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| 41 | 1 | "Cimmerian Dawn" | Harry Harris | Robert McCullough | September 30, 1983 | 301 |
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| The Channings and Giobertis, including Chase's cousin, Dr. Michael Ranson (Cliff Robertson), attend the funeral of Jacqueline Perrault. After they left, Richard also pays his respects to his mother. He also exploits Julia shooting his mother on The Globe's front page. The revelation that Julia murdered Carlo Agretti also drives a wedge between Lance and Melissa, who resumes her affair with Richard. In jail, Julia rebuffs her mother's attempts to get her released on bail. She also reveals (to Emma and Chase) that she had secret affair with Carlo and that he threatened to make the affair public if Julia wouldn't help him take over Falcon Crest. Julia also starts to run into trouble with fellow inmates. At the hospital, Chase eventually wakes from his coma but finds himself paralyzed.Mel Ferrer (Phillip) and Margaret Ladd (Emma) are added to the opening credits, replacing Jamie Rose (Vickie) who returns this season in a recurring role. Billy R. Moses is now credited as William R. Moses. |
| 42 | 2 | "Penumbra" | Gwen Arner | Robert McCullough | October 7, 1983 | 302 |
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| At the hospital, Chase is coming to terms with his paralysis, when Angela appears and lets slip the news of Jacqueline's death - something his family had kept from him for the time being. Angela hopes to exploit Chase's weakened state to have him declared incompetent, which would give her complete control of Falcon Crest. She blackmails Chase's physician, Dr. Lantry (Ron Rifkin), who is illicitely selling prescription drugs, into signing a declaration of Chase's incompetence. He also adds a sedative into Chase's IV drip, causing him to pass out. Angela's plot has unforeseen consequences as Joseph swallows some of the pills procured by Lance and has to be rushed to the hospital. Melissa blames Lance for having "tried to kill her baby". Vickie finds her husband Nick in bed with his ex-wife Sheila. Julia still refuses help from Angela or Phillip Erikson and turns the court room into a spectacle. |
| 43 | 3 | "Conspiracy" | Harry Harris | Garner Simmons | October 14, 1983 | 303 |
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| Lance and Melissa call a truce, after the accident of the baby. Angela and Lance listens to the announcement of Melissa that she is pregnant, again. Bringing on Angela's plot, Dr. Lantry lets Maggie know that Chase has a bullet in his spine, which also caused an infection, and that they may have to perform surgery. Discreetly, Dr. Lantry injects drugs in Chase's I.V. Prior to this, Richard had a guilty conscience when he learns from Phillip that Jacqueline was dying of cancer and stepped in front of him to save his life. Richard and Melissa began to take advantage of Julia, by gaining her trust, to avenge the death of their own parents. Michael temporarily replaces Chase, with the beseeching of Maggie. In the hospital, Dr. Lantry triumphantly announces to Angela that Chase has a high fever and could die when and if she wishes. Angela is shocked as it may be too late, and she could be an accessory to murder. |
| 44 | 4 | "Partners" | Gwen Arner | Garner Simmons | October 21, 1983 | 304 |
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| In a rush, Michael prevents Dr. Lantry from operating on Chase, which might also leave him permanently paralyzed. Angela also sets up a court date to have Chase declared illegally incompetent to own Falcon Crest. During physical therapy, Chase begins to restore the use of his legs, who recovers. At the trial, when the judge would rule in Angela's favor, Chase limps on crutches, and the judges denies her petition. As jail inmates torture her constantly, Julia is declared to not be criminally insane. Maggie encourages Michael to take a job as the staff position at the hospital, she's shocked to hear he's the executor of Jacqueline's estate. |
| 45 | 5 | "Judge and Jury" | Harry Harris | E.F. Wallengren | October 28, 1983 | 305 |
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| Under Angela's orders, Lance has to make Chase's return even harder, as he comes back to work. Lance also sabotages The Giobertis, sends Chase's staff home and destroy one of the vats. They do all the work themselves, but a drainage lid breaks loose, spilling gallons of wine. Chase collapses from the leak, after the leak is controlled. At the trial hearing, Phillip's feeling is to place Julia in the psychiatric ward for observation, before she pleads guilty on every count. The Channings and The Giobertis were shocked, in order for Melissa to have been accomplished by encouraging Julia to lash out against Angela, prior to her prison sentence, she sits in a self-satisfied manner. Warned, Phillip cautions Angela, Julia might receive the death penalty. |
| 46 | 6 | "The Wages of Sin" | Gwen Arner | E.F. Wallengren | November 4, 1983 | 306 |
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| Julia is on the brink of going to prison for two murders. While the judge is preparing to pronounce the sentencing, Julia publicly announces she'd rather die than to face life in prison, when the judge, actually, sentence her behind bars. Dr. Lantry is accused of malpractice, however, Dr. Lantry tells Angela he will incriminate her, if she refuses to stop Michael. Richard spins a disgusting web taking advantage of Emma, tempts Maggie to work at The New Globe, as a feature writer, while he fights Chase by holding up the reading of Jacqueline's will. Phillips retrieves the original contracts to Melissa that Angela had talked her into signing that would've given the Agretti land to Falcon Crest. |
| 47 | 7 | "The Last Laugh" | Harry Harris | Stephen Black & Henry Stern | November 11, 1983 | 307 |
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| Julia has a hard time with the guard in prison, who has a strong vendetta against The Channings. Angela works to get her sentence reversed. Melissa offers the Agretti land to Richard, after making love, which he excitingly accepts, in order for him to prevent Angela from taking it. Jacqueline's will is split between Chase and Richard, when she left $50 million, only after one year, if Chase finds Richard to be trustworthy of him, which reveals the motive of brotherly unity. She also left Angela a hotel key suite, which Phillip must escort her there. It was Jacqueline who has "the last laugh", when Angela finds an unmade bed with a note. |
| 48 | 8 | "Solitary Confinements" | Gwen Arner | Stephen Black & Henry Stern | November 18, 1983 | 308 |
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| Julia has no choice other than to seek Angela for help to prevent her from these conniving prison inmates, or Julia might die. Angela pays the prison guard off to make things really simple for Julia. Maggie reveals evidence that Dr. Lantry's paychecks were given by a mysterious and handsome additional income. Chase and Michael's investigation is in a crisis, when Dr. Lantry's competency results may ban him from being a doctor. Afraid he might be incriminated; Angela jeopardizes Dr. Hooks (Raymond St. Jacques) on any questions. Maggie's younger sister, Terry Harford (Laura Johnson), has arrived in Falcon Crest, and finds out that Maggie is rich. |
| 49 | 9 | "Chameleon Charades" | Harry Harris | Robert McCullough | November 25, 1983 | 309 |
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| In desperation, Angela does everything she could to protect herself when she learns that Chase's and Michael's investigation into Dr. Lantry's underlying scheme past point towards her. When Angela informs Lance that Melissa and Richard are having an affair, boiling in anger, Lance, tries to find them. Melissa covers in telling Lance that she's trying to keep Richard as an ally, while he feasts his eyes on Pamela. Linda's father refuses to admit Cole as part of his family, while the newlyweds begin the custody battle with baby Joseph, alongside Melissa and Lance. Terry looks for her fortune in San Francisco, when she double-crosses her ways into The Giobertis. |
| 50 | 10 | "Double Dealing" | Gwen Arner | Robert McCullough | December 2, 1983 | 310 |
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| Dr. Lantry is sentenced to jail, all because of Angela, who is now concerned he will incriminate her in the murder of Chase. Phillip sets up the bail of Dr. Lantry, who must be sent out of the county, though Chase and Michael are bound to prove that Lantry is allied with Angela, who investigates Terry's dark past with plans of taking advantage of her to demolish The Giobertis. She learns Terry was a prostitute in New York, when Angela uses this truth into blocking Cole's custody suit. While Terry is scheming, she flirts with the many men in Falcon Crest, while Richard is disgusted to find out that the cartel begs for 100% of his racetrack and will stop at nothing to get it. |
| 51 | 11 | "The Betrayal" | Harry Harris | E.F. Wallengren | December 9, 1983 | 311 |
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| Angela's "betrayal" from Lance, who gave information to Chase where Dr. Lantry is nowhere to be found. When he learned from this, Chase accuses Angela of having the bail being arranged by Dr. Lantry, and that Chase tells Angela that he learned all that from Lance. Angela refuses to admit everything else, except, she can hardly control her anger beyond Lance's "betrayal." After Chase finds Dr. Lantry, he confesses that Angela blackmailed him, as far as signing the affidavit was concerned about Chase's incompetency. Dr. Lantry injects himself with a lethal dose of morphine, as Chase was stopping him. When a dead body is found on Richard's property, Richard's life, as well as his inheritance, are in jeopardy. |
| 52 | 12 | "Coup d'État" | Gwen Arner | E.F. Wallengren | December 16, 1983 | 312 |
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| Dr. Lantry is near death, Chase learns that he might lose his chance to see Angela in jail. Lance jeopardizes Angela and Melissa with blackmail, and all the while, Angela works with Phillip to commit Julia to a mental institution. Terry crawls her way into Michael's heart, while Angela blackmails her for love. Vince Caproni, who's unhappy about Linda's marriage to Cole, tells Linda that Angela's brutality towards migrant workers caused Linda's mother's death. Angela talks Terry into spying on The Giobertis, or else, Angela will open up about Terry's sleazy past. Chase decides to use the clause in his grandfather's will that'll enable him to receive 100 per cent ownership of Falcon Crest. |
| 53 | 13 | "No Trespassing" | Joseph Manduke | Stephen Black & Henry Stern | December 23, 1983 | 313 |
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| Chase is in a public feud with Richard, who wants to build a racetrack that could demolish the entire wine industry; however, the final say is when the residents who are planning to vote after scandalous campaigns of men. Angela strongly promises that she wouldn't allow Chase to run Falcon Crest without her and thwarts his goals to obtain the accounting records. Lance threatens Vince over Joseph's paternity suit, Vince suffers a heart attack soon after being threatened. In spite of The Gioberti's warning that Terry is dangerous, she moves in with Michael. |
| 54 | 14 | "Sport of Kings" | Larry Elikann | Robert McCullough & E.F. Wallengren | January 6, 1984 | 314 |
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| Richard wins his election in building a racetrack, a plot that Chase will stop him, that results in an explosive manner. Julia is in the mental institution, where she becomes hysterical, when Richard, in the worst way, tells her Melissa's baby is his, that pushed her in a catatonic state. Angela has made an agreement to Lance that they will both be kicking out of Falcon Crest, if they lose Joseph's custody battle to Cole. When Melissa's being questioned on Angela's grandson's affair with Maggie's baby sister, prior to giving deposition to Cole's lawyer, she lashes out and admits that their marriage is a farce. Angela plans to stop Chase's call to plan a champagne market by purchasing the grape harvest he needs. |
| 55 | 15 | "Queen's Gambit" | Robert Foxworth | Robert McCullough & E.F. Wallengren | January 13, 1984 | 315 |
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| Michael must face his fears from the past, as he operates Sheriff Robbins to save his life. In the operating room, Michael cannot perform the surgery, who later admits to Terry about the guilt he's felt, the day he lost his wife. Terry arranges to become the new wife of Michael, after she spies on Maggie for Angela. While a gangster attacks Richard, Angela plans to crush Chase, with the encouragement of Calvin Kleeger, who's the wine distributor of Falcon Crest. Kleeger lets Chase know that Angela is no longer in the running of Falcon Crest, he won't serve as distributor, until Chase offers the winery as collateral. |
| 56 | 16 | "Bitter Harvest" | Larry Elikann | Stephen Black & Henry Stern | January 20, 1984 | 316 |
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| Thanks to Phillip, Melissa has no choice other than to sell her Agretti land to him. Richard is nearly run down by a hit man, as the cartel was bound to take over his racetrack. Maggie also finds Jacqueline had an affair with Johann Riebmann, who was the head of the Nazi Gestapo. Cole came back home, only to find out Melissa was waiting for him seductively posed in bed. He kicks her out of the house, prior to Linda coming back. |
| 57 | 17 | "Power Play" | Mel Ferrer | Greg Strangis | February 3, 1984 | 317 |
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| When Joseph's custody battle goes to court, Lance and Melissa resort to blackmail. Cole punches Lance in front of a witness, who comes to court, all bodily bruised claiming that Cole had assaulted him. After hearing the story of the blackmailed witness, the case of Cole and Linda had been dismissed. Maggie and Chase notices that Jacqueline's relationship with Johann Riebmann and Henri Denault, led her into being a war criminal. Prior to Maggie, who chooses not to submit her article at The New Globe, Emma, who plays second-fiddle to her mother and brother, Angela and Richard, into being evil, that she has the story written on the front page behind Richard's and Maggie's back. Thanks to Emma's underlying schemes, the cartels were not pleased about that story and Richard would be knocked out. |
| 58 | 18 | "Changing Times" | Michael Preece | Richard Freiman | February 10, 1984 | 318 |
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| Angela makes a deal with Chase and Maggie, about herself, getting full control of Falcon Crest, as long as Melissa gives Cole custody of Joseph. She (Melissa) was shocked at first, but later reconsiders it. Angela bosses Terry around, in hoping Chase and Michael don't get along with each other, while Richard is at the mercy of the cartel's gangsters in opening a racetrack. Maggie's article about Jacqueline's past made it the valley's business. |
| 59 | 19 | "The Aftermath" | Barbara Peeters | Ann Marcus & E.F. Wallengren | February 17, 1984 | 319 |
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| Melissa's in hot water, when, after the argument, she gets into a serious car crash with Linda. Lance spends the night with Terry, while Melissa suffers a miscarriage, at the hospital. Overwhelmed with shame, Lance tries to apologize to Angela, when she's absolutely unforgiving. Melissa has been relayed by Angela that she refuses to give up Joseph and needs the assigned agreement return. Phillip asked Angela to marry her, but she is obsessed with driving Terry out of San Francisco, with the encouragement that Lance will behave more like a husband to Melissa, than just being a ladies' man. Richard and Pamela's relationship has gone up, when she's so concerned about him being killed. Lance and Emma visit Julia in the psychiatric hospital, who also goes on a rampage with them. Lance calms his mother down, while telling Emma that Richard had paid for the damage he has done to Julia. Maggie is very disgusted at Terry, when her sister questions Terry, at the night of her party, if she'd ever told Michael about Chase making a pass at him, when she denies telling Maggie the truth, when Maggie urges Terry to call Michael on the phone, for the truth. Knowing her sister's been taking advantage of everybody else, Maggie falls down at the top of the stairs. |
| 60 | 20 | "Tests of Faith" | Reza Badiyi | Robert McCullough & Garner Simmons | February 24, 1984 | 320 |
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| Terry's sleazy, secretive past has been revealed when Angela goes to greater lengths to wear her out of San Francisco. Kate Mars, a former call girl friend of Terry's, is being paid by Angela, who asked her to tell Michael everything about Terry's past. Angela confronts Phillip about his indiscretions, especially when Jacqueline claimed to have slept with him, while in the hotel room. Phillip refuses to tell her everything else about this, and quits, having been tolerated with Angela's manipulations. Chase looks for another wine distributor, who also learns that Calvin Kleeger serves as front for Angela. Disguised as a janitor, at the mental institution, Julia, escapes and hitchhikes her way back to Falcon Crest. Maggie finds out she has a brain tumor, because of the horrifying dizzy spells and headaches, she's been suffering. The hit men kidnap Pamela who forces her to choose between faithfulness to Richard's and her own life, hence, Richard refuses to give the cartel back to the racetrack. Lance barges in on Richard, searching for revenge for his mother's mental setback, only to get Richard to call security to give him a hard time. |
| 61 | 21 | "Little Boy Blue" | Harry Harris | Claire Whitaker | March 9, 1984 | 321 |
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| The news about Julia's escape from the mental institution is being printed on The New Globe. Julia also steals a wallet and purchase a wig from a waitress at a roadside coffee shop. When Melissa trades her son for power, which leads her into paying a heavy price. Phillip and Chase try to determine how serious Angela as far as trading Joseph for half of Falcon Crest. Chase is shocked, prior to Phillip producing Angela's contract, which he is happy to know as he can pry out of Angela's clutches. Angela tells Melissa it's too late to call off the deal with Chase, after Melissa begs her, as Melissa is overwhelmed with guilt, prior to Chase and Cole taking her child away. Chase hears that Richard bribes a county geologist to approve construction of the racetrack. Julia takes over as Kay Aberdeen, who is invited to stay with an unexpected admirer, Lucas Crosby. Maggie has to come to the terms with the fact that she has a brain tumor. |
| 62 | 22 | "The Gathering Storm" | Reza Badiyi | Rocci Chatfield & Ray Goldstone | March 16, 1984 | 322 |
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| Lance loses his temper, when he finds out that Melissa sold Joseph to Angela for her half of Falcon Crest. Angela cautions Lance, who must, then atone with Melissa, who is now Angela's heir, and if he refuses to, he'll be penniless. Pamela planted the hidden bugs, whom Richard found, leading him to think the cartel is closer to him. To make Phillip jealous, Angela goes out on a date with Carter St. John. Maggie's dying, because her tumor is growing fast, who must decide between operation and radiation treatment. She's also beginning to lose her eyesight, and Michael warns if she doesn't have surgery, her sight could be irreversible. However, questions about Michael's surgical abilities, may have to wait. Being concerned for her safety, Lucas teaches Julia how to shoot a gun. |
| 63 | 23 | "Final Countdown" | Harry Harris | James Fritzhand | March 23, 1984 | 323 |
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| Michael talks Chase into allowing him on operating Maggie's brain tumor, which has already taken both her life and sight. Michael also enlists his former lover, Lillian Heller, an anesthesiologist, for helping with Maggie's surgery. Lillian's a houseguest which makes Terry very jealous. Chase has high concerns if he'll ever see his wife again. Angela strongly encourages Lance to reconcile with Melissa, for producing a true heir at Falcon Crest. Lance begs Melissa to give marriage a second chance, when she looks at his deception and has no intention of sharing it with him. Phillip expands to his winery staff by hiring Angela's best people. Pamela is carrying out Spheeris's order, in order to demolish Richard, who gets so obsessed with attempting to win over Chase to obtain his inheritance for the completion of the racetrack. |
| 64 | 24 | "Love's Triumph" | Harry Harris | Robert McCullough & Suzanne Herrera | April 6, 1984 | 324 |
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| Maggie's heart stops, when Michael and Dr. Heller remove the last of her brain tumor, as fast as they could, only to find Maggie in a coma. Angela prays for Maggie, Julia and the entire Falcon Crest, as Maggie's fate is up to The Lord, while Angela gets back with Phillip again. Richard is very disgusted when Chase has turned over Jacqueline's $50 million trust fund to St. Martha's convent in Paris, at the time Richard desperately needs the money. Above this, the cartel plot against Richard's jeopardizes Pamela's life. When Pamela's disappears, Richard notices he has lost the only person whom he truly loved. |
| 65 | 25 | "Win, Place, and Show" | Robert McCullough | Robert McCullough & Suzanne Herrera | April 13, 1984 | 325 |
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| A public spectacle about Richard's assassination of the grand opening of the racetrack, where the cartel begins to carry out traditional plans. Richard, who's in the limousine, makes a switch to the bomb, causing the cartel to explode. To please Angela, Lance has made a commitment he and Melissa will produce Angela's first great-grandchild. Melissa learns that she can no longer have children due to injuries sustained in her car accident. While Chase and Maggie have thought Michael and Terry are both traveling to Mexico, they are shocked when the young couple announce their marriage. Angela agrees to marry Phillip. Police find out about Julia's identity. |
| 66 | 26 | "For Better or Worse" | Harry Harris | Ellis Marcus | May 4, 1984 | 326 |
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| As Angela's wedding is coming closer, one of her daughters, Julia is about to shoot her. It all begins with Julia (dressing up in a nun's habit), heading towards the church. Chase recognizes her, when she locks him in a closet. As he crazingly works his way around it, Julia fails to shoot Angela, as she leaves for Falcon Crest, as well as the wedding reception. As the reception begins, Julia hiding upstairs, who's about to point the gun to Angela, who didn't get shot, again. Chase has the police cautioning Angela that Julia might kill her mother. Cole tries hard to locate Joseph, upstairs, only to find Julia has taken him hostage. |
| 67 | 27 | "The Avenger" | Michael Preece | Garner Simmons | May 11, 1984 | 327 |
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| Lance and Emma find out Julia is in the springhouse with Joseph, who's being held hostage by her. Terry lies, constantly to Michael, when she receives a letter about the dark past. After Angela reads a letter in which Julia had left her, while she was in college, she regrets in not being a very good mother to her, due to her busy career. The house is surrounded by police officers, when Angela enters in trading for Joseph. Angela admits that she has failed in becoming a mother to Julia, and finally gets Julia to listen to what her mother has to say, about Angela loving her. Julia hands Angela the gun, the deputy sheriff ends up shooting, which sets the kerosene lamp and house on fire. Chase and Lance scramble to locate Angela and Julia, towards their safety, when Lance is knocked out, and has to be rescued by the fire, as did Angela, he is being saved by Chase, and the springhouse explodes. |
| 68 | 28 | "Ashes to Ashes" | Barbara Peeters | E.F. Wallengren & Ann Marcus | May 18, 1984 | 328 |
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| The springhouse is on fire, the coroners inspecting a ring and bone fragments, they're all identifying the cremation of Julia. In the letter to Lance, the final request from Julia was to have her ashes scattered in Italy. Angela asks both The Channings and The Giobertis to travel to Italy, in hoping that Julia's death can reunite the family together again. Richard believes that Pamela may be alive in Europe, a hostage of Norton Crane, and sends Padgett there to find her. Lance is told by Melissa, that she will be moved out of Falcon Crest, and back to her father's house when he returns from Italy. Angela already knows Melissa has filed for divorce and can't have children of her own. Melissa pays one of the Falcon Crest employees to stage an accident at the winery so that Cole will have to stay behind with her. As Chase, Richard, and his pilot, Jack, leave to check possible travel routes to Italy, Spheeris enters the hangar posing as a mechanic, and heads toward Richard's plane carrying a toolbox and smiling. Angela, Philip, Lance, Emma, Richard, Maggie, Michael, Terry, Linda and Joseph, all take off in a plane, one of its engines catches fire and Chase suspects sabotage, the plane dives perilously and goes down in the Colorado Rocky Mountain Range, leaving everyone's lives hanging in the balance. |
