Caution Never Won a War

Fallon to Laura

"**Caution Never Won a War**" is the second episode of the third season and the forty-sixth episode overall of The CW's *Dynasty*. It aired on October 18, 2019.

## Synopsis

**POWER MOVES** – As Blake and Fallon face legal troubles, Fallon and Adam handle the outcome of Liam's accident in very different ways. Anders visits Sam at the hotel where they break ground and discover a room filled with valuable historical artifacts. Michael Culhane's jail stint takes an interesting turn while Cristal and Dominique make power moves.

## Plot Summary

**SPOILERS AHEAD**

    Blake is handing over his stuff; amongst them his watch and a golden chain he was previously wearing now that he has been arrested. His fingerprints are also taken and he is given a prison uniform to change into. His mugshot is taken, and he smiles as the camera goes off.

Back at The Carrington Manor, a lawyer tells Fallon that her sentencing hearing is in 48 hours. He mentions how Judge Anson is tough. Fallon thinks he should be lenient considering the fact that she ended up telling the police the truth about the night that Trixie died. She does admit to lying about ten years ago, and again when she was questioned recently. She wonders if it's the same lie, does it technically count twice? The lawyer shrugs and says that ultimately, this judge could go either way. He tells Fallon that in the best case scenario she gets a slap on the wrist, and some probation. But if the judge chooses to make an example out of a spoiled rich kid who’s always gotten away with everything, she could be looking at five years or more of jail time. Sam, who walked in midway through Fallon’s meeting with her lawyer, asks her why she’s not more freaked out once the lawyer leaves. Sam suggests Fallon could always flee the country, but she disagrees, telling her former brother in law that she is taking responsibility for her actions.

    At La Mirage, Sam has hired a photographer to document the renovations for the hotel, and upon making a hole with a hammer, he and Anders discover a secret room. Anders jokes that it could be Al Capone’s secret vault, but Sam is unfamiliar with the reference. One of the things they find is a painting of a guy named Bernard McCarty from 1923. Sam sees no value in it, and initially says he will have one of the workers bring the trash can to dump it all in. Anders disagrees and says that this McCarty person could be an important figure and it’s worth checking it out. Sam reluctantly agrees, but says that it cannot delay the reopening of the hotel since he already sent out all the invites.

After she leaves the jail Blake is being kept at, Cristal goes to see Dominique, who is scheduled to give TMZ an interview on Blake’s case. Dominique claims it’s to gain some leads on Jeff, but Cristal doesn’t buy it. She tells Dominique that if she goes through with the interview, those secret payoffs Blake has been giving her might just stop. Once Cristal exits, Dominique calls TMZ to cancel her interview, but promises to get them something juicier on her half brother.

    Back at the hotel, Kirby gets caught trying to use a shower by her dad. She comes clean to him; revealing how she has been staying in her office at Femperial Publishing, but was caught by a janitor while she was trying to take a sponge bath. Anders tries to get her to move in with him, but Kirby refuses; explaining that she’s not a child needing her dad’s help for everything.
    At the hospital, Fallon is visiting Liam and trying to make him remember her by showing them pictures of them throughout their relationship. Liam eventually stops her, saying he believes her when she says they had a relationship. Fallon calls their relationship magical and true love, but Liam says he also knows that when they broke up, Fallon went a little crazy when she heard Liam and Ashley had gotten back together. Fallon asks if Ashley told him that, but Liam says she didn’t tell him anything. That she actually went back to New York to grab some of her stuff to bring back. Fallon mentions that perhaps Ashley should bring back with her the truth, because she never went crazy and that Liam and Ashley never dated again. She wonders out loud where Liam would even get an idea like that, and a few seconds later Liam’s mom walks in.
    Meanwhile, Blake finds himself face to face with Culhane, who apparently is sharing the same jail cell. Culhane tells Blake that it is rather fitting that all that backstabbing finally caught up with Blake. He gleefully mentions how Blake is essentially a public enemy number inside the prison since he is the top 1% of the 1%.
    Cristal arrives at Carrington Manor, complaining about how her driver kept getting lost somehow. Adam quickly reveals to his father’s girlfriend that the board meeting was moved up. He mentions that he just got back from it and was named acting CEO of the winery. Adam begins to walk away, but Cristal doesn’t let him as she realizes Adam somehow played a role in rescheduling the meeting, so she’d purposely be left out. He tells Cristal to not be so paranoid, and that it all worked out in the end since she’s not a Carrington.
    At the hospital, Fallon is desperate to make Liam remember by using smells from their greatest hits to jumpstart his olfactory sense and his memory. He still can’t remember anything, but right when Laura calls security to kick Fallon out, something passes through him that leaves him motionless.

Inside the jail, Culhane and Blake get into a fight, and a cop that Dominique had previously talked films the whole thing. Once they’re both back inside their jail cell, Blake promises to destroy Culhane if he touches him again.

At the hospital, Fallon kidnaps Liam in order to make him remember, and he goes along with it.

    At his bail hearing, Blake’s request for bail is denied and is ordered to be taken back to his jail cell due to additional evidence that has surfaced on the case. As he’s being cuffed, Blake sees Culhane in a nice suit at his bail hearing. Culhane says how glad he is to be her for this moment in Blake’s life. He reveals that Joey, their other cell mate, was an undercover agent and that he made a deal with the Feds. If he got Blake to admit to his guilt, Culhane could walk away a free man.
    Meanwhile Fallon has taken Liam to the courthouse where they first met. She mentions how hard this has been for her because they belong to her. Liam stares closely at her, and recalls the night they first met. But asks Fallon if she was wearing a different hat from the one she’s wearing today. Fallon says that yes, the hat she had worn that night was white. But before she can ask about anything else, Laura shows up. Fallon flippantly asks her if she has a tracker on her or something. But Laura mentions it's Liam who she put a tracker on, and asks rhetorically if there’s any line she’s not willing to cross.
    Laura and Fallon fight over Liam until he yells at both of them to stop. He admits to Fallon that the pressure she’s putting on him to remember their time together is freaking him out. Thus, he asks her to stop because his memory may never come back.
    Back at La Mirage, While talking with Bernard McCarty’s great granddaughter, Sam finds out that Bernard was an advocate for gay conversion therapy. Moreover, he refused to serve or hire gay people at any of his hotels. She reveals that he called LGBT people an abomination, and that she herself is part of the community. Sam apologizes since he had no idea about any of it. Bernard’s granddaughter understands, since it’s not exactly on the guy’s wikipedia page.

Fallon eventually gets to her hearing, and the judge calls her a woman of exceptional means of influence in certain parts of the county. The judge decides to make an example out of her, and sentences her to 100 hours of community service. She strongly suggests to Fallon to use her means of influence for the good of the community, and not for herself. Her lawyer tells Fallon how unreliable the verdict is and tells the younger Carrington how she got off easy. Fallon takes offence to that, saying that nothing is easy for her right now.

Inside his jail cell, a guard open’s Blake’s door and tells him to come with him. Once he’s out in the hallway, he sees Cristal at the end of said hallway in a wedding dress and matching veil. She asks him to marry her and he accepts. Cristal vows to do whatever it takes to get Blake out.

     Cristal reveals to Dominique and Adam separately that she is now officially a Carrington. Meanwhile, Fallon gets a restraining order from Laura. Which makes it illegal for Fallon to come within fifty feet of her, and Liam whenever she (Laura) is around him. When Fallon tells Laura that she will win the war, Laura smirks and says Fallon will lose everything.

## Cast

* Daniella Alonso as Cristal Jennings
* Rafael de La Fuente as Sam Jones
* Sam Underwood as Adam Carrington
* Michael Michele as Dominique Deveraux
* Robert Christopher Riley as Michael Culhane
* Sam Adegoke as Jeff Colby *(credit only)*
* Maddison Brown as Kirby Anders
* Adam Huber as Liam Ridley
* Alan Dale as Joseph Anders
* Grant Show as Blake Carrington

Co-Starring* Rob Nagle as Mitchell
* Victoria Blade as Daphne
* Emily Marie Palmer as Genie McCarty
* Matt Borlenghi as Rick
* Susan Williams as Judge Anson
* Greg Allan Martin as Judge Straton
* Johnny Rey Diaz as Joey
* Aaron Nelson as Clyde Gage

## Trivia

* On the WPXI-CW station in Pittsburgh, this episode of *Dynasty* was pushed back to be aired on Saturday due to the airing of a high school football game.
* "Caution Never Won a War" is a reference to a line Blake Carrington said to Adam Carrington in the Season 6 Episode 30: *The Triple-Cross* of the original *Dynasty* series.
* The images Fallon shows Liam, of the two of them together, were from the tennis match and the masquerade party in season two.
	+ The first memory Liam recovers of Fallon is of when they first met.
* Blake and Cristal's wedding takes place in this episode.
* Michael Michele revealed there was a full-on make out session between Dominique and the security guard, but the scene didn't make it to air.

## Quotes

**Blake**: The board of Blue Belt Vineyards received a substantial offer last week, and I know they're considering accepting it because of my temporary incapacitation.

**Cristal**: They can't sell it without you.

**Blake**: They can if I'm not there to vote against it. Blue Belt Vineyards was the first company I ever acquired. It has a tremendous amount of sentimental value to me. I farmed her land, I nurtured her grapes.

**Adam**: Really?

**Blake**: No! I paid people to do that. But every time I acquired another company, I toasted myself from her oaky barrels. That company is in my blood. Also, it's my last major holding.

**Dominique**: Ah, Cristal. I was literally about to call you. I've been so worried about Blake.

**Cristal**: I didn't come to talk about Blake. I came to talk about you.

**Dominique**: Oh. My favorite topic.

**Dominique**: Cristal, you know I would never say anything to hurt my family.

**Cristal**: Here's what I know, Dominique. You are not the family spokesperson. In fact, you're barely family at all.

**Dominique**: Says the girlfriend.

**Laura**: Oh, what on earth? *(clears throat)* It smells like a fish brothel in here.

**Fallon**: Okay, you just insulted everyone in here, including the bass.

**Laura**: Take your bass and leave.

**Fallon**: Ooh, I could do that, or I could stay. I'm torn, Laura, but I think I'm gonna stay.

**Laura**: Get out!

**Fallon** *(to Liam)*: Okay, okay. Here, just eat the fish, okay? Eat the bass. It'll bring you back, okay? The fish will work.

**Laura**: Good night, dear.

**Fallon**: Laura! Kiss my bass.

**Cristal**: Kirby? Funny seeing you here.

**Kirby**: *(scoffs)* Funny? I think maybe something got lost in translation.

**Blake**: Hey. Touch me again and I'll destroy you.

**Michael**: What are you gonna do? Bring Anders in here to beat me up? *(scoffs)* We both know you don't have the guts to do anything yourself.

**Blake**: You just keep pushing me, Culhane. You'll find out.

**Michael**: Please. You talk tough like a man, but we both know you're just a little boy who inherited everything he ever got. A little boy afraid to get his hands dirty.

**Blake**: Oh, no, they're plenty dirty. I'd tell you to ask Mac, but see, these hands, they took care of that problem. So unless you want to end up at the bottom of the lake, you better shut your mouth.

**Genie**: I can't believe you, of all people, are honoring him. I mean... I follow you on Instagram, and I assumed you'd be all about gay rights.

**Sam**: What are you talking about? I am all about gay rights. Every day is Pride for me.

**Genie**: My great-grandfather Bernard was an advocate for gay conversion therapy. He refused to serve or hire gay people at any of his hotels. An "abomination," he called us.

**Sam**: Uh... I'm so sorry. I... I obviously had no idea about any of this.

**Genie**: Yeah, well, it's not on his Wikipedia page.

**Sam**: So you're telling me that the whole city is invited to my hotel to commemorate a famous homophobe?

**Genie**: Pretty much.

**Sam**: Well, that's not great.

**Mitchell**: Wow. That's unbelievable. You got off easy, to say the least.

**Fallon**: Easy? I am off to the hospital to visit my fiancé, who almost died, has no memory of me, and now thinks he's in love with another woman. Nothing is easy for me right now.

**Cristal**: Blake Carrington, will you marry me?

**Blake**: I got to get out of here. Have Mitchell appeal that joke of a bail hearing and figure something out.

**Cristal**: I will. I will do whatever it takes to get you out. You killed Mac for me. I'll never forget that.

**Dominique**: It's going to take forever to find a jury who's not biased. The great news is I will happily take the reins and handle the media, as a Carrington.

**Cristal**: That is so thoughtful of you, Dominique, but since Blake and I just got married, that makes me a Carrington, too. And a much more powerful one than you. So, thank you for the offer, but I've got it from here.

**Cristal**: Making yourself right at home.

**Adam**: Well, in my father's absence, which I do hope will be brief, I feel quite confident and comfortable steering the ship.

**Cristal**: That's so interesting, because I feel quite confident that my husband wants his brand-new wife to steer the ship.

**Adam**: Well, I guess congratulations are in order. Still, he hasn't told me, his son, what his wishes are, so until then, I guess we keep things the way they are?

**Cristal**: For now. Oh, and, um, if it makes you feel uncomfortable, you don't have to call me "Mommy."

**Laura**: Get used to the distance, dear.

**Fallon**: You may have won the battle, Laura, but I will win the war.

**Laura**: No, dear, you're losing everything.

**Fallon**: It may take Liam a while to remember that he loves me, but it will only take him a second to recall how fiercely he hates you. Which pales in comparison to how much I hate you right now. Beep you, bitch.

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## References

1. ↑ Final Adjusted TV Ratings for Friday 18th October 2019
2. ↑ Dynasty - Episode 3.02 - Caution Never Won A War - Press Release - Spoiler TV
3. ↑ WPXI-CW pushes back Dynasty
4. ↑ Twenty-Three Skidoo. *Dynasty*. Season 2. Episode 1. The CW.
5. ↑ Life is A Masquerade Party. *Dynasty*. Season 2. Episode 18. The CW.
6. ↑ Our Turn Now. *Dynasty*. Season 1. Episode 15. The CW.
7. ↑ During her instagram live