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It was a double dose of Dynasty this week as we head into next week’s Season 4 finale, so let’s get to it!
Episode 419: You Vicious, Miserable Liar
Fallon is despondent over Liam not responding to her phone calls, even though he clearly told her he needed some space. But thanks to Kirby and a tabloid story about Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom rekindling their relationship, Fallon is ready to jet off to Los Angeles to take a marriage counseling course from the same woman who helped the celeb couple. And since she helped with the idea, Kirby wants to tag along too. And since Sam is dealing with the fallout from the article Blake and Cristal planted about La Mirage being the most dangerous hotel in Atlanta, he needs a getaway too. (And for all the sights they want to see, we never see anything that can convince us they never left Atlanta.) But Fallon doesn’t seem to understand that to have a marriage counseling session, you actually need both partners present. Liam certainly isn’t going to fly to Los Angeles, so Fallon does the next best thing — coerces Sam into playing Liam. But Sam uses the session to talk about Sam, and in the end the counselor tells Fallon she has bigger problems: her husband is gay. When she ‘returns’ to the city she never left, Fallon’s sneaky assistant Eva gives her the messages that have piled up while she was gone, including a call from a high powered divorce attorney. Is Liam not answering her calls because he’s just throwing in the towel in the marriage? Fallon drowns her sorrows in some booze, and decides to take advantage of Colin’s presence, unwrapping him like a present. This isn’t going to end well.
At the hospital, Adam is thrilled with how the research of his Alzheimer’s drug is playing out — the research that he stole — and the hospital board is excited to move forward with it. But there is a snag after the approval is granted — the new legal adviser, Amanda, who went over the research with the legal team who decided the hospital’s insurance couldn’t cover the liability that comes with the research. Adam believes this is just Amanda’s way of getting back at him, so he goes to Cristal to use her influence of the Carrington charitable foundation to pressure Amanda to change her recommendation. Cristal doesn’t want to, but Adam reminds her of how he saved her life and she reluctantly agrees, setting up a ‘get to know you better’ lunch with Amanda. And that goes well until Cristal puts the pressure on Amanda, threatening to withdraw the foundation’s support from the hospital. Amanda says she will change the decision, but what she really does is research the five items the foundation is funding. Oddly, there’s one missing — the one about Adam’s research. She contacts the original doctor who tells her how his program was shut down, and offers her a lot more dirt on Adam Carrington.
In other storylines, Jeff seems to be re-experiencing symptoms from his neurotoxin poisoning as he becomes obsessed with now ramping up his space program to get to Mars. And he believes Dominique not-ex Brady is stealing his research because Elon Musk has virtually the same design for a space hotel as Jeff does. Culhane is worried by Jeff’s behavior, especially after he begins sell off all of Colbyco’s assets and Jeff’s legacy. Culhane also has to honor his deal with the Devil by convincing the teachers’ union to throw their support behind Blake’s campaign after the farmers pulled theirs. If Culhane can convince the principal at his old high school to get behind Blake, Blake will funds a new athletic center which will keep the school from being shut down. The deal goes through, but when questioned at a press conference about his support of Blake, the man who basically poisoned his father, Culhane says a little too much with the result being Blake is pulling his support from the school, and the principal comes down on Culhane, telling him sometime a bad deal is better than no deal at all. That forces Culhane to do some damage control, getting the deal back in place but also adding the promise, on Blake’s behalf, that he’ll increase taxes on oil producers and focus on renewable energy. That does not make Blake happy, but a bad deal is better than no deal at all. In the end, though, Blake and Cristal apologize to Sam for smearing La Mirage and Blake does an interview to clear up some misconceptions the press has printed.
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Episode 420: Affairs of State and Affairs of the Heart
With Blake’s poll numbers increasing, it’s beginning to look like he just may become the next state senator. His opponent, however, really wants the job and is prepared to make Blake some offers if he drops out of the race, including guaranteeing him the land for his airport. As he contemplates his decision, Culhane is not thrilled that after all the work he’s done on Blake’s behalf to get what he wants out of the deal, Blake will get his land and Culhane will get nothing. He tries to appeal to Cristal to get Blake to change his mind, but she doesn’t make any promises that she can talk Blake into not doing something he’s already set his mind to. So at a press conference where he is to announce his withdrawal from the race, a reporter asks him if it’s true he’s being considered for a presidential cabinet position in 2023. Blake seems a little surprised by the news but plays along, thinking quickly on his feet while the wheels turn in his head about how this could further his political career. Instead of announcing his withdrawal, as promised to the other side, Blake instead announces those tax credits Culhane wanted for renewable energy and stays in the race. Turns out Cristal paid the reporter to plant those seeds in Blake’s mind, knowing that would get him to stay in the race. And if he wins, she benefits too, able to use her power as a senator’s wife much more widely than she can as the head of the Carrington foundation. Everyone wins … if Blake wins.
At Fallon’s office immediately after her tryst with Colin, she regrets it all. And upon leaving the office, who should be right outside her door than Eva. What a coincidence. Fallon tries to tell her it’s not what it looks like — while Colin is putting on his pants — and Eva assures her that discretion is part of her job. Except it isn’t and she now has even more ammo to manipulate Liam. Now Fallon wants to find Liam to confess her sins, something Colin advises against because it may make her feel better but it will make Liam feel worse, and she finally thinks to use Liam’s alias to find him at … La Mirage. (And somehow she never thought to ask Sam if he saw Liam there?!) She asks Liam about the divorce attorney and he denies ever calling one, saying he just wanted a break, not a divorce. She convinces him to do a couples retreat weekend with her, which turns out to be more than she bargained for, including a full itinerary that includes climbing a rock wall blindfolded and the ‘truth tent’. It’s there that Liam finally admits that his issues with their marriage are solely based around Fallon’s focus on her work but on his own failures as an author, not getting a single boost after winning his award, feeling that he brings nothing to the marriage. Fallon assures him that he’s a great husband, but when it’s her turn to lay some truth on him, she has a panic attack and passes out. When they return from the trip, Fallon asls Liam to come to the manor so they can talk more, and he says he’ll pack his bags and move back in. But first she needs to stop at the office and buy Colin out of his share of her company so they won’t ever see each other again. What she doesn’t know is that Eva called Liam because she had conveniently dropped her necklace in his car when they went to an event where one of Liam’s favorite authors was speaking, and he can stop by the office and leave it on her desk. Of course that coincided with the same time Fallon had asked Colin to stop by and Liam overheard the conversation about what had happened between them. Back at the manor, Fallon arrives and Liam is waiting, his bags still packed. Before she has a chance to say anything to him, he tells her he overheard the conversation with Colin and is destroyed that she cheated on him with this person who was supposed to be her sworn enemy. This is just too much for him to bear and he takes his bag and leaves with little hope of reconciliation.
Dominique and Jeff are celebrating the new success of Domystique, but Jeff is still acting a little buggy, warning her that Brady is only there for her money. If he finds out they’re still married, he’s entitled to 50% of her current assets. Dom assures her son that Brady is an honorable man, but Jeff isn’t so sure, offering her his own divorce attorney to try to get her old, unfiled divorce papers slipped into the system so Brady doesn’t get wind that they’re still married. Dom tries, but the lawyer says he could be disbarred from something underhanded like that but he did find a loophole for her: she has to find a court clerk willing to admit they made a mistake by not filing the paperwork, therefore giving Dom a retroactive divorce and leaving Brady with nothing. But … Alexis pops into the picture because she knows about the situation from Dom’s confession in the diamond-less mine. And now she wants 20% of Dom’s company to keep quiet. Dom tells Jeff and hopes he can talk to Alexis, but it seems her only recourse is to offer Alexis the stake in her business. But she tricks Alexis, stashing her in a closet with some nutrition bars, a few bottles of water … and a bucket (‘I’m not a monster’), telling Alexis she’ll let her out in a few days after the divorce papers are filed. Alexis promptly picks the lock — it ain’t her first time shoved in a closet — and changes her terms: she wants her stake by the end of the day. Instead of giving Alexis any part of her hard-earned work, she gives Brady a seven-figure check, explaining to him what happened and that’s what he’s entitled to. But Brady rips up the check, telling Dom he is only there for her. But …
… who is hanging out at Alexis’ apartment but Brady. Of course the two of them are in cahoots. Of course Alexis tracked him down and got him to Atlanta. Wasn’t it too much of a coincidence that he showed up not long at the confession? If Alexis could get Oliver to Atlanta to screw things up with Adam and Kirby, it was quite obvious that Brady’s arrival was also her doing. And now she, with his help, is planning to take Dominique for everything she’s got. But unaware of the plot, Dom goes to Jeff’s home to tell him the news of Brady’s refusal of the check and is shocked to find the walls plastered with documents and drawings and plans for Jeff’s space program, looking more like the work of a madman than a businessman. And Jeff is nowhere to be found.
Adam knows that Amanda has dug up the dirt on him canceling the doctor’s research and stealing it for himself, but when the doctor shows up to collect his papers, Adam tells him they’ve been destroyed as usual after they were scanned. But Adam got into the system and deleted the scanned files so there’s no proof of his claims of ownership. Except … the printer at the hospital keeps a record of the last three months of copies and, voila, he’s got his paperwork and Adam appears to be sunk. And while Culhane was thinking he was about to be screwed by Blake, Kirby gave him her father’s diary of dirty secrets for Culhane to use if he needed. But in the end he returned it to Kirby and said neither of them should know these secrets and she agreed, setting the diary on fire. After Culhane left her, Kirby pulled a photocopy of the diary out of her desk.
As the episode ends, with some rather dramatic music that we’ve never heard on Dynasty before, a montage shows us that Fallon is distraught over what she’s done to her marriage, Dom is in shock by what she sees at Jeff’s, Blake and Cristal are toasting to their political future, and Eva is looking through a crazy scrapbook of Liam and Fallon’s wedding with her own face pasted over Fallon’s, putting on a bridal veil and signing softly, ‘Here comes the bride’. Will Fallon and Liam learn of Eva’s manipulations? Will this end Fatal Attraction style? Tune in next week for the season finale!
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