Dynasty (TV Series)

Enter Alexis (1981)

Joan Collins: Alexis Carrington

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Quotes 

• Fallon Carrington Colby : You're even more beautiful and more ugly than that grand English lady I vaguely remember, and whom I've tried very hard to forget existed these past sixteen years.

  Alexis Carrington : I'm glad to see that your father had your teeth fixed; if not your tongue.

• Alexis Carrington : Blake, what you call filth, maybe a lie to you, but I still have it. When I'm ready, when I need a trump card, I'm going to play it.

• Jake Dunham : Would you state your full name, please?

  Alexis Carrington : Alexis Morell Carrington.

  Jake Dunham : And your residence?

  Alexis Carrington : I've been living in Acapulco for the past several years.

  Jake Dunham : You were the first wife of the defendant, Blake Carrington. You're the mother of his children, is that correct?

  Alexis Carrington : Yes, it is.

  Jake Dunham : And subsequently, of course, you were divorced?

  Alexis Carrington : Yes.

  Jake Dunham : When was this?

  Alexis Carrington : Sixteen years ago.

  Jake Dunham : Was it what you might term an amicable divorce, Mrs. Carrington?

  Alexis Carrington : No, it wasn't. It was what you might term an enforced divorce.

• Alexis Carrington : My husband came into the bedroom, and he... he found us together. He started shouting hideous words at me. And then he picked up a candlestick, a large, brass candlestick, and he started hitting Roger with it. He hit him on the head. He hit him on the chest. He nearly killed him.

  [Courtroom bursts into excited murmurs] 

  Judge Horatio Quinlan : [banging his gavel]  Order!

  Jake Dunham : Blake Carrington almost killed Roger Grimes.

• Alexis Carrington : Blake bought people off.

  Jake Dunham : "Bought people off"? What exactly do you mean by that, Mrs. Carrington?

  Alexis Carrington : He bought off a lawyer.

  [Andrew Laird scowls] 

  Alexis Carrington : He bought off one of our servants who knew what had happened, and he promoted him to a lifetime membership in the Carrington household.

  [Joseph grimaces] 

  Alexis Carrington : He even bought off Roger Grimes.

  Blake Carrington : [whispering to Andrew Laird]  That's a lie. She's lying!

  Jake Dunham : Are you saying that Blake Carrington paid for the silence of everyone involved in this incident, including the victim?

  Alexis Carrington : Yes.

• Alexis Carrington : Blake wanted a divorce, and he bought me.

  Jake Dunham : You mean with a handsome yearly payoff?

  Alexis Carrington : Oh, well, there are those who might call it handsome. I called it obscene. You see, he forced me to sign a piece of paper.

  Jake Dunham : A "piece of paper"? What paper?

  Alexis Carrington : A neatly typed, cold document in which I was forced to promise that I would never see my children again.

• [first lines] 

  Bailiff : Do you solemnly swear that all the testimony you may give before this court shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?

  Alexis Carrington : Yes, I do.