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S4 EP22 Dynasty : The Call Part 3- The " Who's Playing On this Phone???????" Episode

• Jett Shae • Episode 288

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They say curiosity killed the cat, but in Dynasty's world, it's more likely to cause an all-out brawl in a luxury Hong Kong hotel suite. This episode finally unmasks the tormentor behind those mysterious phone calls to Claudia, sending Krystal and her on a mission of truth. When Mother Blaisdell reluctantly confesses to selling Matthew's recordings for a measly $500 to someone with a grudge, the pieces start falling into place. Blake immediately suspects Alexis, adding another crime to her ever-growing rap sheet of revenge schemes. Meanwhile, Kirby Anders takes a chilling turn toward vengeance. After reviewing her father's suicide note at the police station dressed in innocent white, she transitions back to her "Wednesday Adams" black attire to purchase a gun. Her target? Almost certainly Alexis Carrington, who she believes orchestrated her parents' demise. The episode reaches its spectacular climax in Hong Kong, where Dexter discovers Alexis with a towel-clad Rashid Ahmed. What follows is Dynasty at its most deliciously excessive – a physical confrontation between Alexis and Dex that destroys furniture, shatters glassware, and culminates in a passionate kiss before Dex delivers the final emotional blow: "It's over, Alexis." Their Lex-Dex partnership crumbles as champagne bottles fly and insults land. In the aftermath, a scorned Dex forms an unlikely alliance with the stranded Tracy, convincing her to spy on Alexis while working for her. Meanwhile, Rashid assures Alexis their plan to destroy Blake financially is proceeding perfectly, promising an "explosion" that will devastate the business world. The episode masterfully balances multiple storylines while setting up explosive consequences. Will Kirby use that gun? Can Tracy successfully double-cross Alexis? And what exactly is Rashid planning that will supposedly destroy Blake Carrington forever? Share your Dynasty theories and favorite moments from this episode! Which character do you think is playing the most dangerous game?

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a little bit flustered. So I need you not to lose your ish in front of this man because he's going to fillet you like a fish. You're going to embarrass yourself and the rest of the company if you don't. If you act a teetotal fool, please don't embarrass me. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome, or welcome back to soap floor, the official gathering place for newbies, novices and og diehard fans of the golden age of primetime. I'm your host, jett, still viewing and reviewing the Sophie Acedzi of primetime storylines of 1984 or 85. 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, tell they have no questions, suggestions or concerns. For the next 25 to 35 minutes, everyone else in Ayrshire cool, quiet or kicked out are your only options, because we've got to figure out who's playing on this phone. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girlsfilled edition of Soap Lore. I hope your day is shaping up well. Mine is good, so good. Actually, I'm dang near giddy after this episode of Dynasty.

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We're on season four, episode 22, the Voice, part 3. We are finally going to get to the bottom of the shenanigan. There is nothing worse than somebody playing with your mind and your time. Oh, just go ahead and grab yourself something bubbly and bright as we jump right into this one today. We got to get started. It went down in Hong Kong.

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Let's just go ahead and start with the bit players this episode. It is my girl, kirby, aka Wednesday Adam. I almost feel like she heard me and changed her outfit because we find her at the top of the show visiting the police station. This meeting this weird woman at the cemetery has left a weird taste in her mouth. I guess she gets it in her mind that she needs to look at everything one more time. Okay, my mother was alive up until about six months ago, or sometimes within the last six months she passed away something like that. Father's pretty much the same. That's a crazy coincidence. Let me go read his letter one more time.

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So the police station is packed with all these sorts of people and the detective on the case more or less tells her okay, yes, I do have a suicide note from your dad, but I don't really. I don't really feel good about you seeing it, which is more than fair. But she assures him she's fine. She even showed up in all white. It is the cutest sweater ever. Claudia had on one earlier this season where it's like a sweetheart neckline or it's embellished with. I guess these are little diamonds, rhinestones, I don't know it's, they aren't over the top, whatever they are, but she's wearing this sort of embellished, implied excuse me sweetheart neckline on a sweater, on a white cashmere sweater, white pants, so she looks innocent, more or less. She reads over the note again and in my mind she's obviously thinking okay, this is all alexis's fault, let me go do something about it.

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But when she leaves the police station I'm assuming later that day she goes back to her wednesday adamness, puts on a black coat, goes to a gun shop, registers to get herself a little gun, ask the man for help, like, okay, you know any place where I can take shooting lessons? And and he's like are you sure you want to do that, little girl? Are you sure this is what you want? Everybody is oh so moral on these shows. He's not thinking about a quick sale, even though he put four guns in front of her. And that's pretty much it.

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On Kirby this episode. She has a gun in her possession. I am 1000% sure the only person she wants to shoot is Alexis. She had a small mental breakdown at the cemetery where she just heard Alexis kind of sniggling about her mother and her dad. So, my gosh, this woman can't win for losing. Adam, on the other hand, is not losing quite like that, but he's definitely not winning any friends, not this episode. He seems to be the last person to know that his mother is in Hong Kong.

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Now, remember, stephen works for Alexis at Colby Co. Adam used to work at Colby Co, but now he works at Denver Carrington with Blake. He is the one who put Blake up on the Asian oil wells and apparently there's this rift in the country. We don't know what two countries these are, we just know some things are going down. Stephen feels like that information that Adam gave Blake actually came from him. I still don't remember how that went down. Whatever, I'm gonna take everybody's word for it. I feel like Adam did his part. But that's neither here nor there, because Adam comes bursting into Alexis's office was like was anybody gonna tell me that mom is in, is in Asia? Stephen has the audacity to say Adam, no one announced you. What he's saying is hey, poor boy, you need to check in before you walk into this office. Adam not wanting to back down. Who are you talking to? Who are you talking to, little boy, this is my mama's office. I can come in and out of this as I see fit. They once again have a little tipped about who took what paper. What information was whom. But Stephen feels especially betrayed by Adam. He's even I mean, he's even mentioned this to Alexis like you really need to be watching your son Later on that day.

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Later on in this episode, adam bumps into Jeff at breakfast, which is so awkward. It's so embarrassing to have three wives even if one of them is the same one under one roof and it's like you're in-laws. So I guess that they're back to being in-laws. It's so weird. But Jeff is eating his brekkie and he's reading over some papers. Adam, being a lawyer, looks at the papers and he knows immediately it's a divorce decree. He's like, oh cool, you and Kirby's divorce papers are coming. That's awesome. Jeff's like shut up, mind your business.

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And Adam's like look, jeff, I know I tried to kill you this, that and the third, but I really do want to put this thing aside. We're about to just move on. You're going to marry my incredibly lackluster baby sister. I'm going to marry your fourth choice wife. Why can't we be cordial? Our kids are going to be play cousins because you're not really related to anybody here, but you refuse to leave. But can we just get along? Can we just move on with our lives? I said I was sorry, you said it was cool. I understand some things came to the surface and you feel a different way, but I really, really, really want to make this thing solid. Jeff basically tells him to scram or step off. He's not having it and it's really irrelevant. The only other thing that happens with Jeff is he takes Fallon to a carousel. They're planning baby Blake's. I think they said second birthday. Yeah, I think they said second birthday. I watched Falcon Crest too. So I'm like I think Joseph is four and I'm like when did he turn four? Whatever, they're planning the baby's birthday party.

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Fallon realizes that she's having these weird headaches and for some reason she hasn't been having follow-up appointments. As a formerly concussed patient, I know medicine has taken leaps and bounds, but I mean, damn, you would think she'd be having regular appointments Either. You would think she'd be having regular appointments Either way. She gets off the carousel, she makes it back to La Mirage, which had to have been a trek, gets on the phone, demands to speak to the hot black doctor. He's busy. She's like, okay, I need an appointment. Have him call me. That's it. That's all for there.

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This episode is really about business this time. Business, a little bit of pleasure, a little bit of envy, a little bit of destruction and a whole whole lot of fun. It comes together quite beautifully. At the top of the show we see Crystal bibbidi-bobbidi-booing her way through Blake's reception area and then into his office. Blake is really feeling himself. He is that dude according to him and according to the oil world and the financial world. Dude according to him and according to the oil world and the financial world. What he has done in a nondescript place in Asia is apparently noteworthy, has the entire continent buzzing like, oh my gosh, what's going to happen. So as she walks in, there's camera crews. The secretary is like oh my gosh, we're so busy. This is so great but also so horrible. Blake's in there. Oh my gosh, we're so busy. This is so great but also so horrible. Blake's in there. Crystal is bypassing the studio audience or, excuse me, bypassing the cameras. She goes straight into Blake's office where Butler is pouring him coffee because he's feeling himself like that.

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Dynasty then proceeds to do the thing that Dynasty has become famous for, at least in my eyes clean up on aisle, whatever. We're on season four. If this is one of your first times listening to the show, welcome. Hope you enjoy yourself. Feel free to leave me a text message, check the show notes or you can reach out to me at soplorepodcast at gmailcom. Love hearing from you guys.

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One of the things that Dynasty does pretty okayly is their clean up Isle whatever meaning. If there's a plot hole within the series and they catch it soon enough, they will over explain it or they'll explain it away. The obvious plot hole in this storyline is that Amit Rashid Ahmed had appeared on season two and I feel like it was kind of a bad situation. It's all very blurry for me right now. I think it had something to do with Toscani, some sort of stolen soldier at some point. It didn't end well. It didn't end well. So it is very unusual that they would be back in bed with each other, especially on this big of a deal.

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Crystal brings that up because I guess she's his PR person. She's like well, you know, the people are wanting to know why you would do a deal with Rashid. Well, blake says Rashid represents a government. I am only doing business with him because he is their representative and none of the money will pass through his hand. Now, if that government chooses to pay Rashid a fee, or Rashid Ahmed, whatever his name is, let's call him Rashid. If they want to pay Rashid a fee, or Rashid Ahmed, whatever his name is, let's call him Rashid. If they want to pay Rashid, that's their business and it's fine.

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I think this is an important stance, even if it really doesn't make sense, even if it is sort of nondescript. He is saying business is business, other stuff is other stuff. I'm always going to put business first, which is why this is going to be so good for me and my company and the US. I'm not picking sides. I don't pick from governments. I am simply doing business. There's an opportunity. I decided to take it. So a little later on I think maybe it's the next day or something Crystal is.

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Crystal's orders from Blake is that she has to go into work a little bit later every day she can't overexert herself because she's I guess she's 20 minutes pregnant now. He wants her to get a little more sleep in the morning. She is supposed to go to the office a little bit later in the day. She said this on the last episode, but I didn't care and perhaps I should take a page out of Blake's book. Let me move my feelings aside and pay better attention to the storyline. She did say that. She did mention that she has to either stay going an hour later or leave an hour earlier, something like that. Well, she has not left for the day for work, so she's reminding Blake.

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Blake, hey, you have that meeting or an interview with World Finance Magazine. You're going to be meeting with this kid named Gordon Wales, and apparently he's Gordon Wales. He's tough as nails. He's one of the toughest reporters out there. He is not going to go easy on you when it comes to these questions. He's going to want to know about Rashid. He's going to want to know about Rashid. He's going to want to know X, y and Z. Blake's like baby, why are you even come on now? Don't worry about that. I'm going to be amazing.

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What she says, what he hears and what she means are all very different things. She says Blake, you are known to have a little bit of a temper from now and then I just want to make sure you're prepared for what is to come. He hears oh Blake, you've got that big, brave bravado and brain power. I don't want you to overpower, mr Gordon. What she meant is you are an irrational child nine times out of 10, whenever you get a little bit flustered. So I need you not to lose your ish in front of this man because he's going to fillet you like a fish. You're going to embarrass yourself and the rest of the company if you act a teetotal fool. Please don't embarrass me. He does aight, he does aight.

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So Mr Gordon, or Gordon Wells, comes to Blake's office and he, of course he asked about Rashida Med Blake's replies. I already answered that question on TV. I don't want to talk about that. Okay, cool. So how could you say this isn't a political move once you're part of a political party?

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There are two countries that technically own this oil. Aren't you technically siding with one if you do this? Blake's like no, no, no, no. Again, I am not picking sides, I'm simply running a business. The United States of America needs a new source of oil. We found one. It's going to be wonderful for my company and good for America, america, america, america. And the guy's like okay, yeah, sure.

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What about that girl Tracy? Didn't you have this hot shot pr girl tracy? She went with you to hong kong but I noticed she didn't come back. Now how he knows that, I don't know. This man is doing his due diligence. Lord wales continues to. Is it possible that she felt like you were getting into bed with the wrong country? She feels a little bit uncomfortable. Maybe she quit. Is that how that happened? Blake doesn't completely lose his mind, but he says I'm so bored with this. I've been bored with you the whole time. This interview's over. The man stands up, turns his back I kid you not crosses his arms almost says harumph. The guy smirks and like cool, I'll send you a copy. Blake says send me two, one for me and my legal team. Not the best one-liner, but it is what it is. Now.

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All of this is very important because Alexis is on the other side of the world trying to thwart this plan. She obviously doesn't have enough money and I believe at the top of this episode Blake is I think he's like at 80 million. He's really, really close to having all the money he needs to buy up, or at least I don't know. I don't know if he's like at 80 million. He's really really close to having all the money he needs to buy up, or at least I don't know. I don't know if he's leasing them. I'm assuming he's buying them up while these two countries are not agreeing with each other. So we're going to have to go ahead and fold Claudia into this part of the story, because Crystal and Blake kind of have a hand at this.

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So real quick, real brief recap Crystal used to mess with Matthew way back in the day. I guess he left to go back to the Middle East at some point. Claudia was in an insane asylum on season one. But now all that has kind of come full circle because Claudia is her stepdaughter-in-law, because she married Blake's son Stephen I hope I said that right Crystal is Claudia's stepmother-in-law. Yes, okay. So I guess the recommended time for rest has expired.

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Crystal is able to put on clothes and she decides that she want to look like an orange sickle in a hot wheels car all at once. So she puts on coral with orange flames going off of her shoulders. She is ready to set the town on fire. As she and claudia are walking down the steps, telephone rings and just kind of overzealous butler it's like hello, miss mrs carrington. Mind you, there's two. It's the same man who's on the phone from you from when you came back from brazil. Remember that. Dude, sir, mind your business. What you're supposed to say is telephone for mrs stephen carrington. You, why are you telling my business to my stepmother-in-law? What if that was her side? Dude, please don't announce that.

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Anyway, claudia's butt cheeks probably begin to clench up because she's like oh crap, that's going to be Matthew, that's going to be the ghost. I don't really want to talk to him, I'm freaking out. She starts to clam up but, like I said, crystal and Cream Sickle has business to attend to. So she hot wheels it over to the telephone and she's like hello. And then you're we need you, claudia, claudia, we need you. This is my, this is my brooding cowboy voice. Claudia, we need you, you and lindsey and our family, we need you.

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And crystal's like hey, matthew, it's me, crystal, claudia, we need you. She said what the hell? Finally he stops talking or she hangs up, I don't remember, but she turned and she's like girl, that was the weirdest thing ever. Claudia says what did he say? Well, he said we need you, claudia, we need you. We're a family, you and Lindy and I. Claudia's like yeah, that's what he said last time, that's what he said last couple times. What else? Um, he says something, I don't know what else. He said something. Claudia agrees. She's like girl, I've been trying to tell you, I told y'all that was matthew. He's been saying that's exactly what he's been telling to me, that's exactly what he's been saying. So chris was like okay, that's weird, because I even told him that it was me and I know, I know he didn't forget me. It's almost as if it was a recording or something and just everything clicks into place for the stallion. And she's like girl, did I tell you that when we both of us were sleeping with him? But I was in the sanatorium, I was supposed to get a tape from him but his mom acted like it, never came to the house. She claimed that she lost it. I even asked her about it. She talked about she didn't know where it is.

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Crystal is either hopped on my baby hormones, maybe she's a little annoyed that somebody is messing with her stepdaughter-in-law, or maybe the Hot Wheels flames have given her a little zig-a-zig-a. She's like guess what? Get in the car, girl, we're going to go over there now. Crystal's ready, ohio is ready, so they make their way over to Mother Blaisdell's house. I'm eventually going to go back and look at season one because I feel like that's the same house that Matthew and him were in when Claudia came back on season one.

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Mother Blaisdell opens a door and she's clearly taking him back. Like oh my god, um hi, claudia and rich lady, why don't you come on in? I come in and claudia immediately is like you know, mother blaisdell, I don't mean any disrespect, but you told me what you could last time, but we didn't get around to really really talking about those tapes. Now, mother blaze, I want to start acting all funny, like like, oh god, I hope you didn't stop by to harass me, did you? Here we go.

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The victim, the victim here, crystal, looking out the side of her eye, you can already tell crystals like okay, yeah, this is who did it. 100, this is the woman who did it, claudia's. Like no, I just, I just need answers. I just got another call. This morning was the craziest thing. Are you sure you lost those tapes or do you have them when they're gone, or did you give them to somebody? Like, what's going on, mother blaze? Oh, I really don't know. I already told you I said they didn't come, so they didn't come.

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Crystal is pregnant woman. Maybe she's feeling nauseous, maybe she's getting hungry. She's like I left every day on my head back at the house. I am fresh out. I'm gonna use your phone to call the cops and we'll let them decide if they believe whether or not you have this tape. She saunters over and uses this woman's phone, or at least pretends to. She picks it up. She's about to call the police.

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When mother blaze, I was like fine, fine, fine, fine. Some guy came by. He asked me for the tapes, offered me $500 and I gave it to him. And Claudia just stood there like why, why would you do that? Well, he said he was. He wanted to get back at Mrs Stephen Carrington, and I tend to agree with him. I don't see why you should get to walk around gallivanting and be happy with a new marriage. I don't think it's fair.

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This first time I've seen claudia come out of character a little bit. Who's the man? Mother, she's still calling her mother. If it were me, if it were just shay, she'd be a girl. Sir, madam, mr, ma'am, child, she girls dip. I've been moving Mother Blaisdell's furniture around you hateful wench.

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Claudia's like tell me, damn it, who. She's been in Blake's house a little too long. Mother Blaisdell's acting a little bit dumb, but at least they know Matthew is not crawling from the grave, but it's awfully rude. Either way and this is the audacity Mother Blaisdell tells her you don't have a right to be happy because of what you did to my son, meaning you boned Steven and you had to testify about it. You didn't go tell him the whole world about it, never mind the fact that her son, matthew, slept with the cream stickle, with the hot rod paint job on her shoulder. She is in your living room. Your son did the same thing, but she don't want to hear it. She ain't trying to hear that.

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So there's a quick exchange crystal lets him know, lets blake know what's up. Immediately blake is like I bet I know who's behind this. This sound like something alexis was doing. And even crystal's like I don't know. You think alexis is, is I mean she's out there? But she is she out there like that? And Blake says yes, I think she would absolutely do this If this meant Claudia would leave Steven a hundred percent.

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He and Adam had had a conversation earlier in the day, because Adam felt a way after being with Kirby that weekend like why would mom even say anything like I don't even understand why she would say anything to Joseph. Why would she say anything? They're like I don't even understand why she would say anything to Joseph. Why would she say anything to Kirby about this? I was just like it's so. It's so mean, it's so devastating for no reason. So Adam is starting to feel a way about his mom. But then Blake is like well, I mean, I'm not defending her, but I promise you she thought she was helping you out. She did it so that she could protect you from whatever sort of, from whatever she thinks kirby would have you endure.

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Basically, blake's like yeah, you know, this has alexis all over it. She's messing up kirby's life. I don't, she doesn't like claudia like this. It fits, it tracks. So he goes down to morgan hess. You remember morgan hess. Right, he's a PI who Alexis has verbally humiliated and assaulted on numerous occasions.

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At this point, pick any episode from episode like 2 to 15 this season when Morgan has is like oh hey, blake, what's going on? He tries to block them from coming in. But Blake's like oh, my god, don't make me break down this door. This is the last place you want to be on the other side of some sort of inanimate object, some sort of blunt object while I'm pushing it. You know how strong I am? Yeah, we real scared with them. Flaky knees, blake. But Morgan just don't have the time for it. He moves.

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It's very clear that there is a tape in his office. Blake goes over to push play and it is, of course, matthew. So he's like oh my god, morgan, I can't believe you're working for Alexis. Morgan's like I hate Alexis. Matter of fact, I'm still working on my devious plan to ruin her life as we speak currently. Well, he's like shut up. Morgan's like no, no, no, hate her. I hate her more than you hate her, my dude. He goes. Well, what does Claudia have to do with any of this? My whole plan revolves around planning this here tape in Alexis's office. Once her son finds out what a devious dirtbag she is, he's never going to speak to her again. It'll hurt her in the worst way. So this whole thing was to get back at Alexis. Claudia just happens to be collateral, which sucks, because I'm like Claudia, don't mess with nobody, claudia minds her business.

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So later that night. She is in front of the fire and she and Stephen's bedroom about to burn her own picture? I really wouldn't, because that picture is so cute. Also, I would love to know how old she is, because she I mean she has a baby face. Even when you look at her younger, she looks almost identical. I mean y'all. Stephen comes out of the shower talking about oh, I think I got all the grime off from that. Well, quit lying, stephen. You've been hanging out in your mom's office all day, if for two days, two or three days at this point Doesn't matter. Now we know who's been playing on the phone. It was Mother Blaisdell and Morgan Hess.

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Unfortunately, morgan Hess is arrested immediately after this confession, so I don't know what is that. I'm sure he'll be out the same night. That can't really be. It's not stalking. I guess it's a form of harassment. It's probably like a misdemeanor. Be, it's not stalking, I guess it's a form of harassment, it's probably like a misdemeanor. Anyway, y'all, let's get to the real deal. Holy feel. Oh, refresh your drinks, people, refresh your drinks. We've got to talk.

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They say it's lonely at the top, and maybe that's true. Maybe that's true if you're somebody who needs somebody, but if you're just somebody who needs somebody to want you, being at the top is probably the best place on earth, and that is where Alexis is trying to get with the quickness. So she and Mark are in Hong Kong. Mark has an adjoining bedroom so he's not supposed to be in her personal space. Somehow or another he has made it into her personal space.

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She comes back from wherever I guess she's in the lobby, comes back to her room. Mark is in a white tuxedo top and he's like hey, you want some champagne? Pouring her own stuff. She asked him if it's French. He makes a joke about it being from Belgium. She doesn't seem all that annoyed, but it is very much. Okay, gone and pour me some. Mark darling, what are you doing in my room? Oh, we're supposed to go to dinner. It's time for dinner. Oh, that's cute baby.

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Here she goes to her purse, pulls out a fistful of foreign dollars and says here, mark, go to the arcade. That's basically what she says. You know folks, the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced mark jennings has it made. He gets him a little bevy, drinks a little champagne on the way down, heads down to the lobby. Surely he's gonna meet some international broad have a good time. Plus, he has a fistful of cash in case he does want to go to the arcade. Now, unbe unbeknownst to Alexis, dexter has made his way to Hong Kong. We also got to keep in mind that Mark is working for Congressman McVeigh by, just, you know, getting as much intel as possible. So it's very possible that he broke into her room and was just hanging out, but she's obviously not going to do business in front of him. So we collected his coin and as he's walking down the hallway, rashid is walking in the opposite direction. So Mark turns over his shoulder like okay, that's her plans for the evening, that's her date. He goes down to the lobby and tell me why.

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Dex Dexter has finally made it in from Denver. Dex recognizes Mark. He goes to sit over by him. They start chatter, chatter, chittering. Now Mark is being a little he's cool, considering him and Dexter have come to blows already. But Mark is like man, are you that way? I'm paraphrasing, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not going to give you verbatim, but you'll get the essence of this scene.

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Dex has a seat, he pulls out a cigarette, starts smoking and Mark's like dang you, that whipped huh Halfway across the world to check on your girl. Dexter replies sir, me and my girl own a corporation. You wouldn't know nothing about that. You see, if there's business being attended to, I need to be in that business. We all know this is true because dex dexter doesn't give a damn about a closed door. How many meetings has he burst in this season unannounced? So this is none. This is exactly the same thing.

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Mark says oh, that's right, you guys, guys own Lex Dex or Dex Lex. Can I remember who's on top? Dex was like it's Lex Dex, as in, she's on top. If you really want to know, you really want to go there, but we're always both on top. You see what I'm saying. Like, this is our business. I just want to make sure I stay abreast of the situation. Mark, like dude, I'm gonna save you. You should have. You should have called me. I would have saved you some gas money or some airfare. She is not over here for for Dex Lex, lex, dex, whatever. Like you do, remember she owns Colby Co. Right?

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For whatever reason, dex's guard is down. He's like, I just want to make sure nobody takes advantage of her. You know what I mean. She's new to business. I just want to make sure we get the best deal going forward. I feel like Dynasty. I swear guys, I swear to you, I do not skip ahead. I literally don't do it. But perhaps it's just the writing style. Maybe they left these holes so that the audience would ask these questions, because that was my thought too. Just last episode was she's newest to this. She's new to business and all of her business plan seems to be if I have a personal vendetta against you, I will figure out how to destroy you. And it's like her social circling, her status in society and her knack for revenge seems to be working very well in business. So maybe these things are one in the same.

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There's also a scene, I guess a little bit towards the end, where Jeff and Blake are in Blake's office and it is clean up on aisle four again. So Jeff comes in and he's asking about the deal. Like the deal's almost done. I guess they just need a little bit more money I forget the amount. And Alexis comes up and Blake's like she's going to be so pissed when she gets all the way to Hong Kong and she realizes any oil wells I left. I left them because they were bummy. She's not going to get a red cent. He thinks it's so funny. But Jeff informs Blake or me, the audience, that Alexis has had a lot of success because she is running the company the exact same way that Cecil Colby was. Now this is the second time they brought up Cecil in the last two episodes and I was given a word of advice to wait till they bring it up before I start watching the Colby's. So, oh geez, is this, is this my signal, or do I need to relax? Do I need to wait a little bit into season five? Oh my gosh, I also need to ask y'all about Dallas, but we'll talk about that on Dallas.

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Anyway, back to Dexter. He's relaxed a little bit and I guess he kind of you know he's listening to Mark. Mark's like listen, I'm around her all the time. I promise you she's not over here screwing you over. I promise you she's not making any deals behind your back. You're going to be just fine. And Dex was like all right, you know. So what? I spent a couple thousand to fly first class. I got on a plane unnecessarily. These things happen. You do things for love up sometimes. Mark's like yeah, I feel you.

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Dex then reaches in his pocket. He's like let me buy you a drink and, I guess, a little more money for the arcade. Get yourself a pizza and a Pepsi. Go in your room watch Charles play, it'll be fun. Hands him another fistful of foreign cash. I left out one little piece.

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Mark said your girl's not screwing you over. She's over here unless you deal in silk. She's over here shopping like there's no tomorrow. People go to Vegas to gamble. People come to Hong Kong to shop. That's all she's doing.

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So I guess Dex takes this to heart and he goes and buys this really beautiful, large, ornate bouquet of flowers and it looks like a couple of silk robes. He has rich manned his way into figuring out where her penthouse suite is. I don't know why he didn't just ask Mark, but he and two workers from the hotel head up to Alexis's penthouse or suite. It's not a penthouse suite, right? It's a hotel. Got to make sure I get this right. So he and the two hotel attendants travel down the hallway. Knock on the door. Actually, no, they don't knock on the door. I suppose one of the guys opens the door for him as Dexter's walking in.

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Tell me why Rashid comes out of Alexis's boudoir. Rashid comes out of Alexis's boudoir in a salmon colored bath towel and that's all, baby. He's got two champagne glasses. So he's not, you know he's not sleeping in his own suite. He comes out, sees Dexter I love Dexter's petty. He immediately Dexter's like get that flowers, get those flowers and that silk the hell out of here. Y'all get. God. I know, if I was a hotel workers I would. I would take my time, I'd drop the flowers or something. It's like listen, it is at this point I need to let y'all know. Rasheed, like I said, is wearing nothing but a towel and Rasheed is fine, fine. Rasheed looks like those men Like, if you go you Google, a boxer from the 1920s or like a strong man in the circus before, like steroids and such. He's got one of those bodies. Like he turns to the back, he's got a v-back, he's real like stout. He is fine, fine and um, I don't know how he would have fared, how he and had he and dexter come to blows.

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But right about this time alexis hears aotion. She comes out of the bedroom and she's like oh my God, oh my God. Dexter tells Rashid go out the back way if you want to live. Rashid is calm, cool. He's like Alexis, do I have permission basically to shut this yapping dog up. She's like Rashid, baby, baby, this is a very personal matter. Why don't you just go back in the bedroom? I'm gonna handle this. Oh my gosh, y'all this is so good I was. This is unexpected. It's totally unexpected. Okay, so this is where, um, an explanation is warranted. Only, dexter is a very passionate person. Alexis is as well. She's like okay, now, who are? Why? Who are you bursting in on my trip with full anger? She's not trying to explain anything, dexter, what the hell are you doing here? He goes. I can't believe you're asking me that. What do you think I'm doing here?

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What do we talk about last before you left? About fidelity and how we feel about each other. Let the record reflect. I caught this last episode and I'm glad I did. He said he was in love. He said he believes in fidelity. She neither agreed nor disagreed. She just gave him the Mona Lisa smile and kept it moving. She never said one way or another. He said all that. He's like don't you remember? She's like no, she didn't say I didn't say it. She's like. I don't remember that. He's like you told me not to sleep with Hollywood types and I told you. I wouldn't, because I hadn't slept with anybody since I fell in love with you. I love you. He said the wrong thing to the right one that day.

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Mind you, this next scene, as I'm saying this, she is in a silk coat I guess it's like a pinkish salmon colored gown with a matching robe. It's short sleeve, so she has all the dexterity she needs to swing on him. And that's exactly what she does. Ho and he slut, and he I got you. So she immediately starts swinging on him. And I'm going to be real with you. I don't know if this is a dynasty stunt double. It kind of looks like it. It looks like they got either a black lady or somebody with a I don't know. The tan kind of fluctuates the more I look at it. They got somebody, a POC, in a hot pink salmon colored gown and they go at it. Alexis quote unquote swings at Mark, she's swinging and I keep wanting to call him Mark at Dex.

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And at first Dexter is trying to be a gentleman, but she's like no, she's got a little, she's got a little strength to her. So he eventually has to get into a more athletic, more powerful stance. He has to, you know, secure his core bend with his knees so that he can take her. Well, she's swinging wildly and eventually she gets her claws out. She scratches the side of his face and he, ah, he lets her go and he cups the side of his face and she like, yeah, absolutely, get some, get some.

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She starts looking around the room, feeling the powerful stuff let me come knock, I'm gonna knock, knock him out reaches for the first piece of decor that has a little weight and she heaves it at him. Only this time he's ready, he knows she's crazy. So he squats down like the black panther or like black widow when she jumps off the stuff. He's ready, he's ready to avenge that ass. Now she runs at him. Now that he's in a more powerful athletic stance, he's able to chunk her on the couch. So he'll chunk her one way and she'll catch her breath flip around. What you can tell is kind of getting her hot, okay, okay. She jumps up again and swinging at him and he's, those are back on the couch again. She's like, all right, she's getting serious.

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So now that she knows he is prepared for her leaps, she goes slightly lower, she tries to power drive him and she manages to get him on the ground. They start wrestling and carrying on. He manages to get the best of her. It's dexx, lex, because first he's on top and then she's on the bottom. Then it's lex dex, dex, lex, lex. Next thing, you know, he's on top. He's enough of this foolishness because they've broken glasses, they've broken wine bottles.

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At this point he stands up, he picks her up and and just grabs her as tight as he can and gives her a passionate kiss. So she's like oh, absolutely, it's the Lex Dex. You ever watch a cartoon like when Garfield or Tom and Jerry and them are fighting and it's just like a cloud of dust. You just see fists and all that sorts of things. It looked like that. So after the kiss she's like oh my god, yes, yes, yes, that's that's what I'm talking about, dex. Then he gently lies her on the floor and she's like okay, let's do this. You know they're kissing or whatever. He gets up, she thinks it's about to go down. He's like damn, you broke my heart. It's over Alexis. She can't believe it. Once he tells her, I think he just did that so he could stand over her. It's a very kind of symbolic moment.

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Lex Dex was the name of the company. But now Dex is on top. He's up looking down at her. She just can't believe he's dropping her. So she does what any self-respecting woman does she curses him out as he's leaving, calls him an overrated cowboy you don't own me. She heaves a bottle of champagne, but you know her aim sucks. I like ah, I don't know what's going to happen. I don't own me. She heaves a bottle of champagne, but you know her aim sucks. I like ah, I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know what's going to happen. I know what happens on this episode, but I don't know what's going to happen with them. But am I the only person who likes them together? I want him on the show for a little while. I really enjoy Dex.

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Also, keep in mind that the entire time Rashid is still in the other room. Rashid Ahmed does absolutely less than nothing to stop the fight. This woman is in here fist fighting, wrestling with the man. They're making a lot of noise, moving all kinds of furniture. I guess Rasheed went in there and did his nighttime routine. I don't know what he was in there doing. He wouldn't fight, and that's what I know. And I also know that Tracy has no survival skills.

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She is still in Hong Kong, she has not secured a flight and even as I say that out loud, I have to check my privilege a little bit as a modern woman she doesn't exactly have a debit card, she can't go online and book her flight. The more I think about it, I'm like Blake. I think you overreacted. Could she have not just flown back home? They clearly didn't fly the PJ. She could have figured out how to got to like New York and then flown to Denver from there. But why does she allow this man to say no, you're going to have to find a new way home. He don't hold your tickets. You would have been. It's irrelevant. It's irrelevant Plot hole soap tax, soap tax, soap tax. It's a good thing she didn't get on that plane, because had she gotten on that plane, she would have missed a freshly heartbroken, fresh face scratched. Dex, dexter.

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They happen upon each other in the hotel bar where a decision is made pretty quickly. I say about. After about a 60 second conversation, they decide you know what? I just got fired, I just got played. Why don't we go upstairs and have sex? Obviously, right, right. They do just that.

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And Dexter has a thought, same thought I had. I just don't know if it'll work out. I think actually it will. He says Tracy, you're gonna need a job. Right, yeah, I need a job, obviously. Why don't you go work for Alexis?

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She's like really, yeah, you go work for Alexis. What you you're going to do, you're going to do a little espionage for me and you will earn yourself two salaries. Alexis will pay you, I will pay you, but I just need you to be your devious little self, give me all the tea and make sure you report it back to me in a timely manner. And Trixie's like okay, we can do that, but can we negotiate a little rendezvous time? I'm, you know, I'm a single woman. I have single woman needs. I'm going to need those needs to be met by you specifically from time to time, in addition to two salaries. And Alexis was like okay, well, yeah, I think that works out. I actually think this is a brilliant idea and I'm so glad that Tracy did not go work for Alexis sooner.

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Here's the thing, though Alexis seems to have an all-male staff, all-male everything, and normally I would say she wouldn't go for Tracy. However, if Tracy proves that she has a vendetta against Blake, then obviously why am I saying obviously so much today, then I think it's a no-brainer. You want that girl on your staff. My enemy's enemy is my friend. So the very end of the episode is rashida med shows back up like is everything cool? How is my kiss, am I better? He's so insecure. Clearly he's not. We're not gonna go there on this one. We'll have to do soap Lore After Dark for all that. But Auntie Jet's opinion is that he's probably not. Seems to be a little bit insecure about everything.

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Rashid brings her an antique mirror from one of the empresses of an ambiguous country in Asia. I forget, I'm sorry, I just don't remember. He tells her it was because she was so beautiful, beautiful. Her people wanted her to. All her soldiers wanted her to know how gorgeous she was. And it is a rather beautiful mirror.

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Me being stuck on the details, I'm like is it still how okay? So vintage is what? 20 years vintage? Retro is 20 years, right? I think they say classic is like 50 and antique has to be over 80, something like that. If something is hundreds of years old, that's not an antique. There's got to be another word for that, right? I'll Google it after this.

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Anyway, alexis is like this is a beautiful mirror. It's gorgeous, but I paid you 5 million modern dollars to destroy Blake Harrington. Is there an ETA on this destruction? And Ahmed or Rashid says yes, listen, you don't have to worry about that, I have to play my cards, just so. But trust me, this explosion will blow the financial world apart and Arrington will never financially recover. I'm paraphrasing, so I don't know if he meant a literal explosion. I took it as controversial explosion, not literal. I don't know and I will find out on the next episode. Dude, this was so much fun.

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I believed Mother Blaisdell too, just for a split second. But again, why do you introduce people on a show if it's not noteworthy? They brought up Colby's or Cecil Colby specifically, so I'm hoping that's coming. I'm kind of at the edge of my seat, ready for that to happen, but I'm enjoying the season so far. This is, oh, I forgot about the alexis fighting people.

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I love that about her. I feel like she's supposed to be this rich, very sophisticated woman. She's slick at the mouth. I like that. She doesn't really care. How dare you have a man travel overseas and you know his head over heels in love with you and you curse him out for interrupting your date. No remorse, no apologies, cut throat.

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Also, adam gave that look in his eyes a couple of times this episode, so I hope he's about to flip a switch. I don't think he is actually. I really don't think he is. I think those days might be over. Just Steven and Jeff don't like him. He's struggling with that, but that's probably because they all live under the same roof. All right, guys, that's it, that's all. Join me next time as we jump back into another salacious episode. I swear to you, I promise it's gonna be so good. I've watched falcon crash and I've watched dallas and I was just like oh my god. In the meantime, in between time, leave your phone off the hook. You keep getting random recordings from a dead guy. Block them. Leave your phone off the hook, stop answering it, stay hydrated, stay moisturized, mind your own business and keep all of your drama on tv. Bye, thank you.