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S4 EP19 DALLAS: The Gathering Storm-The "Kick Rocks, Jock!!!" Episode
"The Gathering Storm" perfectly captures the escalating tensions threatening to tear apart the Ewing family's carefully constructed facade. This episode of Dallas Season 4 delivers raw emotional confrontations that reveal the true priorities driving each character's decisions. At Southfork, Miss Ellie has reached her breaking point after 45 years of marriage to Jock. "I don't have 45 more years to play this game," she confesses, as their land dispute evolves into a potential divorce that could reshape the future of Ewing Oil itself. The silent scene of Ellie alone at the family dining table, tears streaming as she contemplates what's been lost, speaks volumes without a single word uttered. Meanwhile, Lucy and Mitch's marriage faces its own crisis when her modeling success creates an uncomfortable financial power dynamic. When Lucy declares "I work my model butt off to bring money into this home, and I'm not going to feel bad about it," she firmly rejects traditional expectations that women should diminish their success to protect male egos. Their argument perfectly encapsulates changing gender roles in the early 1980s. The most heartbreaking moment comes when Rebecca attempts to reconnect with her abandoned son Cliff by posing as an old friend of his mother. His devastating response—"If she's not dead, she might as well be"—highlights how some wounds may never heal, regardless of wealth or good intentions. True to form, JR views all these emotional upheavals through the cold lens of business opportunity, plotting to sell Ewing Oil before his mother can claim her share in divorce proceedings. Like father, like son—both men revealing that power trumps family when push comes to shove. Want more insights into the power plays and emotional confrontations of Dallas? Subscribe to Soaplore for deep dives into the soap operas that shaped our understanding of family, wealth, and ambition in America.
It's one thing to stay home all day. She's not going to stay home and cook and clean. You usually get this microwave dinner and a baddie wife. Hello, party people, welcome or welcome back to another fun-filled edition of SoFloor. I'm your host, jett, viewing and reviewing the Sylvia Seguin Primetime Storylines of 1981. We are rolling into the finale of Dallas at warp speed and I got a feeling this is going to be a real, real good one. 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 on site. Tell babe, no questions, suggestions or concerns for the next 25 to 35 minutes. Everyone else in earshot, cool, quiet or kicked out are your only options, because we are watching our story. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is so cool. What's up? Party people, welcome back to another fun little vision of so poor. I hope your day is shaping up well. I am living my very best life for the moment, working my way through what will soon be the finale of Dallas. So good, so many life lessons here, so many sort of moments and just kind of an interesting study of human nature. People do weird stuff when they don't realize. You realize what they're doing.
Speaker 1:I remember babysitting this kid growing up. He was so, so cute, georgie, and he would. So he was really cool and really mellow for the most part, but every now and then he'd throw a fit. And you could always tell when he threw a fit because it's like he would, uh, he'd go grab something and then he'd look around you. It's almost like he was looking for something, an object. But the reality is Georgie was not about to throw a fit and bust his head. See, he did that one time, just fell backward, busted his head on the side of his toy box. It hurt, all to be. I suppose he decided that was not his life anymore, ever again. So he would kind of make a couple laps around the room, make sure he found a clear spot, and then he'd gently lower himself to the ground and then commit to thrashing and flailing around and screaming a little bit to improve his point. But he had to make sure the coast was clear first, because what does he look like having a contention? And then now I'm crying for real. Now I'm pissed off and I have a headache, kind of what you see on this episode with JR. He is looking for a reason to crash out. He's looking for the perfect opportunity to blow up, but he's got to make that space. So go ahead and grab yourself something bubbly, delightful and bright. I would highly recommend, if you're in the grocery store, pick up that dollar can of whatever man. So this is called a Splash Refresher. This is what it's called Splash refresher sparkling kiwi, watermelon oh, it tastes like summer. So good, let's go ahead and dive into Dallas.
Speaker 1:Season four, episode 19, the Gathering Storm. So when last we left, jr had deduced that Leslie Stewart would only bump and grind with him if he divorced Sue Ellen. So what does he do? He ponders this for a little bit. Mind you, this man has slept with all of Dallas, but he thinks about it. He goes home and we're going to know it.
Speaker 1:Sue Ellen is just being so obnoxious. She is not barking all through the house pissing off people. No, she is quietly sitting in her bedroom in a luxurious silk gown. Hair did, nails did, makeup did, looking fly in bed for no reason Having breakfast. She has a nerve to be eating toast with jelly that somebody clearly brought to her on her tray because she's classy like that, can you believe it? No crumbs in the bed. No, nothing Minding her business. She's not reading the paper, she's not talking to anybody. She is just sitting enjoying a delicious piece of toast and he comes in and he's like, oh my god, every time I turn around you in the bed looking for a reason, and she's like, okay, how you doing? Jr doing a lot better if you weren't just sitting there. I feel like every time I look at you now you're laying in bed I don't even know why I bother with you, why I married you in the first place. Overstosed y'all this is. I mean, this has got to be 8.30 in the morning.
Speaker 1:Sue Ellen is far too busy indulging in that delicious jam and I like to think you know, sometimes I like to sprinkle a little zest on the show In my head. She lives in Dallas. Perhaps the state fair just happened. There's a million and ten different handmade jams In my mind. She's enjoying like a jalapeno fig jam, just something delicious Jalapeno fig jam with a little bit of lemon zest. It's way too fire for her to get fired up this early in the morning.
Speaker 1:So he's. I don't even know why I married you and she goes. Well, memory served me correctly, I wasn't gonna have sex with you until you did so. I mean it was important to you then. I think that's why you did it completely unfazed, as if she just is, as if he just asked her hey, where are my socks? Uh, left drawer, top corner. You'll be all right, but it does provide an insight into his mind.
Speaker 1:When he becomes obsessed with someone Deeply, he's willing to move heaven and earth to get them. Now, this is odd. Is he willing to divorce to marry another woman? Leslie Stewart looks classy enough to me to eat jam, eat breakfast in bed on a tray too, probably also in a silk robe. I mean, do you want that twice? Maybe he does. So he storms out. But now before saying Sue Ellen, you know, the less we say to each other, the better, she don't give a damn at this point. She got a date with Clint later. It is what it is. Feel how you feel. Jr. She is completely unbothered, so he. They are. She is completely unbothered. So he goes down the hallway.
Speaker 1:John ross is chilling in his fever dream of a bedroom on the carpet, playing with a few toys, having a good old time with him and his nanny. His dad comes in, excuses. The nanny lays on the floor. He's like hey, john ross how you doing and I swear to you the baby's babbling. But I swear he's like I'm doing okay, but he goes. Well, you know me and you gonna be spending a lot more time together, boy, because your mama probably ain't going to be around At some point. I swear the baby's like huh, like, oh yeah, we're going to spend time together. Really, is that? So he doesn't seem to be bothered as long as he has the grapes. I can't remember if someone told me this or it was just power deduction, but anytime you see baby john ross, he does have a fresh batch of grates and I suppose as long as jr brings his stuff over, you can yeah, you can hang out. Cool, bring grates, he's not done with his reign of terror. So then he goes downstairs and ray and donna are there and they're sitting in uh, what would be he and sue ellen's seat. Now, I didn't know this because they hardly ever eat in that dining room anymore. You always see them kind of all over the place. But he just wanted to press buttons. So Ray and Donna are fairly unbothered.
Speaker 1:Pam has decided to add a few extra curls to her. Rick Jane perm. Today it is extra fluffy. It is all over her head. I don't think I dislike it. It just I don't think I dislike it. It just I just hadn't quite gotten used to it. It's very. It looks like one of my sixth grade teacher's hairdo, and this was long after the fact that it was no longer in vogue. But you know, sometimes you get a hairdo down. I could understand wanting to keep it for a couple of decades extra. Seems like it's a lot of work. The shape is nice. Anyway, pam and Bobby are happy, donna and Ray are happy.
Speaker 1:Jr is unhappy and fidgety and just sort of pushing buttons at whoever he sees that morning First it was Ray and Donna. He suggests they move over to Gary's seat. Ain't had no damn seat, gary ain't lived there. Then Bobby comes downstairs and he catches a stray. Like dang, you really gonna vote against your daddy man. This sucks, seems like a lose-lose situation. You would vote against your daddy. Bobby's like no, you would vote against your mama. No, he's just big brothering them to death. Of course he throws a grenade and then he bounces, he leaves for work. He has more pressing eye on his agenda on this day.
Speaker 1:I will say Bobby's grief is this, is he's catching grief for no reason, even Pam's, like we're going to vote against one of them. He has to do it, he has to make a decision. She suggests why don't you just not vote? And he's like listen, I have to participate or else else, you know, I don't want to be asked to be removed off this. How does that look?
Speaker 1:I just started the job and because my mommy and daddy have a fight now I can't do my job. I have to figure out something, and right now I want to figure that out in the shower, but it doesn't seem like I can escape this just looming cloud like man. Escape this just looming cloud. It's a very unfair space to be in. He's all you know. I got my integrity and you gotta stand up and do the right thing. And blah, blah, we're gonna do the right thing, kim, even if it means we have to leave dallas.
Speaker 1:She's like no, no, come on now, leave. Why we want to do a full thing like that? I just got here and he goes wait a minute now you've been wanting to leave south for forever. Yes, she has. I do find it very convenient that he's only want to do a full thing like that. I just got here and he goes wait a minute Now. You've been wanting to leave South Fork forever. Yes, she has. I do find it very convenient that he's only willing to do it once he is uncomfortable. Now that things are a little bit complicated. Now, okay, pam, it does kind of make sense for us to stand on our own two feet. She then told you that, but now she can't leave because rebecca's there. Miss jg went with 877 gosh. No, better not tell clint. No, yeah, pam has her own demons to wrestle this episode. This is yet another situation where a parent has put the kid in just. I guess jock and ellie didn't do this on purpose. Bobby just happened to be in the middle, but Pam is definitely in the middle of this horrendous situation.
Speaker 1:Mitch is also going through it. This whole Miss Young Dallas is really starting to take a toll on he and Lucy's marriage. We see him once again at the same restaurant from the day or night or however long ago before, and his friend is at the counter studying. So he goes up to chat with her and, um, he mentions that lucy left the apartment this morning at 5 30. She's shooting some park and they needed to shoot before everyone else, like before the park opened up to the general public and the friend, which is a girl, is like yeah, I mean, it makes sense. Kind of cold out there, hope she's doing fine.
Speaker 1:Mitch says no, she has a limelight to keep her warm. She's like okay, a little bit salty. I see he's like no, no, I don't mean it like that, it's just. This is just such a shock it's so he's not really communicating well that, because Lucy is super wealthy, the attention that she's getting on top of this is what's bothering him, in addition to, like, the money. You know what I mean. Mitch and myself neither one of us are being very clear. So he starts telling the girl that he tried to buy Lucy a locket and he had to work for several weeks he had to work nights in order to afford this locket.
Speaker 1:Lucy comes home out of the blue one day with a check and she could afford 50 lockets and he goes. You see what I mean? And the girl's like not really. He goes okay. Okay, let me put it to you like this Say, you had to work really, really hard to buy a pair of shoes, right, you buy them. You're going to appreciate that the way I was brought up. Hard work makes you appreciate everything you do.
Speaker 1:Girl steps in and she's like well, lucy is working and she's working hard. Maybe it's not the same kind of work that you do, but she is working. He goes, I know, I know, but basically he's saying everything comes easy to her. Only he's not really communicating that point. Ie, the apartment was given to us, if you say it like that, like okay, her family bought us an apartment. She came with all of these clothes. We were bought a honeymoon. I'm working to provide her a little something. And then she comes in with all this money, just kind of trumping my work is what he's really saying. No matter how hard I work, I'm still so many steps behind her when she's putting in the minimal, in his opinion, amount of work.
Speaker 1:But the girl is like I don't know, I don't think you're really looking at it this way. He's like okay, well, what if you had to work really hard for a pair of shoes? You'd really you'd appreciate it, right. But if you could just go buy 50 pairs of those exact same shoes, you're not going to appreciate it. She's like maybe not, but it would be nice to be able to do like five or six, like there is a happy medium. The truth is it's a mixture of the limelight and a mixture of him feeling inadequate.
Speaker 1:Now and now that the world knows who she's married to and they don't really seem to care, she's still getting attention. It's just like she's. She's not actually doing anything wrong. His homegirl is right, she is just working. She's not doing anything unusual, it's just Dang. I know where he's coming from. It's kind of hard to swallow that, no matter how hard you work, or maybe the work that you're doing is just not it's not paying dividends. The way hers is doesn't mean that she is wrong, but there's more to it. It's his wife. There's men looking at her now, checking out her rack, making lewd comments and stuff. It's a whole thing. This is another matter of perspective that I don't necessarily disagree with, but actually I do. I very much disagree with it.
Speaker 1:So Pam is over at Mrs JG Wentworth's apartment, which is lovely. Actually it's not an apartment, it is a townhome. It is spacious, but it is no longer a mansion. She didn't need all that space. She wants to be in Dallas to reconnect with her kids. So Rebecca is not quite ready to mix and mingle and make friends. She really, really wants to meet Cliff so that they can reconnect and and and you know forge a relationship. So she brings it up to Pam again hey, when do I get to meet Cliff? Ooh? Pam's like Ooh, yeah, there's this restaurant down the road. They serve real good sandwiches and stuff. It's real close to you. I think we should go there for lunch. Do you want to do an early lunch? And her mom's like okay, now what's going on? Every time I mention cliff, you change the subject. So pam says mom, I just said cliff did not have an easy life.
Speaker 1:He literally had to fight for everything. He had to fight his way. He had to fight his way through high school, work, his way through high school, everything he's ever had. He's had to work very, very hard for. Life was not easy for him. And rebecca, the mother's like well, I could be, I I wouldn't imagine it would have been.
Speaker 1:Pam says I don't know if he's going to receive you. I don't think he's going to be able to forgive you for leaving. I know my brother and I know his faults and he lives in a world of give and take and he wants to be a taker. I don't know. I think he might take advantage of you because you're a rich woman and I'm like what? I literally stopped and said what version of Cliff are you talking about? Now this is what pisses me off.
Speaker 1:Say what you will about him. No's not perfect. Yes, he's highly ambitious, but has he done any snake in the grass I want your money thing? I didn't. He's never seemed to be in love with the money. It's more of the power. There's a different dynamic with that, like in Mitch and Lucy's case. They're not actually saying that, but there is a little bit. He probably feels a little bit more powerless because, yes, he's bringing in less money and in his case, if he had more money he would absolutely be able to afford these things. He and Lucy would be on the same tier.
Speaker 1:In Cliff's case, I don't think he wants the money for the money's sake to buy objects, he wants the power. He would very much take the power over the money. The man runs. He runs for political office, he is a civil servant. The man he's not looking to be wealthy, you know. It's not like he's taking these big, large kickbacks or anything. So to say.
Speaker 1:To imply that Cliff would absolutely take advantage of that woman's wealth is very unfair. Now I will say this Will he play her like a fiddle if she wants to give him money to? If he can extract power? Yes, but I don't think he would. Painting the picture in a way that says this man is so power hungry that he would absolutely use you and abuse you in order to gain power and access to your money is unfair. Does he respect you less? Yes, will he absolutely use her for power? Why not?
Speaker 1:This kid was abandoned by this woman. Let's not act like this. Is some Joe Blow off the street who happened upon him and lived in his life and was like this wonderful matriarch who loved and reared him. No, you told me you were dead and then you left me with a drunk psychopath that I've been taking care of up until he recently died. Two totally different things, pam. You being a little bit delusional right now he's talking about. Well, you'd never know if he loved you for you or for the money she could earn his love.
Speaker 1:I'm actually really annoyed at whoever wrote this, but I guess that's a good thing. Sometimes stories should be polarizing, but really, this is just Pam's opinion. Let me just say that. Let me just say that that's just her opinion, but it is a ridiculous opinion. I understand being caught in the middle, wanting to play both sides, because, yeah, she is more. Pam also mentioned that Pam is more loving and more like accepting and forgiving.
Speaker 1:Cliff grew up in a totally he listen, that's not. His life has not afforded him the luxury to trust anybody he's met. Lest we rewind the tape and go back to season one, he has absolutely no reason to trust anybody other than Pam, which is why I'm so upset. Please don't betray their trust. She, pam, feels like she's. She's protecting Rebecca, fair enough, but also, whatever smoke she gets, she gets because you were the adult in that situation. I don't care if Cliff is in his 40s, you're the adult there.
Speaker 1:Oddly enough, this whole episode is really about jock and ellie. So one morning at breakfast, same morning at breakfast at jr threw a grenade, then left after he pissed off everybody and then left the house donna culver's left, ray's left. Jock comes down and, um, they're talking about how bobby is going to have to make a decision. Bobby's on the committee with the T'Chapa the swamp thing situation and he's going to have to vote. As soon as that word comes out, ellie comes down the stairs. She enters the dining room. Mind you, she's been ignoring Jock as best she can. So as she goes to sit down, donna's like well, you know, your bobby's gonna have to vote. He's gonna have to pick between the two of you and that's gonna be very, very difficult for him. I swear, donna.
Speaker 1:Yes, I'm still looking out of the side of my eye, but I'm more. I believe that a little less the more I hear her talk. She seems very genuine and she does seem like damn, I wish I had never said yes to this. She and ray should probably just stay at their own house. I feel like every time she comes over, something pops off.
Speaker 1:Well, jock hears the news about bobby and he's like well, thank god, at least we know we have one, one vote there. And ellie's like oh really, that's how you think bobby's gonna vote, my son bobby. Jock's like yeah, like he's, he knows good business. Obviously he's gonna pick that. So they have a little tiny rift and ray ever, you know there, this, this whole episode, could also be the voice of reason.
Speaker 1:Somebody's always trying to step in and be like hey, so things aren't just like, aren't the way you think they are. Ray steps in. He's like miss ellie, I mean, please understand, we don't want to just rape and pillage the land. I promise you we're not going to ruin the land, we just want to make it useful. We want people to enjoy it instead of turning it into something useful besides a swamp. That was a wrong thing to say. It's just a swamp. Oh, oh, oh now, okay, I see you, ray. Ray, I seem to recall every time I see you was land, this dirt, this feed prices that Now you're talking about swamps and building structures and stuff.
Speaker 1:You sure did change your colors. I can't believe I'm talking to the same person. Now. This pisses, jock off. Now, ellie, calm down.
Speaker 1:You know that boy's been talking about that. He wouldn't say nothing about it. He wouldn't say nothing about Ellie. You have been unbearable. You've been hard to live with.
Speaker 1:I'm going to Dallas. He's had enough of it. He's going to Dallas. For the record, they probably live. I've never actually looked, but I mean I'm assuming they live a little closer to Fort Worth and Dallas is just a bigger city especially. Live out. You live out on a ranch. It's not uncommon to live 30 minutes outside a city. I'm going to Dallas. It's just that good. Go and stay.
Speaker 1:Guess who I don't want to see back at my ranch South Fork Fork, you jock. She doesn't say that. Forgive me, but you see, don't give a damn. You can be mad all you want my son Bobby better not vote for y'all. He's like well, don't talk to my son, it's not a son thing, but they're already pissed off at each other. Things have just come to a head. But she's like okay, beth, you leave, don't come back to my house. That's what I know. I bet not see you walk through here again. So the tension is kind of sprinkled, all about Everybody's kind of catching strays and understanding this. Sue Ellen, I don't know how she found that. I guess maybe this happened the day before.
Speaker 1:Sue Ellen is continuing her conspicuous rage. She's in a cute little outfit playing tennis in broad daylight in Dallas with Clint. She don't give a damn who sees, she's still got on that ring Hair still did. She is smiling, she looks healthy, she looks joyful. Please, somebody tell JR they saw me this morning. I don't care, only for her.
Speaker 1:Clint is like yeah, we are happy, we are wonderful, we can even build a house with a tennis court. She's like wait what? Build a house, what are you talking about? Yeah, I'm gonna tell alicia I want a divorce. She's like hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, chill, let's not do anything rash. Why you don't have to go do something like that, don't don't? It's too soon, see? Uh, my in-laws, jock and ellie. They're getting separated, so it would be very inconvenient to have to divorce JR right now. It'd be really weird. Oddly enough, jr uses that same excuse.
Speaker 1:So Leslie is at his office and things are going well for her. He's already promised to fund her campaign to make her the biggest PR person in all of Dallas. She's picking out office furnitures and things. She's already got some new clientele, but she's very smart with it. She's a little less eager than Kalan. She's like JR.
Speaker 1:I just want to say I appreciate everything you've done for me. You know how I feel about you, but I understand it's not easy to end a marriage. I understand that's going to take time and um, and I think some things are worth the wait. He's like oh my God, leslie, I feel so seen right now. Do you know how long I've waited for someone to understand me? Do you know how long I've waited for a woman to just patiently wait for me? Gosh, I get it. I understand it. Like you, it, my mom and my dad are going to get divorced. It's a whole thing. It's just too much. I don't want to upset anybody, it's just not the right time. She's like don't worry, jr, I understand, you know, I understand Some things are worth waiting for.
Speaker 1:He's swooning. He's like oh my God, I just want you so bad, I bad, I want you so bad. And I suppose that's the thing. It's easy to catch these little flyaway things. I want to bring it back to Mitch one more time. Mitch said if you could afford 5,000 pairs of shoes or 500, they don't really mean that much, but if you got to work really hard for the one, you're going to really appreciate that. That may or may not be true when it comes to material things, but there is something about this woman. He's had every woman in the office, and his wife and her sister and Mitch's sister Since we're bringing it up. But all he wants is this one woman he's going to have to put in work. He's got to build her career, he's got to rearrange his career, he's got to turn over a brand new leaf to be with her, and he's digging it. Maybe he's never had to work this hard for someone.
Speaker 1:Speaking of Mitch, I'll say this I wish I had his composure. When I'm angry I'm not that pleasant, but he's pacing back and forth at home. Here's the door open. Lucy's like oh yeah, thank you you so much, I'll see you at 6 am, bright and early. Close the door. She is beat, she looks exhausted. She's got a carry case over her shoulder, she's got a garment bag, all the things. She throws him on the couch. Well, hey, babe, how are you blah, blah. I'm so sorry I'm late. I just had to do like 30 different poses today.
Speaker 1:Oh, your girl is torrid. So she's talking to him and he's like what's that? He looks down and tell me why she has on a locket. She's like oh, I was trying on cashmere sweaters today and I really liked it. The garment company that I was modeling for. They let me keep it, since I liked it so much. Isn't it gorgeous? It just happens, you know. Just it's the wrong thing, wrong time.
Speaker 1:He gave an example of wanting to buy a locket. Here she comes with the locket and he's probably thinking his mind see, that's exactly what I'm talking about, not right there? See how easy it is for her. But he's never really been able to articulate that. So she doesn't catch the fact that he's angry because he's very composed, she goes oh well, honey, do you want me to make you something to eat? Have you had dinner? The fact that he's angry because he's very composed, she goes well, honey, do you want me to make you something to eat? Have you had dinner? And he's like it's 1030 at night. Of course I've had dinner, which leads me to believe he probably has not had dinner.
Speaker 1:He seems a little bit cranky, but I suppose that is to be expected when your wife comes in looking like a million bucks wearing $50,000 worth of oh, she even mentioned that it's 18 karat gold. God, it's so heavy, lucy, Lucy, lucy. So she's still not really clocking that he's upset. She goes okay, well, I'm not hungry either, so I guess I'll go take a shower, since you're gonna go study. I didn't say anything about studying. You don't listen to me, lucy, I am paraphrasing here. She's like okay, well, I'm sorry, you're always you're either working at 10 30 at night or you're studying at 10 30 at night. I just my bad. I assumed that's what you were going to do. She's mind you. She's jovial during all this.
Speaker 1:He's upset, but she brings up a very interesting point where he sees her new lifestyle as the wedge that is coming between them. The reality is there's always been something else to do. She's just never really made a big fuss about it. She understands that this is his dream. He is working towards it. Sometimes he works a little too much, sometimes she wants a little more money.
Speaker 1:Remember the whole. The only reason she went out and got a job is so he didn't have to work 50, 11 jobs so that they could have a maid. So she don't. What does she? Okay, it's one thing to stay home all day. She's not going to stay home and cook and clean. You get this microwave dinner and a baddie wife. Or you get a baddie wife and a messy apartment. Like, come on, she only got the job to pay for the maid. She just so happened to pick a job that's going to pay her best return because she's got that face card.
Speaker 1:This is all very frustrating for Mitch. He's like Lucy, lucy, don't you see? Don't you see? There's a wedge between us. We're like roommates. We're only passing each other through the night, and she's like and that's my fault. Now she's starting to get a little worked up. Is it my fault? He goes well, it certainly isn't mine. I'm not the one who has 6 am limousines coming and dragging yourself into the apartment at 10 30 at night.
Speaker 1:Now, I don't know. I feel like I've said this a lot today. That was the wrong thing to say. I don't know if it's the dragging yourself in that pissed her off or the 6 am limit. I think it was the drag. Drag yourself in. To drag me in implies that I look a mess. Please let the record reflect that.
Speaker 1:She still looks flawless. She's like baby, I'm a model. You said it, sir. Let me jog your memory. Mitch, this is Lucy. Let me jog your memory.
Speaker 1:You said that we were going to live on our money. Right, our money. I get paid to be pretty. It is what it is. Feel how you feel. He's like. I didn't say we live on our income. I said we live on my income. She's like oh, so you're going to go park cars and shuck and drive for 50 for nickels and dimes? Sorry, I don't know Some 80s girl. I don't know what she said, but she definitely said you're going to go work for nickels and dimes and I'm supposed to be cool with that baby. No, absolutely not. I am Lucy F. Ewing Cooper Model, extraordinaire Miss Young Dallas. I make money. Money don't make me. I look flawless. I've never been drug anywhere in my life.
Speaker 1:That, sir, is some antiquated thinking. Sounds like you got that out of the medieval times or something. I mean, don't you understand how that makes me feel? I don't. I don't need a rule book to tell me how I feel. She's like what are you talking about? He's like well, look at that damn gold chain. You walking in with a gold chain. I want to be able to buy you a gold chain, but I guess with nickels and dimes it'll take several decades.
Speaker 1:She's like Mitch, please. She literally says Mitch, please, okay, okay, okay. He wants to be able to buy the chain he can't like. Okay, okay, listen, I'm sorry I said you made nickels and dimes. I am sorry I said that, but listen, it's not your money, it's not my money, it's our money. And he goes what, just what is wrong with you? You think that you, you're never going to get it right Now, this is where he starts to lose me and this is where Louie, louie, lucy, reminds you. Her last name is spelled E-W-I-N-G. Baby. He snaps one too many times.
Speaker 1:She says let me tell you something. I work my model butt off to bring money into this home to support this family and I'm not going to feel bad about it. You feel how you need to feel. I'm not going to feel bad for making good money, period. So if you feel that way, we're in trouble. She's like all right, we're okay, fine, cool, cool, cool, cool Cool. Remember, you said that, not me. You said that this is all blown out of proportion. We can all tell. However, I was with him until I wasn't. I understand, but, dude, you knew you were broke when you met her.
Speaker 1:It is unrealistic to think that she should just cease existing and literally struggle with you. You're going to be gone. Listen, he's right, he's gone most of the time. He working very hard. She understands he has a goal again. She got the job so that she could have somebody clean the apartment so he didn't have to pay for that. Bringing in extra money, in her mind, frees up his time. Yeah, she's gonna be Miss Dallas. She's gonna be Miss Young Dallas for a year. Yes, it's a lot of work. Maybe it's a lot of work. Maybe it's a little more glamorous than the work that he does, but it is work nonetheless. She's going to work. She's coming home, but yeah, he's got some machismo things he needs to work through. I think it's a lot of that.
Speaker 1:He wants to support little old lady and if that's the case, let's move to Mississippi. Then Maybe you can support her in Mississippi on that, but you're not going to do it in Dallas. I don't care what year it is. Actually, dallas was quite reasonable for a while. They need to move to Fort Worth. If that's the case, move to Fort Worth or one of the surrounding cities and then the money you bring home will be a little. It'll stretch a little further, but she said not today and I love it. The best part of it she swings around that gorgeous trackless head of hair. You're going to look at me. You look at me and tell this. This is why I bring home the big bucks. Mitch is very pretty too. He could definitely model. She should definitely try to get him a modeling gig.
Speaker 1:That was an intense little argument, but you know that's not unusual with couples. Couples make up to break him a modeling gig. That was an intense little argument, but you know that's not unusual with couples. Couples make up to break up all the time. You might want to cuss your spouse out one in the morning because they left the lid off the milk for the last time. Oh, you might have violent fantasies about dousing that open milk all over their windshield after it's curdled in the hot, hot sun all day. You might think about that. But you know what, usually, if you just let it dissipate for a minute, like okay, I'll just eat this last Klondike bar and get them back. That way there's a resolution Now with Lucy and Mitch.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't think he can see the forest for the trees at this point, because he's so knee deep in trying to survive and make it that it maybe seems a little bit insulting that other people get their way quote, unquote so much easier. But you know, give him a few years. Let him get into his practice. Let him study medicine or whatever he's studying. He's going to be fine. Shake it off. She ain't getting no uglier no time soon, and she damn sure ain't going to start being poor for no reason. That would be weird.
Speaker 1:Speaking of weird Rebecca, jg Wentworth decides. You know what, enough of this waiting on Pam, let me just slip by Cliff's office. I'll just walk by, I'll come up with a ruse, he'll allow me in his office, I'll feel him out myself to see if he's this money grubber or if he's a little boy who needs his mommy. As soon as he says he needs his mommy, I'm right here. She goes by his office. His secretary's like Mrs Berg is here to see you. He's like I don't know nobody named Berg. She's like, well, she's here to see you. All right, cool, let her in. So she comes by and she. She comes in and she says hi, I've been looking forward to meeting you for a really long time.
Speaker 1:He's like oh yeah, why is that? Well, I am a really good friend of your mother. I knew her way back when we go back to houston galveston days. I've known her a long time. She's speaking of her in the present and, yeah, I know how fond she is of you. So I've always wanted to meet you, basically painting the picture that, oh wait, you mean my mother's alive. Oh wait, she misses me and she talks about me. That's wonderful.
Speaker 1:Only clip is a full grown man and this is the middle of the day and, like he said, he don't know no burke. So as far as he knows, this could be some weirdo off the street. Or he's like I'm sorry, what you know, my mother, yes, yes, and she's really eager to meet you. And then he says well, that would be a really weird trick because my mom's dead. Oh no, she's not dead, she's very much alive. And he's getting annoyed Like, okay, lady, what did you say? Your name was again Burke.
Speaker 1:Mrs Burke, I don't really know what game you're pulling here, but my mom's dead, and yeah, that's that she's like. I assure you she's not, he's like. Well, if she's not, then she might as well be. Where was she when I was growing up and I really needed her? Where was she all that time she goes? No, she was just afraid she loves you. He says this woman, my mother, clearly, if she's alive, she doesn't know what love is. Love isn't leaving a little kid to fend for themselves. That's not love. So, as far as I'm concerned, my mother's dead, dead, and if she's not, she might as well be. Now, this now she walked in there to get her feelings hurt. She really did. I can't imagine what scenario she thought she was going to get. Also, I don't care how long it's been. Like your mom doesn't look that different. Surely he's seen pictures of her. She quote unquote she does look like pam, but he doesn't recognize her at all, and I could have well. So now she and they're looking embarrassed, looking shamefaced, as my mom would say, not knowing what to do with herself. Like, oh God, that hurt. Yeah, it does hurt. It hurts, rebecca, because you made a choice.
Speaker 1:At least Rebecca was able to save face by saying she was a friend of Cliff's mother. And lucky for Mitch, he really does have a friend and is his little girl, his little homegirl, his doctor homegirl. She's trying to help him study back at the max or the peach pit or whatever it's called. And she can tell he's distracted. So he's explaining. You know, lucy came home at 10 30 last night. She was gone by 6 am. I hardly get to see her, it's just she's working too much, it's taking a toll.
Speaker 1:And so the friend's like she's just working, like what's what's really going on? Why does this bother you so much? And he's able to articulate it a little bit better this time. He says she is a Ewing. I believe that things only have value if you work for them. But because she's a Ewing, it's like anything she holds her hand out to get, she just gets Sort of implying that she wanted a job. She got like the highest paying job ever. She wanted an apartment. She got. You know what I mean. She's not really working for it. He starts to feel like their values are too different. So his friend says you know, there's a very simple solution, but it's not that simple. If you want to stay married I hope you do One of you has got to change, basically, implying that he needs to change. This is who you married. So mitch now has to sit with himself and decide what he wants to do now.
Speaker 1:On the other side of town, mitch's sister happened to be in the same bar, still singing and lingering along. She's dressed in her pink cowboy carter outfit. Actually she looks a little bit more like dolly. She's gonna like a pink lace, something or another. She sounds quite lovely and they let her sing for a while. So I'm kind of wondering if afton had a career in the early 80s in the music business. That's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1:Cliff is at the bar sourly drinking a beer, damn near rolling his eyes. I guess he thinks she sounds okay, but he's had a day. Some boho came in pretending to be his mom. It's not the best time, but he looks over, or you hear someone call him he looks over, it's one of his old college pals and two bucks and blondes. They invite him to sit down. He doesn't really want to, he's just making small talk. He was about to go home, but you know he's. You know small talk. Oh, hey, dude, it's good to see you. Are you still in the oil business? Yeah, but one of the blondes says yeah, he works so hard, like being funny tongue-in-cheek, he works so hard, he's jet-setting all over the world. He's in every place. You know, I really get a hold of him.
Speaker 1:So cliff's like oh, really, that's why I just got back from southeast asia. His friend tells him that cliff's like oh, no way, were you there when that whole government uprising thing was happening, a thing that jr allegedly stopped or had something to do with? And the dude's like yeah, I was actually cliff's like man, that must have been wild. You know what? I'll go ahead and have a seat. Doesn't seem like he's prying at this point. He just wants to hear about this uprising. So he and the friend are getting along. They all end up going back to cliff's apartment. Cliff, his friend and the friend are getting along. They all end up going back to Cliff's apartment.
Speaker 1:Cliff, his friend and the two blonde girls. The blonde girls decide it's time to powder their nose while Cliff and his homeboy make drinks and Cliff brings up the counter-revolution again. He's like, man, that must have been super scary. How did you feel Like, basically, how did you like survive? And the guy's like, scary, there wasn't even any shooting. And the guy's like, scary, there wasn't even any shooting. That thing was fought with money. Cliff goes what do you mean? He goes. Well, I mean, those sort of things aren't you know, aren't people on the ground with Tommy guns? It's like more political than anything. Word on the street is that some American backed the whole thing financially, something like that.
Speaker 1:Now Cliff's interest is piqued. He's like well, you, why do you say that he goes? Well, I mean, I know everybody there, people who should have been in it, people who should have been shot or whatever, operators, etc. And you know they all say the same thing. And so he starts naming people and cliff goes. You wouldn't happen to know a guy named hank johnson? He's like yeah, I know hank h. Hank Johnson works for JR. As a matter of fact, hank was very, very visible right before the revolution, very loud, very vocal, and all of a sudden he dropped out of sight. Nobody's seen him since. Well, now Cliff's homeboy enters his peak like man. Why do you ask? You know Hank? Cliff says no, I just kind of know his reputation. Like you mentioned, operators, blah, blah, it's kind of his reputation. So now he they probably both thinking the same thing, but in opposite directions like hmm, you're not sure.
Speaker 1:All this makes cliff quite giddy. He's like got a little tea. Call. Jg wentworth is on the opposite end of giddy.
Speaker 1:She, she is actually quite sad. She went back and she told him what happened. She's like I'm so sorry, I couldn't. I couldn't help myself. I had to see him. And she, she explained what he said and she doesn't blame him.
Speaker 1:She's like wow, the whole way home all I could hear is him saying my mother doesn't know what love is, even though I wanted to tell him I love him and I'm his mother. I understand where he's coming from. And then the other thing that kept playing in her head was that where was she when I needed her? She's like damn, I have no answer for that. There really is no excuse.
Speaker 1:Pam says but mom, you had to do. You do what you had to do and one day maybe Cliff will understand that. Her mom says you can't possibly believe that. Then she says that she was tempted to tell him that she's a wealthy woman. Now she can help him in any way he needs it. But Pam says, mom, well, you will never know if he really loves you or he loves money. And this is where me and the mom really do agree. She goes would that be so bad? At the end of the day, she just wants a relationship with him. Now I'm pretty confident that with time maybe they could have. I mean, by my estimation it would take years for that to be a real relationship.
Speaker 1:All because of the circumstances. She didn't get kidnapped, she was not held hostage, she did not have amnesia, she wasn't like sick and poor somewhere and just literally couldn't afford two kids. She could afford two kids. She could have introduced herself when her husband was there. That's the thing. We can't ignore all these. So if he don't want anything to do with everything, he just doesn't. If he decides to take a check every now and again to fund his campaign, not his lavish lifestyle, I mean, it is what it is. You don't have to love it, but I don't really know what else you could expect. It's going to take a huge act of God for them to come any closer. I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 1:So, jock and Ellie I suppose it starts to weigh on Donna a little bit. So one morning she goes over to talk to Ellie. She says listen, I'm sorry, I got to tell you just like it is. I don't think this DeKalb thing is worth you and Jock's marriage. It's not worth it. It's just land. There's plenty others. Just don't do this. This is causing too much grief.
Speaker 1:Now Ellie shocks me and she's like oh my God, donna, is it you and Ray? She doesn't even realize that Donna's talking about she and Jock. Once Donna explained no, ray and I decided to keep this out of our marriage. There's other things that are more important and this just isn't worth it. Ellie sighed. She's like okay, you young girls don't understand. This is more. It's not just the land, it is the secrets. It is having to just sit and agree.
Speaker 1:It'd be very agreeable and kind all the time, no matter what he does. I'm really really, really, really sick of it. I've been doing that for 45 of my years and guess what? I don't have 45 more. I'm not really willing to play that game with him anymore. So if a divorce is what it takes, then so be it. I don't really care at this point.
Speaker 1:Now, this is very upsetting to Donna, and Ellie can see this, and she's still somebody's mama. So she says listen, I'm sorry, I wish I had given you a little bit more warning when you married into the family. And Donna says well, what do you mean? She goes with the Ewing men. A marriage to them means that they always have to prove themselves more than anything. That's more important to them than being married. Of course my mind goes to the West Coast and like, damn, that's a good point, ellie, they got. Hey, he's only okay, he is on another show. We will talk about him on that other show, but it's kind of rough. He is on another show. We will talk about him on that other show, but it's kind of rough.
Speaker 1:So Bobby and and JR having a chat one night before dinner doesn't look like Ellie's gonna come down for dinner and Jock is in Dallas living his best life or his worst life. He's probably not doing anything. Let JR tell it. He's out getting drunk. And Bobby's like, oh my god, I can't believe they're separated. Did you try to talk to him? And there's like yeah, I did, but I can't believe they're separated. Did you try to talk to him? And JR's like yeah, I did, but I mean it looks like they could be. You know they could stay separated, if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Bobby is quite upset and JR goes that's gonna I don't know what that's gonna mean for Ewing Oil. Bob's like why are you talking about the oil company at a time like this? Jr explains well, if mama divorces daddy, she could take the whole company. Like this is a community state, she could take the company and you know how she feels about it. She might just you know who knows what she'll do. Bobby's like dude, I don't think it's that deep, I don't think it's the same thing. He really doesn't care. He wants his mommy and daddy back together.
Speaker 1:But JR Ewing is JR Ewing for a reason. The man who invented telework, remote work, is back on his bully and he's not going to let a little thing like love, marriage or potential divorce stop him from making all the money possible. So he gets a feeler on Jock, just to make sure that he understands the situation completely, while Bobby, on the other hand, starts looking at all the maps he can find, up to Takapa T'Challa um Swamp Thing to see if there is another resolution. Surely there's a way that we can make everybody happy. So while Bobby is doing that work, jr is talking to Jock and he says Daddy, are you thinking your mama, you and mama are going to get a divorce. He goes, it kind of looks like it, it's kind of heading that way. And that's when JR brings up this being a community property state, state of Texas, and that mama would get half of the company. Now why that would matter, I'm sure I don't know. But Jock shows his entire behind. He's like you know what? I would sell this old bitch before I let her get any part of it, before she can get her hands on it. I'd sell the company right from underneath her, letting you know where his mind is. She's not wrong, he is more. He and jr have the same thought, which again makes me think of another person who we'll talk about on another date and time. But it's starting to paint a bigger, broader, bolder, more sinister picture here.
Speaker 1:Jock Ewing is JR. We just didn't see him in his prime. We get to see what he looks like slowed down. We get to see what he looks like older. He would rather sell everything he's worked for to make sure the woman who has been his booski for 45 years allowed him to bring his whole ass other child onto the property. Yes, it was unbeknownst to them. However, she knew about it. It is what it is. She is acting up a little bit. I feel like she's been kind of taking it out on ray a little bit more than she needs to. But this is where his mind is at, which tells me you know, you know what. She is well within her rights, whatever she does. I'm team Ellie. Do what you got to do, ellie.
Speaker 1:In my very favorite scene of this entire episode, ellie comes downstairs and she goes to the dining room and it's, you know, beautiful sunlight showing through. It's quiet, it's all polished up and as she walks in she doesn't say a word. Light showing through, it's quiet, it's all polished up and as she walks in, she doesn't say a word. You can see her kind of smiling. She's smiling through her eyes. She's like looking around the table and you can tell she's envisioning her entire family at the table. She starts to smile and then it's like she breathes in and she gets a whiff of what's really there.
Speaker 1:He starts thinking about other stuff. She sits down and then she starts looking around the table, like in each seat, particularly one corner where we know who is supposed to be there, he's not, but it's as if she's really really taking it in. The entire table is empty. This is what it's going to be and she starts to break down. She starts to cry and it's like you can almost hear it. You can see all the memories, you can see all the years, you can see the joy, you can see her family, the things she wants more than anything around the table. But then you can tell when the other memory starts to hit too All the lies, all the what that has turned out to be. Her hope is one thing, the reality is something else. She kind of stops wiping her face, she lets the tears just kind of sit there. She starts looking around again and, mind you, she's at the head of the table. She never sits. I guess she does sit at the head of the table, but she sucks it up. One last look, one last whip of the eye, jumps up and turns and leaves it. Says so I've god.
Speaker 1:I love this scene because she doesn't say a word and I swear you hear everything. She didn't say this. This was my dream. He took my dream. This is where the joy happened. This is where the pain happened. This is what I've always wanted. This is my worst nightmare. And her way of dealing with it. She stands up with her joy, with her pain, she lets the tears continue to run down, she only wipes one eye, turns on her heels and leaves Such a message. Speaking of messages, you never shoot the messenger, but sometimes you can slap them up a little bit.
Speaker 1:Jr calls the guy that was going to give him I forget what bank he's ahead of blonde haired dude. If you see him, you know exactly what I'm talking about. He gets a call from that banker guy and, to my surprise, when he shows up at the office, it's Cliff's homeboy. He, the Cliff's homeboy, is reporting to the banker, all these things. So he starts to tell the Cliff's homeboy, that is, starts to tell JR and the banker that cliff was kind of being inquisitive about the Southeast Asia uprising thing, the revolution. He's like you know, I was over there and I told them that there were really no guns. There were no shots fired. It was more of a political, financially backed sort of thing.
Speaker 1:Jr, ever the professional was like oh, for real, is that so? Well, the dude continued. He's like well, you know. He asked me if I knew XYZ. Did I know Woo-Dee-Woo? Then he asked me that I know Hank Johnson. I was like yeah, I know Hank Johnson.
Speaker 1:Jr was like you know Hank Johnson, he's clueless. Wink, wink blonde hair guy is mr wind. Now, okay, so the you know homeboy is like well, yeah, I mean, that's all. That's all he asked, but do you need to know anything else? And he looks over to the blonde guy. Blonde guy's like no, it's cool, it's cool, okay. Well, jr says well, listen, maybe we'll meet again. Um, maybe we'll have another time to talk.
Speaker 1:Now I'm wondering, like, why are you so quick to go sell cliff up the river? Why are you asking? I think what triggered it was the hank johnson. This guy knows who hank johnson is and what kind of things he does. So he went and told the banker who goes to tell jr. Jr is like um, oh my god, I really don't know what he's talking about. I don't know why you brought me in here. That's weird.
Speaker 1:Jeremy, as the guy's called, is like yeah, well, you know, I just thought you might want to know, just in case you need to know anything. He knows what's up. He also wanted to bring JR in because he heard about the Ewings possibly getting divorced. There actually folds a little bit divorced. There actually folds a little bit. He tells the guy that you know my mom and dad could possibly be getting a divorce. I understand you had a little trouble when Bobby was running the company, but I'm here now. We can have a really, really good relationship. I understand you know a lot of people. You know a lot of important things.
Speaker 1:Basically, he asked do you know anybody who might, you know, want to buy Ewing Oil if it were ever for sale? You know what I'm saying. Do you think maybe you can make a call or two, maybe see if they'd be interested in buying it, see if they had a nice cushy position for me with a lot of stock options and cash and whatnot? So this man is a businessman. He's thinking okay, jr, I hear you. I hear you. I know west star oil may or may not be looking. Maybe I could give him a call, see what's up.
Speaker 1:Scandalous, however, apple didn't fall, far from the. His dad was prepared to do the same thing, is prepared to do the same thing, aj Eric jumping the gun a little bit maybe seems like it, but also I'm like, wow, he heard the voice and thought let me protect my money first. It's crazy. This guy is ruthless. Ruthless with a smile which makes a big, big difference. Oh, all right, guys, that's it, that's all. So what do you think? Do you think Mitch is out of control? Do you think he's taking it a little bit too far? Do you think JR is taking it too far? How long can Sue Ellen fight Flint on this? Leave your husband tag thing. Do you think JR is going to divorce? Sue Ellen? I do not. I do not see that happening. All right, guys, in the meantime, in between time, enjoy yourself, stay hydrated, stay moisturized, mind your own business and keep all of your drama on tv. Thank you, bye.