the colbys episode 40 - “the manhunt”

Monica and Cash are riding back from dinner and Monica suggests to Cash that the two spend some time apart while he works through his divorce with Adrienne. Cash will have none of it. The two arrive at the Colby Mansion and are surprised that Adrienne is there. Jason has made sure the police will be there to meet Adrienne at her hotel room. Cash takes Adrienne back. Jason wants to talk to Monica about her son, but Monica is not prepared to speak to him at the moment. Frankie decides to speak to Monica instead. Granted, if there is anyone who knows anything about giving up her son, it is Frankie.

Monica figures out that Scott is probably at the Griffith Observatory. Let’s all just ignore how Scott would get there. Anyway, Monica calls Cash and they meet up at the Observatory and wouldn’t you know it - Scott is there - camping out. Scott tells Monica that he hates her for what she is doing to his mother. It must be difficult for a mother to hear that from her son, especially when her son does not know the truth.

Even though Sable promised not to get involved, we all know she will. She speaks with Cash about what they should do with respect to Scott, and Cash shuts her down. Adrienne had warned Cash about Sable, and Cash and Monica will handle matters without Sable. That does not stop Sable. After speaking with Arthur, Sable tells Monica the kind of mother that Adrienne is - a drunk, a pill popper and a two time failure at rehab. Is that all? Does Monica really want her son raised by such a woman? Monica has no time to discuss it at the moment. She needs to get to the IMOS conference.

Jason seeks comfort in Sable. Why wouldn’t Monica speak to him? Why didn’t Monica tell him at the time? Sable suggests that they may have pushed their children too hard, but they did the best that they could and maybe they will do better with their grandchildren. Monica does eventually talk to Jason and seems somewhat forgiving of what Connie did. Jason still cannot believe that no one told him.

Miles also feels guilty for the way he treated Monica. He should have used his twin power to know Monica needed to talk. No, Miles, as insensitive as ever, remembers how he had recently told Monica that she does not know what it was like to be pregnant and to lose a child. Again, Miles swears to be a better person and Channing believes he can do it.

Jeff, meanwhile, is preoccupied with the death of Connie and tracking down this Hoyt Parker. Since Hoyt’s was known to be in Singapore running arms, Jeff suspects that he may have served in Vietnam and stayed around afterward. That is what I would naturally think. There is a common belief that the United States had left soldiers in Vietnam or some had stayed - but there is no real evidence of that. There are no U.S. soldiers languishing in North Vietnamese prisons.

Jeff’s hunch actually pays off. He learns from the Pentagon that a Hoyt Parker was discharged in 1967 and has family in Boise. Jeff heads off to Boise to meet with Hoyt’s mother. The mother notes that Hoyt was one of the first person’s to be captured in Vietnam but she had not heard from him in 20 years. She cannot believe that Hoyt would have been alive all this time and running around California without even calling her.

Why would Hoyt call his mother when he is too busy crank calling Frankie? Hoyt, using his hand to muffle his voice, gets a hold of Frankie, who he calls Francesca Colby (that’s weird). Hoyt tells Frankie that he missed her friend in Eureka but that he will not miss the next time. Definitely time to beef up security, especially with an important IMOS Conference coming up.

Hoyt is not the only one gunning for Jason. When Miles learns about the crank call to Frankie, he believes this is all the work of Lucas’s slander in his paper. He decides to pay Sam a visit and tells him to retract the story on Jason. Sam claims Lucas will never retract his stories but then suggests he may be open to it if Jason drops the lawsuit. Miles really does not follow up on that and storms off. No matter, Sam has another plan in place. He contacts a security guard at the Jefferson Hotel (where the IMOS Conference is to be held) to make sure that his man is ready tomorrow and has a one way bus ticket out of town. It’s all set. What are Sam and Lucas up to?

Before we get to Sam’s plan, we have to talk about Bliss and Kolya. Bliss tells Sable that Kolya cheated on her and Sable naturally goes into protective mode. Later, Kolya speaks to Sable and asks her to find him a new dance partner. It is obvious that Kolya loves Bliss and Sable tells Bliss. Bliss can handle matters from there. Bliss confronts Georgina in the dance studio as Georgina is preparing a tacky U.S. themed birthday party for Kolya. Bliss tells Georgina that she knows about her games and she will never have Kolya. In the closest thing to a cat fight we will get - Georgina throws a drink of punch at Bliss and Bliss pushes Georgina into the cake. Boring.

Now we get to the IMOS Conference. Of course something is going to happen. Before the conference, Jason tells Cash that this will be his last day on the project and that he can go back to Washington for what he has done to Monica. Yeah, we have heard that before. Following the Conference, Jason takes some questions. Sam’s man is ready as a gunman claims Jason is a traitor and takes a shot at him. The gunman does not get away as Sam’s man kills him and slips a paper into the dead man’s coat. They set him up. Meanwhile, Cash is the one who ends up getting shot as he tried to protect Jason. Even though he was shot in the back, Cash still manages to have a trickle of blood from his mouth (similar to Monica in the plane crash). Monica, very upset, hovers over a dying Cash.

Memorable Dialogue

Sable: Unlike money, Kolya, great ballerinas do not grow on trees in America.

Frankie: He called me Francesca Colby, why would he do that?
Jason: Or why would he call you in the first place.

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