Cristal is the new co-Prez of BlueBell Vineyards, to Adam's chagrin (or pouting). She's majorly concerned about the financials--why wasn't Adam more concerned when he took over?
Fallon believes that giving Liam a copy of his second book (the one about them) will help speed things along.
Dominique claims she took the cufflink from the quasi-crime scene to "protect Jeff" from Blake; he says she can make things right...by getting the hell out of his house. By phone, however, Jeff suggests Dom can earn some brownie points if she helps him bring down Adam. Sign her up!
Adam works to undermine Cristal's plan to have a wine tasting party. He even manages to con Mrs. Gunderson out of the re-edited guest list, though she seems more suspicious of them than most of the Carringtons. Or is it scared???
Leave it to Bo (Good boy! You're a good dog!) to carry the scene where the "AC" cufflink makes yet another appearance.
"This hotel opens in a week...." and Culhane wants to put one of his soccer players up at the hotel anyway. It would stand to reason that most of the rooms would be finished, but they continue to act like the whole place is in ruins. The player is being shaken down by some goons and needs to hide out.
Fallon climbs up the trellis at Laura's (who apparently lives in Atlanta?) to give Liam the book, but the burly guards stop her. She drops the book in the bushes. Laura claims Liam and Ashley are going to the courthouse to get married later that day.
Fallon enlists Sam to complete her "Hail Mary Pass" with the book. He actually says "But I have to go to work!"...who thought you'd ever hear him say that???
Cristal suggests Blake do some normal bonding time with Adam. After Fallon interrupts their nearly normal chat to lambaste Adam again....Blake and Adam burst into Tears For Tears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"--yes, with choreography and all. When she offers a critique, they look at her like she's crazy. Singing? Are you okay?
Sam arrives at Laura's ostentatious (okay, tacky) estate with a flower arrangement gift for "the bride" Ashley. But the way he wears those tight jeans and polo shirt is a gift for the rest of us. Fallon is connected to him via an earpiece.
Blake's face was apparently on the labels of his wines, but Adam fixed it so that Cristal's face is now on the labels--to sow discord. Her response: "Yes, that's my face. The same face when we met."--ha! Dominque drops by to trade a few barbs and later injects something into several bottles of wine that Cristal plans on serving at the party.
Fallon says she's developing a headache, but doesn't realize the AC cufflink is on the hearth right next to where she's sitting. Sam finds Liam, hands him the book....then Fallon launches into Phil Collins's "Against All Odds" to Liam over speaker on Sam's phone. Sam's just standing there holding out the phone (trying not to exist) while security swarms outside the windows. Liam is....intrigued by all the attention.
Sam and Fallon discuss the minor victory, as well as his belief that her room smells like cheese. Back off from Liam, he suggests, then launches into the Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love,", getting her to join in eventually. Sam's wearing a shirt that would make Diana Ross blush. Afterwards, Fallon gets that same "I wasn't singing..." reaction from Sam. They head downstairs to the party.
Anders refers to the hotel as La Mirage casually in a scene with Kirby. He tells her she has a lot more growing up to do. She then meets Culhane's soccer player friend.
The wine sampling party: Cristal adjusted the wine bottle images to hummingbirds and blue-bells. Adam looks....deflated. Fallon is pleased to see Adam and Cristal having a heated discussion. Cristal then launches into "Burning Down the House" (complete with dancing waiters), and Adam joins in. He sings better than she does. Blake has a verse or two. What's going on here? Fallon asks Sam, who has disappeared to get onstage too. Bo's barking manages to bring Fallon back to her senses just in time to see
Liam, across a crowded room. And yes, he's real (even as the singing apparently wasn't), and he is NOT wearing a wedding ring. He's decided he should not marry Ashley.
Not because he remembers anything, but because there are too many questions about what he doesn't remember. The book certainly paints quite a picture of what he was up to in the past year.
There is a small gas explosion in Fallon's room, thanks to a slow gas leak in her fireplace (thus the hallucinations, and the smell of cheese!). Adam takes the brunt of it, and leaves the mansion with his eyes bandaged up. Dominique goes back to Jeff's and tells them about this whole eye-for-an-eye thing, that Adam hurt her son and she wasn't going to tolerate that. But did she really engineer the gas leak? Because the leak must have been happening since that morning.
We soon see Dom speaking to someone via phone saying they need to sit tight for a while longer, that they're about to get everything they want.
