Dark Journey

Falcon Crest 

Season 1 Episode 9

Air Date:  January 29, 1982

Recap:  Chase goes downstairs and finds Maggie in the kitchen she tells him that  Vicky still hasn’t come home, it’s after 3 in the morning, he is just about to go wake up Cole, when they hear her drive up.  She tells them she was with Mario.  They tell her that she should have called.  Chase tells her that if Mario wants to see her then he should come down and see her too.  She gets upset with them for how unfair they are to her.

Lance and Angela are attending a benefit performance of Macbeth, they see that Douglas is there with a woman, her name is Myra, Douglas seems pretty uncomfortable to see Angela there when he’s on a date.  An old friend of Angela’s comes over, his name is Arthur, he’s the artist who painted Angela’s father’s portrait, he wants to know when he can do her portrait.  Later Angela tells Lance that she is worried about Douglas changing his mind about Emma and Julia’s inheritance because of the relationship with Myra.

Cole goes to Vicky who is in the Spring House, they end up fighting because to her he is on their parents side.  She tells him that he only sticks around because he is afraid of facing the real world.

Angela tells Lance that Arthur and his grandfather were rivals, Emma comes downstairs and asks them how the play was, she tells them that Julia called.  Angela tells Emma that she should call her father so they can spend more time together, Emma forgets that Jason died and Angela gets upset with her.  Lance tells her that she was hard on her.

Vicky goes to see Mario at his school, and tells him that she isn’t supposed to go see him anymore, she suggests that they could move in together.  He tells  her that things are moving to fast.  She gets upset and leaves.

Chase tells Maggie that he thinks Vicky is avoiding them, while she is supposed to be at the library she is at an arcade of some kind.  A guy starts to give her a hard time while she is playing skee ball, Lance comes over and sends the guy away.  He and Vicky talk and she confesses that she doesn’t like living in the Tuscany Valley, he gives her some money to help her move out on her own he tells her about a friend of his who lives in San Francisco, she is an actress..  She asks if he can take her the next day.

Maggie shows Chase Vicky’s letter, which tells them that she is moving out on her own.  Cole suggest that they give her some space and that they all moved out when they were 18, they tell him that they had finished school then and this isn’t leaving home this is running away.

Lance’s friend, Diana, is working at a diner, while taking acting classes.  She agrees to let Vicky stay with her till she finds her own place.  She tells her that she will ask her boss if she can work her shift with her, and that she will take her to her acting class.

Angela is sitting for her portrait.  Arthur tells her that he’s happy to be with her again, and he reminders her of their time together in the past.  Douglas walks in and Angela suggests that he take Emma for a walk, he wants her to come with them, but she tells him that she is sitting for the portrait and it will take another hour or two.

The Sheriff is with Chase and Maggie, he tells them that there is nothing that they can do, they could make a missing persons report, but most likely they won’t see her again.

Diana tells Vicky that her boss agreed to let her work the dame shift as her.

Cole tells them that a friend of Vicky’s told him that she saw Lance pick her up in front of the school that morning.  Maggie and Chase go over to Falcon Crest and confront Lance, he tolls them that Vicky told him that she wanted to visit a friend in San Francisco, they tell him that she doesn’t know anyone there, he assures them that he didn’t know and that he’s sure she will call.  After they go Angela asks what he is doing, he tells her that the Gioberti's aren’t the big happy family, and isnt’ that what she wanted to prove.

At the acting class they walk in on a student doing a monologue, Diana leaves Vicky with him while she goes upstairs to talk to the teacher.  She tells him that she found the perfect girl for his client.  He tells her that she is working hard for her 10%, she tells him that she wants to he his partner. 

Maggie and Chase go home and tell Cole and Mario that Lance took Vicky to San Francisco.  Mario apologizes for keeping her out so late, and tells them that they had a fight before she left.  Maggie says that Vicky feels like no one is listening to her.  Chase says that he is gong to go look for her, Maggie tells him that she is going to go with him, they tell Cole to stay at home just in case she calls, and Chase tells Mario to go back to school, because she might call him too.

At the acting class the teacher, Michael wants them to do some improve he has Vicky come up first.

Maggie asks why anything bad happens it seems like Lance and Angela seem to have something to do with it, Chase tells her he feels like Angela is trying to get them off the vineyard.  He asks her what her writer’s instinct is telling her she tells him that the only things that’s bothered her is what Gus told them at his father’s funeral about his death being so mysterious.  He agrees, but tells her that he can only think about finding Vicky.

The improv seems like a scene from Vicky’s life at home, Michael tells her that she’s got a lot of talent. 

Arthur is giving Angela a massage, he is trying to get something but what it is I don’t’ know yet, Douglas walks in on them and tells her that he is taking Emma out to dinner, so she can talk about Jason.  Angela and Arthur had plans to go out as well, but once she hears that she suggest that they all go out together.

Michael tells Vicky that he’s got a script for a movie in his office, and there is a part that she would be perfect for.  She asks him what’s in it for him, he tells her that they can talk about it over dinner.

The police give Chase and Maggie a list of shelters and half way house, but nothing else. 

Michael tells Diana that he doesn’t think that Vicky will go through with it, but Diana tells him that she will.  Vicky calls Cole and tells him about the screen test.  She tells him that Michael thinks she got talent.  Cole tells her that their parents are looking for her in San Francisco, she tells him he’s not listening to her and hangs up on him. 

Maggie tells the lady at one of the shelters what they’ve done to look for Vicky, she tells her to get some rest and that they will keep an eye out for Vicky.  Chase joins them and tells her that Cole talked to Vicky and that she’s met some acting teacher who wants to give her a screen test.  The lady asks what the teachers name is.  She tells them that this guy moves around a lot and that they need to ask the right question to look for him, and not to sound like parents.  She tells them that Michael makes porn.

Maggie start to question people but are getting nowhere till Chase goes into an adult video store, he tells the guy working there that he wants to buy some special videos, and that a friend told him that a Michael West made the best stuff.  Chase leaves his hotel number and the guy tells him he’ll get back to him.

Angela takes Douglas into her office, she is mad that he lied to her about Emma wanting to talk about Jason, he asks her how long the freeloader will be staying.  She tells him that he’s got Myra, and he tells her that she’s just jealous.  He asks her to have dinner with him, and she agrees.

Chase calls and talks to Diana, she tells him that he can come over and talk to Michael at 3.  Chase tells Maggie that they won’t wait that long.

Michale talks to Vicky, getting her ready for her screen test.  Once they start he has her go off their script and asks he to unbutton her top, she tells him that she won’t do it, but he tells her to relax, when she tries to leave he pushes her back onto the bed and tells her that she will do it. 

Chase walks in the building and talks to Diana, she tells him that Michael won’t be in for an hour, when Chase asks to look around she tells him he can’t since they are filming.  When he hears that he goes in the back and barges into the room where Vicky is.  He grabs a hold of Michael after punching him, and tells him that he is scum and spits on him. 

Arthur hangs up Angela’s portrait, when she gives him the money for the portrait he is disappointed that they won’t pursue the relationship that they once had.  He asks if she will visit him, she tells him that she might.  Angela asks Lance if he apologized to Chase and Maggie, he tells her that he did and tells her that he didn’t know what Diana was mixed up in.  She tells him that they wouldn’t want in in the family to get hurt.

Final Thoughts:   This episode was so like a twisted Brady Bunch episode with the lesson for the episode, how stupid is Vicky though.  I like the storyline Angela's love triangle, I think she just needs to get back with her ex-husband already. 
Best Outfit:  I hate this color combination, it reminds me of the people who order the hunter green covers with red coil at work.  I can't tell for sure if the skirt is red or a dark orange whatever it is I hate it.