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S4 EP 7 Dynasty -Tracy : The " Lunge, Attack, Apologize & Repeat" Episode

• Jett Shae • Episode 213

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What happens when professional aspirations collide with personal biases? On this episode of Soap Loar we dive headfirst into the dramatic world of Dynasty's favorite "ism's". Sexism. Chauvinism, Nepotism ,you name it!  Season 4, Episode 7, titled "Tracy." We dissect the internal struggle and palpable tension as Tracy's dream job at Denver Carrington is snatched away by Blake in favor of his  far less-qualified wife, Krystal. Tracy's frustrations explode in a moment of raw emotion, signaling the start of a riveting new conflict. Jett, our host, can't help but voice a growing disillusionment with Dynasty, hinting at a possible pivot to other prime-time heavyweights like Falcon Crest and Knots Landing. This episode promises a deep exploration into Tracy's professional heartbreak and the broader shifts in the soap opera landscape of the '80s.
This episode is riddled with HR violations as Mark and Adam both have to be reminded that "No means no, not "no means turn it up a notch"

The intrigue doesn't stop there. We untangle the deceptive manipulations of Adam, Blake, and Alexis, spotlighting Adam's moral quandary as he attempts to frame his own mother for poisoning Jeff. The tension escalates with Kirby's suspicions and confrontations, adding multiple layers to the storyline. The power dynamics within Denver Carrington are questioned, particularly around Crystal's unexpected appointment. We scrutinize her motivations and the office dynamics she disrupts. As always, our sage advice to our listeners: stay vigilant, keep your remote handy, stay hydrated, and let the drama play out on your TV screens, not in your lives. Don't miss this engaging discussion filled with treachery, corporate drama, and tangled loyalties.

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bitch. How dare you gaslight this woman? You know what you did. You know what you did. You know what you're doing.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome and welcome back to soap floor, the official gathering place where newbies, novices and og diehard fans of the golden age of primetime, I'm your host jett, interviewing and reviewing, laddering up with the soapiest primetime storyline of 1984. As we venture our ways back to the Rocky Mountains, it is another Dynasty Day. We are on season four, episode seven. This episode is called Tracy. So, whether you're new to this or true to this, sit back and enjoy. Tell the kids it's time to play outside or out of sight. Save no questions, suggestions or concerns for the next 25 to 35 minutes, everyone else in earshot. Please be cool, quiet or be prepared to be kicked out, because we have got to get to the bottom of our stories. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is Soap Laura. Welcome back, party people to another fun little edition of soap laura. My oh my. This might be my favorite type of episode. We are introduced to a brand new character. The name of this episode is tracy and I know, if you're like anything like me, who's tracy. Well, I noticed a new person within the opening credits, miss Deborah Adair. Now, she doesn't make much of a splash, this episode, but for whatever reason she's important enough to name a whole episode after. So we got to keep our eye on Miss Tracy In the meantime.

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In between time, it is business as usual and, dare I say it, business is boring. This episode, high key, drolled on, but we're going to jump into it regardless. I don't know, I'm starting to believe that perhaps I shouldn't spend as much time on Dynasty and Dallas. Now, I know they're the icons, they're the things that people quote the most, they're the most memeable. But I do feel like Falcon Crest and Nots Landing really are being slept on and they shouldn't be. But I'm gonna give myself a moment to breathe. This episode was a little bit. Either way, we're gonna jump into it. Pour yourself up something bubbly, because you deserve it, and I'm gonna be bougie all summer long. Go, go ahead and jump into season four, episode seven of Dynasty almost a Dallas-ty Dynasty Tracy. Let's go ahead and get the elephant out of the elephant in the room out of the way immediately.

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Tracy, who is Tracy? Tracy works for Denver Carrington. She is the assistant to the PR person, who's a wonderful man who just happens to be on the up and up. He has found a better position, he's about to move on and he's thinking that his fantastic, highly qualified, everything she said she was in her resume, which that's a whole nother topic she's her. She's absolutely the person for this position. But remember, on the last episode we discussed, blake feels like his love language is let me give you a position that caters to me and that way you know that I love you. And Crystal dum-dum did it and cream. It's like yeah, that's a great idea. So Crystal will become the new PR person.

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Now quiet is kept and, for all intents and purposes, crystal knows she's not qualified for this position. Not that she's not smart enough, not that she's not capable, but she fully understands. She's never done any of this. She don't know what a press release is, let alone how to write one. So when first we meet Miss Tracy, she is presenting this. God, this is just a sign of the times. So if you, if you are a movie buff like myself or a cinephile, you'll look back on movie posters from the 80s, 70s and 60s and nine times out of 10, they were hand drawn. It was like this artistic expression. There weren't really there, weren't live photos, that were photoshopped and whatever. For a poster for a movie. It was hand-drawn. So in 1980, this has not it's not not in vogue at this point. So she has this hand-drawn rendering of Blake Carrington superimposed on, like these oil wells, and it's celebrating 25 years of service circa 1955, if my math is correct, and this is what she's going to present to blah blah blah magazine. She's super pumped about it, and so was her boss, because they are none the wiser about this brand new acquisition.

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However, as they're celebrating, suddenly the phone rings bling, bling, bling. Mr Sir, mr PR guy picks up the phone. He's filled in immediately and he's like damn. So he tells Chris uh, not Crystal, tracy, straight away, tracy, I want you to know, baby girl, you are her. You are so good at your job, I'm so proud of you, like I just you've know, baby girl, you are her. You are so good at your job, I'm so proud of you, like I just you've really made this. Just amazing for me. But unfortunately, blake is picking his ex-wife or his wife I don't know what they are at this point. He's picking her for this position.

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Now Tracy puts on a good front, as most women do when we are discouraged in public. You know what. Let me pretend like I'm just super grateful, it doesn't really matter, there's another woman in place. It's just wonderful, it's fantastic. But inside she's like I'll burn this shit to the ground if I have a chance to. So as soon as he leaves the room, after Crystal calls him to say hey, come eat lunch with me, tracy rips the poster in half and by the end of the episode nothing really develops. All we know is that Tracy was hot about not being picked as the PR person as she deserves. She's worked on Fifth Avenue, she's actually earned it. But Crystal's going to get it because she's Blake's wife. That is what it is.

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I have no choice but to believe that she might be like a single white female, if you remember that movie. She might be a little bit stalkerish a little later on, but on this episode she's vibing, she's pissed. She definitely riffs up that drawing, which I totally respect. But all in all all, she's not really there to cause a fuss. Yet nobody wants a place that can fiddle the crystal and speaking of crystal, she is relaxing, lounging, if you will rent free at La Mirage. It just occurred to me this episode. She ain't got no job. I don't believe she's receiving spousal support. So she is living there, high on the hog, free 99, because of fallon.

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Well, she's minding her business, chilling in teal when a rat-a-tat-tat comes on the door, next thing she knows it's mark. Oh, hey, mark, what's going on, baby? Well, you know, blah, blah, blah. He's acting. He's acting normal at first. He, you know, aren't you gonna buy me in? I've been sitting downstairs for over an hour. I thought you'd show up. She's like well, you know, I didn't really feel like being downstairs tonight.

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Again, she's not feeling anything weird because she's known him. Tell me why they sit on this bamboo couch, golden Girl style, and he starts to tell her we're going to run away together. We need to be together. You love me and, uh, you want me. Let's, let's prove it right now. She's like get the. Are you high? I don't want you. Get out, mark, get out my room, stop. Well, he's ripping her her silk blouse. He's ripping the other sleeve. It is a mess. She's fighting him for her life. And he's like no, no, no, give it to me. He's basically trying to R word her dude, get out of here, get out of my house. She's fighting him for her life. Eventually he lets up and she's like stop, stop, stop. He goes. You never wanted me to stop before and I'm just thinking that's so cringe, what a horrible way to end it. But Mark is tripping. She eventually gets him kicked out of her house.

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So, honestly, god, this whole episode is really all about Adam. There's some sprinkling with Alexis, here's the tea. So the last episode we saw, adam had convinced Alexis to sign three documents about some foreign oil wells, blah, blah, blah. Only one of those was about that. The second and third were actually blank copies that he went in and did Adobe Photoshop before that was a thing and he turned those into invoices for mercuric oxide. He then made his way to Billings or wherever the heck where he originally purchased that paint, and he made sure to pull an okey-doke with the guys running the whole operation so that it looks like Alexis visited that location not once, but twice to get that sort of paint.

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He is building up an alibi, if you will, but in the meantime we get to see for the first time Adam is starting to sweat just a little bit. He's never pulled off a scheme quite like this and his thoughts are like I need to convince Blake, who knows nothing but the truth, thinks very highly of his father, and I need to frame my mother, which I'm not fully comfortable with, so unbeknownst to the audience. Up until now, adam has been working out all of his frustrations with a faithful hooker, whose name escapes me at this point. I don't know if she's important, maybe she will be later on. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. But he's doing the do with her and he's being hella rough and she's like stop, stop, stop. He's actually yielding to these cries at this point. He didn't do that with Kirby, he did it with her, and she expresses to him that, like yo, I used to look forward to your phone calls, but now I'm just freaking out. I feel like you're just taking out the world on me. What's going on? He confesses that he has to do something he's not fully comfortable with. He's low-key, freaking out by setting up his mother, alexis. He's going to let her take the fall for basically poisoning Jeff.

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Speaking of Jeff, the denim doormat, I don't know why he thinks he's so sexy this episode, but he and Fallon are still in their okey-doke dungarees from Billings Montana. This is what pisses me off. Okay, so maybe in 1880, maybe you could show up to a town and dress like the normal folk and fit in. But you're not going to tell me that you thought that was going to work in 1980, that these people were going to think you're down home just because you're in denim and a t-shirt, your stuff was the cleanest. There's no dookie on your boots, there's nothing giving you away as an actual cowboy cowgirl, and I refuse to believe these people are going to believe that. But for whatever reason I don't know. If Urban Cowboy had just come out, I'll have to do the math on that, but they are still in their denim tuxedos. While they talk to Blake Now, blake will not hear any riffraff pertaining to Adam.

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His whole thing is I embarrassed myself, almost ruined a whole relationship with my son, steven. I'm not going to do this two times in a row, so I'm going to give Adam every benefit of every doubt to make sure that he is not this scoundrel that you feel like you have uncovered. So Blake waits up for Adam one night. Adam comes in late after hooking up with the hooker and he questions Adam about this whole operation. Adam was like well, I didn't want to say anything. I was definitely suspicious. But I just got my mouth closed and he starts to paint this picture of Alexis being the brainchild or having having the brainchild behind this whole kill, jeff off with paint situation. And he says you know, my mother ordered that the office be painted. She picked out the colors. She's picked out this, that and the third. Then, after Jeff got sick, she made sure that we burned the boards in the office. She took over the office, but she made sure everything was destroyed. We couldn't just paint over it. She wanted us to snatch it off of the wall and then burn it down and then rebuild. Totally false statement. But Blake is like God, she is a conniving biatch. Probably accurate. Well, after sleeping on it, blake thinks to himself this is pretty plausible. So he shares this information with Fallon and Jeff over breakfast and Jeff is like you know what, as quiet as kept. I couldn't figure out why Adam would want me dead and he didn't really benefit from that, but Alexis totally does. It makes more sense that Alexis wants me dead versus Adam, and her own daughter, fallon, is like yeah, I actually kind of believe that a little bit more now. Meanwhile, fallon, not Fallon, what's her name?

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Carbethias is upstairs. Prego as hell, just kind of waiting for the opportunity to talk to Jeff because she's still suspicious about him. Fallon in Billings which she should be because they totally hooked up so so I mean she's minding her business. She walks out on the landing of the staircase and she sees he and Fallon Jeff that is, and Fallon chit-chatting, being super warm. He offers Fallon a ride to the stables. She says well, you know, it'd be in both our best interests if I walk.

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So that piques Kirby's pregnant interest. Here's the thing when you have pregnant hormones running wild I hate using that term all your hormones out of control. They're not out of control, but there's a certain amount of grace that women have where you're not actually just nitpicking all the things that actually suck. She's the ability to keep that down. But with pregnancy hormones it's hot. Listen, all that goes out the window.

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She jumps in her Mustang and she drives down to the stable. She's like Fallon, quit playing with me. What's going on with you? And Jeff? Fallon denies anything, nothing, nothing at all. If anything's going on, it's because you're not really talking to him. You need to talk to him and I'm like bitch, how dare you gaslight this woman? You know what you did you know what you did? You know what you're doing? Why would you ask him? You can ask anyone else if you respected their marriage. Oh, kirby, I've never, only ever, thought of you as a friend.

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Kirby is only partly believing this, but she accepts her fate and she's like okay, cool, I'll talk to Jeff if he'll talk to me. Only he didn't want to talk to her. They're lying in the bed, it's. You know, it should be a sweet escape. She's like yo, prove you love me, not because she's trying to take advantage of his glorious body, which he that I don't think it's glorious, but you know what I'm saying. He's like I don't know. It just feels like you want something. I don't want to do this. So she's. I mean, he obviously has a secret. She asked him to tell her the secret. He's not gonna tell her because he's not quite convinced.

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Everything is true as far as Alexis. Now, why you wouldn't have that as pillow talk with your wife is beyond me, but he's completely over it. I'm so pissed when I think about the fact that he's pissed because she recently lost her father and maybe she's kind of annoying pregnant, but she's never betrayed him, she's never done anything scandalous to him kind of annoying pregnant, but she's never betrayed him, she's never done anything scandalous to him. Fallon was sleeping with every Tom Dick and Harry in his face and yet he runs in behind her like she's this magical woman he's always dreamed of. I can't stand you, jeff. So there's a lot of little tiny things that happen, but just understand that. Blake confronts Alexis and he's like I have this proof that you did this. You're gonna call this merger. Or else she concedes and I'm shocked that she sends 10 toes down, mind you, highly pedicured 10 toes down, and she doesn't sell Adam of the river. Didn't see that coming. I thought she might do a little something, but there's something about him being her son. She's like I just won't cross that line.

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She's also a little bit jealous of Stephen marrying Claudia. This episode they're supposed to go on this whole date, but he needs to fly out to San Francisco. It's weird because Claudia confesses that she's not going to stand in the way of a grandparent and their grandchild, because in her first marriage to Matthew Blaisdell's with the hips, she allowed his mother to treat her like a doormat but treat her daughter like a queen. So Alexis knows, if not for nothing else, claudia, the stallion ain't gonna be no problem, because she is baby Danny's grandma. Part of the gotcha gotcha with San Francisco is that Alexis Holt set up this meeting after Stephen and Claudia got married and she pretended that she'd been telling Stephen for months Like, oh my gosh, yeah, we're gonna go to San Fran on this day, blah, blah, blah. So she calls a connect in San Fran and is like yo, whatever you do, you need to be out of San Francisco tomorrow when my son and I arrive, make sure you're unavailable. So the dude does just that. She's just setting a trap and Fallon warns Claudia that listen, my mama is scandulous. Do not believe anything she says, do not believe any schedule she creates. Please believe that everything she does is for her benefit. She put Claudia DeSalle up on game. Now I'm very curious to see how this will play out throughout the season.

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The best part of this episode is the tension between Kirby and Jeff, which I thought was going to allege me into something a little bit more serious, even though it hasn't. It's like she's on the brink. She's thinking about this long, deep and hard. She needs to be like yo. I have to tell you something. This is why I've been acting this way. But also there is kind of this blatant undertone of the relationship that's happening between Fallon and Jeff that they're not speaking about Now. They're playing this off as all innocent and coy, but ultimately you are lying to this woman. You are up under the roof and I can't I have to reiterate this for the umpteenth time Kirby is living with Jeff and Fallon and Fallon's daddy and Jeff and Fallon's baby under one roof, knowing that she's carrying Adam's baby.

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Now, as far as I can tell, they don't really do DNA tests on this show. They could do a DNA test and it would be as basic as the one on Dallas, where it would probably show that it could well. Hell, I don't know how all that works. My biology isn't leaving me at the moment, but she has a very small window to come clean and she's starting to wear maternity clothes. So she's getting bigger and bigger, which should be the first kind of telltale sign for Jeff, if he cared to look, because if she's only supposed to be about two months pregnant, but she's showing up around four or five months pregnant, maybe they didn't have what to expect when you're expecting as a book, when he was, you know, conceived. But I find it hard to believe that you wouldn't at least question like God, she's pretty, she's pretty massive, considering this is such a petite woman the same size as Fallon. We can at least compare apples to apples, with her not doing it.

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Another thing is it is such a curious case that Alexis is not blowing up Adam's spot. I have to believe that she has a bigger plan. It's cool to see that she does have these morals where she just won't cross certain lines. She might sleep with Fallon's man, that's one thing. She might destroy Stephen's marriage, that's another. But turning in one of her kids, that's another. But turning in one of her kids, that's not going down.

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Now, per usual, blake has all the chips on his side. He is yet to make a good move. He is yet to make a money move. That made sense for him. I don't see that going any differently this episode. But I'm very curious about them naming this episode Tracy. That seems like a big deal to announce her with nothing really going on other than her ripping up the picture. She hasn't done anything else. Wild, she seems to be very warm towards Crystal.

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Crystal and Cobalt showed up to the office to be like I think I might take this job. I feel a way. I feel a way We've all lied on our resume from here and there. But I'm just like what are you really trying to prove, crystal? What are you going to get rid of? What are you going to do? What are you going to implement on this particular, in this particular position that Tracy wouldn't do? Tracy seems a little kookaloo behind the eyes to me, wouldn't do. Tracy seems a little kookaloo behind the eyes to me and I love it.

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Which brings us to my boy, adam. Adam is hanging on by a thread, he's nervous, he's fidgety. You see that he has a conscience because he didn't really want to do the things. As soon as the lady was like the hooker lovely hooker was like you're too rough with me, he immediately felt bad. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'll change that now. I don't know, I don't know if I like him with a conscience, but I do know he's keeping this episode, or this series at least. Uh, season four, episode seven, very, very exciting. All right, guys, that's it. That's all for this episode. Remember don't sign anything without reading it first. That seems to be a generally really good piece of advice. Don't sign anything you didn't thoroughly read or else you might end up catching a case poisoning a kid with mercury oxide because you halfway signed your signature. Keep your mind sharp, the enemies close and your remote closer. Stay hydrated, moisturize and keep all of your drama on TV. Outro Music.