Dallas
Season 1 Episode 29
Air Date: April 6, 1979
Recap: JR goes to the clinic and
talks with the doctor, he asks him how Sue Ellen is doing, and when she can
come home. The doctor tells him that
she’s not ready to leave yet, and that she’s resentful for being there. JR insists on seeing her, because Jock and Miss
Ellie expect him to.
When he goes into her room,
Sue Ellen tells him to leave her alone, the doctor locks her back in and tells
JR that she will be okay.
Lucy and Miss Ellie get home
from shopping for things for prom, Jock seems really excited to see what Lucy
got and goes inside with her. Miss Ellie
asks if JR called, she is very worried about Sue Ellen, and she doesn’t
understand what happened to her to make her get so bad.
Cliff finally manages to
corner Pam on her way out of The Store, she tells him that she’s too busy to
see him, and that she doesn’t want to choose sides anymore. She tells him that he’s caused enough
problems and tells him that Sue Ellen has been committed to a sanitarium, and
she’s a drunk because of him. Pam tells
him that he’s got to give up everything if he wants to really help Sue Ellen.
Miss Ellie goes to visit Sue
Ellen. Sue Ellen tries to convince her
that she is fine, and she was just tired.
Miss Ellie asks if she started drinking so much because of troubles with
her marriage. Sue Ellen is still in
denial about her drinking problem, she asks about Lucy and says that she will
be home for her graduation, Miss Ellie know that she won’t be out by then, but
tells her that she just needs to get better.
Sue Ellen pushes the call
button for the nurse. When she comes
into the room, she tells her she’s only supposed to push the button one time,
she tells her that she wants her medication, the nurse tells her it isn’t time
yet, but tells her that there are other ways she can get what she wants, while
she is fingering Sue Ellen’s pearl necklace.
Sue Ellen doesn’t know what she’s talking about so the nurse spells it
out for her, she can get her booze if Sue Ellen pays her. This is
a great nurse, she’s probably killed patients in the past too just to get their
possessions. I’ve watched too many
episodes of Deadly Women on Investigation Discovery, because I’ve created a
whole back story to this nurse. I can
imagine that she once worked for an older couple taking care of the husband and
wife, and got them to change their will so everything goes to her and then she
kills them, and before the police can get her she changes her identity and
moves to Dallas and goes to work at this sanitarium.
Lucy is thrilled that she
passed all her classes well she barely
passed, her friend Annie and her boyfriend the drug dealer, want Lucy to go
celebrate with them, but she tells them that she doesn’t want to, he gets mad
at her telling her that next time she breaks up with a guy and has a mental breakdown
then it will cost her more. I have a feeling he probably was over
charging her anyway since she is a Ewing and he figures money doesn’t mean
anything to her. She tells him that
there won’t be a next time. Sue Ellen should have been given the Bobby
Ewing detox treatment, Lucy has gone straight in only a few days.
Sue Ellen is in her therapy
session, she is giving him all the answers she thinks he wants to hear, but he
wants to know how she really feels, for her to open up to him, so she can
understand what made her start drinking.
She gets really mad at this and tells him that she doesn’t have a
drinking problem. He tells her that they
will continue tomorrow.
Lucy asks Miss Ellie about
Sue Ellen while she is addressing envelopes for her graduation party. She says that Sue Ellen only cares about
money and the Ewing name. Jock asks Miss
Ellie if she thinks Lucy is right. Miss
Ellie says that Lucy is very observant.
JR gets home and Jock asks him what the doctor said about Sue Ellen, he
asks if there is there is anything else causing the troubles in their
marriage. JR says that it’s just between
him and Sue Ellen, and tries to change the subject, but Jock tells him that he
needs to be a better husband and father.
Sue Ellen asks JR to take her
home, he tells her that once she’s stopped drinking then she can come home and
she’s got to stop thinking about Cliff, he saws her the paper with a picture of
Cliff and a woman. She accuses him of
having this made, he tells her to get better or else she will have the baby
there too. After he leaves she calls for
the nurse, she takes off her pearls.
The next day the nurse comes
in and finds a bottle lying on the bed, she tells her that she told her to hid
them. Bobby is here to see Sue Ellen,
the nurse gives her another bottle, Sue Ellen complains that is smells and
tastes like mouthwash, the nurse explains that it’s the only way she can sneak
the booze in to the sanitarium. Bobby
brings Sue Ellen flowers, she asks him about the family. She tells him that she will be home soon,
and he says that she needs to get better for the baby, she gets mad at him
telling him that he’s just like JR, and that no one care about her, everyone
just cares about the baby, she runs off, and Bobby and the orderlies go after her. He takes her back to her room, he tells the
orderlies that she will be fine with him.
In her room she asks him to stay, the nurse doesn’t want to leave, I think she might be worried that Sue Ellen
might tell that she’s been giving her alcohol. She apologizes to him for her behavior, and
that she would be better at home. He
tells her that it takes time, and that she needs to give it a chance. She tells him that that’s all she got,
time. Then she really makes Bobby
uncomfortable she tells him about how she’s always alone in bed, because JR is
always with one of his sluts, coming home smelling of their perfume, and she
just pretends to be asleep. She said
that if she had only meet him first she would have married him, and she kisses
Bobby, she tells him that he’s so understanding, the way a man should be. She says that she loves JR, but he doesn’t
love her, and she just wanted to go out and hurt JR so she did and went out and
got pregnant she also brings up the
adoption that JR put a stop to. She
tells him that JR might be the father of the baby. Bobby asks who the father of her baby is and
she breaks down and tells him that it’s Cliff.
Bobby is sure blinking a lot, I
think he might be trying not to cry.
There is a knock at Cliff’s
door, he opens the door and Bobby punches him.
He tells him that he thought JR played dirty, but Cliff could teach JR a
thing or two. He says that Cliff took
advantage of Sue Ellen, and when Cliff tells him that he feel in love with her,
Bobby says that he only falls in love with himself when he looks in the
mirror. Bobby tells him that he doesn’t
want JR, Jock or Miss Ellie to find out.
Cliff tells him that JR already knows.
Bobby warns him that he better not talk to anyone about this.
The nurse tells Sue Ellen
that she’s a slob, and should keep her room clean, maybe if you didn’t give her alcohol then she wouldn’t be so messy,
Sue Ellen tells her to keep the door unlocked, but the nurse says that she
won’t do that for any amount. Sue Ellen
doesn’t like that so she picks up the carafe and hits her over the head with it
and grabs her purse and leaves the room.
Once outside she checks a row of cars and finds one that has the keys
left in (put pic of the cars and add how would she get out if it was the car in
the middle) She drives away and pulls
out a bottle and starts to drink again.
She doesn’t get very far, when she goes through a stop sign and runs
into a pole after trying to swerve to avoid another car.
At the hospital the doctor
asks her if she’s in any pain, she says yes.
The doctor tells her that she got to have a C-Section, they need to
deliver the baby or it will not survive.
JR asks her how Sue Ellen is, she tells him that she’s bleeding and that
she was drinking, they are going to deliver the baby and she will tell him
more when it’s over. Bobby and JR go to
Jock, Ellie and Pam and tell them that Sue Ellen is going to surgery. Jock is upset and wants answers from the
sanitarium, he wants to know how she got out.
In surgery, the doctor only
has two minutes to deliver the baby.
Pam asks Bobby what happened
when he went to see Sue Ellen, he finds out that she knew about Cliff and Sue
Ellen’s affair, she tells him she didn’t know how to tell him. He tells her that he went to see Cliff, and that
he felt like killing him for what he did to her.
The doctor says that Sue
Ellen’s blood isn’t clotting and orders for more fresh blood.
On the TV Cliff hears about
Sue Ellen’s condition, and he rushes over to the hospital.
The nurse calls for JR and
tells him that he’s got a son, they go to see him, he’s very tiny, the doctor
tells JR that Sue Ellen’s doing better, but they don’t know if the baby will
live or not. Pam goes with Jock and Miss
Ellie, she sees Cliff and tells them that she’s meet them in awhile. She wants to know what he’s doing here. He tells her that he wants to see his son,
she goes with him to the nursery, he begins to cry and tells her that that baby
will be raised a Barnes if he lives.
In Sue Ellen’s room, Bobby
tells JR that they have to go. JR says
that he doesn’t understand what happened to make things go wrong between them,
he says that she is still so beautiful, he says that she’s got to live and he
breaks down.
Cliffhanger: Will Sue Ellen live? Will the baby live? Who is the father of the baby?
Final Thoughts: Great cliffhanger, makes me glad that I don't have to wait for the next season like people had to when it was first on.
Best Outfit: The fabric of this dress is odd.
Fight Count: 1 (Bobby vs. Cliff) 
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