Jock's Trial, Part One

Dallas 

Season 3 Episode 22

Original Airdate:   February 22, 1980 

Recap:  Jock is complaining about how Miss Ellie is never at home anymore, since she is trying to save Mimosa Park.

   Cliff is given the case about the body found on Southfork.

   Miss Ellie and the ladies of the DOA are trying to get support for their cause; Matt Devlin comes over and tells them he is tired of them holding all their meetings on his property.  They tell him that they will stop him.  He offers to take Miss Ellie home, and she accepts.

   JR tells Kristin that he doesn’t want her involved anymore in the plan; it wouldn’t look good if she was, and his parents wouldn’t appreciate her being in the picture before he and Sue Ellen are divorced.

   Sue Ellen throws things at JR when he comes into the room, he stops her and she tells him that she knows that someone was going through her things, he tells her that he had one of the maids do it to see if she was hiding any liquor.  He asks her if she is coming down for dinner.  Sue Ellen tells him no. 

   Downstairs Lucy is making a date for lunch the next day with a boy from one of her classes.  JR tells the family that he thinks he needs to put Sue Ellen back into the sanitarium.  Cliff calls and tells Pam that their father is back and that he is drinking again.  She tells him that she will be right over.  When she gets there he tells her that Digger got back before he came home from work, he tells her that Digger was fired and that he relapsed and drinking everything Cliff had in the house and tearing it up looking for more.  He tells Pam that it’s all the Ewing’s fault.  Pam tells him that she doesn’t want to listen to that again, she leaves and Cliff makes a phone call to talk to the Sheriff the next day about the body that was buried at Southfork.

   Jock tells Miss Ellie that he wants to spend the day with her, but she tells him that she has plans already with Matt Devlin. 

   At the Sheriff’s office, Cliff questions him about the body, he asks to see the effects found on the body, he sees the initials on the belt buckle and he asks if they found out who he was.  The Sheriff tells Cliff that he is busy.  Cliff tells him he wants the employment records from Southfork.  Cliff arranges it so an anthropologist will look at the body at the morgue.

   Bobby tells Sue Ellen that he thinks she has been spending too much time alone, he asks her if she needs help.  She asks him if he believes that she started drinking again.  Bobby tells her that he wants to believe that she isn’t.  Sue Ellen tells him that JR is trying to put her away; she tells Bobby that she wants a divorce from JR.  Bobby tells her that she needs to leave JR in the open and not hide it.  He tells her not to play any games, that JR is too good. 

   Matt Devlin shows Miss Ellie the plans, but she says that it won’t convince her that it’s a good thing, but showing them to her.  He asks her to have lunch with him; she tells him that she has to go.  Matt tells her that he will call her and they can talk again over lunch tomorrow. 

   The Sheriff is over at Southfork and tells Jock that the DA is going to investigate.  He tells him that they want the employment records.  Jock says that they don’t keep them that far back, but that they can have them if they can find them.  Ray suggests that he check the shed.

   Pam goes over to Cliff’s, she sees all the empty bottles on the floor, she goes into Digger’s bedroom and finds him lying on the ground, she calls for an ambulance.

   Bobby bursts into JR’s office and asks him why he cut back the on the oil field that he just opened.  Bobby tells him that he is supposed to consult him; he asks him what Jock would say if he went to him about his.  JR tells him that if can open the fields up again and that next time he will consult with him first.

   Cliff and the Sheriff are going over the records and find a couple of names that match with the initials on the belt, HM.  Cliff is told about one of the men, Hutch McKinney, who was the foremen at Southfork, he had a bad temper, Cliff asks if he thinks that Jock could have killed him.

   Cliff meets up with Pam at the hospital; she is upset that he hasn’t been with their father all day.  He tells her that he is trying to help him his own way.  She tells him that it’s not good; all his drinking has done a lot of damage.

   Sue Ellen tells Dr. Elby that she is going to leave JR, he asks her about the baby, she tells his that she has thought of nothing but him, she knows that if she took him with her that JR would come after her, so she will leave the baby and Miss Ellie and Pam will take good care of him till she can come for him.  He asks her if she is strong enough to leave her baby, she tells him that with Dusty’s help she can do it.

   Cliff is assigning investigators what he wants them do for the case.  He tells one of them to take metal detectors to Southfork.  The assistant DA comes in and tells him that he can’t keep the investigators on the case for too long since they have newer murders that they need to wrap up; he tells Cliff that he just has a grudge against the Ewing’s.  Cliff calls the anthropologist that he needs him to hurry and get the results to him.

   Miss Ellie asks Bobby how Digger is doing, he tells her not good, and tells them that Cliff is after the Ewing’s again.  Bobby tells JR that Sue Ellen told him that she thinks he is trying to put in the sanitarium and that he is trying to make them all believe she is drinking.  JR tells him to stay out of it.  Bobby asks what he’ll do, make them all think he’s drinking too.

   Cliff gets to the hospital and tells Pam to go home and rest, she tells him that she doesn’t want to leave Digger, she will rest out in the waiting room.

   Sue Ellen goes to the nursery and talks to Baby John, she tells him that she has to leave but it won’t be for long and that he will be with her and Dusty soon.  When she turns to leave he says Mama.

   The anthropologist brings the model he made from the body to Cliff. 

   The Sheriff tells Jock, JR, and Bobby what Cliff has come up with, Ray comes over and tells them that a gun was found not far from where the body was buried.  Jock tells his son’s that they need to pull all their favors in and get Cliff taken off the case, because if Ray is right then the gun is his.

   Cliff is interviewing a man who was at the bar and witnessed a fight between Hutch McKinney and Jock, he has him tell the Sheriff everything he told Cliff.  He tells him that Jock and McKinney were fighting and Jock fired him, and told him that if he didn’t leave the ranch by the morning then he’d kill him.

   Sue Ellen goes to Dusty’s, but he isn't at his place yet.

   Miss Ellie and Matt are having lunch together, he tells her that he doesn’t want to talk about the park, she asks what he wants, he tells her that he wants to talk about them.  He tells her that all this time that they have been fighting he has been falling in love with her and she’s been falling in love with him.  She tells him that she wants to leave, and he says that he won’t talk anymore and asks her to finish her lunch.

   At Dusty’s Sue Ellen is watching the news when she gets the news that Dusty’s plane crashed and there  was no sign of life.  She goes over to the bar and gets a drink.

   Bobby comes home as the Sheriff is reading Jock his rights; he is being arrested for the murder of Hutch McKinney.

Final Thoughts:  Of course Cliff would be given the case, even though I think that they would want to get someone with no prejudice to try the case, since everyone in the state of Texas knows about the feud between the Barnes' and the Ewing's.  If he were to be convicted they could get a retrial since the prosecution wasn't impartial, we've been watching a lot of Law & Order lately.  And Sue Ellen's drinking again!  Won't JR be happy.

Best Outfit:  I had a hard time picking something for this episode, and the only reason why I picked this is because his hair matches his suit, and plus he look just plain creepy.

Divorce - Ewing Style

Dallas 

Season 3 Episode 21

Original Airdate: February 15, 1980 

Recap:  When JR walks into Southfork all the lights are off, he knows everyone is home because all the cars are there, suddenly the lights come on and they all call out Happy Anniversary, its Sue Ellen and JR’s 9^th wedding anniversary.  Miss Ellie tells him that she hopes he got Sue Ellen something special.  Sue Ellen tells him that she got him something too, and that he can give it to her later (which is good because I think that JR forgot and she knows it).  Jock toasts the “happy couple” and Lucy says who would have thought it would last, to Kristin.  Later JR goes over to Kristin and tells her that she is being a pretty obvious and tells her to at least pretend like she is having a good time, like him.  She asks what Sue Ellen is doing, and JR says that they will find out as Sue Ellen joins them.  Sue Ellen gives a toast to her sister, she says that Kristin will be leaving to go to California, and that she hopes that she can find a man of her own, one that makes her as happy as JR has made her.

   After the party JR and Sue Ellen go to their room, he asks her why she threw the party, and she tells him that she did it to show all their friends and family how devoted she is to him.  He lies down on the bed and asks her when she is going to show him this devotion.  She tells him that she will show him right now, and takes the bottle of champagne from him and pours it over him.  He gets up and asks her why she did that.  Sue Ellen tells JR that she needed to cool him off, because she doesn’t want him confused about how she acts in public towards him.  She tells him that they won’t be making love that night or any night till she leaves him with her son.  JR asks her who she is fooling with her act; she says that she already fooled him so everyone else will be easy.  As she leaves he tells her that she won’t take his son.

   When JR gets to his office the next day, he is hung over, Louella tells him that Kristin called several times already and wants him to call her back.  He tells her if she calls again to tell her that he is in a meeting.  Louella tells him that Bobby wants to see him.  In Bobby’s office, Bobby tells JR that he wants to open up an old Ewing Oil field that they closed over thirty years ago, he thinks that they could make a pretty good profit with it, but JR doesn’t seem to care about it, he tells Bobby to do it if he wants and leaves the office.  When he goes back to the reception area, Kristin has called again; he shakes his head at Louella who tells Kristin that JR is in a meeting.

   Later that day JR is at Serena’s house, she tells him that she is surprised he hasn’t offered to get her a new place, he tells her that he likes the way things are and he pays her.  When he leaves a car follows him as he drives off.

   The next day Alan comes to see JR at the office, he tells JR that he needs his help, he tells him that he was fired from the law firm and he knows that he had something to do with it.  Alan apologizes for being greedy.  JR denies knowing what Alan is talking about when he brings up all the things that he did for him.  Alan tells JR that he knows enough to cause him a lot of grief.  JR tells him that he can try, but he suggests that he just get out of town.

   JR goes to Kristin’s apartment later; the same car is following him.  Kristin tells JR that she thought he was dead since he never called her back she asks if he got any of her messages.  He tells her that he came to see her and if he wanted screaming and yelling he could go home for that.  Kristin tells him that from what she saw at the party the only thing JR is getting at home is Sue Ellen hanging all over him.  She asks him what Sue Ellen meant about her going to California, she tells him that she isn’t leaving.  JR says that he thought she wanted to continue her education, Kristin says that she was learning enough when she was working for him.  JR tells her that since she isn’t working at the office anymore, and if she doesn’t like waiting for him to come over if he decides to then he can get her a ticket to California anytime.  She apologizes and tells him that she just misses seeing him during the day.  He tells her he will come over again tomorrow.  He goes to his car and this time notices that a car is following him.

   The next morning JR makes a phone call from his car (on his car phone) to the police and asks Detective McSween to come to the office to talk.

   Miss Ellie is talking to Matt Devlin, she is still trying to get him to stop building on Mimosa Park, she asks him where people will go if they tear it down to build the housing development.

   JR tells the McSween about the car that was following him.  Detective McSween says that if he calls him later and tells him where he will be then they will keep an eye on him.  He tells JR that Cliff is now working for the District Attorney’s office.

   Kristin answers the door thinking that it is JR, but it’s really Alan, he has come over to try to get her to work with him at getting JR back, he tells her that he knows that she kept some records, and he did to.    When he leaves he says that it would be a shame to give everything she has up.

   JR is back with Serena, she tells him that if he just wanted to talk then they could have talked on the phone, and that he doesn’t get a discount for just talking.  JR gets up and pays her and leaves.  He drives off and the other car pulls out and starts to follow him too, but is soon pulled over by the police.  JR drives back and asks who he is and who hired him.  The guy finally gives it up and tells JR and the police that he’s a private investigator and he tells them who hired him.

   JR goes in to his bedroom and tells Sue Ellen that no one does that to him.  She asks him why she would do it, and he says that’s what he wants to know.  Sue Ellen tells him that she is paying him back for all the times he had her followed.  He realizes that this is how she is going to try to win custody.  He tells her that he will kill her first; she tells him that he doesn’t have the guts.

   JR complains to Kristin about what Sue Ellen has done.  He tells her that he needs to get Sue Ellen locked back up in the sanitarium, for good this time.  He says that they need to get her drinking again, or at least make everyone think that she is drinking again.  He tells Kristin that he will need her help, she tells him that she would do anything for him, she tells him that she wants something in return, she wants to be the next Mrs. JR Ewing.  He says that they shouldn’t rush in to anything, but she is adamant, and he agrees.  He tells her that he wants her to take Sue Ellen out to lunch the next day.

   The next day at lunch, Kristin thanks her for coming.  Sue Ellen tells her that she was curious about what she wanted.  Kristin tells her that she is sorry for everything she has done.  She tells Sue Ellen that she is going to California and that she wants to make it up to her.  Kristin tells her that she was only doing what their mother taught her, Sue Ellen tells her that she is smart, that it took her awhile to learn that about their mother.  Kristin tells her that she is trying to change and wants to be friends.  Sue Ellen agrees, they toast to this, but Kristin spills her drink all over Sue Ellen, she leaves to try to clean herself up.

   JR goes to Sue Ellen’s PI and pays him off to change the reports, he tells him not to worry about the ones he sent to Sue Ellen, he’ll take care of those.

   The Sheriff comes over to Southfork and tells Jock and Miss Ellie that Ray can start working on his house again; they don’t have any leads on the body that was found.  Miss Ellie asks if they are closing the case, he tells her that they aren’t but they won’t be focusing their time on it anymore.  When Sue Ellen gets home Miss Ellie asks her how her lunch went, Jock and Ellie ask her about the stain on her dress.  She tells them about Kristin spilling her drink.  Jock makes a comment about thinking that Kristin only drank white wine.  In her room Sue Ellen hides the report under her jewelry drawer in the dresser.

   Later that night Miss Ellie asks JR what’s wrong, he tells his parents that he found a liquor bottle in the bedroom and thinks that Sue Ellen has started drinking again, he asks Miss Ellie to watch her during the day, but asks them not to talk to her about it.  Jock says that he thought Sue Ellen was acting funny that afternoon.  JR calls Kristin and she tells him that she knows what she needs to do next.

   When Jock gets to the office Kristin is there waiting for JR, he takes her into the office with him, and she asks him if Sue Ellen got home ok, and that she didn’t know that Sue Ellen started drinking again.  He asks her if Sue Ellen was drinking at lunch, Kristin tells him that she had three drinks, four if you count the one she spilled.

   Later Sue Ellen is pulled over; JR’s friend at the police is in the back of the police car.  Bobby is the one to answer the call from the police letting the family know that she was pulled over for suspicion of drunk driving but no arrest.  She and Bobby come home alone, he tells Jock and Miss Ellie that JR stayed behind to smooth things over, and he tells them that next time they will arrest her.

   JR tells Kristin that everyone believes Sue Ellen is drinking again.  He tells her that he doesn’t want to rush things; she tells him that she can’t wait to live at Southfork.  He tells her again not to rush things.

   Sue Ellen tells her therapist that she is sure JR is behind this, she tells him that she is frustrated that no one believes her.  He tells her that he doesn’t understand why JR would be doing this.  She tells him that she made a mistake by telling JR that she was leaving and that she hired a PI to follow him.  She asks Dr. Ell by if he believes her.  She tells him that JR wants to put her back in the sanitarium, but she won’t let him this time.

   At the house Sue Ellen tells JR that her therapist doesn’t believe that she is drinking again.  She confronts him in front of the family about him trying to get them to believe that she is drinking again to send her away, she tells them that she hired a PI and she has the reports to prove what he’s been doing, she goes up to get the reports.  Bobby tells JR to stop her.  When Sue Ellen comes back down she gives Jock and Miss Ellie the reports.  They tell her that it only says that JR went to meetings and dinner with friends of the family.  She realizes that he switched the reports, she attacks him, and Bobby and Pam pull her away and take her upstairs.  JR tells his parents that he is sorry that they had to witness that, he calls the doctor to come and check on Sue Ellen. 

Final Thoughts:  JR is definitely going to have some trouble with Kristin.  I really can't believe that Kristin could do this to her sister.  I really feel bad for Sue Ellen, she really has no one on her side to believe her, she was stupid to hire such a stupid PI, I'm sure that there could have been someone who wouldn't have got caught. 

Best Outfit:  Alan has a corduroy suit with what looks like a corduroy tie.

Reunion Part 2

Dallas

Season 1 Episode 7

Air Date:  September 30 1978

Recap:  Pam meets her Aunt Maggie at the hospital, they go into the Drunk Ward and see Digger.  Before Gary pulls into the ranch Valene makes him stop, Lucy and Gary convince her that things have changed at Southfork.  They are greeted by the family, and JR apologizes to her, Bobby tells her that Pam will be there later.  Gary talks to Ray about the Ranch and is disappointed that it doesn't seem like they need anymore help.  I think that JR had a little chat with Ray, because not long after JR shows up and tells Gary about this company that he thinks that Gary would be great at running.  Valene doesn't buy anything that JR tells Gary, but Gary wants to believe what his brother is telling him. 
Pam goes to her Aunt's house, Digger tells her he doesn't want to see her and makes her leave.  Bobby tries to get Gary to take a break from reading the papers that JR gave to him about the company, but JR guilt's him into keep working.  Valene talks to Miss Ellie about her and Gary staying at Southfork.  Valene tells Bobby that she's worried about the pressure that Gary will be under if he stays. 
Bobby talks to JR, and tells him that not to do anything to Gary, that he likes having another brother.  Pam comes home upset about what happened with Digger, when Jock asks if there's anything he can do she tells him that he's done enough. 
Later Digger comes over, he runs over some things in the yard.  He throws the things Pam bought for him, he tells Jock that he wants money for Pam, he asks for $10,000, Jock offers $100, and he takes it. 
In their room Bobby comforts Pam, she tells him she doesn't care anymore. 
Gary is still reading those papers, he tells Pam that he's read the same thing over and over.  Miss Ellie brings him some milk and cookies, and Lucy come too.  Somehow the milk spills and the women fuss over the desk, Gary flips out and yells at them.  He runs to the other room and pours himself a drink, Valene see him, and leaves before she can see him decide not to take the drink. 
The next morning Gary is sneaking out.  Valene runs after him, she asks if he drank it, he tells her no.  He says that the family will tear apart if he stays.  She asks about Lucy, he says that she's better off without him.  She tells him she only knew he was gone because she went to his room, and that she loves him.  He leaves. 
JR is outside and offers Valene $5000 to leave she tells she doesn't want his money. 
Miss Ellie is walking and tells Jock she doesn't understand what happened. 
Bobby tries to defend Gary, but Lucy is very angry, she asks where her mother is and JR tells her that she went after Gary. 
Pam goes back to see Digger, she tells him that she's ashamed of him and that he's just as bad as Jock Ewing.  He tries to give her the $100, but she tells him to keep it because Jock owes him a lot more.  He smiles at that. 
Bobby says that he thinks that JR pushed Gary away.  Lucy finds out her mother is not working at the diner anymore.  JR tells her that she asked for money before she left, and shows her a check stub for $5000, he tells her that her mother asked him for it.  She hits him
Final Thoughts:  Since this was a two part episode I decided to wait to write up my thought till the end of the the story.  I thought that this was a pretty good episode.  I like the part when Pam went and told Digger off.  It's a pretty sad episode, but the acting was great, and believable.
Best Outfit:   It looks like JR is going to go on a safari in Africa in this outfit, it made me laugh.

Fight Count:  1 (Valene vs JR)

Barbecue

Dallas

Season 1 Episode 5

Air Date: April 30 1978

Recap:  There's going to be a barbecue at the Ranch later and a lot of work is going on to get ready.  Pam is with Digger, who is going to go to the party.  She wants him to go to Southfork with her, so the family can get reacquainted, but he says that he'll come later.  Digger tells them that not only did Jock steal the oil away from him, he also stole Miss Ellie away.
 Pam goes back to the ranch, and calls the doctor, and finds out that she is pregnant.  She tells Bobby. 
The barbecue is is full swing, and Miss Ellie is circulating, when Digger and his nephew arrive she welcomes him and takes him on a tour of the ranch.   Bobby is telling everyone about the baby, that everyone but his parents.  They go to find them and give them the good news. 
Jock is drinking a lot, Bobby finds him and tells him that he and Pam have news that they want to share with them.  Miss Ellie tells Digger that she married Jock to save Southfork, but they have had a good marriage. 
Sue Ellen hears the new about Pam and Bobby's baby from Lucy, she goes to JR, and tells him about the baby, and goes off on him, telling him that if he had shown any interest in her that she would have given Jock the grandchild that he wants already.  Lucy sits down with Pam's cousin Jimmy and asks him a bunch of questions, he seems pretty dumb, so she leaves. 
Sue Ellen is drink a lot now and is sitting with a bunch of older ladies, she rambling and I think she's having a conversation with someone that exists in her mind.  It's really clear that these ladies are uncomfortable. 
Miss Ellie and Digger finally join Jock, Pam and Bobby, and they tell them the good news, everyone is happy, Digger asks if Pam is happy and she tells him yes.  Pam tells Jock that she wants her baby to have both grandfathers in their life, Digger makes the first move and they shake hands, and go for a drink, Digger says he's back on the wagon so he doesn't drink anything.  They talk about the baby and Digger doesn't want the baby to be spoiled by Jock.  He wants Jock to apologize to him about what he's done.  They start to argue, Pam and Miss Ellie try to get them to stop, and Jock tells them that he put the oil in his name only so Digger wouldn't drink all his money away and that he planned on giving him half.  Digger starts to drink and is soon drunk.  Bobby tells Jock that what he did was wrong. 
JR has been drinking a lot and is drunk as well.  Pam goes to find her cousin to take Digger home, she finds him in the barn with Lucy.  She stays behind to rest for a bit.  Sue Ellen is riding a horse and is joined by Bobby and JR.  Bobby hits JR after he makes a comment about Pam's past, Bobby takes Sue Ellen home, JR gets up and goes to the barn where he sees Pam.  He scares her and after a scuffle, she falls to the next level of the barn. 
Bobby is outside, he tells his parents that they lost the baby, and don't know yet if Pam can ever have anymore children.  JR comes out and tries to apologize telling him that it was an accident.
Bobby goes back to Pam and tell her that his family is to blame for this, and that they are going to leave.  Jock comes in and tells them that he believes JR that it was an accident, he tells Pam that he doesn't want to lose another son.  After he's gone Bobby asks her if it was really an accident, she says that it was, and that she wants to stay at Southfork. 
Outside JR is sitting at the patio table, Sue Ellen asks if he pushed Pam, he says he didn't, when she asks if he is sorry they lost the baby, he just looks at her. 
Final Thoughts:  This episode was so much better than the last one, there was some great drunk acting, Sue Ellen was great in this episode. 
Best Outfit: The red and white skirt with the gypsy blouse.
Fight Count: 1 (Bobby and JR)