Vicious Vendetta

Vicious Vendetta
Season 5, Episode 14

Air date	June 3, 2022
Written by	Josh Reims & Christopher Fife
Directed by	Pascal Verschooris
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Vicious Vendetta is the fourteenth episode of the fifth season, and the one hundredth episode overall of the drama television series, Dynasty on The CW. It airs on June 3, 2022.

Synopsis

ONE HUNDRED - It's Alexis' wedding day and as she attempts to make sure everything runs smoothly, everyone else in the family seems to have their own agenda. Blake receives a package that raises some questions, so Cristal and Sam set out to do some detective work to get to the bottom of it. Fallon and Liam make a life-changing decision. Dominique resorts to drastic measures to further Dom-Mystique and then asks Culhane for a huge favor. Kirby becomes suspicious of Amanda, thanks to Adam.

Plot Summary

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Cast

Starring

Elizabeth Gillies as Fallon Carrington
Daniella Alonso as Cristal Carrington
Elaine Hendrix as Alexis Carrington
Rafael de La Fuente as Sam Jones
Sam Underwood as Adam Carrington
Michael Michele as Dominique Deveraux
Robert Christopher Riley as Michael Culhane
Sam Adegoke as Jeff Colby
Maddison Brown as Kirby Anders
Adam Huber as Liam Ridley
Eliza Bennett as Amanda Carrington
Grant Show as Blake Carrington

Guest Starring

Pej Vahdat as Dex Dexter
Brett Tucker as Ben Carrington
Brianna Brown as Claudia Blaisdel
Tetona Jackson as Frankie Chase
Samantha Massell as Stacey Moore
David Diaan as Samir Dexter

Co-Starring

Henriette Zoutomou as Dina
Todd Allen Durkin as Bruce Fontaine
Anna Rizzo as Mallory
Jim Braswell as Officiant
Ava Hill as Event Planner

Notes and Spoilers

This episode marked the return of Brianna Brown as Claudia Blaisdel after three seasons.
Steven Carrington was mentioned in this episode along with many past recurring and guest characters who serve as threats to the Carringtons, including Roberto Flores, Nikolai Dimitrov, former Police Chief Aaron Stansfield, the King of Moldavia, Melissa Daniels, Ted Dinard, Caleb Collins, Evan Tate, and former Senator Bill North.
This episode marks Fallon Carrington's, Blake Carrington's and Sammy Jo's 100th episode in Dynasty

Trivia

There are references to the 1980s Dynasty in this episode.
- Ben Carrington (Brett Tucker) debuts in this episode as Blake's estranged brother. Ben was a major antagonist in the sixth and seventh seasons of the original series. He was first established in "Parisian Legend Has It...", an easter egg left to be expanded upon in the future seasons of the reboot.
- Samir Dexter appears in this episode as Dex's father. In the original series, Dex's father was Samuel Dexter. Sam's business connections and established relationship with Blake in the original series is maintained in the reboot.
- Alexis' wedding dress and Dex's wedding suit pay homage to the outfits that Joan Collins and Michael Nader wore in the 1980s series.
- The score from the original series is used at the end of the episode to dramatize Ben's introduction to the series.
- The dress that Fallon wears to the wedding is a callback to the dress Fallon wore to Blake and Cristal's wedding in the first episode of the reboot. That dress paid homage to the dress that Fallon wore to Blake and Krystle's wedding in the original series.
- The King Galen of Moldavia is mentioned in this episode, a character from the original series. With Alexis' wedding being the focus of the episode, this could potentially allude to the idea of the Moldavian Massacre from the original series in which Amanda's wedding to the Prince of Moldavia leads to a mass shooting.
Dominique mentioned a person named Val Gibson, this might be a reference to Valene Ewing Gibson, a famous character from the 1980s soap operas Dallas and Knots Landing that were competitors of the original Dynasty.
- Nicollette Sheridan, who previously portrayed Alexis, starred in Knots Landing.
This is the first episode to use the full theme since "Go Catch Your Horse".
The title of the episode is said in this episode by Blake Carrington.