The Carrington family on Dynasty on The CW has had a wild five seasons, with Elizabeth Gillies and Grant Show playing Fallon and Blake Carrington, respectively. We’ve watched this group of individuals engage in a variety of exciting activities, including marriages, pregnancies, kidnappings, searching for long-lost offspring, and other misdemeanours. But regrettably, the conclusion of the fifth season also heralds the show’s unavoidable demise as yet another victim of The CW’s widespread cancellation earlier this year. Fortunately, there was enough time to convert this into a fictitious series finale and tie up many loose ends, allowing this iteration of the Carrington family (and others who surround them) to come to a close with some degree of closure.
We left up in the last episode with the majordomo-in-training Graham (Dan Amboyer) knocking out Adam (Sam Underwood) and shoving him in the trunk of his vehicle, but not before making a vow to exact revenge on all the people Adam had injured. In the meantime, Fallon (Rafael de la Fuente) is in danger of losing her job as a result of the Morell Green Energy scandal, Jeff (Sam Adegoke) finds out that his research has been stolen, Liam (Adam Huber) is being blackmailed over the manuscript he stole, and Sam (Rafael de la Fuente) officially calls things off with Ryan (Lachlan Buchanan).
Oh, and Alexis (Elaine Hendrix) is unaware that her husband was one of the unlucky passengers on Blake’s jet, which has only made the already strained relationship between Blake and Cristal (Daniella Alonso) worse. The final obstacle between Kirby (Maddison Brown) and Amanda (Eliza Bennett) reconciling is Amanda’s ex-boyfriend showing up on the Carrington doorstep. In order to convey how last-minute this cancellation was, there is obviously a lot of story for this finale to cover. Let’s deconstruct it.
Adam’s Abduction
Continuing from the last episode, Adam is being taunted by the temporary majordomo while being held captive in a shed on the Carrington property. But lo and behold, Graham removes a mask to show that he is actually Steven Carrington (James Mackay), the long-lost brother who has been missing ever since Adam convinced him he was going crazy and had him committed to a sanitarium back in Dynasty Season 2.
Adam’s kidnapping is therefore not about the countless bad things he has done since arriving in Atlanta; rather, it is about the terrible deed he committed right after appearing on the show. It comes out that Adam had been paying the nurse to keep Steven under the influence of drugs and hang onto all of his letters, while Adam had been writing the family letters in Steven’s name requesting that they not get in touch with him ever again. Meaning that Steven lived in isolation for years before the sanitarium caught fire while the nurse was inside.
After the drugs wore off, Steven felt liberated and began to plan his retaliation, which culminated in this instance. After Steven finishes telling his tale, Adam verbally attacks him in the shed, claiming that the family didn’t even realise Steven was gone and that they liked having Adam around. It’s easy to question whether even Adam believed his own lies, though. The brothers then start fighting, and Adam almost has the upper hand over Steven when Steven takes a weapon and almost impales Adam. But in the end, he resists Adam’s attempts to convert him become a killer. Instead, Steven tells Adam that he will never see him again, thereby removing him from the Carrington family line.
At the end
The Carringtons and others around them have undergone a number of changes by the time we take up. Fallon has a name change planned now that Fallon Unlimited is entirely controlled by the family. Thus, Carrington United would be the name of the business. But Fallon, Blake, and Liam need to get home from work to get ready for a wedding before we can see that resolved. Sam and Steven are reunited at the estate and getting ready for Sam to officiate the wedding on the big day. Wow, what a ruse! Everyone has come for Culhane and Nina’s wedding even if Steven and Sam aren’t getting married again (yet).
The Carringtons and others around them have undergone a number of changes by the time we take up. Fallon has a name change planned now that Fallon Unlimited is entirely controlled by the family. Thus, Carrington United would be the name of the business. But Fallon, Blake, and Liam need to get home from work to get ready for a wedding before we can see that resolved. Sam and Steven are reunited at the estate and getting ready for Sam to officiate the wedding on the big day. Wow, what a ruse! Everyone has come for Culhane and Nina’s wedding even if Steven and Sam aren’t getting married again (yet).