Dallas
Season 3 Episode 21
Original Airdate: February 15, 1980
Recap: When JR
walks into Southfork all the lights are off, he knows everyone is home because
all the cars are there, suddenly the lights come on and they all call out Happy
Anniversary, its Sue Ellen and JR’s 9th wedding anniversary. Miss Ellie tells him that she hopes he got
Sue Ellen something special. Sue Ellen
tells him that she got him something too, and that he can give it to her later
(which is good because I think that JR forgot and she knows it). Jock toasts the “happy couple” and Lucy says
who would have thought it would last, to Kristin. Later JR goes over to Kristin and tells her
that she is being a pretty obvious and tells her to at least pretend like she
is having a good time, like him. She
asks what Sue Ellen is doing, and JR says that they will find out as Sue Ellen
joins them. Sue Ellen gives a toast to
her sister, she says that Kristin will be leaving to go to California, and that
she hopes that she can find a man of her own, one that makes her as happy as JR
has made her.
After
the party JR and Sue Ellen go to their room, he asks her why she threw the
party, and she tells him that she did it to show all their friends and family
how devoted she is to him. He lies down
on the bed and asks her when she is going to show him this devotion. She tells him that she will show him right
now, and takes the bottle of champagne from him and pours it over him. He gets up and asks her why she did
that. Sue Ellen tells JR that she needed
to cool him off, because she doesn’t want him confused about how she acts in
public towards him. She tells him that
they won’t be making love that night or any night till she leaves him with her
son. JR asks her who she is fooling with
her act; she says that she already fooled him so everyone else will be
easy. As she leaves he tells her that
she won’t take his son.
When JR
gets to his office the next day, he is hung over, Louella tells him that
Kristin called several times already and wants him to call her back. He tells her if she calls again to tell her
that he is in a meeting. Louella tells
him that Bobby wants to see him. In
Bobby’s office, Bobby tells JR that he wants to open up an old Ewing Oil field
that they closed over thirty years ago, he thinks that they could make a pretty
good profit with it, but JR doesn’t seem to care about it, he tells Bobby to do
it if he wants and leaves the office.
When he goes back to the reception area, Kristin has called again; he
shakes his head at Louella who tells Kristin that JR is in a meeting.
Later
that day JR is at Serena’s house, she tells him that she is surprised he hasn’t
offered to get her a new place, he tells her that he likes the way things are
and he pays her. When he leaves a car
follows him as he drives off.
The next
day Alan comes to see JR at the office, he tells JR that he needs his help, he
tells him that he was fired from the law firm and he knows that he had
something to do with it. Alan apologizes
for being greedy. JR denies knowing what
Alan is talking about when he brings up all the things that he did for
him. Alan tells JR that he knows enough
to cause him a lot of grief. JR tells
him that he can try, but he suggests that he just get out of town.
JR goes
to Kristin’s apartment later; the same car is following him. Kristin tells JR that she thought he was dead
since he never called her back she asks if he got any of her messages. He tells her that he came to see her and if
he wanted screaming and yelling he could go home for that. Kristin tells him that from what she saw at
the party the only thing JR is getting at home is Sue Ellen hanging all over
him. She asks him what Sue Ellen meant
about her going to California, she tells him that she isn’t leaving. JR says that he thought she wanted to
continue her education, Kristin says that she was learning enough when she was
working for him. JR tells her that since
she isn’t working at the office anymore, and if she doesn’t like waiting for
him to come over if he decides to then he can get her a ticket to California
anytime. She apologizes and tells him
that she just misses seeing him during the day.
He tells her he will come over again tomorrow. He goes to his car and this time notices that
a car is following him.
The next
morning JR makes a phone call from his car (on his car phone) to the police and
asks Detective McSween to come to the office to talk.
Miss
Ellie is talking to Matt Devlin, she is still trying to get him to stop
building on Mimosa Park, she asks him where people will go if they tear it down
to build the housing development.
JR tells
the McSween about the car that was following him. Detective McSween says that if he calls him later
and tells him where he will be then they will keep an eye on him. He tells JR that Cliff is now working for the
District Attorney’s office.
Kristin
answers the door thinking that it is JR, but it’s really Alan, he has come over
to try to get her to work with him at getting JR back, he tells her that he
knows that she kept some records, and he did to. When he leaves he says that it would be a
shame to give everything she has up.
JR is
back with Serena, she tells him that if he just wanted to talk then they could
have talked on the phone, and that he doesn’t get a discount for just
talking. JR gets up and pays her and
leaves. He drives off and the other car pulls
out and starts to follow him too, but is soon pulled over by the police. JR drives back and asks who he is and who
hired him. The guy finally gives it up
and tells JR and the police that he’s a private investigator and he tells them
who hired him.
JR goes
in to his bedroom and tells Sue Ellen that no one does that to him. She asks him why she would do it, and he says
that’s what he wants to know. Sue Ellen
tells him that she is paying him back for all the times he had her
followed. He realizes that this is how
she is going to try to win custody. He
tells her that he will kill her first; she tells him that he doesn’t have the
guts.
JR
complains to Kristin about what Sue Ellen has done. He tells her that he needs to get Sue Ellen
locked back up in the sanitarium, for good this time. He says that they need to get her drinking
again, or at least make everyone think that she is drinking again. He tells Kristin that he will need her help,
she tells him that she would do anything for him, she tells him that she wants
something in return, she wants to be the next Mrs. JR Ewing. He says that they shouldn’t rush in to
anything, but she is adamant, and he agrees.
He tells her that he wants her to take Sue Ellen out to lunch the next
day.
The next
day at lunch, Kristin thanks her for coming.
Sue Ellen tells her that she was curious about what she wanted. Kristin tells her that she is sorry for
everything she has done. She tells Sue
Ellen that she is going to California and that she wants to make it up to
her. Kristin tells her that she was only
doing what their mother taught her, Sue Ellen tells her that she is smart, that
it took her awhile to learn that about their mother. Kristin tells her that she is trying to
change and wants to be friends. Sue Ellen
agrees, they toast to this, but Kristin spills her drink all over Sue Ellen,
she leaves to try to clean herself up.
JR goes
to Sue Ellen’s PI and pays him off to change the reports, he tells him not to
worry about the ones he sent to Sue Ellen, he’ll take care of those.
The
Sheriff comes over to Southfork and tells Jock and Miss Ellie that Ray can
start working on his house again; they don’t have any leads on the body that
was found. Miss Ellie asks if they are
closing the case, he tells her that they aren’t but they won’t be focusing
their time on it anymore. When Sue Ellen
gets home Miss Ellie asks her how her lunch went, Jock and Ellie ask her about the stain on
her dress. She tells them about Kristin
spilling her drink. Jock makes a comment
about thinking that Kristin only drank white wine. In her room Sue Ellen hides the report under
her jewelry drawer in the dresser.
Later
that night Miss Ellie asks JR what’s wrong, he tells his parents that he found
a liquor bottle in the bedroom and thinks that Sue Ellen has started drinking
again, he asks Miss Ellie to watch her during the day, but asks them not to
talk to her about it. Jock says that he thought
Sue Ellen was acting funny that afternoon.
JR calls Kristin and she tells him that she knows what she needs to do
next.
When
Jock gets to the office Kristin is there waiting for JR, he takes her into the
office with him, and she asks him if Sue Ellen got home ok, and that she didn’t
know that Sue Ellen started drinking again.
He asks her if Sue Ellen was drinking at lunch, Kristin tells him that
she had three drinks, four if you count the one she spilled.
Later
Sue Ellen is pulled over; JR’s friend at the police is in the back of the
police car. Bobby is the one to answer
the call from the police letting the family know that she was pulled over for
suspicion of drunk driving but no arrest.
She and Bobby come home alone, he tells Jock and Miss Ellie that JR
stayed behind to smooth things over, and he tells them that next time they will
arrest her.
JR tells
Kristin that everyone believes Sue Ellen is drinking again. He tells her that he doesn’t want to rush things;
she tells him that she can’t wait to live at Southfork. He tells her again not to rush things.
Sue
Ellen tells her therapist that she is sure JR is behind this, she tells him
that she is frustrated that no one believes her. He tells her that he doesn’t understand why
JR would be doing this. She tells him
that she made a mistake by telling JR that she was leaving and that she hired a
PI to follow him. She asks Dr. Ell by if
he believes her. She tells him that JR
wants to put her back in the sanitarium, but she won’t let him this time.
At the
house Sue Ellen tells JR that her therapist doesn’t believe that she is
drinking again. She confronts him in
front of the family about him trying to get them to believe that she is
drinking again to send her away, she tells them that she hired a PI and she has
the reports to prove what he’s been doing, she goes up to get the reports. Bobby tells JR to stop her. When Sue Ellen comes back down she gives Jock
and Miss Ellie the reports. They tell
her that it only says that JR went to meetings and dinner with friends of the
family. She realizes that he switched
the reports, she attacks him, and Bobby and Pam pull her away and take her
upstairs. JR tells his parents that he
is sorry that they had to witness that, he calls the doctor to come and check
on Sue Ellen.
Final Thoughts: JR is definitely going to have some trouble with Kristin. I really can't believe that Kristin could do this to her sister. I really feel bad for Sue Ellen, she really has no one on her side to believe her, she was stupid to hire such a stupid PI, I'm sure that there could have been someone who wouldn't have got caught.
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