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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spooky Owl!" data-source="post: 364502" data-attributes="member: 57984">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.Only A.I. can stop itself!</blockquote>

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