Dallas
Season 1 Episode 17
Air Date: December 3, 1978
Recap: JR is with Willie Joe and Jeb, they are concerned about
their businesses and JR is trying to convince them to trust him.
Bobby is walking down the street when someone calls his
name, and throws a football to him,
Bobby is happy to see his old college friend, Guzzler. They go have lunch and talk about the old
days and what they are doing now. Bobby
invites Guzzler to come stay at Southfork.
JR tells Willie Joe and Jeb that they’ll hit oil, but they
aren’t so sure, they want to drill on the land on Southfork, JR reminds them
that they can’t do anything till Jock dies.
He offers to advance them the money in good faith, but they want an
independent evaluation, JR agrees but tells them that his mother can’t see what
is going on so they need to be careful.
Guzzler is entertaining the family with all his stories,
everyone is impressed with him, but JR who goes up to bed complaining that he
talks to much. Sue Ellen tells him
she’ll be up in a moment and goes to call Cliff, they arrange to meet on Sunday
when JR has a meeting. Jock and Miss
Ellie tell Guzzler that he is welcome to stay awhile.
Bobby gets the idea that he and Guzzler can work together in
his construction business. They go out
and celebrate.
Pam wakes up and finds Guzzler and Bobby come home very
drunk. Guzzler brings Bobby up to their
bedroom and puts him the bed, he tries to kiss her, and she tells him to get
out.
The next day he scares her at the pool, and wants to know
what’s wrong with her, he must not remember what he did the night before. She goes up to her room and Guzzler tells
Bobby that he’s in trouble.
JR takes them out to the property where they have a
geologist overseeing the evaluation, he tells them that there is a lot of oil
on the land, Jeb and Willie Joe tells JR that this makes them feel a lot
better.
Pam asks Bobby how long Guzzler is going to stay, he tells
her as long as he can convince him to stay and he tells her about his plan on
them going into business together. She
doesn’t think this is a good idea. Bobby
tells her she’s just jealous of Guzzler, she tells him to leave.
While Bobby and Guzzler are riding around, he comes up with
the perfect project for them to work on, he wants to build a shopping center,
on Southfork land.
Bobby goes to talk to Jock about it, and he agrees to look
at the property, but wants JR to come along with them.
Lucy and Guzzler are talking by the pool, she really is into
him for some reason, they decided that they are going to go out for a ride, but
when Pam comes out Guzzler suggests that they just go for a swim instead. He asks Pam why she dislikes him so much, she
tells him she doesn’t like how Bobby’s changed since he’s been at the house. He then tells her how much Bobby means to
him, and she apologizes telling him that she is now seeing a different side to
him.
Jock reminds the boys that they can’t drill on Southfork
land and it’s in his will too. He thinks
the shopping center is a good idea, but he says that they need to talk to Miss
Ellie.
Miss Ellie isn’t happy about the idea of using the land her daddy
loved so much, but when Jock says that it’s for Bobby she agrees.
Willie Joe and Jeb go to see JR because they’ve heard about
Bobby’s shopping center that will be built on the oil sight. Willie Joe says that if JR doesn’t stop him
then he will. JR punches him and tells
him never to threaten his brother, and for them to get out of his office.
Bobby and Guzzler are very busy with the new project,
everyone wants in on the project and it’s getting bigger and bigger.
JR calls his private investigator who tells him he can dig
for more information, but JR says that what he’s given him is enough.
Pam and JR meet up for lunch she wants to know what he
wants. He shows her what he dug up on
Guzzler and tells her that they both want him out of Bobby’s life (though for
different reasons) Guzzler’s broke and
has been scamming people all over the country.
She asks why didn’t tell Bobby himself, he says that Bobby’s got a blind
spot, and he wants her to do it.
Bobby is getting to be a bit overwhelmed by how big the
project has grown, Guzzler tells him that he’s a great salesmen and it’s going
to be great. Miss Ellie comes in and
looks at the plans, she says it’s so much bigger than she thought. Bobby can see she’s upset and follows her
outside. She asks why things have to
change, he asks why she agreed to it.
She tells him that she loves the land, but that she loves her sons more.
The next morning Pam gets up without waking Bobby and goes
to Guzzler’s room, he thinks she’s coming in for something more than just
talking. She asks him about the scams
he’s been running. She calls him a user,
and a liar. He asks if she hired a
detective, and he tells her she won. No
she says Bobby loses. He tells her that
Bobby was the only one he could go to, and that he just wants to be the guy he
was in college again. He wants to know
if she’s going to tell Bobby, she says she doesn’t know and leaves the room.
When she gets back to the bedroom, Bobby is awake. She tells him that she found something out
about Guzzler, Bobby tells her he already knows, and he was trying to help
him. She tells him that she thinks she
might have hurt him, he tells Pam that she thinks he’s going to hurt Guzzler
now.
Bobby finds Guzzler outside, Bobby tells him he wants to
talk, he thinks the shopping center is getting too big. Guzzler tells him that he was going to back
out anyway, he got a call about problems in South America that he needs to take
care of. Bobby tries to stop him telling
him they can look for a different property, but Guzzler tell him he’s got to
go, that he’s needed somewhere else.
Bobby tells him when he comes back the offer still stands. They say goodbye, and Pam joins Bobby as they
watch his cab drive away.
Final Thoughts: After Guzzler made that pass at Pam I thought that would be the problem of the show, I figured he wasn't really drunk and had his eye on her from the moment they met. Pretty good episode, the guy who played Guzzler looked a lot older than Bobby, but maybe it was all the hard living.
Best Outfit: I couldn't get over the pants.
Fight Count: 1 (JR vs Willie Joe)
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