Jenna’s Return

Dallas

Season 3 Episode 18

Original Airdate:  January 18, 1980

Recap:   JR is waiting out on the patio for Sue Ellen when she gets home, he asks her where she was, she lies and tells him that she was at a DOA meeting, he calls her out telling her that Marilee called the house and asked when she would get to the meeting.  He asks her if the paternity suit wasn’t enough.  She leaves telling him that she wants to be up early for the baby.

   Bobby and Pam are still having problems.  They seem to just be ignoring each other, barely saying a word to each other.

   Ray and Donna are playing cards, he is getting ready to go, and tells her that he wants her to come to Southfork sometime and watch the sun come up, she tells him that she would like that.  She asks him if he minds them being alone so much, he says no since he gets her to himself.  She tells him that she just thinks that she owes it to Sam.

   At the DOA meeting the lady’s speaker is trying to get their support for building apartments on a park, but they don’t want it to be destroyed.

   Pam’s boss, Harrison Page comes in and tells Pam that she is doing a great job.  He tells her that he wants her to come to Paris with him on a buying trip.

   Sue Ellen goes to Dusty’s apartment, he tells her that he thought she wouldn’t come.  She tells him that she had a hard time getting away from her meeting with the DOA.  She tells him about JR asking where she is going.  He tells her that it doesn’t matter about any of that, just that she is there with him and that she loves him.  Sue Ellen tells Dusty that she want s him to understand what happened to her, and she tells him about JR and how Cliff came into her life.  Dusty tells her that he loves her no matter what.  She tells him that she is more comfortable her e than anywhere else.  He tells her that he can’t keep on commuting to Dallas from San Angelo,  it can only be for a little while till she is ready to move in with him.

   Donna and Ray go out to a bar after going to see a foreign movie.  He runs into some old friends  and they join them at their table, the men talk about cattle, while Donna sits quietly.   Pam is packing for her trip.  Bobby isn’t happy that she is going, she says that maybe this is what they need.  He tells her that she is crazy if she believes that.  He leaves the room slamming the door.

   The next morning Ray says goodbye to Donna, and she reminds him about the dinner with her step-son Dave and his wife, Ray tells her that he doesn’t want to come, he tells her he will feel out of place, she asks him to come and he finally agrees.

   At breakfast at Southfork, Miss Ellie is going over the paper work about the development, she tells Jock how upset this makes her, that they want to get rid of the park to make room the housing project.  Pam asks Bobby to take her to the airport, he tells her that he’s got to help Ray that afternoon, and will pick her up.  After she leaves Jock suggests that Bobby should go with her, but he says that he will just be in the way since she will be working.

   Later Bobby asks Ray what’s wrong, Ray tells him about the dinner at Donna’s that night.  Bobby tells him that it’s never easy meeting your girlfriends family, and that at least it isn’t the Barnes’. 

   At Ewing Oil Kristin asks JR what’s wrong, he asks her if she finished typing up the report, she tells him that she’ll get it done, she leaves his office angrily.

   At Dusty’s, Sue Ellen tells him about Pam going to Paris, and Bobby not being happy about it, he asks her if she’s ever been to Paris, and tells her that he will take her as soon as she leaves JR.  She tells him that she isnt’ ready to leave just yet.

   Pam and Bobby say goodbye at the airport, she tells him that she hates to leave him like this, he tells her not to go then, but Harrison comes over just then.  He tells Bobby that he will take care of Pam.  Bobby leaves and runs into Jenna.  Pam and Harrison look back, he asks who that is with Bobby and Pam tells him who she is.

   Bobby and Jenna go to lunch together and catch up.  He asks her to have dinner with him, and she suggests that they go to her place.

   At Donna’s, she and her step-son Dave, are talking politics, leaving his wife and Ray out of the conversation, when they go to check on dinner, Dave’s wife tells Ray that she hates it when they talk politics.  Donna asks Dave what he thinks about Ray, he tells her that he isn’t sure about him.  She tells him that Ray makes her very happy.

   JR goes back to Kristin’s place to pick up the papers that she forgot, she gets upset that he is leaving right away.

   Sue Ellen asks Dusty when he is going back home, he asks her if he can see her tomorrow, she says yes, so he tells her that he will leave tomorrow night. 

   Bobby and Jenna talk about the past, he says that he should go, and asks her if she wants to go on a picnic like they used to.

   Ray and Donna are cleaning up after dinner, she says that he didn’t like them, he says that she and Dave didn’t give anyone else a chance to talk about anything else.  When he goes to leave she stops him and tells him not to leave angry.  He tells her that they just don’t have anything in common.  She tells him that they can try and find something.

   Bobby and Sue Ellen come home at the same time, she goes into the nursery and finds JR there, she tells him that she was at the movies, and that there is nothing he can do to her now, his threats mean nothing.

   The next day JR suggest that they go somewhere overnight she tells him she can’t, she’s got a DOA committee meeting that she needs to go to, he tells her that he will go with her.  When she calls Dusty to tell him that she can’t keep their date, he gets upset. 

   Jenna tells Bobby about how she has been since the last time he saw her, she tells him that she wants what he and Pam have, a good marriage.  She sees that he is upset and changes the subject. 

   At the DOA meeting JR talks to Ray and tells him that he can’t understand what Donna sees in him.

   Pam calls for Bobby, but Miss Ellie tells her he isn’t home, she tells Miss Ellie just to let him know she called.

   Ray tells Donna that he thinks that they should break things off.  He tells her that they are from two different places and they both would be miserable in their worlds.  She asks him if JR has something to do with it since she saw them talking.  He tells her that she would never be happy if she settled for him.  She tries to convince him that what JR said isn’t true, and that he’s just trying to get back at her for getting Sam to back Cliff Barnes.  Ray tells her that he loves her and leaves.

   Bobby and Jenna go back to her apartment, she tells him that it’s just like old times, except now he has to go home.  They kiss and he tells her that he’s not sure he’s got a reason to go home.  Jenna tells Bobby that if they do this then it can’t be just this once, she wants more.

Final Thoughts:  At this point I could care less about Pam and Bobby's relationship, I think that they have been making Pam look really bad instead of making you feel sorry for her.  I wonder if that is how people felt when they originally watched the show?  I don't like the new actress playing Jenna, she isn't as good as Morgan Fairchild was.  The characters I feel the worst for are Ray and Donna.

Best Outfit: Sue Ellen looks like she has on a cotton ball.