The Wheeler Dealer

Dallas 

Season 3 Episode 24

Original Airdate:   March 14, 1980

Recap:  Miss Ellie asks Jock when the last time he saw Amanda.  He tells her he doesn’t remember.  She asks why he stopped visiting her.  She tells Jock that she wants him to go and visit her.  Jock says that he will if she comes with him.  She says okay.

   JR comes home and asks Jock when he will start trusting him again.  Jock tells him that he will when he gives him a reason to.  JR tells him that they paid off the loan, and he promises never to put Southfork or the business in danger again. 

   Sue Ellen is taking a drink, when the family starts to come in she quickly pours a club soda.  JR starts ragging her, when Bobby tells him to stop, JR moves on to Pam saying that she is going crazy, that her father was thief, and her mother a whore.  Pam runs from the room, and Bobby punches JR in the stomach, Jock separates them.  Bobby goes up to Pam and she says that maybe JR is right and she is cracking up.  Bobby says that maybe they should go away for awhile, but Pam tells him that she can’t go yet, she is going to go over to Maggie’s house with Cliff and go through Digger’s trunks.

   JR goes over to Serena’s place, but she is “entertaining,” so he goes to Kristin’s.  She tells him that she has no intention of going to bed with him again till he divorces Sue Ellen, but JR pulls her to the bed and tells her to shut up.

   They don’t find anything much in Digger’s stuff.  Pam asks Maggie what she remembers about their mother.  While they are talking Cliff is looking at a paper, he quickly hides in his pocket.  When Pam asks if he found anything, he says no.  She tells him that she is going to go to Corpus Christi to see their mother’s grave.

   Hank Johnson comes to see JR, he tells him that they got big trouble in Southeast Asia.  There are rebels that what to nationalize the oil and take it all.  JR asks him if they could pay off the rebels.  JR sends him back to Asia to see what he can do.  JR calls Vaughn Leland, he tells him to meet him at the condo.

   Vaughn tells Kristin he didn’t know she was staying there; she tells him it’s only temporary.  When JR gets there he tells Vaughn that he’s got a proposition for him.

   Sue Ellen is with Dr. Elby, she tells him that the drinking makes the pain go away.  He tells her that Dusty was just another crutch for her, she tells him he wasn’t.  She tells him that she doesn’t have anyone, he tells her that she has her son.

   Vaughn leaves, and Kristin tells JR that he made her uncomfortable.  Kristin asks him if he likes it when his friends come on to her, he says that it could be useful to him.  She gets upset and once JR leaves she calls Alan and tells him that she is ready to do whatever he wants.

   Bobby comes over to Miss Ellie and Pam and asks them what they are talking about; Pam tells him she was asking Miss Ellie if she remembered anything about her mother.  Miss Ellie asks them to come with them to Colorado.  Bobby tells Pam that she can go see her mother’s grave when she gets back, so she says yes.

   As they leave Jock tells JR that he expects the business to be as it is when they come back.  Once they leave JR gets a call from Hank, he tells him that there wasn’t anything he could do.  JR calls Vaughn, he tells JR that everyone he talked to seemed very eager.  Sue Ellen comments that he didn’t wait long to start his wheeling and dealing.

   At the Ewing office, the cartel has come to see JR.  They all want to know why he is letting them in on the deal, he tells them it for all they have done for them.  He says that Ewing Oil got a proposition that he can’t talk about, but they need to get some cash.  He knows that they can come up with cash quick so he’ll sell the leases to them, and Ewing Oil would get 25% of anything they bring out of Asia.  They ask how long they got, JR says they got only a few hours.

   Kristin tells Alan that she knows that JR is conning Vaughn Leland, but couldn’t hear anything.  She tells him that JR wants her to “entertain” his friends and pass on information to him.  She asks Alan what is plan is, he tells her he doesn’t know yet.  She tells him that she could make JR think she is on his side, but really would be getting information about him that they could hang him with.  She calls JR and tells him that she thought about what they talked about and she’ll do it, she says that she’s going to call Jordan Lee, who has been wanting to have lunch with her for awhile now.

   At the hotel, Miss Ellie wakes up and finds Jock by the window, she asks him if he couldn’t sleep.  He tells her that he always dreaded seeing Amanda.  She asks him if he’s sure he wants her to come with him, he tells her yes. 

   Sue Ellen is pacing back and forth in front of Dr. Elby’s office.  She turns away and goes to the bar across the street. 

   The cartel is leaving and shaking hands with JR.  Once they are gone JR tells Vaughn he didn’t expect him to get in on the deal too, Vaughn tells him that it was just too good of an offer to pass up.  He tells him he took out a loan at another bank to come up with the money.

   A nurse brings Jock to Amanda, but she doesn’t recognize him.  Miss Ellie comes over and introduces herself.  Amanda sees Bobby and rushes over to him, she thinks that he is Jock.  She begs him not to go, but he tells her that he has to.  She tells him that she never meant to be a burden to him.  The nurse takes Amanda back, and Miss Ellie tells Jock that she is sorry.

   Kristin and Jordan are eating lunch, she tells him about JR telling her that his family was away and that he thought he could use the company.  She tries to get information from him, but he seems to have nothing but good things to say about JR, he tells her about the deal that JR gave him.

   Sue Ellen tells JR she is going to see Dr. Elby when Jock, Miss Ellie, Pam and Bobby get home.  Lucy tells Pam that Cliff has been calling her.  Pam tells Bobby that it must be about their mother, she tells him that they don’t have any proof that she is actually dead. 

   Cliff shows Pam an old document that was signed by Digger and Jock, they are part owners of the oil field that Bobby just opened up, it’s worth about a half a million dollar he tells her.

   Sue Ellen is really at the bar again, the bartender tells her that he thinks she’s had enough.  She bumps into a cowboy, and thinks he is Dusty, and he lets her believe this.

   Bobby is asking Ray how his house is coming along when he gets a call from the bartender.  He tells him that Sue Ellen is at the bar and needs some help.  Bobby and Ray rush over there to get her.

   Sue Ellen and her cowboy friend are about to leave when Bobby and Ray rush in.  They try to get Sue Ellen to leave, but she tells them that she doesn’t want to go.  A fight breaks out between Bobby, Ray and the cowboy’s friends.  Ray and Bobby grab Sue Ellen and rush out of the bar.

   When they get back to Southfork, the family hears the commotion as Bobby tries to get Sue Ellen into the house.  JR asks him where he found her; as Pam helps in get her upstairs.

   The next morning JR puts the news on, he goes outside, Bobby joins him and asks about Sue Ellen, when the phone rings JR answers it, it’s Hank, he tells JR that everything happened just like he told him it would.  JR tells Hank that he’ll be getting a big bonus, when JR comes back in Jock is watching the news about the oil fields in Southeast Asia.  He yells at JR wanting to know how much they lost, JR smiles and tells him that he figures that they just made a killing.

Final Thought:  Wow, was Jock was pissed.  JR got so lucky, once again, but trouble is coming, Alan and Kristin are trying their hardest to get him.  Sue Ellen is so lucky that Bobby came when he did, so many bad things could have happened if he didn't come.  She was really drunk to think that guy was Dusty, he looked and sounded like nothing like Dusty, only thing he had in common is the clothes.

Best Outfit:  Kristin's crocheted top, is not youthful, at least not anymore, and besides the style looks like something that would have been worn in the late 1800 or early 1900, and to complete the effect she was wearing a long skirt.