| Monica Colby | |
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 Tracy Scoggins (photo shoot for the first season of The Colbys) | |
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| Series | The Colbys, Dynasty |
| First appearance | "The Titans" (1985) |
| Last appearance | "Catch 22" (1989) |
| Portrayed by | Tracy Scoggins |
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Sen. Cash Cassidy (1978; 1986-1987) |
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Constance Colby (aunt) |
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Works with her mother at Sable Co. |
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• Vice-President; General Counsel; Member of the Board of Directors of Colby Enterprises (1986-1988) |
If there was someone in the Colby family who deserved to be called a genius, it was Monica, Sable's pretty, brainy, but rather unlucky daughter. Unlike her brother, she seemed to have united in her the best of her parental genes: Her mother's beauty and her father's cleverness.
She was the stronger one of the twins from the first moment after she was born in 1958 and she managed to cope with all expectations with which her family burdened her, no matter if it concerned sports or school, which made her daddy's favorite darling. Due to her intelligence and ambition, she graduated early from high-school, started studying law at Harvard and even took two years of Chinese.
At the age of 27, she was already a brilliant and experienced lawyer and one of the 12 Colby Enterprises’ vice-presidents, but all that success never altered the fact that she was a sympathetic and caring person. An affair with the married Cash Cassidy in Washington in 1978 resulted in a pregnancy, and just after giving birth to a son, Scott, Monica had to give him back to his own father. Getting over this affair took Monica years.
Monica left Colby Enterprises in 1985 and became the manager of Dominique Deveraux's firm, Titania Records, where she did a terrific job. When Dominique had to sell Titania to Zach Powers, Monica returned to Colby Enterprises as successor of lawyer Garrett Boydston. At this time, her past returned when Cash and Scott turned up again. Unfortunately this turned out unhappily, but the hardest heavy blow hit her in 1987, when Jason cut her and Miles off and turned his back on them without explanation.
Despite all these bitter disappointments, Monica tried to rebuild her life again. She took another job, concentrated on herself and gained a good deal of self-confidence and black humor, which helped her to forget and forgive. In 1989, she joined her mother in Denver and helped fighting Alexis. When she learned she was not Jason's real daughter, she was hurt badly, but still remained beautiful and clever.
We don't know what became further of Monica. Fallon and Jeff moved back to live with Miles and the others sometime between 1989 and 1991, but nothing was told about Monica. Nevertheless she was one of the most amiable characters, a wonderful woman who had always tried to walk over her own feelings when necessary and to make the best out of the life which had burdened her with such a lot of sorrow and disappointments.
Dynasty season six[]
The Colbys of Los Angeles come to Denver to celebrate a new business venture with oil tycoon Blake Carrington in the 1985 Dynasty episodes "The Titans: Parts 1 and 2". The lawyer daughter of Jason and Sable Colby, Monica is the twin sister of Miles Colby, who has become romantically involved with an amnesiac Fallon Carrington. Miles and Monica also have a younger sister, Bliss.
The Colbys season one[]
In The Colbys, Monica is a lawyer working for her father Jason's company, Colby Enterprises. In the series premiere, "The Celebration", she offers to investigate who is behind detrimental rumors which are plaguing the company, but Jason dismisses her. An angry Monica complains to Sable, who tells Monica that it is unlikely Jason will ever treat her like he would a man. In "Conspiracy of Silence", Monica warns Miles that things will likely change between him and Fallon if she gets her memory back. Monica tries to convince her cousin Jeff Colby to let his ex-wife Fallon go, since she and Miles are in love, in "Moment of Truth". Monica offers to help Jason again in "Family Album", but is forced to accept that her father only takes men seriously. Blake Carrington's half-sister, Dominique Deveraux, asks Monica to help her learn if Jason is the one buying up stock in her company, Titania Records. Monica learns that Dominique's ex-lover, Garrett Boydston, bought the stock. Dominique offers Monica a job leading her company. Feeling unappreciated, Monica quits Colby Enterprises to manage Titania in "Shadow of the Past".
Jason is hurt, but Monica is sick of being treated like a decoration rather than a valued employee. In accepting the job, Monica has run afoul of Titania vice president Neil Kittredge, who was demoted to make way for her. Dominique is annoyed to find Monica and Neil clashing at work in "The Reunion".
Worried about Constance, Monica confronts Hutch, who has no idea that Constance is wealthy and breaks things off with her. Monica is doubtful in "Fallen Idol" when Miles tells her he witnessed Jason in a romantic embrace with Jeff's mother and Sable's sister, Francesca. Monica apologizes to Constance for interfering with Hutch, and goes to Hutch to ask that he reconcile with Constance.
Monica meets blind singer Wayne Masterson and pitches him to Neil, which leads to another argument between them. Monica and Neil get closer in "The Letter", as she and Wayne begin working together. Neil apologizes to Monica in "The Turning Point". They fly to San Francisco for dinner, and end up spending the night together. Thanks to Monica, Hutch reconciles with a recovering Constance in "Thursday's Child". Neil is jealous of Monica's relationship with Wayne. In "The Pact", Monica learns from Dominique that Neil is married. In "Fallon's Choice", Monica tries to talk Miles out of renewing his pursuit of Fallon, who has moved on with Jeff. When Neil complains about her closeness to Wayne, Monica explodes with her discovery that Neil has a wife. As Wayne prepares to have an operation that could restore his sight, Monica fires Neil in "The Trial".
In "Burden of Proof", Jason reveals in court that he is Jeff's father, making Jeff the half-brother of Monica, Miles, and Bliss. With Jeff and Fallon planning to marry in Los Angeles, Monica is worried when Miles refuses to get away to New York in "My Father's House". She works out her argument with Wayne. Dominique compels Monica to rehire Neil in "The Outcast". When Miles is arrested for murder, Monica tells Wayne in "The Honeymoon" that she cannot be with him when he has his surgery. Monica laments to Sable that Miles seems to be pushing her away. Monica and Neil resume their affair in "Double Jeopardy", and he tells her he is going to ask his wife for a divorce. After visiting Miles in jail, Monica is worried he is hiding something. In "A Family Affair", Constance asks Monica about the relevance of audio tapes in court. Miles confides in Monica that he cannot be sure whether he committed the murder or not,
but she believes him incapable of murder. She helps him try to regain his memories in "The Reckoning", and worries when he vanishes and appears to jump bail. Wayne tells Monica that he can see again. In "Anniversary Waltz", Neil reassures Monica that he will divorce his wife, and gives her a key to his apartment. Wayne leaves Titania Records and Los Angeles when he realizes what is going on between Monica and Neil. Monica catches Neil in bed with his wife in the season finale "Checkmate". Devastated, she flees by plane, only to crash in the mountains.
The Colbys season two[]
Monica has survived the plane crash in the season two premiere "The Gathering Storm". Dominique tells Monica of her intent to sell Titania Records in "No Exit". Dominique sells Titania Records and her hotel to Jason's enemy, Zach Powers, prompting Monica to quit in "Jason's Choice". When Jason throws Sable out of the mansion and she collapses, Monica and her siblings convince Jason to allow their mother to stay. In "The Matchmaker", Jason is angry with Monica that he had to hear about her plane crash from his insurance agent. Not ready to talk about Neil, Monica is pleasantly surprised when Jason asks her to come back as General Counsel of Colby Enterprises. Finally feeling appreciated, she accepts. In "Something Old, Something New", Monica opens up to Jason about Neil, and explains that she was unhappily involved with another married man in the past. Jason is compelled to work with Senator Cash Cassidy, the son of an old business rival, as Jason's government liaison for a proposed space satellite project. Monica is thrown when Cash comes to Sable's party, as Cash is the married man with whom Monica had an affair in college. Though he had previously ended their relationship to preserve his political career,
Cash wants to reconnect in "The Gala". Monica rebuffs him, insisting it is over between them. She tells her father she does not want to work with Cash, but Jason forces the issue. Monica waffles when Cash asks her why she left him eight years ago. As Jason warns Cash away from Monica, she goes to Arthur, fearful that Cash will discover that she had his child. In "Bloodlines", Jason wants Cash off the project, but Monica does not want him removed because of her. Cash is grateful for her support, but Cash's wife Adrienne warns Monica that she will fight hard to keep her husband. Monica insists that her relationship with Cash is long dead. Cash confesses that he still loves Monica in "Deceptions", but she rejects him. He is persistent, and insists that his marriage has fallen apart. With Monica's resistance losing strength, Miles advises her to protect her own interests.
In "And Baby Makes Four", Monica meets and befriends Scott, Cash's young son with his wife Adrienne, not realizing that he is the child Monica conceived with Cash and put up for adoption. Adrienne forbids Cash from ever telling Monica the truth, reminding him that she only agreed to adopt her rival's baby because Constance threatened to have Cash removed from the Senate. When Cash spends time with Scott and Monica in "Bid for Freedom", Adrienne goes to Jason to remove Cash from the project, but Jason refuses to interfere in personal matters. Cash almost tells Monica the truth. Zach confronts Cash in "Reaching Out", threatening to reveal Scott's true parentage to Monica unless Cash spies for him. Cash refuses, deciding to tell Monica himself. Before he is able to, Adrienne confronts Monica and inadvertently says something that makes Monica suspicious. When Arthur is unable to tell her what happened to her son, Monica calls Constance, who confirms that Scott is indeed her child. When Cash arrives to confess, Monica scorns him for not telling her sooner and sends him away. While Monica's discovery gives her nightmares in "Sanctuary", Zach tells Sable that Monica is Scott's mother. Sable advises Monica not to tell Jason yet. In "Power Plays", Sable goes behind Monica's back and tries to convince Adrienne to give up Scott as a means to give Jason his first grandchild. Adrienne refuses and lashes out at Monica, who warns an indignant Sable to stay out of her private life.
Cash tells Monica he wants her to make a family with him and Scott. In the "The Legacy", Cash and Adrienne's marriage is collapsing, and an intoxicated Adrienne tells Scott it is Monica's fault. Monica is thrown when an angry Scott appears at her office and returns the magazines she gave him. Sable suggests that Monica tell Jason the truth about Scott in "The Home Wrecker", but Monica recognizes her mother's self-serving motives and forbids Sable from telling Jason. Cash decides to leave Adrienne and marry Monica. She declines for Scott's sake, but Scott runs away from home. Adrienne goes to the Colby mansion and tells Jason and Frankie that Monica's son Scott is missing. In "The Manhunt", Monica and Cash arrive at the Colby mansion and learn that Scott is missing and Jason knows about him. Monica guesses correctly that Scott is at the observatory, but when they find him he says he hates Monica. Adrienne promises Cash that he will lose Scott if he leaves her. Sable tries to convince Cash and Monica that Scott will be better off away from Adrienne, who has had addiction issues and made suicide attempts.
Cash takes a bullet meant for Jason. Cash is in critical condition in "All Fall Down", and while he is in surgery Scott tells Monica that he did not mean it when he said he hated her. A recovering Cash asks for Monica, who is relieved he survived. She and Sable finally discuss Monica's pregnancy and Scott's birth in "Guilty Party". In "Fallon's Baby", Adrienne tells Cash that she is taking Scott back to Washington, but Cash and Monica again refuse Sable's interference. Scott blames himself for the failure of Cash and Adrienne's marriage. Cash tries to disabuse him of this notion, but ultimately tells Monica they cannot be together because he does not want to hurt Scott. In "Answered Prayers", Monica and Miles are worried that Sable plans to marry Zach. Monica is happy for Jason and Frankie that they are getting married, but sad about her hopeless situation with Cash. In "Return Engagement", Monica inadvertently stops Sable from marrying Zach with the news that presumed-dead Philip Colby, Frankie's ex-husband and Jeff's father, has returned. Zach, spurned again by Sable, suggests to Adrienne that they help each other with their problems. Monica confronts Adrienne about her connection to Zach in "Devil's Advocate", Scott overhears, and learns that Monica is his mother. Monica hears Philip speaking Chinese to someone on the phone to whom he owes $2 million. Understanding everything, Monica informs Jason.
In "Betrayals", Monica feels terrible about how Scott found out he is her son. Cash tells her that Zach tried to blackmail him about Scott, and Monica informs Sable, who is furious. Scott declares his loyalty to Adrienne, who tells Sable she is leaving town with Scott to get him away from the Colbys. Adrienne tells Cash he can have a divorce but not Scott, assuring him that a messy trial would hurt the satellite project as well as his and Monica's reputations. Monica realizes that the only way to give Scott a stable home is to end her relationship with Cash. Lucas Carter, the publisher uncle of Miles's wife Channing, offers to keep Cash and Monica's affair out of his newspaper in exchange for Jason dropping his lawsuit against Lucas in "The Dead End". In the series finale "Crossroads", Cash is leaving for Washington with Scott and Adrienne. Scott tells a heartbroken Monica that he is glad she is his mother, as a pained Sable watches. Sable suggests that Monica sue the Cassidys but Monica rejects the idea, only wanting Scott to be happy. Sable picks up Scott from school without the Cassidys' consent and persuades him to come with her.
Dynasty season nine[]
Monica visits her mother Sable, who has relocated to Denver, in "The Son Also Rises". Sable convinces Monica to stay and help her with her campaign to destroy her cousin Alexis, Fallon's mother. In "Grimes and Punishment", Monica tries to persuade Jeff to take Sable's side in the impending war between Alexis and Sable. In "Here Comes the Son", Blake's son Adam Carrington retouches a photograph of half-siblings Jeff and Monica to appear as if their relationship may be incestuous. In "Blasts from the Past", Jeff attacks Adam after discovering he was responsible for the photo, prompting Alexis to reveal in front of Sable and Monica that Jason is not Miles or Monica's father. Sable confides in Blake that twins Miles and Monica were the products of rape.
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