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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 179754" data-attributes="member: 22">1959Chase, speaking in 1982: How long have you been medical examiner here [the Tuscany Valley], Dr Cook?Dr Cook: Twenty-three years. Mr Blair, speaking in 1982: I’ve been with this paper [the Globe] twenty-three years.A letter from Jasper Gioberti: “Dear Angela and Jason, I know you will understand and accept what I am about to tell you. Many years ago, during a visit to our native village in Italy, I met and fell in love with a beautiful Italian girl. It was with reluctance that I left her to return to my family in America, but I vowed I would never forget her nor the great happiness she brought into my life. It is to this end that I have included a codicil to my last will and testament, date 6th June 1959. This document indicates that my estate is to be divided equally among my children, Jason Robert Gioberti, Angela Gioberti Channing and your sister, Francesca Anna Maria Gioberti, born to my Italian lover and raised by the Gioberti family in Italy. I trust that you will share your love as well as your land with Francesca. I love you all equally. Your father.”Angela: I’ve never been overly fond of surprises.Francesca: It was a shock to me to find out that I was illegitimate, that I was not who I thought I was. I can’t help feeling that Jasper Gioberti cheated me out of a part of my life.Chase: My grandfather’s whole life revolved around Falcon Crest. He wanted to keep it intact forever.Angela on Falcon Crest: My father thought of this as a kingdom and I promised him I'd keep it that way.Jasper Gioberti, died 1959Jacqueline: Jason's fate was sealed the day his father died. Angela on a timepiece: It was my grandfather's. It was passed onto my father Jasper and Jason's had it ever since Jasper died.Gus on Jasper: He left [Elizabeth Bradbury] some money when he died.Phillip Erickson to Chase: In his will, your grandfather stipulated that the original fifty acres settled by him here at Falcon Crest would pass to the heirs of the first of his children, Angela or Jason, to die. The balance of his estate, this house and the five hundred acres around it, are left to his surviving child, either Angela or Jason. The only other provision of your grandfather's will is that his surviving child would only retain Falcon Crest in the event of the natural death of the other. Angela: You see, my father's greatest concern was that Falcon Crest remain in the immediate family and he wrote a will to protect us all. The only thing that could jeopardise Falcon Crest's unity would be the death of one of his children under suspicious circumstances - in which case, the victim's heirs will inherit what is rightfully theirs.Angela: This house was given to me separately to the winery.Angela: My father's dreams for Falcon Crest became Jason's and mine. Angela: I carried Lance into the vineyard before he could walk just like my father did with me. Maggie: When you were nineteen, you came back to visit your father.Chase: He wanted me to come back and help me run the place.  I was in college. I had my sights on a career. He couldn't see my needs.Chase, speaking about Lance in 1981: The last time I saw him, he was only a year old.Julia, speaking in 1981: I haven't spoken to Chase in years.Terry: Chase and I have never really gotten along. Chase to his son Cole: I don't think I've smiled so much since I met your mother's parents.Maggie: That's funny, I don't remember you smiling.Maggie, mid-anecdote: ... Then he said, “If you won’t marry me, my life will be only a trail of tears.” Vicky: Dad said that?!Maggie: Yes he did and a lot more, and I’m not going to tell you any of it!Vicky, speaking to her parents in 1983: Now I know this isn’t exactly what you want to hear, but please try to get used to it because it’s the way I feel.Chase to Maggie: I recall you saying something similar to that to your father when we wanted to get married.Terry: You and Chase came to Dad to tell him you were getting married.Maggie: We didn’t exactly tell him. We asked him.Terry: Of course — but you always were the kind to need permission, weren’t you?Paul to Maggie: I wanted to tell you [about your adoption] many times, your sixteenth birthday, when you were twenty-one, just before you got married, but Margaret and I disagreed about when you should be told. Maggie to Chase: You and I were married by the time I was [nineteen].Maggie on her wedding: I didn’t really have a dress and a veil and all.Maggie: I went from my father’s house to Chase’s house. I have never felt independent in my entire life.Michael Ranson to Maggie: I always said that Chase would never lose with you beside him.Maggie: Chase was an airline pilot when I married him. How stable is that?Maggie to Chase: In all the years that we’ve been married, I have never even come close to being unfaithful to you.1960B. Reilly Wicker, attorney, to Chase: Did business with your father some years ago. I liked Jason.Carl Beck, vineyardist neighbour of the Giobertis, to Chase: Chase, for all his life, your father told me to replant, but the old vines kept baring so well, I never thought [an infestation] would happen. Your father and I were best friends. Chase: Gus Nunuoz, my father's vineyardist and loyal friend.Angela: Gus hasn’t worked at Falcon Crest since my father died.Chase, speaking in 1981: Gus was with my father for over twenty years. They kept each other going.Gus Nunuoz on Jason: He was a rare breed. Jason was like a father to me.Gus to Chase on the main bedroom in the Gioberti house: We built a wall right along here, with a door someplace about there. Your father had a new room. Said he needed a place to himself.Chase: He had a whole houseful of rooms.Gus: He did a lot of things I never understood, but this room was special for him. Gus on Jason’s room: Nobody else ever went in there. He'd spend hours on end in there, reading - writing sometimes.Chase on ‘The Family of Joseph Gioberti’: It looks like a family bible. Maggie: You think Angela wrote it?Chase: Or had it written. Chase: I don't think my father thought much of ‘The Family of Joseph Gioberti’. You'll find his comments written all over it. Maggie, reading: ‘The Gospel According to St. Angela’?Chase: Oh he would have changed the title too.Maggie: There are lots of pages missing, huh?Chase: Yeah and lots of others defaced. Maggie: Ripped out.Chase: Yeah. Funny little drawings, cryptic notes to the author.Maggie, reading: "The self-anointed queen at the head of the table"?Chase: 'Queen Angela the First'. He alternates between that and 'Saint Angela'. He writes about [Elizabeth Bradbury] often.Maggie, reading: "What happened to Elizabeth Bradbury, Angela? Where's Elizabeth now?"Chase: He seemed to feel that she belonged in the book.Chase on Elizabeth: Was my father in love with her?Gus: It was hard not to be. She meant something to him. He spoke of her often, asked if I'd seen her, how she was doing.Chase: He wrote about her a lot, all through his writings. Chase to Elizabeth: My father wrote of you many times in his diaries. "Beautiful Elizabeth … lovely, gentle Elizabeth."Gus: One day he stopped writing. From then on, he sat in there alone and drank. Sometimes he cried. Maggie on Jason's secret room: It's almost as if this is where Jason really died.Gus: I guess part of him did. He hurt himself mostly. We talked about everything in life, especially when he drank. Gus: Then the time came when he said to me, "Gus, wall the door shut." And I did. I left some open framing in case he ever wanted to reopen it.Chase: Gus, why did he go to so much trouble?Gus: He was unhappy.Chase: You don't make a room and then cover it up just because you're unhappy.Gus: When your father sealed off this room, he sealed off his life the same way.Angela: Jason's horrible room.Emma on Lance’s bedroom: The room Lance lived in since he was a little boy. Angela on Lance: I’ve lived with that boy all of his life and I’ve heard some very odd things.Lance to Angela: You’ve been trying to run my life ever since I was a kid.Angela on Lance: He was never very good at saying thank-you.Mario Nunuoz, Gus’s son: My father, he had a real feeling for his people, but he could never do anything for them, not really. He had the feelings, but he didn’t have the education.Alicia Nunuoz, Gus’s wife, on college: Nobody in the family ever had such doors open to them. Maggie: I have a degree in journalism I never thought I'd even get a chance to use.Angela on Terry: A high school drop out. Lauren Daniels: I’ve been around money all my life. I don’t think I’m any happier for it.Walker Daniels to Lauren: To you, there’s no relationship between business and work, and eating. It’s always been there for you — Daddy, Mikey, me.Michael Sharpe: What’s a father? I had one, a scared little man, a three dollar an hour bookkeeper. He taught fear by example. His life scared the hell out of me.Lauren, speaking in 1990: You think I’m going to move in and take care of you like when we were kids?Michael: You take care of me? I think you’ve got that turned around. Michael: I have been cocky all my life.Michael: Remember that place we used to go for fresh pistachio nuts when we were kids?Lauren: Down in Monterey?Paul Salinger, speaking in 1981: What about our charter operation?Chase: We've been kicking that dream around for twenty years.Diana Hunter: Herb Talmadge, San Francisco Globe reporter, international affairs editor, editor in chief since 1960.1961Phillip Erickson, speaking to Chase about Jason’s will in 1981: He left me a handwritten document nearly twenty years ago, but he was careful to reaffirm it every year since then. Your father left you everything in his estate, which I'm afraid wasn't much.Angela: I'm afraid Jason just wasn't a vineyardist. He depleted the value out of the soil.Julia to Angela: You ruined Uncle Jason.Emma on Angela: She drove Uncle Jason out of his mind. Julia: Compassion has never been Angela's forte.Emma: Uncle Jason taught me how to drive his truck.Peter Stavros: It wasn't so long ago Sofia was just a little girl. I used to come home from a business trip, throw off my coat, we'd get down on the floor and play silly games. She used to love to be tickled. Sofia to Peter: You loved those damn boats than you ever loved me.Peter to his stepdaughter Skylar: Remember that portrait you gave me for my birthday?Peter on Skylar: In some ways, she’s the one I regret the most. Maybe it’s because I had to win her love and then lost it.Angela: Oh Peter, it couldn’t have been your fault. Peter: It was my fault because I let it happen. Sofia on Peter: He and my mother fought constantly. She wasn't nearly as strong-willed as Angela.Peter on Sofia: I took custody of her when I divorced her mother.Angela: I remember that scandal. “Rich playboy leaves wife for Austrian countess.”Peter on Skylar: When her mother and I divorced, I don’t know, she must have turned Skylar against me. Eric Stavros, Peter’s son, on Peter and Skylar: They haven’t seen each other since before I was born.Skylar on Peter: He hasn’t seen me since I was fourteen years old. Peter on Skylar: The last time I looked into those big hazel eyes, they were filled with tears.Skylar on Peter: After he divorced my mother, he never called me, never wrote, nothing. Peter on Skylar: I wrote her so many letters. She never answered. I’ve always known where she is. Peter: Eric was born and Sofia had what she's always wanted, a little brother. Angela: We have met. You were only five years old. You and your father had gone to visit your grandfather and I was there.Anna Cellini: I remember my grandfather telling me about Falcon Crest and its magnificent vineyards.Angela to Anna: Your grandfather was very sweet to me when I was in Italy.</blockquote>

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