What about the three way partnership, in the 4th season?

[Chloe-Fusco]

There were some funny moments, after Richard bought Francesca's birthright. For the first time Angela, Chase and Richard worked together, mainly against the Cartel. Did you enjoy this particular storyline?

 

[Count Jockula]

Yeah the 3 way ownership of Falcon Crest was enjoyable, for sure. Having Chase from the end of season 1 as a business partner was a serious bugbear for Angela. Then Richard coming along to join them was a thorn, in both their sides. There could have been a worse scenario, if the greedy Riebmann had been successful at Francesca's auction. A giggle or three was always gauranteed whenever these three had a scene together. However come the end of season 4 the cliffhanger for each of them, was doomsday material.

What is behind Angela's grin? Will the three way partnership last long?


Richard and Pamela are waiting for the other Falcon Crest partners, at the Tuscany Vintners' Associate Winery. Chao-Li arrives with Angela, in the black Mercedes limo. The father and son champagne producers Chase and Cole drive into the yard; in their pick up truck, (a scene from season 4, 1984 - '85):

Richard opens the limo door for Angela and says, "good morning, I appreciate your promptness. I want to welcome you all to this special meeting, of the Falcon Crest board of directors."

Angela: "Do you mean to tell me I was summoned all the way out here, so I could be put on display?"

Chase: "We all have that Angela. Didn't you read Richard's press release? He is transporting his bulk wine; to some warehouse, for ageing and bottling."

Cole: "Sounds exciting!"

Richard: "It is to me."

Chase: "Tell me something. What is the ageing period on this swill of yours; a week, ten days?"

Pamela laughs and Angela cracks a smile.

Richard: "If you think you can offend me Chase you're wrong. You should be grateful to me. All of you should be. Here I thought I was going to have to build a brand new winery. Now I'm in business, with rented and leased equipment."

Pamela: "Which means a very small cash outlay, for the Falcon Crest partners."

Angela: "I will not be grateful as long as Falcon Crest is involved in a rent a winery."

Richard goes to the others, with the intention of getting a group photo. The photographer takes one photo.

Angela gets angry with the photographer and then says, "will you stop that! Now let's get on with it."

Richard gives the signal to his henchmen to let the the wine tanker go. The garage doors open and the vintage process starts; "let the ceremony begin", he states.

 

[Arlene Halloran]

It was an exciting time, for the show. Three sworn rivals working together, against a common enemy.

 

[Daniel Avery]

I'm watching S4 on the Nighttime Soaps by WB Channel on Roku right now. The highlight of their time together had to be when Chase and Richard were fighting and one of them tried to punch the other---but Angela got hit instead (by accident). The camera cuts over to Angela, out cold on the ground. Maggie can't help but laugh when Chase recounts what happened, wishing she'd been there to see it.

 

[Daniel Avery]

Something else I noticed, though it had little to do with the partnership:

Angela told Reibmann about the "old gold mine" but pointed out to everyone that it had not yielded very much gold even when it was in operation. We saw Reibmann and his lackey find the treasure in the mine shaft, but he never mentioned the real reason for his interest to hostages Angela, Julia, etc. Richard went after them in the mine but it collapsed before he could go deep enough to see what was in the 'secret chamber'--he escaped while they didn't (or at least we're led to believe this).

So my question is: did the rest of the characters never even learn that a massive hoard of looted Nazi treasures was buried on the property?