Hush... Hush, Sweet Caress
Had there been a Season 10, I want Caress and Sable living in the mansion, sparsely occupied and almost abandoned, preparing the inventory for the upcoming auction in the wake of the revelations over The Collection while Blake is in and out of jail over the shooting of Captain Handler and various related issues,
At one point, Blake even suggests that Alexis move in for security reasons when it becomes obvious that Dennis Grimes is stalking her.
One night, during a late night dinner between the Three Witches of McDenver -- Alexis, Sable and Caress -- Alexis reveals that Blake only knew when and where to find her in bed with Roger Grimes back in 1964 because Caress, jealous that her wealthy big sister had stolen her stud, Roger, told Blake. Thus shattering the dynasty and upheaving their lives forever.
Caress concedes this fact, and then reveals that, once Alexis was dumped by Blake and subsequently dumped by Roger, Caress was then raped by vengeful Roger... Sable, listening silently to the Morell sisters' dialogue, has a startled reaction that tells the audience that her own ancient rape might have been at the hands and loins of Roger, as well.
The late dinner breaks up, so Sable and Caress leave the house for respective rendezvous in Denver (Caress has to go tell Blake, working late at the office, that it was she who pulled Sable into the search for the Nazi treasure -- unwittingly unleashing
yet another catastrophe). An inebriated Alexis wanders alone and disheveled into the darkened ballroom with her glass of burgundy; the tiny "clink" of broken glass occurs as someone is quietly breaking through a french door and into the huge chamber -- it's Dennis Grimes! Stunned and very drunk, Alexis' hand locates in her nightgown's pocket the derringer her eldest son gave her ("for protection") a couple of episodes before, and she draws the weapon, demanding the intruder stop... He realizes she's three sheets to the wind, lurches forward, and she trips over the leg of a chaise lounge, causing her to drop the gun -- which hits the floor, discharging and, by eerie coincidence, hits Dennis Grimes in the head, several yards away.
He falls to the polished wooden floor, quite dead. Stunned and in a panic, Alexis pauses briefly to evaluate the morbid situation and then promptly starts desperately wrapping up Dennis Grimes' bleeding head and lifeless body into the nearest antique oriental throw rug ... when the chandeliers above suddenly light up, Alexis reacts in silent hysteria to the unexpected illumination in search of the source for it... And, in the reflection of the pane of the broken french door just behind Alexis, the audience sees the slightly out-of-focus figure of Krystle, dressed like she just got off of a cruise ship, across the room having just discovered this lurid mess; the Second Mrs. Carrington walks only a couple of tentative steps forward and stops, still only visible in the reflection from that window pane, with Alexis, on her knees, hyperventilating and in terror; no music, fade out.
End of series.
Since Linda Evans was briefly "pudgy" at the time and wouldn't have returned (let alone for a silent 10-second cameo), a double with the right blonde pageboy bouffant, schooled in the correct Krystle-esque physical demeanor, would be used -- at a distance and in reflection, that would be much easier to pull off.
This would not only be a great, memorably-controversial, cliffhanging way to complete the weekly series of DYNASTY, it allows for any potential reunion finale (like what they did in 1991, once Linda was skinny again) to begin with a bang, the drama ready to pick up and take off immediately. And if that REUNION never happened, what a wild and unforgettable conclusion:
Alexis with a dead body; a wordless Krystle catching them!
And who would Blake get shoved by... Adam? ^^ That actually would have been interesting...
