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S5 EP4 Falcon Crest: Echoes- The "Family Bombshells And Burning Grudges" Episode

• Jett Shae • Episode 334

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Smoke doesn’t just rise over Falcon Crest—it points to every lie we thought was buried. We dive straight into the fallout of a long-hidden son: Father Christopher steps into a life that should have been his, while Angela’s grip on the family story finally slips. The reveal jolts everyone’s orbit—Lance deflects grief with bravado until Emma flips both the lounge chair and his attitude, Melissa and Cole find their footing as Robin’s residency ends, and Maggie’s memory stirs when a sharp little grandson and a box of Vietnam letters cut through the fog. Power moves crackle across the valley. Chase and Cole stage a daylight champagne heist, daring Cassandra and Anna to press charges so the press will ask why. Richard plays chess with a bulletproof vest and a hospital bed, baiting his would-be assassin and turning pain into PR. The tension peaks in Angela’s study, where facts, notes, and hard timelines corner Anna—forcing Cassandra to face the gap between the myth she lived and the truth she feared. When denial can’t hold, gasoline does: a midnight return, wires clipped, steps doused, and a hallway lit like a fuse running through a dynasty. What lingers is the question this show asks better than most: does blood redeem or repeat? Father Christopher embodies both possibility and loss, a figure of faith navigating a family that treats secrets like currency. Julia’s specter reminds us that silence breeds violence, and one more revelation might set off the most volatile heart of all. Come for the twists; stay for the sharp character beats, the strategy behind every scandal, and the way a single toy dinosaur can pull a life back into focus. If this breakdown hit the spot, follow the show, share it with your favorite soap fanatic, and leave a quick review with your boldest theory—who lights the next match?

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Let's go ahead and jump right into it. Go ahead and boil yourself up something bubbly and bright as we watch season five, episode four. Echoes. Echoes.

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Echoes.

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Oh my goodness, where are my manners? How y'all doing today? Over today is shaping up well. I decided to be a better version of myself this week, and I went ahead and wrote the notes down, old-fashioned style, just to make sure I didn't miss out on any details that I think are worth discussing. So in the last episode, we found out, well, we didn't find out because we already had new, but Lance and Emma found out that they have a brother slash nephew, and that Miss Hermrod goddess herself, Angela Freckinchanny, kept the secret of all secrets for over 25 years. 25 seems to be the magic number when it comes to a long lost relative, especially a baby people thought would disappear. At least that seemed to be the case on Dynasty and Falcon Crest, remains to be seen on the other shows. But let's let's talk about it. This is a big secret and it's an even bigger problem. Turns out Julia's got two boys. So let's just refresh a little bit. Julia, unbeknownst to her, was lied to about her firstborn son. Her secondborn son acts just like her herm rod mother, which put a wedge in between Julia and her son. I wouldn't even say that it put a wedge. Allegedly started by his wife. Baby Daddy number two turned out to be a vaguely European man posing as a Middle Eastern royalty man with a wife in San Francisco sometimes, and a huge donor for Alexis Carrington Goldby. So what does Julia do? She has no choice but to squirrel away, live her life quietly at Falcon Crest as some sort of wine scientist. She spends all of her waking days in the wine lab. But in the meantime, in between time, she's having a secret affair with a Greti, guy down the road. Decides she's sick of playing second fiddle when he rejects her. Two babies gone, two men gone, rejected by both of them, ain't gonna be no third time Mr. Greti. At that moment, Bizarro Julia was born. She borrowed a pair of leather pants, pans, leather palm gloves, and started committing crimes. Agretti was candlesticked to death. Her good for nothing second cousin or first cousin once removed. I'm framing him for murder. Chase, semi-hot cousin who doesn't believe in top buttons. Smoke inhalation to death. I think. I was trying to remember, somebody was in that garage. It might have been Julia framing herself or making it look like she was hurt. Either way, the crime spree had begun. Wasn't enough to commit these petty crimes and set up people. Nah nah nah nah nah. Julia went and bought herself a gun and made plans to light up her brother. Only her dad's mistress stepped in, took the bullet for her would-be brand new new brother, and boom, woke up dead. Jacqueline was out of here. All because Julia went and bought a gun and decided to light up the party. Oh well, right? She's rich, she's beautiful. Can't be that hard to go to jail. Right? Wrong. So while Julia's in jail, she learns that her grandkid, an aka a child she can pour love into, ain't even really her son's child. Plus, all the ladies in lockdown are hating on her. They're hating on her buffont, they hate on her bangs, they hate on the way she looked. So you know what she does? She does what any rich woman does when she knows she when she knows she comes from privilege. She leans into that psychosis a little harder than she needs to. Does it so strong that she gets transferred into a real, real nice woundy band at like institution where she formulates yet another plan? All her problems stem from one place and one place only. Muffer. The perm rod goddess herself has been ruining her life since conception. She has to go. She's gonna shoot her mother, and she's gonna let the chips fall where they may. I mean, after all, she's already been to prison, she ain't going back there. She already is in a real, real nice loony bin-like institution. All she's gonna it's it's basically a weekend out. So at some point, she steals a nun's uniform and runs among all over wine country, freaking people the heck out, tries to off her mom, but forgot that she lived in modern times and and and lit a kerosene lamp like it's the Ingalls family on the open plain. She totally forgot she could have flipped a switch.

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So now her whole plan and the house she's hiding in goes up in flames. And her son has to burst in and be the hero, rescue his grandmama. She's luckily was able to crawl underground. She escapes, turns up mid-season with a fresh bob and a brand with a fresh bob and a fresh bang. Living in the lap of luxury with a very simple man in a tin can. She hates a good cheap house more than she hates anything else. She tries to turn herself in, they like you've been dead. Oh. Only to have a man end up kidnapping her once she decides she was gonna live full loose and fancy free with a fresh bob and new bangs. Only to be kidnapped outside of a pigly wiggly one day by a neglected psychopathic Nazi child with daddy issues. After it's all said and done, after the the dust finally settles, Julia is sent back to a convent where she started this whole miserable trip semi-sorta. If you think about it, she went to the convent to have the baby who she thought died. All I'm saying is that she has a history of remembering ish and creating a hit list. I do not think it is conducive to Angela's good health, peace of mind, or longevity in any way if Julia finds out that the baby you said been deceased has never been deceased at all. He's very much living. He's not cease, he is ceasing to cease. He's thriving, as a matter of fact. All I'm saying is she's gonna get somewhere quiet one day, she's gonna get a pen and a Pab and come back to life, and next thing you know, she's gonna go on another killing spree. I'm telling you, this is going to set her off. And to add insult to injury, Angela is fresh off that list. They only been cool 15 minutes. But this, I guarantee you, she's back on that list with the quickness. Let's talk about Julia's voice for a minute. Falcon Crest continues to remind us why they hold a crown for the male baddies at mail at prime time. No contests. They're all bad boys too. Even the Boy Scouts are bad boys. Cole Gioverdi. Boy Scouty as they come, but does he have a record? Yes. Beat the crap out of a pedophile teacher as he should have. Framed for murder a couple two, three times. You know what I'm saying? He's a bad boy. As bad as he can be. Chase, his father, is getting into B E this episode, so now he's gonna have a rap sheet. Land's been that dude since birth. Like I said, he is just like his trifling permrod goddess grandmother and proud. And Richard, Richard came out of the womb as a secret, was raised by nuns for a little bit, then sent to an actual Nazi, and for all intents and purposes, he's actually not that bad considering his background. You could call him a villain or you could call him just a very focused businessman. You just gotta look at it from whatever angle you choose to. He's I he just has his moments and no conscience. So after this news comes out that Father Christopher is actually a car-carrying member of the Angela Channing clan, it's difficult to swallow. Everybody's taking it and dealing with it the best they can. So Father Christopher is minding his own business. He's punching a beanbag at the gym or a whatever they call it, a punching bag at the gym. Father Bobby comes in like, hey, how did dinner go? You know how it went, Father Bobby. It would have been nice if somebody told me I had a whole family. He's not wrong. Can you imagine showing up to eat a little pot roast? Maybe you have a little sip of wine, you know what I'm saying? Say hello to this real nice old lady you've known your whole life, only to sit across from your brother who is half drunk, probably a little bit high, dressed like he's been on the set of Miami Vice, and you're very whimsical, crazy like a fox, kind of medicated this episode, Auntie. Find out this this whole house should have been yours. You should have been growing up in these halls instead of uh this convent or whatever you call it where priests what are they called? Men aren't nuns. What are they called? Whatever, this orphanage ran by priests? He could have had a whole entire life. You know how many birthday cakes he missed out on? I mean, lucky for him. All there is to do there is at the orphanage was pray or work out. So he's perfectly at home punching a bag, trying to work out his frustrations. Meanwhile, Lane's still reeling from the death of his wife, Lorraine, and he's trying to find a little bit of comfort in Aunt Terry. I think this is once again a bid for him to get his own show. He is riding a most motorcycle recklessly through the countryside. Terry makes him pull over. Hey, you better slow down or I won't be with you anymore. Girl, yeah, that's a threat. That ain't a threat. That's that's a plan that she's just not aware of. Girl, you're gonna be out of here by next Tuesday anyway. Nobody worried about you. Lance is working his way through it, but he and CRISPR are different in many ways. The biggest one is that Lance doesn't really have any responsibilities. He's already stepped away from the globe, or actually, he was unceremoniously removed from the globe. He's been begged to come back, but he's not really into that. He's chilling. On the other hand, Pastor Pantydroppers is earning his key, keeping it holy, and he's keeping it hot. He helped our bad girl Melly Mel through tears after just finding out who he is and where he used to belong. Despite him being under the rest, he still took care of her. Girl, you love your husband. Why don't y'all try to work this thing out? I have to say, something is kind of interesting about him on the show right away. Each time we see him, he's either showing almost everything or showing almost nothing at all. He's either dressed like a priest or he's in some sort of workout clothes, sweating and reminding the audience that priests are meant to. He's polite. After I guess he's done punching the bag at the gym, he goes on a nice long run in the countryside dressed in the shortest of shorts and a baby blue wife beater. He is making a matching ensemble, right? You could say Falcon Crest is pushing the envelope, but they're clever enough with it. Like this makes sense. This track. If he grew up in an orphanage, all he did is work out all day. I have no reason to believe that besides out of his um priest garments, the only other clothes he probably would have are maybe a couple pairs of blue jeans, but mostly it's gonna be casual workout wear because that's literally all he does. So he's running, and for whatever reason, Melissa is driving her little two-seater. She recognizes him from behind. Of course she does. She got to watch him leave her property the last couple episodes ago. She's like, hey, I know that. Pulls up beside him, hey Chris. I just want to say thank you so much. Me and Cole are back on the ups and ups. We'll get to that here in a second. Stands up in her car, gives him a little kiss on the cheek, and he's like, Okay, well, where are you headed? She's like well, I was headed to our session. Oh, I'm so sorry. I called to cancel that. She's like, all right, bet. Don't worry about it. I guess I'll see you around. He's like, Yeah, I'll see you around. I gotta get going. I don't want my legs to cramp up. So he starts running again. And you know, even though her heart is with Cole, even though they just woke up, woke up, they just made up. She makes sure to take a couple, two, three peeks at him as he runs off. Like, okay. Alright, I see you, I see you. No doubt. The bad girl Melly Mel. Good for her that she's not related to him because I think she's definitely absorbing a little more than she should. But you know who is related to her? Good old cousin Robin. You know, the night previous, she spends it at the church talking to Father Chris all night, I guess. She comes home the next morning, tells Cole that she was ready to leave him, and he's like, Don't be like that. I was only hugging Robin because she felt a baby kick and she got scared. I was just trying to comfort her. Nothing more, nothing left. She's like, All right, but you know she gotta go. I can't have her around my house. I'm becoming more and more stressed out with her here. He says, you know what? I agree. So now that she and Cole are back together, it's time for Robin to leave the nest. When they tell her, she has audacity to be surprised. Like, why? Why should I leave? Listen, listen, listen, Linda, listen, it's just not working out. We're gonna we're gonna get you an apartment. It's gonna be real, real nice, but you gotta get up out of here. You ain't gotta go home, but you gotta get out of here. She's like, but but I like it here. I really don't want to leave. Please don't make me leave. Of course she likes it. Why wouldn't she? There's free food, free clothes, she gets to play with baby Joseph. It's a pretty easy gig. Plus, she gets to harass her cousin and possibly still her husband. So when Cole leaves the room, Melissa looks over to her with that look like, yeah, girl. Time for you to leave. And Robin's like, girl, please, listen, I know I was acting crazy, but you can't kick me out just because I don't behave the way you want me to. Melissa's like, girl, I'm not even gonna go back and forth with you today. Once you have this baby, I need you to know something. You are out of our lives totally forever and ever. Amen. But in the meantime, your little bonnie behind is just out. Get back in, darling. I think baby Joseph is probably gonna be devastated because she is his in-house playmate along with the other maids. But you know what? For a kid who is as brilliant as he is and as sharp as he is, and as much as he likes to play with his toys, he don't play with everything, and he certainly don't play with everybody. Well, let's let's let's bounce over to Maggie real quick. Maggie is minding her business in a house she doesn't remember buying with the husband she doesn't remember galloping up on his trusty steed to see if she wants to come home and and make a little love with him. She says for the fortieth fifth time, Chauncey, I don't know you. My name is Chase. That's exactly what I said. I don't know you and no, I'm not going to your house. But she does go inside her own house and she starts looking around. She sees a picture of Cole and decides she's gonna go visit him the next day. So she goes over and she and Cole are having a good time when in walks Melissa and baby Joseph. Melissa is also wearing a killer kind of Beetlejuice print blazer, black and white with red gloves and a red hat. Oh, I love it so much. I love it. But Baby Joseph walks in, takes one look at Maggie, aka Margaret, because he don't know her like that, and he says, Hey, what's that, Max? Melissa snatches him up like a good mother. Don't you ever call your grandmother by her first name? He's like, That ain't my grandma. Baby Joseph's right. New Maggie does not have that sort of glazed over look in her eyes. New Maggie does not seem to be going off that mommy juice 97% of the time. Living at a vineyard is not her thing. Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly. I can't prove it, but I know I know glossed eyes when I see them. New Maggie is weird. Grandma was cool. Something about this rejection from this precious little boy jogs Maggie's memory. Maybe she was gonna tell him to stay in a child's place. Maybe she was gonna say, I don't wanna be your grandma. You see how young and fly I am. But instead, she remembers that she gave him that dinosaur. She remembers. Hey, didn't I give you didn't mean your granddad give you that dinosaur for your birthday last year? Everyone gets all excited. Yeah, you guys totally did. Oh my gosh, it's coming back. My memory is coming back. This warms Joseph heart. He's probably kind of funny that the mention of a gift, he's like, oh wait, oh yeah, you are my grandmama. Yeah. Let me show you this toy catalog real quick. Meanwhile, on the other side of Falcon Crest, Chase is beginning his BE era. He is going into petty crimes and he really don't give a damn. As a matter of fact, he wants to be caught. He wants to go to jail. Why? Let's get to that. So Chase and his son have just stolen back their prize champagne from Falcon Crest. They have to steal it because Cassandra and her cuckoo mama said that they couldn't have it. The little lawyer guy said, Chase, if it was me, I would just steal it. I mean, what are they gonna do? So he does. He steals it. Him and Cole are having a good out time. They're outside playing, really, just kind of wrestling, having a good time. While Cassandra and her mother are at yet another undisclosed location on the Falcon Crest property, and they notice that the champagne cellar has been broken into. Is champagne kept in the cellar? It is for the sake of this argument. Immediately they think it's Angela Permagod. Let's go get that. Let's go talk to Jerry Curl. Let's go talk to little orphan annie. So they bust up into Angela's study, and she is a Paul like I what I look like stealing champagne. I am a vineyardist. I am a wine cellar, homegirl. That's what I do. We sell wine here. We don't sell bubbly grape juice. Cassandra tries to give her one more chance. Angela, I know you did it. You know you did this to get back at my mother. Anna's one of the people you can't take nowhere. She's turned up. I am very inconvenienced by this, Angela. Angela's like, listen, as much pleasure and joy as it would give me to inconvenience you. I didn't take it with BS champagne. I hate champagne. Let the record reflect, I am very, very pleased with the fact that you were uncomfortable. It makes me very happy. It doesn't take a whiz to figure out who has the champagne that Angela doesn't want. None other than Chase. So Cassandra and Anna drive over. They see Chase in broad daylight. It's probably about 12.30 p.m. There's a whole truck slowly loading the champagne crates onto a conveyor belt while Cole and his father act out WWE scenarios. They pull up like, well, well, well, you about ready to go to jail? The sheriff is already there. Chase is like, yeah, as a matter of fact, I would love to go to jail right then. Little lawyer guy pulls up in the wagon here. Talking about Chase, you need a lawyer? I certainly do. The sheriff is like, listen, I don't, I mean, I'm not really trying to do any paperwork. Are y'all sure y'all want to press charge us? He's asking Cassandra and Anna. They say, well, not if he gives his champagne back. He's like, I'm not gonna give it back, so go ahead and arrest me, please. Chase wants to go to jail because he and the lawyer have already figured out that if he goes to jail, he's still gonna have this press conference. They're gonna need to know why he's in jail. It's gonna be splashed all over the news when he tells the parents. Papers that the only reason that uh Cassandra and her mother Anna purchased Falcon Crust wasn't so that they could bring a resort, it was so that they could destroy Angela Channing. We're just gonna be hella, hella, hella messy since y'all are playing with my bubbly. Anna says, Okay, well, cool, go ahead and be messy. I want to be messy. Anna got that. Anna's own that cuckoo. She's a real one, you know what I'm saying? But Cassandra doesn't have the stomach for this. She's like, Mama, no, because I mean the stakeholders aren't gonna want to contribute if they know there's a whole problem like this. Even if it was true or false, it doesn't really matter. The narrative could be out there, it could be very damaging. So they walk away with their pride in their pockets and just eat it. Okay, so Chase eventually goes home. Maggie eventually goes over and says, I remember that you and I bought Joseph this here doll or this stuffed animal. Chase is super excited. By the grace of God, he already had five or six buttons unbuttoned. He's wearing a hideous dad vest, but that's all good. He thinks this is my shot. Let me go ahead and put in my bed. Hey, uh, Maggie, do you think maybe you'd want to go to the fair? They go to the fair and they have a good old time. It's kind of a montage. They're riding the carousel, they're watching people stomp the crap out of grapes, which I didn't think was a real thing. Seems like you'd have to have really rough feet because of all the twigs and stuff. That would be very painful. And I don't really want to drink no foot juice wine. But it's fun to look at at a at a fair. They go and get cotton candy, and the the Texan in me was slightly disappointed. How do you go to the fair? Y'all don't get you a sausage on the stick. If you've never been to the Texas State Fair, make your way down there. I've only been a couple of times, but have some of the weirdest stuff. I think they had deep fried ice cream, uh, deep-fried butter one time. Deep-fried whatever you want. They just sort of up the ante year after year after year. But get yourself a good old chili dog, a good old Frito pie, a corn dog, if nothing else. But they bite into cotton candy and they act like it's either piping hot or messy like ice cream. I assume that this was a filming choice because they couldn't very well have heavy cream dripping down the front of their very expensive wardrobe. But as the episode progresses, Maggie warms up to him. She even finds a box of letters that she kept when he was in Nam. It's wild for me to realize that Chase is old enough to have been in Vietnam. And then I have to remember how soon that would have been how not far long ago that would have been from 1985. It's just wild thinking, man, yeah, this this young guy, I guess he's like round 40. This young guy was a nom. He had like a whole career before this. It's crazy. Okay, before we get too deep into the other stories, I will say that Maggie does eventually by shows in, ends up going home to chase. Because she she feels them. Like they had a really great day at the fair. She can see how much love they had in the letters that she chose to keep. They even shared a kiss, and he's like, baby, please come home. She just couldn't do it. Well, let me think. What else happened? Who's a bit player here? Part of me thinks there's part of new Maggie's mind that is maybe waiting on Richard just a little bit. She doesn't remember anything, but she knows how she feels when she sees him. And funny enough, Richard knows how he feels having to look over his shoulder every 20 minutes. So he decides to enact this plan to go ahead and lure a would-be killer out of hiding. The plan is to go around and talk-ish to each one of his mild-mannered enemies. Tell everybody in town that he's gonna have a whole press conference because he knows exactly who tried to off him. In reality, though, he's just trying to poke the bear a little bit. So he's leaving his house one day. We see a leather-combed, gloved hand cock a gun and shoot it across the yard. Pow! Hits Richard. He crumbles to the ground. His good for nothing bodyguard basically waits for him to hit the ground and then he kneels slowly and looks around very, very slowly. Uh Marla Maples comes, what's her name, Jordan? Uh Miss Jordan comes running over, blah, blah, blah. Well, it turns out Richard is wearing a bulletproof vest. He thought bulletproof vests also meant pain-proof vests. That is not the case. He got shot for real, for real, and it hurt all to be damned. The plan was for the killer to think that they killed him, quickly put him in an ambulance. He's gonna be fine the whole time. That's what he thought. Only now he's in pain for real. So he's like, nah, give me to a hospital for real, for real. We're gonna get this figured out. So because Richard is still powerful, even though he's a little bit broke, he is admitted into the hospital, even though there's actually nothing really wrong with him. Nothing new that is wrong with him. Miss Jordan puts on a press conference saying that he is in stable condition. She wants the killer to believe that they got him. Now the doctors are pissed because this is the county hospital for crying out loud. Sir, you did this ain't Cedar Sinai. You can't book a room. This ain't the motel, hotel, holiday, and this ain't even the Laquita. I need you up out that bed. Richard's like, nah, I can't do that. Trying to figure out who's trying to kill me. The doctor's like, all right, all right, all right. I'll give you three days, and then I don't want to see you ever again. I need that bed. We need fresh bodies in here. My new Mercedes ain't gonna pay for itself. Okay, real quick. Let's go back to the smoking hot men of the show, shall we? We've already seen Pastor Pantydroppers, one half of Julia's boys running in shorts, sweating it out in the gym, and then in some respectable clothing as he does his priestly duties. His baby brother, Lance, been that dude. We've been knew that. And based on as tan as he is this season, I feel like this kid has been on a lot of vacations. He's been outside quite a bit. And this episode is no different. We already saw him fully clothed. Father Christopher had come over to talk to Angela one morning, and Lance comes sleeking into the house like he's fresh off the set of Miami vice. Angela's trying to go off on him. Lance, where the hell you been? I've been out. How come you didn't call and tell somebody you were okay? I didn't want to. That's the least you could have done. You have the you need to respect this family enough to let us know what's going on in your life. And he's like, I'm sorry. Is that the Jerry curl calling the bleach blonde fake? Madam, seems to me like you should have been telling people a whole lot of truth for a whole lot of time, and you didn't. Now everybody in the house feels this way. Christopher feels like that, Lance feels like that, Emma definitely feels like that. And Angela for the first time has to just sit back and take it like ding, ding, ding, ding it. Okay, man. So I lied. So what? Lance is having a hard time dealing with this new information on top of already reeling from the death of his wife, but he's not responding to Christopher. And for whatever reason, this pisses Auntie Emma off. That's a good Auntie. So she marches out to the pool where we get to see Lorenzo Lamas and his six foot two, six foot three glory laid out by the pool, greased up, almost as greasy as Karen. Almost. But he is working on a tan and a pair of draws and speedos. You can see the underwear underneath, which I mean I get it. This is daytime tea. You gotta be careful. He's baking in the sun, and Emma's like, could you please tell me why you're ignoring Christopher? That's your brother. He's like, I I just had a brother for like the last two minutes. I know I had a brother all this time. This is just how I live. I'm not doing anything, I'm just not participating in this. Emma wants to know why. Why? He didn't do anything to you. Don't you think he could use a friend? A brother, maybe? Lance's like, he's a priest, he'll be fine. Plus, the kid likes to run, pray, and like chill. That's fine. He's perfectly fine. Well, this is all that Emma could take. Oh, you funny? Oh, you want to talk slick? You want to talk to me like you like you talk to everybody else? Uh uh. She suddenly channels the Hulk string. I don't I just certainly don't think she would be strong enough to do this. But she flips the table over. Only it's not a table. She flips his lounge chair over, dumps him in the pool. He comes up looking like, oh my god, here you go. She cusses him out, tells him to get his ish together. You better be nice to your brother, period. Point blank. In all the commotion, I totally forgot that Christopher is not only Lance's brother, but he is Cassandra's brother and Riker, but Riker's in space right now, so that doesn't really count. So all during the show, the manimal has been working diligently behind the scenes. He's been looking into old newspaper, he's been investigating this whole sceney fire, and he he knows that there's there's a vital clue. He kind of feels like Anna set the fire. I totally did too. It's kind of based on how the story is unfolding. So what he does is he goes back to the newspaper in town and he's looking through all the archives, he's looking through all the old papers. The good thing about that is that when when someone writes a paper, when a reporter is doing a story, not only is it published, but these people at this particular newspaper agency have the foresight to go ahead and salvage and save all of the notes from every reporter on every story. So obviously, you read the paper, you're getting the condensed version, as the manimal is comparing the reporter's notes to the actual article. So many things are redacted, so many things are omitted completely. So he says, Well, this is highly unusual. Why wasn't any of this put in the paper? It just this is this is almost like two totally different conversations. Well, the post, I almost call him the postmaster. What is he? The newspaper editor says, Well, you ain't gonna believe this. Anna Rossini's cousin was a sheriff at the time, so he made sure to just say what he needed to say. He told the paper one thing. There were things in the report that he left out, but through investigation, they basically pieced together that she had blown it up. So at least the people at the newspaper, or at the very, very least, the reporter who reported on it so many years ago, knew that Anna had a little more to do with it than she let on. This is all they need. This is the smoking gun. Actually, Christopher is a smoking gun. The reporter's notes are just the seasoning on the side, they're the actual bullets, etc. Whatever. Angela does have to eventually tell Christopher, okay. Your mama doesn't really know this, but let me tell you what had happened to your daddy. Your daddy is dead because of XYZ. He was trying to get your sister, your mom. She was really young, he was gonna leave his wife. I feel like the wife blew up everything. And because the manimal has been doing all this work, they knew they couldn't just tell Christopher that, especially after him finding out that she had lied. Angela had lied to him for so many years. They had to come with evidence. So, by this next to last scene, you got Father Christopher chilling in Angela's study. Angela's there, the manimal's there, and in walk, Cassandra and her mother. Angela lays everything out. Baby girl, your mother set your house on fire. She's the one who got your daddy killed, wasn't smoking in bed. None of that is true. My daughter Julia was having an affair with your daddy, and they were gonna run away and be married because she was pregnant. Cassandra looks like she wants to vomit. Even though she doesn't want to believe this, can you imagine? Like, this is not the story that she's been told. She's built her whole life, her whole reputation, her whole career off of this lie that her mother has been feeding her for the past years. Well, Anna is gangster and she got that straight face. She is not afraid of perm rock goddess. She's a short-haired baddie herself. I don't know what she's talking about. This is wildly imaginative, to say the least. Baby, I ain't got no reason to lie. I'm telling all of the truth. Well, Anna starts to get rowdy. She's getting defensive because she knows she's caught and she's cornered. You lying, Angela. I'm tired of you playing in my face. I don't even give a damn about your priest being here. I don't care just because he's here, I'm supposed to believe it. All this is true. My husband would never, he would never leave me. We were deeply madly in love. He never looked left nor right. Okay, he was only looking at Anna. Anna the baddest. Of course, the perma goddess scoffs at that. Like, girl, bye. Bye. I'm a baddie. My baby girl's a baddie, which is why she's still your husband. It's is as simple as that. Before they could get too deep into it, I I took I took creative liberties there, but please understand that is the underlying essence. Father Christopher, aka Pastor Panty Dropper says, Well, madam, I am a Julia Thompson A. Your hut. Cassandra, what's that, baby girl? I'm your brother. Cassandra looks like, God my god, I need to sit down. I'm gonna pass out. I'm gonna faint or I'm gonna vomit right here all over this this uh lavender paint in this. Uh it's hot in here. She looks sick. Anna's like, boom, I'm not gonna take this. She hops up. She don't need that cane, by the way. She hops up and she starts to try to limp back. Remember, she's supposed to be hurt. Come on, Cassandra. Cassandra is frozen. She is deducing everything that they have said and coming to a devastating conclusion. My mother is crazy and she be lying. Anna's not having a I said, Cassandra, I said, come on. So she storms out of the house. Angela sits back looking quite satisfied, and Cassandra tries not to vomit on all this nice furniture. So later that night, the Perm Ra god is resting peacefully in her bed, propped up on her pillow because she's trying to salvage a good hairstyle. We've all been there. When someone breaks in the house, we don't even need to keep it secret. You know who it is. Walka Flock of Flame throwing Annie. She has time today. She's got gas. She's got matches. She's got wire cutters. She came over there to set it off. So she starts nipping and cutting wires. Y'all ain't finna call nobody. You're not finna cut on no light. She carefully douses the steps with gasoline, flicks the match with the lights and it burning, and then flicks it into the hallway. She walks out of the house to no doubt with the song Disco Inferno going off in her mind. David Burn. Disco Inferno. Burn that turn right now. She's probably thinking, I hope that witch just put on a fresh coat of activator before she went to bed. You wanna call me a flamethrower? Oh yeah, I'm her. That's what I do. Now you got my hand itching. Now I need to burn something. End scene. This episode was fast. It was furious. It is to the point. The cat is all the way out of the bag. Christopher knows who he is, and people now know who Christopher is. The only person who doesn't know is our good sister Julia. Now I hope we find Julia in the right state of mind. Otherwise, this is gonna be her fourth consecutive season trying to burn to death or shoot to death or club to death or candlestick to death. Somebody in her family. I hope she takes it well. And we will find out next time on the double scoop of the crust where Falcons lay. Alright, guys. Join me next time for part episode five, season five of Falcon Crest. In the meantime, in between time, if you pissed off a pyrol fanny yak, you better know where the matches are at, or else you're gonna wake up barbecue. Stay hydrated. For real, for real. Just in case I don't want to start. Stay moisturized.