02x01 - Enter Alexis

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CLERK: Do you solemnly swear

that all the testimony
you give before this court

shall be the truth,
the whole truth,

and nothing but the
truth, so help you God?

ALEXIS: Yes, I do.

Would you state
your full name, please.

Alexis Morell Carrington.

(crowd murmuring)
JAKE: And your residence?

ALEXIS: I've been living in
Acapulco for the past several years.

JAKE: You were the first wife of
the defendant, Blake Carrington.

You're the mother of his
children, is that correct?

Yes, it is.

JAKE: And
subsequently, of course,

you were divorced.

ALEXIS: Yes. JAKE:
When was this?

Sixteen years ago.

Was it what you might
term an amicable divorce,

Mrs. Carrington?

No, it wasn't.

It was what you might term

an enforced divorce.

JAKE: An enforced divorce.

Would you explain that,
please, to this court and this jury?

I was very young when
I married Mr. Carrington.

At first, it was a good
marriage in every sense.

We had an
excellent relationship,

two beautiful children.

It was very good.

Ideal.

That's the word that people
use when they talked about us.

Ideal.

And then?

Things changed.

My husband had worked
very hard to get where he was,

to build his empire,
grab his prize,

cling to his "It couldn't
be done, but I did it."

(scoffs)

Somehow it didn't seem
to be enough for him.

He... He wanted more.

He started traveling.

Long business trips.

There were weeks,
sometimes months, when we...

When we didn't see each other,

when we barely
talked on the phone.

Please, go on, Mrs. Carrington.

Maybe it was need

or maybe hurt.

I found myself becoming
involved with another man.

(crowd murmuring)

JAKE: What was this man's
name, Mrs. Carrington?

His name was Roger Grimes.

Roger Grimes.

Now Mr. Grimes worked
for Blake Carrington,

isn't that a fact?

Yes. He was our estate manager.

He was bright and
sensitive. Infinitely sensitive.

He was as interested
in art as I was.

I mean, I was a painter.

Th... That is, I wanted
to be one, a good one,

and Roger encouraged me.

In fact, he designed
an art studio

right there on the estate
for you, isn't that true?

Yes.

JAKE: Now, a moment ago,

you said that you became
involved with Mr. Grimes.

Did that include
sexual involvement?

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I... I was lonely.

I was becoming
more and more lonely.

Yes, I became sexually
involved with him.

JAKE: And did Blake Carrington
find out about this involvement?

ALEXIS: Yes, he did.

JAKE: When did
he find out about it?

Oh, about a month
after Roger and I

started seeing each other.

JAKE: Did you tell him about
this relationship, Mrs. Carrington?

ALEXIS: No. I didn't.

How did he find out about it?

He discovered us together.

He'd been away on business,
and he came home unexpectedly.

He discovered you together.

What was his reaction,
Mrs. Carrington?

He became violent.

Objection.

An incident of alleged
v*olence from this witness

about a night years ago

is too remote to reflect on
my client's character today.

It is highly prejudicial,

and I repeat my
objection strongly.

Your Honor, Mr. Laird's client
is on trial right here and now

for the m*rder of Ted Dinard
less than two months ago.

The state intends to
show that Blake Carrington

has a history of
violent behavior.

That he... That he is
a man who was and is

capable of homicidal v*olence.

Overruled, Mr. Laird.

JAKE: Now, Mrs.
Carrington, I... Ahem.

I know this is difficult
for you, but please go on.

Please tell us exactly
what happened that night.

Well, my, uh...

My husband came into
the bedroom, and he...

He found us together.

He started shouting
hideous words at me

and then he picked
up a candlestick,

a large brass candlestick,

and he started hitting
Roger with it. He...

He hit him on the head.
He hit him on the chest.

He nearly k*lled him.

(crowd gasping)

(gavel pounding) JUDGE: Order.

JAKE: Blake Carrington
almost k*lled Roger Grimes.

What happened
then, Mrs. Carrington?

This was reported to
the police, of course.

No.

Why not? What did happen?

Blake bought people off.

JAKE: "Bought people off."

Uh, what exactly do you
mean by that, Mrs. Carrington?

He bought off a lawyer.

He bought off
one of our servants

who knew what had happened,

and he promoted him
to a lifelong membership

in the Carrington household.

He even bought off Roger Grimes.

That's a lie. She's lying.

JAKE: Are you saying
that Blake Carrington

paid for the silence of
everyone involved in this incident,

including the victim?

Yes.

JAKE: Tell us, Mrs. Carrington,

after the Roger Grimes incident,

did Blake Carrington
buy anyone else off?

Yes.

Me.

(crowd murmuring)

Would you explain that, please?

Blake wanted a divorce,
and he bought me.

JAKE: You mean, with a
handsome yearly payoff.

Oh, well, there...

There are those who
might call it handsome.

I called it obscene.

You see, he forced me
to sign a piece of paper.

A piece of paper? What paper?

A neatly-typed,
very cold document

in which I was forced to promise

that I would never
see my children again.

(crowd murmuring)

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JAKE: You say that you were...

You were forced to sign
this paper, Mrs. Carrington.

What exactly do
you mean by that?

I'd... I'd rather
not go into that.

The witness will please answer

the prosecutor's question.

There were threats made.

(crowd murmuring)

Something about how my children

might not recognize
me if I tried to see them.

(crowd gasping)

She's really
doing it, isn't she?

Wait till I get her on
the witness stand.

I'm gonna tear her apart.

There's not going to be
any cross-examination.

What?

No cross-examination.

JAKE: Tell me, Mrs. Carrington,

have you been
following this trial?

Yes, one of your assistants

has been telling me
about the testimony,

if that's what you mean.

Did he tell you
about the defendant's

heart-rending testimony

in which he swore under
oath that he loved his children,

his daughter and his son?

Yes, he did.

When he did, did it occur
to you, Mrs. Carrington,

that Blake Carrington
was, in fact,

contradicting that testimony

about his great
love for his children?

This man who forbade
their natural mother

from ever seeing
those children again,

who put that woman
and those children...

His own children!

Into an emotional exile
for the rest of their lives.

Did that contradiction

ever cross your
mind, Mrs. Carrington?

ALEXIS: Yes, Mr. Dunham.

It crossed my mind.

I thought about it deeply.

(crowd murmuring)

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(gavel pounding)

JUDGE: Order.

Order, or I'll clear
this courtroom.

I have no further questions.

Cross, Mr. Laird?

Please.

No.

Your Honor, I respectfully
request a short recess

so that I may
talk with my client.

All right.

This court will
reconvene in ten minutes.

CLERK: All rise.

(indistinct chatter)

Joseph,

I'd like you to go
back to the house.

In my dressing room, in
the bureau on the top drawer,

you'll find some seismic charts.

Now please deliver those
to Cecil Colby personally.

I thought he was in Los Angeles.

No, he's leaving this afternoon.
He'll need those charts.

Yes, Mr. Carrington.

I'm very sorry
about her in there. I...

I don't see how she could
have done that to someone

who's been so good to her.

Well...

Gratitude was never my
ex-wife's strong suit, was it?

LAIRD: Come on, we
don't have much time.

You, uh, seem upset, Dunham.

I should think you'd be
grinning from earlobe to earlobe,

celebrating your little coup.

Yes, I'm upset,
Mr. Laird. I am very upset.

What hospital?

MAN: Memorial.

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LAIRD: Blake,

I have to put her on the stand.

The only way I can
discredit her testimony

is by exposing her,

by showing the
rottenness of that woman.

That woman is Steven
and Fallon's mother.

Yeah, well, it's about time
they got to know her better.

Look, we're talking
about you in there.

About your life, your
future. We're talking about...

We're talking about
something I refuse to let you do.

Why? Will you give me
one good reason why?!

I have a reason, but I
will not give it to you.

I don't want anybody
else's life affected by this.

So you're asking me
to cave in out there?

You're telling me to allow
that jury to convict you?!

Is that it, Blake? No.

Oh, no.

I did not premeditatedly
k*ll Ted Dinard.

I retained you to prove that.

I expect you to do it.

And if I don't?

If I can't?

"Don't" and "can't" are
not in my vocabulary.

You'll do it.

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(clears throat)

Hello, Steven.

Hello.

I want you to know that I...

I didn't just come back here

to sit on that
stand and testify.

Your father's a part
of my life that's over.

Did you volunteer to come?

Yes.

But I thought you said that...

I didn't finish
what I was saying.

The only reason
that I came back here

was because it was
a chance to see you.

Oh, you must believe that.

It was three days before your
seventh birthday when I left.

Do you remember?

You said to me,

"Why do you have to go, Mommy?"

And I said,

"I have to find a
rainbow to paint.

"The most special
rainbow that I can find.

It may take a little while."

And then you said...

Do you remember
what you said, Steven?

That there are rainbows
here in Denver sometimes.

"Aren't they special enough?"

"No," I said.

So now you know why.

Would you meet me outside?

I think it'd be
better if I stayed.

As a personal favor, please.

Of course you came
back to see me too?

Of course.

You've got to know that.

Do I?

Just like I've got to know
how much you hated

giving that testimony just now.

That terribly reluctant

but justice-at-all-costs
testimony about my father.

I did hate it.

Do you wanna know something?

May I testify to this?

You're even more
beautiful and more ugly

than that grand English
lady I vaguely remember

and whom I've tried
very hard to forget existed

these past years.

I'm glad to see that your
father had your teeth fixed,

if not your tongue.

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Are you all right?

Is there something I can do?

I'm not feeling very well.

I-I think I'll go
home for a while.

Well, I'll take you
to your car, all right?

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Where's Krystle?

She wanted to go home.

She said she
wasn't feeling well.

I put her in her car.

All rise.

Counselor, are you ready to
cross-examine the witness?

Your Honor, I have no questions.

(crowd murmuring)

(gavel pounding)

The witness may step down.

Mr. Dunham, do you
have any further witnesses?

Uh, no, Your Honor.

Do you wish to present your
closing argument at this time?

Yes. Yes, Your Honor, I do.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the state has tried
to prove to you

beyond any reasonable doubt

that Blake Carrington
cold-bloodedly m*rder*d

his son's h*m* lover,

the late Ted Dinard.

We haven't heard very much
about Ted Dinard in this court.

A young man,

lying now in a small cemetery,

not far from his parents' home

in North Dakota.

Far from Colorado.

Far from this court.

Half forgotten already.

Well, let me tell you
something, ladies and gentlemen,

Ted Dinard is in this court.

He has been here
for the past two weeks,

and he cries out to you,

just as he cries out
to Blake Carrington:

"Why?!

"Why am I dead?

Why did you m*rder me?!"

Now, that young man's
question deserves an answer,

ladies and gentlemen.

Why?

Why is he dead?

He's dead...

because he dared

to get in Blake
Carrington's way.

Because he dared to defy

the almighty Blake Carrington!

And Mr. Carrington,

the embodiment of wealth,

of power and privilege,
of ruthless v*olence,

k*lled him.

He m*rder*d him. Make
no mistake about that.

There sits a man,
ladies and gentlemen,

of whom it can be truly
said that what he cannot buy,

or control, or manipulate,

he destroys.

Be it competitor,

or friend, former wife,

or a son!

Or a son's lover.

Blake Carrington destroys.

He destroys.

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Mrs. Carrington?

Yes?

Did the judge extend
the recess until tomorrow?

No. But you're home.

Yes. I'm not feeling well.

I see.

(sighs) Well, is there anything

one of the servants
can do for you?

Joseph,

you knew Alexis Carrington
when she was here, didn't you?

I mean, you worked
for her when...

I was employed by her.

Yes, I knew her.

Oh, if you're wondering

whether what she said about
Mr. Carrington today is true...

Well,

I'm not under sworn oath here,

and, uh, it's hardly my style

to discuss anything
concerning Mr. Carrington with...

Outsiders?

Why don't you just say it?

I assume that's all?

That's all.

LAIRD: And now,

let me speak to you,
ladies and gentlemen,

about the last witness

the prosecutor called
to the witness stand

in an attempt to prove
that what they call,

"m*rder in the first
degree" was just that,

and not, as we have contended,

that it was all just
a tragic accident

and only that.

Nothing more.

I am speaking, of course,
about their melodramatic,

almost cinematic,
surprise witness.

Alexis Carrington.

The former Mrs. Carrington.

It is, as you know, up to you,

good and fair-minded
people, to judge

whether or not what
she testified earlier

in this courtroom was the truth

or a blatant lie.

The pure and unadulterated
truth from a victimized woman

or a vengeful lie from the
mouth of a woman scorned.

Scorned because of her
self-admitted unfaithfulness.

Which was it?

I can answer that for
you, ladies and gentlemen.

And I shall answer it loudly

and clearly in this
room of justice.

She lied.

She lied!

She has waited a long time,

and she has traveled a long way

to come here and to lie

to each and every
one of you good people.

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What's your guess? How long?

The verdict?

Two hours, two
days, maybe three.

Nobody ever guesses right.

(sighs)

Come on, I'll buy
you a drink, for a price.

For you to tell me
why you won't let...

The subject of Alexis is closed.

REPORTER: Mr. Carrington...

Mr. Carrington will not be
making any comment at this time.

He'll be happy to talk to you
as soon as he's been acquitted.

Thank you, very much.
Thank you. Thank you all.

(crowd chattering)

( suspenseful theme playing)

I've, uh... I've gotta
get back to the office,

dictate some letters.

All right. Do you wanna meet me?

Have some dinner?

Out?

Out.

And leave my
father alone tonight?

Oh, come on,
Fallon. He's not alone.

Well, then where is Krystle?
Oh, that's right, she's ill.

No, I-I don't wanna
go out tonight.

Steven?

What is it?

Well, hey, I'm
still your sister.

Well, siblings have been
known to talk on occasion.

We talked, out in that hallway.

On that day, you told me

I wanted to see our
father pay for Ted's death.

When I was the one who
was responsible, guilty.

We talked.

Steven, I've been
through a lot too, haven't I?

I was sick inside.

Look, I'm sorry.

But Blake's my father.

You always were
and always will be

my very favorite brother, okay?

How 'bout a daughter?

I mean, what kind of
daughter are you, Fallon?

What's that supposed to mean?

That your garbage
about me doesn't matter.

That doesn't matter anymore.

But our mother,

that lady tried to explain
why she came back here,

but you, you just
transferred your garbage

and you dumped it on her.

Well, I finally seem to have
found a career for myself,

after all of these years of
sweet, antiseptic indolence.

I'm Gertie the garbage man.

A woman... (sighs)

person, a thing.

Tell me, just tell me,
who needs a mother

after years of abandoning us?

And don't tell me about
any papers she signed,

which she somehow didn't
get around to mentioning

had a price tag of
$ , pinned to it.

Who told you that?

Jeff, who heard it from
Cecil a long time ago.

We... You and I.
- -have been the talk

of the club circuit for years.

Ever since three days before
your seventh birthday, Steven.

No, don't tell me
about any papers.

You've been around this
outfit long enough to know

what a signature means.

It's a name on a piece of paper,

and pieces of paper
can be b*rned, torn,

or shredded, or
flushed down the toilet.

Well, she could've
come to see us

if she really
wanted to for a day,

or one week, or a month even.

But no, she picked
this day to come back.

And now for only
one reason, Steven.

To dig Blake Carrington's grave.

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The problem is that
we can't go... Blake.

Get in the car,
will you, Andrew?

Ooh, don't I get a chance
to say hello to Andrew?

(chuckles)

Obviously not. Why not, Blake?

He isn't talking
much these days.

Orders from the
chieftain, of course.

Is that why he didn't
cross-examine me?

Yes, I told him not to.
I ordered him not to.

Why?

Because I thought
there was a good chance

that you might repeat that...

That piece of filth
that you once told me.

I was surprised
you didn't spit it out

when Dunham was questioning you.

But I certainly couldn't risk it
with you being cross-examined.

That filth is a lie,
and we both know it.

Do we?

Yes.

Now, Steven and Fallon
have been hurt enough.

Not even you would
want to hurt them more.

Oh, so many years,

and you still call it a lie.

Except Alexis never lies, Blake.

Oh, fibs maybe.

Social fibs, my specialty.

Taught to me by the master
when I was years old.

"Oh, you look ravishing
tonight, Marisa."

"It's the party of the
year, Duffy. The party."

But Alexis lie?

Really, Blake.

So many years, you
might have forgotten.

That night you first threw
that lie at me, I warned you

that if you ever repeated
that to anyone I'd...

You'd k*ll me.

That still holds.

Blake, what you call
filth may be a lie to you,

but I still have it.

And when I'm ready,
when I need a Tr*mp card,

I'm going to play it.

( suspenseful theme playing)

(sighs)

I just heard a news report.

Must have been what
Dunham was so upset about.

Claudia Blaisdel.

What about her?

LAIRD: She and
her daughter Lindsay

were in an automobile accident.

You're a very lucky
woman, Mrs. Blaisdel.

You're going to be all right.

We'll do a couple more
checks for possible concussion

and, uh, try to get you out
of here in a couple of days.

Lindsay. She's fine, she's fine.

No. You were both very lucky.

I heard her, she was hurt...

She was hurt, just a little.

The way your car went off
the road and turned over...

What do you mean?
I wanna see her.

She's fine, she's fine. I...

She's in better shape than
you. I told you, I wanna see her.

And I told you
relax. You must rest.

I want to see my
daughter, all right?

Look, he'll bring her back
here in a little while, I'm sure.

What are you talking about?

Uh...

Your husband,

he came to get her
a little while ago.

Fine, I'm gonna call
them at home, then.

No, uh...

Look, I-I don't know
how to tell you this, uh...

It's hard for me.

Uh...

They're not at home.

I don't know where they are.

Mrs. Blaisdel, your husband
left a message... for you.

They're gone, and don't...

Don't what?

Don't try to find them.

( dramatic theme playing)

You're lying to me, I
don't understand this.

I don't know why,
but you're lying to me.

Nurse. I don't
know why he's lying.

Matthew never said that.

Look, I just want
to get out of here.

(speaking indistinctly)

Just let go of me
and let me up, please.

(speaking indistinctly)

Please stop lying to me...

(speaking indistinctly)

STEVEN: Will you
tell me something?

ALEXIS: Yes.

Did you ever find it?
That special rainbow?

Almost. Twice.

Once in Hawaii
and once in Corsica.

But somehow, it seemed
to vanish into the sun

before I could get my easel
and my new life together.

Without you and without Fallon.

I'm sorry about the
way Fallon acted before.

I'm not surprised. Some
things never change.

You were always my son,

she was always
her father's daughter.

It happens in most families.

But at the risk of
sounding prejudiced,

I'd like to say that I think
that I was the luckier parent.

(giggles)

Do you know that you
still blush in the same way?

Poor Steven.

Oh, you were such a
sweet and loving little boy.

And now you're a young man.

A good and handsome young man.

Man?

Try that on my father someday.

Oh, I know. You and your friend.

You mustn't be ashamed, Steven.

I'm not. I'm lucky.

It was very special for a while.

You loved him.

Yes, very much.

Well, that doesn't make
you any less a man.

( mellow theme playing)

Mr. Dunham was just here.

He's a close
friend of the family.

I didn't let him into see her,
not now, and I have no intention

of saying yes to
you, Mr. Carrington

Is Jake Dunham on
the board of directors

at this hospital, doctor?

No. I am.

Did Jake Dunham
contribute $ million

to build this wing we're
standing in right now?

(sighs)

Look, she's under
pretty heavy sedation.

Just a few minutes.

Thank you very much.

Claudia.

Go away, I don't
want to see you.

I must see you.

Why?

You want to stand over
another of your victims?

Want to gloat over
what's happened?

Why, Mr. Carrington?

I had to come.
You see, in a way...

I'm responsible
for you being here.

I don't know that.

Please, go.

Get out of here.

In that courtroom...

it was not my idea to
put you on that stand.

The idea was
presented to me early.

I rejected it early.

You see, of all the people
that have been hurt in this,

I never intended
you to be one of them.

I beg you to believe that.

I don't believe anymore.

I don't believe in
anything, Mr. Carrington.

Not in love,

not in understanding.

Not in trust.

Pain...

I believe in that.

I only believe in pain.

I wanted you to know
that if you need any help,

if you need help at anytime...

Call you.

Yes, would you do that, please?

( mellow theme playing)

Sorry, did I wake you?

(sighing): That's all right.

I-I was just taking a nap.

God, it's : .

Jeff was gonna call me

when it was time to go
back to the courtroom.

Forget it.

There isn't going
to be a call back.

The jury's still out,

and the judge sequestered
them for the night.

Dinner, bed and
breakfast on the house.

Not bad for a group of
spectators at the coliseum,

watching the lions

and that she-lion
tear my father apart.

Why did you walk out?

Are you asking me why I
left the courtroom, Fallon?

Left, walked out.
It's the same thing.

No, it's not the same thing.

I didn't feel well.

Yeah, that's what you told Jeff.

Are you doubting me?

Heaven forfend,

who should ever
doubt or question

the noble lady of the
House of Carrington?

And you are, and you always
have been, ever so noble.

I'm not enjoying this
little visit of yours.

Neither am I.

The fact is, do
you want the truth

and the whole truth,
so help me God?

I'm accusing you.

Accusing me of what, damn it?

Of having deliberately
walked out on my father today,

because you believed that
woman's lies about that man,

her lover.

That's not true!

What's wrong with you?
What are you, Fallon?

I'm that. Fallon
Carrington Colby.

Accent on the Carrington.

And when you walked
out on my father today,

you as much as told that
jury Blake Carrington is guilty.

No!

(sighs)

Look, you're confused and upset.

I can't blame you for that,
but don't try using me...

I'll use you for what you
are and for what you've done.

And if they don't
set my father free,

I won't rest until
I pay you back.

( dramatic theme playing)

( somber theme playing)

Excuse me.

That Krystle. She
really knows how to do it.

Do what?

Oh, play Camille.

Get him to go up to her
after she walks out on him.

( mellow theme playing)

(knocking on door)

BLAKE: Krystle?

Come in, Blake.

It's an empty room
down there without you.

I asked Jeanette to
tell you I wasn't hungry.

Well, she did tell me,
but not very convincingly.

Well, I can't help
what she thinks

or how she relays messages.

And I can't help but feel

that you're hiding
from me tonight.

Just the same way you
did this afternoon, suddenly.

What I'm trying to say
is that I can understand

how what you heard
Alexis say on that stand

sickened you to the point

where you had to
leave the courtroom.

Blake, I wasn't feeling well.
That's why I came home.

Yes, and then when you got here,

you asked Joseph if Alexis
had been telling the truth.

Was she?

Yes, at least in part.

I did hurt that man. I did
give him some money.

I owed it to him for
what I'd done to him.

But I never threatened her,

and it was not my idea to...

To suppress
anything. It was his.

He had seduced my wife,
and he was willing to let it go.

You don't believe that, do you?

I do, but...

But what?

Blake, I can understand
the rage you felt that night.

I mean, your wife
and another man, her...

Her lover. But...

Well, there's a difference
between rage and cruelty.

You mean Alexis, and exiling
her from her own children?

Yes.

Well, you're right.
It would be cruel.

Inexcusably cruel, but...

But...

You must believe me.

The only thing
that kept her in exile

was a trust fund that paid her

a quarter of a
million dollars a year.

That's what's important to her.

The only thing that's
important to her.

STEVEN: Was it the money?

The money? Oh, no, darling.

It wasn't the fear of losing
my income that kept me away.

That trust fund is irrevocable.

Well, then, why?

(sighs)

Your father bought a lot
more from Roger Grimes

than just silence.

If I ever showed my
face in Denver again,

Roger was prepared to testify

that I was the one who
crippled him with that candlestick.

So when Jake Dunham told me
that Roger had d*ed, two months ago,

I realized that, finally,
I could come back.

I can't believe him.

You know, it's really
just more evidence

that my father thinks he's God.

Oh..

Let's change the subject.

This is for you. Finally.

Go on, open it.

( tender theme playing)

It's you at .

Do you like it?

STEVEN: Yes, very, very much.

I want you to have it.

Thank you.

I did it from memory,
years after I left.

(chuckles)

Because when you were
you'd never sit for me.

Oh, only for about two
or three minutes at a time.

But you were the
most terrible squirmer.

You'd squirm and
wiggle around in the chair

and run out of the studio.

I could never catch you.

I did that? Yes.

Oh, I really loved that studio.

Do you know, Steven, I
have you to thank for it?

No. Yes.

Your father had it built for
me, and he gave it to me...

Land, deed and everything.

As a present for
giving him a son.

Oh.

I had such happy times there.

They say you can't
go home again.

Are you sure I can't
have a tray sent up?

No, I think I'll
go to bed early.

I'm sorry for all
the wrong things

I've done in anger.

I know what it's
caused between us.

(sighs)

Roger Grimes, that
was a lifetime ago.

Ted Dinard...

(sighs)

It was a terrible mistake.

All I intended to
do was to grab him

and to shove him out of my house

and out of Steven's life.

I swear to you

that after tomorrow,
if I'm freed,

I'll be different.

"If I'm freed."

My God.

( dramatic theme playing)

( majestic theme playing)