The Kristin Affair

Dallas 

Season 2 Episode 5

Air Date:  October 19, 1979

Recap:  JR watches Kristin while she is swimming, he tells her when she gets out of the pool that everyone will miss her when she goes back to Santa Fe.  Sue Ellen comes outside, he suggests that they go upstairs and have sex since he’s doesn’t need to go to work yet, she makes it clear that she isn’t interested.

   JR goes to the office and sees Jordon Lee, he complains about the O.L.M., and tells JR that the members of the cartel are thinking of forming their own cartel without the Ewing’s so that the O.L.M will leave them alone.  JR calls Bobby in and tells him that he needs to put more pressure onto the senators in Austin.  JR opens a locked drawer and pulls out a briefcase, he looks inside and leaves the office.  He meets up with Alan, he asks about the interest he is drumming up for Cliff Barnes running for congress.  He opens the briefcase, it’s full of money, he tells Alan to uses cash only and not to do any fundraising, so that when they decide to pull out Cliff won’t have any money left to run. 

   Sue Ellen’s mother is over for dinner, she she going to Europe.  Kristin says that she doesn’t want to leave Dallas, JR offers to give her a job temporarily at Ewing Oil, they arrange for her to move into the condo they have for clients. 

   Kristin goes home with her mother, and they talk about what her mother expects of her while she is gone.  Kristin tells her not to worry about JR she’ll take care of him.

   JR is going through some slides with the cartel, he wants to start drilling in Southeast Asia, they tell JR that they are doing just fine, and don’t need to get on the deal.

   Miss Ellie asks Bobby if he’s going to be home for dinner, he tells her that he will be home late, since he is going to Austin again.  He answers the phone, it’s the doctors office calling for Pam, he tells them she is at The Store, he tells Miss Ellis and asks her if she thinks that Pam might be pregnant, she tells him that the news needs to come from Pam.

   JR asks how much Ewing Oil would have to bid to win the Southeast Asia leases, he goes to Vaughn Leland to get a loan.  Vaughn tells him that he won’t be able to give him the loan for that much money, JR reminds him how much he owes the Ewing’s, Vaughn tells him he’ll see what he can do.

   Pam and Cliff are walking together in Dallas, she tells him she is thinking of having an abortion, he tells her that she needs to tell Bobby, and he can’t help her, it’s something that she and Bobby need to decide together. 

   Kristin tells JR how much she loves Southfork, Sue Ellen walks in on them and Kristin leaves quickly.

   When Bobby gets home Pam comes over to the car, he tells her that the doctor called, he asks if it’s good news, and she says yes, he asks her if she is pregnant, she tells him she is.  He wants to celebrate and doesn’t pay any attention to her when she tells him she wants to talk.

   The next morning, he rushes her to go downstairs and tell the family, she is still trying to talk to him, but he is too excited to listen.  Downstairs the family is having breakfast outside, Bobby tells everyone that Pam is pregnant,.  Sue Ellen tells JR that his parents finally got what they want, a real Ewing heir.  Bobby asks Pam what she wanted to talk about, she tells him it wasn’t important.  They both drive off.  Kristin asks Sue Ellen if she care about anything anymore.  She tells her that she didn’t see what she thought she saw between her and JR, Sue Ellen asks Kristin why she cares what she thinks because she will do whatever she wants anyway.

   JR tells Bobby that he wants him to go to Austin again, but Bobby tells him that he doesn’t want to go there everyday.  JR takes Kristin to the condo, she thinks it’s great, he takes her around the condo.  She opens the closet in the bedroom and finds it full of clothes.  She tells him that she’s not looking for a one night stand, she asks him for sometime to think, he tells her that he’s not a patient man, but agrees to wait till she decides.

   Vaughn tells JR that they will loan Ewing Oil 100 million dollars, but he will have to put Southfork down as security.  JR doesn’t want to do it, but Vaughn tells him that this time his hands are tied and there is no to her way. 

   Alan brings over a poster for Barnes and goes over the list of people he’s talked to to support Cliff. 

   Pam and Digger go to lunch, she tells him that she’s pregnant, he tells her that’s great, she tells him that she is thinking about having an abortion, he tells her that she needs to think positively.  He tells her not to tell Bobby about the disease.

   JR going over the paperwork with Vaughn, when Kristen tells him that a Mr. Hansen, JR tells Vaughn that Ewing Oil won the Southeast Asia leases.  Kristin goes into JR’s office and goes through his desk, she picks the lock of the locked drawer and looks inside a briefcase.  JR calls Sue Ellen and tells her that he will be home late, since the meeting is taking longer than he thought,.  JR signs the last of the papers, and Vaughn tells him that if anything goes wrong with the Southeast Asian drilling, and Ewing Oil can’t keep up with the payments, then the bank will take Southfork.

   JR goes to Kristin’s condo and she tells him that she is very interested in the oil business because of all the secrets, she tells him that she doesn’t understand all it, but that Bobby and Jock will.  She promises him that she won’t tell anyone, just as long as he keeps coming back to her. 

Final Thoughts:  I find this really gross, and that their mother was encouraging her, I don't know if she knew what Kristin was planning or what, but yuck.  JR is just going to get himself into more trouble with this Southeast Asia thing, and I'm sure that it will be a sticky situation, but he will somehow get out of.  I am liking the storyline with Alan and JR and their plans to get Cliff out of the O.L.M, but I wish that it would pick up.
Best Outfit:  To me this looks like something you would wear to a barbeque not to the office.