Hitchhike Part One

Knots Landing

Season 2 Episode 1

Original Airdate: November 20, 1980

Recap:  Sid is driving to the high school for the Knots Landing High Follies.  Karen is backstage with Diana, she looks out and sees that Sid still isn’t there.  Sid stops at a red light and a girl comes up to his window and asks him for a ride.  He tells her no, and drives away.  He sees a van pull up to the girl and sees that the driver is talking to the girl.  He turns around and tells the girl to get in, and drives away, the van follows them. 

   At the high school, Karen is still backstage helping Diana get ready to go on stage. 

   The girl tells Sid that her name is Pamela, she asks him how much money he has on him.  She asks him to give her a $100 so she can go see her mom.  Sid tells her that he’ll take her to the bus station and buy her a ticket. 

   Diana is now on stage with her two friends, they are doing a dance number, something you would see in a Bob Fosse show. 

   Pamela tells Sid that if he doesn’t give her the money she will cry rape.  They are passing a diner and there are cops outside, Sid tells her that now’s her chance.  She waits a bit till they are closer then grabs the wheel and cries out.  The police arrest Sid.

   At the jail, a cop recognizes Sid, he looks at the girl’s statement and asks her if that is what happened, she says yes.  He asks if Sid got his phone call, he then takes him into his office. 

   Richard and Laura are getting ready for bed when the phone rings, Richard tells Sid that he’ll be right there, and bring Karen with him. 

   At the station, the cop tells Sid that he doesn’t think that this will go any further, Karen goes to the window and watches the girl flirting with the other officers.  Pamela sees that Sid is getting to go home, she starts yelling at Karen about what he did to her. 

   Karen tells Sid that she thinks that they need to get a different lawyer, but Sid says that he trusts Richard to do it, she tells him that Richard is going to go talk to Pamela, he tells her that he was thinking of going to see her himself, she gets upset and tells him that she could accuse him again, and that he should just let Richard handle it.  Sid’s sister Abby gets to their house, her daughter is now repeating everything everyone says, and her son doesn’t talk only plays his trumpet.

   Later that night they have the neighbors over, Laura is telling Karen how much she is enjoying her job.  The doorbell rings and its Kenny, Ginger doesn’t look too thrilled to see him, they are separated, he wants to talk, but she tells him to go back to Sylvie.  Karen goes into the kitchen and is trying to decide if she wants to make a phone call, Sid asks her what she is doing, she tells him that she wants to hire a criminal lawyer; she tells him that she doesn’t think that Pamela will drop the case.  He tells her not to panic and they rejoin the party.  Val goes upstairs and talks to Abby’s daughter Olivia, after getting her to stop repeating everything she says, Olivia tells Val that her parents are getting divorced.  Gary tells Karen that he thinks that they should get another lawyers opinion.

   The next morning, Eric and Michael tell Abby’s son Brian to bring in the paper to their parents, he wakes them up by blowing on his trumpet, Karen shows Sid the paper, the headline is about the charges.  Later on Karen gets the name of another attorney and calls him.

   Michael gets into a fight at the beach over the story in the newspaper.

   Laura is with the realtor, they are showing the empty house in the cul-de-sac.  They seem to like they house, when they start to walk along the sidewalk, they see the name Fairgate on the mailbox, they ask the realtor about it, he tells Laura she should have told him that the Fairgate’s were her neighbors.

   Karen is reading the girl’s interview, the lawyer, Stan Lesser gives them some advice, he tells them to keep Richard as their lawyer, and that there is a good former criminal lawyer working at Richard’s law firm.  Michael gets home, and they can see that he is upset, Eric asks Sid why he had to pick up that girl in the first place.

   At the high school, Diana over hears a friend of hers talking about the time Sid took her home, and how he didn’t try to do anything to her.

   Sid notices that everyone is looking at him at the dealership.

   Richard goes over to Pamela’s apartment, he tells her that he wants to talk, he tells her that she is ruining Sid’s reputation, she asks him about her reputation.  He proceeds to try and bribe her into dropping the charges, by telling her that she could get some surfing stuff from a friend of his, and that she could spend some time at a house of a friend of his, that is by the ocean.

   Karen tells Sid that they need to get another lawyer if he is indited. 

   Richard is called to his boss’s office, he wants to know about the case, he tells him that he could get some help, but Richard tells him that he’s got it under control. 

   Richard goes back to Pamela’s apartment to take her to the station so she can drop the charges, but her mother is there, she tells Richard that they won’t be bought.  Richard tells Pamela that the stuff she got isn’t free, that she will get a discount for it.  Her mother tells him to get out, she tells him that they are going to trial and that they aren’t ashamed to air their dirty laundry.

   In the courtroom the judge rules that there is enough evidence to go to trial and Sid is indited for the attempted rape.  Richard tries to calm Karen down, and tells her that there is no case, and it’s only a formality.  She says that Sid will be the first man to be convicted on no case.

Final Thoughts:  I hate Richard, he is the worst lawyer.  I would never have kept him, maybe get his advice, then gone out and found some one more competent, not someone who is so full of himself.  He pretty much screwed Sid, buy trying to bribe Pamela. 
Guest Star:  Ron Rifkin

Before They Were Stars:  Helen Hunt 

Best Outfit:  I was going to get a closer shot because it showed off his chain, but I chose this shot because it showed off his socks.