Dallas
Season 2 Episode 1
Air Date: September 21, 1979
Recap: At the hospital Sue Ellen is looking at the baby, while JR
is talking to the doctor, on his way over to Sue Ellen he borrows a lady’s
newspaper and reads that Willie Joe Garr and Jeb Ames have
been paroled. He tells Sue Ellen that
she gets to go home today and that the doctor told him that the baby can come
home in a few days. They walk out of the
hospital and don’t see Cliff, who is lurking in the hallway.
Bobby and Jock are rounding up the cattle, Bobby found a dead
one and they need to take care of the screw worm that is going around or they
could lose all the cattle. JR and Sue
Ellen drive by and he makes her wave to Bobby and Jock.
Pam and Cliff are having lunch, she is trying to tell him
that Sue Ellen still isn’t herself, and he needs to give her a chance to get
better. He thinks that he can help her,
Pam tells him that he can only help her start drinking again. Pam tells him he needs to stop blaming JR and
start taking some responsibility for himself.
Lucy is with her friends on the patio, she runs over to JR
and Sue Ellen when they get home, she tries to hug Sue Ellen, but she is very
distant. Lucy’s friends say that they
thought she was better. In their room JR
tells her that he’s glad that she’s home, and he promises to make it up to her.
At Ewing Oil, Willie Joe and Jeb are there to see JR, his
secretary tells them that he’s not in, they ask about the baby, she tells them
that the baby is still in the hospital.
Miss Ellie is worried about Sue Ellen, but JR tells her that
he’s trying hard, and she’ll be herself again soon. Jock and Bobby get home and tell JR about the
cattle. When Pam gets home she goes
after Sue Ellen and tells her that she’s glad that she’s home, Sue Ellen barely
acknowledges her. Pam tells Bobby that
it’s impossible t o talk to her, and she thinks that Sue Ellen hates them all.
Sue Ellen goes to the nursery it’s really creepy, she starts all the music boxes, Bobby goes in
and talks to her, he asks her how she is, she tells him that she’s fine, but
there is no emotion in her voice at all.
He tells her that everyone cares about her, not just the baby, she says
that she knows that, but you can tell that she’s just saying this to get rid of
him. He tells her that she can trust him
not to tell anyone what she told him about Cliff and the baby. She tells him she doesn’t know what he’s
talking about then drops the music box she’s holding and walks out of the room.
Bobby and Jock are checking on the cattle and Bobby has to
shoot one.
JR wants to take Sue Ellen to a little Greek restaurant that
they used to go to after they go see the baby, but Sue Ellen tells him that
she’s not going to the hospital, she tells him that she needs to rest. JR goes downstairs and Miss Ellie asks him if
when he’s going to see the baby, and offers to take him and Sue Ellen to lunch,
he tells her that Sue Ellen isn’t going to the hospital today. Pam tells Miss Ellie not to worry.
At the O.L.M office a co-worker is telling Cliff that he
needs to stop focusing on Ewing Oil, and that he can’t decline the environmental
report, this time. He tells him that
he’s heard things from Austin and if he’s not careful he’ll be out of a job,
and have a lot of questions to answer.
Cliff calls the hospital and pretends to be a friend of the family to
get information about the baby.
The secretaries at Ewing Oil are looking through a wedding
catalogue, when JR comes in, they tell him that Harv Smithfield is in his
office and that Willie Joe and Jeb have been calling for him. JR goes into his office and meets Alan Beam, the lawyer who
will help them with the O.L.M. Willie
Joe and Jeb call, but JR tells the secretary to tell them he’s in a meeting,
they say that they will make JR talk to them.
Lucy and Pam go to see the baby, the nurse allows Pam to
hold the baby since she tells them that Sue Ellen won’t be coming in today.
JR updates Jock about Alan Beam. Pam and Lucy get home, JR goes over to Sue
Ellen who is sitting by the pool, he tells her that he wants her to start
taking an interest in things. She asks
like what. He tells her the baby. He gives her a ring, but she tells him that
she can’t be bought anymore.
Miss Ellie and Sue Ellen are talking in the dining room the
next morning, she tells Sue Ellen not to brood on the past. She tells her that she and Jock are very
happy to have another grandchild, but they want her to be happy too. Lucy comes in and asks when they are going to
go see the baby, Sue Ellen gets up to go change, but fakes a dizzy spell and
says that she’s going to lie down. Lucy
says she doesn’t think Sue Ellen wants her baby, Miss Ellie tries to deny it,
but Lucy says that some mothers don’t want their babies like her parents didn’t
want her.
At the hospital they run into Pam, they tell her that the
baby will be able to come home tomorrow.
Alan tells
JR that the property they want to drill is perfect, and he’ll write up a brief
and if Cliff shuts them down again, then they can file an abuse of power
against him. JR’s secretary comes in and
tells him that Willie Joe and Jeb are here to see him, he tells her to tell
them that he’s in a meeting, but they burst in anyway. They tell him that they want to talk to him
in private. They tell JR it feels like
he’s been avoiding them, they tell him that they think he’s just as responsible
for Julie’s death as they are. They want
him to give them money since they can’t touch their own because they are being
sued by everyone. He tells them that
he’s not going to give them a cent, and tells them to get out of his office,
they tell him that he’ll be sorry.
When Bobby gets home he finds Sue Ellen home, he tells her
that he’s going to go see the baby, and tells her that she can’t keep avoiding
the things that are important. She asks
him what he wants from her. He just
wants to help her. She tells him that
the only way he can help her is for him to leave her alone.
Cliff is walking toward the hospital when Bobby gets there,
he tells him that he told him to stay away.
Cliff tells Bobby that he wants Sue Ellen and the baby. Bobby tells him that he’ll only cause Sue
Ellen more problems, Cliff tells Bobby that he will get Sue Ellen and the baby
anyway he can. He tells Cliff that he
and JR will get him if he tries anything.
Cliff goes back to his office and tells his co-worker that he’s
going to make the Ewing’s give him everything that is rightfully his.
Jock tells JR that he doesn’t want Willie Joe or Jeb to have
anything to do with Ewing Oil, JR tells him not to worry about that.
Pam asks Bobby if he’s mad at her, he tells her he’s sorry,
he’s just had a bad couple days. He
tells her that the Barnes/Ewing feud makes it hard to be honest with each
other. He tells her that he sent Cliff
away from the hospital, she tells him that Cliff wouldn’t do anything I remember her saying this before and she
learned that her brother is just as bad as JR I guess she’s forgotten all about
that. Bobby tells her that if Cliff
doesn’t stay away from Sue Ellen then he’ll tear him apart and he won’t be able
to work in Dallas. Bobby goes with Jock
to take care of the cattle.
JR gets home and wants Sue Ellen to go with him to pick up
the baby from the hospital, she tells him that she can’t go because she’s got a
headache, Miss Ellie tells him to be patient with her when he follows her into
the house. In their room he tells her to
get dressed and that he’s not fooled like everyone else it with her
excuses. He tells her that it’s time she
started acting like a wife and mother, he goes to the closet and pulls out a bunch of clothes and tells her to get dressed or he'll do it for her.
When they get to the hospital there is a crowd about the hospital, reporters come over and start asking them questions, a detective comes over and takes them into the hospital where he tells them that the baby has been kidnapped, the doctor and nurse apologize telling JR and Sue Ellen that this has never happened before. JR calls home and tells Miss Ellie that the baby had been kidnapped.
Final Thoughts: This was a great episode to start the next season, you've got two choices about who kidnapped the baby, but I think it's pretty obvious who did do it and his initials are not C.B. I doubt the change in JR's attitude will last that long. It's interesting to hear Lucy say that her parents don't want her since they are remarried and living in California, "waiting" till they think they are ready to have her live with them, she won't know that they are remarried till the end of this season of Dallas, but will in the next episode of Knots Landing, Lucy isn't a child anymore she just graduated I highly doubt that she would really want to live with her parents even if she knew that they were back together.
Best Outfit: There weren't any really awful outfits, but this one of Pam's was the closest, she's got a scarf tied around her waist, in a previous scene you can see it on the side, it must have shifted or it's been redone in this shot.
Fight Count: 2 (Bobby vs Cliff) (JR vs Sue Ellen)
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