8.7/1017 votes#1 - Return Engagement
Season 12 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1990
While in jail, Danny has found ""the Lord."" Upon release he moves in with a woman named Mia who is also religious. Danny keeps going to Val's on the pretext of getting his belongings. He tells Val he won't give her a divorce, as God doesn't sanction it. Greg's poisoning is affecting his liver, and the news hits the paper. His sister, Claudia Whittaker shows up, and Greg says ""I see the vultures are circling!"". Claudia's daughter Kate looks just like Mary Francis. Jeff gives Karen and Mac cell phones for protection and then experiments making a phone bomb. Karen goes to Jeff's, but he sneaks out, and then Meg calls Jeff's number thinking Karen's there. Jeff's apartment building blows up.
Director: Lorraine Senna
Writer: Bernard Lechowick
8.6/1014 votes#2 - Blind Side
Season 12 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1990
Jeff is presumed dead. Ann's livid that Paige's trust fund didn't go to her account, and she returns Paige's wedding gifts for money. Greg asks Paige to go away on a cruise for him. Claudia asks Greg's doctor if a six-month cruise is safe for him and the doctor says he doubts Greg will live that long. Tom comes back and confronts Greg with a gun to have his charges dropped, and tells Paige that Greg set him up. Paige is still mad. She goes to meet Greg for the cruise and asks if he's really dying, because she won't believe her good fortune until he is dead and buried. Kate gets a scholarship she was hoping for, but Claudia lies and says she didn't get it. Danny lets out all the horses at Gary's ranch. When Gary comes to the stable, Danny closes the door behind him and takes out a bat.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lynn Marie Latham
8.7/1014 votes#3 - God Will
Season 12 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1990
Claudia has Anne checked out and finds out she's broke. Anne decides to seduce Greg, but he never comes home. Tom stops by Greg's and sees Anne's clothes strewn about, and he assumes that they are Paige's clothes. Danny beats Gary up with a bat. Then he ties Gary up and forces him to drink alcohol. When Gary's nearly passed out, he puts him in a running car that goes off a cliff. Meanwhile, Danny's girlfriend, Kim, goes to see Val, and she kicks Danny out. Val waits up all night for Gary. She calls the police, knowing that Danny has done something to him. Val, Mac and the police find Gary's empty car. Danny is floating in a pool. Dead.
Director: Jerome Courtland
Writer: Bernard Lechowick
8.2/1017 votes#4 - Dead But Not Buried
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1990
Karen is overjoyed to find that Jeff is alive, until he locks her in the station and tries to kill her. He says Wayne was killed in his apartment, and he sent her all the letters. Dianne is there and calls the police. Jeff lies to the police, but Dianne taped the whole thing. Gary calls a frantic Val, and says the airbag saved him, but he kept passing out from the booze. He later talks to Karen, and Karen gives her famous ""Pollyanna"" speech. Paige makes up with Tom and moves in with him. Anne receives compromising photos of herself and a note demanding a million dollars. Danny is found dead and police say his fingers were broken, so they'll have to investigate. The coroner tells Val she's responsible for Danny's body and she's being charged rent until she has his body moved.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/1016 votes#5 - What If?
Season 12 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1990
The police soon realize that everyone had a motive for killing Danny, but Frank is the only one without an alibi. Karen is depressed over her attack and is afraid to leave the house. Val and Gary ask Mac and Karen to be in their wedding. Paige doesn't go to work and tries to get a new job, but isn't offered any. Linda uses Paige's absence to try to ingratiate herself to Greg. Linda's upset when she hears Greg call Paige and offer her a big promotion and raise. Kate and Greg have a nice talk, and she tells him he and Claudia are exactly alike. Anne calls her ex-lover, Marco Conti, who is rich and married, and tells him they're being blackmailed. It's actually Anne who's doing the blackmailing. Marco says he'll take care of it, and sends Nick Schillace to Knots Landing.
Director: Jerome Courtland
Writer: N/A
8.8/1013 votes#6 - You Can Call Me Nick
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1990
Nick suspects Anne of the blackmailing, and says that he is going to stay with her and go wherever she goes. Anne's upset that Marco only sent $20,000 for the blackmailer. Paige is angry that everyone at the office thinks she got the promotion for sleeping with Greg. She asks Greg why he treats her like dirt. He asks Paige to marry him, but she walks out. Greg is really starting to get sick. Karen goes back to work. Diane says Karen is an egomaniac, and that she got a new job and can't wait to leave. Police find a button by the pool where Danny was killed. Ginny decides to leave. Gary tells Val that his dreams have all come true and that he can't wait to marry her. They go on a family picnic, and the twins run to Gary yelling that something has happened to Val.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lynn Marie Latham
8.4/1015 votes#7 - Do not Attempt to Remove
Season 12 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1990
Greg gets really sick and Carlos tries to call Paige. Tom and Paige fight about her working for Greg, and she leaves. Nick makes her sleep on the sofa. Tom goes to see her at the office and tells her she's a brat and a bitch. He sees Greg and punches him. Julie has skipped school since the day Danny died, and the police think she saw something. Anne tells Nick the blackmailers called. They're to drop the money at a department store. Anne drops alarm tags into a lot of shopping bags, so all the alarms go off. Anne grabs the money and runs. Nick apologizes to Anne for suspecting her and is worried about what Marcos will do to him for losing the money. Val fell on her head, but insists she is okay. She starts acting strangely, but Gary thinks it is pre-wedding jitters.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bernard Lechowick
8.6/1013 votes#8 - The Best Laid Plans
Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1990
Paige tells Mac she never loved Tom the way she loves Greg. Anne and Nick sleep together. She tells Nick that the blackmailers have called for the rest of the money and she's to meet them alone. Nick switches the briefcase with money to one with a bomb in it. Michael gives Linda an engagement ring. Julie tells the police that Danny showed up drunk when she was swimming. He slapped her and said he was going to have her arrested for trying to shoot him. Julie said she ran to the house with Danny following, and his fingers were broken as she tried to shut the sliding glass door. In pain, he staggered around and fell into the pool and drowned. The police rule Danny's death an accident. Val freaks out when Gary sees her trying on her wedding dress, and accuses him of lying to her when she shows up for the rehearsal dinner on the wrong night. She calls off the wedding.
Director: Michele Lee
Writer: James Stanley
8.6/1014 votes#9 - Side by Side
Season 12 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1990
Gary tells Karen he's backing off from Val, the ""queen of her own drama"". Greg collapses and Paige waits with him at the hospital. Claudia tells the doctor that Greg only wants family to visit, and lies to Greg that Paige and Carlos aren't there. Claudia's mad when she finds out that Greg is leaving the ranch to Carlos and everything else to Meg. Julie's friend Jason mouths off to Frank. Nick finds the $20,000 Anne stole, and admits there is a bomb in the briefcase he gave her. Anne has hidden it at Paige's office, but Linda has taken it. Linda seduces Harvey to get him some of Paige's reports, and then accuses him of leading her on. Finding out the briefcase is Anne's, she puts it back, and tells Paige. Anne has called a bomb threat into Sumner group. Paige takes the briefcase home. Anne and Nick decide to split the million, but don't know which briefcase has the money and which has the bomb.
Director: Lorraine Senna
Writer: Bernard Lechowick
8.3/1015 votes#10 - The Lady or the Tiger
Season 12 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1990
Jason's father beats him. Anne and Nick take the suitcases to a luggage store and call in a bomb threat. Tom, one of the investigators, notices the suitcase is Anne's. He takes it, and with the money buys a one way ticket to Brussels. Anne and Nick go to Tom's apartment, but discover he's gone. Linda sucks up to Alex, who works for Calloway. Alex tells Calloway that Sumner Group is ripe for a takeover. Val tells Karen that Gary is messy and smells like a barn. The help tells Gary that Val left and said she'll be back when ""hell freezes over"". Kate tells the hospital that Paige is her cousin so she can see Greg. Greg is very happy to see her. Claudia finds out that a liver is going to another patient. Since she's not yet in Greg's will, Claudia tells them if Greg lives, he will donate money for a new wing, so they decide to give the liver to Greg.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lynn Marie Latham
8.2/1013 votes#11 - Asked to Rise
Season 12 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1990
Because Julie skipped, Frank goes to school with her and sits in on her classes. She's mortified but they make up. Jason tells Mac his father died and he lives in a foster home. Mac talks to the school who says it isn't true. Mac goes to his house and hears his father beating him. Claudia tries to keep Paige from seeing Greg, and meanwhile makes a new will for Greg with her as executor. Greg has his operation and asks Paige to marry him. She accepts. Nick and Anne get married, using Paige's name. Alex asks Linda for confidential figures, so she has him sign a contract that he'll hire her if she's fired. Gary and Karen are concerned about Val's behavior. A doctor tells them she could be having brain seizures due to her fall. Val gets her haircut, leaving the twins home alone. They climb up onto the roof to play.
Director: Kevin Dobson
Writer: Bernard Lechowick
8.8/1017 votes#12 - A Merry Little Christmas
Season 12 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1990
Gary rescues the twins. Claudia finds out that Anne married Nick for Paige's money, and uses this to blackmail them into signing Greg's fake will. Anne's finds out there is no money left in Paige's trust. Nick has to go to Rome but tells Anne he'll be back. Linda tells Greg that Paige's Calloway report was inaccurate, so she made another one. Greg calls a meeting at his hospital room and berates Paige. Furious, she walks out. Alex tells Linda that Greg has cut his company off and is firing their management. Michael wants to get married on New Year's eve, but Linda wants to wait. Carlos brings Paige her Christmas gift from Greg - a diamond bracelet. Mac calls the police about Jason, and he is taken away. Mac later finds Jason standing in front of his house, and Mac tells Jason he doesn't have to go in.
Director: N/A
Writer: James Stanley
8.0/1013 votes#13 - The Unknown
Season 12 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1991
Paige dreams she meets herself as an older woman, and is miserable because she married Greg. Greg moves his sickbed to the office. He tells Paige he had a vasectomy and wants her to sign a pre-nuptial agreement, so she calls off the wedding. Mac discovers Jason was sent home because he refused to testify against his dad. Mac and Frank go to a poetry reading at Julie's school. Jason is there, and he's sad his father didn't show up, but he's glad to see Mac. Later Jason shows up at the MacKenzie's. Anne decides to set her sites on Gary. Val goes to see the doctor, but thinks Gary paid him to say she has temporary brain damage in a plot to get the twins. Val replaces her pills with aspirin. She moves to the ranch since Gary won't let her take the twins. She gets in bed with Gary and starts to kiss him. He doesn't think it's a good idea and she goes off on him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.1/1013 votes#14 - Simmer
Season 12 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1991
Mac lets Jason spend the night, but says that's not a solution. Dick Lochner tells Mac that Jason's lying, and Mac goes off on him. The next night Jason sleeps in the park. Julie's teacher Charlotte calls Frank to go to an art exhibit. Not sure if it's a date, he brings Peggy. Then Charlotte asks him out for a real date. Linda is really snide to Paige. In a meeting, Linda gives a suggestion that Greg really likes. Paige is fed up with her and complains about Linda to Greg. Karen offers to ""babysit"" Val. Gary goes to the gym, and is happy to ""run into"" Anne. Karen pays for a pizza with Val's money, and finds her pills at the bottom of her purse. Karen shows them to Gary.
Director: John Pleshette
Writer: Bernard Lechowick
8.4/1017 votes#15 - A Sense of Urgency
Season 12 Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/1991
Jason asks Julie for money so he can leave town, while Kate's photographer date has a secret agenda.
Director: Lorraine Senna
Writer: James Stanley
7.0/1014 votes#16 - Always on Your Side
Season 12 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1991
After the court sends Jason back to his abusive father, Mack helps him escape and faces kidnapping charges.
Director: Jerome Courtland
Writer: Lynn Marie Latham
8.4/1013 votes#17 - In the Dog House
Season 12 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1991
A judge gives Mack one day to return Jason to his father, and the publicity puts Karen in a quandary.
Director: N/A
Writer: James Stanley
8.4/1014 votes#18 - Call Me Dimitri
Season 12 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1991
Anne becomes entangled with Nick again, but their hotel room tryst turns into a murder mystery.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lynn Marie Latham
8.0/1013 votes#19 - Bad Dog
Season 12 Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/1991
Mack learns Jason was badly beaten by his father and remains unconscious in the hospital.
Director: N/A
Writer: James Stanley
8.2/1013 votes#20 - Gone Microfiching
Season 12 Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/1991
Nick and Anne retrieve their treasure from the puppy. Frank's romance with Julie's teacher continues.
Director: Kevin Dobson
Writer: N/A
8.1/1013 votes#21 - Upwardly Mobile
Season 12 Episode 21 - Aired 3/28/1991
An attraction develops between Paige and her new assistant, Steve. Paige walks in on Greg and Linda.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lynn Marie Latham
7.9/1016 votes#22 - An American Hero
Season 12 Episode 22 - Aired 4/4/1991
Greg offers Claudia a job to keep her in town. Steve learns Sumner was at fault for his family's ruin.
Director: N/A
Writer: James Stanley
8.5/1016 votes#23 - Where There's a Will, There's a Way
Season 12 Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/1991
Anne discovers the father of Claudia's son was Paul Galveston, Sumner's father, which makes Steve an heir.
Director: Michele Lee
Writer: James Stanley
8.5/1018 votes#24 - The Last One Out
Season 12 Episode 24 - Aired 4/25/1991
A fire at the Sumner Group office traps Val and Gary's wedding party inside the building.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bernard Lechowick
8.2/1014 votes#25 - A Horse is a Horse
Season 12 Episode 25 - Aired 5/2/1991
Kate accepts Gary's offer to work in his stable, much to Claudia's irritation. Frank passes the bar.
Director: Anita W. Addison
Writer: Scott Hamner
The Best Episodes of Knots Landing Season 12
Every episode of Knots Landing Season 12 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Knots Landing Season 12!
The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.
Genres:DramaSoap
Network:CBS
Season 12 Ratings Summary
"Return Engagement" is the best rated episode of "Knots Landing" season 12. It scored 8.7/10 based on 17 votes. Directed by Lorraine Senna and written by Bernard Lechowick, it aired on 9/13/1990. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Blind Side".