Welcome back Soap Fiends!
Ever find yourself pondering the complexities of family drama amidst a backdrop of glamorous high stakes? Join me, your host Jet, on a captivating journey through the Southfork estate as we unravel the web of suspicion following JR's shooting in "Dallas," season 4, episode 2. Grip the edge of your seat as we explore Sue Ellen's inner turmoil—did she pull the trigger during her drunken blackout, or are we being led down a path of red herrings?
As the Ewing family grapples with their patriarch's critical state, the tension is palpable, and the stakes are higher than ever. Witness the return of Gary, armed with sobriety and a new perspective on the family he once fled. I'll share my insights on how their intricate relationships unfold under pressure—including Sue Ellen's contentious stance against JR's surgery and Gary's struggle to regain his footing within the family dynamic. It's a treacherous tightrope walk of loyalty, fear, and hidden agendas in the house of Ewing.
To cap off, we can't help but speculate over Lucy's role in this high drama. While her story simmers on the sideline, one can't ignore the potential for a shocking twist. Stay with me as we anticipate the next slice of vintage prime time excitement, where the only thing more plentiful than the oil is the secrets. Remember, keep the drama on your screens, and I'll be here to tease it apart, one thread at a time.
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Welcome back Soap Fiends!
Ever find yourself pondering the complexities of family drama amidst a backdrop of glamorous high stakes? Join me, your host Jet, on a captivating journey through the Southfork estate as we unravel the web of suspicion following JR's shooting in "Dallas," season 4, episode 2. Grip the edge of your seat as we explore Sue Ellen's inner turmoil—did she pull the trigger during her drunken blackout, or are we being led down a path of red herrings?
As the Ewing family grapples with their patriarch's critical state, the tension is palpable, and the stakes are higher than ever. Witness the return of Gary, armed with sobriety and a new perspective on the family he once fled. I'll share my insights on how their intricate relationships unfold under pressure—including Sue Ellen's contentious stance against JR's surgery and Gary's struggle to regain his footing within the family dynamic. It's a treacherous tightrope walk of loyalty, fear, and hidden agendas in the house of Ewing.
To cap off, we can't help but speculate over Lucy's role in this high drama. While her story simmers on the sideline, one can't ignore the potential for a shocking twist. Stay with me as we anticipate the next slice of vintage prime time excitement, where the only thing more plentiful than the oil is the secrets. Remember, keep the drama on your screens, and I'll be here to tease it apart, one thread at a time.
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Get me the hell out of here. I don't want drunk Gary, sober Gary, uncle Gary, I don't know who this man is. Get him the hell out of my sight. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome and welcome back to SoFlor, the official gathering place for newbies, novices and OG die hard fans of the Golden Age of Primetime. I'm your host, jet, and I'm viewing and reviewing Dallas, season 4, episode 2, no More Mr Knife Guy, part 2.
Speaker 1:They are pulling out none of the stops on this similar snooze fest of an episode, but we gotta get through the necessary usual suspects. So, whether you're new to this or true to this, that back in InJoy, tell the kids it's time to play outside at a site. Don't pay no questions, suggestions or concerns for the next 25, maybe 20 minutes. Everyone else in the air shot. Be clear, be quiet, or you still can get kicked out because we're enjoying our stories. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is SoFlor. Welcome back, party people, to another fine-filled edition of SoFlor. Listen, I know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking Like Jet, didn't you just say this episode was a snooze fest? Sort of Every day of your life can't be the most exciting day of your life. After a premiere you expect there to be a few building block episodes and this one is coming off as such. I'm not saying that it's. It was boring, because it wasn't it? Just a lot of it seemed totally unnecessary. So let's do a really brief recap.
Speaker 1:When last we left, jr had been shot. The doctors were taking their sweet time to remedy the situation with surgery. I mean, he laid out, he got shot at night. He was still laying on a gurney the next morning. The rest of the family has gathered at the hospital, everyone is accounted for and Gary is on his way from not landing back to Dallas. Now, the last scene that we all saw JR's eyes begin to flutter open. After one successful surgery He'd been kind of in a I guess in a coma or just resting, I don't know. It's been passed out for the last 36 hours, not really sure, but his eyes begin to flutter open and the cop, of course, shows up. The cops are crawling all over the hospital asking different questions, trying to compile a list of suspects.
Speaker 1:Sue Ellen is a little bit nervous because she can't really remember the course events. All she knows is she woke up with an empty bottle of booze at the airport and her baby sister told her girl you came over here talking real reckless, talking about how you're going to shoot up JR. She had planned on doing it. So her mind, I think she thinks, oh, I definitely did it. His eyes flutter open and she's like swallowing, gulping, like, oh my God, is a sanatorium or prison better? Maybe that, you know, maybe an insanity, please, probably in my best interests, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, this episode opens and we get to hear what JR saw. So grab yourself something refreshing. Not going to be a super long episode. We'll get to the nitty gritty, because then we got to get to episode three, because, of course, I watched that. It is getting harder and harder to contain myself. I need to know who did it.
Speaker 1:Season four, episode two no more, mr Nice Guy. Part two. Jr's Hospital Room at Dallas. Chubby cop Ellie, sue, ellen, bobby Chubby cops says hey, jr, do you see who shot you? Jr flutters his eyes open and he's thinking about it and I'm thinking to myself oh no, does he have amnesia Seems likely right even shot? He's been passed out for God knows how long. Seems like he would bled out or something. No, he's perfectly fine, he's not. I didn't see, it was just too dark, I didn't see who did it.
Speaker 1:Sue Ellen exhales a breath of relief and seems something seems to be turning inside of her. She no longer wants him dead, but she also is kind of freaked out at the possibility that she may have shot him. Now, when last we left, remember, baby sister Kristen tells her yeah, girl, you came over and you were talking about shooting JR. You were really gonna do all these things, but I gave you a little drink and sent you on your way. That's what she told her. I Based on the body language in this flashback. Like I said, kristen nervous with a gun in her face.
Speaker 1:Who's to say if this is true or not? Is this a retelling? I Don't know, because of something that happens later on in the episode. Okay, so let's focus on Sue Ellen for a second. She is riddled with guilt, but she's also relieved. He's awake, he's alive, he doesn't remember anything. She doesn't. Well, he doesn't. He didn't see anything, she doesn't remember anything. So, best case scenario, she at least has a few more days with them.
Speaker 1:So meanwhile, back at the ranch, once the family is, you know, they're okay, everyone's relieved. I guess they're relieved. That's another thing. They're not really showing a lot of emotion, like they were Concerned that JR has been shot. But nobody's themed all that devasted, certainly greater. Dallas doesn't care. His family cares. But are they broken up about it? Not at all. I feel bold in saying that, but that's the truth, not at all. So the next thing we see it's meanwhile back at the ranch. Must be the next day.
Speaker 1:Lucy comes flying down the highway in her little two seater with her daddy, gary has arrived back at Dallas, or at Fort Knox, south Fork. The family is of course sitting outside eating breakfast. Bobby is Maintaining that hiatus. Tan, in the shortest of shorts, he is glistening with body oil and water by the pool. Tannas, he wants to be healthy, he's, he want to be. I guess we are solidifying. Bobby is the sex symbol on this show, if I'm guessing it's Bobby.
Speaker 1:So the family goes and there you know, gary gets out of the car. Lucy's holding his hand and he seems better, like he. He's not pissed. He doesn't seem all that nervous about being there, but he is a little bit reluctant about coming because he knows that he and JR aren't the best of friends, but he feels like this is the best thing for him. Ellie is of course, elated to see him and to my surprise. So it's jock. Jock grabs him with those big old bear claws and so good to see you, boy. I'm so sorry you had to come back for this. Bob comes running. Hey, gary, gary, you're here. Everyone is so excited. So they sit down to eat and Gary starts looking around the table. He's like where's Sue Ellen? Ellie tells him she's upstairs in the nursery with the baby. He's like, oh yeah, I have a whole nephew I don't know about. Runs upstairs and this is one of my favorite scenes of this entire episode. Up in baby John's favorite dream of a nursery, sue Ellen is very much minding her own business, playing with the baby. In comes Gary and he's oh, he's such a great kid.
Speaker 1:Gary goes to pick up John Ross Ewing in the third. Oh, oh, my god, I love it so much. So those of you who are old enough to remember the my buddy doll, that's what I think this baby looks like to me. I feel like every baby boy circa 1979 through probably about 1987 had that weird bowl haircut on tv, those overalls and it just it looks like the chucky doll. Slash my buddy doll.
Speaker 1:So John Ross Ewing is picked up by this rando uncle. He doesn't know anything about and, hey, the kid is not having it. He tries to be cool at first but then he starts to freak out. The baby is not having it in Gary. He's always such a great kid. He's such a great kid. Gary has these really intense eyes. They freak me out. I imagine they freak this kid out because he starts wind-mealing his leg like Like he's just he's fluttering. This kid is fighting for his life. He's doing it kind of slow at first but as he notices that this guy is not putting him down, he starts to windmill his legs even harder and he's Gary says the baby down. The baby runs to the corner of his crib. Offscreen you can clearly see he's getting me the hell out of here. I don't want Drunk Gary, sober Gary, uncle Gary, I don't know who this man is. Get him the hell out of my sight.
Speaker 1:So once the baby has calmed down, gary and Sue Ellen start to have this conversation. Now, sadly, I think she's just trying to be helpful. He sees himself in Sue Ellen and he takes this opportunity to kind of check in on her to see how everything's going. She's just lived through this traumatic experience. He knows about her past with the baby. So he's like hey, do you ever worry about yourself after the accident? I'm paraphrasing. He says something to that effect. She's like I don't know. Miss Texas kicks in. I have no idea what you're talking about. He goes, you know when you were drunk and you crashed the car with the baby.
Speaker 1:She's clearly upset and he tries to backpedal a little but he's like I'm really sorry. I can understand why you wouldn't want to talk about it, but you know I'm an alcoholic and I know that you can lick it. She's insulted how dare you, gary? I am not an alcoholic. I only drink when my nerves get bad. I have a drink from time to time and I've gone months and months and months without having a drink. I'm not an alcoholic. Gary tells her you know I've done the same thing, but you know all it takes is one drink, and then it was another and there was another. The next thing. You know I was on this big drunk, ruining lives, maybe doing violent things and such. Then she gets really upset Like listen, dude, do not project. I'm not you, I'm not violent. Why are you bringing this up? Sometimes a message is lost based on who's presenting it to you.
Speaker 1:Gary is coming in with the best of intentions. You know he has the. He and Sue Ellen don't have a past. He's not even coming off as a judge. He thought they were comrades. She's making it very clear you are a drunk, I drink. There is a big difference. The other part of this that makes it so weird is that they have the angle. So okay, it's two people facing each other talking, so of course there's probably a camera over Gary's shoulder and there's a camera over Sue Ellen's shoulder.
Speaker 1:Sue Ellen looks perfectly natural, perfectly lovely. Again, those finishing school lessons are paying dividends. She is poised, she is proud, she is ready for any question, no matter how invasive. Gary looks, demented and arranged like. His eyes are huge. He is inches away from his her face and like dude, why are you so close to her, sue Ellen? I know, I know this isn't and he's like he's just coming off so intense. She's completely put off. Like Gary, get the hell out of my face. Don't come over here evangelize and don't come in my house and my son's fever dream of a nursery and preach to me about bottles of booze. Reverend Gary, pastor sober, get out of my face. She is not having it. So he feels a little bit. You know he feels a little bit bad about himself.
Speaker 1:As he leaves, gary feels a little bit bad, but of course he's not going to let that stop them. He's on a mission. He didn't get on a plane from LA for no reason. He's to go see JR, so Bobby decides to drive him. As they're driving down the driveway at South Fork, they pull into the street. Gary tells him to pull over and he wants to look at South Fork from the street and he's reminiscing. Like you know, bob, there was a time where I just I never thought I'd leave this place. But when I stand here and I look at the home from this angle, it's just the most beautiful place on earth. It's all I can think about. But it's just so. It's terrible. I had to leave Bobby's like yeah, bro, I totally get it. I had to leave too, me and Pam. Matter of fact, me and Pam were in the car about to go see you guys in LA. We're going to surprise you. Gary is shocked by this information because his perception is that Bobby is a stronger one. He loves South Fork, bob. He says Bob, why would you ever leave here? Bobby says daddy, and JR got to me too. I just I don't want to see my family running rough shop over other people for no reason. I just I didn't want to stick around and be a part of that. So they are bonding and it is very clear that Bobby likes Gary, lucy likes Gary and Ellie does.
Speaker 1:Jock seems to be relieved at the moment. Sue Ellen is no longer feeling him. John Ewing III definitely isn't feeling him, so he's he's feeling a little. He's feeling a little out of it as he enters a hospital. But a mission is a mission. He wants to go say hi to his brother and let the family see that he's okay.
Speaker 1:Now at the hospital, there is a point where they have to discuss JR surgery. Now I might be remembering this wrong, but the surgeon seems to think that if they don't get JR in surgery within the next few days, you know, things could go terribly, terribly wrong, as in he could die. But if he has this final surgery now that they know he's not, he can't feel his legs or whatnot he could possibly die from that too. So 2024 means that that doesn't sound right. But you know what, for the sake of 1980s television, we'll go with that. This is urgent. That's the point here? The point is that this is urgent and death is imminent If they don't get to. They don't have to do something. So the doctor that they're speaking to in the hallway says there's only one guy I know who could successfully do this delicate of a surgery, but unfortunately he's not here today. He is in London at a conference. Bobby tells the doctor Well, I mean, there's planes, we can definitely get him here before the two days. It's going to take JR to die. One way or another we can get him back here.
Speaker 1:This is when Sue Ellen snaps. All she hears is death, death, death, death, death, not having it. She says you know what? Jr will not have surgery. Ellie, I'm telling you, and Jock, right now, I'm not going to allow him to be operated on and I don't want any of you all talking to him either. Well, gary, the whole family has an opinion. Sue Ellen, let me, sue Ellen. Ellie says we have to at least get another consultation. Sue Ellen, sue Ellen's like, absolutely not. Bobby says we can't just leave him like that. If there's a chance of him walking, we got to get a doctor in here. Sue Ellen, absolutely not. Jock says something Nope, gary opens his mouth.
Speaker 1:Now, mind you, she's already pissed off at Gary because he called her an alcoholic, which is true. She don't want to hear from him. Gary tells her it's the best thing for him. Now Gary again is coming off incredibly intense. He's got that blinking thing that he doesn't do. His eyes are really wide and he's I don't know. There's something really annoying about the way he moves his mouth to me personally. I don't like new Gary. I kind of wish it was the old Gary, but I'm going to have to get over it because this is the only Gary Ewing for the foreseeable future that I know of. Gary's opinion is one opinion too many, too many. She snaps Gary, what do you know about surgery? Matter of fact, the hell do you know about anything? And she storms off. So he's once again embarrassed in front of his family like damn. I just came to see if my brother's okay. Like everybody else said the exact same thing. She didn't want to hear from him. Long story short, gary.
Speaker 1:Finally, after confessing to Ellie that he'd gone on a bender and that he almost you know by Dal-, not by Dahlia oh gosh, how did? Alfred Valene was going to leave him. He straightened up and he's happy. He's sober. You know, he reminds me of someone maybe like who finds religion, and then they're like super, super, like super pumped about it. It's great, but you're coming on a little bit too strong. It's kind of off putting other people.
Speaker 1:All Ellie can hear is that Gary, I don't know what she heard, she just kind of tuned him out. She, her whole plan is to get to make sure all the kids stay in Dallas. He's like okay, mom, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe one day in the far, far, far future maybe we could come back here. That's pretty much it for Gary. He does end up seeing JR. They reminisce about playing tag football back in the day when they were kids and then Gary's off. All right, guys bye. It was nice to see him, but not really. I guess the whole point of that, if they were coming off of a writer strike, was basically to remind everyone, the audience of Dallas, that hey, not landing is not landing. Airs on Fridays at seven feet probably, just to remind you. Hey, don't forget to tune into not landing. Oh so cute.
Speaker 1:Jr wakes up from his little coma to say hello to Gary and he asked him if Ellie had asked if he was going to move back. Basically, his mom was trying to convince you to stay and Gary's like you know it, jr is like I don't know why you would want to live away from that fine young neighbor of yours, karen. Jr wakes up thinking about Karen. I thought it was funny, all right. So blah, blah, blah, he needs surgery.
Speaker 1:Sue Ellen is back to thinking okay, I don't want him to have surgery because I don't want him to die, but she's starting to be a little bit obnoxious. She's hanging around him a little too much, she's fussing a little bit too much. Jr is JR, he's on the phone making oil deals and he just it's like Sue Ellen, why are you all? You are here, you all have on me. What do you want? And she confesses you know, I'm scared, I don't want you to die. Basically, I don't want you to have that surgery and I just want to be really close to you. And he's like if I didn't know any better, I think you'd be your being sincere. She's like I am being sincere. And so he's left in this place where he's kind of looking at her like I don't really know how to feel about this, but I will accept this at face value.
Speaker 1:All right, it's time to get to the suspects. Basically, this episode is clearing everybody's name. We get to hear several alibis and an almost alibi that I didn't catch until I watched this the second time. Sue Ellen goes to Dr Elby, who is her psychiatrist, and she's explaining to him that she can't remember what happened. She tells him, basically she gives him a recap of what's gone on since yesterday or two, three days ago, and she tells him that she had a gun the last time she showed up. So he's like hmm, okay, that's interesting. Yeah, she's like do you think I could have shot him? He's like, I mean probably not, but you know, would make you think that. Then she talks about Gary. Gary called me an alcoholic.
Speaker 1:So Dr Elby now, knowing that the minute she left his office, when that she went and got drunk, woke up and passed out, or will woke up in the airport. He also knows that she had a baby because she crashed into a thing. He knows all these things right and he's very good about hinting to her ailment without actually saying anything. Sue Ellen, I mean, what would you call it? What would you say? She's not really trying to hear. That's really if for her. But the point is her being drunk, her not remembering still puts Sue Ellen as a suspect, even if the cops aren't really looking at her as one just yet. She still hasn't told anybody other than Dr Elby that she had that gun in her purse, and Kristen knows it because she got the pistol pulled out on her. At no point does Sue Ellen click open the gun to see if any of the bullets are missing. Doesn't happen, not one time, at least not yet. She has not thought of that. She is too busy being Miss Texas. She is too busy being poised. And then she has a nerve to get pissed a little bit later on because she overhears Bobby demanding that Jock put something in writing that he has full control over Ewing Oil until he doesn't.
Speaker 1:I made a mistake last episode. I said you know I gave you the whole spiel about how Bobby wasn't. He was feeling insecure. He didn't feel like he could make any decisions because you know his family basically turned on him last time. That actually happened on this episode. Same difference no love loss. He has to put out a couple fires. He has to go to one of the widow's house the guy who killed himself. He goes over there to settle something with her because she wants to sue them. He's able to talk her off the ledge. She tries to sleep with him. Blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 1:Another one of the oilmen the one who actually threatened him turns out. His alibi is Ironclad. He was at his lawyer's office filing for bankruptcy right about the time JR got shot. Now I don't know why he was at the lawyer's office at 10 at night or 11 at night or whatever, but that's where he was. He has an ironclad alibi.
Speaker 1:Later on, bad girl Kristen is sauntering out of the hospital when up comes Alan Beame and Alan's like hey Kristen, hey Alan, how's it going? What are you doing here, alan? He's like yeah, I came to see JR Ewing flat on his back. I can't wait to see. He looks so happy. If you recall, jr had basically framed him for rape and run Alan out of town. Alan was caught in Chicago. The police came and questioned him. He was super easy to find. His alibi is at right about the time JR was getting shot. He was checking into a hotel in Missouri, so he's been cleared. He's cleared as a suspect.
Speaker 1:Kristen's talking to him and Alan says you know, I kind of thought it would have been you who shot him. All she says is usually, you know I wanted to. He did me so wrong. But I guess you know she basically says she wanted to. She didn't say she didn't. She said she wanted to. And he asked why she's still in town. She says I guess his goons didn't get to me, he didn't send out the order just yet. But I mean, it is what it is. I wouldn't go up there if I were you. His family surrounding him, blah, blah, blah. So they hug, kiss each other on the cheek. He's like All right, if you're ever in Chicago, look me up. And she's like I definitely will. So then he's like oh well, hey, is he alive? She goes out. Yeah, he's alive. And he's like dang, that's too bad. That's the exact same thing that widow said, like who cares if he's alive or not, somebody deserved to shoot him.
Speaker 1:Then we get to old Cliffy Cliff. Cliff is day drinking. I'm not calling him a drunk, he's definitely having a few cocktails. Police show up at his house with a warrant. He's like don't even bother destroying my house, I'll show you exactly where my gun is. He gets put into the. He goes to the police station. He's there overnight, calls Pam, tells her to come down and get him they're doing a ballistic test on the bullet. It takes the entire night and clips under the impression that the only reason he's there the whole time is because JR or jock have the cops in their pocket and they made him stay there the whole night. I totally believe this, because he is cleared to leave because the bullets don't match. It couldn't have come from that gun. But the cop tells him well, don't leave town, you're still a suspect. And I'm thinking how's everybody else? I guess because it's a gun. I just thought about that. Everyone else has been cleared because they were actually at a physical location that another person saw them, where Cliff was, you know he was on TV. He was clearly in the building. Maybe he didn't shoot him with that gun. That's what they're saying.
Speaker 1:Okay, last but not least, bad girl Lucy. Now, lucy's not a suspect. Lucy's also not a vital character to this show and it's really starting to irritate me because there's so much potential there. Her not slamming crossover episode was really good, but back in Dallas she really didn't have anything else going for her. She found out day of the shooting that the guy she's been sleeping with is married, so I guess she's supposed to be depressed.
Speaker 1:This episode. Her and her girlfriends are by the pool maintaining their hiatus tans when one of the girlfriends suggests that they go to this club, this nightclub, this disco and have a good time, and Lucy's like, oh I don't feel like picking up men, I just want to like vibe here. And they convince her after a while to go. So she gets to the club and, for whatever reason, she is throwing back drinks quicker than you can count. She is hammered and she almost has this, this doll. I can't figure out what's going on with Lucy's hair Looks like she's wearing a wig because she has these cut bangs and like the, the, the face framing pieces of hair are really Barbie doll, textured and super bright bleached. She looks totally different. So I don't know if she went and shot a movie or something. Maybe they had to shoot the scene a little later on after. I don't know what's going on with her, but she looks sweaty, she's got this weird haircut and she's drunk.
Speaker 1:Eventually she gets annoyed with her friends and decides that she's just gonna leave. I'll catch y'all later. She gets up and again, this is the fifth or sixth time on this show I've seen a drunk woman stand up and no one does anything about it. She stumbles out to the car and this really cute ballet basically puts her in a cab and she's just being obnoxious and drunk Pays for the cab to take her wherever she needs to go.
Speaker 1:Lucy has her grandparents inability to read a room or another person and the next day she shows up at this kid's dork ballet I guess she went back to the club figure asks someone where he lived, shows up his apartment with $10. But she's back to her Lucy lady. She's trying to be all seductive and he's like oh, thank you so much for my money. He doesn't recognize her at first and he remembers oh, you're the drunk girl from last night. She's like yeah, totally. And then the ten bucks he said you know, I would normally invite you in. However, I am studying right now and I just simply can't spare the time.
Speaker 1:She says that's all right and waltzes into his apartment. She's hitting on him, hitting on him. He reminds her gently again that he is studying and he needs her to leave. So she tries to saunter out of the door all seductive like, starts asking him about his free time. He goes again I'm studying because I'm in college. I'm in school. She's about to leave, but then she's like oh wait, he didn't actually tell me no, so let me turn around. Every time he doesn't say no, she turns. She turns up the questioning, tells him she goes to SMU. What college do you go to? And polite valet says I am in med school. It's a real grind. I need to get back to studying. Okay, well, do you have any free time? Do you want to go out? And he basically says are you asking me out? She says not really. He says well, I do the asking if I'm going to ask someone out. This is finally where it clicks for her. She gets all annoyed, leaves a man's house.
Speaker 1:This was a totally useless scene. As a matter of fact. You, lucy's appearance and Gary's for that matter was completely useless. I understand that with a season, you got to build up stuff. This is Lucy's new love interest. Maybe he doesn't seem all that exciting. And again, they're just not really using Lucy the way I would like to see her. It's just she's sent her off somewhere. At this point, either give her a bigger role, give her some drama, or send her off.
Speaker 1:Bad girl Kristen is giving me pause. I think she shot him. That would be I did. It almost seems too obvious, though Out of all the suspects, of course they had the oil men, they had Sue Ellen, who they're trying it doesn't really seem like all you have to do is click the gun open to see if the bullet's missing. Nobody else is really making sense right now, no one at all. And I'm leaning towards Kristen, because she gave this account of what happened. However, you could see like she's telling it, so I guess we're looking at it through her eyes, but Sue Ellen is hearing it, imagining it another way. She didn't seem that bothered by Sue Ellen Waving a gun in her face, threatening to kill JR. But then I also thought about okay, that seems super obvious that Kristen just snuck in, shot him, bang, bang and left. Where'd she get her gun? We don't know. Then I remembered that she was. She and Alan Bean were reaching out to different members of the cartel, like to get different secrets. I'm like does she get it from one of them? But my money's back on bad girl Kristen, because she actually has not been cleared, but she's also not a suspect. So that's pretty much it for that episode.
Speaker 1:It was a little bit oh, I forgot the little tidbit that set me off to make me think okay, maybe this is really Kristen. When she originally showed up to the mansion, right after everything had happened, you know, when Sue Ellen woke up at the airport, went home, kristen meets her there and starts telling her about the night before Now. At first I thought, if she's lying, she, it didn't seem like she would have a reason to run in and lie right away. Like how would she know that? Sue Ellen didn't remember anything. You know what I mean? She has no way of knowing that. So she starts talking to her, telling her about that, which is very, very incriminating. So far, so good. They seem to be reconnected as sisters.
Speaker 1:Remember Sue Ellen forgave her right away, but that girl, kristen, was trying to help JR get her put in a sanatorium. So when Alan Bean comes back to the hospital to see JR and he's all happy about it, I forgot that he's you know he's talking to Kristen. He asked her. You know he tells her basically I thought you did it. If anybody, it seems like you would be the person to do it. She goes I wanted to, but you know he did me so dirty. She didn't say no. She says I wanted to and then he goes. Well, I can't believe you're still in town. That's when she says oh yeah, yeah, the goons didn't come get me. I guess he didn't have time to send out the report, send out the order. So here I am. I forgot that. He asked her right then. Well, do you know who did it?
Speaker 1:This would have been a good time for her to be like, well, they have these suspects, they have this, but she just goes no, no, is she telling the truth? Does she think Sue Ellen did it? I don't know, but is I kind of? I I do not buy that she is a good sister. I do not buy that she would protect her, but maybe she will. So that's kind of the thing, that. That that tipped me off and then I started thinking about it more and more. She's not actually a suspect. Don't want to say, they haven't even questioned her about anything. His family doesn't know that she was sleeping with him. That's a whole another gotcha, gotcha. So time will tell.
Speaker 1:I'm about to jump on episode three because I simply cannot wait. I need to figure this out. Alright, guys, that's it. That's all for this episode. Ooh, cannot wait, cannot wait, cannot wait. Join the next time for another riveting episode of vintage prime time debauchery In the mean time. In between time, be good to yourself. You deserve it. Stay positive, stay moisturized, stay hydrated, mind your business and keep all of your drama on TV.