Dominique Deveraux
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Dominique Deveraux is a fictional character on the American TV series Dynasty.
The role was originated by Diahann Carroll in the second to last episode of the fourth season in 1984, and the character was written off after the seventh season finale in 1987.
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[edit] Season Four
Successful and wealthy chanteuse Dominique Deveraux arrives in Denver in episode 86 with a flourish, asking Fallon Carrington Colby questions about her mother, Alexis. Dominique laughs off the suspicions and wonders aloud to herself, "What will they say when they find out I'm a Carrington?"
[edit] Season Five
In the first episode of the season (#89), Dominique's husband Brady Lloyd arrives in Denver. He asks why Dominique is performing at La Mirage. Brady and Dominique fight when she will not tell him why she is choosing to remain in Denver. Dominique's hostility toward oil tycoon Blake Carrington is noticed by Blake's wife Krystle.
Following Fallon's memorial service in episode 92, Dominique makes the shocking claim that she is the daughter of Blake's father Tom Carrington and his longtime mistress, Laura Matthews, and offers proof. A financially-strapped Blake makes a business deal with his new half-sister: Forty percent of Denver-Carrington in exchange for 30 million dollars. This makes Dominique an enemy in Alexis Colby, who has been scheming to destroy her ex-husband Blake. When Brady learns the truth, he is furious that Dominique didn't confide in him earlier. Soon after, Brady and Dominique separate and he leaves Denver.
As Blake's partner, Dominique travels to Istanbul to meet the shady Rashid Ahmed. She offers him $10 million to confess to having framed Blake for illegal weapons trafficking. Rashid "confesses" and then is shot by the police. Despite this assistance, in episode 100, Blake tells Dominique that Tom denies that he is her father. Furious, Dominique considers selling her stake in Denver-Carrington to Alexis. But in episode 102, "The Will", Dominique and Blake visit their father Tom on his deathbed; Alexis, a favorite of Tom's, follows them. Tom meets his illegitimate daughter Dominique for the first time, and she convinces him to accept her. Tom dies, but not before including Dominique in his will, which further infuriates Alexis (who is also a beneficiary).
In episode 108, Dominique learns that Brady has filed for divorce and that Alexis is attempting to take over her record company, after which she collapses. At the hospital Dominique learns that she needs heart surgery. She pulls through her illness and becomes closer to Blake and Krystle. Noticing that famed photojournalist Lady Ashley Mitchell appears to have designs on Blake, she warns Ashley to keep away and advises Krystle to watch out.
Dominique is among the family guests invited to Moldavia to celebrate the wedding of her niece, Amanda, to Prince Michael, where terrorists take over the chapel.
[edit] Season Six
Dominique survives the terrorist attack, and rejects an offer by the rebel leader to remain in Moldavia to "entertain the troops and improve morale."[1]
Back in Denver, Dominique works with Blake on a pipeline deal with Jason Colby. She encounters Jonathan Lake, a state department employee, who reminds Dominique that they met years ago in Paris. Romance seems to be blossoming between the pair. But soon a man from her past returns: Garrett Boydston, Jason's lawyer. Garrett tries to rekindle their romance, but Dominque is resistant.[2] Years earlier, Dominique and Garrett had an affair. At the time, Garrett was married and refused to leave his wife. Dominique is torn between the two men until she learns that Jonathan has aligned himself with Bart Fallmont, a politician who is fighting the pipeline project.
Dominique travels frequently to Los Angeles, and hires Monica Colby to help run her record company. While there, she continues to see Garrett. He cannot understand her reluctance to resume their relationship.
In episode 134, Dominique's daughter, Jackie[3] visits her mother and asks to remain in Denver instead of returning to boarding school in Europe. In episode 136, Garrett meets Jackie and is immediately convinced that he is her father. Garrett presses Dominique but she continues to deny that he is Jackie's father. Jackie, who would like to see her mother married and happy, also wonders about the true nature of their relationship. In episode 143, Jackie runs away when she learns that her father is listed as "unknown" on her birth certificate. Alexis encounters Jackie and manipulates the girl into telling her troubles. Dominique finally admits to Garrett that he is indeed Jackie's father. Jackie returns home in episode 145 and finally learns that Garrett is her father.
In episode 146, Dominique and Garrett decide to marry. In the season finale, at their engagement party Alexis reveals that Garrett was never married before. He lied in order to avoid a long-term relationship. Dominique slaps Alexis and orders her to leave. She confronts Garrett with the story who admits that he lied so many years ago. Stunned, Dominique breaks off the engagement. Her guests continue to celebrate, unaware that the wedding is cancelled -- or that a fire is raging in other parts of the hotel.
[edit] Season Seven
During the fire, Dominique panics when she cannot find Jackie. Dex manages to rescue Jackie, but she is badly burned. Jackie provides eye witness testimony to the cause of the fire, before leaving Denver for state-of-the-art burn treatment.[4]
During this time, Dominique helps Blake to fight Alexis, who has taken over Blake's company with the assistance of their estranged brother, Ben. She also attempts to revive her singing career. When a bad review appears in Alexis's newspaper, Dominique goes to confront her in episode 160 and a cat fight ensues.[5]
In episode 154, Dominique meets Nick Kimball, a geologist, who pursues her. Dominique resists him at first, but by episode 158 she gives in to his advances and they share a passionate night. In episode 163, Nick saves Dominique from two thugs who were sent by businessman Gary Tilden to "rough her up" after she rejected a business deal from Tilden. But Dominique is still restrained about their relationship - and draws closer to Alexis's ex-husband Dex. Nick returns in episode 173 to whisk Dominique off for a romantic weekend in San Francisco, where he proposes. While Dominique contemplates marrying Nick, Jackie returns to Denver to tell her mother that Garrett is still in love with her. In episode 175, Jackie asks Nick to break it off with Dominique. When Dominique states that she will not get back together with Garrett, a defeated Jackie leaves Denver again. In episode 176, the season finale, Dominique and Nick attend the wedding of her nephew, Adam. After the ceremony, Dominique accepts his proposal.[6]
[edit] Behind the scenes
Dominique was added as a foil for Joan Collins' Alexis, though when the character was originally written, the producers had not decided how to use her.[citation needed] A number of scenes were filmed to introduce her (to circumvent any chance the storyline would leak to the press) including alternative lines that revealed Dominique to be the mother of Kirby Anders, and also the former wife of Cecil Colby.[citation needed]
Though not on the canvas, Dominique was mentioned in Season Nine as Blake investigated the murder of Roger Grimes. Blake visited Dominique's uncle Charles Matthews, brother to Laura, Charles and his wife Jane later provided Blake with some of his father's belongings, left with them by Laura for safekeeping. This storyline and the impending departure of Collins coincided with rumors that Carroll had been asked to reprise her role for the show's tenth season. Ultimately, the show was cancelled at the end of its ninth season.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Joan Collins, who played Alexis, was in the middle of contract negotiations and refused to appear in this episode. Several scenes (including this one) were quickly re-written with other actors.
- ^ Dominique will appear as a guest star on sister show The Colbys as the storyline develops
- ^ Despite never having mentioned this daughter on-screen before, Jackie was not a secret or surprise child
- ^ Jackie is not seen again until episode 174, although Dominique will make passing references to "visiting her" or "that her treatment is going well."
- ^ Dynasty was known for catfights between Alexis and Krystle. This was Alexis and Dominique's one and only catfight.
- ^ The character of Dominique was written off after this episode with no explanation. It is assumed that she married Nick and they left Denver. Her exact fate is never explain, not even in the 1991 Dynasty reunion movie.
