Unveiling Shadows - a Chat GPT generated follow up to “Catch 22”

[Gabriel Maxwell]

I asked the artificial intelligence application Chat GPT to come up with the follow-up to the season 9 finale “Catch 22” and this is what it wrote in seconds.

Remember — Joan Collins was indeed saying season 9 could’ve been her last if the show had continued, and Stephanie Beacham who rejoined as a replacement for Krystle, could’ve ended up being a replacement for Alexis

The synopsis/season outline is quite generic, but you can always ask a more specific question or ask that it write a specific scene with dialogue. As with any such application, it requires minor corrections and proofreading.

The results can sometimes be quite remarkable, as I thought after I asked that it write a fun Christmas episode of “Bewitched” and it was full of fun plot ideas never before seen on that sitcom.

“Unveiling Shadows”
(season X, episode 1)

The episode opens with a high-intensity sequence, immediately resolving the cliffhanger surrounding Blake Carrington. As Jeff holds Blake's bleeding body, medical personnel rush to the scene. Blake is taken to the hospital, where the Carrington family anxiously awaits news on his condition. The episode establishes the ongoing tension as the Carringtons grapple with the aftermath of the shooting and rally together to support Blake's recovery.

Meanwhile, Fallon and Christina's harrowing situation buried underground takes center stage. Using their wit and determination, they manage to find an escape route. With the help of rescue teams and the newly arrived police, Fallon and Christina emerge from the tunnel, physically unharmed but deeply traumatized. Fallon's brush with death compels her to reevaluate her priorities and sparks a renewed sense of purpose.

Dennis Grimes, although injured, manages to escape the collapsing tunnel. Consumed by revenge, he sets his sights on Fallon, determined to make her pay for her actions in the past. Dennis becomes a persistent antagonist throughout the season, seeking opportunities to confront Fallon while maneuvering in the shadows.

As for Alexis and Dex, their fall from the gallery proves to be fatal. The tragedy shakes the Carrington family to its core, leading to a period of mourning and reflection. Their deaths leave a void that affects multiple characters, particularly Sable, who struggles with grief and questions her future.

Sable, grieving the loss of her cousin Alexis and the potential loss of her unborn child, faces a tumultuous journey in the aftermath. Determined to protect herself and her baby, she turns to her business ventures, seeking solace in work and newfound strength. Sable's character development throughout the season focuses on her resilience and determination to rise above adversity.

The fallout from Alexis and Dex's deaths also impacts Adam, who grapples with guilt and remorse over his involvement in the incident. His relationship with his siblings, Fallon and Steven, becomes strained as they all struggle to process their emotions and find closure. This sets the stage for a complex family dynamic that evolves throughout the season.

Additionally, Zorelli's actions in killing Captain Handler to save Blake's life lead to an internal investigation within the police department. Zorelli becomes entangled in a web of corruption and deceit, endangering both his career and his relationship with Fallon. This storyline explores the consequences of his choices and his efforts to redeem himself.

The newfound unity among the Carringtons following Blake's shooting prompts them to refocus their efforts on Denver-Carrington and protecting the family legacy. With Blake's recovery in progress, the family faces external threats and internal power struggles, both within the company and the larger Denver business landscape.

The first episode concludes with a dramatic twist, introducing a mysterious newcomer to the Carrington world. This enigmatic figure, with ties to both past and present, begins to infiltrate the lives of the Carringtons, setting the stage for a season-long arc that will expose long-held secrets and ignite further conflicts.

With the resolution of the previous season's cliffhangers and the introduction of new storylines, Dynasty: Season X Episode 1 sets the stage for an intense and dramatic season ahead, as the Carringtons navigate love, power, and treachery in their eternal quest for dominance in Denver's high society.

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I also asked if that newcomer happened to be the mysterious lady in the limo in the final episode and if so, what three suggestions it had for that character. It said:


Here are three potential characters that the mysterious lady in the limo could be, considering the previously established plots and Carrington family history:

1. Amanda Carrington: The long-lost daughter of Blake Carrington and Alexis Colby. Amanda, who was given up for adoption at birth, resurfaces as the enigmatic lady in the limo. She seeks revenge against her birth family for abandoning her, leading her to conspire with Captain Handler and others to dismantle the Carrington empire. With her intimate knowledge of the family's dynamics, Amanda strategically manipulates events to undermine the Carringtons and take control.
2. Dominique Deveraux: A renowned singer and half-sister to Blake Carrington. Dominique has always felt overlooked and overshadowed by the Carringtons, leading her to harbor deep resentments. She forms an alliance with Captain Handler and the mysterious lady in the limo to exact her revenge and claim her share of the Carrington fortune. As a seasoned manipulator and master of deception, Dominique becomes a formidable adversary, leveraging her connections and talent to destabilize the family.
3. Laura Matthews: A former lover of Carrington and mother to a secret Carrington child. Laura, who disappeared from the Carringtons' lives years ago, resurfaces as the mysterious lady in the limo. Seeking retribution for being pushed aside by the Carringtons, Laura conspires with Captain Handler and others to dismantle the family's legacy. Her intricate knowledge of the Carringtons' deepest secrets and vulnerabilities makes her a formidable opponent, intent on exposing their hidden sins.

Each of these characters brings a unique dynamic and personal history to the table, allowing for intricate storytelling and exploration of the Carrington family's complex relationships. The revelation of the mysterious lady in the limo's true identity would unveil deep-rooted betrayals, hidden connections, and further complicate the Carringtons' struggle for power and survival.

(this final bit reads like a typical network press release, lol)

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Finally, here’s the opening scene by Chat GPT:



INT. CARRINGTON MANSION - FOYER -

The grand foyer of the Carrington Mansion is filled with chaos and tension. Blake Carrington lies on the staircase, his white shirt stained with blood. Former son-in-law Jeff stands beside him, cradling Blake's head in his hands. The Carrington staff, police officer Zorelli, and Captain Handler, who is gravely injured, are present.

BLAKE CARRINGTON (gasping, weakly) Jeff... take care of Fallon... protect her.

JEFF COLBY (teary-eyed, determined) Don't worry, Blake. I won't let anything happen to her. You're going to be fine.

The sound of approaching sirens grows louder. The emergency team bursts through the mansion doors, rushing to Blake's side.

PARAMEDIC 1 (assessing Blake's condition) We have a gunshot wound to the chest. We need to stabilize him immediately!

PARAMEDIC 2 (to Jeff) Sir, we need you to step aside. We'll do everything we can to save him.

Jeff reluctantly steps back, his gaze fixed on Blake, as the medical team takes over. Police officer Zorelli, his face filled with concern, approaches Jeff.

ZORELLI (intensely) Jefftook care of Handler, but we need to find out who's behind all this. Fallon's in danger too.

JEFF COLBY (nodding) I know, Zorelli. We have to protect her. Find out who's responsible for all of this.

Captain Handler, his voice weak, interrupts their conversation.

CAPTAIN HANDLER (choking) You won't... stop them... Carrington... you're all doomed.

Jeff and Zorelli exchange determined glances, realizing that Blake's shooting is just the beginning of a much larger conspiracy against the Carrington family.

The paramedics work urgently to stabilize Blake as the chaos intensifies around them. The fate of the Carringtons hangs in the balance, with danger lurking from every corner.
The camera zooms out, capturing the sweeping grandeur of the Carrington Mansion, as uncertainty and intrigue loom over the lives of its inhabitants.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Of course Joan, in the middle of that TVGuide article. conceded that she's do some episodes for them the next season. So she was quitting yet wasn't really quitting.

What do you think of the AI version? Obviously, Dennis Grimes would be stalking them in Season 10.

 

[Gabriel Maxwell]

Yes, Joan also mentioned the possibility of leaving in a late 1988 appearance on Regis and Kathie Lee, but one always had to take it with a “Sure, Jan” meme.

I’m fascinated how AI puts these things out in seconds and gets almost all of the information right, though it did say for instance Laura Matthews was Blake’s former lover instead of Tom’s (maybe she was, how’s that for a twist) and called the family business Carrington Atlantic.

The results of course always depend on the prompt. The more specific the instructions (not necessarily extensive), the better the output. And of course it can come up with countless different scripts, it won’t necessarily stick with the same idea.

I love the idea of Dennis Grimes stalking Fallon throughout the season the way his dead father did in nightmares and wet dreams the previous year. He only appeared towards the end of season 9 and had greater potential. A competent writer could’ve come up with a compelling and intricate conspiracy plot once you get all the dynamics running and intertwining with the family history.

Next I’m looking forward to creating AI photos of scenes that should’ve or could’ve happened, but I haven’t mastered those image-based platforms yet (like MidJourney and such).

One day we’ll perhaps be able to create videos our own episodes of Dynasty and they might actually look and sound like the real thing. The technology is developing exponentially.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I love the idea of Dennis Grimes stalking Fallon throughout the season the way his dead father did in nightmares and wet dreams the previous year. He only appeared towards the end of season 9 and had greater potential. A competent writer could’ve come up with a compelling and intricate conspiracy plot once you get all the dynamics running and intertwining with the family history.

As you may know (if you've ever read my own prospective Season 10 layouts) I want Dennis Grimes stalking Alexis and Fallon throughout the final year (which I somehow envision as being a truncated 13 episode thing, for some weird reason, like Season 1 was) and with Blake in and out of jail after Captain Handler's death and his empire crumbling after the public revelations about the Collection, Alexis (for safety and security purposes) moves into the mansion in the latter part of the season at Blake's suggestion, along with Sable and Caress, who are there overseeing preparations for the auction of Blake's things.

In the final episode, the Three Bitches of McDenver -- Alexis and Sable and Caress -- have an evening dinner alone in the mansion dining room, where Alexis reveals that it was Caress who'd jealously told Blake when and where to find Alexis and Roger in bed back in '64. Caress then confesses that she was raped by Roger, her former lover who'd dumped her for her wealthy big sister, in the Carrington kitchen one night, whereupon she grabbed a butcher knife and stabbed him 13 times, the bullet in his head, as placed there by Fallon earlier that afternoon, only slowing him down slightly... The house almost empty, Tom disposes of the body in that lake.

Sable listens intently, her reactions informing the viewer that she, too, may have been raped by Grimes.

The dinner breaks up, and Sable leaves for a long drive and to get some air, while Caress has a late night meeting in town. That meeting turns out to be with Blake at his D/C office where she confesses that it was she who'd pulled Sable into the plot to locate the Collection after Sable was finally dumped by Jason Colby -- the idea arising from the overstuffed envelope of material Sable's mother, Agatha Scott, had given her niece, Caress, during a brief stay in Denver (smells like late S6), Auntie Agatha, who'd die shortly thereafter, telling Caress, "You'll know what to do with this when it's time..." Blake is probably arrested again and hauled off to prison at the end of this meeting.

Meanwhile, back at the estate, a drunken Alexis wanders around the empty house muttering, eventually wandering into the darkened ballroom (or the studio version of the ballroom) where she goes over to a corner bar where she is preparing herself another glass of wine when she hears the gentle breaking of glass -- and she realizes Dennis Grimes is breaking into one of the french doors in the ballroom, intent on entering.

Terrified and thoroughly inebriated, Alexis pulls a derringer from her pink silk robe's pocket that Adam recently gave her "for protection" and tells Dennis to "Hold it!" Grimes, just barely inside the french door, freezes, sees Alexis has a gun and is tipsy, Alexis recognizes this is Roger's son, and he lunges forward as he pulls a weapon from within his jacket... Alexis, startled, steps forward, her foot tripping over the leg of a chaise lounge, causing her to drop her derringer onto the floor of the ballroom. Her gun goes off, hitting, with exquisite coincidental aim, Dennis Grimes in the head, who collapses into instant death even as he fires his own gun (which strikes a chandelier which sways and makes tinkly sounds).

Stunned, Alexis crawls to her smoking derringer on the floor, and then to Dennis' lifeless body. In the panic you'd expect, Alexis goes to the bar to get a towel to matte the blood, but soon realizes that it's insufficient. So she starts yanking the nearest oriental rug in which to wrap the body (what she intends to do with it is anybody's guess). With no music for several minutes, Alexis, on her hands and knees, scrambles to ensconce the body in this small asian carpet when, as the viewer can see in the reflection of the broken french door behind her, a woman's leg at the opposite wall comes into view.

The lights flip on. Alexis, hysterical (and doing that "bad acting" we love so much from Joan in scenes like this) looks around desperately to see where the illumination is coming from and who's responsible for it... And the camera spins around to see Krystle, fresh off that "cruise ship" from Europe and out of the Swiss clinic, at the far wall... Alexis realizes the moment, becomes silently horrified except for her hyperventilation, realizing she's been caught with a dead body by her greatest nemesis. Krystle walks forward and pauses behind a velvet light-green wing chair and looking concerned, trying to size up the situation. One more shot of Alexis, moving in for a closer look at her drunken delirium. And then one more shot of Krystle, who moves sideways slightly behind the wing chair, gently chewing her own lips as she decides what action might be appropriate.

Fade to black. No music. Executive Supervising Producer -- David Paulsen.

If Linda can't be coaxed into doing it, a la Duffy's Irish Spring commercial, they can use a correctly underlit double with a blonde "Krystle" wig, shown only in reflection --- but the audience will know who it is... And then Alexis gets the silent fade out.

Series over.

Best ending ever.

If we want to follow it all up, we can do it in the 1991 reunion in a couple of years.

It almost writes itself -- although not writing itself quite as much as A.I.

One day we’ll perhaps be able to create videos our own episodes of Dynasty and they might actually look and sound like the real thing. The technology is developing exponentially.

Only A.I. can stop itself!

 

[Gabriel Maxwell]

The three bitches of McDenver. Intoxicatingly delicious!

 

[Ked]

Best ending ever.

Gotta admit, Snarky, that would have been a baller ending. Though I still love your other idea that the series ends with Krystle and Alexis unexpectedly teaming up to hide the body in the very same lake that the victim's own father had been hidden in. But yes, the way how you described the scene of Alexis accidentally killing Dennis Grimes... so delightfully camp and gothic... it definitely makes me think of the early 90s soaps/dramas that I caught the adults watching from time to time.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Gotta admit, Snarky, that would have been a baller ending. Though I still love your other idea that the series ends with Krystle and Alexis unexpectedly teaming up to hide the body in the very same lake that the victim's own father had been hidden in. But yes, the way how you described the scene of Alexis accidentally killing Dennis Grimes... so delightfully camp and gothic... it definitely makes me think of the early 90s soaps/dramas that I caught the adults watching from time to time.

Well, they'd have to kill him before they can dump him.

Maybe they can drop him in that lake for the '91 REUNION -- unless Linda was willing to come back for the last couple of episodes of Season 10.

 

[Ked]

Well, they'd have to kill him before they can dump him.

Maybe they can drop him in that lake for the '91 REUNION -- unless Linda was willing to come back for the last couple of episodes of Season 10.

I do recall Linda saying in an interview that had she known Season 9 was going to be the last, she never would have left. So maybe she would have.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I do recall Linda saying in an interview that had she known Season 9 was going to be the last, she never would have left. So maybe she would have.

PR stuff -- Linda was cut for budget purposes. Only she didn't mind -- unlike Joan, who resented being reduced (which she later called "misogyny" because Forsythe wasn't cut back too).

 

[Ked]

PR stuff -- Linda was cut for budget purposes. Only she didn't mind -- unlike Joan, who resented being reduced (which she later called "misogyny" because Forsythe wasn't cut back too).

Meh. XD

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Now, one could question why wealthy Alexis wouldn't just call the police and say, "This guy was breaking into the house and tried to shoot me," which is self-evidently true.

So something would have to have occurred or be established 3 or 4 episodes earlier that would make her panicked reaction make sense. Other than just the effects of alcohol.

Any ideas, anybody??

 

[Willie Oleson]

Laura Matthews: A former lover of Carrington

Funny how I misread Laura as "being related to Matthew Blaisdel - his sister?"

he technology is developing exponentially.

Oh I think Dynasty already used it for its fourth and fifth season (eat your heart out, Morgan Brittany).

Sable, grieving the loss of her cousin Alexis and the potential loss of her unborn child, faces a tumultuous journey in the aftermath. Determined to protect herself and her baby, she turns to her business ventures, seeking solace in work and newfound strength. Sable's character development throughout the season focuses on her resilience and determination to rise above adversity.

I wouldn't want to see a formidable character like Sable being wasted on this kind of season 7 style wholesomeness, especially if the series has become Alexisless.
I want the Swiss clinic to call the mansion when Sable is there to talk to Fallon (who happens not to be there at that time) and therefore she tells Jeanette "I'll take it".
The doctor informs her that the Krystle's condition is improving miraculously and that it would be extremely helpful if she sees her family.
Because in true soap fashion an illness is never a physical thing, it's all hysterical behaviour and that's why they should never upset the patient because it could KILL him or her.
Fallon walks into hallway (it's the phone that almost killed Claudia) and Sable opens her mouth to tell her the great news.
What is it?
-That was the Clinic. They said there might be a chance that Krystle's is going recover...perhaps.....perhaps we should ignore her wish not to contact her. It could be helpful if she sees her daughter again, don't you think?
Oh Sable, you know we can't do that! Not to Krystle and certainly not to daddy and Krystina.
-I'm sorry, Fallon, you're absolutely right. Forgive me for interfering.
You're not interfering at all, in fact you've been nothing but a great support. We've come such a long way, you and I. Why don't you stay for dinner, the house is empty enough as it is.
-Poor darling. Of course I'll stay.

A vampire always needs to be invited in.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

My Season 10 (and beyond):

*Blake -- the bullet from Capt. Handler's gun only barely pierced Blake's flesh because he had Krystle's diary in his coat pocket recently given to him by Sammy Jo. The diary is stolen at the hospital and its contents wind up in the tabloids.

Blake goes in and out of jail throughout the season, facing charges over the dead Handler, and scandal over Krystle's diary and, most importantly, revelations that his empire was funded in part by nazi treasure -- treasure Blake and the family begin trying to return to its original owners or their heirs.

Blake is also in and out of civil court facing a barrage of lawsuits, and his own attempt to maintain his estate.

By the latter part of the season, the mansion is essentially gutted as Sable and Caress plan an oversee an auction of the remaining Carrington belongings.

Mid-season, some local and non-local reporters get together to do an exposé on 'Citizen Carrington', and an entire episode of the show could be devoted to that documentary. It's pretty compromising, to say the least, and hurts Blake's legal issues. Lots of old photos would be used.

Blake and Alexis are approached together by a shadowy intelligence guy to question and inform them that their agency is aware of a cabal of international interests who seem to be monitoring the Carringtons and have been for some time. This results in Alexis using that mysterious safe room behind her desk at ColbyCo and its communications equipment.

*Dex -- His legs broken and with a spinal injury, Dex (although I always prefer to think Alexis' hunky beachboy from her Acapulco days showed up in Denver after the gubernatorial assassination attempt) is moved into the mansion to convalesce, Alexis frankly less interested in him because he can't serve her in his current condition, but maintains frequent contact because he has an estate of his own she's interested in.

*Alexis -- she's in a hospital bed in the first episode (perhaps unseen), a wheelchair in the second episode, crutches the third, a cane the fourth and fifth. And then she's fine.

She obtains a crystal skull from Adam after he shoves it into a duffle while the family is consolidating the Collection under the property; at night in her suite, Alexis accidentally drops the artifact which causes it to take on a vague, green glow which comes and goes. At one point, Alexis and Adam invite Jeff to dinner with the intention of picking his part-time archeological brain about what he knows about the history and mythology of such skulls, never telling Jeff about what they have.

Alexis learns that her mother, Minx, may have had an affair with Hitler and she and Caress may be the offspring of the most evil man who ever lived, leaving Alexis to run around all season trying to obscure this possible fact, and learn more about it.

Concerned that she is being stalked by Roger Grimes' son, Dennis, she moves into the mansion near the end of the season (with Blake's jailhouse permission) allowing her to co-habitate for a time with Sable and Caress -- the 'Three Bitches of MacScottishPlay' someone like Sammy Jo can observe. While there, the Alexis and Caress and Sable trio have a late meal where Caress asks her sister for financial aid; Alexis scoffs and, helped by a little wine, reveals that years earlier, it was Caress who told Blake when and where to find Alexis and Roger Grimes in bed. At which point Caress can confess that her rich and married sister, Alexis, had stolen Roger away from her -- even after Caress learned she was carrying Roger's child. The revelation startles Sable for reasons she doesn't confess.

Later, that same night perhaps, with Sable out and Caress conveying her intentions to go into town, an increasingly drunk Alexis wanders into the dimly lit ball room looking for another bar, hears the tiny breaking of glass and sees Dennis Grimes coming in through a french door, she fumbles for the derringer Adam gave her earlier for protection, pulls the gun and yells at Dennis to stop, Dennis freezes before reaching for his own weapon, Alexis panics and steps forward and trips over the leg of a ballroom divan, her derringer falls to the floor of the ballroom and discharges hitting Dennis in the head and causing him to fall back as his own gun fires and hits a chandelier hanging from the ceiling causing it to swing... Alexis, completely soused, can't believe what has just happened, and begins desperately trying to wrap Dennis' body up in an oriental rug, when the lights suddenly go on above, the reflection in the french door beside Alexis revealing two feminine legs in high heels across the ball room, and the camera spins around to see Krystle, fresh from the asylum in Switzerland... (either a double in a blonde Krystle pageboy wig shown only in reflection, or Krystle herself if Linda will make a Duffy-esque Irish Spring-style cameoa).

(If Linda Evans can be coaxed for the last two or three episodes, then: Krystle being Krystle, she asks what happened and suggests an ambulance, until Alexis says, "He's dead Krystle", so Krystle then suggests calling the police and goes to do so -- startled and in total panic, Alexis rushes after her and begins screaming hysterically by the phone things which sound non-sensical to Krystle (as she's been gone for a year) and then resorts to shrieking that Blake will lose everything and they'll both lose Krystina if Krystle calls the police now. Alexis then tries bribery, which of course doesn't work. But in the mentally or possibly pharmacologically-altered state Krystle is now in, Alexis manages to convince her that disaster awaits she and Blake and the family if the authorities are called... So Krystle and Alexis wind up dragging Dennis Grimes' body into Alexis' Rolls Royce, driving him out to Delta Rho, and dumping his body into that same lake that his father's body floated out of two years earlier... Upon returning to the mansion, an exhausted and muddy Alexis climbs the stairs to find Caress on the landing -- she had never left at all and knows exactly what just happened with Dennis Grimes. Caress then suggests she and Sister Dearest can now renegotiate her request for resources... Otherwise, this could be the scene that opens the 1991 REUNION).

*Caress -- She was the woman in the back of the limo at the end of S9 (and had no intention of bringing Blake to his knees, but may have said so to play along with someone else's scheme)... Still weak from that avalanche that never happened at the end of Season 7, Caress asks Blake to drive her out to the Scorpio cemetery on the far side of Scorpio Peak (which Blake obtained some time ago). He helps her into a wheelchair (she's able to walk but her gait is unstable, making she and Alexis and Dex a barely-ambulatory triumvirate at the start of Season 10). Grimes is buried there in a modest plot. Tearful Caress and Blake discuss her relationship with Roger from nearly three decades ago, how Alexis stole him, and how the night we now all know Roger died Caress was waiting in a Las Vegas hotel, wondering where Roger was, as they were supposed to elope, Caress unaware he was still legally married to Emily Grimes. (A poignant lie from Caress?).

Near the end of the season, Caress reveals to Blake (perhaps the same night Alexis kills Dennis) that she herself was responsible for encouraging Sable to pursue finding The Collection two years earlier -- that Sable's mother ( @Willie Oleson named her "Agatha") shortly before she died had left her niece, Caress, with a packet of data and told her to "use it" if Jason Colby ever divorced her daughter for her other daughter... Caress had no idea the mess it would create, as the mysterious Europeans who have been after The Collection -- even after its public revelation -- are probably connected directly to The Consortium.

Even Caress doesn't know they're still after that crystal skull which only Alexis and Adam know anything about.

By the end of the season, we can suspect that Roger raped Sable and fathered her twins, Monica and Miles. And the same night Roger was shot by tiny Fallon at the cottage, a bloody and disoriented Roger, a bullet in his brain, wandered into the mansion kitchen at night, corners Caress whom he realizes had alerted Blake six weeks earlier where to find he and Alexis together in bed, and rapes her before she stabs him to death with a butcher knife, the door of the kitchen suddenly illuminated with the silhouette of Blake's father who then takes care of everything.

*Fallon -- Zorelli would have confessed mid-season that 13 knife wounds had been found on Roger's body in addition to the bullet in the back of his head, and that the police had chosen not to reveal that detail for a while for investigative purposes. This could anger Fallon, and cause her to further distrust the Italian cop she still likes so much. A distrust that Blake and Jeff naturally encourage.

*Sammy Jo -- I want her priest to commit suicide over his religious conflicts, devastating Sammy Jo and seeing her seriously pondering entering a convent. (She won't). Perhaps, in her grief, Sammy Jo's mother Iris appears for two or three episodes, trying to explain why she disappeared for 19 years (to escape Frank Dean) presumed dead; Sammy Jo, of course, is in no mood to forgive.

*Sable -- Sable has a one episode visit from her ex-husband, Jason Colby, who graciously offers to take a blood test to verify he is indeed Miles' and Monica's biological father. Sable is delighted to learn that Jason is their daddy after all --- only the viewer has reason to question Jason's suddenly-chivalrous motive for the DNA testing, and the validity of the results.

Sable and Caress manage the mansion auction plans for Blake, and travel to Europe together to investigate who is still after The Collection, and if it's connected to The Consortium who are trying to take over Blake's estate, etc... Caress may have been played like a marionette by the Consortium but Alexis assures Blake, rather credibly, that her opportunistic sister is unlikely to be quite so innocent.

*Adam --- Blake's oldest son confesses in court in the final episode that he was acting as a corporate mole for two years, and attempted to illegally assist the Consortium in obtaining Denver-Carrington, and this has a major role in Blake being able to piece together his empire. Blake forgives Adam in the end. (This could wait for the 1991 REUNION, if there is one).

*Krystle -- she came out of her coma only days after her operation, and no one at the Suisse clinic ever informed The Carringtons. It seems likely that The Consortium was behind it... Was she programmed to pull a gun on Blake? Do we still want to see this?? (The hypno-Krystle would wait for the 1991 REUNION, when Linda is there for sure).

*Kirby -- do we want to have Joseph appear in the organ loft in the mansion attic (or just have a letter from Joseph, held in escrow for 7 years after his death) confess to Blake that he fathered Kirby after a drunken night of passion in the art studio with Alexis back in 1961, Alexis disappearing to London for a few months to have the child and then returning with it to the States and presenting the infant to Joseph's institutionalized wife, Alycia, driving the woman into the final throes of madness, then taunting Joseph about the affair once Alexis came back to Denver twenty years later? (That would certainly give Joseph more reason to kill her in that cabin fire). Alexis setting up Joseph's fake suicide (if it was faked, that letter from the grave probably works better), and then threatening and paying Kirby to leave to get her out of her incestuous relationship with her half-brother, Adam, and out of Alexis' hair...?

Alexis, of course, denies it all. And the viewer is never sure which story is true. And yet Alexis uses the story to try and dissuade Kirby from marrying Adam. (Probably in the 1991 REUNION).

Returning from Europe (probably in the 1991 REUNION) Caress is confronted in the last episode in a darkened mansion bedroom by someone who claims to be Eva Braun, armed and in a wheelchair, angry that she's lost so much to the Morell and the Scott sisters, shooting Caress down like a dog. A silencer is used, followed by Blake and Krystle having their "last dance" in the ballroom downstairs, gently spinning into soap oblivion, unaware of the carnage that just occurred upstairs.

...But only after Alexis flies back for an extended trip to London, more or less victorious (and receiving a fax from someone in Moldavia with proof that she could not be der Feuhrer's daughter), Fallon and Zorelli (and Adam, being tracked for his testimony in court exposing The Consortium), and the crystal skull in tow.

 

[Willie Oleson]

Perhaps, in her grief, Sammy Jo's mother Iris appears for two or three episodes, trying to explain why she disappeared for 19 years (to escape Frank Dean) presumed dead

A little white lie because the real reason for Iris' new identity was because she had been part of the Manson Family. I'd love Alexis to find out and exploit the possibility that Charles was in fact Sammy Jo's real father.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

A little white lie because the real reason for Iris' new identity was because she had been part of the Manson Family. I'd love Alexis to find out and exploit the possibility that Charles was in fact Sammy Jo's real father.

And that Frank Dean had been "inappropriate" with tiny Sammy Jo.

No wonder the poor girl's so screwed up!