S5 EP11 Dynasty : Swept Away- The "Dead Ahmed, Red Head and Blood Test" Episode

A treasure map? On Dynasty? We had to pause, rewind, and make sure we heard that right. We’re recapping Dynasty Season 5 Episode 11 “Swept Away” on Soap Lore, and the show swings from hotel-room secrets to jungle-mystery logic in record time. Jeff Colby realizes his latest fling is Nikki Defilibuster, widow of Peter Defilibuster, and what starts as a scandal quickly turns into a full-on treasure hunt setup with a “solid gold Dinka entity” and two halves of a map. The twist that really matters: Fallon Carrington might not have been on that plane at all. So where is she, and who’s holding the missing piece?  We also dig into the quieter tension that’s been building for a while. Steven and Claudia feel like they’re being nudged apart, and Luke’s Santa Barbara “work trip” details raise eyebrows even when the chemistry is still finding its footing. On the Carrington power front, Blake and Crystal are still reeling after baby Christina’s health scare, and Crystal’s gut tells her the official story around Ahmed’s death does not add up, especially once Dominique and Adam help Blake spin a press conference that one skeptical reporter refuses to swallow.  Then Alexis does what Alexis does best: control the board. A threatened paternity blood test pushes her into escape mode, a blizzard strands Dex and Amanda in a luxury cabin, and the morning after is pure awkward fallout. Just when it can’t get messier, Alexis shows up with champagne and a London plan that rewrites everyone’s next move. Listen now, then subscribe, share the episode with a fellow soap fan, and leave us a review. What’s your theory on Fallon and the treasure map?

Transcript

Midweek Reset And Setup

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Uh ladies and gentlemen, boys and I'll look back in that one and pull the digital up to the board. I don't know what to do. What do you mean? I'm having one time. It is a grand old midweek day. I've cleared my schedule for the next couple of days, and don't I feel good to do nothing? I think adulting is exhausting. And nine times out of ten, before you crash out on someone as a kid, say, before you snap, lose your mind, road rage, whatever it is, you just needed a break. You just needed an hour or two to yourself to do absolutely nothing. Never been a fan of having a completely jam-packed full schedule. That's just not really my speed. And I want to encourage you to do the same thing. I want you to kick back when you listen to Soap Lore. I know 90% of y'all are doing other tasks as you listen, and that's all right. I hope I am entertaining you long enough to get through whatever you need to do. But if you are just chilling, welcome to the club. Go ahead and pour yourself up something bubbly and bright because I wasn't disappointed with this episode. Let me be very clear. This one was a little bit slower, it was a little bit more predictable, and it's like, damn, if you don't want to be with me, just say that. But Dynasty, as we all know, Dynasty is never gonna just say anything, are they? Go ahead and pour yourself up something bubbly and bright as we jump into season five, episode 11 of Dynasty Swept Away. I

Jeff Learns Nicole’s Secret

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don't know why I have so much trouble remembering that this is in 1984. I don't know why it feels later. I think the contrast between the clothing on Knott's Landing and Dallas versus Dynasty in Falcon Crest seems so drastic. It seems at least seven or eight years apart, but it's not. So we are in 1984. We are back in Denver, and we are trying to piece this together. Dynasty, Dynasty, Dynasty. I'm not shy about admitting how much I have enjoyed season five thus far. But then Dynasty will rear its ugly head every now and again, and we have one of the biggest cleanups on aisle four that I have seen from this show. And that's saying a lot because they they love a good explanation. Shout out to Laura Van Wormer for giving me the tea in the inside scoop, explaining that this show is supposed to model a rich man explaining to Crystal Carrington, a fish out of water, what it means to be in the upper echelon of society. I I get that now. I get it. But also, sometimes somebody has an idea and we gotta just throw it in here and see how it sticks. We're gonna make it work one way or another, and Dynasty is trying to make it do what it do. Per usual, we're gonna start with the bit players. My favorite doormat no longer in Denham, Mr. Jeffrey Colby is once again being played. I said that Dynasty doesn't ever just come out and say anything, and then I also said that Dynasty loves a good cleanup on aisle 5 or aisle 4 or aisle 3. For those of you who are newer to the show, what that means is Dynasty is notorious, in my opinion, for over-explaining these huge plot holes that didn't happen, but they they love to give an elaborate background as to why they're moving into this brand new, sort of random direction. We did that at the top of episode season, excuse me, season three or four, when Claudia was gonna heave-hoe a baby over the side of the building. They went back and explained, they overexplained when Lindsay and almost said Matthew McConaughey, what's his name? Matthew Blazedale with his hips moved to Peru. Why they did that, why they disappeared. There Dynasty is notorious for narrow rating. But do they ever just get to the point? Not really. Case end point. When last we left, Jeff, the denim doormat, no longer in Denham, he was in La Mirage on his usual brand new quest, which is banging out other people's wives. He had just laid it down on Nicole Simpson, not that one, new one. Redhead Nicole Simpson. She's in the shower washing up when someone writ a tat-tats on the door to deliver a dress. Jeff either doesn't have any money or he only carries C notes. He asked her for a $5 bill. She said it's in my top panty drawer, fishes out a $5 bill from the top panty drawer, gives it to said kid, and goes to put her purse back into her panty drawer, only to find a fully framed headshot of Peter Defilibuster. He is shocked. Who the hell? What the hell? So that all that old tell me about your wife, tell me about your wife. How come you didn't tell me that you were married to Defilibuster? By the way, Peter the Defilibuster, the cocaine cowboy himself, autographed his headshot and framed it and gave it to his wife. Who does that? Who writes on the front of their photo to my dearest wife Nikki? You know who does that? Anybody on Dynasty, because Dynasty loves a good chatter-chatter chip-chip for no reason. So now we know that Nicole Simpson is actually Mrs. Defilibuster, Mrs. Booger Sugar, Mrs. Cocaine Cowboy herself. I can understand why she wants to disassociate from that. But also, what are you doing here? Why are you rolling in the hay with Jeff? Well, we're gonna find out on today. So I actually watched this part and then I went back to see if I'd missed something because I don't recall there being a conversation at the end of episode 10. Last thing we see is Nicole coming out of the bathroom, totally appalled that Jeff had fished through her panty drawer, not for the money. The money is one thing. Say five, ten, fifteen dollars, just make sure that my brand new dress gets here. But how dare you read my very personal 8x11 high gloss, expensive framed, autographed headshot from my late husband? How dare you? We see Jeff throw her onto her own bed by the arm, and that's all. That's all we see. So near the top of this episode, I'm assuming it's the next morning, we have the biggest cleanup on aisle five seen in a very long time.

The Treasure Map Reveal

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Of cleanup on aisle five is that Jeff and Nicole Simpson had some sort of conversation off screen. He went away to do his research. Now, how he does this in the middle of the night, I'm sure I don't know. But he returns the next morning, rather tat on Nicole Simpson's door. She answers it and says, Are you surprised to see me still here? And he says, Not really. Can't leave till you get what you want. Well, did you check out my story, Jeff? Yeah, I checked out your story. You were married to Peter the Fibulator, but it didn't stop him from trying to marry Fallon. Immediately, I'm like, okay, you're focusing on the wrong part, Jeff. Why? What get to the good part? Why is she here, Jeffrey? What did you find in your non-internet research, Jeffrey? Basically said, uh-huh. Yeah, he wanted to marry her. He was ready, willing, and eager because Peter is a booger sugar pirate. He is a Coke fiend. He's always looking for a get rich quick scheme to bond his drug habits. So yeah, he probably did go after your super rich billionaire heiress of a wife. That checks out. But did you check out everything else I have said? Jeff's like, yeah, bigamy's pretty lousy for a statue. This is where she has to correct him. So this is, I'm not gonna lie, I'm I'm paying attention as this is going on, but I am rather casually listening. He makes the bigamy statement, i.e., he's still married to you. He's trying to marry Fallon. It's kind of weird to do for a statue, don't you think? Nicole already told you he was a drug fiend. He's not gonna do things that make sense. Yeah, it he probably doesn't need to marry 15 women to steal a VCR, but he's gonna do it. She's offended by the wrong part of that, though. She says it's not a statue. This is a solid gold Dinka entity worth a fortune. And I'm like, okay, wait, wait. Dinka entity sounds like something in South America. Sounds like you need to wait, what? Why are we talking about statues? Maybe it's some it's a relic that they had in their house. No, no, no. Nicole goes on to explain that she was tired of Peter being a dope fiend. She packed her teens and left, and part of her teens was half of a treasure map, ladies and gentlemen. A treasure map. She was supposed to meet up with Peter at some point, either to get back with him or to sign divorce papers, but he needed to present her with the other half of the map. Only he didn't. He messed around and woke up dead in behind some sort of plane crash with half of the map. Jeff's like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Explain this to me again. So you use me to get to him? She didn't say yes. She's like, No, I really care for you, but yes, she definitely is using him. Basically, what had happened is this Peter had half of the map. He was supposed to get back with her, either to divorce her or to be like, yo, I have enough money to fund this excursion, and she was gonna give him the divorce or the money or whatever he wanted. He was gonna give her the other half of the map. She was gonna go to South America to collect this solid gold statue. Let's just use the word statue for lack of a better term, because it is worth a fortune. She is Indiana Jones. Dynasty, are you serious right now? Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, those of you who've been listening to me for a little bit or anybody watching this in real time, did y'all have a moment to say, no, wait a minute. Not only does this sound like Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom, this also sounds like Falcon Crest in the Vineyards of Doom. Didn't we already have a whole ass treasure map pop up? Also, didn't we have a treasure map on Dinus, excuse me, on Dallas, only it pointed to a dead body? What are we doing? Maybe I'm making that part up. I feel like there was some sort of map. This is what you mean, Bob. If you're listening to this, you mentioned that she may have been underutilized on this. I think they're gonna piss me off a little bit with this. Don't get me wrong. I love Indiana Jones. I love it. I love a good excursion, I love a good jungle mystery, but you're not going to convince me that this broad flew into Denver, hung out at a Law Mirage in hopes of bumping into Fallon or getting access to Fallon's personal things to pull out a treasure map. What would Fallon want with the a treasure map? Meanwhile, cocaine Kendall is running around collecting different bodies. So let me get back to the story here. I can't deny that I was a little bit relieved to find out that she was indeed playing him. Even though she claims to have feelings for him, I choose to believe that she's playing him. You will never convince me that Jeffrey V. Colby has a swag to pull ladies or men for that fact. He's good looking, which draws you in, but he's he's not captivating enough to keep you. They reiterate that Peter uses everyone, including Fallon, for cash. But apparently, a major, major detail was left out last season. While Peter was flying around the world snorting cocaine off of tortoises and park benches and filthy bus stops, he was also doing this with a model out of LA who'd been with him the whole time. Now Jeff gets all hopeful and whatnot. He's like, wait a minute. He was running around with a model? Well, that means maybe Fallon wasn't with him. Fast forward a little bit in the episode. Nicole is sitting at La Mirage Lounge, chilling, listening to a piano player play that song from that movie The Way We Are Were. The one with Robert Redford and what's my girl's name, Barbara Streisand. I think that's I think it's called The Way We Were. I think that's the name of the song, too. Or Memories. I don't know, whatever. He's playing a vaguely familiar tune on the piano that they will not name, probably because of licensing and whatnot. Apparently, Jeff had got on this plane and gone to the monastery, which was the last place anyone saw Fallon. Fallon had made a phone call from the monastery to a hotel to talk to Peter in Seattle. So Jeff hops on another plane and goes to Seattle. He happens upon the desk clerk at the hotel from which King Cocaine was staying at and remembers that he saw the Kilo Kendall himself with a bad blonde. She was with him. And someone died in that plane. So now Jeff is super hopeful. Wait a minute, Fallon is a brunette. You mean to tell me you saw the filibuster board a plane? So I didn't see him with a plane. I said at the hotel I saw him with a baddie, baddie, baddie, baddie. And she was blonde. So now Jeff is all hopeful and whatnot. That is a major cleanup on aisle five. We don't well, like technically aisle four, since it is tying together a story that we had no idea about in season four, purging it into season five. Okay, that tracks for me. We didn't seen Fallon's body. I find it very hard to believe that she's running around halfway around the globe with a treasure map in her purse because she cared about Peter Defilibuster so much. I don't think that was it. I thought she just didn't like jackhammers and antaffeter or something. Didn't she have a whole headache behind and behind a wedding dress? It doesn't matter. This is how Dynasty does things sometimes, and you just gotta roll with it. Luckily, they're beautiful enough that you're just gonna take it. We're just gonna see what happens. But clean up on aisle five, Fallon may have never boarded the plane. Defilibuster was married, and he was in possession of a treasure map at some point. Hopefully, Fallon graces us with her presence and tells everybody where it is. Lord.

Steven, Claudia, And Luke Tension

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If you like it, I love it. Let's move on to our other bit players this episode, the Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Carrington. It's about halfway through the episode when we see a very squirrely, not so medicated Claudia turning down Artboy RD. I can't remember his full name, but you know the one, the artiste one, the one she fell asleep to with the magazine wide open. Steven sneaks into La Mirage at Claudia's office because he's back from Santa Barbara, and he can immediately tell how weird she is. She's freaking out, even though she's the only person in the office. She asks him about the trip, and he tells her that he and old boy with his name, Luke, are now called the Miracles, like some RB group. Ladies and gentlemen, that pulled me all the way out of the story. I can think of nothing and no one less rhythm and or blues than that of Steven and JLo's baby daddy from that movie Enough, Luke, I believe. I I can think of very few people with less swag. I'm losing the plot here. Claudia is acting funny because she's already rejected Artboy RD. He wanted to have dinner with her. He's getting all sorts of mixed signals. And let's be very clear, Claudia is the one mixing those signals. She took a phone call at face value and said, you know what? My husband's running around behind my back. Let me go ahead and do a little something behind his back. But it feels like Dynasty really wants to separate Steven and Claudia at this point. So they have been planting that seed since late season four. You're working too much. Your mother's too involved. Now this season it's you're working too much. There's a really hot guy that I like to have dinner with in the in the heat of the night. Let's make this awkward. Well, it is awkward. Later on in the episode, Luke comes by the mansion to have Steven sign something or to drop off some papers, something. And when he sees Claudia, it is very, very clear that he is not a huge Claudia fan, but his mother may raise him right. Hello, Mrs. Carrington. Oh hello, Luke. How are you? I'm well, Mrs. Carrington. He's very, very precise in calling her Mrs. Carrington. Claudia is waiting downstairs for Steven to finish getting ready so they can go get the eat on at iHop. Claudia is peppering Luke with questions about their Santa Barbara trip. How did it go? Oh, it went well. We handled all the business we needed to handle. He seems a little more interested when they're talking about work. All work, huh? Claudia says. Quick trip. Didn't really get to see the city. Yes, it was all work, but I mean, he's a what no, no, what's the word he uses? Um, practically. Yeah, it was meetings all day, practically non-stop. We practically worked the whole time. What the hell does practically mean, Luke? She goes, Oh, that's too bad, Sandy. He goes, Beautiful. Well, we got to see it a little bit. We went jogging. We did take a little dip in the pool, you know what I'm saying? We had a steak dinner, but we were both so famished and tired, all we could do is eat. She is very uncomfortable by the end of this conversation. So much so that she's like, Luke, why don't you just leave your little papers here and I'll make sure that Steven gets them. Luke, probably equally as ready to leave the room, says, Okay, well, if you think Steven's gonna be a while, wouldn't you know it right about this time? Steven comes from downstairs, or excuse me, from upstairs. Hey, Luke. Claudia, hey, this is Luke. She knows who that is. Claudia is giving that I know what's going on. I see you, but you're not saying anything. She's also projecting. Here's the thing, though. Luke seems uncomfortable in this scene to me because he's not a fan of Claudia. Claudia is a little bit off-putting if you don't really know her. Steven is clearly interested. I'm gonna go so far as to say he seems more interested than Luke does, in my personal opinion. Here's the thing about this episode and about 1984. I'm not really sure how far this is going to go. I understand that we have a plot to keep here, but I'm not feeling the chemistry like you would think. You know what I'm saying? I don't feel any tension other than Steven being nervous. Steven's being squirrely, Claudia's being squirrely, Luke is not necessarily squirrely, just like okay, I guess I gotta. Hi, how you doing, Claudia? He can't stand Claudia. Claudia can't stand him. So if nothing else, I'll allow there to be a lack of chemistry between Luke and Steven, which I'm sure this is where this is going. I'll allow there not to be uh any chemistry right now because there is at least tension between Luke and Claudia. I can be a bit of a story snob sometimes, and that's I'm sorry, that's just how I am a town built, but I can forgive it so long as the story is good. I'm always gonna put the story first. And so far, so good. However, there is a couple I see that could blossom here. We'll talk about it here in a minute. I don't think they'll do it, but it could work. I'm surprised we we might get a Luke and Steven in 1984. I'm very surprised. So I'm gonna bet money we're not gonna see what the other couple I think should happen. It could happen, could be a lot of fun. We'll talk about that here in a minute. All right, let's move on to the main characters this episode. All

Baby Christina And Blake’s Fixation

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right, so Blake and Crystal have successfully gotten through the birth of baby Christina. Hopefully she didn't grow up to be a nightmare. But they're worried that their fighting is the reason that Christina is being drained like a freaking Chevy at the top of the episode. Crystal is worried she's beside herself, she can hardly sleep in her elevated hospital bed in silk ensemble. By the way, Crystal has snapped all the way back from having this baby. Mind you, she was an eight, nine months pregnant, big old belly. She is in a cinched waist silk robe. Tell me you're rich without telling me you're rich. It is my opinion that it is 100% Blake's fault that Crystal went Kerplunk down them steps and had to give birth to Christina very early. Lady Doctor comes into the room, and luckily, Christina's carburetor or whatever is purring like a kitten. She took to this draining and uh replenishing of her fluids like a champ. Hooray for Christina. She's on the bigger and bigger things. And uh, so is Blake. Her daddy is now on a mission to find out who Alexis' baby daddy is. Now on the other side of town, Alexis and Amanda battle it out for who has the biggest hair in this scene. That isn't me being hateful. Mind you, I'm a woman from Texas. Your hair can be as big as it needs to be. But I do feel like Amanda was giving put 'em up, put him up. She was giving cowardly lion and not in the best way. She's giving cowardly lion from the wizard of oz, not the whiz. The one on the whiz, listen, I know a fresh bushel of Kinecalon when I see it. They did the damn thing with the cowardly lion on the whiz. She's close, but it's just huge. And Alexis's hair is also huge, but I guess both of them have so many secrets to keep. It needs to have a physical representation. All right, so Alexis and Amanda are in Alexis' office, and Alexis starts asking Amanda what her plans are. Seems like she doesn't want her to go back to Europe. She says you should stay in Colorado and go to a state college, which just does not seem like that's in character for Alexis. You don't want your girl to go to a private school? I thought rich people like to send their children off. Preferably at least 2,000 miles away so they can educate themselves. But perhaps she's making up for last time, lost time. Amanda, you should stay here in Colorado. You can go to the University of Colorado. It is an amazing school. I'll take care of everything. They're having a quick conversation. Amanda says something about keeping her big mouth shut, and Dex Dexter, who we all know doesn't knock, but loves to ear hustle apparently, burst in and says, Yeah, you can really work on keeping your mouth shut. Damn it, Dexter. Why are you here? Also at the top of the episode, Dex is at Alexis' mansion, or excuse me, at her penthouse, having breakfast in a terrycloth robe at a table covered with silver plates and dishes and such. Amanda comes out of her bedroom in a blue silk robe and she rolls her eyes, damn near loses her appetite. My God today. You know why he's there so early. Alexis is still sleeping, whatever he did to her off. He's in there trying to get his his his belly full. He's got a big day. The whole cat and mouse thing with Dex and Amanda feels so forced. I wouldn't say it's terrible acting, but two things stand out. Number one, they really want you to believe that Amanda is very juvenile. She's 19, going on 20, looking like a full-grown woman. I think she's supposed to be 20, if memory serves me correctly. But they play up her being juvenile when it comes to him. That's their whole thing. You're acting like a child. I don't want to be around you. I'm gonna just, you know, super pouty. It's not cute. And it's it's it's not even a prelude to anything interesting. It is very obvious that this is supposed to be tension. This is supposed to be the friends to the enemies to friends to lovers trope. She tells him not to explain to her what the hell breakfast is, which I mean, fair. He tells her to eat her breakfast, shut up, and talk to him when she can become a grown woman. So she's already already on her nerves. When he bursts into Alexis's office to tell her to watch her mouth and grow up, she's already equally annoyed. She's like, you know what, you already ruined breakfast. Mama ain't going to dinner. So we keep having these moments in the show where it's Alexis, Dexter, and Amanda about to go do mommy and daddy and daughter things. It's weird. I'm not a fan of it. Not a lot of chemistry there at all either. Later on in the episode, Jeff stops by the hospital to give Christina a gift. An engraved baby rattle that looks a whole lot like the one that identified Adam as the long-lost Carrington boy. Jeff's story is all but over. This is just kind of a throwaway scene that was in the middle of the episode. Jeff gives Crystal Christina's gift, and then Blake comes through to give Crystal a set of matronly pearls and a belt buckle as a pill shft. Belt buckle on the necklace. It's hideous. She says it's pretty, but I can see her going through the Rolodex in her mind to see if she has that scammer jewels lady's number. See if that guy can maybe replicate these hideous pearls so that she can hawk them for something that she likes a little better. Once Jeff and Blake leave the room and leave Crystal to her hideous push gift, Jeff tells Blake that he needs to go on a trip. This is where he's gonna go to the monastery and then he's gonna go to Seattle. For the first time in this episode, or in the first time of the season, really, Blake chastises Jeff for his travel arrangements. Not just him bedhopping with other women, but you running around? You hadn't been around your baby in weeks. Mind you, that baby lives in the nursery. Stephen baby lives in the nursery. The nursing staff or the staff takes care of them. Why, what difference does it make if he stops by? I'm kind of with Jeff on this one. Jeff's like, I don't, I mean, I can call. I can send a postcard, he'll be fine. Blake gives that old, I'm not here to raise no grandbabies. I raised my kids, I'm not gonna raise no grandbabies. Shut up, Blake. All of a sudden, now that you got this fresh baby with a new oil change and a potential baby, now you're acting brand new. I'm with Jeff on this. Jeff has BS to chase. He is rich. That is his privilege in life, okay? He didn't need to clock in. He needs to go where he needs to go, have the staff tend to raising his child just like the rest of the kids in that house. Calm down. As if Fallon was there anymore, right? Like, how dare you? Blake has other things to worry about besides Jeff's little trips around the world or wherever he's

Alexis Panics Over Paternity Proof

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going. Blake's PI has dug up some dirt on Alexis. Now, apparently, after Blake almost killed Alexis's lover boyfriend back in the day, Mr. Grimes, she ran away after he banished her from the kingdom of Carrington. And she locked herself away in Switzerland, like literally locked herself in a cabin and didn't come out until it was time to give birth to her baby. We know this because Blake is very hoity-toity. And he shows up at Alexis's office with the papers and makes her read them aloud, I guess to just stick it to her. She was like, This is some bull. This this is egregious. She completely flips out on him, like, I can't stand you, Blake. You're always in my business. This is true dysfunctional, non-co-parenting. She can't stand him, he can't stand her. Baby mama drama, baby daddy drama at its finest. And I loved every moment of it. She starts going off on him, telling him he's making up stuff and he's insecure. He tells her, Oh, I'm insecure. Guess what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna ask Amanda to take a blood test. Alexis is like, oh, my dead body. Hell no. And he's like, bet. I already talked to Amanda, me and Amanda real cool. I bet if I ask her, I bet she'll take the blood test. Baby mama, she's like, I can't stand you, Blake. I can't stand you either. The one thing I appreciated about this is that Blake understands 1984 technology. He understands that a blood test will not certify him as a father, per se, but it will at the very least eliminate people who are not. So if if he's blood O and she's A B, we already know from Dallas. That's not how that works. From Dallas. Once Blake leaves, Alexis quietly and nervously smokes her cigarello. Maziggy does absolutely nothing to calm her nerves. And Alexis in the next scene is in this really gorgeous sequin, leopard gown and a fur. For no reason. She and Amanda and Dex are about to go out to eat. They're doing everything as a family all of a sudden. Alexis decides, you know what, Amanda? What was I thinking? You're not going to a state school. I need you to go to Europe. You don't need to go to a Big 12 school. You need to go out of the country. Amanda's like, but I'm comfortable. I just got settled already. No, hell no. I'm going to I'm going to the University of Colorado. I'm going to somewhere in Denver or in Colorado at the very least. Alexis is freaking out, which is just feeding the theory that this is probably Blake's daughter, if not the lover boy's daughter. Alexis, ever the genius, quick on her feet, says, Okay, well, why don't we do this? Let's talk about this later. In the meantime, in between time, I got some business. Why don't we all go to Riadosa? I that's how I say it here. That's where I'm from. We call it Riadosa. I think it's Riedoso, if you say it quote unquote properly. Let's go to Riadosa. Which I have been to quite a lovely place, very affordable. I know they had a horrible mudslide last year. I don't know if everything's been recouped. They went through some fires, they went, they went through it. It just didn't seem like this would be the place for Alexis to go to. Now, granted, a lot of people, especially in Texas, oil people like to go there. It's it's like the Swiss Alps in the U.S. for them. But for a person like Alexis, who's probably been to the Swiss Alps, it's kind of weird. But in my mind, this is just off the radar enough for Blake not to look for her there. Plus, I think Dex is either from the Dakotas or he's from New Mexico. I can't remember. All I remember is that he likes turquoise. Alexis doesn't like to wear turquoise because it is a semi-precious stone. She don't do semi-nothing. Alexis manages to get Dex and Amanda on her private jet. She misses the flight because she's too busy making sure that Blake is unable to reach Amanda. She will not have that blood test by any means necessary. She gets a call from him, cussing her out, demanding that she let him that he let her that she let him see Amanda so he can get this blood test. She tells him to kiss her very expensive arse and hangs up on him. She's laughing and she's enjoying herself. She immediately calls the airport and tells them to gas up her other plane because she wants to go to London, baby. And you know what? There's not a damn thing Blake Carrington can do about it because he's on parole and he can't fly internationally anymore. Even if he's not on parole, he should be on parole. I recall his sentencing at the end of season two. He is on parole for the murder of Ted Denard. Okay, he can't be flying all across the world. So if she wants to fly, she wants to gas up any one of her mini jets to go wherever she wants. That's exactly what she can do.

Blizzard Cabin Hookup Fallout

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Okay. Meanwhile, in Riadosa, there's a snowstorm. Or those of you who actually have seasons, maybe it's a blizzard. I don't know. Either way, there's enough snow coming down quickly that they can't leave the souped-up cabin that they're in. Amanda and Dex can't leave the super sweet chalet or super cabin that they're in in Riadosa because of the blizzard. This is where it gets absolutely redandiculous. Dex and Amanda are on the plane when they find out that Alexis won't be joining them. Amanda insisted, I'm getting off this plane. I'm not going anywhere with you. It is so boring. It is so juvenile. Also, her accent isn't great. I know that Alexis's accent is genuine, but it seems like she's been in America long enough. She's an actress, she knows how to manipulate it. The child playing Amanda, I don't think she's British. I know she's not. I'm gonna be bold. Correct me if I'm wrong. She doesn't seem British to me. You can let me know at soaplorepodcast at gmail.com, or you can check your show notes for the opportunity to send me a text or a voice note. Let me know one way or another. Anyway, of course, she's not gonna leap out of a flying object. So they get to Rito, so the snowstorm hits. Dex is explaining to her that girl, you can't just walk out in the middle of a blizzard. No matter how much you dislike me. Plus, this is like a 5,000 square foot building. They're gonna be fine. You go to one in, he goes to one in, is it's cool. But no, do you know? Do you know, Soapfiend, what happens? Of course you know, because either you've seen this or it's obvious. Amanda decides to throw a proper fit. She reaches for anything within and within reach pillows, cotton balls, very light objects that aren't gonna make super thuddy sounds on set. She even picks up a Bible or an encyclopedia Britannica to come across Dex head, but he's he's swift and he easily grabs a book, and somehow they do the one, two, cha-cha-cha, and end up lying on an already ready-made blanket in front of the fire and capture each other's attention. We get a captivating close-up of Dexter staring longingly into Amanda's eyes. Amanda is looking up from the floor. Mind you, her hair is a lot flatter than it was back in Denver. I guess it's the elevation, I don't know. She's looking at Dex, and before you know it, mmm, mmm, kissy kissy boo-boo face all together. I'm assuming they make sweet, sweet love in front of the fire. That's what I'm thinking what happened. But basically, they slip and fall into bed together. It's a little strange that Alexis and her daughters have such identical tastes in men, but also I guess not. It's weird though.

Istanbul Story And Press Conference Spin

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Meanwhile, back in Denver, Dominique, Deborah, and Adam the Carrington are back from Istanbul eager to fill Blake in on Ahmed's demise. Allegedly, Ahmed was shot by some guy that he double-crossed back in the day. That guy joined the military and patiently waited for a track to explode on. Despite the governor or or whoever uh general of the Istanbul Police Department or Army said, Hey, nobody shoot. This guy was like, I'm absolutely gonna shoot. Like I said, I have things to do today. I'm not leaving here dead, but Ahmed is gonna leave here dead. Adam and Dominique explained that listen, Blake, despite your very poorly, highly suspicious plan, some rando took Ahmed out. We didn't have nothing to do with it, you ain't had nothing to do with it. Blake's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I believe this. This feels good to my ego. I'm gonna swallow this. Dominique is thanked by Blake for all of her participation, and she ominously announces that she always delivers what she promises. No joke, this statement lingers in the air. Like no one says anything for a full six or seven seconds after that. Blake is the first one to speak, and he's like, yo, Adam, why don't you go ahead and uh stir up a press conference for us so that I can let the whole world know that Ahmed told the whole world before he died that I didn't have anything to do with that government being overthrown. It's just a weird timing situation. Dominique looks at Blake and says, Blake, I don't mean to pry, but are you sure you want to read that deathbed confession? It seems like a hell of a coincidence that he was killed immediately after he signed that. Blake's like, obvious. Yeah, no, no, no. You don't know what you're talking about, Dominique. I'm gonna go through with this. She's like, do what you need to do. So I'm gonna backtrack just a little bit with Amanda. Right after Adam and Dominique come back from Isthumble, Adam, I guess, goes over to his mom's house to say hey, but his mom's not there. It's only Amanda. Amanda is out on this terrace and she's drawing when Adam walks out there to chat with her. Now I am shocked as hell when Adam recognizes the drawing as Dex Dexter. I'm not even being funny, you guys. I thought she was drawing like an assailant from a 7-Eleven robbery or something. I didn't know who that was. It never even occurred to me that she was drawing Dexter. I thought it was like a young Bob Barker or something. She tells Adam that she can't stand Dex and she draws because it calms her nerves. She likes to sketch from time to time to soothe the burning inside of her. The lust. The lust. She's like, hey bro, I can even draw you sometimes if you want. Now, Adam has picked up this drawing by this point. He's examining the picture a little closer and decides he is way too fine to be disrespected by her less than stellar artistic skills. So he claims that he's too jet lagged to sit stock still. Oh, I love two sis. I'm just really tired right now. I couldn't possibly be drawn poorly by you right now. Anyway, um, how goes it? What's going on around here? Amanda tells him, she's like, brother, you know what's going on? I got every time I'm around my mama or Dex Dexter or Hayden Steven, I can't help but flip out. I've been turned, I turn into a complete nightmare when I'm around them. And Adam's like, Word, I understand. I love that the bookend caring does. I'm gonna go ahead and call her a Carrington. It's kind of obvious at this point. If she's not, she's close enough. She is his sibling regardless. So the bookend kids, it's so funny that they get along. He puts Amanda up on game because she's saying that her mother and Dex and Steven bring out the worst in her, but the only person who halfway understands her is Blake. Adam's like, listen, girl, if I don't know nothing, I know this. Like your piss poor juvenile drawing. Blake ain't it, baby. He just not. You might as well keep practicing whatever you're doing. Blake ain't it, my girl. Apparently, that's a consensus of several people. So let's let's let's fast forward a little bit to this press conference. Adam, Dominique, and Blake gather with a dozen or so of their closest reporter friends and retell the tale of Ahmed's unavoidable demise. Dominique is unfadable. She is made for the spotlight. She can answer questions smoothly. She is charming the pants and off of each one of these reporters. Adam is devilnaire. He is pristine, he is precise, he is he is commanding the room, he is calm, cool, and collected. You believe every word that is coming out of his mouth. Blake is cocky enough to believe that this is all very believable. He wants the world to think that a millionaire went overseas to buy oil and a revolution popped off, and then the same dude that he was on TV with at the time has recently woke up dead just after he signed a confession. Shot to death immediately after he signed said confession. This seems like a likely story, but crazier things have been true. This just happens to be one of those things. Now, it's is it believable? Under no circumstances is it believable. 11 of the 12 reporters seem to be buying this. But one in particular is like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. Mr. Wales, now y'all remember Mr. Wales? Mr. Wales was a reporter who did the Fortune magazine or whatever they're calling that equivalent on this show. He's the one who did the article that exposed Blake as this spoiled billionaire who went overseas and funded a revolution. And he's not buying it. He says as much, he's like, okay, so your kid and and this lounge singer, lovely black lady, just happened to be in Istanbul. They just happened to run into Ahmed. He just happens to sign this confession, and all is well. Dominique accepts him. She's like, no, I I I know Blake and I know I knew Ahmed, and I was good friends with both of them. I thought I could be the middleman for both. We we talked it out. Ahmed came to his senses, and then later, even if it was 35 seconds later, he he woke up dead. That's what that's what I'm saying. And the guy's like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, if you say so. Likely story. Weirdly, right around this time, not weirdly, I guess this is pretty obvious because this is a uh a press conference. Crystal is across town at the hospital, minding her own business, watching the press conference.

Crystal’s Doubts And Wild Chemistry Picks

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And as she listens to this BS, she starts to get sick to her stomach. She starts replaying everything. She remembers where she was the moment that Ahmed dropped dead, just like the rest of us remember where we were on 9-11 or when Beyoncé dropped lemonade. It was a pivotal moment in history, and there's something about it that Crystal just can't shake off. She still thinks this is BS. Plus, her baby got drained like a 57 Buick because she was upset by this murder of this man. It is all coming back to her. I have a thought, guys, before I go any further. Remember, I talked about the chemistry and all that jazz. There is something about the chemistry between Dominique Devereaux and Adam V. Carrington that is undeniable. Now, there comes a point in the episode where Blake and Adam are chatting, and Adam, he's not he's not a fool. Dominique came out of nowhere. Suddenly, she's traveling across seas, suddenly she is the middleman. She's speaking to Ahmed Rasheed, you know, trying to do all these negotiations. He doesn't know why she's there. So he's like, Dad, this ain't about the press conference. This is between you and I. Is everything cool between you and Dominique? Like, I can tell she's part of the team now. I just don't really know why she's part of the team. Blake dances around the question, Well, do you think she should be a part of the team? Adam says, If you that's what you want, cool. I'm I want what you want. You like it, I love it. But if there's a problem, father, blink twice and I'll make that little problem disappear. Something a little bit menacing about the calmness in which Adam presents this information. Blake tells Adam, if there's a problem, I'll be the one to handle it. Put that aside for a minute. When you see Dominique and Adam together, perhaps it's Adam's confidence, perhaps it's Dominique's confidence. There is something that I wouldn't mind about them being together. Now, granted, technically that is her nephew, which is gross. I'm not, listen, I'm not, we're not doing season one of Dynasty. That's not where I'm going with this. But I'm just saying, I feel the chemistry. Now, there shouldn't be chemistry there. This is absolutely taboo. But I certainly don't think they'll do a racial couple and a gay couple in the same season in 1984. Hell, I don't even see that. I don't think I've seen that maybe 2014, maybe occasionally. I'm just saying they would work together. You know who else I think kind of works together? This is very, very scandalous. Mr. Wales, who, by all intents and purposes, is a decent looking man. He is not soap opera gorgeous, but he's okay. There is a cockiness about him that reminds me like of an Ed Harris. I would love to see him and Crystal together. I am all for it. I am finding chemistry on this show in all the wrong places, all the taboo places. Now, Crystal and Wales is not a bad combination. I just don't think it'll happen. I don't see why it would, but it could be gorgeous together. Dominique and Adam, with his crazy cuckoo nutty stuff and her being able to put him in his place, I am here for it. But let's move on.

Alexis Arrives With A Wedding Plan

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We have reached the final. Little tidbit. So after a passionate night of fireplace front porch lovemaking or pillow fort fireplace lovemaking in the beautiful mountains of Redosa, we find Amanda and Dex. I don't know why I keep wanting to call him Dex because I want to say Dexter. We find Amanda and Dex in a similar position they were at the top of the episode. It is the next morning. It is time to eat a little bit of Brickie. And you know what? The snow has stopped falling, the sun is out, and the light of day is quite sobering. They are both awkward and seemingly regretful of what happened. Only they're still playing this odd little cat and mouse game. Dex wants to be an adult and have a conversation with Amanda. Like, listen, Amanda, I didn't mean for that to happen. Do you know what this young lady says to him? She says, Do you make it a habit of forcing yourself on young women? He calmly says, Amanda, I don't recall myself forcing anything on anybody. Before they can get too deep in it, she makes a scene, she says it's not snowing, she's not gonna walk to the airport all of a sudden. Dex tells her, okay, just because the snow has stopped falling, it doesn't make it safe to walk on on it's dumb. Please calm down. Before they can get too deep into this, guess who shows up out of nowhere? Alexis. Alexis and a driver. She shows up with champagne and caviar because she figures they've been holed up inside of a luxury cabin all night. They must be famished. Darlings, get your belly full because we are about to board a plane. We're gonna go to Jolly Old England. Amanda's like, England? For what? For a wedding, ladies and gentlemen. Whose wedding? The wedding of Dex Dexter and Alexis Carrington Colby. Now I gotta be honest. ACC hits way harder than ACCD. Actually, I hadn't said that out loud together. ACCD sounds amazing. It's a lot to monogram. But Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter actually, it works. I retract all of my previous thoughts and statements. I'm here for it. Alexis Carrington Colby wants to be Alexis Carrington Colby Dexter. Despite the fact that her baby girl and her booski just rolled on a on a fort made of pillows in front of the fireplace. End scene. Really, really good episode, just a bunch of misplaced couplings. It's very clear, like I said, I think they were trying to break up Steven and Claudia for a while. I'm not really attached to it either way. I love me some Claudia. Used to love Steven. Steven is becoming brattier as time goes by, but I'm really curious to see what happens with him and Luke. Luke is so boring though. Jeff this this so what you're telling me, Soap Fiends and Dynasty from 40 years ago. You were telling me that there will be a treasure hunt and that Fallon may have never boarded the plane. It was actually some model. So where the hell is Fallon? And are we are we are we really gonna look for a treasure? This seems like a daytime soap storyline, right? The the the missing person, if they come back, if Fallon comes back, I would have to guess she's not gonna know who the hell she is. She can't. Or she's she's probably a monk somewhere. If this was daytime television, 100% she'd be a monk somewhere. She doesn't know who the hell she is, or she'd have an entirely different family, like the movie Overboard with Goldie Han, which I love. Anyway, where is Fallon? Where is said treasure? Is the filibuster? The filibuster better be dead. I'm not in the mood to see cocaine Kendall show up again. We really don't need all that again. What is Dominique up to? What is going to happen? I guess we'll have to find out on the next episode.

Wrap-Up Questions And Listener Messages

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