Whatever Happened to Baby John? Part 2

Dallas 

Season 2 Episode 2

Air Date:  September 28, 1979

Recap:  Outside the hospitals the reporters are questioning doctors.  Sue Ellen is being questioned, she thinks that it’s her fault.  JR stops her from going any further with it, the detective tell s him that he needs to question her, but JR tells him about Sue Ellen’s car accident and that the baby was born premature, and that is why she is feeling guilty.  The detective tells JR that he wants to tap the phone.  Sue Ellen is getting upset so JR asks the doctor to give her something to calm her down. 

   A ranch hand drives up and tells Jock that Miss Ellie wants him to go back to the house, he goes off to find Bobby.  Another ranch hand goes to Lucy’s school and tells her to get home right away.

   Jock finds Miss Ellie in the nursery, he asks her what’s wrong, she tells him that the baby’s been kidnapped.  Lucy and Bobby get home at the same time and find them in the drawing room, they give them the news, Bobby goes into Dallas to find Pam.

   There are police and reporter all along the border of the ranch, JR helps Sue Ellen into the house, he tells his parents that the police are going to be tapping the phone and that they are calling in the FBI.  Miss Ellie wants to know why no one saw anything, the detective tells her that it’s always like that, which is why they keep on questioning everyone, because eventually someone will remember something.

   In Dallas Pam hears the news on the radio as she is walking back to The Store, she finds Bobby at the door, she tells him she just heard the news.  Bobby asks if she’s seen Cliff, she tells him that Cliff would never do something like this.  She asks him not to go looking for Cliff, he asks her when she’ll realize how much her brother hates his family.  After he leaves her she calls Cliff’s office and leaves a message for him to call her right away.

   At the ranch the baby’s nurse arrives, Miss Ellie takes her to her room.

   Pam goes to Cliff’s apartment and gets his landlord to let her into his apartment.  She begins to search for where he could be.

   Jock says he’s tired of sitting around.  Lucy goes out to the stables, JR tells his mother that it’s alright there are police all over the ranch.  The phone rings and it’s a friend of Sue Ellen’s, JR tells them he can’ stay at the house and is going into the office.  He goes up to their room and gets a gun, Sue Ellen is coming out of the sedative, he tells her to go back to sleep.  Ray comes over and asks if there is anything he can do.  The phone rings again and Jock answers it, it was a woman who said that she took the baby, but now feels bad about it and will give them the baby at the flag poles at City Hall.

   JR gets to the office, his secretary tells him that Miss Ellie called for him to come home, and that Jeb Ames called and has left three messages.  JR tells them to go home and takes the call.  Jeb tells him that they have his son, and he wants 1 million dollars.

   Ray and Jock meet up with the police and wait for the woman by the flag poles.

   Sue Ellen gets up and goes to the baby’s nursery, she begins to talk about how she won’t cry because she’s cried too much already and that no one will hurt her anymore not even the baby. 

   Miss Ellie tells JR about the phone call, he tells her that it’s just a hoax.  He calls Vaugh Leland and tells him he got the call and he needs a lot of cash.

   Bobby goes to Cliff’s office and goes through his papers trying to find out where he is, his secretary doesn’t know where he is and is very disturbed with Bobby going through Cliff’s paper.

   Pam is still at Cliff’s, when he gets home he tells her that he was in Austin and just heard the news, she asks him to tell her he didn’t have anything to do with it, he asks her how can she think that he would do something like that, she tells him to let her handle Bobby when he gets there.  When he gets there Bobby thinks that Pam knew that Pam knew where he was all along, Pam tells Bobby to listen to Cliff.  Cliff tells him that he wasn’t in town, and that they can fight tomorrow, but they need to find the baby.

   The police tell Jock that they should go that the call was just someone’s idea of a sick joke.  They call Miss Ellie, and she tells Lucy that JR was right about it being a hoax.

JR gets the money from Vaughn played by Dennis Patrick who was Jason McGuire in Dark Shadows, he doesn’t think it’s a good idea for JR to do this alone again like he did when Bobby was kidnapped.  JR tells him that he doesn’t have enough time.

   Bobby, Cliff and Pam go to the hospital and tell the nurse that they want to question patients and the doctors and nurses, she tells them that the police did this already.  A doctor comes over and they tell him what they want and he agrees to let them do it and allows them to look at records too I find this highly unlikely that the hospital would allow them to do this, but the Ewing’s can do whatever they want. 

   JR gets back to his office and Jeb calls he tells him that he’ll be right over, he tells JR that Willie Joe has the baby so he better not try anything.  When they hang up Jeb says it is sure lucky that someone kidnapped that baby what I totally didn’t see this coming I was sure that it was them.  Pam goes to look at the baby’s and suddenly remembers seeing a woman there a lot, she tells Bobby and Cliff about her.  I recognized this lady as the woman who played Scully’s mom on The X-Files.  The go to her house and Pam asks her if she saw or remembers anything.  The lady tells her that she can’t remember, Pam gives her, her card and asks her to call if she remembers anything.  Pam hears a baby, she asks what that was and the lady tells her that it was her baby she just brought him home today.  While she is checking on the baby Pam calls Bobby and Cliff.  She tells them that she has a baby, Bobby reminds her that the nurse told them that her baby died.  Pam introduces her to Bobby and Cliff.  Cliff asks to hold the baby but she won't let him.  Bobby tells her that they saw the hospital records, and Pam tells her that it isn't her baby.  She begins to cry and swears that it is.

   Jeb gets to JR's office, he looks at the money, but JR won't give it to him until he gets his boy, the phone rings while Jeb is getting himself a drink.  Bobby tells him that they got the baby and that they will be home soon.  Jeb turns around thinking that he's got JR, but then JR pulls out his gun and tells him to get out of his office, Jeb tells JR that he owes them.

   Pam asks what's going to happen to the lady, Bobby tells her that whatever happens they will help her.

   Back at Southfork Pam and Bobby take the lady to the drawing room where the family is waiting.  She brings the baby to Sue Ellen and apologizes for taking the baby.  Sue Ellen thanks her, she hold the baby for like a minute before handing him off to the nurse. 

Final Thoughts:  I was sure that the kidnappers would have been Willie Joe and Jeb, but I liked the twist.  Pam needs to wake up, we get it you love your brother, but you know that he's got a big grudge against the Ewing's.  

Best Outfit:  The top is just huge, it would look a lot better if it was about 2 sizes smaller.

Guest Stars:   Sheila Larken and Dennis Patrick

Fight Count:  0