Update:
Okay, here goes --- for the last episode of Season 10....
There's that late-night dinner between Alexis, Caress and Sable, the three women staying at the mansion to oversee the auction (and Alexis there for the greater security provided by the estate given that Dennis Grimes is stalking her).
A lot of
Hush... Hush, Sweet Caress stuff comes out at dinner:
** Caress admits she was the one who told Blake where to catch Alexis with Roger Grimes back in 1964 (deliberately flooding the art studio that day to prevent Alexis' assignations there with "the help" and to force the naughty couple into the master bedroom of the mansion). Caress, who was "dating" the very-married Roger first, became jealous when he dumped her for her rich, older sister.
** Caress concedes that after Roger & Alexis were caught, and Blake beat him with the candelabra, Roger later raped Caress as punishment, impregnating her. (Sable seems startled by this revelation, which hints to the audience that Roger might have been her rapist, too).
After the dinner, Sable goes on a drive for some air, and Caress announces she has a late meeting in town.
The last quarter of the final Season 10 installment:
** Caress goes to Blake's office, confesses that she was the one who'd pulled Sable into the search for The Collection two years earlier after Sable was divorced by Jason. Caress claims she was unaware such a trove of disaster would result. Then, federal agents burst in and arrest Blake (he's been in legal trouble all season after the death of Captain Handler, and the public scandal over The Collection). As Blake is being manhandled through the doorway, he barks at Caress to call his lawyer, the number is in his rolodex... But Caress picks up the phone and calls somebody else, whispering that she doesn't like doing anything to hurt Blake, agreeing she'll see the unseen person on the phone later.
** The younger family members chat at Fallon's lakeside chalet in Aspen, Colorado. Discuss their waning plots.
** Caress arrives back at the near-empty mansion and is confronted in her room by an elderly woman in a wheelchair with a pistol (with a silencer) who angrily hisses that Caress has failed again in her duty to obtain the crystal skull (little do they know, Adam found it in the cellar earlier in the season and absconded with it in order to give it to his mother, Alexis). The vengeful old woman rages that "the Morell women and the Scott sisters" will no longer be the bane of her existence. Caress gasps, "No, no!" and yet does so almost quietly, as if the truth is too ghastly to utter -- even moments before she's about to die.
** Drunk from the earlier revelations over supper, Alexis barely hears the sconce fall upstairs as Caress is killed. Big sister, soused and sloppy, wanders into the darkened ballroom and pours herself another drink at the bar in the corner. She overhears the tiny crackle of glass and witnesses Dennis Grimes stepping through a french door. She finds in her pink robe pocket the derringer Adam had given her that very day "for protection". She pulls the tiny gun out and points is at Dennis, yells
"Stop!" and Dennis, who, pausing and seeing that she's inebriated, suddenly yanks out a 44 magnum (or something big) causing a panicked Alexis to step forward, trip over the leg of a divan, and drop her firearm, the derringer discharging as it hits the ballroom floor, hitting Dennis Grimes in the head, killing him instantly... Near hysteria, Alexis starts trying to hide his body just as the overhead chandeliers flip on and the reflection of a high-heeled intruder's legs and feet can be glimpsed in the broken french door behind Alexis... The camera spins 180-degrees to see that the intruder is indeed Krystle, fresh from one year in an asylum, who has flipped on the lights; she walks pensively across the floor to a green wingchair, gnawing on her lips in her attempt to assess the situation... Alexis just hyperventilates wildly and sweats like a cow.
No music. Fade to black. Weekly series over.
** And THE REUNION from 1991...?
We pick up from that same night, Alexis & Krystle dump the body in the Delta Rho lake, both women presumably chemically altered; the Consortium would be the same cabal that had been searching for The Collection; and Alexis would fly back to London, on her jet, Fallon and Adam in tow, with her green-glowing crystal skull safe in its velvet black carrying case; she's smirkingly satisfied that she wreaked her revenge and reaped the spoils after a long, climactic decade back in Denver; and, in the final moment, Blake & Krystle have their late dance in the ballroom (Ideally, to Dominique's rendition of 'Stranger in Paradise) soon replaced by Krystle's Theme, and the camera backs off.
No freeze frame, Fade to black.