Tuesday, March 27, 2012

For Love or Money

Falcon Crest
Season 1 Episode 11
Air Date:   February 12, 1982

Recap:  Lance is driving with Angela, she is watching the speedometer as it goes to 70 mph.  They are going to Elizabeth Bradbury’s house to have tea with her. 
   Gus tell Maggie and Chase about Jason’s secret room, he would stay there a lot.  They look over the floor plans and decided that they are going to open up the secret room.
  Elizabeth tells Angela that Lance reminds her of Jason.  Lance is surprised that Elizabeth knew his uncle Jason.  They thanks her as they go.  Angela drives back to Falcon Crest, just as fast as Lance did.
   Maggie is covering the furniture as Chase and Gus start to break through the wall.
   Lance asks Angela why she goes to visit Elizabeth every week, she tells him that it’s their duty, she wants him to start going without her.  She tells him that she wants him to start dating the daughter of Carlo Agretti's daughter Melissa, Angela wants to his vineyard all she wants him to do is marry Melissa, Lance doesn't like this and storms off.
   The family is sitting down for dinner, Cole goes up to get Chase who is still working on the wall.  Vicky tells Maggie that the family is strange.
   Lance is driving when another car forces him off the road hitting a girl’s bike.  He offers to buy her a new bike and offers her a ride home. 
   Maggie tells them to stop working for the night, tomorrow is a school day, and they can finish then.  But once the kids go to bed, Chase continues to work, he’s obsessed with finding out what is behind the wall in the secret room.  It takes him one more hit to get through and Chase and Maggie go inside.  Inside he finds a book about the family, his father had written notes throughout the book, he tore out pages and rewrote sections.  There are a lot of comments about Angela, and they find a mention of Elizabeth Bradbury.
   The next day Maggie goes into the room and finds some papers in the desk.
   Julia goes to Angela and tells her that Lance still isn’t home, Angela tells her that its’ because he’s mad at her, she does know where he is, she tells Julia that he is in San Francisco, and has been spending a lot of money.  She tells her that she is having Agretti over for dinner, and that his daughter will be coming so Lance had better be back.
   Lance and the girl he met are going for a bike ride, they go down to the beach for a picnic.  Lance tells her that he never thought he would fall in love.  She asks him to tell her about himself since they have only talked about her.
   The family is reading Jason’s papers, they find another mention of Elizabeth Bradbury, then Maggie finds a newspaper article about the hit and run accident that left Elizabeth paralyzed. 
   Emma finds Julia in her workshop and tells her that she misses Lance.  Maggie comes over and asks Julia about Elizabeth.  Julia tells her that she is still alive and that Angela goes to visit her every week.
   Gus and Chase are working outside the house, Chase asks him if his father was in love with Elizabeth.  Gus tells him that he would always ask about her and that Chase’s grandfather paid for her hospital bills.
   Lance comes home and introduces Angela to his girlfriend Lori.  Lance informs Angela that he plans to move to San Francisco to work at the corporate offices of Falcon Crest.  She tells him that they will discuss this later.  While Lance and Lori go for a horseback ride, Angela calls Cole so that she can set Melissa and Lance up, and Cole can keep Lori away from Lance.
   After dinner Agretti tells Angela that he can see that Lance is in love with Laurie and he doesn't want his daughter to get hurt.  She assures him that it's nothing serious and that once Lance gets to know Melissa he will want to marry her.  He thanks her for dinner, when he goes Angela seems very pleased with herself.
   Chase and Maggie go to visit Elizabeth, he tells her that his father wrote a lot about her, she tells him that Jason was very shy, and that after the accident he never came to see her which hurt her a lot since she was in love with him.  She tells them that Angela told her all about Jason and she’s been a very good friend.
   Chase says that he doesn’t understand why his father never went to see Elizabeth, Maggie asks if he thinks that his father was responsible for her accident, he asks her what she thinks.
   Angela tells Lance that he can’t go to San Francisco and that he has to marry Melissa. 
   Lance goes to Julia and asks her to help him convince Angela to let him marry Lori, she won’t help him since no one can say no to Angela, she tells him that he doesn’t need to give up Lori.  That’s really nice mom.
   Gus tells Maggie that Jason would  have told him if he was responsible for Elizabeth’s accident when he was drunk.  Maggie realizes that it was Angela driving the car that hit Elizabeth.
   Angela takes Laurie on a tour of the winery, where she tries to buy her off.  Lori tells Lance that it’s over between them, he tells her that he should never have brought to Falcon Crest.  Lance tells her that he can change things and ask her not to go, and that she is all that he has.  She tells him that he just needs to feel something, and she leaves.
   Chase goes to Angela and shows her a note about her and her blue convertible.  She tells him hat she and her father made sure that Elizabeth got everything that she needed.  She plays him a tape of Jason talking to  Gus saying that he doesn’t have a son anymore since Chase left and never came back.  Chase asks how she got the tape, she tells him that Gus came to her to help Jason get some help.  He says that she wins, she asks about Maggie and mentions something about her maiden name and where she is from.  Chase can’t believe that she has started a file on Maggie.  She says that she has always wanted to get to know her better.
   After Chase leaves Angela plays the rest of the tape and we hear Jason say that he does love Chase and that he needs him
Final Thoughts: I liked the story line about the secret room it was very Dark Shadows, I kind of wish that it went on a bit longer.  I liked Lance a lot more in this episode then in previous ones too.
Best Outfit:  These are some of the best bike outfits.

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