Victims

Falcon Crest

Season 1 Episode 10

Air Date:  February 5, 1982

Recap:  Emma is having a nightmare about Turner, someone comes into her room and stands over her.  It’s Lance, how creepy can you be?  He wakes her and calms her down, telling her it was only a dream, and she goes back to sleep.

   Chase is driving through the vineyard when he come upon a fight between one of his workers and a guy he’s never seen before..  When the other guy leaves Chase’s worker tells him that the fight was nothing and he was just a friend.

   Angela is going to a concert and tells Julia to keep an eye on Emma, but Lance tells her that he will do it.    Before Angela leaves Emma comes down and asks her to mail a letter to Turner, they try to tell her that he is gone, but she insists that he will get this letter.  When she goes back upstairs Lance tells Angela that she isnt’ getting any better.

  Cole is cleaning the floors after he got them all dirty, while Maggie is working on an article.  Vicky and Mario are making out in his truck, he tells her that she needs to finish high school and he needs to keep his scholarship or else he’ll end back up working the fields.  She tells him that she’s only interested in them. 

  Maggie is driving to Falcon Crest when she passes Emma who is sitting by the road.  Maggie asks if she is ok, and offers to take her back home, she tells Maggie that she wanted to talk to Vicky, Maggie tells her that she went to the library.

  Chase tells Gus about the working that was begin harassed, Gus tells him that he will look into it and let him know what he finds out.

  Maggie drops Emma off and talks to Julia about her article that she wants to write about the workers at Falcon Crest.  Emma goes upstairs and collapses.

  Mario, Vicky and Cole are having lunch, when Mario sees Julio, an old friend, he’s the guy that was harassing Chase’s worker.  He asks him to come over to say hello to his friends.  But Julio tells him that they aren’t friends anymore since he’s going to college. 

  The doctor comes down from Emma’s room, he tells Julia and Maggie that Emma is pregnant.  Maggie doesn’t think that this is such a bad thing for Emma, but Julia tells her that the only opinion that matters is Angela’s, and that she will do anything to protect the family name. 

  Chase comes home and tells Maggie that more workers have quit.  They argue about her writing the article and not working on figuring out why the workers are quitting.  Maybe I missed something but I don’t recall her knowing about this at all till now.  She tells him that she will see what she can figure out. 

  Vicky asks Mario what’s wrong, she asks him if his friends are giving him a hard time about dating her.  He tells her that there’s a lot of cultural differences between them.  He asks her if she wants to break up, and she tells him yes, since it would make everyone else happy but him, he  tells her that he only wants her.

  Maggie is questioning a little girl and her grandmother.  She tells Maggie that she doesn’t go to school because she has to work in the vineyard, she tells Maggie about the man who threatens them with deportation if they don’t pay him most of their money. 

  Angela comes home and Julia gives her the news about Emma.  Lance tells her that he knows a doctor who can take care of it, she tells him that won’t happen.  I want to know why Lance knows a doctor who can do an abortion quickly.  I’m sure that his mother questioned him at great length about that off screen. 

  Maggie tells Chase that the workers are being threatened with deportation.  They go to talk to Gus.

  Angela goes into Emma’s room, and Emma asks her if she is angry, Angela assures her that she isn’t angry.  Emma says that she wishes that Uncle Jason was there.  Angela tells her that they need to think about the future.

  Gus tells Chase to leave it alone that he will only make things worse.  After Chase and Maggie leave Mario tells his father that Chase could help.

  Lance tells Julia that Emma can’t have her baby, since they could be written out of the will and everything could be left to the baby.  Angela walks in and tells them that the baby is staying, and that since Lance is such a disappointment then the baby may run Falcon Crest.

  Mario confront Julio, he tells him that he knows he’s threatening the workers with deportation, Mario tells him that he’ll tells someone to make it stop.

  Lance goes upstairs to see Emma, she is trying to think of baby names.  She asks him what he wants, she says that he’s just mad because Turner wrecked his car.  He tells her that Turner raped her, she says that he wouldn’t do that.

  Mario come over and asks where Chase is, Vicky tells him that they went up to Falcon Crest.

  Angela tells Maggie that she doesn’t want her questioning her workers, Chase tells her that the workers are being extorted, she says that she hasn’t heard anything about it, and wants to know if there is anything that she can do to help.

  Emma walks in and tells Angela that she decided to call her baby Jason.

  Mario is being chased, by Julio and his friends.  They force him off the road and pull him out of the car.   They tell him that if he goes to the police that they will kill Vicky.

  Vicky is worried about Mario since he went to find Chase over 3 hours ago.  She tells Chase that Mario  said he knew who was threatening the workers.  Cole hangs up the phone and tells them that Gus is on his way over and sounded worried.

   Lance finds Emma in the winery, she is there looking for Turner, he follows her.

   Gus tells Chase that Mario still hasn’t shown up.  Gus tells him that as long as there are workers with no permits then this will continue.  Mario knocks at the door, he’s been beaten up pretty bad. 

   Lance comes up behind Emma, who had been talking to Jason.  He asks her about Jason, she tells him that she can’t remember, he grabs her and she struggles to get away from him and ends up falling down the stairs.  Lance picks her up and takes her to the house, and tells his mother to call the doctor.

   At the hospital Mario tells them that he’s okay, they want him to tell them who is extorting the money, but he tells them that he doesn’t know.  Chase tells Gus that he’ll try talking to him, outside he comes over to Mario, he tells Chase that he didn’t’ see who beat him up.  Chase tells him that he’s disappointed in him, he tells Chase that they threatened Vicky and his parents.  Chase tells him that it can only get worse, and that nothing will change if you don’t speak up.  Mario tells him that it was Julio and that where they can find him.

   Lance is pacing back and forth, Julia tells him to stop, he asks her If she blames him for what happened.  She tells him that Emma was fine before she went into the winery.  When the doctor comes back down, he tells them that Emma is fine, Lance asks about the baby, he tells them that Emma lost the baby.  He tells them that she needs professional help. 

   The sheriff, Chase and Gus go to The Hideaway to look for Julio, the sheriff tells Chase to stay back, when Julio spot the police coming he runs out, Chase runs after him and tackles him to the ground holding him there till the police get to them.  Chase asks if they will prosecute him, and the sheriff tells him that it woulsn’t do any good, since he’ll be out in 24 hours.  Chase says that it isn’t fair to exploit your own people.

   Angela finds Lance in Emma’s room, he tells her that he’s sorry and that he didn’t mean for her to get hurt, she tells him to go.  Julia tells him that she is sorry for what she said earlier, he tells her that he didn’t’ push Emma.  He says that they are all like Emma, she’s is locked away in her bedroom, while Julia is locked away in her lab while he is trapped in the business.  She tells him that it will be all different in the morning.

   Emma tells Angela that she is tired, and asks what happened.  She tells Emma that she had an accident.    Emma tells her that Lance was asking her about Jason, she asks if her baby’s dead, Angela tells her yes, and that she is sorry.  Emma tells her that she wanted someone who would love her, Angela tells her that she loves her, Emma tells her that she doesn’t love people she only loves Falcon Crest.
Final Thoughts:   I don't like the way they ended the pregnancy, I wish that they kept the story line for a bit longer then done something differently for Emma to lose her baby. 
Best Outfit:   I picked Lance's outfit because of the color.