A Time for Saboteurs

Falcon Crest

Season 1 Episode 2

Air Date:  December 11, 1981 (1981-12-11)

Recap:  Chase and Cole are working in the vineyard, they see a plane fly over.  It’s an old friend of Chase’s.  At dinner he tells the family about how Chase saved him in Vietnam.  He and Julia make plans to meet up the next day so she can give him a tour of the vineyards.

  Angela tells Lance that she isn’t happy that his mother, Julia is spending so much time with Chase and Maggie. 

  Paul tell Chase about his plans for starting a business in the Cayman Islands, where they would fly tourists around the islands.  He wants him to get into business with him, but Chase tells him that he’s happy where he is.

   Angela gets a phone call from her ex-husband, they are going to go to dinner to celebrate their anniversary.

   Julia shows Paul around her lab, and Angela walks in on them as they kiss.  He tells Angela that he wants Chase to get into business with him, but she tells him that she doesn’t think he’ll be easily convinced.

   Paul and Julia plan on having lunch again tomorrow. 

   Paul is talking to someone on the phone about paying them back he assures them that he’s got the money and he’ll pay them back with interest, he tells them about Julia’s father, who he tells them that he’s backing Paul.  When he hangs up two guys walk in and tell him that their boss wants his money, Paul tells them that he’ll have it tomorrow.

   Gus tells Chase that the grapes are almost ready and that they will have a good harvest.

   Paul and Julia talk about Chase and his business, he says if Chase doesn’t join him then he doesn’t have a chance.  She suggests he talk to her mother.

   Paul goes to Angela and tells her that he needs money, and he know she wants Chase out of the valley, and suggests that she pay him if he can get that to happen.

   Paul gets Chase to take a break and they go flying with Cole.  Maggie comes home and asks Gus where Chase is, he tells her that he went flying with Paul.  She sees the plane do some dangerous dives and gets upset and yells at Chase when they land.  Paul tries again to get Chase to get into business with him, but again Chase tells him he likes what he is doing now.

   Maggie is with Julia, who’s teaching her how to taste wine, Maggie tells Julia about Paul, she gets mad when Maggie tells her not to get to involved with Paul.

   At the airfield Paul is trying to get more gas, he still hasn’t paid his deposit, but he convinces the attendant to fill the plane up, and he’ll get him the money and a case of Falcon Crest wine.  The two thugs come back to get their money, Paul tries to give them a check, but they tell him that they aren’t a bank and will only take cash, he tells them that the banks are closed so he’ll cash the check himself tomorrow and give them the money.

   Chase apologizes to Maggie for what he did, she tells him not to scare her like that again, 

    Paul goes to Julia, and she tells him how important the weather is in the wine making business.  He tells her to go change so they can go out to dinner, and while she's gone he looks though some of her books.

   Angela and her ex-husband Doug are reminiscing over dinner, they talk about what drove them apart, but the promise to always remain friends. 

   Paul leaves Julia's room, and goes outside of Chase's house and turns on the sprinklers. 

   Gus wakes up Chase and his family and tell them that the irrigation was turned on, and the vineyard is wet, the fungus will begin to grow and it will destroy the crop.  Chase calls Julia to come and help them save their grapes.  Angela tells her to hurry before Chase's problem becomes their problem too. 

   Chase asks Cole if he turned off the irrigation, he swears he did.  Julia tells them that they need to dry the earth, and if they fly over the crops with the helicopter will might help.

   Paul goes to see Angela, he tells her that she owes him some money, he tells her that he was the one that turned on the irrigation.  She tells him that he could have destroyed all the harvest all over the valley.  He tells her that she owes him.  Angela tells him that she just got a call about him and she sends him out of the house.  She calls Chase and tells him how sorry she is for what happened and that she knows who is responsible.

   Chase tells Maggie and Julia what Angela told him, he doesn't want to believe it, but he is going to go ask Paul for himself.  Julia realizes that she told Paul everything he needed to know to destroy the vineyard, she knows that it was him.

   Chase gets to the airfield and has to drive in front of Paul, who is trying to fly away to get him to stop.  He tells him he wants some answers, Paul brings up the business idea up again, and Chase says it's just a scam, and that he was never his dream, he punches Paul and gets into his car.  The two guys are coming for Paul, he asks Chase to help him, but Chase leaves.

   Julia's idea has worked the fields have dried.  Vicky says she can't believe that Paul would do something like that, her mother reminds her that blood is thicker than water, which Julia says it depends on the family.

Final Thoughts:  I knew that there was something up with that friend the moment he showed up on the screen, he's got an expired insurance card and the kids loved him, while Maggie didn't seem to pleased to see him, this episode reminded me a bit of that episode from Dallas, about Bobby and his old friend, I think I liked that episode better than this one.

Best Outfit:   I can see Little Orphan Annie wearing this when she was older.

Fight Count:  1 (Chase vs Paul)

Fallen Idol

Dallas

Season 1 Episode 17

Air Date:  December 3, 1978 (1978-12-03)

Recap:  JR is with Willie Joe and Jeb, they are concerned about their businesses and JR is trying to convince them to trust him.

    Bobby is walking down the street when someone calls his name, and throws a football to him,  Bobby is happy to see his old college friend, Guzzler.  They go have lunch and talk about the old days and what they are doing now.  Bobby invites Guzzler to come stay at Southfork.

   JR tells Willie Joe and Jeb that they’ll hit oil, but they aren’t so sure, they want to drill on the land on Southfork, JR reminds them that they can’t do anything till Jock dies.  He offers to advance them the money in good faith, but they want an independent evaluation, JR agrees but tells them that his mother can’t see what is going on so they need to be careful.

   Guzzler is entertaining the family with all his stories, everyone is impressed with him, but JR who goes up to bed complaining that he talks to much.  Sue Ellen tells him she’ll be up in a moment and goes to call Cliff, they arrange to meet on Sunday when JR has a meeting.  Jock and Miss Ellie tell Guzzler that he is welcome to stay awhile.

   Bobby gets the idea that he and Guzzler can work together in his construction business.  They go out and celebrate.

   Pam wakes up and finds Guzzler and Bobby come home very drunk.  Guzzler brings Bobby up to their bedroom and puts him the bed, he tries to kiss her, and she tells him to get out.

   The next day he scares her at the pool, and wants to know what’s wrong with her, he must not remember what he did the night before.  She goes up to her room and Guzzler tells Bobby that he’s in trouble.

   JR takes them out to the property where they have a geologist overseeing the evaluation, he tells them that there is a lot of oil on the land, Jeb and Willie Joe tells JR that this makes them feel a lot better. 

   Pam asks Bobby how long Guzzler is going to stay, he tells her as long as he can convince him to stay and he tells her about his plan on them going into business together.  She doesn’t think this is a good idea.  Bobby tells her she’s just jealous of Guzzler, she tells him to leave. 

    While Bobby and Guzzler are riding around, he comes up with the perfect project for them to work on, he wants to build a shopping center, on Southfork land. 

   Bobby goes to talk to Jock about it, and he agrees to look at the property, but wants JR to come along with them.

   Lucy and Guzzler are talking by the pool, she really is into him for some reason, they decided that they are going to go out for a ride, but when Pam comes out Guzzler suggests that they just go for a swim instead.  He asks Pam why she dislikes him so much, she tells him she doesn’t like how Bobby’s changed since he’s been at the house.  He then tells her how much Bobby means to him, and she apologizes telling him that she is now seeing a different side to him. 

   Jock reminds the boys that they can’t drill on Southfork land and it’s in his will too.  He thinks the shopping center is a good idea, but he says that they need to talk to Miss Ellie. 

   Miss Ellie isn’t happy about the idea of using the land her daddy loved so much, but when Jock says that it’s for Bobby she agrees.

   Willie Joe and Jeb go to see JR because they’ve heard about Bobby’s shopping center that will be built on the oil sight.  Willie Joe says that if JR doesn’t stop him then he will.  JR punches him and tells him never to threaten his brother, and for them to get out of his office. 

   Bobby and Guzzler are very busy with the new project, everyone wants in on the project and it’s getting bigger and bigger.

   JR calls his private investigator who tells him he can dig for more information, but JR says that what he’s given him is enough.

   Pam and JR meet up for lunch she wants to know what he wants.  He shows her what he dug up on Guzzler and tells her that they both want him out of Bobby’s life (though for different reasons)  Guzzler’s broke and has been scamming people all over the country.  She asks why didn’t tell Bobby himself, he says that Bobby’s got a blind spot, and he wants her to do it. 

   Bobby is getting to be a bit overwhelmed by how big the project has grown, Guzzler tells him that he’s a great salesmen and it’s going to be great.  Miss Ellie comes in and looks at the plans, she says it’s so much bigger than she thought.  Bobby can see she’s upset and follows her outside.  She asks why things have to change, he asks why she agreed to it.  She tells him that she loves the land, but that she loves her sons more.

   The next morning Pam gets up without waking Bobby and goes to Guzzler’s room, he thinks she’s coming in for something more than just talking.  She asks him about the scams he’s been running.  She calls him a user, and a liar.  He asks if she hired a detective, and he tells her she won.  No she says Bobby loses.  He tells her that Bobby was the only one he could go to, and that he just wants to be the guy he was in college again.  He wants to know if she’s going to tell Bobby, she says she doesn’t know and leaves the room.

   When she gets back to the bedroom, Bobby is awake.  She tells him that she found something out about Guzzler, Bobby tells her he already knows, and he was trying to help him.  She tells him that she thinks she might have hurt him, he tells Pam that she thinks he’s going to hurt Guzzler now. 

   Bobby finds Guzzler outside, Bobby tells him he wants to talk, he thinks the shopping center is getting too big.  Guzzler tells him that he was going to back out anyway, he got a call about problems in South America that he needs to take care of.  Bobby tries to stop him telling him they can look for a different property, but Guzzler tell him he’s got to go, that he’s needed somewhere else.  Bobby tells him when he comes back the offer still stands.  They say goodbye, and Pam joins Bobby as they watch his cab drive away.

Final Thoughts:  After Guzzler made that pass at Pam I thought that would be the problem of the show, I figured he wasn't really drunk and had his eye on her from the moment they met.  Pretty good episode, the guy who played Guzzler looked a lot older than Bobby, but maybe it was all the hard living.

Best Outfit:  I couldn't get over the pants.

Fight Count:  1 (JR vs Willie Joe)