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Someone once said, ‘If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime’ — actually someone says that on this week’s episode of Dynasty — and one person surprised everyone with how they were dealing with their punishment while it should come as no surprise as to how the other is dealing with theirs.
The surprise was Fallon who took her 100 hours of community service seriously, all dressed and ready to go help less fortunate children how to play tennis. Except that wasn’t what she was going to do. Fallon was given not one, but two, garden plots that were filled with trash and debris. Her job was to clean them and plant new gardens. She actually felt it was a piece of cake at first because she wasn’t told she had two plot to tend to until the end of the day. But she was raring to go the next day … and then discovered someone trashed her first garden. The manager of the center said it must have been racoons. If that was the case, it must have been about twenty of them using their freakishly human-looking hands to pile everything back up in the garden plot. Spying a pair of muddy boots back at the manor, she knew the culprit had to be Adam and she was certainly not about to let him get away with it.
As part of Fallon’s atonement tour, she wanted to visit a grief counseling group that Trixie’s mother still attends to make her apologies for her part in Trixie’s death. Instead she runs into Trixie’s brother who’s all grown up now and nearly caused Fallon to forget all about Liam. But she felt they had made amends and hopes to keep in touch.
Meanwhile, Blake was doing everything he could to get out of jail, especially after one of his cellmates almost smothered him for snoring all night. The new Mrs. Carrington told Blake she would handle things, and when she showed up for a conjugal visit, she also brought along a shiv. Was Blake going to attempt to kill someone else to maybe get his own cell? Not exactly. Blake gave the shiv to the guy who tried to kill him earlier, making some kind of deal for the guy to ‘attempt to kill’ Blake. The ploy actually worked, the judge gave Blake bail and put him under house arrest.
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Sam, meanwhile, is desperate to stop the historical society from honoring the homophobe who built the hotel he now owns. Matters were further complicated when the president of the society showed up — Melissa Daniels, who tried to bilk Steven out of his money by pretending to be pregnant. And she is not playing with Sam. The ceremony is going through and a plaque is going on the wall … but Sam’s not playing either, having someone ‘accidentally’ paint over the plaque. That results in Melissa having the city pull all of Sam’s work permits so no further work can be done. Sam wants to pay the workers double, but Anders tells him they are simply running out of money and cannot take that cost on. Sam is prepared to sell the place, but Anders knows he doesn’t want to, and he has a change of heart after Fallon tells him how proud she is of what he’s accomplished. So Sam and Melissa actually come to a compromise. The hotel will still get its plaque and historical registration, but Sam will make sure the designer’s dark past will not haunt his hotel.
But Fallon is haunted … by Adam. Before leaving prison, Fallon visited Blake and told him Adam needs to be removed from the mansion. Blake refused. So at a Halloween party at the manor while Adam was attempting to sway some new clients for the winery he’s now running, Fallon attacks him, the pair landing atop a cake … just as Blake and Cristal arrive home from prison. Blake is not happy, and the clients are about to bail but Cristal steps up and assuages their fears, even getting them to sign a contract to carry the wine in their stores. Blake is impressed with Cristal’s business sense and now she wants him to name her as the CEO of the winery, or at least a co-CEO with Adam … for the moment. I don’t know but Cristal’s attempts to be the HBIC are coming off almost as desperate as Adam’s.
Fallon heads back to the garden — in her Marie Antoinette costume — and discovers a figure in the shadows. Out comes Trixie’s brother. It was he, not Adam, who sabotaged her hard work because he didn’t feel Fallon’s punishment fit the crime. Fact of the matter is Fallon feels the same way, but what’s she going to do about it? She didn’t give herself the sentence. But he now sees how Trixie’s death has also affected Fallon and the two call a truce. He says the least he can do is help clean up the gardens before the sun comes up, and Fallon agrees that it is the least he could do. And they get it done and Fallon completes her community service. But Adam is still sore about the fight at the party and gleefully informs his sister that he suggested to Liam’s mother that she care for him at home now, and that she should stay with him all the time. Oh, wait, Fallon was planning to visit once he was out but with a restraining order against her, thanks to Adam’s ‘help’ that is going to be much more difficult.
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And Dominque’s cover is about to be blown. Monica is freaking out because she’s learned the cuff link they planted at the ‘crime scene’ was never entered into evidence, so now they have no way to frame Adam for Jeff’s ‘murder’. But Dominique is up to no good, attempting to take control of some trust Jeff had set up but she can’t find the paperwork. Almost being caught at Jeff’s office by Culhane, he pulls up a print history from the computer after she leaves and alerts Monica of her mother’s funny business. Monica, at that point, had just woken up from an unexpected nap … courtesy of her mother who drugged her so she could go to the office. She confronts Dominique about the trust and the cuff link and then a ghost appears — Jeff. Monica brought him up to speed about their mother’s activities and now she’s banished from his home. Which may have seemed like a good idea at the time … but was it really? Dominique seems to be a real wild card who will fend for herself when the need arises. And she really knows too much about this whole plot and could easily turn it against Jeff and Blake by going to Adam and painting herself as a victim. Jeff, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Don’t set them free!
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