Falcon Crest
Set in the vineyards of California, this primetime soap opera featured the conflict within the powerful Gioberti family, owners of the vast Falcon Crest Winery.
Cast:Jane Wyman , Lorenzo Lamas , Chao Li Chi , David Selby , Susan Sullivan , Margaret Ladd , Ana Alicia , Robert Foxworth , William R. Moses , Abby Dalton , Laura Johnson , Jason Goldberg , John Callahan , Simon MacCorkindale , Dana Sparks , Mel Ferrer , Brett Cullen , Cesar Romero
S1.E0 ∙ The Vintage Years
The Unaired pilot is titled, "The Vintage Years". Although it is similar in many ways to what becomes "Falcon Crest", there are significant differences. First, the winery and property are never called "Falcon Crest" and that name is not spoken or seen in the pilot. There are several character differences. Chase Gioberti is played by Clu Gulager and Maggie is played by Samantha Eggar. The characters are not as defined as in the series.....more black and white here. Example.....Angela Channing is EVIL.....Chase Gioberti is GOOD......not a lot of complexity. Other character differences include Richard Channing (Michael Swan) as an established son of Angela and a mercenary type. Additionally, Julia Cumson is named Dorcas and the character of Emma Channing is reduced to screams heard from the attic and a brief glimpse on a staircase! The plot follows Chase and his family trying to establish themselves in the valley following the death of his father Jason. Angela wants the land and winery for herself and does not want to share. Richard and Lance follow Angela's orders to trip up Chase and his family wherever and however possible. Angela's approach is to use Cole Gioberti as a spur to make Lance a worthy heir and leader. Chase and Maggie are against Cole snuggling up to Angela and all her gifts and incentives. When Lance hires Chase's picking crew away, Cole realizes that Angela is a threat and he retreats back to his family where he belongs. Chase confronts Angela and corners her into restoring his crew.....just in time to pick the grapes from his ready fields. Lance and Richard are seen looking on.....planning the next move. An interesting pilot....filmed in and at the actual mansion where they filmed the "Falcon Crest" series for 7 years. This is a "rough" draft of a much more complex and intriguing series to come!!
S1.E1 ∙ In His Father's House
After his father's mysterious death, Chase Gioberti inherits 50 acres of Tuscany Valley vineyards that his aunt, Falcon Crest winery owner Angela Channing believes rightfully belongs to her.
S1.E2 ∙ A Time for Saboteurs
Angela promises Chase's old friend Paul a large sum of money if he succeeds in getting the Giobertis off their land. But Paul's plan also endangers the Falcon Crest vineyards.
S1.E3 ∙ The Tangled Vines
When Angela thwarts their attempts to raise money to pay a large tax bill, Chase and his family decide to sell their New York City house.
S1.E4 ∙ The Harvest
Disenchanted with unruly, irresponsible grandson Lance Cumson, Angela pretends to court Cole as heir to Falcon Crest. Lance bribes Chase's grape pickers not to harvest the Giobertis' crop.
S1.E5 ∙ Tony Comes Home
Tony Cumson, Lance's father and Julia's (ABBY DALTON) husband, reappears after deserting them 12 years ago. Chase gets upset when Maggie takes a newspaper job working for Angela's ex-husband, Douglas Channing.
S1.E6 ∙ Kindred Spirits
Cole is badly injured on a journey into a wilderness area with Chase and Lance. Thinking she's about to be sent to a mental institution, Emma runs away from Falcon Crest.
S1.E7 ∙ The Extortionist
Emma Channing's lover, who was present the night Jason Gioberti died, blackmails Angela to keep the truth a secret.Maggie may be pregnant.
S1.E8 ∙ Lord of the Manor
Angela takes Cole to a wine-tasting competition in Rome, where her ex-husband, Douglas Channing, proposes that they remarry. Chaselearns that Lance is a very dangerous person.
S1.E9 ∙ Dark Journey
When Chase and Maggies's daughter, Vicki, runs away to San Francisco to escape her overprotective parents, Lance introduces her to a woman involved in the pornographic film business.
S1.E10 ∙ Victims
Maggie's news reporting assignment uncovers an extortionist threatening Falcon Crest workers. Lance fears competition from Emma's unborn child for the family fortune, but Emma falls down a flight of stairs and miscarries.
S1.E11 ∙ For Love or Money
Angela schemes to force Lance into marrying Melissa Agretti despite his love for another woman. Chase finds incriminating evidenceagainst Angela, while she misleads him into believing that his father hated him.
S1.E12 ∙ Family Reunion
Chase's wealthy mother, Jacqueline Perrault, returns to Falcon Crest, rekindling fear and hatred between Angela and her former sister-in-law, who has come to warn Chase of Angela's treacherous nature.
S1.E13 ∙ The Candidate
Angela struggles unsuccessfully to prevent Chase from being elected to the County Board of Supervisors. Emma is caught shoplifting in a jewelry store.
S1.E14 ∙ House of Cards
Angela sets out to destroy Melissa Agretti's budding romance with Cole. Chase and Maggie persuade Julia to take Emma to apsychiatric clinic, but Angela stops Julia with the truth about Emma killing Jason Gioberti.
S1.E15 ∙ Heir Apparent
Chase uses his political position to make inquiries into his father's death. A friend who Cole refuses to drive home after a party is killed in an auto accident. Melissa learns she's pregnant.
S1.E16 ∙ The Good, the Bad, and the Profane
Lance is shattered when Melissa accepts his marriage proposal, and even more so when he finds out she's pregnant. Vicki and Mario decide to elope.
S1.E17 ∙ Penultimate Questions
Chase persuades the district attorney to order a coroner's inquest into the death of Jason Gioberti. Before Emma has a chance to testify, Douglas Channing suffers a fatal seizure in the courtroom.
S1.E18 ∙ Ultimate Answers
When Emma finally testifies that she pushed Jason Gioberti to his death, the jury awards Falcon Crest to Chase. Angela accepts Chase's offer of equal partnership while vowing to regain full control.
S2.E1 ∙ The Challenge
Richard promises to deliver Falcon Crest to his elegant stepfather while Phillip and Angela search for their enemy's weakness. Angela battles Chase for control of the vineyards.
S2.E2 ∙ The Arrival
Chase fights for the rights of growers, using his position on the county board of directors. Angela confronts Richard at The Globe.
S2.E3 ∙ Troubled Waters
Angela and Chase fight over water rights. Carlo is found murdered shortly after a fight with Cole.
S2.E5 ∙ The Exposé
Richard makes an offer on the Agretti property, and pushes to have Cole convicted of Carlo's murder. Chase makes labor reform his platform after witnessing the living conditions of vineyard workers.
S2.E6 ∙ Home Away from Home
Angela demands Lance play the dutiful husband to ensure the survival of Melissa's difficult pregnancy. Jacqueline visits her son, but Chase is suspicious when she leaves abruptly. Cole moves in with Katherine.
S2.E7 ∙ The Namesake
Melissa reveals to Cole that he is the father of her newborn son. Richard is suspected of trying to start a price war.
S2.E8 ∙ Choices
As his and Melissa's baby clings to life, Cole considers running away from the murder charges. A second autopsy on Carlo has surprising results.
S2.E9 ∙ The Vigil
Angela secretly subsidizes the production of Maggie's screenplay. Chase flies to L.A. to do an independent audit of Falcon Crest, and Richard produces Joseph's best hope for survival.
S2.E10 ∙ Confrontations
Angela fights to take over The Globe. Melissa brings baby Joseph home to Falcon Crest.
S2.E11 ∙ United We Stand...
As they struggle for control of the newspaper, Richard puts a winery on the land earmarked for a Douglas Channing memorial, alerting Angela of his intentions to start a takeover of the Valley. Jacqueline reveals a long-hidden secret.
S2.E12 ∙ ...Divided We Fall
Richard tries to use Jacqueline's revelation to swing the shareholder's vote and give him control of The Globe. Angela's Founder's Day bash brings more revelations.
S2.E13 ∙ Pas De Deux
The paternity test comes back for little Joseph while the fallout from the Founder's Day party continues. Angela runs Phillip ragged looking for dirt on Jacqueline - but what he finds is electrifying.
S2.E14 ∙ Above Suspicion
Cole is left for dead after a brutal attack. Angela realizes Phillips is seeing someone else, and Nick sleeps with Vicki.
S2.E15 ∙ Broken Promises
As Cole lies in a coma, Melissa uses Joseph to get her independence from Angela. Chase finds a clue to Carlo's murder.
S2.E16 ∙ Deliberate Disclosure
Richard buys the McKay vineyard and Lance files for divorce.
S2.E17 ∙ Love, Honor and Obey
Emma returns to Falcon Crest, Chase is arrested and Lance and Melissa consumate their marriage.
S2.E18 ∙ Separate Hearts
Despite death threats, Julia investigates a clue to Carlo's murder.
S2.E19 ∙ The Odyssey
Angela and Emma uncover a startling secret - and a motive for Carlo Agretti's murder - while searching Europe for an Achille's Heel in Richard's past.
S2.E20 ∙ Ultimatums
Angela uses her knowledge of Denault's past to force him to rein in Richard, but a meeting between father and son doesn't go smoothly. Lance becomes the target of a murder investigation.
S2.E21 ∙ Maelstrom
Sherriff Robbins and Chase arrive at Richard's house, wanting to ask him some questions after Robbins receives the forensic report on Henri Denault body.
S2.E22 ∙ Climax
Richard discovers the true power behind The Company. Carlo's killer is unmasked at Nick and Vikki's wedding, which ends in death asthe murderer produces a gun.
S3.E1 ∙ Cimmerean Dawn
Chase struggles to recover from the wedding-day violence that killed his mother. Melissa turns her back on the family that killed her father.
S3.E2 ∙ Penumbra
Angela blackmails Chase's doctor into declaring him incompetent to run Falcon Crest, Melissa turns to Richard for affection and Chase suffers a setback when Angela tells him of his mother's death.
S3.E3 ∙ Conspiracy
Richard and Melissa plot to use Julia to avenge their parents' deaths. Dr. Lantry begins carrying out Angela's plan to kill Chase.
S3.E4 ∙ Partners
Chase begins to recover use of his legs, Julia is ruled not criminally insane, and Maggie talks Michael into taking a position at the hospital.
S3.E5 ∙ Judge and Jury
Julia faces the death penalty when she pleads guilty. Angela orders Lance to complicate Chase's return to Falcon Crest.
S3.E6 ∙ The Wages of Sin
Julia is sentenced to life in prison. Michael Ranson accuses Dr. Lantry of malpractice. Richard uses Emma to lure Maggie to work for the newspaper and delays the reading of Jacqueline's will.
S3.E7 ∙ The Last Laugh
Julia struggles with a tough matron who has a vendetta against the Channings. Jacqueline gets the last laugh on Angela.
S3.E8 ∙ Solitary Confinements
Julia begs Angela for protection from vicious inmates, Maggie discovers Dr. Lantry's secret source of cash and is confronted with her sister Terry.
S3.E9 ∙ Chameleon Charades
Cole and Melissa fight for custody of baby Joseph. Angela discovers Chase and Michael's investigations into Dr. Lantry, and Melissa tells Lance she's just using Richard.
S3.E10 ∙ Double Dealing
Terry sets out to win a wealthy husband at Falcon Crest; Richard fights back when the cartel demands control of his racetrack. Phillip tries to spirit Lantry out of the country while Chase and Michael look for proof of his dealings with Angela.
S3.E11 ∙ The Betrayal
Chase finds Lantry when Lance betrays Angela. Richard's reputation takes another blow when Osborne is murdered on his property.
S3.E12 ∙ Coup d'Etat
Chase finds a clause in his grandfather's will that gives him the legal right to oust Angela from Falcon Crest. Terry worms her way into Michael's life and Lance threatens Angela and Melissa.
S3.E13 ∙ No Trespassing
Angela fights to retain control of Falcon Crest, the battle over Richard's proposed racetrack goes to the polls and Lance threatens Linda's father.
S3.E14 ∙ Sport of Kings
Julia lapses into catatonia when Richard maliciously claims he fathered Melissa's unborn baby; Chase is driven to destroy the racetrack; and Melissa makes a fatal admission during the custody hearing.
S3.E15 ∙ Queen's Gambit
Falcon Crest's wine distributer refuses to work for Chase, Richard is attacked by the cartel, Michael tries to face his past and operate on a gravely injured Sheriff Robbins.
S3.E16 ∙ Bitter Harvest
Phillip forces Melissa to sell the Agretti harvest to him. Richard is targeted by the cartel, Linda finds Melissa in Cole's bed and Maggie learns a secret about Jacqueline.
S3.E17 ∙ Power Play
The custody case goes to court. Richard fears for his life when Maggie's article is printed, displeasing the cartel.
S3.E18 ∙ Changing Times
Angela makes Melissa a horrifying offer, the cartel strikes at Richard's racetrack on opening day, and Maggie's article about Jacqueline tears the valley apart.
S3.E19 ∙ The Aftermath
A fight between Melissa and Linda culminates in a deadly car crash. Richard and Pamela's relationship deepens despite the threat of the cartel.
S3.E20 ∙ Tests of Faith
Maggie discovers the cause of her dizziness and headaches, Pamela is kidnapped by the cartel and Angela exposes Terry's sordid past to Michael.
S3.E21 ∙ Little Boy Blue
Melissa loses her baby as Angela refuses to reconsider their pact and Chase gets wind of the contract. Michael surprises Terry.
S3.E22 ∙ The Gathering Storm
Lance learns of the pact between Angela and Melissa, Maggie's need for an operation grows critical even as questions remain about Michael's surgical skill, and Julia gets an unwitting friend to teach her how to shoot.
S3.E23 ∙ Final Countdown
Melissa rejects Lance's attempts at reconciliation, Chase waits for Maggie to come through surgery and Pamela carries out Spheeris's orders to destroy Richard.
S3.E24 ∙ Love's Triumph
Richard's furious when he learns what Chase has done with his $50 million trust fund. Maggie goes into a coma after complications arise during her surgery. Pamela is kidnapped by the cartel, shocking Richard into a realization of his priorities.
S3.E25 ∙ Win, Place, and Show
The cartel plans to make the grand opening of the racetrack into Richard's public execution. Melissa learns she can no longer have children. Terry and Michael announce their marriage, and Angela agrees to marry Phillip.
S3.E27 ∙ The Avenger
Julia holds baby Joseph hostage and demands to see Angela. An emotional scene between mother and daughter ends in flames.
S3.E28 ∙ Ashes to Ashes
The Channings and Giobertis prepare to depart for Italy to scatter Julia's ashes, a trip that takes a perilous turn when the cartel tampers with the plane.
S4.E1 ∙ Requiem
Michael and Philip are killed in the plane crash, and Linda is clinging to life. The cartel meets to discuss its ultimate goal: recovery of a Nazi treasure buried on Falcon Crest land.
S4.E2 ∙ Father's Day
Angela offers Greg Reardon a job and a political career and Richard is threatened by the cartel, which is undergoing power shifts as Gustav murders his own father to gain control.
S4.E3 ∙ Strangers
Angela and Lance bribe a mechanic to claim Chase was drinking prior to piloting the fatal flight. Maggie's celebration for her father's return turns painful when Angela makes a startling announcement.
S4.E4 ∙ The Outcasts
Maggie is angry that her father never told her she was adopted. Terry's husband arrives, jeopardizing her inheritance from Michael. Cole moves back to his parents' home with baby Joseph. Gustav, masquerading as Jean-Louis de Bercy, "bugs" Falcon Crest.Richard is ousted from the newspaper and shot twice by Padgett. Chase's pilot license is revoked.
S4.E5 ∙ Shadows
Padgett did not succeed in killing Richard. Lance becomes publisher of the newspaper. Joel mugs Maggie for drug money and is later hired by Cole as transportation foreman for the vineyards. Emma learns that Julia is alive.
S4.E6 ∙ Lord of the Valley
Gustav tries to acquire the Giannini land adjoining Falcon Crest. Richard acquires a radio station and makes Frank Taggart its new general manager. Chase and Maggie travel to New York to uncover her past. Richard's stepdaughter, Lorraine Prescott, reenters his life. Julia appears to Emma again.
S4.E7 ∙ The Intruder
After Sam Giannini is murdered, Gustav threatens Sam's widow. Maggie takes a job at Richard's radio station. Stephanie's mother warns her daughter about Richard. Francesca Gioberti arrives from Italy seeking help from her American cousins.
S4.E8 ∙ Pain and Pleasure
Francesca can prove that she is Angela's half-sister and heir to one third of Falcon Crest. Julia surrenders to skeptical police. Emma helps Chase obtain evidence of bribery in the crash investigation. Cole and Melissa rekindle their love, which Greg vows to destroy.
S4.E9 ∙ The Trump Card
Chase is absolved of all blame for the plane crash. Lance tries to seduce Lorraine. Richard and Gustav romance Francesca, who signs over her share of Falcon Crest to Angela. Melissa tries to end her relationship with Greg.
S4.E10 ∙ Tarentella
Chase hears that Jasper's case is being reopened, he's very doubtful of Angela's motives, and confronts her, who also learns that Francesca is selling her third of Falcon Crest to Angela to save her vineyards in Italy. Confused, Francesca had listened to Angela, telling her that Chase would be very pleased. Cole wants to love Melissa enough to move in with her, especially against his parents' wishes. Richard, unsuccessfully attempts to prevent Lance from seeing Lorraine, and cautions his nephew not to hurt his stepdaughter. Francesca wants to throw a farewell party, before returning to Italy. She and Lance perform the tarantella dance, and scolds her family for greed and hatred. Jean-Louis helps Francesca by stealing her agreement from Angela's safe. Prior to the evening, Gustav's henchmen follow Julia, seize her and drive off.
S4.E11 ∙ Going Once, Going Twice
Gustav and Spheeris kidnap and drug Julia.Melissa agrees to sell the Agretti harvest to Chase.Francesca sells her share of Falcon Crest to Richard, making him an equal partner with Angela and Chase.
S4.E12 ∙ The Triumvirate
Richard and Terry strike a bargain. Gustav and Spheeris torment Julia. With her divorce from Lance final, Melissa agrees to marry Cole. Maggie meets her biological mother, Charlotte Pershing, a compulsive gambler.
S4.E13 ∙ Winner Take All
Angela cuts Melissa out of her will and makes Lance her sole heir. Gustav gains Julia's trust. Greg's romantic advances toward Melissa threaten her relationship with Cole. Terry's estranged husband, Joel, asks Terry to remarry him. Angela encourages Charlotte to gamble.
S4.E14 ∙ Suitable for Framing
Paid by Melissa to discredit Lance, Joel masquerades as Lance and uses his car to run Angela off the road. Lance is arrested for Angela's attempted murder. Spheeris follows Chase and Ben to Paris, where, searching for clues to Gustav's father's whereabouts, Ben is killed.
S4.E15 ∙ Vicious Circle
Angela disinherits Lance again. Chase learns that Ben never worked for the government. Charlotte loses big at the racetrack. Richard sends Joel to a drug rehabilitation center to get him away from Terry. Lance moves in with Lorraine.
S4.E16 ∙ Insult and Injury
Maggie uncovers evidence of Lance's innocence. Angela agrees to help Lance if he ends his relationship with Lorraine. Maggie cries when she discovers her pearls, which her mother pawned, are missing. Gustav romances Emma after learning that she is Angela's new heir.
S4.E17 ∙ Acid Tests
Chase and Cole destroy hundreds of gallons of tainted champagne, which they believe either Angela or Richard poisoned. Maggie quits her job. Chase discovers his mother's dangerous cartel connection. Lance must stand trial for attempted murder.
S4.E18 ∙ The Showdown
Richard blames Chase for the loss of a shipment of wine, but Chase suspects the cartel. Gustav learns that Chase believes that Jean-Louis is really Gustav. Lorraine is pregnant with Lance's baby. Angela is taken at gunpoint to see Gustav and Julia.
S4.E19 ∙ Retribution
Chase, Richard and Greg follow Gustav, hoping he will lead them to Angela. Gustav dies when the old mine shaft where the Nazi treasure is buried collapses. Lance opposes Lorraine's planned abortion. Melissa and Cole opt for a civil ceremony instead of a church wedding.
S4.E20 ∙ Forsaking All Others
Lance is shocked to see his mother, Julia, again. Richard is attracted to advertising agent Cassandra Wilder. Angela tells Cole what Melissa couldn't: that Melissa cannot have any more children. Feeling deceived, Cole leaves Melissa at the altar.
S4.E21 ∙ Recriminations
Melissa confronts Angela when she realizes that Angela had provoked Cole into walking out on their wedding. Although Melissa tries to seek comfort with Greg, she cannot put Cole out of her mind. After arguing with Melissa, Cole swallows his pride, reunites with her and marries her in a meadow in a small private ceremony. Lance proposes to Lorraine and surprisingly receives Angela's support. Unfortunately, Judge Holder has denied a change of venue for Lance's trial. Before Lorraine has a chance to discuss her pregnancy and engagement with Richard, Angela deviously provides him with the information. In turn, Richard confronts Lorraine, who begs him to be happy for her. Instead, Richard throws her out of the house, telling her that, as far as he's concerned, she is dead.
S4.E22 ∙ House Divided
Cole and Melissa honeymoon in Tahiti. Chase convinces Connie Giannini not to sell her land to Angela. Pamela advises Richard not to reject Lorraine, who is forced to move into Falcon Crest. Lance's trial is set to begin.
S4.E23 ∙ The Trial
Richard bribes the judge presiding over Lance's trial. Cole and Melissa consider a surrogate mother as a way to have a child. Chase hires Connie Giannini.Cassandra and Damon plot revenge against Angela. Melissa's cousin Robin arrives and lustfully sets her sights on Cole.
S4.E24 ∙ Justice for All
Cole resents Connie Giannini's interference in his champagne operation. Maggie suspects a conspiracy against Lance. Robin uses Melissa and Cole's surrogate search to get closer to Cole. Cassandra and Damon use Richard and Cole to get further "in" at Falcon Crest. Lance is sentenced to seven years in state prison.
S4.E25 ∙ Devil's Harvest
Lance goes into hiding to avoid prison, Angela takes over The Globe, and Robin tries to seduce Cole.The powers at Falcon Crest split over a proposed contract with Helios Foods, but two unsuspected players are at work in the deal.
S4.E26 ∙ The Decline...
Maggie disapproves when Chase sides with Richard and Angela in the Helios Foods deal. Melissa must pay Pamela to remain silent about Melissa's participation in framing Lance. Terry tells Greg where to find Joel.Angela hides Lance in Chinatown. Chase vehemently objects when Maggie accepts Angela's offer to be acting publisher of the newspaper.
S4.E27 ∙ ...And the Fall
Cole realizes that Connie poses a threat to his parents' marriage. Greg learns that Joel died of a drug overdose. Angela makes arrangements for Lance and Lorraine to flee to Italy. Lance evades Richard and the police. Lorraine falls from a second-story fire escape in Chinatown.
S4.E28 ∙ Cold Comfort
Lance is taken into police custody when he goes to see Lorraine at the hospital. Lorraine begs Richard to help get Lance out of jail. Greg finds proof to convict Melissa and orders her to surrender to authorities within 48 hours. Robin has a shocking announcement for Cole.
S4.E29 ∙ Confessions
Lorraine is depressed over the loss of her baby and Lance's imprisonment. Pamela gives Maggie a recording of a conversation between Richard and the judge. Melissa confesses her involvement in framing Lance to Cole, who tells her that Robin is pregnant. Lance is freed, and he and Lorraine immediately marry.
S4.E30 ∙ The Avenging Angel
Angela gets unexpected new partners in Falcon Crest: Cassandra and her vengeful mother, Anna Rossini. Connie offers to make Chase a partner in Giannini Winery. Maggie catches Connie and Chase in an embrace. Angela testifies on Melissa's behalf in return for the Agretti harvest. Maggie seeks comfort at Richard's house, which explodes.
S5.E1 ∙ The Phoenix
Maggie has amnesia, despite her and Richard surviving the explosion. To rebuild their marriage, Chase takes Maggie home. Angela has to reveal a long-kept secret in her fight to save her wine empire from the encroachments of a vengeful mother and daughter to plan to take over the estate.
S5.E2 ∙ Unfinished Business
Father Christopher has been welcomed by Angela in Tuscany Valley, there, he presents an additional obstacle in her efforts to keep her wine empire intact. To try to help Angela, Greg investigates Anna's past, including her hospitalization history. Richard is the answer of many threats. While Melissa is released from jail and returns home to find a distracting situation between Cole and Robin. Lance seeks solace in Terry's wiles. Maggie asks Chase about Connie.
S5.E3 ∙ Blood Brothers
In order for Angela to save her empire, frantically, she calls on the expertise, wealth and influence of Peter Stavros, an old friend of hers. Prior to Maggie living in a reclusive cabin to reassemble her life, she asks Richard about their relationship, before the explosion. Father Christopher takes interest in the vineyards' field workers, which horrifies Melissa and annoys Angela.
S5.E4 ∙ Echoes
Chase does everything he could to help Maggie regain her memory, when she's rebuffing his advances; encouraging him that she barely remember their marriage. Until Angela marries Peter, she can only pay attention upon seeing Falcon Crest. For Father Christopher to get to know his family better, Angela and Greg use him as proof that Anna had a motive to kill Dominic. Discouraged, Anna sneaks into Angela's bedroom and set the entire house on fire. Despite Richard wearing a bulletproof vest, he is shot. Lance's behavior is continuing to be incredibly irresponsible and so discouraged.
S5.E5 ∙ Ingress & Egress
The manor was set on fire, where Lance rescues Angela and Emma. Cassandra notices her mother was behind in both fires. Despite Maggie suffering from amnesia, Chase talks Maggie into renewing their marriage vows with another wedding. On that day, Angela pours her own brand of vitriol on the ceremony by bringing up Chase's relationship with Connie Gianinni. The unknown assassin of Richard's tries again, he's trapped. Father Christopher gives some hard facts of life, learning that she's an aspiring singer, once a cocktail singer, named Apollonia, whom Lance rescues.
S5.E6 ∙ Sharps & Flats
When Lance takes Apollonia and her friends to Falcon Crest, he finances her demo records; a responsibility in which Angela severely disapproves; Lance outfoxes Angela by reclaiming the publisher's job at The New Globe, which served as his first move in achieving his goals for Apollonia's career, much to Angela's annoyance. Chase and Maggie argue over Connie; that it triggers old memories for Maggie. Richard risks his opportunities at his racetrack.
S5.E7 ∙ Changing Partners
Lance trades his interest in The New Globe; in exchange for Richard's radio station to have a showcase for Apollonia's singing career, behind Angela's back; who did everything she could to unsuccessfully purchase Terry's land and in attacking that provokes Terry into investing Tuscany Downs. Angela suggests the Board of Supervisors to approve a new irrigation system that would place the land where Chase is working underwater. Maggie reprimands Angela; prior to her recovery. Emma meets Dwayne, a handsome truck driver.
S5.E8 ∙ Storm Warnings
Angela learns that Lance has exchanged jobs from a publisher to a rock radio impresario, this led her to expel her grandson from Falcon Crest. Emma returns to Angela's house; after an all-night tryout in Dwayne's truck. Peter continues to focus on his marriage proposal to Angela, very seriously. Richard and Cassandra begin a new relationship, despite a mistrust.
S5.E9 ∙ The Naked Truth
As Angela announces her engagement to Peter Stavros, at the party, she shocks the social gathering of guests by informing that Cole is the father of Robin's baby. Angela prepares a strange method of revenge; who's also smarting from having been outmaneuvered by Chase on the valley's water conservation project. Angela sues Lance and Richard over the exchange of their newspaper and radio swap; where Lance transforms his stations, from all-talk to all-rock in showcasing Apollonia's songs.
S5.E10 ∙ Inconceivable Affairs
When Angela is reluctant to change her name and to quit running her wine empire, to marry Peter, they finally set the date. In the same situation as Peter, Emma asks Dwayne to marry her, determined not to lose him. When Richard proposes to Cassandra, only if they trusted each other. Cole and Melissa agree to a church wedding, when the bride becomes disturbed because Father Christopher must perform the ceremony. Jordan is happy to date Greg; much to his persistence. When Maggie received an advanced check, she can hardly remember the novel. Lance's actions get distracted, when a man from Apollonia's past re-enters her life. Angela loses her court battle in overriding Lance's exchanging with Richard's at the radio station.
S5.E11 ∙ Strange Bedfellows
Angela's life continues to be endemic with challenges, especially with Emma's love life blossoming, Lance disobeying his own grandmother and Chase stealing her distributors. Angela tries to buy off Dwayne to leave her daughter being disappointed. Angela bestows her blessing for their marriage if he sells his trucking business. Yet, Emma show a redeeming quality to encourage her mother and her demands. Angela blackmails the valley's agriculture inspector to get Chase's vineyards quarantine, just to shut Chase down. Greg talks Angela into honoring her promise to help him get into politics. Lance is willing to show Apollonia, the real Walker McDowell. Cassandra, who is pregnant gets broken up by Richard; while Robin gives birth.
S5.E12 ∙ False Hope
Lance takes Father Christopher in the vineyards to show him how conniving his grandmother Angela operates. Angela directs Lance to buy off the pickers not to pick Chase's grapes. Father Christopher is disgusted with her underlying schemes. At the same time; he confronts her. Chase turns the tables on Angela, after he learns of her ruse in time to save his own harvest. Terry marries Richard Channing. Emma talks Lance into following Apollonia; when she embarks on a tour. The fundraiser of J.J. Roberts is very successful at Falcon Crest; after that, Jordan's mother unveils the reason Jordan detests her father when Greg learns Jordan was working at the Halfway House for abused young ladies. Peter Stavros' daughter tries to retrieve her father's briefcase from Angela. Robin disappears with the baby, when Melissa and Cole pay Robin the money.
S5.E13 ∙ Fair Game
When Father Christopher moves into the mansion, Angela indicates to Lance that it might affect his inheritance if his half-brother leaves the priesthood. Lance changes his mind about giving Apollonia, a chance to go on tour without him but reconsiders a second time when Father Christopher crushes Melissa's expectations when he realizes that she is a married woman, because he told her he is on leave from his duties. Cole and Melissa are worried about Robin's paternity test, when they bring the baby home from the hospital. Maggie has been given a clue (from Emma) about the mysterious stranger in Maggie's book. Greg and Richard separately try to find the secret in Jordan Roberts's life. Being curious about Peter Stavros's disappearance, Angela leans he left his briefcase at her house. Blaming Angela the most, Richard decides on marrying Terry.
S5.E14 ∙ Conundrum
Lance takes Father Christopher in the vineyards to show him how conniving his grandmother, Angela operates; this is where Angela directs Lance to buy off the pickers not to pick Chase's grapes. Father Christopher is disgusted with her underlying schemes, at the same time; he confronts her. Chase turns the tables on Angela; after he learns Angela's ruse in time to save his own harvest. Terry marries Richard Channing. Emma talks Lance into following Apollonia; when she embarks on a tour. The fundraiser of J.J. Roberts is very successful at Falcon Crest; after that, Jordan's mother unveils the reason Jordan detests her father when Greg learns Jordan was working at the Halfway House for abused young ladies. Peter Stavros' daughter tries to retrieve her father's briefcase from Angela. Robin disappears with the baby, when Melissa and Cole pay Robin the money.
S5.E15 ∙ Checkmate
Angela takes Julia home for a visit, in an attempt to bring calm to Mrs. Channing's family. her attempt to get her daughter influence Father Christopher backfire when Julia becomes disobedient towards her mother. A nationwide search is beginning for Robin and the baby, Hope is completely vain, until Robin and the Maggie for money and admits that Cole is not the father of that baby. Richard wants to bleed his new wife of, all because of her assets, he also learns Terry isn't gullible. Dwayne tries to elope with Emma, who invites him for dinner with her family, much to Angela's displeasure.
S5.E16 ∙ Collision Course
Robin and Hope returns with Maggie. However, Robin refuses to give up on the baby. Angela asks Cole to prevent Melissa away from her grandson; after Angela tells him that she saw Melissa and Christopher hugging. When they refuse to admit about Cole's accusation, Cole cautions Melissa that she should have to stop behaving like a tramp if she wants to keep Robin's baby. A paternity test proves to see if Robin assures Cole that he isn't the father of Hope's. Greg wants answers from Jordan; to not destroy herself, who cries that she was raped by her father; as a little girl. Jordan confronts her father, J.J. crumbles under the weight of the truth; who also, commits suicide.
S5.E17 ∙ Shattered Dreams
Jordan finds Greg for solace, while developing a split personality to hide from reality. Dwayne teases Angela; and brings Emma home from the hospital. Lance leaves San Francisco for Europe in pursuit of Peter. Angela is very happy to have an opportunity to strike back at Melissa. Chase and Richard agree to work together, challenging Angela by opening Terry's winery.
S5.E18 ∙ Gambit Exposed
Lance poses himself as a playboy gambler, while in Monte Carlo, who is also invited to a high-stakes game at a chateau where he learns Peter is a prisoner. Lance's attempt to release Peter who is being held by his daughter and Phillippe Hubbert, only to succeed in threatening him. In Hawaii, at a wine-tasting conference, after Chase's wine beats Angela's, he announces his professional relationship/business partnership with Richard, during his speech. The paternity test indicates that Cole is the father of Robin's baby. Jordan is confused when Terry might have a clue about her.
S5.E19 ∙ Finders and Losers
A combination of both Sofia's trying to reason with Phillippe (about his father) and Lance's imprisonment, puts both of them in the same situation. Fortunately, a shootout at the chalet releases all of them. Angela and Greg flies to Europe to find Lance, when he doesn't report to her at Falcon Crest, unfortunately, they show up too late. Emma and Dwayne find Ursula in Mexico, with the encouragement of a flirtatious police officer. Jordan's concerned, as her memory lapses who finds unnerving clues to her behavior. Chase plans a ruse for one of the valley's owners, who also approves of Maggie's tour to promote her book.
S5.E20 ∙ Flesh and Blood
Peter's children pay him a surprise visit at Angela's house. Angela's success at recovering from the feud, between Sofia and her father results in new wedding plans for Angela and Peter. Maggie goes to New York, where she meets Jeff Wainwright (Edward Albert), an admiring press agent, while on tour. Terry spies on Jordan, and learns of her evening plans. Terry pries with Richard's detectives, who are finding Cassandra, this leads Richard into being angry but his anger turns into seduction. Cole admits to Maggie that he has a volatile marriage with Melissa, regarding their custody battle with Robin.
S5.E21 ∙ Law and Ardor
Angela disappears and the residents of Falcon Crest were all concerned about her, esp. Dwayne, who's more concerned for Emma. They all know Angela is about to be arrested for attempting to hijack Chase's wine shipment. After Sheriff Gilmore, he has trouble finding Angela and Peter. Cole moves back home, after Robin takes Hope from Melissa and Cole. Jeff travels with Maggie, all across the country. Richard and Chase refuse to agree to deal with methods of purchasing more vineyards. Terry hires a private detective to spy on Jordan, prior to her needing Greg's help. Lance make sure whereabouts of his grandmother's disappearance; whereas Peter returns with her power of attorney.
S5.E22 ∙ Hidden Meanings
Lance is very aware that Peter has been so secretive from the rest of the family. Angela had a good mind and a good reason not to give control of Falcon Crest to an outsider. While Emma reconciles with Dwayne, Maggie turns down Jeff's romances, when he's already obsessed with her. Richard hires a detective to look after Jordan, after she gave clues about Richard's and Chase's hidden business plans. Eric takes Melissa dancing, whilst enjoying his campaign. Greg is fired when he failed to follow Peter's instructions to withdraw $30 million of Falcon Crest funds for him.
S5.E23 ∙ In Absentia
Angela comes back and learns the havoc Peter has wrecked during her absence, who promised very strongly to take vengeance on him. Before Angela would come back, Greg gets a temporary order to stay at Peter's hand at Falcon Crest, when it's too late. Not only Peter is gone, her $30 million is gone, as well. In addition to Richard, who learns that Jordan's revealing his financial problems to Terry, but he also learns about Peter purchasing the mortgage at Tuscany Downs. When Maggie's tour has concluded, Jeff's determined to win her over, by taking her to Tuscany Valley. Melissa attempts to talk Eric to form a partnership with her.
S5.E24 ∙ Unholy Alliances
Despite Angela marrying Peter, she learns he took her $30 million to prevent her for being prosecuted for arranging the hijacked Chase's wine. Angela puts herself away, who still must serve time in jail, until the $50,000 bail can be paid. While Jordan offers Maggie some professional help for her problems, Jeff's appearances in Tuscany Valley annoys her. Angela learns that Peter has made her Richard's partner in Tuscany Downs. Not only Angela is shocked to hear that Dwayne had moved into her house; but also to find that Lance and Jordan are sleeping together.
S5.E25 ∙ Dangerous Ground
After Angela found Lance and Jordan in bed, Greg learns Jordan's escapade with Lance, who become more disturbed when he meets Monica, Jordan's second personality. Jordan goes to Richard, looking for work, where he gives her the opportunity to defend Julia, at her retrial. Angela intrigues Chase and Jeff into a confrontation, prior to Maggie finding out some disturbing facts about her boyfriend. Chao-Li is surprised when his long-lost daughter arrives at Falcon Crest. Emma and Dwayne search for a house that's for sale, to maintain some privacy. As Angela tries to be an equal partner to Richard at The New Globe, Melissa and her new partner have a difficult time in paying attention on business.
S5.E26 ∙ Cease and Desist
Despite Sheriff Gilmore who couldn't find any ground to arrest Jeff, Chase plans to get an order restraining Jeff from any contact of Maggie, who finds notes from Jeff. She still knows he's spying on her. Melissa and Eric hold a groundbreaking ceremony for their new winery. Angela disgusts Peter, when she accused Eric of treachery and ordering him out of the house. Jordan seriously asks for Greg's understanding. Due to Emma's shock, Dwayne finds a honeymoon cottage. Cole confronts Li-Ying for trespassing and surveying the earthquakes on the Giobertis' land. Chase asks B. Riley Wicker to investigate the financing of Tuscany Downs, which makes Richard nervous.
S5.E27 ∙ Consumed
Jeff holds Maggie hostage in his cabin in the hills prior to him penetrating the security surrounding her, where he reads aloud the grim last chapter of his novel to Maggie in which she knows. Angela is opposed to Emma and Dwayne's marriage, when her daughter finds a solution for herself and Dwayne's housing dilemma. Jordan withstand help from her mother until Julia makes her recognize her family problems. Chase blocks Terry into admitting Richard's association with Ms. Jones. Li-Ying decides to stay in America, though earthquake studies lead to an threatening prediction.
S5.E28 ∙ Captive Hearts
Chase and Cole try to locate where Jeff is holding Maggie hostage; only to see they're interrupting Maggie's escape attempt, that backfires on Chase. At Falcon Crest, Angela interrupts Emma's and Dwayne's elopement, in hopes of a better wedding, there. Emma encourages Li-Ying to change her mind about staying in San Francisco, after an earthquake prediction. Angela sends Lance to break up the Melissa Agretti/Eric Stavros friendship. Jordan is arrested, and Chase gets shot.
S5.E29 ∙ The Cataclysm
Chase gets shot by Jeff and is rushed to the hospital, where he learns he has hemorrhaged, who must undergo surgery. Angela and Lance close the winery down, who both break Melissa's and Eric's friendship by forging Melissa's signature. Greg and Harriet learns Jordan's split personality, Monica, is in control, after Greg and Harriet bail Jordan out of jail. Dr. Kramer and Harriet help Jordan face the personality behind for which she has kept it a secret, for all that she had been suffering. While searching for Cassandra, Richard arrives in England, at her grave. Cassandra had died, prior to giving birth and Damon Rosini disappeared with her baby boy, afterwards, Sabrina Cross shows up with his son, Michael. The season finale concluded with an earthquake, rippling through Tuscany Valley, leaving the many people being injured in the wake.
S6.E1 ∙ Aftershocks
The repercussions of the earthquake reveals a couple of deaths. Jeff Wainwright is still on the loose, while Chase is fighting for his life in the hospital.
S6.E2 ∙ Living Nightmare
After the specter of Jeff Wainwright haunts Maggie, she overcomes her intrinsic fear of firearms and purchases a gun for protection. When Maggie's daughter Vickie returns home, she admits that not only has she has gone through two divorces, but that she lied about being a famous ballet dancer. Despite the ballistics test results, Maggie refuses to believe that a member could be responsible for shooting Chase. At Falcon Crest, Angela considers a foreclosure. In spite of a few close calls, Kit succeeds in hiding her past from Peter.
S6.E3 ∙ The Stranger Within
Upon his return to the Tuscany Valley, Wainwright, already keenly interested with the Giobertis, also becomes interested in Vicky. Angela's suspicion and the arrival of a detective jeopardize Kit Marlowe's masquerade. When Angela adds the valley's plush spa to her holdings, she learns that an unexpected source threatens her anticipated hold on the Agretti grape harvest. When Tony Cumson returns to the valley, he is appalled at the condition of his former wife, Julia, as Angela moves quickly to keep him out of the family.
S6.E4 ∙ Fatal Attraction
While Maggie confesses the reasons for her distress to Chase, Wainwright changes his tactics to ingratiate himself with their daughter, Vicky. When Richard Channing discovers Kit's secret, he is able to use it to his advantage. Lance and Melissa find a common bond. Tony Cumson tries to reconcile his father-son relationship with Lance, but the wounds are too deep. Angela hosts a party for the opening of her spa.
S6.E5 ∙ Perilous Charm
As Chase hires a private detective to protect Maggie, he is unaware that his daughter also needs protection. Troubled by Kit's denunciation of Fixx, Lance fires Kit, while Angela plans to pit Lance against Fixx. Julia informs the family about an unexpected decision. Miss Jones falls for Richard's scheme and both fishermen think they have caught the big one. Richard also snares Angela to bail him out of their racetrack. Lance and Melissa return from their wedding and Fixx becomes suspicious of Kit's mysterious activities. Wainwright gets Vicky under his control.
S6.E6 ∙ Flash Point
A newspaper article alerts Vicky to the danger she's in with Wainwright, but, when he realizes she knows the truth about him, he terrorizes her and forces her to masquerade as her mother. Lance and Melissa have a wedding reception, which Angela reluctantly hosts, bringing forth mixed emotions from the guests. Chase and Melissa disagree about Joseph. Lance tries to persuade his father to finance his partnership in Melissa's winery, but Tony accepts Chase's offer. Emma's date, Richard, informs Angela that Tuscany Downs is being condemned. Peter and Angela argue over her stolen checks. When Maggie confronts Richard over his article on Wainwright, Chase approaches with fists flying.
S6.E7 ∙ Double Jeopardy
Jeff Wainwright's kidnapping of Vicki and terrorizing Maggie comes to a final conclusion and Ms. Jones' plan of killing Chase goes into action.
S6.E8 ∙ Nepotism
After Angela, who is annoyed at Lance's defection to Richard's New Globe, continues her patronage of Dan Fixx, Emma seeks guidance from a storefront psychic. Kit appeals to Richard for help from Fixx, giving Richard a weapon to use against Angela. Cole is disenchanted with his father's partnership with Tony as Maggie is unable to help her troubled son or herself mend their relationships with Chase. Angela provides Miss Jones' sister with the nanny job in Richard's house. Richard dumps waste near Chase and Tony's vineyard.
S6.E9 ∙ Slow Seduction
While Chase buries himself in his business deals and his political campaign, Maggie agonizes over the problems of her children, but mostly about her baby. While Cole takes his unhappiness out on his family, Vicky grows closer to Dan Fixx. With her paternity tests inconclusive, Maggie's fears increase along with her determination. Chase and Tony discover that their vines are withering. Angela and Lance fight over his association with The Globe and her obsession with Dan Fixx. Meredith starts her seduction of Richard Channing. Lance conspires with Karlotti to take over Emma's stock certificates in The New Globe. A hit man sees through Kit's disguise.
S6.E10 ∙ Maggie
Maggie's determination to keep her baby, regardless of the consequences, further alienates her from her family. Cole is adamant about leading his life away from the family, and Maggie has no choice but to give him her blessing. Vicki goes to see Dan Fixx, whom her parents disapprove. Chase accepts his wife's views on her upcoming motherhood. Angela attends Karlotti's seance, which is instrumental in giving Lance control of Emma's holdings. Chase and Tony discover vineyards contaminated from the dumping at Tuscany Downs, with evidence pointing to Angela's conspiracy to ruin her rivals. Fixx confides in Vicky. Lance moves to take over The Globe.
S6.E11 ∙ Hot Spots
As Maggie fights her loneliness, Chase struggles to save his vineyards, and Angela strives for her freedom. Vicky allows her parents' problems to affect her relationship with Dan Fixx. As Chase's marital problems reflect on his campaign for county supervisor, he and Maggie face the facts about their troubled marriage. Even though Peter is troubled over Angela's innocence or guilt, he loyally stands by her. Richard is determined to defeat Lance's attempt at a takeover of The New Globe as the specter of Miss Jones begins to haunt him. Kit succumbs to Tony's charm, but is terrorized by Stafford.
S6.E12 ∙ False Front
Due to his past manipulations of Melissa's life, Lance's attempt to win control of The New Globe backfires. Richard overcomes Lance's ploy to control The New Globe by producing the man who framed Melissa, who demands that Lance move out. Emma brings Karlotti home to trace Wayne's spirit and begins to transfer her affections to the medium. Angela begins to believe that Lance framed her. Kit is reluctant to leave Tony for Guy and his plans of a fake suicide. Dan is able to break through Vicky's defenses. Maggie observes Chase's victory kiss from Gwen and has complications with her pregnancy.
S6.E13 ∙ Missed Connections
Preparing to disappear, Kit, with Stafford advising her, lays the groundwork to make her fake suicide plausible and realizes that she will sever many important ties. Angela has a dinner party for Peter's birthday. Seeking help for her troubled marriage, Melissa looks in the wrong places. Maggie discovers that her baby may be born with problems and turns Chase away when he fails to understand her feelings. Meredith hires her former supervisor to rescue Erin Jones, while Angela offers Vicky a new job at the spa.
S6.E14 ∙ Dark Passion
When Skyler's disappearance and apparent suicide casts a pall over the mansion, Peter blames himself for not recognizing her distress. Peter's guilt drives him away, but Skyler's tragedy makes Emma finally realize that Dwayne is gone forever, and Angela is at last able to comfort her daughter. Tony learns the truth about Skyler (Kit). When Richard's son is kidnapped, he feels lost. Chase faces the fact that, of the two people in the valley he most despises, Richard and Angela, one is taking flowers to his wife and the other is trying to get closer to his daughter. Lance calls for his father's help when Melissa has a nervous breakdown.
S6.E15 ∙ When the Bough Breaks
In addition to a huge ransom, the kidnappers demand that Meredith, the only one who can identify them, be handed over to them in exchange for Richard's son. Richard learns that Angela was responsible for putting Meredith in his household and vows that she will pay for what she has done to him. Concerned about Vicky's relationship with Dan Fixx, Chase travels to Oklahoma to determine for himself the type of man his daughter is involved with, and is then beaten up by the small town's corrupt chief of police and his henchmen. Lance refuses to declare Melissa mentally incompetent after her breakdown. After selling his winery to Lance, Eric talks Angela into letting him manage the spa. Emma discovers that she is not pregnant with Dwayne's child and now wants to have a baby with Karlotti.
S6.E16 ∙ The Cradle Will Fall
Rushing to protect Chase, Dan Fixx lands in jail, and Chase has to try to rescue him, as well as himself, from corrupt officers. Angela rejects Peter's proposal to join him in Monte Carlo and is shocked at his response. Richard happily tells Maggie news of his son and Vicky misunderstands the kiss her mother gives him. Emma learns the truth about Karlotti, but she doesn't change her feelings about him. Peter summons Tony to Monte Carlo to discuss Skyler. Angela and Richard confront each other. Lance is concerned over Melissa's reactions.
S6.E17 ∙ Topspin
Due to Melissa's peculiar behavior, Lance loses his chance to join an exclusive club, which alienates him from Joseph. After Richard becomes the new distributor for Angela's wines, Angela hires a new lawyer. Vicky and Angela become concerned about Dan's preoccupation with Suzanne. Richard tries to recruit Peter in his vendetta against Angela. Lance enlists Chase and Maggie to help him with Joseph.
S6.E18 ∙ A Piece of Work
Angela interferes in the lives of Chase, Richard, Maggie, Vickie and Dan. Vickie and Dan's romance is complicated by Angela's peculiar moral code. When Angela accuses Richard of fathering Maggie's expected child, her manipulations make Chase's altruistic defense of troubled vineyard owners seem like a play for personal gain, which puts a wedge in his relationship with Gabrielle. Melissa's troubled behavior brings a closer understanding between Lance and Tony. Peter plans to win Angela back and break Richard at the same time, while Richard thinks Kit Marlowe can be played to bring Peter to his side.
S6.E19 ∙ Dance of Deception
When Maggie prematurely gives birth to her baby at Falcon Crest, Angela conspires with rich newcomer Roland Saunders in her plans to destroy Richard. Angela finds a kindred spirit in Saunders, "the rudest billionaire in the Fortune 500." When Richard offers to sign the birth certificate of Maggie's baby, Chase surprises them by signing it himself. The idea of the new baby troubles Emma. Lance questions his father about Kolinski, while Tony has to lie to his son to protect Kit. During Angela's international wine show at the spa, the matron of Falcon Crest arrives with Saunders and Peter disapproves.
S6.E20 ∙ Hat Trick
Richard blackmails Kit and uses her in his plan to help fight Angela. Emma secretly marries Karlotti, hoping the marriage will result in a child. Chase hopes to stop the Tuscany Land Corporation from buying up the valley. Meredith saves Tony from Kolinski. Angela tries to instill family pride in Vickie. Melba Moore joins the cast as adoption attorney Francine Hope.
S6.E21 ∙ Battle Lines
Peter threatens Angela and Roland Saunders as he tries to discover their connection to Kit Marlowe. Due to Angela's interest in Maggie's baby, Maggie concludes that she must give the baby up for adoption if the child is to lead a decent life. After Maggie refuses to allow Emma and Karlotti have her child, the two instead apply to adopt a child. While Angela plans Dan and Vickie's engagement party, she promises to give them a vineyard. Peter forces Tony to tell him about Kit. After Chase makes Gabrielle a proposition, he offers Lance a partnership with him and Tony. Angela plans to solve the mystery of Kit Marlowe.
S6.E22 ∙ Nowhere to Run
At Angela's engagement party for them, Vicky and Dan set the tone of the party by trying to avoid it. After Kit demonstrates a need to tell Tony good-bye, both Richard and Peter confront Saunders. Maggie arrives looking for her baby, which she now knows is Chase's. After Emma confounds Angela by introducing her adopted son, one of the guests is found dead in the winery.
S6.E23 ∙ Cold Hands
Tony and Lance assist each other as circumstantial evidence implicates them in murder, but it is to no avail when Angela goes back on her word. Angela breaks her promise to Lance when she realizes that it is more important to protect her grandson than his father. Vickie and Eric's actions at the party make Dan face a dilemma. Francine Hope is able to help Maggie and Chase, who are then able to contact the lawyer who arranged the adoption of their baby. Richard is finally able to realize his revenge on Angela. When Melissa entertains as "Veronique, the Slumming Socialite" on amateur night at a San Francisco nightclub, she becomes all the rage.
S6.E24 ∙ Body and Soul
District Attorney Wilkinson is highly pleased when Angela suggests he campaign for attorney general, with her help, if he agrees to convict her ex-son-in-law, Tony, of murder. Wilkinson digs until he makes sure that he can nail Tony. Angry at Peter for his involvement with Richard, Angela seeks a divorce. When Maggie and Chase are unable to find the adoptive parents of their child, Maggie pleads a mother's appeal in the media while Chase offers a reward. Gabrielle accepts Chase's offer to be in charge of his wine operations. Vicky has no one to turn to except Eric. Melissa continues her double life as a chanteuse.
S6.E25 ∙ Loose Cannons
As Tony begins to mistrust Kit, Angela ensnares Melissa, and Richard attempts to console Maggie. Richard plans a trip for Maggie to overcome her melancholy, but a ghost from the past interrupts. Melissa's secret world tumbles when Angela finds out about it. Chase decides to file for a divorce. Tony suspects that Kit Marlowe may have used him in order to remove suspicion from her. Angela offers Dan a new job. Lance offers hope to Chao-Li. Although Emma traps Karlotti with plans for a church wedding, her offer of community property turns him from a man in hot water to one who has just struck the mother lode.
S6.E26 ∙ The Great Karlotti
When Emma and Karlotti's church wedding concludes, Emma discovers how great her husband really is. As the couple stands up before Father Bob for their nuptials, Karlotti's reputation as a lover is enhanced. In her attempts to bring Lance back home, Angela humiliates Melissa in front of Lance, Richard and Dan. Maggie and Chase search for clues to find their baby in Boston. When Lance discovers Kit's whereabouts, he plans to intercept her in his quest to help his father. Wilkerson reports to Angela that he has Tony "nailed to the wall." Vickie and Eric return from their escapade.
S6.E27 ∙ Chain Reaction
When Kit comes to Tony's defense, the gesture proves worthless. Tony's trial proceeds as if D.A. Wilkinson had scripted it, until Kit arrives at the courtroom. After Chase uncovers evidence that Melissa had engineered the botched paternity test, he is too late to intercept her due to Angela's threats. Chao-Li loses face because Angela and Lance stay up all night to take care of him. After Chase and Maggie decide on a quick divorce, Richard sees his chance for happiness.
S6.E28 ∙ Desperation
Melissa's desperate attempts to keep the baby result in a car chase that ends when the car carrying her, Chase, Maggie, Richard and Dan plunges into San Francisco Bay. Angela discovers that her child, whom she previously believed to have died in childbirth, is alive and ready to return to haunt her. When Angela and Peter reconcile and she tries to buy Peter's freedom, Peter, facing murder charges, flees with Kit.
S7.E1 ∙ Opening Moves
Angela learns the truth about her supposedly deceased child. The car chase has endangered Melissa, Chase, Richard, Dan and Maggie's lives. After taking a disastrous fall, Chao-Li lies at the foot of the stairs. Emma, frustrated with her mother's meddling, stands high above Falcon Crest and threatens to jump.
S7.E2 ∙ Obsession, Possession
A French woman and a mercenary soldier from Chase's past intrude on the lives of Angela and Maggie and force them to face unpleasant consequences. Angela's wiles work on Chao-Li. Emma believes she is embarking on a new life as a businesswoman. After Lance moves in with Dina amid Melissa's accusations that he cares more for his car than he does for her, Melissa attempts to make peace with Lance.
S7.E3 ∙ Redemption
Unsuccessful in luring Lance back to her side, Angela turns to Dan to manage her winery and find someone new to run the spa. However, when Dan assigns Melissa to manage the spa, Melissa, to Angela's consternation, creates a successful nightclub for the Del Oro. On the turn of a card, Richard wins Eric's Nevada land and plans to create a town called Channing. While Maggie agrees not to press charges against Melissa, Nicole continues to harass Maggie until Angela enters the fray.
S7.E4 ∙ The Big Bang
When Richard Channing and John Remick offer to help Maggie pay off Angela, each plays dirty to make sure that he will be the one to whom she is indebted. When Angela sends Lance and Dan to investigate Emma's new job, she is too late. Vickie not only tells Maggie that she is pregnant, but also confesses Eric's gambling mania. Dina is seriously injured in a car accident with Lance. While Maggie and Richard visit his new Nevada property, they are unaware that they are under surveillance. Consequently, they return home to face Angela's demand for payment.
S7.E5 ∙ Dead End
After Angela and Richard individually maneuver to meet the man behind the mysterious activity in the Tuscany Valley, they are both placed in precarious positions. Maggie can't understand Richard's reluctance to rely on the police. Angela forces Wilkinson to reveal Richard's ownership of lake property in Nevada. Emma, agreeing to write her autobiography, acquires a ghostwriter and personal manager, and heads for Hollywood. While Lance discovers that someone sabotaged his car, Vickie finds herself among the homeless. An explosion destroys the Gioberti home.
S7.E6 ∙ New Faces
After Angela and Richard meet the mysterious Carlton Travis, Angela conspires with Carlton to destroy Richard. Richard realizes that although Carlton is a man who won't listen to reason, he will listen to Angela. With all the trimmings Hollywood offers, Emma works on her screenplay. Melissa takes Dan to Australia to visit Cole and her son. With Frank Starr's assistance, Dina's nurse works on her patient to discredit Lance. Angela and Travis discover that they have a history.
S7.E7 ∙ Sweet Revenge
After Richard rejects Carlton Travis's offer of a truce, Travis kidnaps him and Angela. After Maggie hires an old friend to plan a birthday party for Richard's son, Angela brings a puppy as a gift to the party. Melissa spirits her son away for a picnic and becomes lost in the Australian bush. Dina's nurse gets her to sign Lance's $500,000 check over to her. Lance suspects that Frank Starr tampered with his car.
S7.E8 ∙ Manhunt
After Angela digs into the past to save Richard from Carlton Travis, she must open old wounds. Angela goes to the wife of a Supreme Court justice and one of Washington's most celebrated hostesses to recruit help in rescuing her son. When Lance is arrested for murder, Melissa comes to his aid. A man who Dan suspects is a thief turns out to be his father. While asleep, Lance is injected with a toxin that will kill him within 24 hours.
S7.E9 ∙ Hunter's Moon
Lance's determination to clear himself and bring the real murderer to justice endangers his own life. Tony insists that Lance, who is very sick, check into a hospital. However, Lance, despite the poison coursing through his veins, brings Nurse Chadway to justice. Richard assists the daughter of an old friend and becomes involved in helping her save her ball team. Angela tries to destroy Melissa's new vineyards. Richard asks Maggie to marry him.
S7.E10 ∙ Lovers and Friends
Upset with Richard's involvement with Liz and unable to make a decision about his proposal, Maggie leaves the Tuscany Valley to join Vicky in Monte Carlo. While a mysterious and eerie assassin figure stalks Liz, Maggie resents her reliance on Richard's protection. After Melissa gets even with Angela, Angela retaliates with a scheme that boomerangs. Maggie enters her new wine in a contest and wins second place. Angela discovers that Dan's father has a second family. After Lance rescues Emma from her would-be producers, she starts writing an advice column for The New Globe.
S7.E11 ∙ Across the Bridge
When Maggie returns to the valley with Vickie and Eric, she learns that Richard and Liz have been traveling together. Eric realizes that his gambling debts are following him and that he must pay more than money to escape them. When Melissa starts to experience strange phenomena due to Angela's hired illusionist Foster Glenn, Melissa's world begins to fall apart. Emma's success as a columnist disturbs Angela, who goes to Father Bob for advice about her family.
S7.E12 ∙ Twist and Shout
After discovering that Maggie has finally accepted Richard, Emma and Angela throw a surprise engagement party. During the party, Melissa makes her entrance dressed only in a bathrobe. Lance discovers that the charming stranger he has befriended knows secrets that could directly impact him. Liz makes an announcement that infuriates Angela but delights Maggie. Melissa overhears Angela talking about her plan to drive Melissa insane and have her committed. Richard saves Eric from making a terrible mistake.
S7.E13 ∙ Rescue Me
After Vicky vanishes from Angela's party, Richard and Eric frantically search for her. After Dan is surprised by the arrival of a half-sister whom he didn't know he had, he puts her to work in the grape fields. Shannon tries to leave the valley after Lance questions her. Melissa is able to deflect Angela's scheme to get her committed so that Angela instead loses her hold on Dan. Angela succeeds in prying into Maggie's affairs.
S7.E14 ∙ Hornet's Nest
Angela takes advantage of Richard's absence to get closer to her grandson and Maggie, while Richard and Eric search for Vickie overseas. Richard seeks the help of a beautiful party leader to help him rescue Vicky, but must use strong tactics and blackmail to get her cooperation. When Dan tries to help Carly, Melissa lacks the patience to deal with the wild young woman who could threaten her happiness. Emma's kindness makes her prey for a scheming couple. Shannon thinks that she might find happiness with Lance, but her past again interferes. Angela anticipates that all of her own wishes will soon come true.
S7.E15 ∙ The Uncertainty Principle
In spite of Emma's well-laid plans for a beautiful affair, fate makes a travesty of Maggie and Richard's wedding day. After Maggie finds the perfect house, Richard agrees to have the wedding in the garden. Tempers erupt when Eric creates an unpleasant situation at Richard's bachelor party. When Melissa shows up at Maggie's bridal shower, the two finally reconcile. While Eric is able to perform an errand for Richard that could affect Maggie's future, Carly runs an errand for Angela, which does affect Melissa's future. Lance and Tony fight over Shannon.
S7.E16 ∙ A Madness Most Discreet
Maggie and Richard decide to try again, while Angela proves uncharacteristically supportive. When Lance moves back into the manor house, Angela joyfully greets him with the news that Carly will be staying for a few days. In a misguided attempt to help Emma, Curtis digs dirt on Richard. At Lance's instigation, Melissa enters into an elaborate masquerade to rescue Emma. In his effort to break the codicil to Chase's will, Richard enrolls some dangerous assistance. When Gabrielle returns to the valley on the anniversary of Chase's death, she gives Maggie some hopeful news.
S7.E17 ∙ Stormy Weather
When Maggie and Richard spend their wedding night at Falcon Crest, they are trapped in a house with no food, no phone, a murderer, and no way out, while Angela listens at every keyhole. A storm forces Angela to be the unwilling hostess for Maggie, Richard, Dan, Melissa, Vicky, Eric, Garth, Curtis and Sheriff Buckman. In order to keep the uninvited guests, Lance, Carly, Chao-Li and her mother occupied during their forced hibernation, Emma organizes a game of murder. However, when the game turns into reality at midnight, Richard is the prime suspect.
S7.E18 ∙ Legacies
Melissa rejects her long lost uncle Frank, who turns to Angela to help him heal the family rift with his only living relative. After Maggie turns the reins of her Gioberti winery over to Angela, she and Richard start their delayed honeymoon in the Caribbean, which proves not to be the idyllic getaway for which she had hoped. Emma blames Richard for her friend's death and seeks revenge. When Dan's former wife tries to meet with him, Melissa interferes. Before Richard can seek revenge for Eric's disloyalty, Eric makes plans to take Vickie and escape from the valley.
S7.E19 ∙ Wheels Within Wheels
Shortly after Richard carries Maggie across the threshold of their new home, he is perturbed by the news that Eric and Vickie have left for Europe and that someone has broken into his wall safe. Also, the key to his Swiss bank safe-deposit box has been copied in wax. In Geneva, Eric and Vickie put their plan into motion, getting a wax mold of the key that will admit them to the bank vault. Melissa will not warm up to her uncle Frank and Angela frankly doesn't know why he even bothers trying to win her over. Frank Agretti then tells Angela that he's not sure what his heirloom is, but he has to pass it on before he dies. Angela learns he has six months to two years to live.
S7.E20 ∙ Channing vs. Channing
Maggie recovers from her drunken fall and decides to throw away all of the alcohol in the house so she won't be tempted to drink again. Lance continues to investigate Curtis's allegations about Richard's underworld activity. Richard finds him rifling through Emma's office at the New Globe and warns him to stay away from Maggie. Lance tries in vain to enlist Maggie's support, but she denies Lance's accusations and tells him to stop before anyone else gets hurt. Frank and Melissa ride out to Hobart, California using Frank's antiquated map. Melissa accuses him of selfish motives, but when Frank raises his gun and shoots a rattler lying close to her, Melissa is embarrassed into silence. Frank tells her that he is dying and has no desire of cheating her out of her legacy.
S7.E21 ∙ False Faces
The Justice Department is hardly all ears to Lance's plea for help in nailing Richard. An associate of the department, one Kathryn Anderson, offers her help. She makes an appointment to meet him with a lead on Richard. Lance shows up first and narrowly misses getting hit by a car. Kathryn is an employee of the thirteen. Rosemont instructs her on how to handle Lance Cumson. If she cannot scare Lance off Richard's case, Rosemont suggests that she may have to kill him. Angela takes Michael out to the toy store, but soon she discovers he's missing. An hour passes and Maggie appears. She berates Angela for losing her son.
S7.E22 ∙ Dirty Tricks
John Remick is alive. At least Lance and Kathryn know that much. Back in the Tuscany Valley, Kathryn thinks she can convince Rosemont that Lance believes Remick is dead. Rosemont is correct in thinking his decoy has fallen for the Tuscany Valley stud and makes a telephone call to have her eliminated. Although Kathryn has confided her knowledge of The Thirteen to Lance, he has not told her about the note he found hidden in his passport. Now that Angela has bought the little town of Hobart, California and put up a fence around it, Melissa is going to have trouble looking for the Agretti heirloom.
S7.E23 ∙ Flying Blind
Nightmares have Maggie sleepwalking. She dreams that Vickie and all the people she loves are leaving her. Richard finds her and pulls her from her reverie. He has proof that Nellie Maxwell, their housekeeper, is a spy working for Angela in her determination to find evidence that will enable her to win custody of Michael Channing. Maggie gives Nellie the boot. Frustrated, Angela joins Lance in his investigation of Richard's association with The Thirteen. Coma-bound Frank Agretti needs an operation to save his life. But Dr. Huston informs Angela that Melissa, as his next of kin, has to grant permission. The Tuscany spitfire has a tough time with this one, although Angela begs her to sign the consent form. Dan Fixx's first delivery with his new trucking company is no piece of cake. It's a shipment of nitroglycerin.
S7.E24 ∙ The Key to Angela
Richard sends the children to Emma while Maggie dries out. He's mulling over what to do about Melissa's plan to get into Hobart now that she's decided not to spy on Lance for him. He takes turns with Emma watching over Maggie, who painfully weans herself of alcohol- until she gets a letter from Vickie, delivered by Emma. Maggie is shocked to find that her daughter is in jail in Switzerland and that her husband is responsible. She goes to call Geneva but finds that the telephones have been removed. Furious and frustrated and feeling totally deceived by her husband, Maggie reaches for a hidden bottle of brandy and pours herself a drink. Richard comes home and finds Maggie seated with a glass of brandy. She tells him she knows where Vickie is and what he has done to put her there. He begs Maggie not to take the drink. The smell of it alone makes her sick, Maggie tells him. She pours the brandy into a nearby planter and says, "A toast to my daughter in Switzerland." Richard can't find a thing to say. Now that she knows her husband is responsible for putting Vickie in jail, Maggie is all ears when Emma suggests coming to Falcon Crest.
S7.E25 ∙ King's Gambit
At Falcon Crest, Maggie has a premonition of her husband surrounded by a sinister group of men. Richard is awakened in his home by a contingent of FBI men who have come to question him after the collapse of three foreign banks. Looks like The Thirteen's plan to destroy the world economy is beginning to take shape. Richard tells the Feds The Thirteen is out to drive the stock market into another crash. He can't prove it, though. Richard is chagrined to find the files in his office missing and his secretary replaced. Taking the FBI to The Thirteen's headquarters in New York, Richard finds that the elevator only goes to the twelfth floor. He takes them to the nearest conference room, but it's filled with toy salespeople. On a flight back to the U.S., Vickie barks at the attendants when she finds that her husband isn't with her. Eric doesn't seem to miss Vickie.
S7.E26 ∙ Telling Tales
The Thirteen withdraws fifty billion dollars, their net worth, out of the stock market and the Dow Jones average plummets. They plan to buy back devalued stocks under one of the companies Richard Channing has bought with their assistance, implicating him in their plot. Angela receives her subpoena to testify against her son in front of the Senate Select Committee. Emma is dying to ruin her brother but hasn't received a subpoena. Angela dreads having her family's affairs publicized. Maggie packs up the car and the kids and gets a flat tire shortly after leaving Falcon Crest. A police car appears to assist her but it's driven by a decoy for The Thirteen.
S7.E27 ∙ As Tears Go By
Maggie creeps out of bed early to meet with Senator Ryder in hopes of getting Richard granted immunity for the remainder of the hearing. Alone in bed, Richard is drugged by a gloved hand. He regains consciousness to find the dead body of Madame Malec next to him. Richard shudders. It could have been Maggie. Maggie meets with Senator Ryder and wins immunity for her husband. Meanwhile, Richard has given up trying to convince anyone in Washington that The Thirteen exists and is responsible for Madame Malec's murder. Maggie persuades vitriolic Vickie to keep her trap shut about Richard at the hearing.
S7.E28 ∙ Last Dance
Frustrated that he has been unable to prove that Senator Horton is a mole for The Thirteen, Richard leaves Washington for home with Maggie and Garth. As they cross that state border, two gunmen open fire on their limo. Garth's expert driving saves them. The limo is bullet-ridden and the passengers are not hurt, but in another part of town Rosemont and Gray Suit watch as Eric Stavros is pumped full of chemicals. The Thirteen is going to turn him into a killing machine. Angela comes home accompanied by Richard's security men. She's off again once she learns that Melissa and Lance are trapped in that underground bank vault in Hobart.
S8.E1 ∙ Changing Times
As Maggie is haunted by nightmares over her husband Richard's death, Angela surprises her friends and family with her calm resignation over losing control of the winery empire, while Melissa mercilessly wields her newfound power over everyone within her domain, down to the field hands and household help. As Maggie must take control over Richard's vast financial empire, she tries to cope with the agony of his murder by the underground group, The Thirteen. After leaving years ago after a dispute with her family, Pilar Ortega, not only the daughter of the vineyard foreman at Falcon Crest but also now a bank vice president, returns and provokes intense curiosity throughout the valley.
S8.E2 ∙ Farewell My Lovelies
While Maggie is stunned by the return of her supposedly deceased husband Richard, Angela Channing decides to remain in the Tuscany Valley and fight for her family's land. While Richard reveals startling news about The Thirteen, the underground group which had supposedly killed him and which included the son of Peter Stavros, Maggie can't understand why she wasn't allowed to know that Richard was still alive. Meanwhile, Angela launches a new legal attack on Melissa for control of the Falcon Crest vineyards. Melissa's erratic behavior worries those around her. As Emma begins work on an article about an enigmatic mystery writer, Carly decides to leave the Tuscany Valley.
S8.E3 ∙ Dust to Dust
As the Falcon Crest mansion is engulfed in flames, Lance plunges desperately into the inferno to try to save Melissa, who is trapped inside. The aftermath of the fire has surprising repercussions for the residents of Tuscany Valley. Meanwhile, Angela secretly arranges a meeting between Frank Agretti and his long-estranged son, Nick. Richard anxiously launches a search to discover who was behind the assassination of The Thirteen. In pursuit of an exclusive story, Emma obtains a job typing for a reclusive writer, R.D. Young, and soon meets his assistant, Cabot.
S8.E4 ∙ Jeopardy
Senator Ryder is intent on killing Richard and kidnapping Maggie. Convinced that Senator Ryder's brother John is responsible for the killing of The Thirteen, Richard discovers the secret method by which Ryder and John contact each other. As Richard waits in a park for John, he doesn't know that the senator has already killed his brother and is at Richard's house.
S8.E5 ∙ Tuscany Venus
When Angela offers District Attorney Fields her support for the governorship in exchange for dropping the murder charges against Lance, he indignantly refuses; however, when Richard offers to hire Field's leukemic son to join the staff of The New Globe, Fields agrees to the deal. Lance, on the other hand, is not grateful; he wanted to prove his innocence in court. Although not charged with any crime, Maggie is guilt-ridden by the fact that she killed Senator Ryder, even though she did it in order to save Richard's life. After Nick Agretti is enraptured when he witnesses Pilar swimming nude, Angela informs him that she has learned some information he cannot release, revealing that the price for keeping the secret is Falcon Crest itself.
S8.E6 ∙ Liars Anonymous
After Angela blackmails Nick with incriminating information about his past, Nick surrenders Falcon Crest to Angela. While Angela makes plans to rebuild the house, Nick regrets his deference to her and warns that he will not bend in the future. Nick decides to tell Ben the truth about his mother, which enrages the young man. Richard's newspaper prints the fact that Melissa had placed a phone call after Lance's departure, proving that Lance is innocent of her death. Richard warns Pilar not to let her affair with Lance interfere with Richard's takeover of the valley. When Frank's old friend Libby appears, Nick and Ben are surprised. Libby requests Frank to join her in Columbia to mine emeralds, which is an offer that disturbs Angela. As Emma and Cabot begin an intimate relationship, Cabot questions her true identity.
S8.E7 ∙ Life with Father
As Christmas arrives in Tuscany Valley, Frank agonizes over whether or not to leave his family to mine emeralds with Libby. Ben turns against Nick for lying to him about his mother. Unaware of Richard's assistance, Maggie is delighted with the overwhelming response to her special advertising offer. Richard offers to back Pilar's failing consortium through a blind company for a controlling interest. When Daniel Cabot discovers Emma's true identity, he abandons her. Although Angela celebrates the holiday by surrounding herself with family, Pilar's holiday is spoiled when she spots her brothers Tommy and Paco being chased by security officers. However, Christmas dinner at Pilar's home brings Nick and Ben closer together and Nick to admit his love for his father.
S8.E8 ∙ Solomon's Choice
Mercedes and her husband pressure Pilar to sign papers allowing them to adopt Lisa. Although Pilar realizes that Mercedes is the only mother the child has ever known, the thought of a final, legal adoption is more than Pilar can bear. When Pilar goes to Lance for consolation, she discovers him with an attractive young woman. After Angela is outmaneuvered for the purchase of a bottling company, she is determined to learn who is behind the consortium. After Maggie's newspaper office is mysteriously trashed a few days before the first edition, Emma discovers that Cabot has been lying to her about his true identity.
S8.E9 ∙ Suspicion
Angela is delighted when Emma announces her intention to marry the famous writer, R.D. Young, but her plans for the wedding conflict with Young's passion for privacy. Hurt by Lance's involvement with Cookie Nash, Pilar turns to Nick for consolation. Angela discovers that it was Pilar who organized the consortium with Richard. When Maggie discovers that Tommy was present when her newspaper office was trashed, she must decide whether to give him a second chance.
S8.E10 ∙ There Goes the Bride
Angela's hands-on approach to Emma's forthcoming wedding may prove futile when the bride and groom call the festivities off. After Emma breaks the news to Angela that the wedding is off, her prospective bridegroom, R.D. Young, apologizes for his behavior and announces that the wedding is on schedule again. During the wedding rehearsals, Young's nervousness escalates and he convinces Emma to elope. After Pilar accepts Lance's apology about Cookie Nash, their romance resumes. Nick fails to persuade Ben to curtail his relations with the Cellini family, despite his warning that the family is dangerous. An unannounced visitor adds turmoil to Tuscany Valley.
S8.E11 ∙ True Confessions
In the continuing battle to keep Angela off balance, Pilar placates her about the consortium, while continuing to plot with Richard. Despite the stir created by her return from Italy, Anna Cellini is delighted to be reunited with Ben, but afraid that her father will ruin everything by insisting that his only surviving grandchild and heir be brought to Italy. When Richard tells Maggie he is in New York, he is really in Chicago with Pilar for meetings with financier Malcolm Sinclair. Cookie reveals to Lance that she is pregnant with his child.
S8.E12 ∙ And Baby Makes Three
As Angela continues to press for information on the consortium, Pilar divulges surprising news to Lance. After Angela follows the paper trail leading from the consortium to Richard's company, she confronts Richard. Making peace, Nick and Anna reach an accord about Ben. Pilar drops a bombshell piece of news on Lance: he is Lisa's father.
S8.E13 ∙ Dinner at Eight
Despite pressure from Angela, Lance refuses to marry Cookie, but he offers her full financial support. Angela inadvertently uncovers Richard's duplicity in the Troilus affair. As Anna and Nick rekindle their love, happiness seems assured for the reunited family. However, Anna continues to hide the facts of her fatal illness and Ben receives a card from Frank telling him that the emerald mine is coming through. Pilar makes it very clear to both Sinclair and Richard that she will side with whomever makes it most worth her while. Sinclair's marriage proposal comes three years too late for Pilar, who turns it down. However, she gladly accepts Lance's proposal to become his wife.
S8.E14 ∙ Uneasy Allies
Despite Angela's obvious opposition, Lance and Pilar decide to marry. Maggie, appalled at Richard's plans for the valley, leaves him. Hoping to prevent Lance and Pilar's marriage, Angela, who has made a deal with Sinclair, tells Lance that Pilar was well aware of Richard's business dealings; however, Pilar convinces him otherwise, and the wedding is definitely on. After Nick learns the seriousness of Anna's condition, he convinces her to allow him and Ben to care for her, provided that Ben not be told of her illness. After Raoul and his gang run Ben and Gabriel off the road, the gang leaves them unconscious on the roadside.
S8.E15 ∙ The Vigil
Maggie's rebuff of Richard's attempts at reconciliation cause unexpected results. Upon hearing news of the car accident, Lance and Pilar immediately return home. With Ben and Gabriel in serious condition, Anna feels guilty over having given Ben the car. While the hospital staff quibbles about accepting Gabriel, he goes into convulsions, requiring immediate surgery. Angela, though not approving of the marriage, invites the newlyweds to make their home at Falcon Crest. In response to Maggie's rebuff, Richard pressures a judge for a court order that transfers custody of the boys to him. Accompanied by the sheriff, Richard removes the children from Falcon Crest.
S8.E16 ∙ Missing Links
Michael, despondent at his mother's continued absence, runs away. Richard moves to block Angela's latest power play, while Frank Agretti returns to the Tuscany Valley. While Angela is prepared to help Maggie wrest custody of the children from Richard, Richard prepares to clip Angela's wings decisively in the matter of Glenbraddoch. Meanwhile, Michael's disappearance causes concern. Learning of Ben's accident, Frank Agretti returns to the valley, while Pilar and Lance agree to try to make their home at Falcon Crest.
S8.E17 ∙ Resurrection
As Anna grows increasingly weaker, she desperately tries to convince Frank and Nick to help end her pain. After Maggie dissolves in tears after a phone conversation with Michael, Tommy consoles her, revealing his true feelings for her. On a business trip to Chicago, Richard encounters a glamorous woman who is a dead ringer for Melissa. Pretending that it will help his ill mother, Richard convinces his new conquest, Samantha Ross, to return to San Francisco and impersonate Melissa. After Richard agrees to Samantha's hefty price, the deal is cemented.
S8.E18 ∙ Enquiring Minds
As Pilar and Sinclair plot against Richard, Samantha and Richard continue to scheme against Angela, while Nick Agretti investigates the background of a forged document. When Lance discovers one deed too many in Angela's safe and burns the document, he is unaware that he has been observed by Pilar, who has joined forces with Sinclair to undermine Richard in his upcoming investigation by the S.E.C. Richard misunderstands Tommy's presence in Maggie's hotel suite. Samantha helps Angela to escape from one of Richard's ploys.
S8.E19 ∙ Grand Delusions
Having escaped with Samantha's help, Angela finds her family doubting her kidnapping story, but Pilar gains Angela's confidence with her plan to help her regain control of the Glenbraddoch stock. At the court hearing, Richard wins custody of the children. Angela agrees to protect Samantha from Richard's wrath and calls Lance to pick her up in San Francisco. However, Samantha disappears before he arrives. When Richard warns Pilar about opposing him, he plays a tape that has been edited to indict both her and Sinclair and which will exonerate Richard. Richard also obtains a warrant ordering Angela into custody for a psychiatric evaluation to determine her mental competency.
S8.E20 ∙ Ties That Bind
While undergoing observation in the psychiatric ward, Angela is harassed by other patients. Richard emerges triumphant in winning custody of the children but begins to have qualms about his relationship with Samantha, while Ben becomes increasingly despondent after the death of Anna. Maggie exposes the hospital's negligent treatment of Gabriel, while Nick continues his drive to regain Falcon Crest. Richard dupes Samantha into leaving for Paris. At her judicial review, Angela creates a scene that could prove detrimental to her case.
S8.E21 ∙ The Last Laugh
As Angela's competency hearing proceeds, it becomes obvious that her case is weak, and Maggie's reputation begins to slide because of rumors about her relationship with Tommy. When Frank discovers that the feud between the Agrettis and the Giobertis had begun when the title to Falcon Crest changed hands during a crooked card game, he tries to convince Nick to let sleeping dogs lie. After selling some of her recently acquired Glenbraddoch stock to Lance, Pilar proposes to establish a trauma center in the Ortega name, with her terms including banishment for everyone involved in Gabriel's case. When the court declares Angela mentally incompetent, Angela rocks the court with a startling revelation.
S8.E22 ∙ Decline and Fall
Having successfully frustrated Richard's plans by marrying Frank Agretti, Angela returns to Falcon Crest, where her family rallies to her side and plans are devised for Richard's total downfall. When Samantha returns to Chicago from Paris, Richard tells her to forget their association or she will have to pay consequences. Nonetheless, when Samantha arrives at Falcon Crest, she provides evidence that Richard was involved in Angela's kidnapping. Consequently, Pilar and Angela work with the S.E.C. to facilitate Richard's financial ruin.
S9.E1 ∙ The Price of Freedom
As Angela prepares to travel to Greece, she leaves her grandson Lance in charge, though under the strict supervision of her reliable foreman, Frank Agretti. Since Daniel, an unsuccessful author, has turned to gambling, drinking and brutality, Emma has become a battered wife. To escape her troubles, Emma turns to another man, Charley, for much-needed affection. In an effort to get out of prison, Richard decides to testify against his co-conspirator, Michael Sharpe. Richard evades an attempt on his life meant to stop his testimony. Accidentally getting her finger stuck in a pool drain, Maggie drowns. Angela hires a private investigator to tail Pilar.
S9.E2 ∙ Charley
Emma's old friend Charley arrives just in time for Maggie's funeral. Although Angela disapproves of Charley and changes her vacation plans, Emma stands by Charley despite Angela's interference. Michael Sharpe takes his revenge on Richard for his testimony against him by having Richard's children removed from his custody. Aware that Angela is trying to break up his relationship with Emma, Charley places a pillow over Angela's face and suffocates her.
S9.E3 ∙ Flesh & Blood
After being found unconscious, Angela is rushed to the hospital, where she slips into a coma. Lance has a difficult time managing Falcon Crest without Angela, particularly when business associates insist on negotiating with Angela, but fortunately, Pilar is able to help Lance deal with their distributor, Ned Vogel. Richard discovers that Michael was instrumental in Richard's loss of custody over his children. A power outage at the hospital forces the family to consider pulling the plug on Angela's life support.
S9.E4 ∙ Payback
With his continued influence over Emma, Charley upsets the family. After the bank calls in its loan, Richard saves Falcon Crest from Michael Sharpe. Encouraged by his sister-in-law, Genele Erickson, Frank Agretti goes to the bank with the power of attorney which Angela had given him prior to her aborted trip to Europe and takes over operation of Falcon Crest.
S9.E5 ∙ Soul Sacrifice
Due to Richard's testimony, the S.E.C. slaps Michael Sharpe with the largest fine in history. Lauren and her husband confront Michael about his schemes and their custody of Richard's children. Frank's obsession with the treacherous Genele escalates. Charley is relieved to hear that Emma's husband has apparently committed suicide, since his death removes the last obstacle for Charley to marry Emma. When the court gives control of Falcon Crest to Emma, she is overwhelmed by the notion of running the business. Emma's new husband Charley, however, has many ideas about running Falcon Crest.
S9.E6 ∙ God of the Grape
Charley hires his brother Ian and his young, child-like wife, Sidney, to help run the winery. Since the new arrivals put Charley at odds with Lance, the two fight. After Lance soundly beats Charley, Charley immediately fires him. After rescuing his sons, Richard learns that they liked Lauren and returns them to Lauren's care, despite the fact that she is Sharpe's sister. After Pilar and Lance confront Emma about Charley, he throws a bacchanal party, which is crashed by bikers. Ned Vogel, who has taped evidence of Pilar securing his distribution contract through sexual favors, blackmails her. At Angela's bedside, Emma thinks she hears her comatose mother command her to get rid of Charley, but Emma isn't sure whether or not she imagined it.
S9.E7 ∙ Doctor Dollars
As Michael Sharpe arranges for Richard to be killed, the contract eventually goes to Sal, Richard's acquaintance from prison. Instead of killing Richard, Sal offers to help him get back at Sharpe, but later pays with his life when Sharpe learns that Sal double-crossed him. After Sydney defies her husband and befriends Emma, Ian beats her. In order to get rid of Lance, Charley shows him a videotape of Pilar's liaison with Ned Vogel. Despite Pilar's pleas, Lance leaves enraged, just as Charley had hoped.
S9.E8 ∙ Luck Wave
Michael Sharpe convinces Ian and Charley to sell Falcon Crest to him, but Emma backs out. When Sharpe informs Ian and Charley that he has information on them that could put them in jail, Charley agrees to kill Emma and forge her signature. Charley is stopped in his tracks, however, when an unsuspecting Emma informs him that she is pregnant. Lance becomes embroiled in a deadly game of Russian roulette involving scorpions.
S9.E9 ∙ Merry Christmas, Charley
Charley keeps the pressure on Emma to sell to Sharpe, despite the fact that she is pregnant. After Charley tells Ian about Sydney's affair with Chris Agretti at the winery, the two brothers agree to kill their wives for deceiving them. Richard lets Lauren know how much she means to him. After Frank sees Sydney and Ian in a struggle, he tries to help, but when Ian gets the upper hand, Sydney saves Frank by killing Ian with a letter opener. Charley chases after Emma, but Emma shoots him in the chest.
S9.E10 ∙ Danny
With a bullet wound in the chest, Charley disappears from Falcon Crest. Because Chris Agretti is missing, Sydney worries that Ian and Charley might have killed him. Sharpe gains control of Falcon Crest by threatening to press criminal charges against Emma for authorizing the release of tainted wine. Sharpe's son Danny provides his father with crucial evidence, which he found while on a date with Sydney. Richard suspects that Lauren's marital situation is worsening, while Lance resists renewing a sexual relationship with Pilar.
S9.E11 ∙ Time Bomb
As payback for Jace Sampson's cooperation in Sharpe's takeover of Falcon Crest, Richard talks Jace into making an investment after which Jace loses all his money. Pilar and Lance's estrangement worsens. After Walker catches Richard and Lauren kissing, he confronts them with dynamite strapped to his chest, which is set to go off when the timer runs out. Rather than kill Lauren and the boys along with Richard, Walker runs outside just as the dynamite explodes.
S9.E12 ∙ Madness Descending
When Genele forces Frank out of his own home in order to entertain her lover Sharpe, Frank delivers the remains of Genele's sister and Frank's ex-wife Renee to the police, informing them that Genele killed her ten years earlier. Sydney tries to push Pilar and Lance back together. Sharpe is displeased when Lauren moves in with Richard after her ordeal with Walker. Sharpe tries to act as a business mentor for Danny.
S9.E13 ∙ Four Women
Haunted by the memory of her husband's death, Lauren moves out of Richard's place and in with Genele. When Danny invites Sydney for a romantic night on his father's yacht, Sydney maneuvers to put Lance and Pilar on the boat together instead. When Sharpe uses sensitive information about Richard's business dealings, he makes $300 million and Richard loses $52 million. Richard wrongfully accuses Lauren of leaking the information. After showing up at Richard's door, Genele removes her clothes.
S9.E14 ∙ Brotherly Love
Danny fights Sharpe's attempts to control his life and to make him break up with Sydney. After Sydney brings them back together, Lance and Pilar make plans to retake control of Falcon Crest. When Richard learns through Pilar that Genele was responsible for delivering his business secrets to Sharpe, he throws Genele out and attempts to reconcile with Lauren. Realizing that her brother's affection for her is more than just brotherly, Lauren decides she has to leave Sharpe's house.
S9.E15 ∙ Finding Lauren
Richard and Sharpe search for Lauren, who had grown tired of their fighting and ran off to work as a waitress in a diner. Sharpe attempts to convince Danny to drop Sydney, who wants Falcon Crest to return to the Channings. When Lance and Pilar ask Sharpe what it would take for him to sell them Falcon Crest, Sharpe tells them to break up Sydney and Danny. When Lauren returns to Richard and the boys, she has to deal with Richard's continuing obsession with his dead wife Maggie.
S9.E16 ∙ Walking Money
After Genele intercepts stolen bonds that Sharpe is trafficking, she arranges for Richard to cash them. Lance, Pilar and Danny believe that things are finally turning around for the winery. Genele has to pay hush money to a witness, but Richard has decided to keep all the money as revenge for Genele's past deceit. When Richard has the bonds cashed under the name Sharpe, Sharpe assumes his son Danny did it under Sydney's influence. After Sharpe tampers with Sydney's car, Danny happens to borrow her car and ends up in an accident.
S9.E17 ∙ Vigil
Danny has a severe head injury as a result of crashing Sydney's car, which Sharpe had tampered with to get at Sydney. Danny's mother, Anne Bowen, and Sharpe decide to approve a dangerous operation to remove a bone shard from Danny's spinal cord. Discouraged by the bad luck she seems to bring to all her boyfriends, Sydney leaves Falcon Crest. Suspecting that Sharpe was behind the car accident, Richard and Lance track down the auto mechanic, Sacco, who did the tampering. Alerted to Richard and Lance's involvement, Sharpe sends his chauffeur Nick to ensure that Sacco doesn't talk.
S9.E18 ∙ Dark Streets
Lauren tries to persuade Anne to reconcile with Sharpe. Anne and Lauren work to create an understanding between Sharpe and Richard, but once the women leave, Sharpe and Richard each vow to find the mechanic Sharpe hired to tamper with Sydney's car. Pilar disguises herself as a homeless woman to win the trust of Sacco's girlfriend, who leads Pilar to Sacco. Sharpe's henchman, Nick, follows both of them. However, when Nick is about to shoot Sacco, Lance disarms him from behind. With the informant they need to wrest Falcon Crest from Sharpe, Pilar and Lance call Richard.
S9.E19 ∙ Crimes of the Past
Richard knows that Sharpe was behind the sabotage that almost killed his son, Danny, and he has Johnny Sacco, the mechanic paid to tamper with Sydney's car, to prove it. In order to keep Danny and his estranged wife Anne from knowing his involvement in the accident, Sharpe transfers ownership of Falcon Crest to Richard. After Anne agrees to give her marriage with Sharpe a second chance, she changes her mind when Johnny Sacco arrives intoxicated at the Sharpe residence and tells Anne everything. Anne lets Sharpe in on a secret she's kept for 21 years: Richard is Danny's real father. After several months in a coma, Angela revives.
S9.E20 ∙ The Return
Sharpe reels from the news that his hated rival Richard is Danny's father. Richard's plans to run the winery with Lauren run into a snag when Angela returns after regaining consciousness. When Richard informs Angela that she has no legal claim to the winery, Angela pretends to give in, but she is secretly planning to block Richard's marriage to Lauren with the help of Michael Sharpe.
S9.E21 ∙ Danny's Song
After Danny learns that Richard is his father, he goes to Sharpe to tell him it doesn't matter, but Sharpe throws him out of his office and tells him that they should go their separate ways. Because Danny has no job and nowhere to live, Lauren invites him to live with her and Richard, but Richard wants nothing to do with Danny. After witnessing this callous side of Richard, Lauren considers calling off their wedding. When Danny threatens suicide, however, Richard and Sharpe agree to help him, which reassures Lauren. With the wedding back on schedule, Angela must find another way to stop it.
S9.E22 ∙ Home Again
As Richard and Lauren enjoy their wedding at the winery, Richard agrees to sell Falcon Crest back to Angela on the condition that half will go to his sons in the event of her death. Lance, however, will receive ten percent now and the remainder after Angela's death. As the wedding reception draws to a close, Angela recalls all the people who passed through Tuscany Valley during the last decade and toasts the future of Falcon Crest.
