Community Spirit

Knots Landing

Season 1 Episode 2

Air Date:  January 3, 1980

Recap:  JR is planning on drilling for oil in California. 

   Val is at the beach, she meets one of Sid and Karen’s sons, Eric, who is surfing, they see a large boat out in the ocean.  When she gets home she tells Gary that it was an oil boat.

   Richard thinks he was right and that the Ewing’s are opening a West Coast office, but Gary tells him again that he’s not involved with the family business.  Karen tells them about the meeting to discuss the off-shore drilling, Gary tells her that he doesn’t want to get involved.  Later Gary agrees to go, after talking with Val.

   There are about 20 people who showed up, when Richard and his wife Laura arrive, they run into the oil representative, who's name is Chip, he is an old friend of Laura’s.  He begins his speech, but it’s pretty short, Karen and Gary ask a lot of questions,  Karen wants to hold a rally where all Gary’s questions can be answered.  Chip tells Laura that he wants to meet up with her. 

   Chip calls JR and tells him that they don’t have to worry about anything, but that Gary was there and kind of stirred everyone up.  JR tells him that he’ll be out tomorrow.

   Before he leaves for work, Karen is trying to get Gary to be the leader of the rally, he tells her he not interested.  Val tells Karen about Gary and his family, as she is who should drive up, but JR.  Karen introduces herself, and goes to Laura’s to paint the signs for the rally.  Val and JR go to their house, he tells her he wants to talk to Gary, and makes her call him.

   Laura and Karen are painting the signs, and are talking about JR showing up.  Chip calls and Karen asks her about him, but Laura won’t say anything.

   When Gary gets home, JR takes his time to get to the point, when he does get to the reason for his visit he tells Gary that he doesn’t want the project to be delayed.

   Richard gets home, she asks him what’s wrong, he’s frustrated by work, he feels like he’s being wasted but filing legal briefs.  He asks her to call Chip to see if he can get the Petrolux account for the law firm, she tells him she doesn’t want to, but finally agrees.

   JR asks Gary about his job, and that he’s only here to protect the families interests.  Gary tells him that he might not even get involved with the protest, but Val tells him that he needs to, that this is there home.  JR warns Gary that he’ll break him if he doesn’t stay out of this.

   Val and Gary are at Sid and Karen’s for coffee and they talk about JR and the drilling.  Sid tells Gary that he needs to think like a Ewing, so they can find a way to stop the drilling.  They make a plan, and Karen is going to distract JR.

   Laura comes over to Chip’s hotel room, she tells him why she really called and he agrees to try to help Richard get the account, but she has to sleep with him.

   Karen goes over to JR’s for lunch, they talk and share a bottle of champagne, while Gary goes to JR’s office, where he looks through the files, he finds what he wants and takes the file with him out of the office.  At JR’s the phone rings and when he picks it up he asks her if she told Gary that she would be there because he’s calling for her, after she hangs up she suddenly remembers that she’s got to pick up the kids, the dry cleaning and start dinner.  JR knows that something is up.

   JR gets to Gary’s and Val’s house and tells him that he knew that he was in the office, Gary tells him that he’ll use the information that he found, but JR tells him that he’ll tell Lucy that her parents got remarried without telling her or having her with them.

   At the rally, everyone from the cul-de-sac is there, Richard asks Laura if he should go over and talk to Chip, she says to leave him alone, but when Richard see’s JR he goes over to introduce himself, leaving Laura to take Chip aside.

   Karen tells Val and Gary that she could see right through JR and can see that he’s not nice at all.

   Chip knows why Laura took him over to introduce him to her son, and he isn’t subtle with his comments she tries to hit him, but he stops her, but her son Jason sees this and rushes over to stop him, Richard comes over and stops his son and tells Chip to get lost, he tells Laura that he never wanted her to get that far with him, yeah right.

   Val tells JR to call Lucy that they were going to soon anyway, she calls his bluff.  Gary tells him that he’s got the survey that talks about the alternative sights that could be drilled at, and that nothing is going to stop him from telling everyone about them.  JR tells everyone that he’s firing Chip because he didn’t reveal the findings of the survey and that they will no longer drill at the off-shore sight but at the alternative sight.  Everyone is thrilled with the news.  JR tells Chip that he wants him to be the PR man for the new project.  Gary tells Val, Karen, and Sid that even though they got what they wanted that it’s JR who’s really won.

Final Thoughts:  In the begining right after the opening credits, they went right into the Dallas theme song.  I don't think this show has it's identity yet, we'll see what comes next.

Guest Stars:  Larry Hagman

Best Outfit:  I choose this because of the pattern it looks a bit like dog bones.

Fight Count:  0