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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 163615" data-attributes="member: 22"><p><u>18 Jan 90: KNOTS LANDING: My First Born v. 19 Jan 90: DALLAS: Unchain My Heart v. 19 Jan 90: FALCON CREST: Four Women</u></p><p></p><p>When Polly the receptionist interrupts Greg Sumner’s meeting to tell him he has a call from his daughter, he assumes it’s the one he gave away (“Meg?”). Instead, it’s the one he (and we) had forgotten all about. (“No, it’s me, Dad, Mary Frances.”)</p><p></p><p>Greg isn’t the only KNOTS character with a daughter they haven’t seen in years. The last time either Gary or Val saw Lucy was at Jock’s will reading six years ago; Diana hasn’t been back to visit Karen since she left for New York five years ago. Neither of these separations seemed planned by the writers — they’re simply a result of the actresses in question proving surplus to requirements. All the same, there’s something organic, something “real” about the way each of these estrangements has developed over the years. While Val and Lucy have each made fleeting, wistful allusions to their lack of contact, Karen has admitted to Abby that her and Diana’s relationship has never fully recovered from their feud over Chip Roberts. They do keep in touch by phone — this very week, in fact, Karen mentions calling Diana regarding Eric’s whereabouts. </p><p></p><p>There has been no suggestion of any such contact between Greg and Mary Frances since her last appearance in Season 5. Indeed, their scenes in this episode are all about their lack of contact. When Mary Frances talks to Mack and Karen, for instance, it becomes apparent that she had no knowledge of Greg’s marriage to Laura, much less that she now has a half-sister whom the Mackenzies are raising as their own. Meanwhile, Paige is equally taken aback to learn that her former lover has a grown daughter the same age as she is. </p><p></p><p>So far this season, Greg has had a pretty easy time of it — quipping his way through both the tail end of the Murakame storyline and his “opposites attract” affair with Paula. But now, with Mary Frances reappearing and Mack’s discovery that Oakman Industries is a subsidiary of the Sumner Group, it feels like his chickens have come home to roost. These two plot strands converge when Mack confronts Greg in his office: “Oakman Industries is your company … You’re the one who’s been robbing these people blind. You’re the most corrupt man I’ve ever known. You’re slime.” By this point, Mary Frances has arrived and is standing the doorway, unnoticed by the two men. “Guess you haven’t changed much,” she says, looking at her father. </p><p></p><p>Greg may not have changed, but Mary Frances is played by a new actress. During a flashback to the period when she was last on KNOTS, she retains her new face. Later on, however, when Greg flashes back to her childhood, she is played by a much younger actress and he by his real-life son, just as he has been in previous flashbacks. All of this works well. Slightly more complicated is the last scene of this week’s DALLAS in which Bobby looks across the bar of the Oil Baron's Club, sees a woman leaving and murmurs, “I swear I just saw Pam!” This recalls previous “Holy shit, it’s …” moments in Soap Land, when Gary Ewing and Richard Channing each thought they’d just clapped eyes on, respectively, the resurrected Ciji and Melissa. But whereas those lookalikes were identical to the originals, by virtue of being played by the same actress, the woman Bobby sees clearly <em>isn’t</em> Pam — at least not as he (and we) remember her. She does, however, bear a striking similarity to the post-reconstructive surgery Pam we glimpsed (but he didn’t) at the beginning of last season who, in turn, looked a bit like the pre-car crash Pam. So who has Bobby seen — the reconstructed Pam? A lookalike of the reconstructed Pam? A recast Pam whom Bobby instantly “recognises” as the woman he was married to in the same way Greg instantly “recognises” the recast Mary Frances as the daughter he abandoned? Or is she a lookalike of this hypothetical recast? Or simply a random woman with reddish-brown hair? Tune in next week, folks!</p><p></p><p>On a more prosaic level, Mary Frances’s reappearance echoes Danny Sharpe’s arrival on FALCON CREST last month. Each is the young adult offspring of an emotionally withdrawn business tycoon; each shows up unannounced to confront their father over his neglect. “You were too busy to give a damn,” said Danny. “You don’t even know one thing about me,” says Mary Frances. Cornered yet contrite, these powerful men can offer only flimsy explanations. “I was too young to be your father,” said Michael. “Your mother didn’t think I was suitable father material,” says Greg. “I just didn’t think that you’d want to see me again,” Michael added. “Maybe he thought you didn’t want to see him either,” suggests Paula to Mary Frances. </p><p></p><p>There are also differences. Whereas Danny has dropped out of college, dismissing it an even bigger waste of his time than adolescence, Mary Frances informs Greg that she has a degree in biology. Whereas Danny is now doing everything he can to emulate Michael, including making a pass at his girlfriend (Genele blows his mind by almost succumbing, but then changes her mind at the last minute, prompting Danny to deliver the funniest line of the week: “I’m nineteen years old," he protests, "do you know what this is gonna do to the rest of my day?!”), Mary Frances makes it clear that she despises Greg’s values. “How can you stand being so rich?” she asks him when he takes her to lunch. “I’ve worked for two years in Africa with families who have to watch their children die of hunger and I hate coming back to someone like you.” Over the past few seasons, Soap Land has paid periodic lip service to the plight of the homeless, but this is the first time it has shoved famine in the face of one of its billionaires. Greg is relatively unfazed. “I may not be the best father, but I’m not to blame for all the ills in the world,” he replies evenly. “You don’t have any idea, do you?” Mary Frances retorts. “Because you never see the end results of your actions. You are just completely isolated. Like a B-52 pilot dropping bombs, you don’t see what happens when those bombs fall.” </p><p></p><p>It’s a striking analogy, and an accusation that has been levelled against Soap Land’s rich throughout its history. "You people up here in your ivory tower don't recognise the faces of the people you hurt,” Nancy Scotfield told Bobby Ewing three years ago on DALLAS. “He was too small, too insignificant — an insect for your father to crush without even realising it,” Zach Powers told Jason, referring to his own father, on THE COLBYS. Only last week, DALLAS opened with Cliff Barnes accusing JR of buying “that shoddy tanker just to fatten his own purse without giving a single thought to the environmental destruction it might cause.” </p><p></p><p>The charge of turning a blind eye to the wider reality, of choosing to isolate oneself for the sake of a cushy life has also been made against Soap Land’s stay-at-home good guys: Miss Ellie sitting at the head of the big Ewing dinner table and watching, Krystle radiating the passive acceptance that made her the most dangerous Carrington of them all, Gary occupying himself with the role of gentleman rancher and thus allowing Abby to get up to all sorts in chicanery in his name. Mary Frances’s accusatory “How can you stand being so rich?” question could be asked of any of these characters; they are all complicit.</p><p></p><p>In this context, it’s interesting that JR should choose this week to climb down from his ivory tower and slog it out in the actual oilfields. He, John Ross and Cally surprise Miss Ellie and Clayton in Pride, Texas where the Farlows have reopened Jock’s first drill site in the hopes of striking oil for the local townsfolk. This provides JR with an opportunity to romanticise his profession. “There’s more to it than just making money,” he tells John Ross. “Our heritage started here, son. Ewing Oil started here … Your granddaddy is the greatest oilman that ever lived and not just because he made us rich.” “What else is there?” John Ross asks in surprise. “Oil,” replies JR. “Getting it out of the ground to the refineries, making fuel to power our cars and warm our homes in the winter.” “I thought you did all that in an office.” Yeah … but the hard work and the important work is done right here … Whether you work in the office or in the fields, you’re gonna get dirty, but out here, the dirt’s a lot cleaner.” So while Greg circles above in his B-52 bomber, JR is down in the soil, getting his hands dirty in a cleaner way.</p><p></p><p>Even though Greg looks at Mary Frances as adoringly as JR does John Ross, if not more so, he does not seek to sentimentalise his business practices for her in the same way. Even after making a televised statement acknowledging Oakman’s wrongdoings (“Sometimes what’s legal isn’t moral. I was unaware of the instability of the fund”) and pledging to make full restitution to those concerned, he makes it clear to his daughter that he did not do so out of the goodness of his heart. “It’s good business, it’s good public relations,” he explains. “Listen, I like you and it would be really neat if you liked me, but I can’t pretend to be somebody else just so we can be friends.” This honest approach seems to suit Mary Frances who suggests they “try another lunch.” </p><p></p><p>JR, however, cannot deliver on what he has promised John Ross — to strike it big on Jock’s land. (“By the end of the week, we’ll be swimming in oil!” he vows.) “I”m sorry, Mr Ewing,” his twenty-something, college-educated oil expert who wears tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses tells him. “If I could dig a tunnel from here to Saudi Arabia I would. There just isn’t any oil.” John Ross looks up at his daddy with disappointed eyes. JR may have climbed down from his ivory tower and gotten his hands dirty the old-fashioned way, but he has failed. Moreover, he has failed in front of his new wife and young son — the son who reveres him the way he once did Jock. </p><p></p><p>Like Greg as he addresses Channel 11’s viewers about the pension fund, Cliff breaks the fourth wall on DALLAS when he appears as a guest on AUSTIN TODAY, the Texas equivalent of OPEN MIKE. Turning to the camera, he announces, “There is a new soldier in the American trenches and his name is Cliff Barnes.” His appearance gains the attention of a public relations whizz called Stephanie Rodgers who dresses in Katherine Wentworth’s hand-me-downs and has been catapulted straight into DALLAS’s opening titles. She reckons Cliff has what it takes to make it as a political candidate. “You are the right age, religion and party,” she informs him. “I’m simply the woman that can take you where you want to go.” </p><p></p><p>While Greg is instructing the Sumner Group’s substitute receptionist on the finer points of booking a restaurant table, Mary Frances waits in his office. Sitting behind his desk, she reaches out to turn on his computer. Suddenly, it appears to explode. Greg hears the noise and rushes back in. At first, his attention is caught by the window; he doesn’t seem to notice Mary Frances slumped at the desk, bleeding from a head wound. Then, as he turns to look down at his daughter, the camera shows us what he was looking at previously: a bullet hole through the window.</p><p></p><p>In happier news, there are reconciliations for both James and Michelle on DALLAS and Lance and Pilar on FALCON CREST. One minute, both couples are squabbling; the next, they’re making wild crazy love — in a bath full of bubbles and aboard a luxury yacht respectively.</p><p></p><p>This week’s FALCON CREST is pretty nuts. It opens with Genele suffering from the post-I-just-framed-my-lover-for-my-sister’s-murder blues, which mostly involves her rocking back and forth in her underwear then crawling across the floor to eat from a tin of cat food. Luckily, Lauren, who only last week was hospitalised with the post-I-just-saw-my-husband-blow-himself-up blues, is now sufficiently recovered to help nurse her back to health. There’s more unlikely female bonding on DALLAS as Michelle consoles big sister April following her break up with Bobby. Over a few drinks, both pairs of women reach the same conclusion: men are bit crap. “Men are all just big babies. When they don’t get what they want, they pout,” declares Genele, pouring herself and Lauren each a large glass of wine. “If no other man stepped into my life again, I’d die a happy woman,” April concludes as she and Michelle swig cocktails in a bar. </p><p></p><p>Having failed to ruin the Ewings last week, Carter McKay likens the oil business to a chess game. “You managed a draw — good for you,” he tells Bobby philosophically. Meanwhile, Jovan the Yugoslavian psychic chess master, whom Pilar refers to as her “irrelevant one-night stand”, is still hanging around on FALCON CREST. Genele utilises his photographic memory to obtain some top secret information from Richard’s office so that Michael can swipe a $50,000,000 deal out from under him. Genele then repays Lauren’s friendship by making it look as if she (Lauren) is the one who has betrayed Richard and passed the info onto her brother. A Soap Land good girl caught in the middle of a feud between her brother and the man she loves, falsely accused of spying on one for the other — it’s a tale as old as the third ever episode of DALLAS (“Spy in the House”). </p><p></p><p>The inevitable confrontation comes when Richard arrives home to find Lauren has surprised him with a candlelit dinner. However — proving that you just cannot second guess this season of FALCON CREST — instead of the expected fireworks, it leads to a quietly spoken character scene. “It’s not gonna work, Lauren,” Richard says gently. “I’ve got this thing in my head, this little seed of doubt because I don’t know who to trust. It’s my problem, one of my problems. I don’t know who to love, who to hate, who to kiss, who to hit … No matter how much I care for you, love you, no matter how much I want to believe you, I’ve got this little seed of doubt up here saying, ‘Whoa, Richard’ — because Michael Sharpe is your brother. And he’ll always be your brother.” “Is this about money … some deal that you are Michael are competing for?” Lauren asks him. “It’s not about money,” he explains, “it’s about something in me, it’s about trust. Can I trust you? … Tell me you wouldn’t betray me, even if your brother asked you. That’s what I want to know.” When she refuses to answer, telling him she won’t be interrogated, he asks her to leave. After she’s gone, he blows out the candle on the table. Only then does he lose control, sending a few plates flying. Meanwhile, who should be lurking outside in the dark, waiting for Lauren to drive away, but her new best friend Genele. She then comes to Richard’s door. “I wanna help you,” she tells him before saying the three little words he’d been so desperate to hear from Lauren: “Please, trust me.”</p><p></p><p>And this week’s Top 3 are … </p><p></p><p>1 (2) KNOTS LANDING </p><p>2 (3) FALCON CREST</p><p>3 (1) DALLAS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James from London, post: 163615, member: 22"] [U]18 Jan 90: KNOTS LANDING: My First Born v. 19 Jan 90: DALLAS: Unchain My Heart v. 19 Jan 90: FALCON CREST: Four Women[/U] When Polly the receptionist interrupts Greg Sumner’s meeting to tell him he has a call from his daughter, he assumes it’s the one he gave away (“Meg?”). Instead, it’s the one he (and we) had forgotten all about. (“No, it’s me, Dad, Mary Frances.”) Greg isn’t the only KNOTS character with a daughter they haven’t seen in years. The last time either Gary or Val saw Lucy was at Jock’s will reading six years ago; Diana hasn’t been back to visit Karen since she left for New York five years ago. Neither of these separations seemed planned by the writers — they’re simply a result of the actresses in question proving surplus to requirements. All the same, there’s something organic, something “real” about the way each of these estrangements has developed over the years. While Val and Lucy have each made fleeting, wistful allusions to their lack of contact, Karen has admitted to Abby that her and Diana’s relationship has never fully recovered from their feud over Chip Roberts. They do keep in touch by phone — this very week, in fact, Karen mentions calling Diana regarding Eric’s whereabouts. There has been no suggestion of any such contact between Greg and Mary Frances since her last appearance in Season 5. Indeed, their scenes in this episode are all about their lack of contact. When Mary Frances talks to Mack and Karen, for instance, it becomes apparent that she had no knowledge of Greg’s marriage to Laura, much less that she now has a half-sister whom the Mackenzies are raising as their own. Meanwhile, Paige is equally taken aback to learn that her former lover has a grown daughter the same age as she is. So far this season, Greg has had a pretty easy time of it — quipping his way through both the tail end of the Murakame storyline and his “opposites attract” affair with Paula. But now, with Mary Frances reappearing and Mack’s discovery that Oakman Industries is a subsidiary of the Sumner Group, it feels like his chickens have come home to roost. These two plot strands converge when Mack confronts Greg in his office: “Oakman Industries is your company … You’re the one who’s been robbing these people blind. You’re the most corrupt man I’ve ever known. You’re slime.” By this point, Mary Frances has arrived and is standing the doorway, unnoticed by the two men. “Guess you haven’t changed much,” she says, looking at her father. Greg may not have changed, but Mary Frances is played by a new actress. During a flashback to the period when she was last on KNOTS, she retains her new face. Later on, however, when Greg flashes back to her childhood, she is played by a much younger actress and he by his real-life son, just as he has been in previous flashbacks. All of this works well. Slightly more complicated is the last scene of this week’s DALLAS in which Bobby looks across the bar of the Oil Baron's Club, sees a woman leaving and murmurs, “I swear I just saw Pam!” This recalls previous “Holy shit, it’s …” moments in Soap Land, when Gary Ewing and Richard Channing each thought they’d just clapped eyes on, respectively, the resurrected Ciji and Melissa. But whereas those lookalikes were identical to the originals, by virtue of being played by the same actress, the woman Bobby sees clearly [I]isn’t[/I] Pam — at least not as he (and we) remember her. She does, however, bear a striking similarity to the post-reconstructive surgery Pam we glimpsed (but he didn’t) at the beginning of last season who, in turn, looked a bit like the pre-car crash Pam. So who has Bobby seen — the reconstructed Pam? A lookalike of the reconstructed Pam? A recast Pam whom Bobby instantly “recognises” as the woman he was married to in the same way Greg instantly “recognises” the recast Mary Frances as the daughter he abandoned? Or is she a lookalike of this hypothetical recast? Or simply a random woman with reddish-brown hair? Tune in next week, folks! On a more prosaic level, Mary Frances’s reappearance echoes Danny Sharpe’s arrival on FALCON CREST last month. Each is the young adult offspring of an emotionally withdrawn business tycoon; each shows up unannounced to confront their father over his neglect. “You were too busy to give a damn,” said Danny. “You don’t even know one thing about me,” says Mary Frances. Cornered yet contrite, these powerful men can offer only flimsy explanations. “I was too young to be your father,” said Michael. “Your mother didn’t think I was suitable father material,” says Greg. “I just didn’t think that you’d want to see me again,” Michael added. “Maybe he thought you didn’t want to see him either,” suggests Paula to Mary Frances. There are also differences. Whereas Danny has dropped out of college, dismissing it an even bigger waste of his time than adolescence, Mary Frances informs Greg that she has a degree in biology. Whereas Danny is now doing everything he can to emulate Michael, including making a pass at his girlfriend (Genele blows his mind by almost succumbing, but then changes her mind at the last minute, prompting Danny to deliver the funniest line of the week: “I’m nineteen years old," he protests, "do you know what this is gonna do to the rest of my day?!”), Mary Frances makes it clear that she despises Greg’s values. “How can you stand being so rich?” she asks him when he takes her to lunch. “I’ve worked for two years in Africa with families who have to watch their children die of hunger and I hate coming back to someone like you.” Over the past few seasons, Soap Land has paid periodic lip service to the plight of the homeless, but this is the first time it has shoved famine in the face of one of its billionaires. Greg is relatively unfazed. “I may not be the best father, but I’m not to blame for all the ills in the world,” he replies evenly. “You don’t have any idea, do you?” Mary Frances retorts. “Because you never see the end results of your actions. You are just completely isolated. Like a B-52 pilot dropping bombs, you don’t see what happens when those bombs fall.” It’s a striking analogy, and an accusation that has been levelled against Soap Land’s rich throughout its history. "You people up here in your ivory tower don't recognise the faces of the people you hurt,” Nancy Scotfield told Bobby Ewing three years ago on DALLAS. “He was too small, too insignificant — an insect for your father to crush without even realising it,” Zach Powers told Jason, referring to his own father, on THE COLBYS. Only last week, DALLAS opened with Cliff Barnes accusing JR of buying “that shoddy tanker just to fatten his own purse without giving a single thought to the environmental destruction it might cause.” The charge of turning a blind eye to the wider reality, of choosing to isolate oneself for the sake of a cushy life has also been made against Soap Land’s stay-at-home good guys: Miss Ellie sitting at the head of the big Ewing dinner table and watching, Krystle radiating the passive acceptance that made her the most dangerous Carrington of them all, Gary occupying himself with the role of gentleman rancher and thus allowing Abby to get up to all sorts in chicanery in his name. Mary Frances’s accusatory “How can you stand being so rich?” question could be asked of any of these characters; they are all complicit. In this context, it’s interesting that JR should choose this week to climb down from his ivory tower and slog it out in the actual oilfields. He, John Ross and Cally surprise Miss Ellie and Clayton in Pride, Texas where the Farlows have reopened Jock’s first drill site in the hopes of striking oil for the local townsfolk. This provides JR with an opportunity to romanticise his profession. “There’s more to it than just making money,” he tells John Ross. “Our heritage started here, son. Ewing Oil started here … Your granddaddy is the greatest oilman that ever lived and not just because he made us rich.” “What else is there?” John Ross asks in surprise. “Oil,” replies JR. “Getting it out of the ground to the refineries, making fuel to power our cars and warm our homes in the winter.” “I thought you did all that in an office.” Yeah … but the hard work and the important work is done right here … Whether you work in the office or in the fields, you’re gonna get dirty, but out here, the dirt’s a lot cleaner.” So while Greg circles above in his B-52 bomber, JR is down in the soil, getting his hands dirty in a cleaner way. Even though Greg looks at Mary Frances as adoringly as JR does John Ross, if not more so, he does not seek to sentimentalise his business practices for her in the same way. Even after making a televised statement acknowledging Oakman’s wrongdoings (“Sometimes what’s legal isn’t moral. I was unaware of the instability of the fund”) and pledging to make full restitution to those concerned, he makes it clear to his daughter that he did not do so out of the goodness of his heart. “It’s good business, it’s good public relations,” he explains. “Listen, I like you and it would be really neat if you liked me, but I can’t pretend to be somebody else just so we can be friends.” This honest approach seems to suit Mary Frances who suggests they “try another lunch.” JR, however, cannot deliver on what he has promised John Ross — to strike it big on Jock’s land. (“By the end of the week, we’ll be swimming in oil!” he vows.) “I”m sorry, Mr Ewing,” his twenty-something, college-educated oil expert who wears tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses tells him. “If I could dig a tunnel from here to Saudi Arabia I would. There just isn’t any oil.” John Ross looks up at his daddy with disappointed eyes. JR may have climbed down from his ivory tower and gotten his hands dirty the old-fashioned way, but he has failed. Moreover, he has failed in front of his new wife and young son — the son who reveres him the way he once did Jock. Like Greg as he addresses Channel 11’s viewers about the pension fund, Cliff breaks the fourth wall on DALLAS when he appears as a guest on AUSTIN TODAY, the Texas equivalent of OPEN MIKE. Turning to the camera, he announces, “There is a new soldier in the American trenches and his name is Cliff Barnes.” His appearance gains the attention of a public relations whizz called Stephanie Rodgers who dresses in Katherine Wentworth’s hand-me-downs and has been catapulted straight into DALLAS’s opening titles. She reckons Cliff has what it takes to make it as a political candidate. “You are the right age, religion and party,” she informs him. “I’m simply the woman that can take you where you want to go.” While Greg is instructing the Sumner Group’s substitute receptionist on the finer points of booking a restaurant table, Mary Frances waits in his office. Sitting behind his desk, she reaches out to turn on his computer. Suddenly, it appears to explode. Greg hears the noise and rushes back in. At first, his attention is caught by the window; he doesn’t seem to notice Mary Frances slumped at the desk, bleeding from a head wound. Then, as he turns to look down at his daughter, the camera shows us what he was looking at previously: a bullet hole through the window. In happier news, there are reconciliations for both James and Michelle on DALLAS and Lance and Pilar on FALCON CREST. One minute, both couples are squabbling; the next, they’re making wild crazy love — in a bath full of bubbles and aboard a luxury yacht respectively. This week’s FALCON CREST is pretty nuts. It opens with Genele suffering from the post-I-just-framed-my-lover-for-my-sister’s-murder blues, which mostly involves her rocking back and forth in her underwear then crawling across the floor to eat from a tin of cat food. Luckily, Lauren, who only last week was hospitalised with the post-I-just-saw-my-husband-blow-himself-up blues, is now sufficiently recovered to help nurse her back to health. There’s more unlikely female bonding on DALLAS as Michelle consoles big sister April following her break up with Bobby. Over a few drinks, both pairs of women reach the same conclusion: men are bit crap. “Men are all just big babies. When they don’t get what they want, they pout,” declares Genele, pouring herself and Lauren each a large glass of wine. “If no other man stepped into my life again, I’d die a happy woman,” April concludes as she and Michelle swig cocktails in a bar. Having failed to ruin the Ewings last week, Carter McKay likens the oil business to a chess game. “You managed a draw — good for you,” he tells Bobby philosophically. Meanwhile, Jovan the Yugoslavian psychic chess master, whom Pilar refers to as her “irrelevant one-night stand”, is still hanging around on FALCON CREST. Genele utilises his photographic memory to obtain some top secret information from Richard’s office so that Michael can swipe a $50,000,000 deal out from under him. Genele then repays Lauren’s friendship by making it look as if she (Lauren) is the one who has betrayed Richard and passed the info onto her brother. A Soap Land good girl caught in the middle of a feud between her brother and the man she loves, falsely accused of spying on one for the other — it’s a tale as old as the third ever episode of DALLAS (“Spy in the House”). The inevitable confrontation comes when Richard arrives home to find Lauren has surprised him with a candlelit dinner. However — proving that you just cannot second guess this season of FALCON CREST — instead of the expected fireworks, it leads to a quietly spoken character scene. “It’s not gonna work, Lauren,” Richard says gently. “I’ve got this thing in my head, this little seed of doubt because I don’t know who to trust. It’s my problem, one of my problems. I don’t know who to love, who to hate, who to kiss, who to hit … No matter how much I care for you, love you, no matter how much I want to believe you, I’ve got this little seed of doubt up here saying, ‘Whoa, Richard’ — because Michael Sharpe is your brother. And he’ll always be your brother.” “Is this about money … some deal that you are Michael are competing for?” Lauren asks him. “It’s not about money,” he explains, “it’s about something in me, it’s about trust. Can I trust you? … Tell me you wouldn’t betray me, even if your brother asked you. That’s what I want to know.” When she refuses to answer, telling him she won’t be interrogated, he asks her to leave. After she’s gone, he blows out the candle on the table. Only then does he lose control, sending a few plates flying. Meanwhile, who should be lurking outside in the dark, waiting for Lauren to drive away, but her new best friend Genele. She then comes to Richard’s door. “I wanna help you,” she tells him before saying the three little words he’d been so desperate to hear from Lauren: “Please, trust me.” And this week’s Top 3 are … 1 (2) KNOTS LANDING 2 (3) FALCON CREST 3 (1) DALLAS [/QUOTE]
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