Krystle's Lie

Dynasty

Season 1 Episode 7

Air Date: March 2 1981

Recap:  Blake wants to know who gave Matthew the money so he can keep drilling for oil, Krystle tells Blake that she doesn't like to see him so upset.  They start talking about his kids, and why he didn't name Steven after himself, he tells her that they will name their son after him. 

Claudia tells Matthew that she wants to get a job, he tells her he doesn't want people to think he can't support his family. 

Lindsay overhears her parents talking about how they married so young, she goes to the hall of records and looks up their marriage certificate, she gets upset and runs out. 

At the rig Matthew finds a screw and realizes that it wasn't Steven's fault, he goes over to the bar and confronts Ed.  They fight and Matthew gets him to admit that he was the one to sabotage them and that it was Blake who paid him to do it. 

Matthew barges into Blake's office and wants to know how a father can let his son take the blame for something that he did.  Blake tells Matthew he's not suited for the job of a manager.  He wants Matthew to admit that he thinks about Krystle day and night. 

Steven has received a telegram and Fallon is trying to read it through the envelope when he comes up behind her, she tries to get him to tell her who it's from, he only tells her that she knows who it's from. 

After school Lindsay freaks out on her friend, then tells her that her parents only got married because her mother go pregnant.  Her friend tells her that she isn't the only one that this has happened to, but Lindsay doesn't care, she's so upset by this. 

When Matthew comes home Claudia is working a Lindsay's costume for the play, he goes up to check on her, but she pretends to be asleep, and the moment he closes her door she begins to cry again. 

Krystle asks Blake if he's going to come up to bed, but he's so busy with paperwork, he barely is aware of her in the room.  Fallon comes home from a party, she is almost baiting Krystle to say something about her going to parties while her husband is out of town.  Fallon goes into Steven's room and they talk about the telegram Ted sent to Steven, he's going to be in LA and wanted Steven to come out and see him. 

The next day Steven come over to Matthew's oil field, Matthew wants to apologize for doubting him, and wants to have Steven come back to work, but Steven says no because they all just assumed the gay guy did it. 

Ed goes to the book store Claudia is working at.  He tells her that he doesn't like Matthew and that he doesn't work for Matthew and Walter anymore.  He then tells her what everyone else knew about already, that Matthew and Krystle had an affair. 

Fallon meet Ted at the airport she takes him to San Francisco on the families private jet.  She tells him that he needs to give Steven space, so he can decide what he wants for himself. 

When Matthew comes home Claudia is very quite with him, he tells her that he'd like to go to the therapist with her, but she tells him that she doesn't want him to come anymore, she tells him about Ed coming to see her, but doesn't tell him anything else about what was said. 

In their bedroom Blake knocks down Krystle's robe where he discovers her birth control pills.  He gets very angry with her, because he thought that they were going to have a baby.  She tells him that she wanted so time, but he doesn't understand, he tells her everyone betrays him.  He tries to kiss her but she pulls away, he pushes her onto the bed, riping her clothes off, forcing himself on to her.

Final Thoughts:  This episode made Blake very unlikable, but I liked what Fallon did by telling Ted to let Steven figure things out, without being so pushy, which he really seems to me.

Best Outfit:  Except for the shirt this looks like a super hero's costume.

Fight Count:  1 (Ed vs Matthew)