Family Business

Dallas

Season 1 Episode 9

Airdate:  8-11-12

Recap:  Elena tells John Ross not to defend JR, she tells him that he didn’t do anything to get him out of this mess, it was Bobby and Christopher.  She tells him that Bobby was going to drill on Southfork to protect him from the Venezuelans.  

Christopher and Rebecca walk back from a doctor’s appointment.  He tells her that it will take time to get back to where they were, but they are starting a family and that is what is important.  He points out two stuffed monkeys in a store window, they go inside and buy them.  When Rebecca gets back to her apartment, Tommy asks her how her day with Christopher was.  She asks him how he got inside, since she had the locks changed.  He tells her that she’ll have to work a lot harder getting Christopher’s plans on his extraction rig.  
Rebecca tells Tommy to get them himself.  He tells her to get him his key to the lab and he will, he reminds her it is worth a lot of money to get these plans.  She tells him that she doesn’t want the money.  He grabs her and she scratches his cheek, quickly she apologizes to him, he tells her that she better get the key to the lab or he will put an end to her fairytale with Christopher.

Ryland comes to see Sue Ellen, he brings her a bottle of wine, and opens it pouring a glass.  She tells him that she hasn’t had a drink in twenty years.  He tells her that the reason he gave her campaign so much money was that he knew that she would be easily manipulated into doing what he needed.  She tells him that she doesn’t know what he is talking about.  He tells her that bribing his good friend the medical examiner was pointless, since John Ross didn’t need her help to get out of jail.  Sue Ellen asks Ryland what he wants, he tells her that he needs to borrow her campaign PAC, he needs to clean some money from a business unknown to the public.  She tells him that she will give him his money back, but he tells her that if she doesn’t do him this favor she will be disgraced, she tells him to get out of her office.  He gets up and tells her to think about it.

Tommy meets with Frank.  Frank tells him that he wants Christopher’s extraction plans, Tommy tells him that he wants more money.  Frank tells him that he has one more day to get him the plans.

John Ross helps Elena with a problem on her oil field, they talk about slant drilling, which leads them to an idea.  They go to Bobby and tell him  that if they drill from an angle they can still get the oil, but they won’t be drilling on Southfork.  Christopher comes in and gets upset, Bobby tells him that he is only trying to help, and Christopher says that he is trying to make himself rich in the process.  Bobby tells them to sit down and asks where he was, he can’t go on and collapses.  

At the hospital Elena and John Ross go to his room, Christopher comes out and tells them that it was a brain seizure.  Elena starts to ask him if it was caused by something, but Christopher stops her.  After Christopher goes back into the room John Ross asks her what she was talking about.  She tells him about Bobby’s cancer, she tells him that he had surgery, but that it could spread.  He asks her why no one told him.  Elena tells him that Bobby asks her not to stay anything to him,because he thought that he and JR would use it against him to get Southfork.  John Ross tells her that he will be back and leaves.  He calls Bum and tells him to meet him.  He tells Bum to get JR, Bum still acts like he can’t get a hold of him, but John Ross tells him to tell JR that his brother is dying.

Ann asks the doctor if the cancer spread.  He says no, he tells them that Bobby has a cerebral hemorrhage.  They are going to operate, but they want to wait until his blood pressure down first.  Bobby wants to go home, but Ann and Christopher try to get him to stay.  The doctor tells Bobby that he knows that he can’t keep him at the hospital, but tells him that the hemorrhage could burst at anytime and he has a 30% chance of being dead before he hits the ground.  Bobby tells Ann that they can get a nurse and have a ambulance on hand, but if it is his time to go he doesn’t want to be surrounded by strangers.

Bum calls JR and tells him that he has something to tell him.

Rebecca comes over, Ann tells her that Christopher slept on the sofa, to be close if Bobby needed anything.  The nurse comes in and tells Ann that Bobby wants to do things, Ann leaves Rebecca, and Christopher wakes up.  She asks him how Bobby is doing, he tells her that he’s fine.  She starts to give him a massage, and Elena comes in, Ann walks in and tells Christopher that she needs his help with his father.  When Rebecca leaves the house she walks past Christopher’s car, she looks inside and see’s his briefcase, and his passkey to the lab, she takes it out of the bag, but puts it back and leaves the ranch.

Bobby complains about being couped up, Christopher hands him his phone and to record a message to his grand kids that he will never see and explain it to them.  JR bursts into the room, Ann tells him to get out, and she tells him he caused this, and that he isn’t welcome in the house, and if she finds him in Bobby’s room she will shoot him.  Bobby tells Christopher that he messed up by selling Southfork.  He tells him that he is sorry that he had to sell a piece of his future because of it.  Christopher asks him if he can get him anything, Bobby tells him that all he wants is peace in the family.

John Ross asks Christopher where JR is, Christopher tells him that he won’t fight him anymore about drilling the oil from Southfork if he can get his father to sign over Southfork back to Bobby.  John Ross tells him that JR won’t give up Southfork, Christopher reminds John Ross that Bobby was always there for him when his father wasn’t.  He says that the John Ross he knows would do anything for Bobby.

John Ross goes to JR’s room and tries to get him to sign the ranch over to Bobby, but JR tells him he won’t do it, Southfork is in his bones.  He tells John Ross to find somewhere else to live, that he is too old to have a roommate.  When John Ross leaves he runs into Elena and Sue Ellen, he tells hem that JR is back, he tells them that Christopher agreed to the slant drilling if JR would sign the deed over to Bobby, but that he wouldn’t do it.  Sue Ellen leaves them and goes into the house.  Elena tells him that he shoudn’t be surprised, this is who JR is and always was.  John Ross says that he spent his entire life wanting to be with him, to be him, and he thought that if he was more like his father then that would be enough, but it isn’t.  He tells her that JR is so consumed with bitterness that there is no room for anyone else.  

JR tells Sue Ellen she has to get him into see Bobby, she smacks him, she tells him that all he does is leave a path of destruction, she says that he is done destroying their son.

Ann asks Sue Ellen what’s wrong, she tells her that Ryland knows that she bribed the medical examiner, and that he wants her to launder money for him.  Ann asks her what she is going to do, Sue Ellen doesn’t say anything, and Ann tells her that she has to think of something.  Sue Ellen asks her if she would have made a good governor, and Ann tells her that she would have.

JR goes into the office and looks at a photo of him an Bobby, Carmen, the cook comes in and tells him that Bobby wants to see him, and that Ann has gone.  JR tells Bobby that he could have told him about the cancer.  Bobby tells him that he was too busy trying to undo the damage he caused.  Bobby tells JR that he loves him no matter what.  He tells him that everyone dies.  JR tells him that if he’s got something to say to him then to say it when the doctor’s fix his head.  

Christopher, John Ross and Elena talk about how Ewing Oil could have been if Jock hadn’t pitted JR and Bobby against each other.  Christopher says that it doesn’t have to be that way anymore, he suggests that they partner up.  They go to Bobby and tell him about they are going into business together, with Elena as a partner.  Christopher tells him that the difference between the old Ewing Oil and Ewing Energies, will be that he and John Ross will be equal partners and there will be no need to fight for who will be on top.  Bobby asks how this happened, and Christopher tells him that he realized that wile gas hydrates are the future, it will take time and money, so if they used the new technology to drill oil that John Ross and Elena came up with they will bank roll his gas hydrate plans till it is ready.  Christopher tells Bobby that he will also be an equal partner, Bobby asks him about JR, he tells him that he will get the profits from the oil but nothing more.  Bobby tells them that he hopes that it will work, because they are a lot smarter than he and JR were.  He tells them both to keep an eye on each other, and tells Elena to keep both her eyes on the two of them.  

JR looks at a photo of Miss Ellie and signs the deed over to Bobby, he goes to his room, he places the deed on the bed, and Bobby wakes up, he looks at the deed, and tells JR that he still isn’t off the hook for how he got Southfork in the first place.  JR smiles and tells him that if he dies then he will get it back.  

Rebecca answers her phone, it’s Tommy he asks her if she got the passkey, she tells him that she won’t do it.  He tells her that she owes him, she says no and hangs up on him.  She goes to the bank and takes out a safety deposit box and removes a gun.  

Tommy is waiting at a bar, Frank walks in and tells Tommy that his services are no longer required and walks out.

Bobby gets a call from his lawyer, he tells him that they got a lead on the woman claiming to be Marta Del Sol, he tells him that they may get the information that will link JR to her and the Venezuelans, he asks Bobby if he is ready to send JR to jail.  Bobby tells him to tell him what he finds.  Bobby has another attack, and the ambulance takes him to the hospital.

Tommy goes to Rebecca’s and hits her.  He tells her that he was fine till she came along, he tells her that he did everything she asked.  Tommy pushes her to the bed, they struggle and she gets away, she dumps out the stuff from her purse and points the gun at him.  Tommy tries to take it from her, there is a struggle for the gun and it goes off.
 
Final Thoughts:  This ended with a great cliffhanger, who was shot, Tommy or Rebecca?  I noticed the cars in the show, and wondered why no one had the custom license plate Ewing and the number, but I finally noticed that John Ross has it.  I'm glad that they kept with from the original show, I would think that all the cars would be like that.  

The Gun

Dynasty 

Season 2 Episode 18

Air Date: March 24, 1982

Recap:  Fallon looking at her baby with Blake, Nick comes over and asks to speak with Blake.  He tells Blake that Fallon is doing better, but she still needs to know if he is her father, he asks her when he will take the blood test.  Blake tells him that he will when he is ready.

   Jeff runs into Fallon, he asks when they are going to name the baby.  She tells him she doesn’t care and to name him whatever he wants to, I’m confused I thought she wanted the baby now it seems like she doesn’t care one way or the other about him.

   Alexis comes over, she has just returned from Acapulco.  She asks to see Fallon, Joseph tells her that he’s been given orders to tell her that Fallon doesn’t want anything to do with her.

   Blake drops Fallon at the stables, he tells her that he thinks it’s time that they talked.  He tells her that he has always thought Alexis lied to him and that he has always thought she was his daughter, he tells her that he will take the blood test if she wants him to.  Fallon tells him that she does.

   Alexis is putting away her clothes when Blake comes over.  He tells her that he wants to talk.  She says that she had hoped to come home and things would have changed and that Fallon would have forgiven her.   He tells her that Fallon won’t change her mind.  He tells her that he is going to have the blood test and wants to make sure that there aren't anymore men out there that could be her father.  She gets upset and tells him that if he hadn’t left her alone then there wouldn’t have been anyone.  He tells her that he expects her to call  Cecil and tell him to meet him at Nick’s office that night for the blood test.

   Alexis meets Cecil at the St Dennis Club, he tells her that he will go for the blood test.  She asks if he is worried, and that if he is her father she wants him to go to Fallon and help her see Alexis’ side of things.  He tells her that he loves her and asks if it’s too late for them to have a second chance.  She asks him if he is serious.

   Claudia is out walking, she thinks she sees Lindsay running towards her clearly this is a vision because Lindsay is a little girl.  She sees Lindsay run to Cecil, Claudia pulls the gun out and shoots at the vision of Cecil, which disappears as soon as she shoots at him.  Claudia goes to Jeff and tells him that she knows Lindsay is alive, she would feel it if she were gone.   Jeff tells her that he spoke to their office in Ecuador and they will call as soon as they have any news.  She thanks him for helping her and tells him she knows what she needs to do now.  She goes to Blake and tells him everything.  He tells her that she isn’t to blame, he asks her where she is gong to go.  She says that she is gong to look for Matthew and Lindsay in South America.  He asks her to trust him and to stay

   In Nick’s office, they are waiting for Cecil, while he takes Blake’s sample.  Cecil finally gets there and Nick gets his sample, he tells them that they will get the results tomorrow.  Blake tells Cecil that he knows what he did to Claudia, he tells Cecil that he hates him for what he has done to her.  Cecil calls her a prostitute.  Blake punches him and says that was for the pimp that made her a prostitute.  Cecil yells after Blake that he will make him pay.

   Krystle tells Blake that she wishes she could make him happier, and that the only thing that matters is that he love Fallon and that she loves him, that is more important than blood.  She goes up to bed, Blake tells her that he will be up in awhile, he goes through all the things he has saved that Fallon made for him when she was little.

   Blake asks Krystle what’s wrong the next day, she tells him that Alexis has to go, she says that there has to be a way to get her out of that cottage.  He tells her he understand and promises to deal with her once the stuff with Fallon is resolved.

   Steven overhears Joseph on the phone, he thinks that he is talking to Sammy Joe, he tells Steven that he was talking to a servant.  Steven goes to Krystle, he tells her that he thinks that she is talking to Sammy Joe.   He tells her that she’s just as judgmental as Blake.  She tells him that she only thought that the timing was  wrong, she tells him that she thinks he deserves someone better.  Joesph gives him the address of where Sammy Joe is.  He tells him that about a flight to LA that leaves soon.

   At Denver Carrington Ray Bonning calls Blake back, Blake offers him $50,000 to get him a meeting with Rhinewood face to face. 

   Claudia and Krystle are having lunch at the St Denis Club, Krystle tells her that she and Blake want her to move back in to the house with them.  Claudia tells her that nothing means anything to her anymore, and she wants them to stop trying to discourage her from looking for Lindsay. 

    Blake is making plans for his meeting with Rhinewood the next day.  Fallon comes into his office.  Blake tells  her the results of the blood test are back, and that she is his daughter.

   In LA Sammy Joe is modeling.  The photographer asks her to take her bikini top off.  Steven walks in and tells him to get out.  Sammy Joe tells him it’s okay that she wants to talk to Steven.  He asks her what she is doing.  She tells him that she is making a career for herself.  Seven tells her that he was worried about her.  He says that he couldn’t believe that she would go and ask Alexis for money.  She tell shim that she didn’t, she tells him about the paper that Alexis wanted her to sign.  He asks her to come back, but she tells him that she doesn’t need him anymore, she will get all the things she wants for herself now. 

   Fallon goes to Nick she tells him that she is so happy, she tell him that she owes him.  He asks her to go with him to a convention.  They make plans to meet the next day.

   At the Denver Carrington offices Claudia goes to put something away when the fax machine goes off, she goes over and reads it.  It’s about Matthew and Lindsay, it says that there was a crash and there was no sign of life.  She calls Krystle and asks to speak with Blake.  Krystle tells her that he’s gone.  Claudia tells her that Matthew and Lindsay are dead, 

   On the phone Blake tells Andrew that things are going well for him now.  Andrew isn’t so sure about this meeting.

   Claudia calls for a taxi and tells them that she wants to go to the Colby Building.  Krystle comes in and tells her that she wants her to back to the house with her.  Krystle sees the gun.  She thinks that Claudia is going to kill herself.  Claudia tells her that she is going to kill Cecil.  They struggle and the gun goes off.  Nick is in the hallway and rushes in to the room and is shocked at what he sees.
Final Thoughts:  What a great cliffhanger ending, I'm glad that the paternity storyline is over and that Fallon is Blake's daughter after all. 

Best Outfit:  The sweater is an odd fabric and the purple shirt is an odd choice for the color of the sweater, not the worst thing that she's ever worn.

The Dove Hunt

Dallas 

Season 2 Episode 6

Air Date:  October 26, 1979

Recap:  Miss Ellie is at the doctor’s office, when he comes back in she asks him how bad it is.  He tells her that he doesn’t think it’s a tumor, it may be a cyst, he wants her to come in the next day, she tells him that she doesn’t want to worry Jock yet, so she will come on her own.

  At Ewing Oil, JR is on the phone, he isn’t getting the answers he wants about the Southeast Asia drilling, Kristin comes in and starts giving him a massage.  She tells him that he doesn’t need to keep it in that he can talk to her.  Jock comes and Kristin tries to stop him from going into JR’s office, but he goes inside anyway.  JR tells him that he is busy, but Jock tells him to take a break because he wants to take him to lunch.

   Lucy tells Bobby that Val come to see her and that her parents have been in contact, and she thinks that they could be a family again. 

   Miss Ellie is picking at her food, Jock asks what’s wrong with everyone. They are all very quite.  Bobby tells JR that he’s got time to help him fight the O.L.M., Miss Ellie suggest that the three of them go away for awhile.  Jock thinks it’s a good idea, JR doesn’t want to go, but once Sue Ellen says that Jock and Bobby will have time to talk he changes his mind.  Jock decides to bring Ray along on their hunting trip.  JR isn’t happy about this, Bobby tells him that Jock thinks of Ray as part of the family.

   They stop at a store to get supplies, when Jock happens to mention his name, the owner starts to act very suspicious, which everyone notices, once they leave he calls someone and tells them that Jock Ewing and his sons are in town.  The man on the other end of the line tells his son that he’s been waiting 32 years to confront Jock Ewing. 

   They go to a bar, and while Jock is telling them a story that I suspect he’s told them all before, because that’s what old people do, the man and his son walk into the bar and walk over to them.  He tells Jock to face him, Jock asks him what he wants, and the man tells him that his name Is Tom Owens.  Jock tells him that he’s never seen him before.  The man doesn’t like this and it leads to a big fight, but the Ewing’s and    Ray win and walk out acting like they are totally awesome.

   Pam comes over to Miss Ellie and asks her about her doctor’s appointment, Miss Ellie lies to her and tells her.

   Tom Owens can’t believe that Jock doesn’t remember him, but he vows that Jock will remember him, when he is reminded that the Ewing’s are there to go hunting.

   Miss Ellie is reading a pamphlet about Cancer, she hides it when Pam comes in, they go upstairs to feed the baby, they pass Sue Ellen on the stairs, when the baby starts to cry she doesn’t react and tells them that they are on the way to him anyway.  In the nursery Pam asks Miss Ellie what’s wrong, she tells her it’s nothing, Pam tells her that she wants to help.  Miss Ellie leaves her to get the bottle.

   While the guys are hunting, the guys from the bar are messing with the lantern.  Then someone shoots at Bobby.  They don’t suspect a thing, and Jock tells them that they all need to be more careful.  He puts out his cigar and throws it to the ground, it sparks and the lantern explodes, they check it out and notice a tiny hole at the bottom.  JR blames Ray, but Jock tells him to knock it off.  Later that night Jock wakes up and hears a noise, he gets up and sees someone under the hood of their truck.  Whoever is out there in the woods starts shooting at them again, and Jock and JR are hit.  Ray manages to go around to where the shooting is coming from but there is no one there.  Ray gets the first aid kit and takes care of Jock, who was hit in the side, while Bobby checks on JR who got shot in the leg.  Ray goes to check on the truck while Bobby gathers their stuff.  Ray tells Bobby that the rotors gone and that one of them needs to go get help while the other says as a guard.  JR tells them that he can still shot even if he can’t walk around so they should both go.  On their way back into town Bobby and Ray see that they managed to hit one of their attackers.

   Tom Owens’ son was hit in the arm, he tells his  father that he thought that they were only going to rough them up a bit,.

   Jock tells JR that he needs his help, and he tells him that he was married before, and that she is still alive.  He tells JR that his first wife had a nervous breakdown and she is in a hospital in Colorado what a minute is her name Claudia, no it’s Amanda, but this sounds a lot like what happened in Dynasty.  He tells JR that her doctor told him to divorce her since she would never get better.  JR promises to keep his secret.  Jock tells him that he has been paying the hospital bills, and that he never told Miss Ellie, he could never find the right time to tell her, this is never a good thing.  He tells her that he wants to set up a trust for her, JR promises to take care of it when they get back.

   Bobby and Ray get back to town and Bobby thinks that they got there to easily.  They try to get some help from the only guy on the street, but he won’t do much for them, but tell them that there is no police in town and the doctor may or may not be in.  They go across the street and look in cars and take a truck that still has the keys inside it.  I was hoping to see someone run out and run after them, but no we didn’t get to see that.

   Back at camp the men sneak up on JR and Jock.  Tom tries to get Jock to remember who he is.  He tells him that he took everything he had, and he and his son had to start over.  Jock tells him to shoot him then, but he can’t do it, he tells him he’s not a killer, he only shot him because he thought he killed his son.  Bobby and Ray return and get them to drop their guns.  Ray wants to take them to the sheriff, but Jock tells them to let them go and tells them to give them their guns back.  He tells him he isnt’ going to press any charges and that he should have remembered him.

   Back at Southfork, Jock tells Miss Ellie that he is fine, he asks JR to stay behind, he reminds him to set up that trust and once he’s feeling better he will come and go over it with him.

Final Thoughts:   This is one of those stand alone episodes that can be really boring and this one was on the edge for me, I liked parts of the episode, but it wasn't my favorite.

Best Outfit:   I think that the fabric of this dress is horrible, the dress is nice, but if only it was made from different fabric.

Fight Count: 1 (gun fight between Jock and the boys and the country boys)