Hitchhike Part Two

Knots Landing

Season 2 Episode 2

Original Airdate:  November 27, 1980

Recap:  Karen asks Richard to get a criminal lawyer’s help, he tells her that he talked to the prosecuting attorney about making a deal.  She gets upset and Sid steps in and tells Richard that if they don’t stop her she will do this to someone else.  Sid tells Richard that he is going to fight all the charges.  Diana comes down and asks why he doesn’t just follow Richard’s advice, he tells her that they need to prove that what Pamela said isn’t true.  

   Laura suggests that Richard should get some help with the case, but he tells her that he can’t since he already turned down the help his firm offered him.  He tells her that he can win this on his own, then he won’t be invisible at the office anymore.

   Diana goes to the bands practice, and finds out that they replaced her. 

   Karen tells Sid that Richard is selling him out, and that he really needs to get another lawyer.  Diana comes home and yells at her parents.  Sid follows her up to her room and tells her that he needs her support.  She tells him that this is ruining her life.  She tells him that she doesn’t understand why it happened.  Sid tells her that he saw a girl, just like her that needed help.  He tells her that he could do it again, but he doesn’t think he is so sure.  He tells her that he wants her to stand up with and for her family.

   At the dealership Gary is arguing with a customer about Sid being innocent until proven guilty.  Gary tells him he’s got a future thanks to him and that he is going to help him get through all this.

   Karen goes to Pamela’s apartment, Pamela is trying on clothes to wear at the trial, her mother tells her the dress isn’t right, she tells her that they are going to win the trial and take everything Sid has.  Karen knocks at the door and tells her that she just wants to talk.  Karen says that she wants to tell them about Sid and then tells Pamela about Diana.  Karen asks Pamela’s mother if she believes her, and she tells her yes.  Karen rushes out of the apartment, Pamela’s mother follows her, and Karen tells her she knows that her daughter is lying.  She tells her that she saw the doubt in her eyes.  She tells Karen that if Sid is innocent why he sent his lawyer to buy them off.  Karen goes to her car and is about to pull away, when a van starts to back into the stop in front of her.

   When Sid comes home, Karen tells him that Richard bribed the girl.  Sid rushes over to Richard’s house, and tells him that he’s fired. 

   Richard’s boss calls him into his office, he tells him that he thinks it would be best if he got some help on the case, Richard has to tell him that he isn’t representing Sid anymore, he lies and tells him that it was to keep their friendship.  He tells him that Sid hired Stan Lesser.

   Stan goes over to Sid and Karen’s; he has Sid go over what happened so they can look for inconsistencies in her story.  They he wants to go to the stop he picked her up.

   Abby stops by the dealership to see Sid, she talks to Gary, she tells him that Val is watching her kids for her.  She is really flirty with him.  They see Sid yelling at a guy about his car.

   Laura comes home and finds Richard cooking dinner, drunk.  He tells her that Sid fired him.  He asks him what he did.  Richard goes outside yelling for Sid to come out and talk to him.  Gary tries to get Sid to go home, but Sid stops him, Richard tells him that no one cares if he is innocent, he tells him that no one wins a rape case.  Sid grabs Richard, and pushes him away.  Richard starts yelling guilty, and Laura takes him home.

   Val and Abby take the kids to the beach for a picnic, Val tells Abby that is would be nice if she moved to Knots Landing.

   Stan is driving with Sid and Karen, they stop at the spot that Sid picked Pamela up at.  He says that the best thing they could hope for would be if she recanted her testimony.  He asks about the van that Sid saw, he says that he remembers that it followed them for awhile, and that he is sure he saw it again after he was arrested.  Karen remembers that when Pamela was yelling at them at the station she mentioned the van, but she never mentioned it to the DA or the police.  Stan is sure that this is a scam, and that the guy in the van is involved somehow.

   Sid and Abby are talking over dinner; he tells her that he can remember everything about the van, except for the license plate number.  Later when they are in bed, Karen asks Sid what the van looked like, when he describes it she tells him that she saw it when she went over to Pamela’s. 

   Stan and Sid go to the police station to run the plates, they find who they are looking for, he driver’s name is Rodney Williams, he was arrested for burglary, they also find out that he wasn’t alone when he was arrested.

   Karen and Abby drive over to Pamela’s apartment and take pictures of the van.  They go to the police station, and while Karen is talking to Lieutenant Spatz, Abby is flirting with one of the officers that arrested Sid; she is also trying to get information from him.

   Everyone meets at the DA’s office, and Pamela tells him that she is sticking to her story.  He tells her that with the new evidence that was just discovered that her story doesn’t hold up.  He calls for Rodney, and the DA asks him if he knows Pamela and if she was with him that night.  Rodney says yes.  The DA asks him to tell everyone what he and Pamela do to get money.  Pamela says that he is lying.  Rodney then describes what they do, and it’s exactly what happened to Sid that night.  Pamela’s mother says that they paid Rodney to say these things, but the DA tells her that they never talked to him.  She tells Pamela to tell them that they aren’t lying, but Pamela breaks down.  Stan comes out of the DA’s office, he tells Sid and Karen that it’s over.  They look back once at Pamela and her mother, then turn away.

   Laura comes out and tells Abby that she can rent the house.  Sid and Karen get home the same time as Richard, Sid tries to talk to him, but Richard walks away.  Val and Abby’s kids tell Sid and Karen the news about them moving into the neighborhood.

Final Thoughts:  Now I’m sure that that girl and her mother would be sued for slander.  Hopefully the DA makes her release a public statement, but I’m sure that this won’t happen, and Sid will have to rebuild his reputation.  Richard is a douche bag, he should never have been hired in the first place, he’s an idiot not to realize that he screwed Sid over when he went to Pamela and tried to bribe her.

Guest Star:  Ron Rifkin

Best Outfit:  I don't really get why you would want to wear the same color like this.  I saw a lady out yesterday wearing this ugly mustard yellow pants with a slightly different yellow shirt under a gray sweater.  Compared to this that was worse.