Who shot J.R.? The riddle that captivated a nation leaps from the small screen to your headphones as I, Jet, guide you through the labyrinthine plots of "Dallas." With each family betrayal and boardroom battle, you'll feel as if you're right there at Southfork Ranch, eavesdropping on the Ewings' most clandestine moments. From JR's unyielding control over Ewing Oil even from his hospital bed to Bobby's valiant efforts to keep the family empire afloat, our journey into the "Nightmare" episode peels back the curtain on television's most deliciously devious characters.
Brace yourselves for a deep dive into the murky waters of JR's shooting. Was it Sue Ellen, driven to the brink by twisted dreams and desperation, or Cliff Barnes, whose alibi is as shaky as his resolve? We dissect the myriad of motives swirling around the Ewing family and their associates, scrutinizing every glance, every whisper for a hint of truth. And still, JR looms large, his shadow cast long and dark even from a bed of recovery, orchestrating the dance of loyalty and deception with deft fingers.
The plot thickens and tension mounts as we scrutinize the cracks appearing in Bobby and Pam's marriage, Jock's alarming discovery, and the pointed finger at Sue Ellen when the detective reveals her as a potential shooter. Join me in sifting through the red herrings, questioning the obviousness of the suspect, and speculating on the true identity of the triggerman. We leave no stone unturned, no secret safe, as we navigate the drama that is as timeless as it is tantalizing—this is the world of "Dallas," and you're on the inside track.
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Who shot J.R.? The riddle that captivated a nation leaps from the small screen to your headphones as I, Jet, guide you through the labyrinthine plots of "Dallas." With each family betrayal and boardroom battle, you'll feel as if you're right there at Southfork Ranch, eavesdropping on the Ewings' most clandestine moments. From JR's unyielding control over Ewing Oil even from his hospital bed to Bobby's valiant efforts to keep the family empire afloat, our journey into the "Nightmare" episode peels back the curtain on television's most deliciously devious characters.
Brace yourselves for a deep dive into the murky waters of JR's shooting. Was it Sue Ellen, driven to the brink by twisted dreams and desperation, or Cliff Barnes, whose alibi is as shaky as his resolve? We dissect the myriad of motives swirling around the Ewing family and their associates, scrutinizing every glance, every whisper for a hint of truth. And still, JR looms large, his shadow cast long and dark even from a bed of recovery, orchestrating the dance of loyalty and deception with deft fingers.
The plot thickens and tension mounts as we scrutinize the cracks appearing in Bobby and Pam's marriage, Jock's alarming discovery, and the pointed finger at Sue Ellen when the detective reveals her as a potential shooter. Join me in sifting through the red herrings, questioning the obviousness of the suspect, and speculating on the true identity of the triggerman. We leave no stone unturned, no secret safe, as we navigate the drama that is as timeless as it is tantalizing—this is the world of "Dallas," and you're on the inside track.
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And they started reminiscing on all their F-boyery, all the times they hooked up with other people's wives and how they okie-doked women into thinking they were judges at the Miss America pageant All kinds of times, basically, all the tales they've been chasing. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome, or welcome back to Soap Lore, the official gathering place for newbies, novices and OG. Diehard fans of the golden age of primetime I'm your host, chet. Diehard fans of the golden age of primetime I'm your host, chet viewing and reviewing the Sophia Sudsy of primetime story into the 80s, 90s and early 2000s. We're concentrating on 1980s specifically today, season four, episode three of Dallas Nightmare. We're still trying to put a pin on who actually shot JR. So, whether you're new to this or true to this, sit back and enjoy. Tell the kids it's time to play outside or out of sight. Tell bae no questions, suggestions or concerns for the next 25-35 minutes, everyone else in earshot. You can be cool, quiet or kicked out, simple as that. No other options, because we are watching our stories. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is so Cool. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is Soap Lora. Welcome back, party people, to another fun filled edition of Soap Lora. I hope all is well with you. It's not going so well on Dallas.
Speaker 1:Episode three is called Nightmare and the synopsis is as follows JR fights to overcome the helplessness of his paralysis as Bobby finds that his efforts to run Ewing Oil are thwarted by JR Even from his dot dot dot. Funny thing about this show is that there is a lot of lather rinsing and repeating, which is perfect for a podcast called Soap Lore. We like a good soapy spaghetti western style storyline. I'm not mad at it. However, originality points dollars. I'm gonna have to dock a few if things don't change in the near future. Go ahead and grab yourself something bubbly.
Speaker 1:We're gonna do things a little bit differently today. I'm gonna run down the entire thing, the entire episode, in under 10 minutes, and then we'll jump in with some particulars. Those particulars today are not limited to Bobby's business blues. Does it suck to be the baby or does it just suck to suck Lucy's love life? Now that Lolita is perfectly legal, things still aren't working out for her. Jock's gun game Finally, somebody found the smoking barrel. Jr's hospital drama Also. Did JR invent remote work? I think he did. They say the devil works hard, christiana works harder, but JR Ewing works even harder. We'll talk about the on-again, off-again unity between Bobby and Pam and Ray's pep talk. All that and more on this episode of SoFlor.
Speaker 1:When last we left, jr had come through surgery without a hitch, or so they thought, until he revealed to Sue Ellen that he couldn't walk, he can't feel his legs, so he is dealing with paralysis all episode long. He's bound to a wheelchair or he's bed bound. This is horrible for a man who is strong and independent. He likes throwing his weight around. It's kind of hard to do that when you're sitting down unless your power structure is solidly in place, which JR's is. Sue Ellen, on the other hand, is feeling a little bit better that he's not dead, but she keeps having these night terrors. She's flipping out in the middle of the night, screaming to the top of her lungs. Luckily, the only person in the house that she stands to wake up not the baby, not Jock. She wakes up Ellie. Ellie comes in to check on her and she's like girl, you need to talk to your therapist. You've been tripping for quite a while. You've been tripping for a couple of weeks, so we're to believe at this point in the episode or this the series.
Speaker 1:This is a few weeks after JR's been shot, bobby is still running Ewing Oil, only he's running into all these dead ends. He can't get the banks to call him back. He can't get people to take meetings. It's almost as if someone is stopping him All of a sudden. Bobby Ewing is not the right kind of Ewing to run Ewing Oil, so no one's taking him seriously. He's struggling through that. But on the other hand he's also struggling with Pam.
Speaker 1:I'd all but forgotten that Pam and Bobby were in his little two-seater leaving. They were heading to the West Coast to visit Gary. They were done with the Ewing family and they were done with South Fork. Only after the shooting they were drawn back. So Bobby agreed to stay and run the company for a little while after Jock asked him to, and that leaves Pam without a job. She quit at the store, so she has a lot of free time. Totally forgot about that little caveat. They're starting to have a few issues. Bobby is promising her that they're going to have lunch each and every day, but he's finding that he's overwhelmed with work.
Speaker 1:Now, if this smells a little funny, it should. Jr is pulling strings behind the scenes all the way from a hospital bed using a phone with no caller ID Color me impressed. Sue Ellen does eventually take Ellie up on her advice and she goes to Dr Elby and she starts to reveal this dream, which we'll get into here in a bit. The dream is a little bit damning. If they take this information and I don't know how HIPAA violations worked back in the day but I get a feeling he might be subpoenaed to appear in court or at least give a testimony based on the information she's giving.
Speaker 1:Within this whole thing, jr reeling and wheeling no pun intended from the fact that he is wheelchair bound, but it seems like he's more bothered about being in the actual hospital. Also, his shooter is still on the loose. At one point one of the guys from the cartel comes to visit. Actually, he doesn't come to visit, he comes to gloat. The guy is smug, he's giving off Big Brother vibes the whole time and JR is thoroughly freaked out because this guy made it past security, so he's got a lot on his plate. Lucy and the Dr Valet boy meet up again.
Speaker 1:This episode and God, our Lolita is just. It's a struggle. It's a struggle. We'll talk about that here in a second. But the entire episode consists of JR dealing with being in the hospital, bobby, dealing with no one taking him seriously. Sue Ellen, I guess being a little bit too overzealous when it comes to taking care of JR. She's getting on his last nerve, but it makes her feel better to comfort him because in the back of her mind she thinks she might have popped a cap in his ass Just this once.
Speaker 1:Jr is doing therapy. He's on his feet, he's, uh, using the like. He's got the Forrest Gump leg braces on and the ballet poles on either side of him and he's doing physical therapy, learning to walk again. Jock and Ellie are standing in the doorway at the hospital. They see this and it's all too much for Miss Ellie, she has to. They go home to get more clothes for him and they stumble upon the weapon. Now is this the gun that was in Sue Ellen's purse? I don't really know. I guess it is. I mean, it makes sense that it is A little bit of a revelation. Comes Boom, bang, beam. Jock sends the bullets to Ballistics to make sure, and then, by the end of the episode, the police show up to the house and that's basically it. There is a little something, something going on with Cliff Another confession but we'll loop that in with Sue Ellen. Okay, let's let that. Let's be that That'll be the next segment. Let's talk about the confession or lack thereof, the almost confessions, rather of Sue Ellen and her ex-almost baby, daddy Cliff Barnes.
Speaker 1:There are several revelations this episode. Not all of them are earth shattering, but the biggest one is Sue Ellen. So Sue Ellen is talking to Dr LB and she's telling him about this reoccurring dream she has, or it's basically a nightmare. It's not a dream. She has a dream that she is sprinting down this hallway with people in white coats chasing her white hospital garb and she can see this door at the end of the hallway and she's pumped. She's running as fast as she can and she's kind of got a grip on things. She thinks she's going to make it to the end of the hallway, but right as she gets to the door JR stands in front of it and he blocks it All of a sudden behind her she hears all this commotion. She hears some gunshots. She looks down and the gun is in her hand.
Speaker 1:She's already told Dr Elby that the last time she showed up to his office she had a pistol. She was going to go shoot her husband. He ends up shot. She's dreaming about him being shot, circumstantial at best. I don't see how this could hold up in a court of law. And you would think weeks after your husband being shot. It's very plausible that you would have these sorts of nightmares. It is a nightmare, but is the nightmare the part that he was shot, or is the nightmare the part that she's now stuck perpetually running down this hallway? She's stuck, she can't get away. That was a point of her dream. She wanted to escape whatever she was running from. He blocked her, she shot him, so now she can never get away.
Speaker 1:That almost seems to be the consensus of everyone on the show too. When people come to poke fun at JR whatever people are talking about it outside of the hospital and outside of the family most people are like dang, it's too bad, jr's not dead. Family most people are like dang, it's too bad, jr is not dead. Nobody and I do mean nobody is mourning him being shot at all. Nobody's concerned about his health and well-being. They want to see his demise. One of the people who would enjoy watching his demise the most would be Cliff Barnes. Cliff Barnes is probably at the very top of that list, at the top of a very long list, mind you. So let's rewind a little bit On the opening show, on the season opener, we saw JR get pulled out on a gurney.
Speaker 1:Actually it went a little something like this the house cleaning crew shows up and one woman is cleaning the office. She looks over, she sees JR, she throws her little feather duster down and she screams for bloody murder. Then we see JR being escorted out of the building on a gurney. There's already a crowd gathered outside and Cliff Barnes he's not outside, he's actually walking down a hallway. He's a little drunk. He's got a five o'clock shadow. He don't look like he's a hundred percent sober to me.
Speaker 1:Fast forward to present day, quote unquote. Cliff shows up to work. He's about, you know, he works for the DA's office. Now he's heading down there when he is stopped outside by one of his co-workers and the guy's like hey, yeah, come walk with me. Perhaps it's his supervisor, whatever, cliff puts it together pretty quickly. What kind of chat this is going to be. He's kind of expecting to get fired.
Speaker 1:But the guy's like you know we're thinking you should probably take a little bit of a vacay. There's a lot going on, lot going on, and you've been through a lot, cliff. You know they're trying to make it sound like you know we care about your health, your mental health. Why don't you take a mental health day, two or a month? So he clarifies because he is a lawyer, am I being fired? Absolutely not, you know, just taking a break, that's all. So he puts up a little bit of a fuss, reminding his coworker or his constituent, whoever he is reminding the guy that, hey, I'm not a suspect anymore. They're like well, technically you're not a suspect. It's like dude, it wasn't my gun.
Speaker 1:The guy brings up a point. His co-worker says you know, cliff, all the higher ups know that, but someone as smart as you would not hand the police over the right gun. You know that's fair. That's a very good point. I never thought about that. But I just kind of believe Cliff didn't do it so a little bit later on, because Pam is a lady of leisure.
Speaker 1:Now she and Cliff are having lunch and he tells her about what happened at work and she's like, dang, that sucks, I can't believe this is happening to you. He goes well work and she's like, dang, that sucks, I can't believe this is happening to you. He goes well. Since I'm telling business, let me go and confess to you, I actually did show up to the building to kill JR. Only someone else beat me to it. Now Pam doesn't seem super shocked, but she goes.
Speaker 1:Cliff, you're not a murderer, you could never shoot him. He goes. Well, I'll never know. Someone else beat me to the punch. So we have now. We know that so well. Sue Ellen was on her way, cliff was definitely on his way, but to me they seem like too obvious, way too obvious. Obvious. But I mean, why not? That could be fun. I guess I've never considered the fact that it could be one of the super main main characters and somehow they get off. Maybe they complete insanity, maybe they blacked out. Who knows Insane or not. We all know who the main character of this show is and it's none other than JR.
Speaker 1:Jr has introduced the world to remote work in 1980. Nevermind the fact that he's been shot, never mind the fact that he's been shot, never mind the fact that he's had this life-threatening surgery. That seems to be a success, but we're all just kind of waiting to see. Never mind the fact that he's got a bullet floating towards his spinal cord that could render him paralyzed and eventually kill him. Eventually, jr Ewing woke up and put his mind on his money and his money on his mind. He started making phone calls immediately, setting all these little traps for Bobby. So, from the comfort of his hospital bed, despite the fact that it appears that most of Dallas wishes he was dead, the fact that he's alive holds a whole lot of weight, so much weight, in fact, that a lot of the partners with Ewing Oil are still in bed with them. They're not going to do anything unless JR says so.
Speaker 1:I found this to be really weird, really funny, because after that whole Asian oil fiasco where everyone lost all their money, the whole world knows that JR made money off of it, but he also lost everyone else a lot of money. It shocks me that they are so quick to jump back in bed with him. You would think he would absolutely be persona non grata, but he's not. I guess they're like you know what. At the end of the day, maybe I didn't make the money, but he's still good at making it. So it's in our best interest to partner with him as much as we can.
Speaker 1:So he's making phone calls from the bed, but what he can't do is get up out the bed himself, and Sue Ellen is starting to hang around a little too much for his liking. He's minding his business having a glass of water when all of a sudden one of the old fashioned guys from the cartel comes bursting in the door not bursting, he waltz in and he's got this Cheshire grin on his face. He has never been happier in his life to see someone laid up in a bed. He's like oh my God, jr, jr, jr. It is a shame that someone didn't finish the job. Needless to say, jr is immediately freaked out.
Speaker 1:How did you get in here? Yeah, how did you get in here? There's supposed to be guards guarding the building, but these two yokels let him waltz in. He's like ah, they knew we're friends. The guy's name is Lee, it's not important, he just comes in to make sure JR is indeed incapacitated for the moment. He laughs. Jr even throws a like a book or a notebook or something at the door. The guy doesn't even flinch, flinch, and it reminded me. It reminded me of being a kid in PE class, playing, playing dodgeball.
Speaker 1:You always had those super talented kids, like really, it's usually the boys, it was usually the rowdy boys who were really, really good at throwing that little red ball. Sometimes we'd have the big, you know, the big bouncy ones about the size of a basketball, and other times they'd have those small ones that were handheld. I loathe those, because if you can throw a basketball, you can definitely throw like a softball. I remember these kids, the ones who were really good, it's like they had this. Their only mission was hearing that ball bounce off your skull. They were excellent at it and it's like, inevitably by the end of the game you'd either have, on the end of the game you'd either have on either side of the room you'd have two really good people facing off, or you'd have like three really, really good people and one squirrely person who'd managed to hide out most of the game and now they have to face this whole team by themselves.
Speaker 1:Oh, inevitably one of the showboaty you know, rowdy kids would put on a show for everyone else. Like you knew, the kid, the other, the nerdy kid, is not going to hit you with the ball, but they kind of tease them a little bit, make them think they could hit him and let the kid throw the ball. And I remember this one kid in particular. He ran up to the line, threw it with all his might and it just went behind him. I don't know how that happened, but the really talented kid just had this Cheshire grin on his face and that's the exact same look Mr Lee has on his as JR throws a notebook at him, like that's cute, or whatever. Mr Lee has on his as JR throws a notebook at him, like that's cute, or whatever. See you soon.
Speaker 1:Well, jr is thoroughly freaked out. Thoroughly because that could have been his shooter. For all he knows, that could be the guy who shot him. So he tells Sue Ellen about it and she's she's not really taking it super seriously. She's like you know, you have guards, but JR is complaining for a good deal of the show about how much they suck and they did. They're not very good at their job. But he is escorted into the sunroom after he tells her he wants to be in the shade. So she pushes him into the sunroom where all the other people who are healing and going through their physical therapy, where they hang out there's like a pool, there's wait, there's a bunch of stuff enters ray, who I tend to forget about because Ray's never really heavy in the show. I hadn't seen him a lot since the millionaire wife he didn't want to have. Since they decided to part ways, I hadn't seen him in a while.
Speaker 1:I guess JR being shot up and laid up in the bed has really done a number on Ray and Ray wanted to come and I guess this was like a pep talk or him making amends. But he starts out by saying JR, I know you and I have fallen out here lately, but we used to be good buddies and we had some good old times. You remember those times in Waco and they started reminiscing on their eff boyery. All the times they hooked up with other people's wives and how they okie doke women into thinking they were judges at the Miss America pageant All kinds of times. Basically, all the tail they've been chasing and you know what. Those are good times, jr. So I just need you to know I'm there for you. I'm here if you need me. I'm thinking okay, I guess that's motivational to a sleazy man like JR who likes chasing skirts. Hey, why don't I remind you of all the tail we've chased in the past and maybe that'll that'll get a little blood pumping to your legs. I guess it's. It's weird, but the majority of the show is a lot like that. This is JR saying, well, I don't need any help, but then he'll the next minute. The next words are oh, could you open the door for me? Get your hands off me, I don't need any help Now, turn me around. To say the least, jr is not a very good patient and his patience is running out, but luckily he's on his way to going home very, very soon. Let's talk about Lucy before we talk about JR going home.
Speaker 1:So last episode, lucy had gotten really drunk at this restaurant. This really nice valet paid for a cab to get her back home. She hit on him. She goes to his house unannounced to give him back his ten dollars and to flirt. But he's busy. He's like I'm in school, I'm studying, I don have time. She didn't take the hint the first four times. He says it. Finally she leaves.
Speaker 1:Well, it appears that the gentleman felt bad about rejecting this rich girl. Not that I don't, I don't think he cares that she's rich. He felt bad about it and he goes to SMU to apologize for her to her. It's so strange to me to think about a time before telephones, like how many people you would have to talk to to find out who Lucy was. I do remember she did tell him that she goes to ask them to you. So this kid just shows up at the college and hangs out on a bench until he sees her Hundreds of thousands of people walking through there every day, but he's lucky enough to put eyes on her walks over to apologize like hey, I'm really sorry, I was just really busy. I was studying for this test or that test and I don't have a lot of free time, so I just. I just wanted to tell you I'm sorry. She plays coy. Until he decides he's like can I prove how sorry I am by taking you out for a drink? All of a sudden she's all for that. Like absolutely yes, now I like this. This kid's got his head on his shoulder. He is a working man and apparently she likes that too.
Speaker 1:Now, right before this, she shows up to school with one mission and one mission only she's going to curse out her professor. Mind you, at the top of the show, when Sue Ellen's having her whole nightmare fever dream thing, and when JR's talking in the hospital and when Bobby's running Ewing Oil, everybody mentions that this is a couple of weeks later. Why Lucy hasn't bumped back into her professor slash lover before, this is besides me, I'm sure I don't know, but they take the time, this episode, to have her go off on him on the quad, in front of everybody. He sees her walking up. She sashays up to him and gives him a piece of her mind. But it's so warped, this poor girl. Her mind is like I don't know what's worse the fact that you're married or the fact that you didn't trust me enough to tell me you were married. Now it's like, okay, jet, take a step back, think about this. They're lovers. According to her.
Speaker 1:She thought they were exclusive. It was secret because he was a professor. She's thinking that's the down and dirty part. Not that he's got a whole wife and kids outside of this. So is trust broken, I guess? But I'm like either way you were going to be sneaking around with him. It doesn't really matter. She goes up on him to cut the cut that cord. He tells her you know this, you're, you're making too big of a scene. How dare you do this? Of course she's going to do this. Quite frankly, I don't think the scene was made big enough. She wasn't nearly loud enough. No passerby stopped and stared. She didn't do enough. But ultimately, sleeping with your professor is simply frowned upon. It's not illegal. You're all legal adults there, so I mean it is what it is.
Speaker 1:Anyway, back to Dr Boy. Dr Boy's story is that he grew up with a mom who lost her husband pretty early on. He's always had to work. So he'd work a little bit, go to school, graduate, save up and work for a couple years, pay for med school. So he's taken any job he can to make sure that he can put himself through school.
Speaker 1:And this is turning Lucy on. She's like, oh my God, he's hardworking. He came to seek me out. This is amazing. She's fascinated by him and he's a little surprised that a girl like her would be interested in a guy like him, or at least his life story. And she misinterprets this as him thinking that she doesn't understand. And this is her thing, y'all. She's like I understand hard work. My mama was a waitress when she was dating my daddy. They both kind of laugh at this because Lucy's never seen a day of hard work in her life. But it doesn't mean that her life isn't hard. It doesn't mean just because you have wealth and you have a roof over your head and you have nice cars and your tuition's paid, it doesn't mean that your life is suddenly the best ever. So she's attracted to him, and by the near the end of the episode, though, she starts to get annoyed because he can't stay out late after a movie. They can go to a movie, then he's got to go to work, or they can skip the movie and talk, and then he's got to go to work. She doesn't really understand what it's like to have a man who needs to go to work for real. For real, because she's grown up with men who are either drunk, retired, chasing skirts, or still kind of a party boy, party playboy.
Speaker 1:I also misspoke. I said a time before phones. What I meant was a time before cell phones. Obviously, there were phones in the 80s, but can you imagine, do you remember how difficult? I barely remember that. Like, do you know how difficult it is to track someone down with only a phone call at a college? Persistent Bobby, bobby, bobby, bobby and his boring business woes.
Speaker 1:Now, not for nothing We've seen this before Bobby has once again been given the reins to Ewing Oil. It is his responsibility to run the business without a hitch while JR's on the mend and while Jock is watching JR mend, I suppose. So he's doing his due diligence. Mind you, this isn't the first time he's ever been in this position, but for some reason no one is returning his calls. No one's doing anything said at the top of the show. The devil works hard, christian works harder, but jr ewing works even harder. Pre-cell phone, pre-internet, pre -caller id. He was on his grind with a rotary phone making sure that his baby brother doesn't do a good job. Now that's up next level, like inception. It takes a lot to do that, or maybe it doesn't. It's not like he has anything else to do. So Bobby's catching wind of none of these people.
Speaker 1:One guy in particular at this bank who's not returning a phone call. He's not taking any meetings. He's always seems to be out of the way. So Bobby decides he's going to run up on him. He goes and he shows up to the guy's office and the guy all but brushes him off. His secretary comes in and says he has a meeting, all but brushes him off, and Bobby's super pissed. At this point he's like you know what? All I'm asking for is you to sign this document so we can get this loan for this equipment. This is standard business practice. But the guy goes, you know. But we're supposed to be working with jr and I just don't want to do anything unless he says it's okay.
Speaker 1:Bobby gets big, mad, super pissed and says, well, guess what, I'm running ewing oil, I am the president. So if I decide, we no longer bank here, guess what, homeboy, we no longer bank here. You have 10 minutes to get your stuff together. Now he doesn't give him the 10 minutes, but it just felt good, guys, I was on a roll. Basically he tells him do it, or else.
Speaker 1:Well, this guy gets on the horn and he immediately calls JR like dude, I can't keep putting this kid off. He's making valid points. I don't know what else to tell you. Like I can't keep. Eventually I'm gonna have to do what he says. Jr's like no, no, no, you can't trust Bobby. Bobby don't know how to run no company. But I'm thinking to myself.
Speaker 1:Bobby has definitely at least since I've been, he's been running the company a few times. Now, mind you, he was a fun guy who went out to entertain, I guess, and loosen up people. He'd be the person you'd send to Austin to rub elbows with the governors and the senators and all those sorts of things. So he definitely is privy to the business. He knows what he's doing. Matter of fact, he's so good at it he's able to snip out JR's dirt. It was also strange to me that the bank that they would need a loan that Ewing Oil, after making these billions and billions and billions in revenue from that deal that went south for everyone else. It's strange to me that they would need a loan to buy equipment. But I'm also not an oil tycoon, so I don't know why that would be. Maybe they just don't want to spend their own money? I don't know. Not only is Bobby not getting anywhere in business of late, he's also missing out on meals with his wife.
Speaker 1:Now, like I mentioned, pam no longer has a job. They were supposed to be on their way to California, probably, or possibly west coasting it. That's not the case. So she spends a lot of time shopping now and she's she's okay with it. She doesn't seem super bothered. She's able to eat lunch with Cliff and one day she's doing a little shopping and, lo and behold, her former boss comes and this is that redheaded lady who lawyer Philip from Falcon Crest, lawyer Philip is Mr Store on this. On Dallas, mr Store was was told by JR to basically give Pam a new position and send the redheaded lady packing down to Houston. I suppose when Pam quit she came back from Houston.
Speaker 1:So Pam is in the middle of the store shopping looking at minks and fur and hot ass Texas. In the middle of the store shopping looking at minks and fur and hot ass, texas. And lo and behold, her redheaded friend is like hey, pam, how's it going? The fam is a little bit apprehensive at first but she can see that the redhead lady is smiling, so there's no love loss. She's like hey, girl, you know how's it going. I'm so sorry about all this. You know, I had nothing to do with that. And the redhead girl's like I know, girl, now I know I know for a fact how it happened. So what you doing? You want to get into something. Pam's like yeah, what you got going on.
Speaker 1:They decide they're gonna go have a little lunch. So they're sitting down having a little lunch and a little gossip. And redhead lady shares the same sentiment as everyone else in Dallas dang, it's too bad, jr's not dead. It really sucks, whoever, it really sucks that whoever did it wasn't a good shot. It's just, it's so disappointing. And pam doesn't agree. But you know in her mind. She's thinking girl, say less, you're preaching to the choir.
Speaker 1:Redhead friend reveals a little tea. She goes well, you know, mr store wanted to shoot him up too. He didn't, but he had wanted to. Pam's like oh no word. Like why? So that's when redhead lady fills her in and she's like well, jr had strong-armed him, basically, and told him to give you the job, and you know he, that's why he had to kick me out. And Pam's, oh word, like how did you find out? Redhead friend is like you know, I'm sleeping with lawyer Phillip, aka Mr Store, so they're having a little pillow talk and it just I don't know if this the whole point of this lunch. It was entertaining, don't get me wrong. But they, the door is now open for Pam to get a job, so I guess they're not going to go anywhere. Obviously they're probably not.
Speaker 1:But Pam starts to get tired by the end of the show of not having this promised lunch date with Bobby and she sashays down to the office, she pulls Bob aside and she's like you know what, honey? We're going to lunch, that's it, that's all. Put on your coat. He goes to put on his sports coat when the secretary comes in and says, oh, so-and-so is waiting on you. Another guy comes in. He's like Bobby, I really need this done. You got to take care of business.
Speaker 1:So the tension has once again built up between Bobby and Pam. But it's again about work Now. The last time he didn't like her working all these hours, he didn't want her traveling to Paris, he didn't want her doing all these fancy things. The shoe was on the other foot now and now he's like well, I mean, you know, I promise my daddy that I'll stay on and make sure that everything's okay until JR can come back. Her point is when is he going to hippity, hoppity or hobble out of that bed? I'm sick of JR, oh goodness. Okay, it's time to get to the getting y'all. This episode's running a little longer than I thought. The getting y'all. This episode's running a little longer than I thought. And I gotta catch up on Dynasty too.
Speaker 1:Jock and Miss Ellie, I guess watching JR stumble back to health is a bit too much. So they decide to go back to the ranch and go into JR and Sue Ellen's room, which I think is quite odd, because Sue Ellen goes to the hospital every day. She could clearly bring him a fresh set of clothes or a fresh set of pjs every time. But for whatever reason, jock and ellie decide they're gonna do it. So they go into jr and ellie's bedroom and they're collecting clothes, jocks in the closet. Now he either drops them or something. He looks down and he sees this pearl handled pistol. He's like what in the heck? For the first time on this show in three episodes, somebody finally click, clacks the gun open to look at the bullets to see if they're missing. Sure enough, two bullets are missing. So jock is thinking himself I know, oh no, oh no, no, no, no. He shows ellie. They immediately call the police. Detective comes. He puts the gun in a bag, tells Jock that he's going to run ballistics on it. We're going to figure out why this went down Now. Did I expect Jock to find the smoking gun so soon? No, I also didn't expect him to find it because not so long ago his gun was found buried somewhere on the property. So probably means a whole bunch of nothing, but he found it. So, before the show is over, jr is able to come home. He's wheeled to safety.
Speaker 1:Jock, ellie, sue, ellen and him arrive back at the ranch right about the time. Uh, he needs to get settled. It's almost time for supper so he's in his. You know, everybody dresses in their finest to eat dinner at this house when Sue Ellen goes upstairs to pick up John Ewing III. Now, last time I saw this baby he was windmill, kicking, fighting for his life because he didn't want sleazebag Uncle Gary to hold him.
Speaker 1:This episode, when Sue Ellen tries to place John Ewing the third into John Ewing the second slap, that gets fight or flight instincts kick in again. He starts windmilling and screaming for his running, screaming bloody murder, running for his life trying to. But you know he's in the air, so his legs are just flailing. He. He gets snatched away by teressa and taken upstairs. Perfect timing, because jock asked the detective to make sure that jock was the first person he calls when he finds out whose fingerprints on this gun. So the the detective shows up right as the baby's being escorted upstairs back to the nursery and he announces to jock that the only other fingerprints on the gun were that of Mrs Ewing. So they're thinking Ellie, everybody in the room's thinking Ellie until he goes.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, not Ellie, sue Ellen. And we only miss the dum, dum, dum. Oh, mayday, mayday, send help fast. We got a bad girl down, my girl, my girl, my girl Now, granted, I'm not girl. Now, granted, I'm not buying this. I'm not buying this.
Speaker 1:Obviously, like I said at the top of the show, I think it's too obvious to for it to be Sue Ellen and I'm leaning on bad girl Kristen Allen. Well, bad girl Kristen, or one of the guys in the cartel. And I keep saying bad girl Kristen because she's showing up but she doesn't really have anything to do. She's clearly not working. I guess she's still sleeping in that penthouse that is being paid for by the Ewing's. She shows up to tell Sue Ellen that she's. I'm really here for you, sister. I'm on your side. I just don't trust her. I don't trust her any farther than I can throw her.
Speaker 1:And I remember the scene last episode where Alan Bean showed up to. He showed up to the hospital to to gloat. He wanted to make sure, he wanted to see JR laying flat on his back and she told him about the guards and he asked her if she was a suspect. She's like no, and then he goes. Well, hey, do you know who, do you know who killed him? And she's just like no, I think I mean she knew Sue Ellen was going to, allegedly, I guess I believe that. I just think it went a little bit differently, but it's like.
Speaker 1:But how would she have wiped off all of her fingerprints? Why is it just Sue Ellen, unless this is the whole who shot Mr Burns, the Maggie Simpson thing, where there was Simpson quote-unquote DNA on the gun, and it could be her sister. It could also be one of the people from the cartel hell. It could be Cliff, be Cliff, I don't know. Maybe Cliff wiped the guns clean. I doubt that. He was the only person who didn't have enough time to leave the scene. He was actually there when the cops came. He was in the building when the cops came and he was already drunk. That was a doozy. We are three episodes in and it's only getting better. Join me next time as we jump into more vintage soap opera debauchery. In the meantime, in between time, take care of yourself, because you deserve it, unapologetically, without question. Stay hydrated, stay moisturized, mind your own business and keep all of your drama on tv. Outro Music Bye.