A Time for Saboteurs

Falcon Crest

Season 1 Episode 2

Air Date:  December 11, 1981 (1981-12-11)

Recap:  Chase and Cole are working in the vineyard, they see a plane fly over.  It’s an old friend of Chase’s.  At dinner he tells the family about how Chase saved him in Vietnam.  He and Julia make plans to meet up the next day so she can give him a tour of the vineyards.

  Angela tells Lance that she isn’t happy that his mother, Julia is spending so much time with Chase and Maggie. 

  Paul tell Chase about his plans for starting a business in the Cayman Islands, where they would fly tourists around the islands.  He wants him to get into business with him, but Chase tells him that he’s happy where he is.

   Angela gets a phone call from her ex-husband, they are going to go to dinner to celebrate their anniversary.

   Julia shows Paul around her lab, and Angela walks in on them as they kiss.  He tells Angela that he wants Chase to get into business with him, but she tells him that she doesn’t think he’ll be easily convinced.

   Paul and Julia plan on having lunch again tomorrow. 

   Paul is talking to someone on the phone about paying them back he assures them that he’s got the money and he’ll pay them back with interest, he tells them about Julia’s father, who he tells them that he’s backing Paul.  When he hangs up two guys walk in and tell him that their boss wants his money, Paul tells them that he’ll have it tomorrow.

   Gus tells Chase that the grapes are almost ready and that they will have a good harvest.

   Paul and Julia talk about Chase and his business, he says if Chase doesn’t join him then he doesn’t have a chance.  She suggests he talk to her mother.

   Paul goes to Angela and tells her that he needs money, and he know she wants Chase out of the valley, and suggests that she pay him if he can get that to happen.

   Paul gets Chase to take a break and they go flying with Cole.  Maggie comes home and asks Gus where Chase is, he tells her that he went flying with Paul.  She sees the plane do some dangerous dives and gets upset and yells at Chase when they land.  Paul tries again to get Chase to get into business with him, but again Chase tells him he likes what he is doing now.

   Maggie is with Julia, who’s teaching her how to taste wine, Maggie tells Julia about Paul, she gets mad when Maggie tells her not to get to involved with Paul.

   At the airfield Paul is trying to get more gas, he still hasn’t paid his deposit, but he convinces the attendant to fill the plane up, and he’ll get him the money and a case of Falcon Crest wine.  The two thugs come back to get their money, Paul tries to give them a check, but they tell him that they aren’t a bank and will only take cash, he tells them that the banks are closed so he’ll cash the check himself tomorrow and give them the money.

   Chase apologizes to Maggie for what he did, she tells him not to scare her like that again, 

    Paul goes to Julia, and she tells him how important the weather is in the wine making business.  He tells her to go change so they can go out to dinner, and while she's gone he looks though some of her books.

   Angela and her ex-husband Doug are reminiscing over dinner, they talk about what drove them apart, but the promise to always remain friends. 

   Paul leaves Julia's room, and goes outside of Chase's house and turns on the sprinklers. 

   Gus wakes up Chase and his family and tell them that the irrigation was turned on, and the vineyard is wet, the fungus will begin to grow and it will destroy the crop.  Chase calls Julia to come and help them save their grapes.  Angela tells her to hurry before Chase's problem becomes their problem too. 

   Chase asks Cole if he turned off the irrigation, he swears he did.  Julia tells them that they need to dry the earth, and if they fly over the crops with the helicopter will might help.

   Paul goes to see Angela, he tells her that she owes him some money, he tells her that he was the one that turned on the irrigation.  She tells him that he could have destroyed all the harvest all over the valley.  He tells her that she owes him.  Angela tells him that she just got a call about him and she sends him out of the house.  She calls Chase and tells him how sorry she is for what happened and that she knows who is responsible.

   Chase tells Maggie and Julia what Angela told him, he doesn't want to believe it, but he is going to go ask Paul for himself.  Julia realizes that she told Paul everything he needed to know to destroy the vineyard, she knows that it was him.

   Chase gets to the airfield and has to drive in front of Paul, who is trying to fly away to get him to stop.  He tells him he wants some answers, Paul brings up the business idea up again, and Chase says it's just a scam, and that he was never his dream, he punches Paul and gets into his car.  The two guys are coming for Paul, he asks Chase to help him, but Chase leaves.

   Julia's idea has worked the fields have dried.  Vicky says she can't believe that Paul would do something like that, her mother reminds her that blood is thicker than water, which Julia says it depends on the family.

Final Thoughts:  I knew that there was something up with that friend the moment he showed up on the screen, he's got an expired insurance card and the kids loved him, while Maggie didn't seem to pleased to see him, this episode reminded me a bit of that episode from Dallas, about Bobby and his old friend, I think I liked that episode better than this one.

Best Outfit:   I can see Little Orphan Annie wearing this when she was older.

Fight Count:  1 (Chase vs Paul)