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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 264278" data-attributes="member: 22">The Choice (27 Nov 86) v Circumstantial Evidence (13 Feb 85)For all of Caress’s complaints about how wronged she’s been by others, it emerges in The Choice that her own worst enemy is herself. After demanding $1,000,000 from Alexis and Ben “for each of the five years I was buried alive,” she is wrong-footed by Alexis who offers her a no-strings-attached job as the Denver Mirror’s new society columnist instead. Her response is very interesting. Even though she accepts the position, it soon emerges that she has no interest in working for a living, however well-paid. In her craving for wealth and luxury, she’s like an addict — she wants it all and she isn’t even prepared to wait for her first paycheque to get it.Zach is well-utilised in a crossover appearance from THE COLBYS. As well as helping Michael Culhane infiltrate Blake’s latest business venture, his presence affords Caress the opportunity to call in an outstanding debt. “How much are your past mistakes worth to you, Zach?” she purrs. He responds by writing her a cheque for $250,000. “Is that fair?” he asks. “For now,” she replies smugly. Here, alas, she has overplayed her hand. “It would never end, would it, Caress?” he realises, snatching back the cheque and ripping it into pieces. “Therefore, it must never begin.” As much as Caress would love to be a true DYNASTY-verse femme fatale, she can’t quite pull it off. She’s too pathetic, too needy to compete with the big boys and so Zach — the man she has described as the love of her life — is able to swat her away without so much as a second thought. Caress is no more successful in her efforts to extort a measly $100,000 from Emily Fallmont. “I can’t raise that kind of money. Every cent I have is in Buck’s name!” Emily wails.Each of these episodes contain a different looking Amanda involved with a different looking Michael. In The Choice, she writhes on a rug with crooked chauffeur (and secret billionaire) Michael Culhane; in Circumstantial Evidence, she’s joined in the shower by Moldavian Prince Michael. While Blake vehemently disapproves of Michael C (“You chose to be with that man rather than with your family. It’s a sad choice” —  he tells her sternly after she fails to show up to a dinner in honour of his mother), Alexis does everything she can to bring Amanda and Prince Michael together — if only to keep Amanda away from her own husband. “No-one understands the working of the male psyche better than I do,” she warns Dex airily, "and nobody's more tolerant or even amused at a little casual harmless flirtation, but this time I think you might be going a little too far, husband dear." "There's an implication, an unsavoury one, hiding somewhere in that haystack of words,” he replies. "How clever of the Wyoming farm boy — can you find it?” she sneers before accusing him of "playing psychological mother/daughter games.” While Blake is in Acapulco and Krystle is in Denver, each is sent photographs of the other in a compromising position with a third party. Krystle receives a picture of Blake dancing with Lady Ashley; Blake opens an envelope to find a snap of Daniel Reece kissing his wife. The photographer’s identity is a whodunnit. Deepening the mystery, how can the anonymous snapper be in two countries at the same time? And as well as the suspense aspect of this storyline, the photographs themselves become a paranoid symbol of the growing distrust in Blake and Krystle’s marriage. I’ve said it before, but the dynamic between them is never more interesting than when they’re estranged. Even an awkward overseas phone call between them is coldly compelling. In the ep’s final scene, Krystle greets Blake politely upon his return home and he shows her the picture of her and Daniel. "Do you want him or me?” he asks. The frame freezes before she can answer, and even though she already made her feelings quite clear in an earlier scene ("You'll always be special to me,” she tells Daniel, "but I love [Blake]”), it still feels like a suspenseful moment. Perhaps it’s because Blake and Krystle’s mutual devotion is so hardwired into their show’s DNA that when that relationship — the bedrock upon which the DYNASTY saga is built — starts to crumble, it feels almost as if the series’ whole world could come crashing down.Blake never looks like he's having this much fun with Krystle:[ATTACH=full]26215[/ATTACH]And the winner is ... The ChoiceBONUS BEATS:[MEDIA=youtube]mxZEnDPPijU[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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