For Love of Money

Dallas

Season 1 Episode 20

Air Date:  January 14, 1979 (1979-01-14)

Recap:  Sue Ellen gets a phone call from her mother, who has moved back to Dallas.  Her mother wants Sue Ellen to find someone for her sister Kristen. 

   At The Store, Cliff is getting fitted for a suit with Pam. 

   Sue Ellen is in Fort Worth with friends for lunch, she tells them that JR is in Austin on business.

   Cliff is having a meeting with the men that tell him that they can get him into congress, but they want his help with a development, they show him the model.  Cliff decides that he’s not that dirty to get involved with them.  One of the men says that he’ll be back.

   As the ladies leave the restaurant, they see JR, they know it’s him, but say that since Sue Ellen said he was in Austin then it must be someone who looks just like him.  Sue Ellen is very quiet,

   At home she asks him how his trip was, he said it was the same as usual, she tells him that she saw him, and that he’s embarrassed her for the last time.  She says that he’s going to change or she’ll leave.  He tells her that he’s used to his ways and she’s grown used to the money so he says that things aren’t going to change.

   Sue Ellen goes to Cliff, he lets her in, even though he tells her he doesn’t like the situation.  She is playing JR and Cliff, telling them both that they could both be the father of her baby.  She tells him that she needs him.

   The next morning Jock and Ellie ask JR about Sue Ellen, he tells them that she went to her mothers.  He goes over and talks to Sue Ellen’s mother and sister.

   Sue Ellen has two bags back, Bobby asks her why she is leaving, she asks why he cares all of a sudden.  She tells him to ask JR about the baby, and he helps her to her car.  When JR gets home he asks Bobby where Sue Ellen is, Bobby tells him that she left with two suitcases, and says that she told him to ask JR about the baby.  JR tells Bobby that if he wants his help he’ll ask for it.

   JR calls his detective, he wants them to follow Sue Ellen and tell him where she goes and who is sees.

   Sue Ellen goes to her mothers, and tells her that she’s left JR, Sue Ellen’s mother and don’t seem concerned that JR has been seeing other men.  Sue Ellen calls Cliff and tells him she needs to see him.

   Jock asks JR wants going on with him and Sue Ellen, he tells him that Miss Ellie is worried, and that they both want their grandchild living at Southfork.  JR tells him that he’ll bring Sue Ellen back.

   Sue Ellen tells Cliff that she’s left JR.  She asks him if he wants her and the baby, he tells her that he does but he doesn’t want her using him to beat JR and that she needs to get used to not having all the Ewing money.

   JR’s detective comes with the report.  They tell him that Sue Ellen has been seeing Cliff for a long time.

   Pam goes to Cliff’s with his suit, she cleans things up while get gets dressed.  She smells perfume in the apartment, and finds Sue Ellen’s scarf.  She asks him about it.  He lies and says he’s trying to help her find the women who she was going to adopt from.  Pam knows that he’s been sleeping with Sue Ellen, and he tells her to get out.

   At Southfork Pam tells Bobby that she always thought that the Ewing’s were the bad ones, but now she’s seen that the Barnes’ are just as bad, she doesn’t tell him what she found out, but she tells him that she will later.

   JR goes to see Cliff, he tells him that he should have killed him when he had the chance.  He tells Cliff to call things off with Sue Ellen.  Cliff tells JR that it’s his baby that he and Sue Ellen will get married.  JR says that he’s going to have that baby, and that he knows what Cliff really wants, and if he doesn’t break it off, then JR will leak the affair, so Cliff will never get elected into office.

   JR goes to Sue Ellen’s mother’s house and tells Sue Ellen that he’s come to bring her back to Southfork, he tells her he’ll over look her affair.  She says that she won’t over look his.  He threatens her and the baby.

   She goes to Cliff, who even though he loves her that he wants to have a career and he would resent her if he gave it up.  He tells her that he’s sorry, she says he’ll never know who sorry.  JR tells her to get in the car and that her mother packed her things, and then he tells her that she shouldn’t stay up since he’ll be out late after dinner.

   Cliff calls the men from the beginning and tells them that he’ll help them if he gets the appointment and that he’ll do whatever they want if they can get him enough power.

Final Thoughts:  Things are not going well for Sue Ellen, just when she thinks she's going to live happily ever after, JR comes in and spoils it all for her, and her mother is a pain in the ass, and you can really see what she really care about, money.

Best Outfit:  Adding the scarf with the muumuu does not make this any better, it looks like a really bad painting on the bottom.

Fight Count:  0