Fallon's now been to five doctors, and they all agreed she cannot carry a baby. Fallon is throwing herself into work to forget; Liam says he'll be there when/if she wants to talk. At the office, an associate tells Fallon that one of her clients is not pleased that Fallon's father is opening that private airline/airport with all the associated pollution. Guilt by association? The client threatens to void their contract.
Kirby and Amanda spent the previous night together. Amanda then goes into work to gloat toward Adam, hoping he will lose his job and his medical license. He's getting that unbalanced look in his eyes again and making mysterious phone calls.
Now that Jeff has released that formula and gotten his revenge on that pharma company, he's now talking (to Dom) about going after some other company (a shoe company) that apparently mistreats its employees. Dom's like "You know you're not some super-hero, right?" Right network, wrong show. Jeff's home is later trashed, with threatening notes and everything. Jeff is not deterred. Will he start wearing a cape and spandex? The CW might end up reconsidering cancelling!!
Fallon proposes MorellCorp. "green up" Blake's airport, but Blake balks at another delay in opening the airport. Cristal insists Fallon can only take 48 hours to do what they can with the "weird light bulbs and stuff" because the airport needs to open on time or else it will be a financial disaster. Maybe they could get Patty DeVilbis to do one of her "green-washing" things from six or seven episodes back?
What the hell is Sam wearing? He reads Sasha's cards (Tarot cards) and decides she's no good for Culhane. He goes to Kirby for help in plotting their break-up. Kirby is no fan of Sasha, either, but Kirby's a bit....distracted.
Adam's secret phone call is to LAURA VAN KIRK, whom he wants to help him get more of that secret ingredient from India. She needs his help, too. There is a board meeting at Van Kirk Industries and Laura needs Liam's proxy in order to get a majority of votes. Will Adam help her? Adam points out that he (Adam) is not one of Liam's favorite people (hmmm, the flower pot, the amnesia, the....you get the idea) but Laura is not one to be denied anything.
So she's laid up in a hospital bed, with Adam claiming she's been in a horrible accident. Liam totally nonchalantly tells Adam to pull the plug. Yes, it was fake, but Laura begs him to take his family responsibilities seriously. He tells her it's HER business and walks out. Laura tells Adam that if she doesn't fight off the takeover attempt from her sister (?), she won't be able to help him with anything. He offers Laura all the Alexam she can inject in her lying face. Adam tells Laura that Liam and Fallon are upset over her infertility, so maybe that's why Liam isn't very receptive.
In an effort to slow down the opening of the airport, Fallon releases an endangered turtle that she smuggled onto the property in her purse. She then has a Department of Natural Resources agent conveniently on premises, who sees the turtle and declares a shutdown of operations. So Blake asks Amanda (the all-purpose attorney) to help him. Fallon still wants to green up the facility but acts innocent when they speak of the delay. Unfortunately she mentions the turtle while no one in the room had mentioned him (her?), so Cristal catches up to Fallon later and nails her for the dirty trick. Cristal demands that Fallon fix it.
Culhane calls Sam out for Sasha leaving him. Sam's Tarot card argument is kind of lame, but he insists he's just being a good friend. Culhane disagrees. Sasha might not have been a prize, but Culhane does have a point. They mend fences eventually, as they always do.
Apparently the situations got fixed, as we see Blake opening the Joseph Anders Memorial Airport. Amanda and Kirby are snogging in one of the private jets when Blake boards to take some offscreen people for a spin. Are we to assume Kirby/Amanda are joining the Mile-High Club?
Laura shows up at the opening, and Liam is actively avoiding her. Laura seeks out Fallon and calls her "useless" since she can't get pregnant. Of course that does not go well. Fallon slugs Laura, and as Laura pulls back to return the favor, Liam grabs his mother's hand. "Being able to give birth does not make someone a mother," he declares. "You're living proof of that!" Laura declares she's going to dis-inherit Liam--he offers to drive her to the lawyer's offices to get the ball rolling. She screams that Fallon is a failure as she retreats from the crowd watching them argue.
Back at the manor, Fallon spills her guts to Cristal over tea. Cristal reminds Fallon that she's in the same boat as far as infertility, and reminds her that she doesn't have to go through this alone. It's all rather sweet; Cristal even offers to foot half the bill for Fallon's greening-up of the airport. Later with Liam, she broaches the subject of getting a surrogate mother, since they've rarely done anything by the book in their relationship. He's okay with it.
Jeff decides that rather than another Batman caper, he'll simply buy the shoe company and fire the guy running it. Jeff announces he will now spend his time rebuilding his fortune and his legacy, which makes Dom very happy. She also wonders about developing a shoe line.
Laura has been drinking heavily and giving herself Alexam injections. Adam is there hoping she will send that e-mail to India to get Adam his ingredients, but she's still toying with him when she trips and falls. He assumes she's passed out drunk, but when he turns her over she is dead, staring blankly ahead with [one of her spiked-heel shoes] sticking out of her chest. Adam uses her eyeprint to unlock her phone, then sends the e-mail. "Couldn't have done it without you..." he quips as he leaves her body on the floor still staring into space.
I wonder: if Liam finds the body, how long will he keep telling her to quit faking it and get up off the floor?
[edited to reflect my mistake as to what caused Laura's demise]
I assumed it was another of her Alexam syringes. Too bad Adam did not agree to her "lifetime supply of Alexam" terms right before her death by heel, because it would have been a great deal. Adam's gallows humor around corpses is weirdly endearing. Not only did he forget to turn her back over (face down), I don't think he wiped his fingerprints off all the stuff he'd been handling (the phone, the syringes, the doorknob, etc.) in the office. My synopses keep getting cut/pasted onto another Dynasty site (by a former tellytalk member, no less), so I guess I should edit above so he doesn't mislead everyone in his effort to karma-farm using my writings.
