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.

Hitchhike Part One

Knots Landing

Season 2 Episode 1

Original Airdate: November 20, 1980

Recap:  Sid is driving to the high school for the Knots Landing High Follies.  Karen is backstage with Diana, she looks out and sees that Sid still isn’t there.  Sid stops at a red light and a girl comes up to his window and asks him for a ride.  He tells her no, and drives away.  He sees a van pull up to the girl and sees that the driver is talking to the girl.  He turns around and tells the girl to get in, and drives away, the van follows them. 

   At the high school, Karen is still backstage helping Diana get ready to go on stage. 

   The girl tells Sid that her name is Pamela, she asks him how much money he has on him.  She asks him to give her a $100 so she can go see her mom.  Sid tells her that he’ll take her to the bus station and buy her a ticket. 

   Diana is now on stage with her two friends, they are doing a dance number, something you would see in a Bob Fosse show. 

   Pamela tells Sid that if he doesn’t give her the money she will cry rape.  They are passing a diner and there are cops outside, Sid tells her that now’s her chance.  She waits a bit till they are closer then grabs the wheel and cries out.  The police arrest Sid.

   At the jail, a cop recognizes Sid, he looks at the girl’s statement and asks her if that is what happened, she says yes.  He asks if Sid got his phone call, he then takes him into his office. 

   Richard and Laura are getting ready for bed when the phone rings, Richard tells Sid that he’ll be right there, and bring Karen with him. 

   At the station, the cop tells Sid that he doesn’t think that this will go any further, Karen goes to the window and watches the girl flirting with the other officers.  Pamela sees that Sid is getting to go home, she starts yelling at Karen about what he did to her. 

   Karen tells Sid that she thinks that they need to get a different lawyer, but Sid says that he trusts Richard to do it, she tells him that Richard is going to go talk to Pamela, he tells her that he was thinking of going to see her himself, she gets upset and tells him that she could accuse him again, and that he should just let Richard handle it.  Sid’s sister Abby gets to their house, her daughter is now repeating everything everyone says, and her son doesn’t talk only plays his trumpet.

   Later that night they have the neighbors over, Laura is telling Karen how much she is enjoying her job.  The doorbell rings and its Kenny, Ginger doesn’t look too thrilled to see him, they are separated, he wants to talk, but she tells him to go back to Sylvie.  Karen goes into the kitchen and is trying to decide if she wants to make a phone call, Sid asks her what she is doing, she tells him that she wants to hire a criminal lawyer; she tells him that she doesn’t think that Pamela will drop the case.  He tells her not to panic and they rejoin the party.  Val goes upstairs and talks to Abby’s daughter Olivia, after getting her to stop repeating everything she says, Olivia tells Val that her parents are getting divorced.  Gary tells Karen that he thinks that they should get another lawyers opinion.

   The next morning, Eric and Michael tell Abby’s son Brian to bring in the paper to their parents, he wakes them up by blowing on his trumpet, Karen shows Sid the paper, the headline is about the charges.  Later on Karen gets the name of another attorney and calls him.

   Michael gets into a fight at the beach over the story in the newspaper.

   Laura is with the realtor, they are showing the empty house in the cul-de-sac.  They seem to like they house, when they start to walk along the sidewalk, they see the name Fairgate on the mailbox, they ask the realtor about it, he tells Laura she should have told him that the Fairgate’s were her neighbors.

   Karen is reading the girl’s interview, the lawyer, Stan Lesser gives them some advice, he tells them to keep Richard as their lawyer, and that there is a good former criminal lawyer working at Richard’s law firm.  Michael gets home, and they can see that he is upset, Eric asks Sid why he had to pick up that girl in the first place.

   At the high school, Diana over hears a friend of hers talking about the time Sid took her home, and how he didn’t try to do anything to her.

   Sid notices that everyone is looking at him at the dealership.

   Richard goes over to Pamela’s apartment, he tells her that he wants to talk, he tells her that she is ruining Sid’s reputation, she asks him about her reputation.  He proceeds to try and bribe her into dropping the charges, by telling her that she could get some surfing stuff from a friend of his, and that she could spend some time at a house of a friend of his, that is by the ocean.

   Karen tells Sid that they need to get another lawyer if he is indited. 

   Richard is called to his boss’s office, he wants to know about the case, he tells him that he could get some help, but Richard tells him that he’s got it under control. 

   Richard goes back to Pamela’s apartment to take her to the station so she can drop the charges, but her mother is there, she tells Richard that they won’t be bought.  Richard tells Pamela that the stuff she got isn’t free, that she will get a discount for it.  Her mother tells him to get out, she tells him that they are going to trial and that they aren’t ashamed to air their dirty laundry.

   In the courtroom the judge rules that there is enough evidence to go to trial and Sid is indited for the attempted rape.  Richard tries to calm Karen down, and tells her that there is no case, and it’s only a formality.  She says that Sid will be the first man to be convicted on no case.

Final Thoughts:  I hate Richard, he is the worst lawyer.  I would never have kept him, maybe get his advice, then gone out and found some one more competent, not someone who is so full of himself.  He pretty much screwed Sid, buy trying to bribe Pamela. 
Guest Star:  Ron Rifkin

Before They Were Stars:  Helen Hunt 

Best Outfit:  I was going to get a closer shot because it showed off his chain, but I chose this shot because it showed off his socks.