All language subtitles for Dynasty S02E01 Enter Alexis

Do you solemnly swear that all the
testimony you give before this court

shall be the truth, the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth,

- so help you God?
- Yes, I do.

Would you state
your full name, please.

Alexis Morell Carrington.

And your residence?

I've been living in Acapulco
for the past several years.

You were the first wife of
the defendant, BlaKe Carrington.

You're the mother of his children,
is that correct?

Yes, it is.

And subsequently, of course,
you were divorced.

- Yes.
- When was this?

Sixteen years ago.

Was it what you might term
an amicable divorce, Mrs. Carrington?

No, it wasn't. It was what you might
term an enforced divorce.

An enforced divorce.

Would you explain that, please,
to this court and this jury?

I was very young
when I married Mr. Carrington.

At first, it was a good marriage
in every sense.

We had an excellent relationship,
two beautiful children.

It was very good.

Ideal.

That's the word that people use
when they talKed about us. Ideal.

And then?

Things changed.

My husband had worKed
very hard to get where he was.

To build his empire, grab his prize,

cling to his
"lt couldn't be done, but I did it."

Somehow it didn't seem
to be enough for him.

He wanted more.

He started traveling.

Long business trips.

There were weeKs,
sometimes months, when we-

When we didn't see each other,
when we barely talKed on the phone.

Please, go on, Mrs. Carrington.

Maybe it was need

or maybe hurt.

I found myself becoming involved
with another man.

What was this man's name,
Mrs. Carrington?

- His name was Roger Grimes.
- Roger Grimes.

Now, Mr. Grimes worKed
for BlaKe Carrington, isn't that a fact?

Yes. He was our estate manager.

He was bright and sensitive.
Infinitely sensitive.

He was as interested in art
as I was.

I mean, I was a painter.

That is, I wanted to be one,
a good one,

and Roger encouraged me.

In fact, he designed an art studio

right there on the estate for you,
isn't that true?

Yes.

Now, a moment ago, you said that you
became involved with Mr. Grimes.

Did that include
sexual involvement?

I- I was lonely.

I was becoming
more and more lonely.

Yes, I became
sexually involved with him.

And did BlaKe Carrington
find out about this involvement?

Yes, he did.

When did he find out about it?

About a month after Roger and l
started seeing each other.

Did you tell him about
this relationship, Mrs. Carrington?

No, I didn't.

How did he find out about it?

He discovered us together.

He'd been away on business
and he came home unexpectedly.

He discovered you together.

What was his reaction,
Mrs. Carrington?

He became violent.

Objection.

An incident of alleged violence
from this witness

about a night 16 years ago

is too remote to reflect on
my client's character today.

It is highly prejudicial
and I repeat my objection strongly.

Your Honor, Mr. Laird's client is on trial
right here and now

for the murder of Ted Dinard
less than two months ago.

The state intends to show
that BlaKe Carrington

has a history of violent behavior.

That he- That he is a man who was
and is capable of homicidal violence.

Overruled, Mr. Laird.

Now, Mrs. Carrington, l-
I Know this is difficult for you,

but please go on. Please tell us
exactly what happened that night.

Well, my- My husband
came into the bedroom

and he found us together.

He started shouting hideous words
at me,

and then he picKed up a candlesticK-
A large brass candlesticK.

- and he started hitting Roger with it.

He hit him on the head.
He hit him on the chest.

He nearly Killed him.

- Order.
- BlaKe Carrington

almost Killed Roger Grimes.

What happened then,
Mrs. Carrington?

This was reported to the police,
of course.

- No.
- Why not? What did happen?

BlaKe bought people off.

Bought people off.

What exactly do you mean by that,
Mrs. Carrington?

He bought off a lawyer.

He bought off one of our servants
who Knew what had happened

and he promoted him
to lifelong membership

in the Carrington household.

He even bought off Roger Grimes.

That's a lie. She's lying.

Are you saying that BlaKe Carrington
paid for the silence

of everyone involved in this incident,
including the victim?

Yes.

Tell us, Mrs. Carrington,
after the Roger Grimes incident

did BlaKe Carrington
buy anyone else off?

Yes. Me.

Would you explain that, please?

BlaKe wanted a divorce
and he bought me.

You mean,
with a handsome yearly payoff.

Well, there are those
who might call it handsome.

I called it obscene.

You see, he forced me
to sign a piece of paper.

A piece of paper? What paper?

A neatly-typed,
very cold document,

in which I was forced to promise that
I would never see my children again.

You say you were forced
to sign this paper, Mrs. Carrington.

What exactly do you mean by that?

I'd rather not go into that.

The witness will please answer
the prosecutor's question.

There were threats made.

Something about how my children

might not recognize me
if I tried to see them.

She's really doing it, isn't she?

Wait till I get her
on the witness stand.

I'm gonna tear her apart.

There's not going to be
any cross-examination.

- What?
- No cross-examination.

Tell me, Mrs. Carrington,
have you been following this trial?

Yes. One of your assistants has been
telling me about the testimony,

if that's what you mean.

Did he tell you about the defendant's
heart-rending testimony

in which he swore under oath
that he loved his children,

his daughter and his son?

Yes, he did.

When he did, did it occur to you,
Mrs. Carrington,

that BlaKe Carrington was in fact
contradicting that testimony

about his great love
for his children?

This man who forbade
their natural mother

from ever seeing
those children again.

Who put that woman
and those children-

His own children!

- into an emotional exile
for the rest of their lives.

Did that contradiction ever
cross your mind, Mrs. Carrington?

Yes, Mr. Dunham.

It crossed my mind.

I thought about it deeply.

Order.
Order, or I'll clear this courtroom.

I have no further questions.

Cross, Mr. Laird?

Please.

No.

Your Honor,
I respectfully request a short recess

so that I may talK with my client.

All right. This court will reconvene
in ten minutes.

All rise.

Joseph,

I'd liKe you to go bacK to the house.

In my dressing room,
in the bureau, on the top drawer,

you'll find some seismic charts.

Now, please deliver those
to Cecil Colby personally.

- I thought he was in Los Angeles.
- No, he's leaving this afternoon.

- He'll need those charts.
- Yes, Mr. Carrington.

I'm very sorry about her in there.

I don't see how she could have
done that to someone

- who's been so good to her.
- Well...

Gratitude was never
my ex-wife's strong suit, was it?

Come on,
we don't have much time.

You seem upset, Dunham.

I should thinK you'd be grinning
from earlobe to earlobe

celebrating your little coup.

Yes, I'm upset, Mr. Laird.
I am very upset.

What hospital?

Memorial.

BlaKe,
I have to put her on the stand.

The only way I can discredit
her testimony is by exposing her.

By showing the rottenness
of that woman.

That woman
is Steven and Fallon's mother.

Yeah, well, it's about time
they got to Know her better.

LooK, we're talKing about you
in there.

About your life, your future.
We're talKing about-

We're talKing about something
I refuse to let you do.

Why? Will you give me

- one good reason why?
- I have a reason,

but I will not give it to you.

I don't want anybody else's life
affected by this.

So you're asKing me
to cave in out there?

You're telling me to allow that jury
to convict you. Is that it, BlaKe?

No. Oh, no.

I did not premeditatedly Kill Ted Dinard.
I retained you to prove that.

I expect you to do it.

And if I don't?

If I can't?

"Don't" and "can't"
are not in my vocabulary.

You'll do it.

Hello, Steven.

Hello.

I want you to Know that l-

I didn't just come bacK here
to sit on that stand and testify.

Your father's a part of my life
that's over.

Did you volunteer to come?

Yes.

- But I thought you said that-
- I didn't finish what I was saying.

The only reason
that I came bacK here

was because
it was a chance to see you.

Oh, you must believe that.

It was three days before
your seventh birthday when I left.

Do you remember?

You said to me,
"Why do you have to go, Mommy?"

And I said,
"l have to find a rainbow to paint.

The most special rainbow
that I can find.

It may taKe a little while."
And then you said...

Do you remember
what you said, Steven?

That there are rainbows
here in Denver sometimes.

"Aren't they special enough?"

"No," I said.

So now you Know why.

Would you meet me outside?

I thinK it'd be better if I stayed.

As a personal favor, please.

Of course you came bacK
to see me too?

Of course.

You've got to Know that.

Do l?

Just liKe I've got to Know

how much you hated
giving that testimony just now.

That terribly reluctant,
but justice-at-all-costs testimony

about my father.

I did hate it.

Do you wanna Know something?

May I testify to this?

You're even more beautiful
and more ugly

than that grand English lady
I vaguely remember,

and whom I've tried very hard
to forget existed these past 16 years.

I'm glad to see that your father
had your teeth fixed,

if not your tongue.

Are you all right?

Is there something I can do?

I'm not feeling very well.
I thinK I'll go home for a while.

I'll taKe you to your car, all right?

Where's Krystle?

She wanted to go home.
She said she wasn't feeling well.

I put her in her car.

All rise.

Counselor, are you ready
to cross-examine the witness?

Your Honor, I have no questions.

The witness may step down.

Mr. Dunham, do you have
any further witnesses?

No, Your Honor.

Do you wish to present
your closing argument at this time?

Yes. Yes, Your Honor, I do.

Ladies and gentlemen...

...the state has tried to prove to you
beyond any reasonable doubt

that BlaKe Carrington cold-bloodedly
murdered his son's homosexual lover.

The late Ted Dinard.

We haven't heard very much
about Ted Dinard in this court.

A young man,

Iying now in a small cemetery,

not far from his parents' home
in North DaKota.

Far from Colorado.

Far from this court.

Half forgotten already.

Let me tell you something,
ladies and gentlemen,

Ted Dinard is in this court.

He has been here
for the past two weeKs,

and he cries out to you, just as
he cries out to BlaKe Carrington:

"Why? Why am I dead?

Why did you murder me?"

Now, that young man's question
deserves an answer,

Iadies and gentlemen. Why?

Why is he dead?

He's dead...

...because he dared
to get in BlaKe Carrington's way.

Because he dared to defy
the almighty BlaKe Carrington.

And Mr. Carrington,

the embodiment of wealth,

of power and privilege,
of ruthless violence, Killed him.

He murdered him.
MaKe no mistaKe about that.

There sits a man,
ladies and gentlemen,

of whom it can be truly said

that what he cannot buy or control
or manipulate, he destroys.

Be it competitor, a friend,

former wife, or a son.

Or a son's lover.

BlaKe Carrington destroys.

He destroys.

Mrs. Carrington?

Yes?

Did the judge extend the recess
until tomorrow?

- No.
- But you're home.

Yes. I'm not feeling well.

I see.

Well, is there anything
one of the servants can do for you?

Joseph, you Knew Alexis Carrington
when she was here, didn't you?

I mean,
you worKed for her when-?

I was employed by her.
Yes, I Knew her.

Oh, if you're wondering

whether what she said about
Mr. Carrington today is true...

Well, I'm not under sworn oath here,

and it's hardly my style

to discuss anything
concerning Mr. Carrington with...

Outsiders?
Why don't you just say it?

- I assume that's all?
- That's all.

And now, let me speaK to you,
ladies and gentlemen,

about the last witness the prosecutor
called to the witness stand

in an attempt to prove
that what they call

"murder in the first degree"
was just that,

and not, as we have contended,

that it was all just a tragic accident,
and only that.

Nothing more.

I am speaKing, of course,
about their melodramatic,

almost cinematic surprise witness,

Alexis Carrington.

The former Mrs. Carrington.

It is, as you Know, up to you 12
good and fair-minded people to judge

whether or not what she testified
earlier in this courtroom was the truth,

or a blatant lie.

The pure and unadulterated truth
from a victimized woman,

or a vengeful lie from the mouth
of a woman scorned.

Scorned because of her self-admitted
unfaithfulness.

Which was it?

I can answer that for you,
ladies and gentlemen.

And I shall answer it loudly and clearly
in this room of justice.

She lied.

She lied.

She has waited a long time,
and she has traveled a long way

to come here and to lie

to each and every one
of you good people.

What's your guess? How long?

The verdict? Two hours,

two days, maybe three.
Nobody ever guesses right.

Come on, I'll buy you a drinK.
For a price.

For you to tell me why
you won't let-

The subject of Alexis is closed.

- Mr. Carrington-
- Mr. Carrington will not be maKing

any comment at this time.

He'll be happy to talK to you
as soon as he's been acquitted.

ThanK you, very much.
ThanK you. ThanK you all.

I've gotta get bacK to the office,
dictate some letters.

- All right.
- Do you wanna meet me?

Have some dinner?

- Out?
- Out.

And leave my father alone tonight?

Oh, come on, Fallon.
He's not alone.

Well, then where is Krystle?
Oh, that's right, she's ill.

No, I don't wanna go out tonight.

Steven?

What is it?

Well, hey, I'm still your sister.

Siblings have been Known to talK
on occasion.

We talKed, out in that hallway.

On that day, you told me I wanted
to see our father pay for Ted's death.

When I was the one
who was responsible, guilty.

We talKed.

Steven, I've been through a lot too,
haven't l?

I was sicK inside.

LooK, I'm sorry.

But BlaKe's my father.

You always were and always
will be my very favorite brother, oKay?

How about a daughter?

I mean, what Kind of daughter
are you, Fallon?

What's that supposed to mean?

That your garbage about me
doesn't matter.

That doesn't matter anymore.
But our mother,

that lady tried to explain
why she came bacK here,

but you,
you just transferred your garbage

and you dumped it on her.

Well, I finally seem
to have found a career for myself,

after all of these years
of sweet, antiseptic indolence.

I'm Gertie the garbage man.

A woman, person, a thing.

Tell me, just tell me,
who needs a mother

after 16 years of abandoning us?

And don't tell me
about any papers she signed,

which she somehow
didn't get around to mentioning

had a price tag
of $250,000 pinned to it.

Who told you that?

Jeff, who heard it from Cecil
a long time ago.

We- You and I have been the talK
of the club circuit for years.

Ever since three days
before your seventh birthday, Steven.

No, don't tell me about any papers.

You've been around this outfit
long enough to Know

what a signature means.

It's a name on a piece of paper,
and pieces of paper

can be burned, torn or shredded,
or flushed down the toilet.

Well, she could have come to see us
if she really wanted to for a day,

or one weeK, or a month even.

But no,
she picKed this day to come bacK.

And now for only one reason, Steven.
To dig BlaKe Carrington's grave.

- The problem is that we can't go-
- BlaKe.

Get in the car, will you, Andrew?

Don't I get a chance
to say hello to Andrew?

Obviously not. Why not, BlaKe?

He isn't talKing much these days.

Orders from the chieftain,
of course.

Is that why
he didn't cross-examine me?

Yes, I told him not to.
I ordered him not to.

Why?

Because I thought there was a good
chance that you might repeat that-

That piece of filth
that you once told me.

I was surprised you didn't spit it out
when Dunham was questioning you.

But I certainly couldn't risK it
with you being cross-examined.

That filth is a lie,
and we both Know it.

- Do we?
- Yes.

Now, Steven and Fallon
have been hurt enough.

Not even you
would want to hurt them more.

So many years
and you still call it a lie.

Except Alexis never lies, BlaKe.

Oh, fibs, maybe.

Social fibs, my specialty.

Taught to me by the master
when I was 17 years old.

"Oh, you looK ravishing tonight,
Marisa."

"It's the party of the year, Duffy.
The party."

But Alexis lie? Really, BlaKe.

So many years,
you might of forgotten.

That night you first threw
that lie at me, I warned you

that if you ever
repeated that to anyone l'd-

You'd Kill me.

That still holds.

BlaKe, what you call filth
may be a lie to you,

but I still have it.

And when I'm ready,
when I need a trump card,

I'm going to play it.

I just heard a news report.

Must have been what Dunham
was so upset about.

Claudia Blaisdel.

What about her?

She and her daughter Lindsay
were in an automobile accident.

You're a very lucky woman,
Mrs. Blaisdel.

You're going to be all right.

We'll do a couple more checKs
for possible concussion,

and try to get you out of here
in a couple of days.

- Lindsay.
- She's fine.

- No.
- She's fine. You were both very lucky.

- I heard her. She was hurt-
- She was hurt, just a little.

The way your car went off the road
and turned over-

What do you mean?
I wanna see her.

She's fine, she's fine.

- She's in better shape than you.
- I told you, I wanna see her.

And I told you, relax. You must rest.

- I want to see my daughter, all right?
- LooK, he'll bring her bacK here

in a little while, I'm sure.

What are you talKing about?

Your husband,
he came to get her a little while ago.

Fine, I'm gonna call them
at home, then.

No.

LooK, I don't Know how
to tell you this.

It's hard for me.

They're not at home.

I don't Know where they are.

Mrs. Blaisdel,
your husband left a message...

...for you.

They're gone.

- And don't-
- Don't what?

Don't try to find them.

You're lying to me.
I don't understand this.

I don't Know why,
but you're lying to me.

- I don't Know why he's lying.
- Nurse.

Matthew never said that.

LooK, I just want to get out of here.

Just let go of me
and let me up, please.

Please stop lying to me.

Will you tell me something?

Yes.

Did you ever find it?
That special rainbow?

Almost. Twice.

Once in Hawaii
and once in Corsica.

But somehow, it seemed
to vanish into the sun

before I could get my easel
and my new life together.

Without you and without Fallon.

I'm sorry about the way
Fallon acted before.

I'm not surprised.
Some things never change.

You were always my son,

she was always
her father's daughter.

It happens in most families.

But at the risK
of sounding prejudiced,

I'd liKe to say that I thinK
that I was the lucKier parent.

Do you Know that you still
blush in the same way?

Poor Steven.

Oh, he was such
a sweet and loving little boy.

And now you're a young man.

A good and handsome young man.

Man?

Try that on my father someday.

Oh, I Know. You and your friend.

You mustn't be ashamed, Steven.

I'm not. I'm lucky.

It was very special for a while.

- You loved him.
- Yes, very much.

Well, that doesn't maKe you
any less a man.

Mr. Dunham was just here.
He's a close friend of the family.

I didn't let him in to see her,
not now,

and I have no intention
of saying yes to you.

Is JaKe Dunham on the board of
directors at this hospital, doctor?

- No.
- I am.

Did JaKe Dunham
contribute $5 million

to build this wing
we're standing in right now?

LooK, she's under
pretty heavy sedation.

Just a few minutes.

ThanK you very much.

Claudia.

Go away. I don't want to see you.

I must see you.

Why?

You want to stand over
another of your victims?

Want to gloat
over what's happened?

Why, Mr. Carrington?

I had to come. You see, in a way...

... I'm responsible for you being here.

I don't Know that.

Please, go.

Get out of here.

In that courtroom...

...it was not my idea
to put you on that stand.

The idea was presented to me early.
I rejected it early.

You see, of all the people
that have been hurt in this,

I never intended you
to be one of them.

I beg you to believe that.

I don't believe anymore.

I don't believe in anything,
Mr. Carrington.

Not in love...

...not in understanding...

...not in trust.

Pain.

I believe in that.

I only believe in pain.

I wanted you to Know
that if you need any help,

if you need help at any time...

Call you.

Yes. Would you do that, please?

Sorry, did I waKe you?

That's all right.
I was just taKing a nap.

God, it's 5:30.

Jeff was gonna call me when it was
time to go bacK to the courtroom.

Forget it.
There isn't going to be a call bacK.

The jury's still out, and the judge
sequestered them for the night.

Dinner, bed and breaKfast,
on the house.

Not bad for a group of spectators
at the Colosseum,

watching the lions

and that she-lion
tear my father apart.

Why did you walK out?

Are you asKing me
why I left the courtroom, Fallon?

Left, walKed out. It's the same thing.

No, it's not the same thing.

I didn't feel well.

Yeah, that's what you told Jeff.

Are you doubting me?

Heaven forfend.

Who should ever doubt or question

the noble lady
of the House of Carrington?

And you are, and you
always have been, ever so noble.

I'm not enjoying
this little visit of yours.

Neither am l.

The fact is, do you want the truth
and the whole truth, so help me God?

I'm accusing you.

Accusing me of what, damn it?

Of having deliberately
walKed out on my father today,

because you believe
that woman's lies about that man,

her lover.

That's not true.

What's wrong with you?
What are you, Fallon?

I'm that. Fallon Carrington Colby.

Accent on the Carrington.

And when you walKed out
on my father today,

you as much as told that jury
BlaKe Carrington is guilty.

No.

LooK, you're confused and upset.

I can't blame you for that.

But don't try using me-

I'll use you for what you are,
and for what you've done.

And if they don't set my father free,
I won't rest until I pay you bacK.

Excuse me.

That Krystle.
She really Knows how to do it.

- Do what?
- Oh, play Camille.

Get him to go up to her
after she walKs out on him.

- Krystle?
- Come in, BlaKe.

It's an empty room
down there without you.

I asKed Jeanette to tell you
I wasn't hungry.

Well, she did tell me,
but not very convincingly.

Well, I can't help what she thinKs
or how she relays messages.

And I can't help but feel
that you're hiding from me tonight.

Just the same way you did
this afternoon, suddenly.

What I'm trying to say is
that I can understand

how what you heard Alexis say
on that stand

sicKened you to the point
where you had to leave the courtroom.

BlaKe, I wasn't feeling well.
That's why I came home.

Yes, and then when you got here,

you asKed Joseph
if Alexis had been telling the truth.

Was she?

Yes, at least in part.

I did hurt that man.
I did give him some money.

I owed it to him
for what I'd done to him.

But I never threatened her,

and it was not my idea
to suppress anything. It was his.

He had seduced my wife
and he was willing to let it go.

You don't believe that, do you?

I do, but-

But what?

BlaKe, I can understand the rage
you felt that night.

I mean, your wife and another man,
her lover.

But- Well, there's a difference
between rage and cruelty.

You mean Alexis, and exiling her
from her own children?

Yes.

Well, you're right. It would be cruel.
Inexcusably cruel, but...

But you must believe me.

The only thing that Kept her in exile

was a trust fund that paid her
a quarter of a million dollars a year.

That's what's important to her.
The only thing that's important to her.

Was it the money?

The money? Oh, no, darling.

It wasn't the fear of losing my income
that Kept me away.

That trust fund is irrevocable.

Well, then why?

Your father bought a lot more
from Roger Grimes than just silence.

If I ever showed my face
in Denver again,

Roger was prepared to testify

that I was the one who crippled him
with that candlesticK.

So when JaKe Dunham told me
that Roger had died two months ago,

I realized that,
finally, I could come bacK.

I can't believe him.

You Know,
it's really just more evidence

that my father thinKs he's God.

Let's change the subject.

This is for you, finally.

Go on, open it.

It's you, at 6.

Do you liKe it?

Yes, very, very much.

I want you to have it.

ThanK you.

I did it from memory,
years after I left.

Because when you were 6,
you would never sit for me.

Oh, only for about two
or three minutes at a time.

But you were
the most terrible squirmer.

You'd squirm and wriggle around
in the chair and run out of the studio.

- I could never catch you.
- I did that?

Yes.

Oh, I really loved that studio.

Do you Know, Steven,
I have you to thanK for it?

- No.
- Yes.

Your father had it built for me,
and he gave it to me-

Land, deed and everything.

- as a present for giving him a son.

I had such happy times there.

They say you can't go home again.

Are you sure
I can't have a tray sent up?

No. I thinK I'll go to bed early.

I'm sorry for all the wrong things
I've done in anger.

I Know what it's caused between us.

Roger Grimes,
that was a lifetime ago.

And Ted Dinard...

...it was a terrible mistaKe.

All I intended to do was to grab him
and to shove him out of my house,

and out of Steven's life.

I swear to you...

...that after tomorrow, if I'm freed,
I'll be different.

If I'm freed.

My God.