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S4 EP26 Falcon Crest: Decline- The" Leather Collections and Dangerous Connections" Episode
The wheels of revenge turn expensively in Falcon Crest as we witness the high cost of holding grudges in the Tuscany Valley. Lance Cumson finds himself trapped in more ways than one – a fugitive from justice hidden away in an apartment above a busy street, his restlessness threatening to expose not only himself but Angela's carefully constructed plans. His ill-advised escape attempt culminates in an impromptu kung fu showdown that perfectly captures the show's evolution toward more dynamic storytelling. At the heart of this episode's intrigue is Melissa Agretti's $100,000 blackmail nightmare. Having orchestrated Lance's framing (all because he called her a name), she now finds herself cornered by the fashion-forward "Leather Pants Pam" in a rain-soaked confrontation that drips with 80s excess. The scene perfectly illustrates how quickly revenge plots can spiral beyond control, leaving Melissa vulnerable just as evidence of her scheme begins to surface through Terry's revelations about her ex-husband Joel. Meanwhile, Angela demonstrates why she remains Falcon Crest's most formidable player, recruiting Maggie to run the Globe newspaper in a brilliant move that serves multiple strategic purposes. As Richard becomes increasingly distracted by his investigation into Cassandra's mysterious past, he fails to see how she and her brother are setting him up for a spectacular fall. Chase correctly identifies Angela's manipulation but remains powerless to counter her chess-like maneuvering without compromising his business prospects. The episode showcases Falcon Crest's evolution in its fourth season – more glamorous, faster-paced, and increasingly willing to embrace the soapier elements that defined primetime dramas of the mid-1980s. From Angela's gangster-grandma fashion statements to the heightened dramatic confrontations, the show has found its stride while maintaining the vineyard politics and family machinations that make it unique in the television landscape of its era. What price would you pay for revenge? And more importantly, could you live with the consequences when the bill comes due?
this little caveat. I said listen, I can take a lot of things. I can take being called a whore. I can take being made fun of, I can take being kicked out of the house because I tried to sell my son, but what I can't take is knowing that $95,000 of my money is going to your leather collection.
Speaker 1: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, jeff Ewing, reviewing this dopey, sexy primetime storyline of 1984. That's right, we're back on the West Coast doing the absolute most with the Falcon Crest crew. So pour yourself up something bubbling, bright. Tell the kids it's time to play outside or out of sight. Tell babe no questions, suggestions or concerns for the next 25 to 35 minutes. Everyone else in earshot should be cool, quiet or be prepared to be put out because we are watching our stories. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is Soapy. Hello, gorgeous, how y'all doing today. I hope your day is shaping up nice.
Speaker 1:I have just had myself a really, really good time reviewing Falcon Crest, season four, episode 26. I have a lot of questions and I'm also I find myself in a mood to be extremely grateful. I'm grateful I don't have enemies crawling all over me. I'm not sure I could uphold the veil of villainy like Angela and Richard can. So much to discuss on this action-packed, drama-packed episode of Falcon Crest. But before we go any further, we're going to dive into just a teensy bit of fan mail and discuss a quick little observation. So go ahead and pour yourself up something bubbly and bright as we delve into season four.
Speaker 1:Episode 26 of Falcon Crest, decline. Oh my gosh. I can remember standing in line at 7-Eleven when I was in college, like praying profusely that I could get my credit card didn't decline, or a debit card, or even a credit card. I lived in overdraft for like three months. I don't know what my problem was, I just couldn't get it together. But, lord, decline, decline. Interesting title Per usual, they're not going to give a whole lot away with the titles. Not very creative and as I watch this entire episode, I'm still not really sure where that's coming from. Watch this entire episode, I'm still not really sure where that's coming from, but I assume, based on the way it's presented, the next episode will expand on that single thought. Tell you what? There's something different in the air, something smells different. It feels a little weird.
Speaker 1:You ever have a coworker you've worked with for a certain amount of time. All of a sudden you start getting these really polished professional emails from them, even though in person they can't string three or four words together without stuttering and stumbling all over them. Their pin game is immaculate. You know, that's chat GPT. Nothing wrong with chat GPT, but you can kind of feel the difference. Or I have a better example of that If you have ever worked in a call center for any amount of time, if you have ever worked as a um, one of those people who maybe passes out samples in a store, or you've ever sold those vector knives or whatever door to door God, the early two thousands were incredible Then you you'll know what I mean when I say sometimes, when people are talking to you who maybe hold that same position maybe they're in customer service or something like that you can always hear the script in their voice if they're not comfortable. You can always tell someone is reading from a script in those situations if they're not really versed in it. And it's not that it's distracting, but it's just something you sort of take note of Like, oh, that's a shift. If your coworker is suddenly writing immaculate emails and they couldn't before, you're like, oh, that's a shift, they've definitely had some help. That's kind of the same feeling I'm getting when I'm watching Falcon Crest. Now I can't 100% tell you when it happened, but it does feel like it's the latter part of the season. So maybe after episode 12, 13, 14, somewhere around there, falcon Crest started to feel a little bit different, not necessarily in a bad way, but just differently.
Speaker 1:I did a little bit of snooping, as much as I could without destroying the storyline going forward, and from what I can tell, they had a few new writers come in, but nothing major, nothing that would create the sort of shift that I'm seeing as a newbie watching. So I started thinking and just sort of putting together some of the tidbits that you guys have been sharing with me. By the way, I love that you have any trivia or tidbit or any sort of behind the scenes information, no matter how insignificant you think it is. Remember, this is all new to me and I'm really enjoying this. So drop your facts. I love facts. I love tidbits. I love facts. I love tidbits. I love opinions.
Speaker 1:You can check the show notes for the link that says send us a text. Or you can reach out the old-fashioned way and email me at soaplorepodcast at gmailcom. That is soaplorepodcast at gmailcom. Anyway, falcon Crest just feels a little bit different. They have always stood out to me because of the way they take their time. It's going to be a slow burn. They will slowly build each season, brick by brick, line by line, word by word. You're going to have slower episodes. You're going to have faster episodes. Of course, towards the end of the season you expect everything to pick up, which I can tell is happening, but the sudden pivot bringing in new characters, new conflicts, old conflicts. We're kind of compounding.
Speaker 1:On blackmail, today I was like damn, who wrote this? I don't know who did, but I'm glad they did. They're on to something, but it just feels different. Someone who did hit me up via email. Thank you so much. Her name is Katie, out of Texas. I wonder if she's from Katie Texas, but Katie says she became a fan of Dallas while in college and the episode that she just listened to, which would have been episode 17, season four of Dallas, the New Mrs Ewing she let me know that that was directed by Patrick Duffy. That was his directorial debut, so I'm going to have to go back and watch it and just see what. I think I enjoyed that one. That's the one where isn't that? Where Ellie finds out that that jock is T'Challa or T'Chapa Somebody, something. I think that's so cool. I love when people step out from in front of the camera and get behind it and have that vision.
Speaker 1:So I suppose season four is where you really start to find your footing. And I think with Dynasty and in Falcon Crest in particular, based on what I've been able to just sort of deduce from you guys, from the tidbits you tell me, dynasty is about to really really hit their stride and their peak popularity. It's about to get flashier, shinier, more amazing, which I'm already here for Season four. I can feel the difference between three and four. Season four makes me cackle out loud. Every single episode I'm gasping like oh my gosh, what. And I'm starting to do that more and more with Falcon Crest.
Speaker 1:So I kind of think they might've been in a little bit more of competition. You got to think about that. Dallas and Nance Landing were already well on their way by 1984. They're already established, already doing their own thing, and I would argue that both of those shows feel, spinoff or not, same multiverse or not. They feel like two very, very different shows. I would actually argue that all the shows feel very, very different and very individual by the time you get to season four. Dynasty and Falcon Crest thus far having the biggest changes. Dynasty sort of leaning into their glamour a little bit more. Falcon Crest leaning into their glamour and, excuse me, their glamour more, and they're speeding up their storylines to add in more action, more drama, and it's definitely soapier. I think that's the biggest thing. It feels soapier.
Speaker 1:And, with that being said, it is time to deep dive into season four, episode 26,. Decline, go ahead and pour yourself up something bubbly and bright. You might need it for this one. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Speaker 1:At the top of this episode we see Lance who is still, according to him, trapped. According to others, you could say he is being safely housed in a room above a shop, above a very vibrant, noisy street. You see, lance is fresh out of jail, on the run, and he has been told to keep quiet and lay low. He is laying low in this apartment building, but the sounds of the streets keep calling him. He's looking out the window. There's families running around having a good time with each other on their way to take out or to the movies. There's children giggling and laughing. There's couples and loves holding hands and it's just, oh my God, I've been in this room too long. I got to get the heck out of here.
Speaker 1:He's itching to leave, but I am distracted by the fashion schizophrenia that's happening. I don't know if this is meant to be a disguise or if this is all they had in the closet where he's staying. He's got the Danny Zuko hair right Like all of a sudden. Falcon Crest is like okay, lance, we're going to flip this. You remember that hairdo from Grease? Yeah, you're going to wear that. So he's Danny Zuko about the head, but then he's got on like a members only jacket a white shirt, khaki pants. He looks like he's either selling you some discount carpet that was returned from a hotel that didn't really work out, or he's a dad at soccer practice waiting on his third grader. But he can't really go over and talk to the third grader because they're having a team meeting. It's like he is reluctantly respecting the rules, but you could tell he's starting to get that itch. He got to get up out of here. The young man. Instead of jumping out of the window or slinking down there, he decides he's going to go into the hallway and make a phone call.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I did not think that this deep into this soap opera experience that I would be rewriting the basic rules. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, if you are hiding from the feds, from the police, from anybody, basically outside of your family, what do you not do? I can't believe. I have to say this out loud you do not go to a payphone, you do not make any outside calls. I can't believe I have to go through the rules of soap opera survival again, but I suppose over time we're going to have to keep revisiting this. Just as a refresher, I suppose these rules will just kind of compound on each other over time.
Speaker 1:Rule number 60. Do not use a payphone if you were on the run. You need to keep it moving. Let me be very specific here. Do not use a payphone which requires loose change and the click clacking of very audible sounding buttons. Do not use a payphone if you are meant to be hiding in your room and you need to be stealthy. That is a noisy distraction. Someone is going to hear you.
Speaker 1:If you don't heed my warning and you insist on using a payphone, please do not call the home which you just float. You fleed, yeah, fleed from, almost have flowed from the house that you skedaddled from. Don't be calling them. If you are a felon, if you just left and nobody knows you're missing, cool. But if you are a felon and you are meant to be in a bedroom, do not use loose, loud, change loud buttons to call a home that you just fled from, because it is inevitably being tapped by the feds. Then this is what you don't do. Let me take it a step further. If you go into the hallway, make a loud call with change. Call the house you just fled from, knowing that the cops are watching the place. The feds are definitely listening. What you don't do is announce yourself very loudly Hello, this is Lance Compson.
Speaker 1:Emma, pick up the phone. Oh, hi, lance Compson, this is your aunt, emma. Lance, where are you? You know where he is? In a headlock now, because now both of y'all are talking too loud. Now he's got to get chokehold and put back into the room.
Speaker 1:Baby, we're two and a half minutes into this. He's restless, he's getting a little bit feral. I couldn't believe it, emma. The sheriff's looking for you. Why are you talking so loud, emma, on this very tapped phone call? You ain't paying for a family who has so much dirt, so many skeletons in their closet. They have zero survival skills Not a one.
Speaker 1:Well, anyway, before Lance is snatched up, he does get a very brief moment where Lorraine comes down the stairs, she snatches the phone and he tries to tell her he loves her, but he's putting a chokehold and snatched back into his room because everybody's tired playing with him. The call is hung up, obviously by one of Charlie's. These are the Charlie's nephews or cousins. I'm just going to call them cousins for the meantime. He's older than them, which leads me to believe they could be his nephews. But Charlie's cousins. One of them hangs up the phone, drags Lance back to his room All of a sudden, leaving Emma and Lorraine confused, perplexed, bewildered, standing there clutching a gold-plated phone or pearl-plated phone.
Speaker 1:Gorgeous setup. They're freaking out. Oh my God, he needs our help. They think he called home because he's been kidnapped or something. I or something Do. Either of you know him. Who would kidnap this kid Again? I guess it could happen. I guess it could happen.
Speaker 1:Well, luckily, right about this time Angela comes floating down the steps. She heard all the commotion upstairs because nobody in this house knows how to keep their phone at an inside voice level. Lorraine frantically tells Big Perm Angela, that was Lance, he needs our help. Angela's like hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, be easy, be easy. She hangs up the phone. That is none of our business. Angela understands that. You know her phone's probably tapped.
Speaker 1:Angela is wearing this beautiful like black and yellow plaid shirt, but it's silk. And then she's got herself like a rope or two of beautiful black glass jewel I don't know what they are pearls or something. It's shiny and it's very gangster. It's right up on her collar. She looks like Cher Horowitz, gangster grandma. She hey, hey, hey. Y'all need to be cool with that phone stuff.
Speaker 1:I don't know nothing about stuff. I don't know nothing about Lance. I don't know where he is Basically outing herself to. Oh, you totally know where he is. You definitely know what's going on with this. Angela's not one to give too much away, but it is very obvious at this point to Lorraine that not only do okay, so Lance isn't kidnapped, lance isn't missing, he's definitely somewhere. Angela may not know where he is at this moment, but you know this isn't a surprise to you that he would get on the phone and call Now. I don't know why I'm feeling so judgmental today, but I'm just going to roll with it because I feel like this episode is chock full of moments where I am judgy. Wudgy was a bear. I don't know this because I wasn't in that scene, but I know this.
Speaker 1:The woman who plays Rain, kate Vernon, is in Malcolm X. She's in the movie Malcolm X circa 1992. She was one of the women he was dating. They end up going to jail. I remember her from the film. She was very good in that. She wasn't in it long, but she definitely wasn't stumbling over lines. I believe she was 120% into him. It was good. Right, she was not good in 1985.
Speaker 1:Let me just say that I would bet big money that this episode or this particular scene had to happen at least 10 times, because, based on the way she's holding the phone and the way she's looking at Angela, aka Jane Wyman, it's almost as if like if you ever have your mom say okay, hey, come here. I want you to tell your teacher that I'm picking you up at two. You're going to the doctor, you won't be back, so get the rest of your classwork and you have to keep repeating it to yourself as you get to school and it's I'm leaving the class, I'm going to work, I need 2 pm. You know you're mixing it up. I could tell she was doing that with this scene. She's like looking at Jane Wyman for approval and she goes. This is just another trick to keep Lance and I apart from each other and I am not gonna take it and then she runs upstairs lest she ruin the rest of the scene. I'm so sorry to be so judgmental, but it is abysmal and I don't understand, because some episodes it's fine and then others she is struggling in this way. So, oh my God, girl gone somewhere, lorraine this is so funny to me because Angela has to gaslight Lorraine in order to keep up this facade. I'm not sure if I shared this last time.
Speaker 1:Lance, when he is on the run, he's obviously hiding at Charlie's cousin's house lest he be picked up by the feds, since he is now a felon. But what instigated the on the run thing was a visit from Richard. They were eating lunch peacefully, lorraine and Lance. That is, Richard comes up, he starts some stuff, lance almost goes full renegade on his ass, but he decides just to rough him up a little bit. Unfortunately, now there could be a case. There could be a second case. Now this felon who's on the run, who was out on bail which was a mistake has gone out and harmed a member of the public. It looked bad.
Speaker 1:Matter of fact, it's downright inconvenient, most of which to Angela who, because of Lance's new title as a felon, she is now the head of the globe. So she has to run the globe. She has to continue running Falcon Crest because, let's be honest, she is most qualified, and she's got to figure out this Helios deal, which could be the nail in the coffin for both Chase and Richard if she plays her cards right. That's a lot to keep up with even for the best of us. Even the very best villain needs a henchman and they need a schedule. Very best villain needs a henchman and they need a schedule. Unfortunately, lance, acting a fool down at the hideout, is throwing way too many curveballs at her. She's got to figure this out sooner rather than later. Plus, she's keeping this all close to the chest.
Speaker 1:Nobody but she and Charlie actually know for a fact where Lance is, Not even Craig Reardon. But you know what Craig Reardon does know? He knows how to keep an insecure girl on her toes. Next time we see Craig, he's answering the door to his bedroom, which is a hideous yellow Looks like it's a little girl's room from the turn of the century. That's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1:Craig Reardon has a butler. Did you know that? I was like when the heck did he get a butler? I guess he's rich by his own means. We can only assume that because he owns a horse and stable and all that. So butler Jeeves comes to the door and he's immediately snooty. He got an attitude because he don't like the fact that a woman like Terry is laid up in the bed with his employer. So it says good morning, will your friend be joining us, or will that woman be joining us? Something real snooty like that. The manimal's too busy reading the paper and he's like oh yeah, she will be joining us for breakfast. Well, she won't be joining me. I eat in the kitchen. I don't know what that's all about. He's very snooty, he's very jealous. But we now know that there is help at the reardon manor.
Speaker 1:The manimal goes to sit on the bed and I thought, god, his butt is awfully close to her face, but maybe that's his way of waking her up so she can go ahead and move on without her day, because it does stare, dear Terry. She wakes up all dreamy eyed oh my gosh, was that a dream? The manimal plucks a piece of hay from her hair and says you know what darling dreams very rarely leave evidence. He enunciates everything. So you mean to tell me that the night previous Aunt Terry comes over, they have an actual physical role in said hay in the barn, and then come back and lay in the bed, two fully consenting, wealthy adults with resources like running water, soap, electricity. Yeah, they get it in, they get it on and then they get right back in that bed. Can you imagine what that room smells like?
Speaker 1:Reminds me of this museum exhibit I went to one time in Amarillo or Abilene, I can't remember which city, it doesn't matter. I love reading placards and I come across this story of a man who fell in love with this sort of fancy lady back east. She wasn't super wealthy, but she was wealthy enough. He goes back east and he convinces her. You know, got this wide, open plans. We're going to be pioneers. I'm going to build you this, that and the third. She falls for him and she falls for the dream. Well, she gets on the train many horse rides, carriages, all this this is like the turn of the century, not this century. The last one. Anyway, she gets to Amarillo or Abilene, and it is cold, it is windy and there ain't no trees in sight. She's like wait a minute, where am I going?
Speaker 1:This guy has a one bedroom shanty, which is par for the course for pioneers back in the day or enterprising young men who wanted to make something of themselves in cattle and or oil. So it's a one room shanty, just enough room for you to kind of lay down. You have to cook on an open stove. I mean, it's not a lot of space. Picture of a decent walk-in closet. She ain't bougie bougie, but this is not what he said and I guess she deduces that. Okay, well, if you can build a one room shanty, if you can just build this like six times, that makes for a decent size house. We'll be fine. So she sticks it out. She can live with the one room shanty.
Speaker 1:She understands she was going to have to get her hands dirty a little bit, but she can't get over this. Like what the heck is this smell? What there's a smell Turns out that at this time they used to burn buffalo patties. It's exactly what you think it is. Picture a big heaping. We're not even going to go there. This is a classy podcast. Sometimes they have to burn that for fuel.
Speaker 1:He's that poor. He actually had no money. He just was a really good salesman. And try as she may, she said you know what I can put up with a lot of things because you're kind of fine, but what I won't do is burn doo-doo to keep myself warm, not when my daddy has train fare money. And that's exactly what she did. She called up her daddy or sent a telegram, had to wait six, seven weeks to get that train ticket and baby girl was gone. I have never agreed with someone in history so quickly over something so trivial. Speaking of trivial, richard Richard's villain arc is always a little bit wobbly.
Speaker 1:It never fails. It seems like he. He hones in on something which makes him a wonderful businessman, because he won't stop until he gets to the root of it, figures out what the weaknesses are. But also that only works when you have something to gain. Richard continues to forget that he is actually losing the things that he loves time and time again because he just don't know when to quit.
Speaker 1:So at the top of this episode we see that Richard is doing some deep digging. He wants to know all about Chase's money problems. He's just convinced that the reason Chase doesn't want to jump into bed with Helios, this big conglomerate, is because he don't have the money, which is not true, as Leather Pants Pam points out. Not only does Chase have the money, he's got a five-star credit rating. He's got millions in the bank, 25 to be exact. He's rich, rich. But it seems like he has champagne problems, literally champagne problems. His champagne is not moving off the shelf the way it should, so he doesn't actually have the capital.
Speaker 1:I hope I'm saying that right. I'm going to need to really hone in and study a little bit more to make sure I'm delivering this properly. Plus, one bad business deal could really really tank all the effort he's made thus far, which makes it all make sense. Connie coming in bringing in a new leg of wine or spirits or whatever. Okay, he needs that to work sooner rather than later. But you remember, there's a whole issue with the yeast. It's going to be another six months. So it's not that he doesn't have the money, he's just a little bit overextended at this time. If this was a little bit later he'd be fine.
Speaker 1:Richard sees this as a moment to pounce, in addition to try to bring Chase down. He's also obsessed with Cassandra. He wants to get to the bottom of who she is and what she's really about. I don't know why. It doesn't seem like he's suspicious, but I think he just likes having that control over everyone. Doesn't seem like he's suspicious, but I think he just likes having that control over everyone. So most of the episode he is barking orders over the phone.
Speaker 1:At some do dirt PI, who can't really find a lot of information. All they can find is yeah, she was raised back East. Apparently she's been married. Because he says yeah, her maiden name is da da, da da. I don't know her maiden name. Her married name is da da, da da. Figure out who she is and quick. Meanwhile, cassandra and her brother Riker that's not his name, but that's his name today are doing okay, remember, they are well aware that they are in this scheme and it needs. It's on a time schedule. They got to get this thing burning before long. It seems like this building she owned in New York the super high rise has sold, so they now have more than enough money to bury Angela Channing, as they put it. Of course, there's a meeting at Falcon Crest between the three owners Richard, angela and Chase and Chase is basically walking in there, chest held high, chest covered, because he's buttoned up today and he already knows the game. He's not even looking at this as a business opportunity. He's looking at this as sabotage, which is exactly what it is.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing it's always been sort of obvious that Chase is touted as the boy scout. He's the good guy, he's the reluctant hero showing up to take over something that turns out to be a passion, and he's always got to fight against his semi-demi-evil supervillain of a Monty and his newfound half-brother. Now, here's the truth. Each one of them is a villain to each other, but there really is levels to this. So the game that Chase is playing is I'll just hold out. You guys can't buy me out if I don't sell out, and if worse comes to worse, I'll just start my own company. This inevitably leaves him open to losing his portion of Falcon Crest, so he's going to have to bank on the champagne working out and then purchasing land elsewhere. Luckily he has a daughter-in-law that can work out. That's just me saying this. This is me, jet, saying that. I don't know if that's the case.
Speaker 1:Richard, amazing businessman, he's focused. He's not easily rattled, but when he is, he's hyper fixated on it to the point where he won't. He just won't let anything go. So Chase basically tells Angela and Richard to kick rocks. He ain't doing it. Angela already knows she has more money than God, so she can buy out both of them if the time comes, if and when the time comes. But there's still a matter of just kind of associating with these people, because she has to for the time being. Plus, lance is missing. She didn't need anybody sniffing around. Enter Richard.
Speaker 1:Richard is once again talking-ish, real smooth-like on the way out of the door. Chase leaves first. Richard is walking. Angela talking ish, real smooth like, on the way out of the door. Chase leaves first. Richard is walking Angela to the door and he's like hey, angela, listen. I know we've been through our. We've been through our thing, we've had our differences, but I just want to let you know I really didn't want to have to press charges on Lance and make him run even further because he's a criminal and all. That's not what I wanted. And she's like then why did you press charges, richard, if that's not what you wanted? I was like, you know, I'm just trying to help the law out, but why don't you tell Lance I'm sorry, when you see him, if you see him around, walks out the door all smooth like Angela, not to be rattled.
Speaker 1:She is in her yellow and black. She is a honeybee, she is a queen bee, she is a gangster grandma today. And she says you know what, if Lance hadn't whooped his ass, I would have done it myself. Go ahead and get the bit players out of the way. Not a lot comes from the Cassandra slash Richard thing. She has to call and let you know she has to keep up appearances. Oh my God, we had so much fun last night. We're lovers, we're lovers, we're this. And that she has an advantage because she understands that he's already kind of looking into her past, right. So as long as the deal goes through before he finds out who she is, it doesn't really matter what happens after that. No more about them Trying to decide what happens. Okay, let's talk about bad girl Melly, mel, real quick, and then we'll move on. So you know how Richard thought that Chase had money problems, or he's kind of framing it as if he does.
Speaker 1:When I saw this scene, I thought that Melissa had some money problems. She and Cole are in their study. He's sitting down reading a book. I don't know why the lighting's so bright on them. I guess I don't know. I really don't understand it, but it's a little bit distracting. He's got on like this stark white members only jacket. He's reading the paper and Mellie Mel is at the desk and it looks like she has every check she's written just kind of laid out. She's looking at the money. She's keeping the books. Color me impressed because, wow, she doesn't have an accountant. No, she doesn't have an accountant. No, she's on her own stuff. She's looking a little bit nervous. I'm like, oh my God, is Mellie Mel about to go broke? How could this be? This is why she needs a Reardon. This is why she needs a lawyer in her corner and some sort of admin staff to take care of these things.
Speaker 1:Now she and Chase or, excuse me, she and Cole are about to go to the movies. But she tells them oh, I got to run to the bank real quick. They made a mistake on something. Let me make you a sandwich and then when I come back we'll go to the movies. And he's like, okay, cool, he's reading the paper all casually.
Speaker 1:And this fool says Melissa, how is Robin doing? Melissa's like I'm sure she's fine, why? Cole says, well, she ran out of here so fast. I'm just kind of worried about her. Okay, am I tripping so much?
Speaker 1:So I thought wait a minute, why is he asking that? Shouldn't he be trying to tell her what happened? No, he seems almost indifferent. He's just very kind of casual, like hey, what's up with your girl Robin? So I stopped the show and I went back and I watched the end of the show previous. The last time we saw them.
Speaker 1:He was getting it in with Robin and then it was the next morning where Mel comes and she's like you know, it was a bad idea, I should have never brought that up to you. I'll never bring it up again. But he was acting like he really needed to tell her something. But now on this episode he's just sort of casual about it. He's not acting nervous. I don't know what's going on there. But Melissa says don't worry about Robin, she always has a way of landing on her feet Like she's a Robin, always gets her own way of painting a picture. You see what I'm talking about. This ain't the Falcon Crest we know and love.
Speaker 1:All this is just really rapid, turns out. Melissa is not having money problems Not the way you and I would think, matter of fact, melly. Mel is richy, rich. She's got $100,000 in a briefcase because she is being blackmailed. I'd all but forgotten about Leather Pants Pam.
Speaker 1:So LPP comes running up to the car. Oh, of course they have to set the scene. Melissa takes all day and almost all night, apparently, to go to the bank. She's parked in her little two-seater and it is raining, cats and dogs outside. All of a sudden, you see like this red blurb come by, someone opens the door, they have a seat.
Speaker 1:Leather pants Pam, my God, okay. What would someone who loves leather wear in the rain? Patent leather, tell me why? Leather pants Pam comes running up to the car, opens the door, hops in and she's got on the Missy Elliott, you know, the bubble outfit, that video, the super fly outfit. She's got on Missy Elliott's outfit, but picture it in red. It's a raincoat of like.
Speaker 1:Wow, okay, this is a dirty deal, do we not? Ma'am? Madam Conspicuous, you're supposed to be in disguise. You're supposed to not draw attention to yourself. Baby, I had a problem with this scene. Melissa's like God, if you're going to blackmail me, remind the audience why. Again, leather pants? Pam is like sure I am blackmailing you because I know for a fact that you paid off Joel, the Florida man, to frame Lance. And now Lance is going to jail and he's doing all these horrible. His whole life is ruined because you set this whole thing up.
Speaker 1:Melissa once again reiterates I didn't know he was going to go to jail, I just wanted him roughed up. He shouldn't have called me a whore, but I hope they never catch him. I hope he stays gone and I hope you stay gone too. Now I wish she would have put in this little caveat. I said listen, I can take a lot of things. I can take being called a whore. I can take being made fun of. I can take being kicked out of the house because I tried to sell my son. But what I can't take is knowing that $95,000 of my money is going to your leather collection. Pay my money, come on. I'd make her sign something. I'm sorry. No, I'd rather go to jail than give you a hundred thousand reasons to go ape-ish buying leather.
Speaker 1:You know Pam too, she was giddy. Even her hands are clad with leather gloves. She's also wearing a hat. You know Pam keeps a fresh hat. She had a fedora on, she got the hair tucked back, she got the big giant bubble leather pleather outfit. But she's been wearing these really large sort of red, ruby red Art Deco style earrings. I have got to get my hands on them, so gorgeous.
Speaker 1:So I mean I said to myself you know she's pissed, she can't wait to go to, like texas or montana or wyoming or argentina, brazil, wherever there's a large cattle culture. They need to do something with that hide. Oh baby, she's gonna set it off, she can't wait. She does assure melissa that she has scruples and she's gonna keep her mouth shut from here on out, but I mean, expect her to be insufferable for the next few months. Baby, with all this fresh leather, my goodness, on the other side of town. So now Melissa's got two things to worry about. She has to worry about Joel, the Florida man popping back up out of the blue. Richard also knows about the setup. And now leather pants, pam. That's a lot of pressure on one person. It's a little bit too much.
Speaker 1:Back to our supervillain, angela, juggling a lot of balls, but she seems to be in control, with Lance being on the run, though even if he wasn't on the run, even if he were in jail, she needs to run the globe and she, just frankly, doesn't have much time. She tells Craig Reardon when he reminds her that, hey, you got to get down there, you got to at least show your face from time to time. She's like don't worry about it, I know somebody, I know a guy. I got the perfect person to run the globe. Based on the rapid speed in which this storyline is developing, I fully expected yet another new character. Only that's not the case. She had Maggie in mind. This is actually genius. Sometimes evil plans are actually really good plans. Think about it If Richard could run the globe with no experience in the press and he can do a pretty good job, okay, cool. Lance also had no experience. He did a pretty good job.
Speaker 1:Maggie's actually the most experienced out of the three. Yes, she didn't have the business savvy, but she doesn't really need to. That part of the business is already running itself. So Angela calls her down to the globe and she says Mags, you're the only person I trust to do this. I know you'll do a good job. Would you consider the position? And Maggie is like oh my God, did I, did I do something nice for you and forget about it? Why would you even consider me? Angela reiterates one more time because I trust you, I know you'll do a good job here, so you don't have to give me a yes, but just give me, I'll think about it. Auntie Maggie pretends to be like oh, angela, I never could, but sure, sure, I'll think about it. But I saw something as Maggie was leaving that office. She was looking around. You could tell she was already rearranging things like I'm going to have this laid out, I'm going to have a glass desk, I'm going to change all this. She's definitely thinking about it.
Speaker 1:Chase is not having it, though. So that night at dinner gosh, these shows. It's so interesting the difference in how they prep food and how they show it. So I guess they're going to make some sort of soup. Mind you, it's just the two of them living at their house, but she has a literal army pot on the stove. She's wearing all white, so I already know ain't no flavor in that and then they're going to get her dirty.
Speaker 1:She is putting lots of herbs into the pot and Chase is violently massacring this beautiful bounty of vegetables. It is crisp lettuce, fresh broccoli, carrots, and I mean he is savagely slicing through these. He's pissed. I can't believe you're doing this. This is just a setup. She just wants to take over your mind. She wants you to be one of those minions. He's super pissed that Angela would have the audacity to ask his bride to be a part of her joke of a publication. He's also chopping this in a blue flannel bounty paper towel guy shirt and you better believe, baby, it is buttoned halfway down his chest, sleeves rolled up, chest out. But I guess he's being a little bit more demure because he's wearing like this black zip up vest with a gold zipper, and I know that because that zipper is all the way down to his belly button. Baby, he needs y'all to remember he's sexy and now he's manly and he wants you to think of the brawny man as he slices the salad. It looks good though. It's very crisp, it's real vegetables.
Speaker 1:So Maggie's like Chase, it's an opportunity. Why can't I work with Angela, you work with Angela. He's like I work with Angela because she's my aunt and I have to. I didn't pick to do it. That's a totally different thing. I can't believe you'd be so naive. Look at her, she's already coming between us and that's exactly Angela's plan. If Maggie is running the globe, that's going to be an all day, everyday job. If Chase is trying to make this new champagne and make enough money so that they can jump into the Helios deal or run his own, he's got to spend a whole lot more time with Connie. And if the two of them are in conflict, everything is going to split up, including his stake at Falcon Crest. It's trifling. However, it might just work.
Speaker 1:I got to say Chase has incredible. He's a good BS detective because everything he says is actually 100% true. But I guess it's just the way he said it. He's so easily worked up that people don't take him seriously. Well, he's not wrong. He's also no match for Angela.
Speaker 1:The more I think about this, chase is easily distracted. He's the do-gooder cowboy boy scout who's always going to kind of go after doing the right thing. But he's so focused on getting people in trouble who aren't doing the right thing that it's just it's easy to distract him. All you have to do is go go commit a small crime, and he's going to. He's going to stick to that. He must be a Jacqueline Drake, because that's sort of the same thing with Richard.
Speaker 1:Richard is on that next level. He's not afraid to get his hands dirty, bloody. He's ruthless. He doesn't really have a whole lot of feelings, but the feelings he does have are quite sensitive. And now that his feelings are hurt, he's obsessed with Lance. He's obsessed with finding out who Cassandra is.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, she's already running the game. The trap's already set. He's fallen into it too quickly. He's about to get got. Plus, he don't have the money to back it up.
Speaker 1:Now, angela, I'm playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers. She's got this thing licked. The only real threat at this point is Cassandra and her brother, but we don't really even know what that is. On the other hand, her renegade grandson is oh, he's running amok. He's causing so much trouble that Chow Lee's cousin can't even take a proper nap because he's afraid that Lance is going to slip out and make more loud phone calls in the hallway. So Lance is in his bedroom in this apartment. I suppose Seems like they own the entire building and Lance just happens to be in one of the smaller apartments on the floor because the cousin is in the hallway, sort of blocking Lance's way down that hall to escape like out the front door.
Speaker 1:But once again, this is a 23 year old man. That ain't gonna stop him if he want to do what he wants to do. He is dead set on calling and hooking up with Lorraine. He's already called Charlie, acting a fool, saying listen, you tell my grandmother that if she didn't send Lorraine down here, I'm going to go get her myself. He's horny and also lonely and also bored, so he's bound to do something. Also, I don't know why, I think he's 23. I must have seen that somewhere and done the math. He's early 20s, under 25. So anyway, charlie's cousin is sitting in your standard breakfast table chair. Only he has it tilted back on two legs and he's got one foot on the wall and he's sort of resting against the stairwell so Lance can't come running through. He could crawl under him. He could very easily go out of the window and that's what Lance decides to do. Looks like they're on like the third or fourth floor of this building.
Speaker 1:Lance decides he's going to go out on a fire escape a la Richard Gere in Pretty Woman. He's doing fine at first, but he's very tall and as a tall person, I can attest to not always having the best depth perception when you're going down down. So as he's climbing down the stairs, the ladder kind of it slips and he trips up and he gets his leg all dangly. Mind you, this is six foot three, 23 year old, loud man with a Danny Zuko haircut, dressed like a dad. He is standing out is the point I'm trying to make. Mind you, his name is all over the news. His face has been all over the news and, thanks to Richard, his name and his description of the crimes he committed. All this information is going out every 15 to 20 minutes on his radio station. So as he's going down this fire escape, you can imagine how loud this is, because this is a metal ladder.
Speaker 1:People are starting to look up like, oh my God, what the heck? By the time Lance hits the ground in a very dramatic fashion, mind you. So Chow Lee's cousins have made it down the stairs because it seems like it kind of took a long time for Lance to get down. I don't know why. I didn't see this coming. Ladies and gentlemen, the renegade has reared his head again. Tell me why we have a full on action sequence. Ha Hoo, ha, kung Fu, this High kick here, spin kick. Here he is whooping wholesale behind in a members only jacket and khakis. He is really stomping out the cousins.
Speaker 1:And again, I guess because of all the ruckus, cousin number four comes downstairs and he looks pissed. He looked like he's somebody's daddy who was maybe having breakfast with his family trying to enjoy a nice ice cold bowl of tricks. He hears all this riffraff in the street what that is that is. He out, goes downstairs, he immediately whoops Lance's ass real quick, like, gets him down on the ground, snaps his arm behind his back. Now he doesn't say it. This man doesn't say a word, but he says it. Not so many words. I'll break this off right here, right now. So, lance, so Lance is like okay, chill, chill, chill, okay, okay, okay, I'll behave. This is embarrassing, this is devastating. And plus, the entire neighborhood just saw this man stomp out three people and then get stomped out himself. Then they all watched him go back to the apartment. So now everybody, if anybody in the neighborhood, wants some reward money. It's not going to be that hard to turn them in.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, cousin number four has to call Charlie and be like yo, hey, you need to do something. He's doing a lot. He's down here fighting. He's breaking out every two, three hours. We can't even take naps anymore. He interrupted my cereal with my kids. You got to do something about your boy. So Charlie is like hey, angela, you know we go way back. You know I love you dearly and deeply. But Lance, down there, acting a fool, my cousin said he did X, y and Z and she's like, oh, my God, god, what an idiot. I hope they slapped him around a little bit. And he's like, yeah, they did, they did. They're actually my best students. I would beg to differ. They are your fifth, fourth and third best student. Lance is your second and cousin with the trick cereal is number one. But he's like yo, we got to do something sooner or later because he's acting up.
Speaker 1:Well, while this conversation is happening, emma hears about this from the stairwell. She just sort of ducks down, gets all the details and then pops back up when Chow Lee and Angela come out of the study. They're going up to her bedroom to come up with a different plan, I suppose, and Emma's like hi, how's it going? Where are you going Acting all suspicious? Angela says a good guest might be upstairs. I love a smart mouth, old lady, when they go upstairs. Lorraine comes in right about this time, fresh off of a shopping spree. Emma runs over to her and says oh, lorraine, I need you to take me to the mall before it closes. Lorraine's like I hate dude, no, I don't feel like shopping. I just went shopping. She's giving her the clues. I think I know where Lance is. Lorraine is quickly filled in by Emma who's like hey, chowley's cousins are keeping Lance safe right now I know where he's at. Let's just kind of lay low until we need to go over there.
Speaker 1:Maggie's still sort of going back and forth about this deal. She's not all that impressed with Richard at the moment because she feels like he's pushing the narrative that Lance is this violent criminal and unfortunately Lance is kind of buying into it. But she doesn't really like that. She's still committed to proving that there is at least another side of the story, even if he's not fully innocent. So she goes to Richard's office and she's about to tell him that you know, angela has offered me this deal. And as soon as she starts telling him that he gets all smart mouth. Oh, so you come to quit. You want to quit. You want to be my mom, you want to run my life. She's like you know what I don't, but now I do, guess what. You just made this really, really easy for me. You know she's doing this to drive a wedge between us. This is Richard's literal only friend I mean her and Leather Pants, pam maybe but he and Maggie have no romantic relationship. It's just a good relationship. But once again he calls her a little minion, he calls her another name and she's like I'm too drunk for this or I'm on Xanax or something. I'm not even going to give you a reaction. I'm out. Bye, richard. Say hello to the runner of the globe.
Speaker 1:Maggie gets back to the office at the globe and Aunt Terry has shown up and she starts decorating for her. Now I at first thought this is really hideous. She brought in these really bright whites and bright blues, but the office still has this sort of sepia colored wallpaper and a lot of Richard O's stuff, so it's like a really warm rust colors and then that sepia tone on the wall just not going good. It looks crazy, but that's not the point. The point is that Terry has come to do something nice. She's so, so proud of Maggie. She's like girl, I can't believe you've got the job. Then she hits Maggie with the Maggie. I'm in trouble.
Speaker 1:You can tell this conversation has happened more times than a little bit in their family. So Maggie says okay, lay it on me. What's good? What's happening, what's going on? This is Maggie's lucky day. Terry says Mags, you remember when I was on my like spring break kick and I lived in Florida for like two years? Like yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 1:Well, I got married to this guy named Joel and he was really, really sweet at first, but then he got into drugs. He got so deep in the drugs that he was not only using them, he started selling them. It was just horrible. He changed. He's a totally different person and I divorced him, only to have him show up and start blackmailing me now, once he found out that Michael was dead and I got this new money. She's like what? Then Terry goes on to say I also think that Richard had him set up, lance, I really do feel like that's the case because of what Joel was telling me. He's got this money, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:So Terry is telling Maggie about Richard being the person who set up Lance, but she doesn't know anything about Melissa Leather Pants. Pam knows that Richard and Melissa had a hand in it, but she's not really pinning it on Richard. So there's still a lot of eyes on this situation. But having Terry come through with an actual name gives Maggie something to work with and she's going to do her due diligence because she is a good reporter. She's going to do her digging and apparently she has just enough information to put together this really riveting front page story that she's going to put out into the world to help dampen this whole. Lance is a criminal thing. Well, not only does she do that, she decides that she needs to help out her little sister because Aunt Terry goes on to say that she didn't want Greg Reardon to find out and look at her differently, like she's a ruined woman Girl, okay, if you say so.
Speaker 1:Hence one of the most dramatic scenes I've ever seen on this show. The manimal is sitting in his hideously decorated den or layer with the fire on. He's wearing a sweater. Side note, everybody on this episode is dressed like a polo ad. It looks really awesome sometimes and other times I'm like okay, it's still California, probably pretty warm but anyway Rarian's chilling by the fire. When Jeeves walks in with this hideous man in the yellow boots what is Curious? George's handler's name that he's got on his hat Just picture that. Well, he has it in his hands. He drops his hat on the ground and he says Jeeves tells the manimal I was instructed by that woman to lay this hat on the ground. Do you want me to stomp on it or what? Because if you don't have an answer, pretty soon that woman will appear. I love how he says that he doesn't say I'm going to let Miss Terry in or she will enter your home. That woman will appear in this house. Sure enough, that woman does appear. She's dressed in all black. She looks like Janet Jackson in one of her videos. I can't remember, but it's black jeans and a sheer long sleeve black top. Love it. So, so, so much Comes in, and earlier that day Maggie had gone to the animal to smooth things over and be like hey, my sister kind of had this thing happen to her.
Speaker 1:She had to reach out to Richard to get some help. I think Lance might've been set up. She knows the guy's name blah, blah, blah, blah. The manimal is just. He just can't believe it. I'm appalled that she would even be a part of something like that. Blah, blah, blah. Maggie then just shouts well, she's in love with you. They're yelling about two totally different things. Two totally different things.
Speaker 1:So when Terry shows up and she's in her Janet Jackson realness, tell me why this girl kneels. She kneels at his feet where she sits on her knees at his feet as he sits in his little recliner and she goes are you still mad at me? No, do you still at me? No, do you still like me? Yup, like he's about to burp and fart. I don't know what the heck this guy's problem is. Basically, do you still want me? Can I stay here tonight? Because I have really low self-esteem and you're the only guy in the show that's looking at me right now. I really need to stay. And he's like yes, so he lets her stay.
Speaker 1:And he called oh, he had asked Jeeves to bring them a beverage. Tell me why Jeeves comes back in with the biggest jug of brandy ever seen in my life and two glasses. Sir, when I order a drink, I ordered a drink. I didn't want you to pour it myself. This ain't DIY. This ain't BYOB her to drink. I didn't want you to pour it myself. This ain't DIY, this ain't BYOB. Pour my stuff up. He didn't even bring ice or anything. He's really got an attitude. I need him gone. Well, after Terry and the man will make up, the man will call Jeeves back in there and he says hey, dude, tomorrow when you make breakfast make sure you don't throw any blueberries or anything. And the lady likes cream and sugar in her coffee. Do you know? This moves this woman to tears. This is how low her self-esteem is. Oh, my God, you're going to serve me the same breakfast I could get at any gas station when I'm getting my oil changed. I'm so loved, terry.
Speaker 1:God, we need to get Terry in Girl Scouts. She needs to start from. She needs we need to scrape what little bit of confidence she has into the garbage can and let's start from the beginning. We're going to put you in Girl Scouts. You're going to go all the way from like the daisies to the seniors or cadets or whatever they are. We're going to get her some social skills. We're going to let her feel good about herself, learn some things, earn her confidence badge by badge. She needs help.
Speaker 1:This is depressing and I'm not buying the Manimal storyline. This is almost as infuriating as the Jeff and Fallon thing. There is zero chemistry and there's just no reason for these two people to be together, other than, I guess, her revealing that she knows who Joel McCarvey is, who could be the key to getting Lance freed. Okay, real quick. I knew the Anini is minding her business in the wine house.
Speaker 1:When Chase comes in with this, this random dude, she sees him, she freaks out. Turns out this is a guy that she used to sleep with. He is married. He corners her a little later on, like it's very clear that she's trying to avoid him, but Chase doesn't pick up on that, tries to avoid him. Later on he corners her and he's like can't we just have a few more moments of fun? And she's like absolutely not. Are you still married? Yeah, do you still have two kids? Well, I have three now, but they're practically grown Impossible. She's like please stop playing in my face, I want absolutely nothing to do with you. So we do have a new character who's been introduced and he is some sort of banker who Chase is schmoozing with. Now. I don't know if he really wants to help Chase out or he just figured out that Connie's back in town and he wanted to be in the loop.
Speaker 1:Angela has to sneak down to Chow Lee's cousin's house under a really fabulous cloak that is like, adorned with these beautiful jewels at the end or something. It is a very fancy shawl. Chow Lee comes into Lance's room and Lance is talking big ish about how he want Lorraine there. He's going to go get his wife and then you, just you play on in my face. Chow Lee, charlie, Tell my grandma, I don't care what she thinks. Well, she snatches off the straw and she's like you don't shut the hell up. You know how hard it is for a bad bee like me to sneak around. You had to sneak down here and not get caught. Do you know how difficult that is? I'm putting you in a shipping container and sending you to the old country so you can hang out with our cousins and Francesca and them, because you can't be trusted. Lance, she don't even care about putting him on a boat. You're gonna get on a ship well, I guess it is on a boat, but you're gonna be in a shipping container because I don't trust you to do the right thing, okay. So Angela is right, it is very hard for a baddie like her to slip around under the cloak of darkness because she a has a super Gotham villain car and she's who she is. Plus, lorraine heard everything and she definitely followed her in a car there. So the show ends on that, but we got to just touch one more time on bad girl Melly, mel.
Speaker 1:So Chase and his family that would be Chase Cole, melissa and Maggie are at dinner. I guess maybe Joseph is upstairs reading or doing taxes or something and they're cheering to Maggie. Maggie, congratulations on being the new editor at the Globe. Chase is really proud of the paperwork or the article she put out on Lance and Melissa's like we're so proud, I'm so proud of you, maggie, you have such an important job. I think it's so great. The family agrees Like mom, you're doing a great job, you're doing so good. Chase says so.
Speaker 1:It sounds like that guy who used to work with us might be mixed up in all of this. Melissa is just eating her meal. She don't know who they're talking about. At first she's like who are you talking about? Chase goes oh, there's new evidence. Seems like the guy who used to run our driver. Whatever. The guy who used to work here really likes to travel. Seems like he's run off, but Joel McCarty may have set up Lance by this point. Melissa's like wait what Maggie's like? Yeah, there's a lot of evidence. I've already talked to the manimal about it and he's on it. He's looking for Joel as we speak and Melissa's face is like I know you lying.
Speaker 1:She is $200,000 down, all because Lance called her a whore. She had to get revenge on her ex-husband. He just had his little slick mouth, he just wouldn't leave her alone. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is that. I can't even imagine how frustrating and nerve-wracking that would be. You pay a guy to do a little something, he goes AWOL, does weirdest stuff ever dang. It's hard out here for a bad girl. Sometimes all she wanted was a little smack up, flip up situation with Lance and it's turned into a complete and total fiasco, which is not 100% her fault. But the evidence mounting against bad girl Melly Mel is substantial. All right, guys, that's it. That's all.
Speaker 1:We're going to go ahead and jump into the next episode of Vintage Primetime Debauchery. I hope you've enjoyed this one as much as I did. Remember, you can reach out in the show notes or at soplorepodcast at gmailcom. S-o-a-p-l-o-r-e-p-o-d-c-a-s-t at gmailcom. In the meantime, in between time. Please, please, don't get blackmailed by someone in leather. There's nothing more discouraging than watching somebody spend all of your hard inherited money on custom fashion. But I mean, hey, it's the 80s. Stay hydrated, stay moisturized, mind your own business and keep all of your drama on TV.