was the plan, corbethius?
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You were going to bring Alexisto a house registered in your
name.
They were going to find hercorpse registered there, lying
in the house registered in yourname.
You didn't even bother to putyour hair in a bun or put on
sunglasses or hat.
You walk down in front of godand everybody.
No neighborhood watch man sawyou.
What was the getaway plan?
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She wouldn't have even had themoney to get the ticket right
then.
And there see, kirby is aclassic tale of she's gold
digger adjacent.
She has the ability to reallyget get what she needs, but she
can't because she's got thatservant mindset.
I thought about this, thisepisode.
Kirby's entire existence on thisshow has been that she is in
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love with Jeff.
She is Joseph's daughter, soshe is very, very, very familiar
, by all intents and purposes,to everyone who lives in or and
or works in that mansion.
Yet none of them, not onesingle person, noticed that she
was sick.
Not one single person noticedthat she was in duress.
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Not one single person noticedthat she was acting all fidgety
and weird, slipping in and outof the house at all hours of the
night.
You know what?
I don't notice it becauseyou're not supposed to pay
attention to the help.
Even the help isn't payingattention to the help, and the
reality is Kirby's never beenthe help, but she was raised by
the help and she carries thatwith her.
She walks through the hallwayswith her head down.
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She don't really stand up forherself like that.
She's always very accommodating.
Congratulations, pal, and I'mvery happy for you.
No, you really wanted to throwthat drink in her face is what
you wanted to do, but she feelslike that would be out of pocket
.
She is never going to fit in inthis home until she starts
taking her rightful place.
Adam was left out in the rain.
He grew up on a farm inBillings, Montana.
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That mofo changed his nameimmediately.
You're going to see me, you'regoing to hear me, you're going
to feel me and if you don't't,you know what I'll do.
I'm a chemist.
I'll turn paint into asheetrock coffin.
You keep playing with me.
Kirby does not have that.
Kirby is in the perfect position.
She's in the rightful positionto take whatever she needs.
She could pull a Mark Jenningsand be like you know what, colby
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?
You wasted my time.
You wasted my life.
My new husband's a lawyer.
I'm gonna prove that you werebanging Fallon all along and
that she did it in denim, whichis very embarrassing.
And I'm going to take half ofyour stock in Colby Co.
I'm going to own one quarter ofthat company.
She doesn't see herself thatway.
All she can think is Alexishurt my mother's feelings so I'm
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going to shoot her in my housewith all the evidence.
Remember she made that phonecall.
Everybody knows at DenverCarrington that she's been
taking gun shooting lessons.
God bless the curb curb.
I think we have kind of coinedthe term mindset a little bit
more in the last 10 to 15 years,but it really does have a lot
to do with it.
You got to be in the rightmindset to take advantage of
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opportunities when they presentthemselves.
So if Mark showed us theabsolute best way and Kirby
showed us the absolute worst way, what is a good and even middle
ground?
Enter somebody I had no ideaexisted anymore.
You remember how Mark said hewas going to New York.
There were some sort of randomapartment building.
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I don't think it said New York,but whatever, I kind of thought
it was.
We go up to the top floor ofthis apartment and you open it
and there's this blonde brushingher hair in this really
gorgeous, like deep hunter greenbedroom baby.
Tell me why that was nobody butSamantha Jo or, excuse me, yes,
samantha, sammy Jo, crystal'sHellcat Ohio hillbilly baby
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niece.
I couldn't believe it.
I thought she was gone.
Has she even been on?
Was she in court this season orwas that last season?
I kind of thought Sammy Jo waslike Toscani.
I thought she was gone.
I had high hopes for her in thesecond season.
Only now I'm like okay, is sheback?
Is she here for good?
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I don't know.
Let's get to it.
So she's brushing her hair.
She's having a good time.
She seems to be giddy.
When the door opens, you see aKevin James walking.
Yes, the King of Queen,according to me, walks in.
I was like, oh my God, it's notKevin James.
This guy would be way olderthan him, but it looks exactly
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like him.
I am a huge fan of Kevin Jamesand I don't want to disrespect
his legacy any further.
So instead of calling this manKevin James, we're going to call
him Calvin Jim.
Calvin Jim comes in lookingpoindextery and way, way, way
beneath.
There's no way Sammy Joe's inhis league, but she's all giddy,
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calvin James, welcome home.
Boo, I didn't realize you'd behome so early.
Look at my gown.
She goes to the closet in thecorner of the room.
She pulls out this gown.
I'm going to wear this tonight.
I'm going to'm gonna be so cute.
Sammy Jo, or Samantha as she iscalled, has landed a dream
modeling contract.
Think cover girl in the late90s, think L'Oreal in the early
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2000s.
Think MAC cosmetics in the2010s.
She is that girl.
She's supposed to be on thecover of everything.
She's geek.
She's so excited.
Oh my God, I'll be so cute.
He's like yeah, yeah, thatlooks cute.
Now I'm thinking he'sdismissing her because he's
trying to hurry up and get onein before they go to this little
gala.
However, he's like hey, um, sowhat had happened was there was
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an announcement made today.
She's like oh, my God, god,they announced me.
Oh, I can't wait.
I'm the face of this company.
Pretty, pretty face, prettyface, pretty face.
Calvin Jimmy says um, no, baby,they announced that the
campaign was canceled.
It's not going to happen.
This feels like a likely storyand I tell you, sammy Jo feels
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the same way.
She drops the giddy.
It's like wait, what?
What did you say to me, calvinJimmy?
She can't believe it.
She's like wait, what?
What did you say to me, calvinJimmy?
She can't believe it.
She's like wait what?
Cancel?
What are you talking about?
He's like baby, none of that'simportant.
It's not important.
What's important is ourarrangement.
Arrangement.
She's like you think I likeyour big, sloppy, sleazy body
all over me.
I did this for the money I did.
I am a gold digger.
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I did this for my campaign.
I am supposed to be on thecover of magazines, billboards,
all that team.
You think I did it because Iwant you.
He's like come on now, don't belike that.
We got the perfect littlearrangement.
Oh, arrangement, huh, how wouldyour little wife like to hear
about this little arrangement.
Before you know it, calvin Jimmyhas reached back to New Jersey
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at least, and he slapped SammyJo right across the face,
cock-tow.
Listen, this is the Ohio alleycat.
She's been slapped many timesin her day.
She probably fist fight peopleon the regular.
She leaps on him like white onrice.
Baby, she's swinging, she'sfighting her very best.
Only, calvin Jimmy is a littlestronger than he looks.
He lives more than a briefcase,apparently.
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Stronger than he looks, helives more than a briefcase,
apparently.
And he ends up heave, hoing herover the side of a beautiful
cream armless chair, flat out,flips over she's, she peeks over
the top.
She's crying terribly, by theway, terrible acting, but I
can't believe you did that.
Nate calls her.
You storms out of this fabulousbedroom.
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Oh my God, she's humiliated.
I ain't gonna model, I gave itaway for free.
See, that's the thing.
She's a gold digger and sheactually got stuff.
She got a good apartment.
Last time we saw her in anapartment it was like a studio
one.
It's kind of not junky, but itdefinitely wasn't as swanky as
this one.
But now she's got to lick herwounds, so she gets in bed, she
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opens the latest copy of TeenBeater J-14.
One of them teeny boppermagazines and she makes a phone
call.
Meanwhile, in Denver, stephenand Claudia, in matching pajamas
, are getting ready for a littlemidnight rendezvous in their
floral bedroom set.
Stephen has on the bottoms,claudia is wearing his top.
It's about to go down when thephone rings.
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Damn this late.
It's like 11.
Who is this?
Like 11 o'clock at night.
Who is it?
Steven goes over to answer thephone.
To his surprise it's Sammy Joe.
Hey, sammy, hey, steven, what'sup?
Uh, how's the baby?
Look, the baby's fine.
He's sleeping like two in themorning there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I justcouldn't sleep.
I have this modeling contract.
Um, uh, yeah, okay, I justwanted to say hey, bye.
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He don't really think much ofit, but he does tell claudia the
stallion, who seems a littlebit uncomfortable by it end
scene.
I don't know if this is going tobe a pleasant surprise.
Actually, I'm trying to reallyremember.
The last time we saw her shewas in court testifying against
him.
So stephen writes stephen hasfull custody of the baby right
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girl.
I thought sammy jill was gone.
I thought we wouldn't go hearfrom her, at least not for a few
seasons.
Oh, it's also worth mentioningthat the side of her face is
completely bruised from calvinjimmy's meaty hand coming across
the side of her face.
She needs to call his wifeanyway.
I would do it anyway, or atleast threaten it or show up to
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his job or do something.
You can't just let this go.
Okay, you've already got theapartment.
You need to keep yourself in alifestyle that is accustomed to
you.
One of the caveats or one of thetakeaways I got from her
conversation with Calvin Jimmyis that she was not allowed to
see other men.
Now is this?
Is that something she would notdo?
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I don't know.
I don't even really think thatbaby is Stephen's, if I'm being
perfectly honest, because whenhe went to LA to find her old
face Stephen of course, when hewent to LA to find her, remember
, she was just kind of likelaying on the floor with this
photographer in a bikini,giggling and whatever like very
happy to ignore him.
So Sammy Jo seems to be the sortof gold digger who's going to
sleep her way to the top.
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Only she ain't picking theright people.
This is the third time you'vepicked an almost wealthy guy, so
she's in the right realm.
She understands theneighborhood, she understands
who should and could be wealthy,but she just keep missing the
telltale signs.
Stephen wanted to go out andstrike on his own and be
independent.
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That didn't work out.
Calvin James does work for anadvertising agency only when you
are a secret and you werepleasing him and you were kind
of in a cage all day, there's noreal incentive for him to do
anything for you.
You're already doing it.
All you had to do was flash acouple of fancy things in your
face and there she is.
Well, I'd like to wish her thebest on her endeavors.
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I hope she finds a real pieceof gold or a real fertile ground
to actually dig the gold andkeep it.
She's just gold diggingadjacent.
How she finds a baller, I don'tknow.
She's gotta go for an actor.
You can't.
You can't go for like the, theguys who work for a guy who
knows a guy.
That's not getting you anywhere.
She's gotta get like an actoror something.
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All right, y'all, that's it.
That's all.
I hope you enjoyed this episodeof dynasty as much as I did.
Join me next time as we jumpback into some West Coast drama.
We're going back to MountSlanding.
I'm about 19 minutes into thisepisode and it is good good
already.
In the meantime, in betweentime, if you are going to be a
gold digger, do your homework,act like you've been there
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before and know when to be quietand just kind of fade into the
background.
That seems to be most.
Stay hydrated, enjoy use of thebubbly and a champagne flute.
I feel so important right now.
Stay hydrated, stay moisturized, mind your own business and
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keep all of your drama on.
Thank you, bye.
That kid's half hillbilly.
I am blue blood through andthrough.
What do I look like?
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I hope your day is shaping upwell.
I am on the edge of my seat.
I am so excited to bring thisepisode to you Today.
We're back in Denver ripping andrunning with the Carringtons,
only we're going to talk waymore about the bit players, the
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peripheral-ers, if you will.
Today's episode is amasterclass in gold digging and
being gold adjacent.
We are watching season four,episode 24, the check.
Cut the check.
That's what we all get up andgo to work for, right, a little
extra money.
But there are people who makeit their business to put
themselves on the path of otherswho are wealthier.
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This may be looked down on insome circles.
Sometimes it's not.
We talked about Anna NicoleSmith not too long ago and I've
given my opinions, but todaywe're going to talk about a
would-be gold digger.
If they understood theopportunity, was there a gold
digger supreme and a gold diggerwho got it just right until it
all went wrong.
So go ahead and pour yourselfoff something bubbly and bright
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as we jump into season four,episode 24 of dynasty, the check
.
So I mean, I never thought I'dsay this, but today we are
toasting to mark gigolo jenkins.
It's not same as jen, it's nothis name.
What is his name?
Mark Jennings, matter of fact,I watched this episode and I was
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so tickled that I said you knowwhat, when I have my something
bubbly and bright today, I'mgoing to make sure and drink it
out of a champagne flute.
So, in honor of KFED's patronsaint and icon, mark Jennings,
patron saint and icon, markjennings, I'm gonna drink this
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here raspberry tapachico and alittle grenadine out of my
champagne flute.
Oh, that's very pretty.
And I'm doing this becauseevery time we see mark, he is
either with a glass in hand orfresh off of a glass.
Baby boy is champagne poppy.
This entire episode we got toget through him.
We're going to talk aboutCurbitius and why she needs
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female role models and maybe amoney coach, and then a surprise
, somebody I had completely andtotally forgotten about.
But first we got to talk aboutsome of these bit players.
Speaking of bits, I got so hypewatching the show I don't know
why I got so excited for Markthat I decided it was time to
bring out my dynasty jewels.
I have been slowly collectingsome very fabulous costume
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jewelry, only to put on myearrings and realize they were
too heavy.
Went on Amazon after watching avideo on YouTube and found out
that they make different sizedbackings.
Now I've noticed this when youbuy jewelry, especially earrings
, obviously earrings the backing.
Sometimes it's really small,sometimes it's larger and
plastic, but they make differentones for heavier jewelry.
So come Tuesday I'm going to beset.
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Also, this beverage couldprobably use a little alcohol,
but it's not bad.
All right, where should webegin?
I know I said the bit player,so I think we can start with
Tracy without any incident.
First time we see Tracy, thisepisode she is in a steaming hot
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shower.
I mean, smoke is billowing,water pressure is on 10, and I
noticed immediately she has alarge and spacious shower.
That's not surprising becauseeven though Tracy may or may not
be a gold digger, shedefinitely is.
That's the speech she gave lasttime she talked to Crystal and
got the taste slapped out of hermouth.
Seems like she's found a coupletaste buds because she has
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developed a taste for Dexter,who happens to be the next
person who enters the scene inthis oversized shower.
So by my deduction I would sayTracy is this PR extraordinaire.
She's probably done a reallygood job, squirreled away a
little money, dated a few topdogs and created a pretty nice
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life for herself.
She's only adding to thatresume because now she's with
one of the heads of Lex Dex orDex Lex Exploration I don't
really know what they do Dexterand he has agreed to pay her a
double salary.
Let her tell it Now.
I thought when they were inHong Kong the decision was made
he would pay her salary.
She would then get a job withAlexis and then have a double
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salary that way.
But in the shower she'sfrustrated.
She's frustrated because shecould tell Dexter was frustrated
.
She could tell when they werein the sack that he wasn't all
that into it.
She wants to know, dexter,what's on your mind?
Are you worried about Alexis?
He doesn't even pick up thesubliminal that wasn't even
subliminal.
She's basically saying are youthinking about someone else
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while you're with me?
I want to know everything aboutthat woman.
I want to know every phone callshe makes.
I want to know whoever shetalks to.
And Trace is like you want toknow who else she dates.
I don't care about that.
He definitely cares about that,dex.
Dex is deep in his feelings andI don't blame him.
He's never had a baddie likeAlexis.
No one to challenge him, no oneto dismiss him, and I think
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it's probably 70 30.
He's really upset that they'renot together and that she
cheated on him, but I think he'salso 30 pissed off that she
dismissed him anyway.
Tracy's like okay, that's cute,you can continue to pay me a
double salary and I will be adouble agent for you, no problem
, but could you at least leaveher out of our bed Every time
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we're in bed together?
You're talking about her Nowshe's making it sound like this
is a long relationship.
Tell me, why didn't Alexis justget off the plane from Hong Kong
, like three hours ago?
Tracy and Dexter have beentogether a weekend and I'm
starting to see the cracks.
Like, okay, okay, okay, okay, Isee why.
Tracy, you are struggling withthe sassy seductress secretary
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school.
You, too clingy young lady, youwere jumping the gun.
He don't want you like that.
You got a job, get these threechecks and go about your life.
Definitely some daddy issues,though, but Tracy agrees, I'm
going to do my part.
You just a job, get these threechecks and go about your life.
Definitely some daddy issues,though, but Tracy agrees, I'm
gonna do my part.
You just leave this woman whenwe're intimate.
Can we just be intimate?
He's like cool, let me justshake it off and we can continue
.
I was very impressed, first andforemost, with the dubbing in
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this scene, because the showeris quite loud.
I was not joking about thewater pressure being phenomenal
and there being steam, but theydubbed the scene perfectly, and
the next time we see Miss Tracy,she is waiting for Alexis in
Alexis's office, after a kind ofa funny event.
We'll get to that.
So as Alexis comes into heroffice, douglas or so we think
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is Douglas Douglas hands hersome messages and he tells her
oh, miss, whatever Tracy's lastname is Kendall.
I think Miss Kendall is inthere for you.
She's like who let her in?
Thank you, douglas.
Oh, I'm not Douglas, I'm Jerome.
Jerome, look just like Douglas.
I don't know why Alexis runsthrough 50-lead male secretaries
, but I'm here for it.
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I'd like to celebrate it,matter of fact, when we raise my
champagne flute here's to you,alexis.
Guys, I highly recommend it.
I'm not joking when I tell youto pour yourself something
bubbly and bright, perhapssomething a little more exciting
than sparkling water, if that'snot your thing.
This flute got me in myfeelings, not my feelings.
This flute has me feelingmyself.
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Anyway, it's not about me rightnow.
Tracy is prepared.
Alexis is aware of who she is,because Dexter did put her on to
who you know, tracy beingBlake's ex PR lady.
I love this scene.
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It's not very long, but god,this woman is hilarious.
Tracy immediately stands up andshe's like Alexis Colby.
I'm so excited to be here.
You may have heard that Iparted ways from Denver
Carrington and I was hoping todo some great things here at
Colby Co and Alexis is like yes,darling, I heard about your job
, I know you left it.
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Alexis gets right to it.
So what did Blake do to makeyou leave?
Tracy says, well, no, it was amutual decision.
And Alexis is like okay, okay,okay, girl, sure it was.
And then she doesn't come rightout and say that she feels a
way about being fired.
But she's like you know, Iworked for Blake and I learned a
lot while I was there.
And Alexa's like you don't haveto tell me why you got fired or
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why you quit, I'm sure.
How does she put it?
Sure, it's because Blake isobsessed with his mediocre
wife's position, like basicallysaying we all know that you're
the real PR person, but I mean,that's his loss.
Unfortunately, I'm notinterested.
Tracy's like listen, I know, Iknow you would be.
I learned a whole lot, a lot ofthings that most people don't
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know about Blake Carrington.
I have a front row seat too.
I know a whole lot ofinformation.
And Alexis is like you know,people who have a lot of secrets
are only loyal to money.
How do I know you're not goingto flip on me?
Tracy seals the deal by quotingAlexis, basically saying I'm
loyal to the money, pledgeallegiance to the bag, something
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to that effect.
Alexis is impressed.
She thinks to herself.
This woman hates Blake, sheused to work for Blake and she's
about her money.
This is my kind of girl.
Welcome to Colby Co.
You are the second female toever work for this company,
probably going to be the last.
Tracy immediately goes out intothe lobby and makes a very loud
phone call and says Dex, I'm in.
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I understand this is television, but why are y'all telling all
y'all business?
My goodness, stealth.
Stealthiness is importantStealth.
I've been thinking about thisepisode long and hard and part
of me wishes I was a little bitbetter of a voice actor.
I might try this and just giveyou the point of view.
I would love to do this allfrom Dex's point of view,
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because he had an incredible dayon this day.
So let's go ahead and start atthe top.
At the beginning of this episodewe see Dex, dexter and some hot
to trot little blonde who looksa lot like Shelly Long fresh
off of a rendezvous.
Now he's giggling, he'ssniggling, he's having a good
old time, he's touchy-feely.
This girl's having the time ofher life.
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They're in Alexis's penthouseand they're about to get a
little champagne and go out onthe terrace and have a good time
.
You see mom's away at the opera.
So Mark has the whole mall tohimself that night.
Only why him and Miss BlondiePoo are, you know, touching and
feeling all over each other,complimenting each other on the
job.
Well done in the sack.
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Mark, in true side dude slashkept man slash, oldest son
fashion, here's the elevator andsees a little light flash
indicating that someone iscoming up to the penthouse.
There can only be one personcoming up to the penthouse Mom's
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home.
Oh crap, alexis is back.
Oh, my God, you got to go.
So he starts shuffling his boothing out the back way.
Thank God for that backstaircase, it is paying
dividends.
So as he ushers her out, markneeds to remind the audience
that he is athletic.
He grabs a champagne bucket,champagne, a couple flutes,
cause he's still gonna drink,and he uses his foot to open the
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sliding door and close it.
He goes out on the terrace justin enough time as he leaves
Alexis waltz into this penthouse.
Only she's not alone and she'spissed.
I can't believe.
You're waiting outside for me.
I was at the opera and here youcome with these accusations
it's Blake.
Blake is big pissed.
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Blake left the house to comecuss out his baby mother because
he feels like she had somethingto do with Ahmed Rashid and
this whole wolf ticket.
He's selling the world, makingBlake look like a crook and a
criminal and things.
Alexis was on a tour de force,acting just like I can't believe
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.
You would say that you thought Ipainted Jeff into a coma.
You thought I tried to kill himand I didn't.
You never believed me.
You never believe anything.
I say mind you.
She's doing this in this killeremerald green dress matching
jewels.
He's pissed.
Alexis, this smell like you.
I know you saw it.
I know you did.
He's like you're crazy.
You're crazy.
You're always blaming me.
You never believe me, blake,you never believe me, for
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whatever reason.
He buys this.
He's like damn, okay, I guessI'm sorry.
I guess you're right.
You're right, you're right, I'msorry, I ruined your opera
night.
I'm so sorry.
So as he leaves, we see Markout on the terrace sipping some
champagne.
Let me go ahead and have me alittle sip too.
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He's sipping champagne in acelebratory fashion because he
knows he's got her right wherehe wants her.
Mark has been playing his part.
He's been biting his timebiting his tongue, keeping quiet
.
He's been kicked out of everyroom he's been in and is finally
going to pay off because Mark,if you recall, was sent away in
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Hong Kong.
Alexis made one fatal mistakewhen she booked the rooms.
Although Mark had a separateroom, it was still an adjoining
room, so that means he could seeher room very, very clearly.
He could see the comings andgoings and when she kicked him
out, gave him some money andsent him downstairs to the
arcade.
On his way out he saw Ahmedmaking his way in.
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I just had a thought.
Dex Dexter also knows she waswith Ahmed Rashid, but I guess
he doesn't care, or maybe ithasn't.
The news hasn't really hit him,at least not on this episode
about Blake's company being inthe tank now because everyone
thinks he was like funding therebels or something.
That's neither here nor there.
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What's here or there is thatMark has gotten out.
He's got a way to get a big,fat payday, finally, after years
of chasing skirts, tennislessons to moderately rich
broads.
Sure, it's been fun, sure, itstrokes his ego, but I mean he
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don't need that.
What he needs is a fat payday.
Mark goes and takes acelebratory shower and polishes
off the bottle of champagne.
I'm assuming, because the nexttime we see him, he is in his
bathrobe a pair of flip-flopsand he is hollering downstairs.
Robe, pair of flip-flops, andhe is hollering downstairs.
Alexis, alexis, she's pissedbecause she's already in the bed
.
She's already been accosted byBlake with the truth.
She managed to snake her wayout of that, but she comes down
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the stairs in a fabulous robe,no doubt, mark.
What do you want?
Oh, you're drunk.
And he's like yeah, I'm drunk,I'm also rich.
Oh, you're drunk.
And he's like yeah, I'm drunk,I'm also rich, I'm also about to
get paid.
She's like what are you going onabout?
He's like I saw Blake here alittle while ago and I heard you
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tell him you had never laideyes on Rashida Med while you
were in Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, I saw Rashida Medleave your room more times than
a little bit.
Matter of fact, I heard you askhim to sabotage blake for five
million doll hairs.
So what I'm trying to tell you,baby girl, is you're about to
give me a raise and she's likewell damn, I can't believe this.
To my shock, she agrees.
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How much is this going to costme, mark?
How much is it going to cost meto shut you up 100K.
You guys know that the livingfrom ago is my Roman empire.
That would be around $300,000today.
That's good money.
Plus remember he had squirreledaway $20,000.
He knows what's up.
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It doesn't interest me.
Mark brings up a point.
He says you're the best liarI've ever met in my life and
you've got a ton of enemies.
Usually you just bulldoze overthem.
There's something aboutCarrington that has you shook,
though.
I wonder what he would do withthis information.
I would agree with that, eventhough my personal opinion is
that she could take him.
I don't know what it is abouthim either.
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There is something that she's.
She's always sort of circlingaround him looking for ways to
destroy him, but I don't know.
He doesn't.
I don't feel like it's an evenplaying field.
She could flatten him.
I don't think he could flattenher again.
She is running the number onecompany, he's running the number
two.
She is running the number onecompany, he's running the number
two.
Anyways, the next day, mark isenjoying yet another glass of
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dark liquor when all of a sudden, mcveigh, the congressman, the
pedo congressman comes up thatback stairway.
Mark says what the hell are youdoing?
See, mark had just received ahundred thousand dollar check
from Alexis.
So he was just kind of enjoyinghis time having a celebratory
beverage.
When McVeigh walks in he's likedude, how'd you get in here
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Back stairwell?
Alexis has made me use it a fewtimes.
You got any information on her?
Yet All this time I thoughtMark was reporting back to
McVeigh giving him all the tea.
Remember?
They made an agreement.
Mcveigh was like I'm going topay you, you're going to tell me
everything there is to knowabout Alexis and I'm going to
bring her down, I'm going toblackmail her.
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No-transcript.
Yes, he is a gold digger.
Yes, he is an opportunist, butwhat he ain't is a snitch.
For whatever reason, he is kindof protecting Alexis.
Or maybe he know McVeigh don'thave no money like that.
Who knows?
Either way, keeping quiet ispaying dividends and he wants to
continue this.
So he basically tells McVeigh.
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He basically tells him to leave.
Now I was a little disappointedin this scene because I thought
Mark was going to give him anAlexis read.
He starts it off.
He basically says why don't youleave?
The same way you came up, Ithought he was going to tell him
don't touch any girls on theway out.
Didn't say that.
Just tells him to leave and thenext time you want to talk to
me, don't do it here.
Wiggles his bushy eyebrows andsends McVaneigh on his way.
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Mcveigh can't believe it.
Did he just kick me out?
Yeah, he just kicked you out.
Also, mcveigh absolutely hasnothing on Mark at this time.
I just thought about that.
He can't go to.
He can't very well go to Alexisand say, hey, your bodyguard is
feeding me intel, because he'snot.
But what he can do is followMark Jennings around.
If he won't tell McVeigh anypersonal antidote about Alexis,
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then maybe McVeigh can see itfor himself.
Only when he follows Mark, tohis surprise, mark goes to the
Bank of Denver, deposits a heftycheck, flirts a little bit with
the banker lady she appreciateshis business, hands him a card
I guess it's a debit card, Idon't know.
I don't think it's a debit cardin 1984, but hands in my card,
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mark walks out.
We find out pretty quickly thatMcVeigh was there.
He's like hiding behind a pieceof paper, listening and
watching the whole transaction.
Mark is on one, you know he'sfeeling good about himself.
He is a champagne poppy.
He gets good and drunk again, Isuppose, and then he heads over
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to Denver Carrington, announceshimself in the offices of
Crystal Carrington and entersand the first thing he says he's
acting kind of funny, but he'slike man.
I remember when I didn't haveto go through so many hoops to
get to you.
He's like hey, mark, what areyou doing here?
She's keeping it very cute.
She's got her own thing toworry about, but she's being
very cordial.
Hey, hey, mark, what are youdoing here?
I just wanted to say hey, Ijust want to come by and tell
you you're amazing.
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Blah, blah, blah.
She can tell right away thathe's drunk.
She lived many years with himand it's alcohol abuse.
So she knows that he's drunkand he's like listen, he
basically tells her that hewanted to come and say goodbye
to the lady he's always loved.
You're so beautiful, thishaving a third.
And also, you know I'm sorryfor any trouble I brought to you
, but I just want you to knowyou're worth two, blake
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Carrington and 20 of me and, myGod, a world full of Alexis's.
Basically, you are just a gem.
You are a precious, preciouswoman, only woman I ever loved.
But yeah, I'm out of here.
I gave him that match.
I got what I needed.
He didn't really tell her what,he just explained.
You know I'm gonna go.
She really wants to know why.
She thinks it's something likeAlexis did something to him.
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He was like, look, she's inpain in the butt, but I mean I'm
not worried about her.
You, on the other hand, shouldbe looking over your shoulder
always.
This woman is, she's everythingyou think she is, and then some.
But love you.
They give each other a littlehug and it's really cute.
Love you, I'll see you later.
Goodbye.
Well, she feels, she just feelsfunny, like this is a weird
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scene now that I really thinkabout it.
She's like mark, just becareful, be careful.
I don't know why he goes.
Don't worry, girl, I got eyesin the back of my head.
Ain't nobody worried about me?
He's on his way to new york city.
I think three hundredthousand000 worth of money in
today's money.
In New York you could do somedamage, especially in the 80s,
especially in the early 80s.
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He probably is just fine.
Plus, he's still fine.
He's still got dimples, hestill knows how to play tennis.
He could run this, this wholescheme, over and over and over
again.
Now, is it a scheme?
Not really.
He kind of got lucky Mark isused to sort of mooching off
wealthy women.
He's used to sort of runninggame, but by saving a life he
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was then employed by anotherwealthy woman, even after he
banged her daughter, and he gotin and out.
As soon as he got the money hewent ahead and got out.
He didn't have to marry her.
He's not doing any weird favorsfor her.
That's how you get that goal.
That's a gold digger extreme.
He hadn't compromised hismorals in any way.
He's not embarrassed to be seen.
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Now he's got a hundred thousandreason to walk away in the last
20 that he's earned.
So good for you, mark.
He's tipsy the whole.
I hope he don't crash somewhere.
Now that I think about it.
Hope he don't fall outsomewhere.
He had drunk this entireepisode.
You know who's not drunk thoughour good sister kirby.
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I think before we jump intokirby theist, though, we need to
discuss blake and his big.
As you know, blake wasmortified when he turned on the
TV after a terrible announcementof a new marriage and found out
that this dude, dirt Dude, whohe has a terrible history with,
stabbed him in the back, set himup.
Imagine that.
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Imagine doing business to thetune of $100 million, only to
have someone you've nevertrusted in your life turn their
back on.
You, set you up.
It's embarrassing, it'sdevastating.
You went to go, cuss out yourex-wife and she's like I ain't
got nothing to do with that.
Why would you do business withsomeone who hates you?
Valid, valid point.
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So now Blake has to scramble, hehas to think really, really
fast and his thought is let mego to Hong Kong and I'll talk to
that government and see whatthey can do.
If I can just get thatgovernment to say hey, we didn't
buy any arms with this, we'reusing this for whatever projects
we said we were going to use itfor, then it'll all be cool,
it'll all be golden.
He says, adam, I want you tocome to Hong Kong with me.
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Okay, I need you.
Adam's like absolutely, bro,I'll be there.
What do you want me to do?
Blake says I want you to beready to go by 8am tomorrow.
We got to go to San Franciscofirst and then we're going to go
on the plane.
We're going to go to Hong Kong.
So while they're on the privateplane, he and Blake Adam and
Blake, that is are talking aboutlike dude, how did this happen?
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What went wrong.
Why do you think Rashid Ahmeddid this?
Blake says gosh, I mean, Ithink this was maybe a long time
coming.
I maybe underestimated that.
He was more upset with me thanI realized.
His brother, farouk, tried toset me up with a deal or
something one time and I kickedhim out of my office.
Maybe he was really embarrassed, adam's like or maybe mother
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had something to do with thisFunny thing is the night
previous after everything wentdown, the whole family was at
Fallon and Jeff's announcementof their engagement.
Right, the whole family, withthe exception of Fallon, heads
to Denver Carrington.
They're on the phone, they'retalking to press, they're doing
all this work trying to likefigure out what went wrong.
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When they get back to the thehouse, crystal's in the kitchen
in a fabulous robe drinking aglass of milk.
Blake comes in and they'retalking about this and, like
Blake goes oh, I don't know howall this happened.
I just can't believe he wouldturn his back on me like there's
got to be more to the story.
Crystal says well, yeah, alexisprobably knows the whole story,
so it's funny.
The next day on the plane, adam,who was Alexis's son says, says
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the exact same thing.
He's like I don't know whyyou're so chill about this.
You know mama had something todo with this.
Blake's like no, no, no, I madeenemies on my own.
Alexis is innocent this time.
And Adam's like you have got tobe kidding me.
You don't smell mother Chanelnumber five all over this.
Blake's like no man.
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I pissed off Farouk.
I accused him of killing, ofkidnapping my grandson, like
they were just waiting.
They were just waiting for me.
Adam's like you know what youbetter than me, because if it
was me and she double-crossed me, you know I get down, she'd be
out of here.
I like the tension between Adamand, uh, alexis, because, yeah,
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he's the son.
That can just never be enough.
It's all about Stephen, stephen,stephen.
Let's put a quick little pin inthis story and flip over to
Stephen, because this somethinghas come to light.
Stephen finally leaves hismama's office after three
episodes.
He goes to his office and canyou imagine that with a little
digging, probably two or threeswipes of the hanging folders,
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he finds the plans he thoughtAdam stole.
Now I have not gone back tofigure out which episode would
tell me if Adam took the plansor not.
I tend to believe he didn't.
And now Stephen's like dang.
He goes into Alexis's officeLike, oh, adam, an goes into
Alexis's office.
He's like I owe Adam an apology.
I just found those.
I found that paperwork.
I accused him of stealing.
And Alexis is like you knowwhat Good, good on you.
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You need to apologize to yourbrother.
But why the long face?
Stephen feels bad because he'slike if I hadn't made these
plans, it would have neverencouraged Adam to tell dad
about this South China deal andthen he wouldn't be in this
predicament.
Alexis is like honey, you know,this is not your fault.
Things happen.
Your dad messes with the wrongpeople Sometimes.
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Things happen, everything willbe fine.
Okay, back to Blake.
And Adam Blake insists thatthis is all his own fault and
that you just can't go willynilly accusing people of things,
because it's reallyembarrassing when you're wrong.
Adam just has a look on hisface like you know, it was my
mama.
You know this, I know this, butwhatever.
So they get to Hong Kong andthey are waiting for some
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representatives of thegovernment Obviously not Rashid
Ahmed, because nobody can findhim.
The only intel that they haveis that someone saw someone who
may or may not have looked likehim, boarding a private plane in
a private airport.
That's it.
Very, very useless information.
So these representatives ofthis nondescript government that
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comes in and they're, you know,having a quick little
conversation.
Hi, mr Carrington.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, we saw the news.
That's so whack.
I can't believe that.
Someone went on TV and saidthat, well, blake says listen,
we can put all this to bed.
I've got a lot of investors whoare very, very nervous and I've
got this time crunch.
I got to start digging soonerrather than later.
So can you guys put out a pressrelease for me and just say the
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money did not go to buy arms,it went to buy this went to buy,
you know, infrastructure orwhatever it was they were
working on.
It was totally just likehumanitarian efforts really.
Here's the thing Adam tried towarn Blake before they boarded
the plane that people dobusiness differently in
different parts of the world.
It's not this government's cupof tea to like go on TV talking
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and stuff.
They like to keep it very quiet.
They like to be Mark Jennings.
They like to sit back, betalking and stuff.
They like to keep it very quiet.
They like to be Mark Jennings.
They like to sit back, collecttheir check, do business quietly
and move on.
They're not really out therelike that.
They assure Blake hey, we don'tbuy guns, we don't do all that,
we're not trying to fight.
Okay, we're rich, we're pretty,we're not trying to fight, we
just want this infrastructureand whatnot.
So they say you know, that'snot really how we do business.
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I'm so, so sorry we're notgoing to be able to help you.
Well, blake gets mad and he putsthis.
He puts on his American,american, american trash.
I paid money.
You have a hundred million ofmy dollars and I want to see
some receipts.
I want to see somebody's ass ontelevision telling the whole
world what good guy I am.
And they're like that's cute orwhatever, but like like your
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son tried to told you this ain'tAmerica.
And the last thing we're goingto do is go on TV and mention
this, this country that wants toblow us up.
We're not going to even mentiontheir name because we don't
want smoke like that.
And, by the way, mr Carrington,we sold you oil leases.
We did not offer you protection, we did not offer you provision
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.
That's for you to work out.
You either make that businesswork or you don't.
Ain't that the American way?
Get over here, figure out howyou're going to dig in them
holes and that's it.
Sorry for you.
Blake's like dang, you're right, dang, you're right, you're
right, okay, dang, okay,everything's cool.
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So in America, crystal is tryingto be the PR woman and a solid
wife.
Only she feels like Blake's notreally giving her the full
details and he's not going to.
This is one of the biggerissues, and having a wife in a
position like that, she can't beyour PR person if you're not
going to be open.
It's like you can't have yourwife be your lawyer if you're
not going to be completelyhonest.
It's just a conflict ofinterest.
I learned from TV a long timeago that doctors are not allowed
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to perform surgery on theirfamily.
This makes a lot of sense.
You probably don't.
I don't know if lawyers havethat same sort of creed where
you just can't, you know,represent someone you know, a
wife or a kid or something.
Conflict of interest.
So Crystal is trying to do thisjob that she's not necessarily
versed in.
I won't say she's unqualified,but listen, she does not have
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any experience and this is a bigdeal.
So that reporter who did aninterview with Blake right after
the merger.
He comes back and, oh boy, hecan't wait to dig into them.
So basically, he tells Crystalthat that whole interview he did
with Blink is a wash, becausethat turned out to be a complete
and total lie.
So he wants to know hey, mrsDenver Carrington, what are the
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repercussions of him fundingthis other country with arms?
Crystal manages to keep it cool.
Crystal doesn't really know howto handle this.
This is new and this is big.
The repercussions are that thiscompany is probably sinking.
She's not comfortable sayingthat because Blake hasn't
actually told her that.
So she tells a man to get out.
He's like cool, go ahead andmake sure you read my article
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next week when it comes out.
So when they get home, I feellike Crystal calls me poor in 4K
because Blake comes back fromHong Kong and she's sitting in
the study with Fallon and Fallonis, you know, daddy's little
girl.
Daddy, you're gonna be okay,right?
You're gonna make sure you getthis money back, right?
Of course, darling, of course.
So once Fallon leaves,crystal's like Blake quit
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playing with me.
She's wearing this incredibleplum silk robe with a sequined
collar lapel.
What do you need sequins for ina bathrobe?
You need that when you're rich,because she don't want her
sleeping clothes to absorb anyof like the helps, air or
something.
I suppose she doesn't want toroll over in bed and smell like
she actually cleaned anything.
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So she's doing the extra.
She looks amazing in this role.
And she says Blake, stopplaying with me, stop putting me
on this pedestal Like I'm yourprecious little wife, I'm your
PR person.
You better tell me what's goingon.
And he's like okay, so here'sthe deal.
You know that a hundred milliondollars I um like put together
with all the contributors andwhatnot.
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All of that came with acondition.
I am on a time limit.
If I don't start digging, if Idon't find oil pretty soon
basically I could it's going tolook really bad and I'm going to
be a hundred million dollars inthe hole.
And she goes oh, so it's eitheryou start digging or you risk
losing Denver Carrington.
He's like yeah, so now sheunderstands kind of the weight
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of the situation.
And that's Blake's wholedilemma.
This episode is okay.
What do I do now?
So he's in trouble.
Kind of surprising.
But at the end of the day, youjust don't do business with your
worst enemy.
You don't do business withsomebody that you embarrass.
It's one thing to have a fight,it's quite another to embarrass
.
So I mean, he's not wrong.
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Rashida Med was probablywaiting in the cut to do
something to him eventually, butsometimes you deserve it,
sometimes you don't.
I would say he deserved it justa little bit.
Someone who doesn't deserve it,though, is my girl, claudia De
Steyer.
As you, they finally put thatwhole who's been sending her
violence and Matthew hips, don'tlie, blaisdell voice recording.
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It was the do dirt PI thatAlexis has embarrassed.
Oh my gosh, she's racking upthe enemies.
Anyway, in order to make surethis is fully put to bed,
stephen calls up Claudia onemorning and he tells her hey,
honey, honey, I need you to comedown to the police station.
We basically have to presscharges, blah, blah, blah.
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Put it on on record so that hecan be whatever, so they can get
rid of it.
I don't know if he's going tobe given prison time or whatever
.
The scene was interesting to mein another way, because Kirby
is there.
So Claudia is like are you sure, steven?
I really don't want to do this.
He's like yes, honey, just comeon down here and give the
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deposition and then you canleave.
I think he says deposition.
Enter Kirby.
Kirby's got a gun.
Kirby's got a gun Run aboveDaddy Doo.
You know what I mean.
I don't know what that songsays, but it fits so perfectly
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on this episode.
Kermit has a blicky and she'sgot a target.
Only she's so flusteredthroughout the entire episode.
You already know this is notgoing to go well.
At least I did Okay.
So when we first see kirby,she's sitting in the study
catching up with fallon.
One of the servants has pouredthem a little cute little tiny
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glass, which reminds me I'mthirsty.
Someone has poured them a tinyglass of brandy or whatever.
Right?
Fallon's telling kirbyeverything that happened to
blake.
Kirby's like oh my god, that'scrazy, I can't believe I missed
that.
And Fallon's like well, yeah,you missed the family meetings.
What she means is you missedthat terrible event I made
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everybody get dressed up for,even though we've been at the
kid's birthday party all day totell you I'm marrying the man
that you really love.
Why would Kirby want to bethere?
She knew what was up.
Kirby didn't really give anexplanation.
I'm assuming she was at theshooting range, but no one asked
because no one cares and we'llget to that in a second.
So Kirby's looking at Fallon andshe's starting to realize that
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Fallon looks like she's almostglowing and she's like, well,
you look really good.
Like what's, what's going on?
That's when Fallon tells heryeah, you missed the meeting
last night.
Kirby says, let me guess, jeffproposed to you and you accepted
.
It's probably that giant garnet, ja, ja ring on Fallon's finger
that gave it away.
She's like yes, yes, kirby,we're engaged to be married and
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I want you to be happy for me,just like I'm happy.
It is the audacity for me.
You don't get to say thatbecause, first and foremost, was
Fallon supportive when Kirbywas with Jeff?
She was not.
Why would you think?
This woman has to celebrateeverything you do?
It's a very entitled positionto come from, but that's par for
the course.
I would also like to point outthat even in this scene, even
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though Jeff's not even there inthis scene, there's still no
chemistry when she talks aboutJeff.
You are never going make mebelieve this under any
circumstances.
Ever, ever, ever I could bedangling over a cliff.
I will never be like, yeah,they was they, they loved each
other.
Never gonna happen anyway.
This news kind of makes Kirbysick to her stomach.
So the next time we see her uh,yeah, I suppose she's had a
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little bit of time to thinkabout it.
I guess kirby needs to wash theday off of her.
She realizes that, yeah, she'smissed out a lot in her life,
not because of her own hand, butbecause of other people.
So she goes upstairs, takes ashower, puts on a peach
nightgown and pets her gun tosleep.
She wants to soothe herselfwith the cold steel between her
fingers.
Only she's interrupted by arat-a-tat-tat at the door.
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She goes leaping across theroom and here we see adam.
So this is all the same nightthat everything went down.
I know she said last night,fallon said last night, but it
was it at.
This is all the same night.
Adam comes in and he's still inhis penguin suit.
He's like, hey, me and Blakeare gonna go to, uh, san
Francisco, and then we're gonnafly to Hong Kong to take care of
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business, and then when I comeback we're gonna make plans,
we're gonna get a marriagelicense and we're gonna make
babies.
She's like, damn, didn't I justcome off like toxic stuff?
Can I?
Can I recover a little bit?
She doesn't say that.
I said that.
Okay, sorry.
What she does say is okay.
Well, when?
How long are you leaving,remember?
She's already talked to alexisabout taking a job in paris.
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How this is all supposed towork out, I'm sure I don't know,
but she convinces adam thatshe's going to miss him and they
have a little scene togetherand, dare I say it, there is way
more passion between these twothan there is Jeff and Fallon.
Considering their past, this isa little bit disturbing.
So they have a little funbefore he's off and on his way.
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I hope she doesn't get knockedup now that I sit and think
about it.
The next morning Kirby is atBrecky.
She comes downstairs and it'svery clear clear, if you're
paying attention that she is.
She's not quite in her rightmind.
You know.
She's a little bit frustrated,she looks a little bit angry.
But she comes and she sits nowlooks like she's just been at
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the gym working out andClaudia's on the phone with
Steve and he's telling her sheneeds to come make a statement.
Blah, blah, blah.
Well, what?
Once Claudia hangs up the phone, she's like oh, hey, kirby, hey
, I'm so glad I caught you.
Why don't we throw a party forFallon?
Kirby's like wait a what?
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Why don't we throw anengagement party?
Or like a bachelorette partyfor Fallon.
Claudia's mean her sweet littleself, but.
But Kirby clearly thinks, girl,you talking crazy again.
Do I need to call the asylum?
Why would I throw her a party?
I'm not even a Carrington likethat.
That's what she said out of herown mouth.
I ain't even a Carrington likethat.
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I may never be no Carrington.
You throw a party for heryourself.
I am team Kirby in this, firstand foremost.
You don't get a repeat partyfor me for marrying the same
person.
You certainly don't get a partyfor marrying my ex-husband.
Kirby's also of the mind likewhat could we possibly give her?
She already has everything.
Claudia being the sweet littlesaint, she is the love.
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Even a Carrington needs love.
That sets Kirby off.
That's when she's like you knowwhat?
That ain't my sister, that youwant to be a Carrington, you
could be.
A Carrington needs love.
That sets Kirby off.
That's when she's like you knowwhat?
That ain't my sister, that youwant to be a Carrington.
You can be a Carrington.
You can give her whatever youneed.
I'm not Count me out O-U-T outMatter of fact, I got a blicky
for her mama.
That's her wedding gift.
That's her gift.
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She's going to go of Jeff as hegets older.
Think about it.
One day they're going to haveto sit him down and tell their
story of this, this star-crossedlovers, requainted love, blah,
blah, blah and it all felltogether.
He's going to have to explain,jeff, that is that he.
He, you know.
He slept with Aunt Claudia, heslept with Aunt Kirby, he slept
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with mom twice mom used to hookup with his uncle, um, and then
he's gonna be like yeah, andthen I let your mom name you
after your grandpa because Idon't have a spine.
And then I gave up my rightfulthrone on the on the stepsby Co,
which is the biggest company inDenver, to be a second rate
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pseudo son to your grandpabecause I don't have a spine.
So the baby's gonna be likewait a minute, wait a minute,
wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,hold up.
Let me make sure I understandthis right.
My name is Blake Carrington,colby, because you don't have a
spine.
I am really a Colby.
My grandma runs Colby Co, whichis a bigger company, which
means I could be in a biggermansion, which means I've been
sharing a nursery with my babycousin.
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For what exactly?
That kid's half hillbilly?
I am blue blood through andthrough.
What do I look like sharingamenities.
I'd be super pissed if I foundout that my dad chose to be
second rate.
If you want to live this lifeof a bleeding heart because you
chasing behind my mama with 15hyphens behind her name, that's
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you, my guy point me in thedirection of the Colby mansion,
please, or the very least, mygrandmother's penthouse.
That's neither here nor there,because his auntie, or future
auntie, aunt Kirby and justCarrington, needs another shower
so she can work up a nerve.
She picks up the phone.
She calls alexis, carrington,colby, alexis, uh, it's me kirby
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.
Uh, remember, we talked aboutparis.
You still got a job for me inparis.
Alexis is like kirby, are youokay?
We just talked about thisyesterday.
Yes, absolutely okay.
Fine, um, I want to talk to youin person about it.
Okay, can you be at my officein an hour?
No, no, I can't.
I can't get down there in anhour.
Alexis is like okay, how abouttomorrow 9am?
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Yes, yes, I can do tomorrow at9am, but I'm picking you up.
Alexis is picking me up.
Yes, I'm picking you uptomorrow 9amm.
Click.
Alexis pays this dust.
She is completely unbothered.
I was actually shocked.
I'm like would she ride in acar?
What kind of car is Kirbypicking her up in?
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I was very, very concerned withit, you'll be happy to know.
And surprise, she picks her upin a Ford Mustang.
I'm shocked.
I didn't think Alexis would getin a Mustang, but she does.
Kirby nervously picks her upand she drives her over to her
old house.
And this is where things startto get interesting.
Kirby jumps out.
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She's got on a leather jacket.
Kirby is a very she don't looklike a lot of people, if that
makes sense.
She has a unique look.
I'm not saying that she'sstrange looking or anything, but
not many people look like her.
She's got these large doe eyes,dark hair all the way past her
butt.
She's just very unique looking.
She stands out, she drives ared Mustang through a
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residential neighborhood, pullsup to a house that's been empty
for 20 plus years with a womanwearing a ginormous gray cloak
fur hat with like fur trim on it.
It is so dope though.
It's gray on the outside, linedwith gray fur, but when you
flip it over it's red, matchesher other outfit that's
underneath it.
Oh, love it anyway.
They pull up in this mustang.
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Kirby's like you don't recognizethis house.
Does this bring back anymemories?
Well, let's just know where amI.
This is my house, oh, okay.
Okay, this is my father's house.
Actually, it hadn't been myhouse since my dad left after my
mom died.
Oh, it doesn't have much to saybecause this is not what she
showed up for.
So they did end up going to thehouse and Kirby makes a comment
(44:21):
about how empty it is.
Yeah, it's been so empty.
It's been this way since myfather left, since my mother
killed herself and my fatherleft to live in the mansion.
Did you ever think about them?
Did you ever wonder about them?
Alexa's like no, and I don'trecognize this house because
when I hire help, they come tome.
Dang she right.
Weird thing is this house stillhas all the furniture.
(44:43):
Ruth saw this, I think, onepisode what two or three of the
beginning of this seasonfurniture still covered up.
They have this house.
That's just been sitting there.
It's not running out nothing.
Kirby thinks this is the perfectplace to kill Alexis.
So, mind you, alexis thinksthey're talking about Adam.
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She thinks they're talkingabout a position in Paris.
She believes that they aremeeting at this house so that no
one in the family knows they'remeeting.
That way, nobody can point yourfingers later on.
Only Kirby is so nervous andjust jittery this whole time it
starts to annoy Alexis.
She's like girl, do not comehere, talk about your dead
parents, I'm out.
She goes to turn.
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And god bless Kirby, eventhough she's been petting this
pet gun to sleep every singlenight she's been playing with it
.
She couldn't pull it out firstquick enough.
She starts fumbling anddumbling with the purse.
Next thing, you know, a nosyneighbor comes through, or a
good neighbor, where it dependson how you look at.
He's with the neighborhoodwatch.
He's like hey, hey, nobody'slived in this house for 20 years
.
I saw this red mustang, tworich bras come strolling in.
(45:46):
I thought I'd come by to seewhat's up.
Y'all buying the house or no?
Alexa's like man, I ain'tbuying this house.
What do I look like living here?
Could you point me in thedirection of a phone?
He's like yeah, I can help youout.
Meanwhile, kirby's like it's myhouse.
Ladies and gentlemen, be good orbe good at it.
What was the plan, corbethius?
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You were going to bring Alexisto a house registered in your
name.
They were going to find hercorpse registered there, lying
in the house registered in yourname.
You didn't even bother to putyour hair in a bun or put on
sunglasses or hat.
You walk down in front of godand everybody.
No neighborhood watch man sawyou.
What was the getaway plan?
(46:29):
She wouldn't have even had themoney to get the ticket right
then.
And there see, kirby is aclassic tale of she's gold
digger adjacent.
She has the ability to reallyget get what she needs, but she
can't because she's got thatservant mindset.
I thought about this, thisepisode.
Kirby's entire existence on thisshow has been that she is in
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love with Jeff.
She is Joseph's daughter, soshe is very, very, very familiar
, by all intents and purposes,to everyone who lives in or and
or works in that mansion.
Yet none of them, not onesingle person, noticed that she
was sick.
Not one single person noticedthat she was in duress.
(47:11):
Not one single person noticedthat she was acting all fidgety
and weird, slipping in and outof the house at all hours of the
night.
You know what?
I don't notice it becauseyou're not supposed to pay
attention to the help.
Even the help isn't payingattention to the help, and the
reality is Kirby's never beenthe help, but she was raised by
the help and she carries thatwith her.
She walks through the hallwayswith her head down.
(47:32):
She don't really stand up forherself like that.
She's always very accommodating.
Congratulations, pal, and I'mvery happy for you.
No, you really wanted to throwthat drink in her face is what
you wanted to do, but she feelslike that would be out of pocket
.
She is never going to fit in inthis home until she starts
taking her rightful place.
Adam was left out in the rain.
He grew up on a farm inBillings, Montana.
(47:53):
That mofo changed his nameimmediately.
You're going to see me, you'regoing to hear me, you're going
to feel me and if you don't't,you know what I'll do.
I'm a chemist.
I'll turn paint into asheetrock coffin.
You keep playing with me.
Kirby does not have that.
Kirby is in the perfect position.
She's in the rightful positionto take whatever she needs.
She could pull a Mark Jenningsand be like you know what, colby
(48:15):
?
You wasted my time.
You wasted my life.
My new husband's a lawyer.
I'm gonna prove that you werebanging Fallon all along and
that she did it in denim, whichis very embarrassing.
And I'm going to take half ofyour stock in Colby Co.
I'm going to own one quarter ofthat company.
She doesn't see herself thatway.
All she can think is Alexishurt my mother's feelings so I'm
(48:38):
going to shoot her in my housewith all the evidence.
Remember she made that phonecall.
Everybody knows at DenverCarrington that she's been
taking gun shooting lessons.
God bless the curb curb.
I think we have kind of coinedthe term mindset a little bit
more in the last 10 to 15 years,but it really does have a lot
to do with it.
You got to be in the rightmindset to take advantage of
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opportunities when they presentthemselves.
So if Mark showed us theabsolute best way and Kirby
showed us the absolute worst way, what is a good and even middle
ground?
Enter somebody I had no ideaexisted anymore.
You remember how Mark said hewas going to New York.
There were some sort of randomapartment building.
(49:22):
I don't think it said New York,but whatever, I kind of thought
it was.
We go up to the top floor ofthis apartment and you open it
and there's this blonde brushingher hair in this really
gorgeous, like deep hunter greenbedroom baby.
Tell me why that was nobody butSamantha Jo or, excuse me, yes,
samantha, sammy Jo, crystal'sHellcat Ohio hillbilly baby
(49:47):
niece.
I couldn't believe it.
I thought she was gone.
Has she even been on?
Was she in court this season orwas that last season?
I kind of thought Sammy Jo waslike Toscani.
I thought she was gone.
I had high hopes for her in thesecond season.
Only now I'm like okay, is sheback?
Is she here for good?
(50:09):
I don't know.
Let's get to it.
So she's brushing her hair.
She's having a good time.
She seems to be giddy.
When the door opens, you see aKevin James walking.
Yes, the King of Queen,according to me, walks in.
I was like, oh my God, it's notKevin James.
This guy would be way olderthan him, but it looks exactly
(50:31):
like him.
I am a huge fan of Kevin Jamesand I don't want to disrespect
his legacy any further.
So instead of calling this manKevin James, we're going to call
him Calvin Jim.
Calvin Jim comes in lookingpoindextery and way, way, way
beneath.
There's no way Sammy Joe's inhis league, but she's all giddy,
(50:53):
calvin James, welcome home.
Boo, I didn't realize you'd behome so early.
Look at my gown.
She goes to the closet in thecorner of the room.
She pulls out this gown.
I'm going to wear this tonight.
I'm going to'm gonna be so cute.
Sammy Jo, or Samantha as she iscalled, has landed a dream
modeling contract.
Think cover girl in the late90s, think L'Oreal in the early
(51:15):
2000s.
Think MAC cosmetics in the2010s.
She is that girl.
She's supposed to be on thecover of everything.
She's geek.
She's so excited.
Oh my God, I'll be so cute.
He's like yeah, yeah, thatlooks cute.
Now I'm thinking he'sdismissing her because he's
trying to hurry up and get onein before they go to this little
gala.
However, he's like hey, um, sowhat had happened was there was
(51:37):
an announcement made today.
She's like oh, my God, god,they announced me.
Oh, I can't wait.
I'm the face of this company.
Pretty, pretty face, prettyface, pretty face.
Calvin Jimmy says um, no, baby,they announced that the
campaign was canceled.
It's not going to happen.
This feels like a likely storyand I tell you, sammy Jo feels
(51:58):
the same way.
She drops the giddy.
It's like wait, what?
What did you say to me, calvinJimmy?
She can't believe it.
She's like wait, what?
What did you say to me, calvinJimmy?
She can't believe it.
She's like wait what?
Cancel?
What are you talking about?
He's like baby, none of that'simportant.
It's not important.
What's important is ourarrangement.
Arrangement.
She's like you think I likeyour big, sloppy, sleazy body
all over me.
I did this for the money I did.
I am a gold digger.
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I did this for my campaign.
I am supposed to be on thecover of magazines, billboards,
all that team.
You think I did it because Iwant you.
He's like come on now, don't belike that.
We got the perfect littlearrangement.
Oh, arrangement, huh, how wouldyour little wife like to hear
about this little arrangement.
Before you know it, calvin Jimmyhas reached back to New Jersey
(52:40):
at least, and he slapped SammyJo right across the face,
cock-tow.
Listen, this is the Ohio alleycat.
She's been slapped many timesin her day.
She probably fist fight peopleon the regular.
She leaps on him like white onrice.
Baby, she's swinging, she'sfighting her very best.
Only, calvin Jimmy is a littlestronger than he looks.
He lives more than a briefcase,apparently.
(53:00):
Stronger than he looks, helives more than a briefcase,
apparently.
And he ends up heave, hoing herover the side of a beautiful
cream armless chair, flat out,flips over she's, she peeks over
the top.
She's crying terribly, by theway, terrible acting, but I
can't believe you did that.
Nate calls her.
You storms out of this fabulousbedroom.
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Oh my God, she's humiliated.
I ain't gonna model, I gave itaway for free.
See, that's the thing.
She's a gold digger and sheactually got stuff.
She got a good apartment.
Last time we saw her in anapartment it was like a studio
one.
It's kind of not junky, but itdefinitely wasn't as swanky as
this one.
But now she's got to lick herwounds, so she gets in bed, she
(53:43):
opens the latest copy of TeenBeater J-14.
One of them teeny boppermagazines and she makes a phone
call.
Meanwhile, in Denver, stephenand Claudia, in matching pajamas
, are getting ready for a littlemidnight rendezvous in their
floral bedroom set.
Stephen has on the bottoms,claudia is wearing his top.
It's about to go down when thephone rings.
(54:04):
Damn this late.
It's like 11.
Who is this?
Like 11 o'clock at night.
Who is it?
Steven goes over to answer thephone.
To his surprise it's Sammy Joe.
Hey, sammy, hey, steven, what'sup?
Uh, how's the baby?
Look, the baby's fine.
He's sleeping like two in themorning there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I justcouldn't sleep.
I have this modeling contract.
Um, uh, yeah, okay, I justwanted to say hey, bye.
(54:26):
He don't really think much ofit, but he does tell claudia the
stallion, who seems a littlebit uncomfortable by it end
scene.
I don't know if this is going tobe a pleasant surprise.
Actually, I'm trying to reallyremember.
The last time we saw her shewas in court testifying against
him.
So stephen writes stephen hasfull custody of the baby right
(54:48):
girl.
I thought sammy jill was gone.
I thought we wouldn't go hearfrom her, at least not for a few
seasons.
Oh, it's also worth mentioningthat the side of her face is
completely bruised from calvinjimmy's meaty hand coming across
the side of her face.
She needs to call his wifeanyway.
I would do it anyway, or atleast threaten it or show up to
(55:09):
his job or do something.
You can't just let this go.
Okay, you've already got theapartment.
You need to keep yourself in alifestyle that is accustomed to
you.
One of the caveats or one of thetakeaways I got from her
conversation with Calvin Jimmyis that she was not allowed to
see other men.
Now is this?
Is that something she would notdo?
(55:29):
I don't know.
I don't even really think thatbaby is Stephen's, if I'm being
perfectly honest, because whenhe went to LA to find her old
face Stephen of course, when hewent to LA to find her, remember
, she was just kind of likelaying on the floor with this
photographer in a bikini,giggling and whatever like very
happy to ignore him.
So Sammy Jo seems to be the sortof gold digger who's going to
sleep her way to the top.
(55:50):
Only she ain't picking theright people.
This is the third time you'vepicked an almost wealthy guy, so
she's in the right realm.
She understands theneighborhood, she understands
who should and could be wealthy,but she just keep missing the
telltale signs.
Stephen wanted to go out andstrike on his own and be
independent.
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That didn't work out.
Calvin James does work for anadvertising agency only when you
are a secret and you werepleasing him and you were kind
of in a cage all day, there's noreal incentive for him to do
anything for you.
You're already doing it.
All you had to do was flash acouple of fancy things in your
face and there she is.
Well, I'd like to wish her thebest on her endeavors.
(56:33):
I hope she finds a real pieceof gold or a real fertile ground
to actually dig the gold andkeep it.
She's just gold diggingadjacent.
How she finds a baller, I don'tknow.
She's gotta go for an actor.
You can't.
You can't go for like the, theguys who work for a guy who
knows a guy.
That's not getting you anywhere.
She's gotta get like an actoror something.
(56:55):
All right, y'all, that's it.
That's all.
I hope you enjoyed this episodeof dynasty as much as I did.
Join me next time as we jumpback into some West Coast drama.
We're going back to MountSlanding.
I'm about 19 minutes into thisepisode and it is good good
already.
In the meantime, in betweentime, if you are going to be a
gold digger, do your homework,act like you've been there
(57:17):
before and know when to be quietand just kind of fade into the
background.
That seems to be most.
Stay hydrated, enjoy use of thebubbly and a champagne flute.
I feel so important right now.
Stay hydrated, stay moisturized, mind your own business and
(57:38):
keep all of your drama on.
Thank you, bye.
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