101
Original airdate: December 18, 1984
Aboard his yacht, Lionel looks on excited as the divers bring up the
safe from wreck of the Amanda Lockridge. Elizabeth arrives by motorboat
to join him, though Lionel fears someone may see them together. Mason
suggests a deal to Peter; he will give him a quarter of his heritage if
Peter holds a press conference where he will say that Mason didn't
murder Channing Jr. Peter agrees. Under deck Lionel and Elizabeth
carefully open the safe and find an old Chinese puzzle box, a cross,
some stones and the logbook inside. The logbook shows that the Capwells
were probably guilty of sinking the Amanda Lockridge but Elizabeth adds
some more lines to make it clearer. She assures Lionel she's such a good
forger that even an expert won't be able to see the difference in the
writings.
102
Original airdate: December 19, 1984
Lionel and Elizabeth carefully put the fake log back in the safe, and
get the divers to bring some of her faked pictures to the Amanda
Lockridge too in order to fake great findings aboard the ship. Warren is
looking all over for Summer. Dominic tells Kelly that Mason is innocent
and Peter is a liar; he never saw anything the night Channing Jr was
killed. C.C. threatens to pull his financial support from the museum if
they allow Lionel to open the safe there in front of several reporters.
Eden tries to convince Lionel to let her dive with him but he refuses.
At the press conference, Peter frees Mason of all the charges. C.C. and
Kelly don't believe him and think he's made a bargain with Mason. Mason
later tells Peter that he won't get the quarter of his heritage because
C.C. disinherited him after Peter pointed the finger at Mason earlier.
Warren and Lionel dive and bring up the safe and crates.
103
Original airdate: December 20, 1984
Neither Laken nor Minx want to attend the opening of the safe. Warren
forces Gina to tell him that Summer has gone back to L.A. but she won't
reveal why she has left. Kelly suffers from headaches. Dominic is
present at the museum; posing as a cameraman. She calls Mason
anonymously; pretending to be the wife of a fired Lockridge gardener,
and informs him that the stolen gold coins are in the Lockridge mansion.
Mason has the police search the entire mansion and they find the coins
in Lionel's briefcase.
104
Original airdate: December 21, 1984
Mason and the police find newspaper articles on Channing Jr's murder in
Lionel's desk. At the museum, the crates are opened and the paintings
uncovered. Elizabeth verifies them as real and extremely valuable. Laken
and Ted show up to warn Lionel about Mason. Mason himself arrives with
the police. Augusta, Lionel, Warren and Laken are discussing what to do
while Dominic films them unnoticed. A furious C.C. goes over to the
museum after seeing most of his children there on TV. The safe is
finally opened and Lionel takes out the priceless artifacts, the Chinese
puzzle box and the log book. Warren tells Gina how much he loves Summer
and she finally tells him the whole tragic truth about how
Summer was raped. Warren still wants to wait until she is well enough to
see him again because he loves her so much he's willing to wait for her.
Laken thinks Ted tipped Mason about the coins when she finds out he
already knew Warren took them. Lionel reads the final entry in the log
book; blaming Nathaniel Capwell for sinking the Amanda Lockridge. Just
then Mason strikes; having Lionel arrested.
105
Original airdate: December 24, 1984
Lionel is brought to jail. He and Augusta agree to not say anything
about Warren having taken the coins. C.C. is pleased with the situation
but he still hasn't changed his mind about Mason. Joe and Kelly
celebrate their first Christmas together and Mason shows up to inform
them of Lionel's arrest. Kelly and Joe tell him that Lionel gave Sophia
the coins; they were having an affair and Channing Jr found out about
it. Mason thinks Lionel killed Channing Jr to hide the affair but Kelly
still thinks Mason did it. C.C. puts weight on the museum to get to see
the log book but Augusta sets up a 24 hour guard to stop him from
getting his hands on it. Dominic calls Mason again and says she saw
Lionel leave the Capwell mansion the day Channing Jr was killed and that
he was wearing the same tuxedo then as he is this day. Lionel's tux is
searched and well hidden inside it is the bloodstained note Dominic
planted there. The blood turns out to be the same blood type as Channing
Jr's and Mason learns the woman that's been tipping him about Lionel
isn't the Lockridge gardener's wife. Ted and Laken make up. Augusta
comes to the prison and has a romantic dinner with Lionel.
106
Original airdate: December 25, 1984
It's Christmas morning and C.C. spoils Brandon with gifts. Minx shows up
at the prison and brings Lionel a box of Christmas cookies and a gun
inside. It's discovered and despite claiming it's for protection so no
one will steal her cookies, the gun is confiscated and Minx is escorted
out. This has, however, caused the police to forget the cookies and
while eating them, a cheerful Lionel finds out there's a key inside one
of them and a file in the other. Jade and Marisa have arranged a
gorgeous nursery room for Amy's baby. Ruben is still very bitter with
C.C. and doesn't accept his Christmas bonus. The entire Lockridge family
celebrate Christmas with Lionel and the other cons in the prison. Mason
receives an anonymous letter telling him to look for more evidence at
the Lockridge estate. He has the mansion searched again and finally
comes up with the ring Channing Jr was wearing on the day of his death.
It's engraved with S.C. and L.L. for Sophia Capwell and Lionel
Lockridge. Lionel's print is found in the study from where the gun that
killed Channing Jr was fired.
107
Original airdate: December 26, 1984
Eden worries at C.C. about the increasingly significant place that
Gina takes in his life. She makes him understand that she is unaware of
still many things about it. Thanks to Dominic, Mason is in possession
of a ring found at Lionel's and whom Channing Jr carried the day of his
death. Veronica, who has just spent the night with Mason, hastens to inform
Lionel in prison. They both surprised by Mason, but Lionel succeeds in lying
to draw it from business. Warren comes thereafter to visit his father who
acknowledges to him being responsible for the death of Sophia without
having voluntarily killed her. He also explains to him why the ring was
in fact a gift of Sophia that Channing Jr, threatening to reveal in the world
the affair of Lionel with his mother, had begun again to him of force.
Then comes the moment from the lawsuit of Lionel for the flight of the gold
coins pertaining to Capwell. In the courtroom, Ted chooses, by solidarity with
Laken, to sit down side of the Lockridges. When Mason enters the room, he
announces being in possession of new evidence and states to want to change
the charge of flight into charge of murder...
108
Original airdate: December 27, 1984
Mason, based on the fact that the ring of Channing Jr was found with Lionel,
shows Lionel to be his assassin. But Lionel clamps to his innocence. Like C.C.
pains to forgive his guilty son to have believed it of the murder of Channing
Jr, Mason hastens to reveal the affair to him which Lionel and Sophia
secretly maintained during their marriage. But C.C. refuses to believe it.
Ted is torn between his love for Laken and that which it always carries to
his brother, although Laken is persuaded of the innocence of her father.
Lionel, who saw Dominic in the courtroom, asks Warren to follow him. Warren
follows him until at Kelly and Joe who learn of the charge for murder against
Lionel. To pay the bail of 5,000,000 dollars which Mason requires, Augusta
asks Elizabeth Peale to help her to resell tables belonging to the Lockridges.
While discussing with Eden supposed the inaccuracy Sophia, C. C. understands
that she knows some more than she reveals...
109
Original airdate: December 28, 1984
C.C. requests of Cruz to re-enter for his account in the office of
Lionel to the museum, but Cruz refuses this task. Finally, he
accepts when Eden requests it of him. Disguised as a sweeper, he
accompanies Eden who succeeds in getting rid of the guards
and to penetrate into the office. He opens there the log book of the
Amanda Lockridge. After having tested with Cruz, Elizabeth
launches out in a number of seduction at Brick. At the museum,
witnesses of the scene, Amy and Jade prefer to return to them.
Later, Amy announces to Brick her intention to live as an
independent woman and that she does not have need for him.
Augusta recovers the jacket which Warren carried the day of the death
of Channing Jr in the dyer and Lionel undertakes to burn it in the
chimney of the show. Lionel then requests from Warren precise
details on his interview with Channing Jr that day. Warren tells him
that Channing Jr exerted on him a blackmail about the gold coins
which it had flights. Blackmail which that day resulted in seizing the
revolver hidden in a drawer of the show.