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Philippe is a dangerous, desperate, amoral man.

Rather than see one penny of the stabless fortune slip through his greedy

fingers, he'll kill us.

Perhaps you'll hear from Lance today. He must know how concerned you are for his

safety. I'm sorry I ever let him go off on that stupid rescue mission.

What I signed is a death warrant for Lance and me.

No, you're wrong.

Lance and I are going to die.

You're wasting your time, my friend.

Believe me, Lance, you're not doing anything that I haven't already done

twice over.

There's nothing else to do.

There's got to be a way out of here.

I do believe I found an exit.

Dude, it's not even big enough for my leg to fit through.

Well, you know something, Peter?

This just might be a blessing in disguise.

I mean, rather than risk another escape, you know, just kick back and wait old

Phil out.

I mean, my grandmother knows where I am. If I don't call in a couple of days,

she's going to send the troops out after us.

You can be certain my unbeloved son -in -law is well aware of that.

I hope it's making him nervous.

On the contrary.

Philippe is a dangerous, desperate, amoral man.

Rather than see one penny of the starburst fortune slip through his

fingers, he'll kill us.

Sophia wouldn't let him do it?

Would she?

Miss Emma?

Where are you going?

I was hoping we could get away without much fuss.

We're going to the airport, taking a plane to Tijuana.

Not if I have anything to say about it. Now, Mother, don't get all worked up.

Oh, really? Running away like this?

She thinks we're eloping.

Well, aren't you?

I heard that most of the stolen big rigs wind up on the hot truck market in

Tijuana. Eloping or not, you're not going traipsing off to Mexico.

Mother, I'm traipsing.

Now, you be nice.

And I'll bring you back a souvenir pinata.

Bye -bye.

That's just marvelous.

Not only have Lance to worry about, now it's Emma. Perhaps you'll hear from

Lance today.

He must know how concerned you are for his safety.

Well, I haven't heard from him in 24 hours.

I'm sorry I ever let him go off on that stupid rescue mission.

the new novel isn't running trippingly off the typewriter?

Uh, you're the one about the lady writer who wrote a book while she had amnesia,

got her mind back, couldn't remember how to write. No, I guess you had to be

there, huh?

Well,

Carl, come on in. How you doing?

Not imposing.

No, no, not at all.

Carl, hi.

Listen, any excuse to get away from that.

How's my favorite neighbor, huh?

Not so good, maybe.

Well, come on in.

Yeah, Sam.

What's, uh, what seems to be the problem?

It's the end of the world for me, Chase.

There's a call back vineyards.

Oh, come on. You grow the best Alsatian varietals the size of the Rhine.

Every grower around covets those 20 acres of yours, including me.

Chase, for all his life, your father told me to replant.

But the old vines kept bearing so well.

I never thought it would happen.

What happened?

Phylloxera.

How bad is it?

Every vine has to be pulled up and burned and the ground fumigated.

There were old European stock brought over by my grandfather more than a

years ago.

Why don't I go make a pot of coffee, okay?

Carl, I... I don't know what to say.

If there's anything I can do, anything.

It's good land.

I don't think I'll live long enough to see it produce again.

You and I, we both know what it was worth before this disaster.

Now I want to offer it to you for 50 ,000.

Now, wait a minute. That's about 10 cents on the dollar. I'm not going to

here and watch you take such a financial beating.

What other choice is there?

Let me sit on this for a couple of days. Maybe we can come up with something.

Century of work.

Wiped out.

Let's not give up.

Your father and I were best friends.

He'd be proud of what you've done here.

I want you to have a case of my most recent vintage.

I'd be honored.

Sorry I have to go, Maggie.

Thanks for listening.

Take care, Ethan.

Oh, honey.

That's just not fair.

No, it isn't.

For this to happen after hanging in there season after season through flood

drought, even prohibition. Not to mention Angela's manipulations.

That's right. She did try to get the bank to foreclose on him, didn't she?

What would you say about having a cocktail party tonight?

Tonight? Who do you want to invite to this little shindig? Anybody, but

especially our local banker, Jason Parnell.

Parnell? We stopped doing business with him. You said Angela owns him. What is

on your mind?

Justice. Pure and sweet.

Two weeks ago, you walked off with my prenuptial agreement. Now you're telling

me the plans for the winery are missing.

What the hell is going on?

Richard, if you'll just calm down. I'm sure they're around here somewhere. My

secretary has turned the damn place inside out.

You were the last person to have them. Maybe they're just misfiled. Oh, come

Can't you do better than that?

You sold them to a competitor. You left them on a bus. The maid threw them out

with the trash. Richard, I am not hiding anything from you, all right?

I just can't remember.

That's not like you.

What happened to that steel -trapped mind of yours? The Jordan Roberts I know

doesn't make dim -witted mistakes.

That's it.

I'm not one of your flunkies. I don't have to take this.

All right, wait.

Please.

I, uh...

I don't

mean to be insensitive. I guess I just am sometimes.

I forget what you've been through.

Look, why don't you take some time off?

I guess I could get along without you for a week or two.

Time to what?

Pull myself together?

Some time off in the sun wouldn't hurt you, though.

Would it?

Why don't you get down to Acapulco for a couple of weeks?

Take your friend Reardon with you.

I think I'll go look for those plants.

You're doing that to annoy me. It's working. Doing what?

Hiding behind this newspaper.

You used to like to talk to me at the breakfast table.

All right.

You want to talk?

Get this business about your heart was straightened up.

And we'll do that without fighting. Sure.

Okay, I'm going.

The baby's been fed and she's down for a month.

Going where?

To look at a couple of daycare centers for Hope.

Don't you think you should get a job before you start picking out a daycare

center? I have four job possibilities.

Two of them have their own daycare.

That's what I'm checking out today.

See ya.

That's Miss Frank.

She's about to move out with our baby, and all you want to talk about is

Damn it, Melissa.

We need your grapes to stay in business.

You're in business with the wrong man. You get rid of Richard, and then we'll

talk about my harvest. No, we'll talk about it now.

I'm not going to let your stupid, petty grudge mess things up. Oh, it's always

my stupid grudge, my lousy temper. Why is it... always me. Because you don't

know the meaning of the word reasonable.

I've been looking everywhere for you. I was trying to make

sure that Lent's council has no one backing up this stupid rescue attempt.

But there isn't anyone else, is there?

Apparently he came alone.

But you can't be sure that Angela Channing is behind his charade.

He's going to pay a hard price for his arrogance.

Philippe, what do you mean?

You wouldn't hurt him, would you?

Or father?

I don't know. This has really complicated our plans.

Maybe we should forget about the money.

We have enough. We could go away and live comfortably for the rest of our

Maybe in time, Father will forgive us for what we've done to him.

Look, do you really think I could hurt our child's grandfather?

Look, we're running a colossal bluff.

I promise you, no one will be hurt.

Wear it.

Of course.

Run along, okay?

Let me have a talk with your father and Lance Cumson. I'm sure I'll find some

reasonable way out of this.

Let him go, Philippe. This is between you and me. On the contrary.

Monsieur Cumson chose to inject himself into our problems.

He's earned a major role in resolving them.

Damn you, Philippe!

That document.

Turns over everything you owe to me.

If it's not signed within the next 30 seconds, I'll blow him apart!

Don't sign anything, Peter.

He doesn't have the guts to pull the trigger.

Unfortunately, I can't take the chance that he does.

Congratulations, Lance.

My father and I values your life very highly.

I can't imagine why.

Let's go.

I'll make sure those papers don't take effect.

Thanks for saving my life, Peter.

All I did was buy a little time.

Philippe can't let either one of us live to tell how he forced me to sign that

document.

You wouldn't be looking for these by any chance, would you?

Plans and budget for our winery expansion.

Thank God.

Cindy, don't tell Richard I brought those in. Just tell him that Jordan had

for bedtime reading.

Whatever.

What are you getting at? What do you mean, bedtime reading?

You know, you really should be more careful where you leave Richard's files,

Jordan.

Harry's Hideaway Motel. Come on.

What are you talking about? I've never been to a place like that.

I have an eyewitness who says otherwise.

You know, I have always wondered what a place like that was like.

Tell me.

Did the waterbed make you seasick?

Mr. Channing would like to see you, Jordan.

Jordan?

Oh, sorry, sorry.

Sit down.

I've been brooding, Miss Roberts, about Chase's recent loss.

It's my loss, too.

Now that he's won that competition in Hawaii, the value of his wines has

doubled.

So the time has come to deal with the wicked stepmother's latest

Oh, come on. I mean, hijacking a whole truckload of wine is a little heavy

-handed, even for Angela.

Wouldn't deal with the hijackers directly.

Oh, no. She would handle it through an intermediary.

I need you to do a little snooping for me.

Last door to your left.

Enjoy your stay.

Oh, hi.

Good to see you again.

You could make it on such short notice. I hope this invitation means that you're

considering coming back to us.

Yeah, please.

You know, there is something.

No, it's just I've got a chance to buy a small vineyard. A little cash short

right now. I thought maybe a quick loan would help me finalize the deal.

How much money are you talking about? About a half a million.

That's no problem.

Of course, I'd have to know a little something about the property you're

but... No, no. I wouldn't want word to get around until the deal's finalized.

A lot of growers would like to get hold of this particular place.

If you can't trust your banker, who can you trust you?

It's the Beck acreage.

Carl's got to sell.

It's a health problem.

Serious?

Well, look, you drop by the bank tomorrow and we'll get rolling on that

Do that. Thanks.

How's it go with Parnell?

I think he is on his way to the kitchen to make a quick phone call.

Bingo.

Duane Cooley. Oh, Captain, por favor.

Whatever that thing says about Duane, no, it's verdad.

Señora Cooley?

La señorita.

Emma Channing.

Fierro.

Esteban Fierro.

Um, this report indicates Mr. Cooley was arrested while fighting with two

citizens of Mexico.

That's a lie.

There were four of them and they ran off when the cops showed up.

It appears you were at one of the less desirable areas of our city when the

fight took place. What exactly were you doing there?

I was looking for my truck.

Oh, it's a beautiful truck, Captain.

Dwayne calls it Ursula.

And when it was stolen, well, we thought this might be a good place to look.

We've been asking all around town since we got here.

Reckon we just asked the wrong guys.

Captain Fierro, we are strangers in a strange land.

Maybe Dwayne didn't... go about things in the right way, but I didn't mean to

wrong.

Well, if you would care to take coffee with me, senorita, I would love to hear

more about this beautiful truck called... Ursula.

Ursula.

Shall we?

Oh, sure.

You forgot about Duane.

Come on, Joseph.

What kind of game is that?

We're having another fight.

Good to know.

You want to play a different game?

Maybe we could make something with your building blocks, huh?

We could build a castle.

Terrific. We'll make the greatest castle you ever saw in your life.

Okay?

Here we go.

Oh, Carl, please come in.

This is my attorney, Greg Reardon.

How do you do? Won't you sit down?

There you are, Mr. Clark.

What's this?

It's a sales agreement and a certified check for $750 ,000.

Half again the money Chase would have paid you for your vineyard.

But this is... The best price you'll get, so don't haggle. I want to close

deal before Chase makes a counteroffer or my offer will be withdrawn.

You and I, we've had our differences, Angela.

But this... This makes up for everything.

I'm glad you feel that way.

And, Carl, I'm terribly sorry about your illness.

Well, I'm feeling much better now.

It's a pleasure doing business with both of you.

A real pleasure.

What does he mean he's feeling better?

I thought he was at death's door.

Soothing balm of 750 big ones, I expect.

I must say, I don't like it, Andrew. It all happened too fast, too easy.

I mean, I haven't even had time to draw up a proper agreement.

There's nothing wrong with this agreement.

It's just a straightforward land transfer, but it gives you no protection

whatsoever. There's something wrong with the place you don't know about.

Well, there couldn't be. You know how careful Chase is.

Yeah, but Chase didn't buy the vineyard.

You did.

So I did.

Mr. Compton, are you all right?

Depends on what you mean by all right.

I have to talk with you.

Oh, well, pretend I'm not here. Believe me, I wish I weren't.

I'm listening.

I want you to understand me, this situation.

I understand greed perfectly, my daughter, and betrayal.

Who betrayed whom, Papa?

Just because I married Philippe, you cut me out of your life.

Not to mention my will.

You had no right to take away my birthright.

You were going to give everything to that Channing woman.

I had to stop you.

It appears you succeeded admirably.

Philippe now controls your birthright. According to that document he forced me

to sign.

He did that?

I didn't know.

I hoped you didn't.

What you should know is that what I signed is a death warrant for Lance and

No, you're wrong.

Philippe wouldn't ever do that.

Well, one of us is wrong about Philippe.

If it's me, I'll apologize.

If it's you, Lance and I are going to die.

Philippe, I'm glad you're here. There seems to be a misunderstanding.

Papa does not believe you're going to let him and Lance go.

Tell Papa he's wrong, Philippe.

Paolo, my wife is very tired. Would you please see that she gets to her bedroom

and that she stays there? Philippe!

Chase. Greg, what a surprise.

Oh, don't worry, Chase. I'm not interested in your little computer

How about some coffee, tea?

No, thank you. No, we won't stay. We've just been passing through the

neighborhood.

Yes, we're on our way to Carl Beck's Vineyard.

Oh, I just got off the phone with Carl.

From what I understand, congratulations are in order on your purchase.

Thank you.

I thought you'd be much more upset now that I've beaten you out.

Well, I'm just so happy for Carl.

He's going to Germany. May retire there.

Retire?

We understood that he was terminally ill.

Isn't that funny how things get garbled in transmission?

Carl's not dying. His vines are. They've got phylloxera.

They what?

Oh, don't worry. You'll be getting quality grapes out of that land in no

After the infected vines are plowed up, the land fumigated, shoot, you'll be

getting your first harvest off that land by at least the turn of the century.

What do you mean I haven't any recourse?

Rex sold out. He'll be living in West Germany.

Chase used your banker friend Parnell to set you up beautifully. Now, now, one

more word or you're out.

I don't need you to pour salt in my wounds.

Well, I wouldn't worry about it too much, Andrew, if I were you. After all,

you've had a great deal on your mind lately, what with Emma somewhere in

and Lance rushing around trying to find Peter.

You know, you're absolutely right, Greg.

It's been too long since I've heard from Lance.

But with a Concord connection in New York, we could be in France in about 12

hours. Oui.

Go pack.

And don't forget your passport.

Well, go on.

All those wires coming.

All done.

This really works.

Beats me.

Unfortunately, we don't have the time to test it.

I just hope Philippe will be the first one through that door.

Because if he isn't...

checking account transactions of Miss Angela Channing. I've marked the one

you'll be interested in. Paid to Miss Erin Jones of Kellogg Investigations,

,000.

Nice round sum. And you'll note the check is dated the day after the

Very good work, Counselor. You have renewed my high opinion of you. Thank

And what are you planning to do with this tawdry tidbit of information now

you have it in your possession?

I think the time has come to invite Mr.

Melvin Jones in for a little private chat.

Oh, thank you so much again, Captain.

That was the most delicious lunch I have ever eaten.

Your choice of the armchair was truly inspired, Esteban.

Don't you think so, Dwayne?

Yeah, real tasty.

Oh, inspiration comes easy in your presence, Anita.

You are such a charming man.

You must be a real devil with the ladies.

You know, you have been a revelation to me, Amelita.

Before I met you, I used to think that only Latin women understood the fine art

of flirtation.

I will miss you.

Sounds like goodbye.

Well, we have come to the end of your quest.

See?

Ursula!

Not even a scratch.

I think they even put a fresh coat of wax on her.

They did, before I locked them up.

How did you ever find it?

One truck in such a big city.

One big truck, Emilita. It's not easy to hide in any place.

Here's your keys, Senor Cooley.

Enjoy your trip home.

I envy you your traveling companion, you know.

I don't know how to thank you, Captain.

My pleasure, Senor.

I'm glad he's gone.

I got real tired of you and him carrying on like that.

I did it for you, Dwayne.

Let me thank you.

Oh, Dwayne. Oh, hey.

Let's go home, Amelita.

What exactly are you trying to tell me?

That you don't want Joseph to come back to your school? I don't think it's come

to that yet, Mr. Gioberti. We just wanted you to know that he is having

social adjustment problems.

This morning, he threw a paste putt at one of the other children.

Fortunately, the child wasn't badly hurt.

But he could have been serious.

That's why I phoned your wife.

And what did she say?

She didn't believe me, I gathered.

And she plans to change schools.

What do you think about that?

It's entirely up to you.

But it won't solve Joseph's problem.

One double coming up. I appreciate your coming by after hours. It gets a little

hectic around here, and I wanted us to be able to have our talk without any

interruptions. No problem.

Night work is part of my business, Mr. Channing. Oh, it is. Well, here's to

business, Miss Jones.

May I call you Aaron?

Works for me, Richard.

That's fine.

So, now, as I understand it, the Kellogg Detective Agency has one of the best

reputations in this city. Above reproach, they tell me.

We're the best in the business.

You know, Aaron, it'd be a real shame for that image to be tarnished by

An even bigger shame for you to be drawn into it.

What are you getting at?

Now, I wonder...

Just what the Attorney General's office is going to say when they find out that

one of Kellogg's key employees has been involved with acts of violent crime.

Hijackings. That sort of thing.

I've been in business long enough to know when a conversation isn't getting

anywhere. Thanks for the drink. Oh, it's my pleasure.

Now, you've done your homework.

Oh, but I'm sure you have. You, uh...

You must know that Chase Gioberti and I have gone into business together, huh?

My condolences to both of you. Yeah, well, I'm sure Chase would agree with

As you know, you hijacked a very important shipment of wine, Aaron. That

shipment belonged to my partner.

$10 ,000.

Is that the going rate these days?

This doesn't prove a thing.

Oh, but I think it does.

Now, you're gonna be foolish enough to take that chance.

Good night, Mr. Channing.

Ah, it's too bad they don't have chain gangs in California.

At least you get some fresh air once in a while. Yes, operator, could you get me

Sheriff Floyd Gilmore in Tuscany Valley?

You know what I find particularly foolish?

is that you're willing to take a fall for a woman who doesn't give a damn

you and who, under the circumstances, certainly won't be doing any further

business with you.

Yes, Sheriff Gilmore, please.

Perhaps you and I should consider doing business.

I'm all ears.

Matter of fact, I was just congratulating myself on my decision.

Decision?

I have decided not to leave you.

I didn't know I was in any danger of being left. You see?

We'll never know.

Now, my publisher wanted me to go on a promotional tour for the book, and I

no.

No. I didn't want to leave you, not even for a few weeks.

You just turned him down flat? No ifs, ands, or buts? No buts.

I think it's a bad time anyway, what with host custody up in the air still.

occurs to me that maybe you're not finished with this first book.

I mean, you're over the writing part and all that, of course, but the rest of

it, you know, sending it off to the reading public, putting it in their

I don't know. I think you need to do that, too.

It could be a completion that you need.

that's interesting i you know i think i think that makes sense in a kind of

weird sort of way

Is anyone out there?

I've been with the lights here.

Go on, bring them out.

Nice try.

But as you say, no cigar.

I'm sorry, Peter.

Well, we tried.

Shall we?

What's it going to be for us, Philippe?

Two unmarked graves in the forest?

You like to tell the story how you started your empire.

With a fleet of fishing boats.

Well, tonight the fish get their revenge.

Ah, the sea.

Not such a bad death, Lance. At least it'll be clean.

Well, if you don't mind, I prefer to die in my own fashion.

No, no. No blood. I don't want any blood here.

Now let's get them out of here before something else goes wrong.

Philippe!

I said I wouldn't let you do this.

Sophia, you little fool.

Drop your gun.

Here.

Now what else can I do?

There is no other way.

Call your men off.

And what are you going to do now?

Shoot me.

You're going to kill the man you love, the father of that child growing in your

belly?

Sorry, Sophia.

I love you too much to believe that you would do something like that to me.

Don't come any closer.

Please.

If you men expect to get paid, you better start working for me now.

Lance, let's get out of here.

You kicking me out in the middle of the night?

I thought you liked me. I do. I do like you, Larry. But we had a good

time. Let's just leave it at that.

I was hoping this was just the beginning.

I'm not into long -term relationships right now.

You're married.

That's it, huh?

That's why I'm getting the boot?

Hardly, but I do have a prude for a roommate, and I would never hear the end

it if she got up in the morning and discovered a gentleman bouncing around

his underwear.

Roommate.

Well, I'd, um... I'd like to see you again.

Goodbye, Larry.

It's strange, you know that?

Real strange.

Come on.

You got what you came for.

And so did I.

Yeah.

It's about time.

Oh, Lance.

Peter. Thank God.

Angela, my dear.

I thought I'd never see you again.

We called Charlie. He said you were on your way. What happened?

Nothing you'll ever read about in the papers, believe me.

It's too bad, in a way.

Lance would be the hero of the story.

Oh, now, we can't have any of that. I have a reputation, you know.

Well, everything seems peaceful enough now.

Yeah, you should have been here a few hours ago.

Your daughter is in a room she would like a word with you.

I, um... I have nothing to say to her.

See to it that she leave this house at once.

Very well, sir.

My jet is waiting to take us all back to Falcon Crest. Well, aren't you going to

let me catch my breath? Not for one minute.

For God's sake, Melissa, I had a right to know.

Because it wasn't that important, that's why.

That woman doesn't have the slightest idea what she's talking about. She works

with kids every day. She knows when a child's in trouble.

I don't have some school teacher telling me how to raise my child.

Fine, what about me? I'm worried sick about him, too. Oh, don't be so

melodramatic. You're overreacting. He's got problems.

And hiding your head in the sand is not going to make them go away. Joseph is a

wonderful little boy. There is nothing wrong with him. He needs professional

help. No.

gonna have my son sitting on some shrink's couch. Can't you get past your

pig -headed pride for one minute and do what's right for him for a change? I am.

He doesn't need professional help. What he needs is love and a normal home life.

None of this started until you brought that slut into this house. Or until you

were locked up in jail. Oh, shut up. Just shut up!

Next on Falcon Crest.

Your son is absolutely terrified.

His world is caving in on him. What do you think we're doing, abusing him? You

bet I do!

In one of the worst ways possible.

By the time this thing's finished, we'll prove who's fit to raise hope and who

isn't. The way you two have messed up with Joseph, that shouldn't be any

at all.

You little... You lied to Barlow!

Of course I lied. I am not about to let Cassandra Wyler come waltzing back into

your life. I did kill you for what you've done to me.