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S5 EP3 Dallas: Showdown at San Angelo- The " Trojan Horse & Rich Dumb Blondes" Episode

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A grandma, a helicopter, and a runaway softball shouldn’t add up to a custody chess match—unless you’re in Dallas Season 5. We dive into “Showdown at San Angelo,” where JR trades stealth for spectacle, Sue Ellen protects peace at the Southern Cross, and Ellie faces a split-second test of principle: win ugly or walk away clean. The move fails, but the message lands—power doesn’t always beat preparation, and reputation can make you predictable. We also track the quieter tremors that make Dallas so addictive. Donna wants the dirt under Ray’s boots, not the cologne on his cuffs, while Ray insists growth doesn’t cancel grit. Afton dazzles with the wrong vibe in the right room. Rebecca returns with money, guilt, and an offer: Cliff should fix a stagnant oilfield-supply company that ought to be printing cash. It’s a sharp take on Texas economics—the shovel sellers in a gold rush shouldn’t break even—and a chance for Cliff to be more than a spoiler. Meanwhile, Pam’s single-focus push for a baby leads her and Bobby into a blunt reality check about adoption, choice, and access that even Ewing money can’t shortcut.Jock’s absence is handled with care, sending him on a government mission that keeps him revered and out of sight while Ellie pedals toward strength and clarity at home. The emotional center belongs to Sue Ellen and Dusty: tenderness is intact, limits are real, and love becomes a practice, not a pose. When Southern Cross refuses to be outplayed, JR is forced to rethink the only game he trusts. Stakes stay high, but the episode asks a deeper question: what do you sacrifice to win, and who do you become if you do?Stream the full breakdown, share your take—Team JR, Sue Ellen, or Ellie?—and if you’re new here, follow the show, rate it, and drop a review so more Dallas fans can find us.

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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome or welcome back to Soapflore, the official gathering place for newbies, novices, and OG diehard fans of the golden age of primetime. I'm your host, Jeff Toby and Reviewing one of the Stopia's Sudden Crimet Storylines of 1981. We are back in Dallas and we've got so much to talk about. So whether you're doing it in our three minutes, sit back and enjoy. Tell the kids it's time to play outside or out of sight. Tobey, no questions, suggestions, or concerns for the next 25 to 35 minutes. Everyone else in the archival needs to be told to be quiet or empty all the way through the out because we are watching our story. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, so this is so full. Welcome and welcome back to another fun field edition of Soapboar. How y'all doing today? You good? I hope you feel good. We got some things to discuss. It has hit me like a ton of bricks that Dallas has been playing in my face for five full seasons, and I'm tired of it. We're jumping into season five, episode three today. So go ahead and pour yourself up something bubbly and bright as we discuss showdown at San Angelo. My goodness, how very rude of me. Where are my manners? How y'all doing? Good? Anybody put anybody in a chokehold lately? This shopping during the holidays is not for me. I learned that a long time ago. Thank God for Amazon and other deliveries. I can't do it. I can't be in line for 45 minutes over stuff I don't really want to buy. I can't do it. But what I can do is settle in and catch up on some shows I've been wanting to watch and start my Christmas movie playlist. Funny enough, none of my movies are on Hallmark. As a matter of fact, very few of them are Christmas related, with the exception of Home Alone and This Christmas and Maybe Die Hard. And of course, the the divas of the 80s has been slipped into there this year. But most of my shows have been, I don't know. I like to go a little bit more nostalgic. I like to watch things I hadn't seen in a while. So for me, that is Drop Dead Gorgeous, which was darn near impossible to find. These aren't Christmas movies, but they they make me feel good. We ain't worried about that today, y'all. We got to talk about this the showdown at San Angelo. I never know when do you at or in. It seems like if you're in a town, that's what it would be called if San Angelo was like a point. I get whatever. Neither here nor there. We're of course we're gonna start out with the bitty bit players today. I don't want to call these stories brittle, but they need come on now. We're gonna need to add a little something to this. Just a little bit. Bit player number one is now the number one side piece in all of Dallas. That's right. The death of bad girl Kristen has left yet another opening in the troubled young woman who fall for the wrong men type of situation. And that goes to none other than after she is singing over lunch specials. People are either chugging down mojitos or sucking up jello. But either way, she is singing her little heart out every day, all day, in this dark little lounge. Something caught my eye this episode that I hadn't really noticed before. You know, they have a b-roll where they, you know, they show the outside of Ewing Oil, the outside of the ranch, etc. This particular restaurant looks exactly like the restaurant in that movie Sideways. You ever seen that? With what's it, Giamatti? I can't, Paul Giamatti and that other guy. Excellent film. I might throw that in my Christmas watch list as well. But the the restaurant that they keep meeting up at, where he ends up sleeping with that girl because he's a former soap opera star. Yeah, it looks exactly like the lounge that Afton frequents. She is giving, I almost call their girl CGI. I gotta remember it's CG like Fiji, giving CG a run for her money, and she ain't even got no sprinkles. Sprinkles? What do they call them? Sequence. So picture this. It is probably 3 p.m. The place is hopping. It is wall to wall, and Afton is singing her little country and western heart out. Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo. It's a special occasion because her big brother Mitch has graduated from med school and he's brought all of his med school nerds, they're sipping drinks. Some of them are looking or sitting very uncomfortably, facing the opposite direction of Afton and looking over their shoulder and trying to drink. That's a lot going on. Why you don't just put that chair around? I don't really don't know. She's singing like she is Cleopatra and Whitney Houston all together. And all of Mitch's friends were like, Wow, you didn't tell us that she was such a star. Your sister's really beautiful, and man, she's got a wonderful voice. Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo. She's killing it, y'all. She stops her set just for a second to pay homage to her big brother. Ladies and gentlemen, my big brother Mitch has just graduated from medical school. Can we give it up for Mitch? Clap, clap, clap, clap. Yes. Mitch is now a doctor. Shout out to you, Dr. Mitch. She then proceeds to follow up with a song about broken hearts. My man left me for beddy boobs. She gave them boobs and lots of boobs. She's a beer broad in broad daylight. Sipping my beard through all of my tears. Girl, that ain't no. Come on, now we're here to celebrate. In my mind, this is the moment that whoever was working on rap was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is our time to shine. The whole world was collectively watching the number one show on television at the time, probably. I'm not really sure about season five, but everybody's watching the show. Girl, you do not follow up. But congratulations, big brother Dr. Dr. Mitch, with the beer and boobs and tears and lube. And I'm lonely again. This is how rap music in my mind got its start. We need something jumping, baby. Give him a proper send-off. Don't in between tears and beers. Shout out to my big brother Mitch, the doctor. The classic case. A great talent, but the wrong vibe. You're not bringing what we need, baby girl. She does take a few minutes to tell him he's stupid for leaving his super hot, super rich wife, but I mean, what's new? Speaking of right look, wrong vibe, ah, Ray's really not doing it for Donna anymore. She didn't sign up for this. She was married to an older, wealthy gentleman. He had the money, he had the brains, he was savvy at business, he was savvy in politics. She's already lived that life. The only thing that kept her warm while her ex-husband's body was growing cold was the fact that one day, as soon as the man was buried and the check cleared, she was gonna get herself a young, strapping, dumb cowboy. She was long gone in the days where I sit at the foot of a man telling me about business and stuff. I don't want to hear all that. I want I want somebody that smells like dirt and livestock. So she picks who? Good old-fashioned Ray. She wants the Ray who broke up with her because she used too many smart girl words. And she had too many monies for him. She wants the biddy bidi bidi type of Ray, not the money, money, money Ray. I mean, she's she's giving him dirty looks the whole episode. So Ellie comes home. We'll get to Ellie here in a second. They're in the kitchen making one of the most hideous pots of chili I've ever seen in my life. Ray comes in fully dressed. He's got on like pants and a shirt and a sports coat. The freaking audacity. No doo-doo on his boots. He is fresh to death. He is a business man. He walks in and he slaps her on her butt and she's on, she almost vomits. I can't believe this fool touched me. How dare you! Just soft hands, no calluses, no nothing. She's struggling with this. And I'm struggling to believe it. This is what I'm saying. Dallas, this is where you were playing in my face. By all intents and purposes, yes, Ray is a traditional cowboy, but he's not just a cowboy, he runs the freaking ranch. Is that all the different from what we would call maybe like a project manager today? Is it so hard to believe that a man who spent every day of his life since he was 15 years old managing or working on a ranch, learning the ins and outs, learning to buy cattle, buy feed, pay people, hire people, onboard people, create relationships, find uh buyers and sellers and make repairs. Is this so hard to believe that if someone said, Hey, would you help me sell homes, is it hard to believe it? It's not to me. I don't feel like it's that big of a leap. But for whatever reason, Donna can't stand it. She's like, this fool don't wear jeans anymore. He smells like Irish Spring. I can't stand this. Ellie, for no other reason than you know, being old and hateful sometimes. She's dry hating from the kitchen. She sees the way Donna recoiled when he popped her on her booty or lack thereof. No shade. It's the 70s, 80s. They didn't have booties back then. She says, Hey Donna, how do you like that businessman of yours now? Well, I liked him better when he was a cowboy. And Ray's like, Dang, can't a can a brother come up? Damn. Still a cowboy. I just, I mean, I got a little more money now. Ellie is like, is it really a come up? Miss ma'am, miss ma'am, make your bland chili and mind your business. Never mind the fact that everybody's in your house. But girl, which one do you want? I know what it is. She's still mad that it ain't Gary the loser in her kitchen. She's like, I'm I know I said I accepted you, but I still got to draw hate from time to time. But wouldn't she also the one who was like, He, you love the land. I love that you love the dirt and all that. Girl, money trumps dirt every single time. Sort of a weird hill to die on when you think about Donna Culver and Mitch, especially considering their backgrounds. Yeah, maybe Donna didn't come from a lot of money, maybe she did, I don't know. Mitch, now that he's graduated, he can't very well hang his hat on. Oh, I'm here for the poverty. Sir, no, you're not. You would have been a missionary somewhere in foreign fields if that was the case. You would have you'd have been a priest or something if you insisted on not having the money. The problem here is Donna Culver and Mitch Bet Not Have No Money, Mitch. They're in love with the aesthetic. You see, they both want a dumb blonde. You want a dumb country blonde, an impoverished one, preferably. And the moment you found out that they are wealthy, wealthy, it was a problem. Hey, here's some advice for you. Here's some advice for all of you. If you want a poor, dumb blonde, hang out in poor, dumb blonde places. Mitch met this girl at Southern Methodist University. That is a private school. Who do you think goes to private schools? Tell you who don't, poor girls. Tiffany from the trailer park did not make it to SMU unless she had boobs and brains and$70,000 in student loan debt. Donna Culver don't hang around the wealthiest family in Dallas and think that the guy who runs the whole thing ain't gonna have a little pocket change. They're dumb blonde haters. They're dumb blonde fetishizers and money shamers. Shame on you. Maybe I'm being too hard on them, maybe not. There is that old saying, more money, more problems. But one person who happens to have plenty of money and plenty of problems that don't have to do with money is none other than Miss Rebecca JG Wentworth 877 Cash Down. Rebecca's problem is that she hated being poor and she hated being married to a poor dude who was also drunk, was not really conducive to the life she saw herself in. So she said, you know what? Let me drop this five-year-old boy and I'm gonna go ahead and push out this, my jump offs baby. I'm gonna leave the kids with a drunk, and then I'm gonna go make them something of myself in Houston. And that's what she did. And when her husband died there, she is wealthy. But the thing is now she feels a little bit guilty. Now she's gotta figure out these big grown children, cultivate a relationship, and and try to salvage what is left of the family she left behind. So Rebecca's biggest problem, Rebecca the Rolling Stone, that is, as in Papa was a Rolling Stone, mama was, is that her kids don't seem to care about each other. So Pam. Pam is walking around, damn near catatonic. Her whole personality has flipped. All she cares about is the baby. Baby this, baby that, baby this, baby. I can't believe I can have no baby, baby, baby, baby, baby. Rebecca's like, I know this is rough. I know you're going something going through stuff, but I mean, what about Cliff? You're not talking to Cliff about this? Pam says, Listen, I used to take care of Cliff. I used to run in behind him. I don't have time for that right now. I need a baby. I need a baby now. I need a B A B why? I need a B A B Y. I need a Bambino. I need a small person. I need an egg. I need I need a little toddler. Something. I don't care about that fool. He he can care about himself. I'm caring about this baby. Rebecca's dismayed. She can't believe it. This this is what my children have come to. This is what they care about now. One's obsessed with a baby, one's obsessed with power. This just can't be. It's almost as if they didn't have a tender touch from a mother. Let me let me take it easy on her. So Pam is all but resolved to zone the F out until somebody puts a freshly born fetus, preferably nine months old, in her arms. Bobby has clocked the fact that Pam is catatonic and he said, Hey darling, I know you don't want to have a baby. Why don't we go ahead and adopt one? And she's like, Oh my god, that's the best idea ever. So instead of going to an adoption agency, it's almost as if they go to like health and human services. It's some building and it's like, it says something about the elderly and food. They go to like a to to the state, basically. This is a very not so subtle PSA to America, slipped into one of America's best television programs at the time. So Bobby and Pam are sitting in this lady's office, and Bobby's pissed. He's like, What do you mean there's a shortage of babies? The woman all but looks at the camera and says, Yes, that's right. With access to abortions and birth controls and single mothers having the audacity to raise children by themselves, we're we have a shortage of babies. Now I'm not trying to be funny when it comes to that, but also why would they go to the state they're rich? Again, Donna Culver or Mitch met a rich girl at a rich school. Rich people don't go to poor places. Well, maybe they would. They maybe they did because they thought it probably would be easier and they could save a couple bucks. But come on now, you're not finna tell me this is a dead end for you. No way. Anyway, the woman continues to say, you know what? I'm sorry, there's just a short of a baby's. We don't have any. It sucks. Pam continues to be catatonic. Her personality, albeit a little bit extreme, the more I thought about it, I'm like, no, Dallas, you're playing in my face. She actually always acts like that. She always looks a little bit dazed and confused. She's just babbling a little bit more. It's not the fact that she's catatonic. That's weird, it's the fact that she's talking so much about the exact same thing. Even as I say that, that's not even true. Is Pam one-dimensional? Did it take me five seasons to realize that Pamela Ewing is completely one-dimensional? She threw me off with the Rick James mullet that one time. She almost had an affair, but it's either me and Bobby's marriage is on the rocks because one of us is spending too much time working. Andor a family problem, usually hers. Or his. Either way, it's got Rebecca JG Wentworth and a Tizzy. She can't figure out, you know, what do I do? What do I do to help? So she invites Cliff over for a home-cooked meal. This is her extending the olive branch. This is her opportunity to reconnect with her firstborn child, to get to know him. He gets to know her. He likes her for a change. And I think it's thief. She actually likes him too. She's concerned that he is sort of spiraling because he lost his job. She can immediately see that he's brilliant. He's smart. No reason a man like him should be without work. Although she does think he's a little bit too obsessed with the ewing, she can totally see that. Okay, there are there are obviously some hurdles that you need to hop over, and it's you're gonna need a little bit of help. She also has a side mission here. She wants to get Cliff good and thick. He's a little too skinny for her liking. So she's gonna make sure she's making a pound cake and extra spaghetti and all these carbs. She's gonna make sure he's good and thick by summer. He's gonna be real fine. She wants that thing singing when he walks away. She wants people flipping their head back to be like, dang. She wants Cliff to have a dunk. Forgive me. I've lost the mission here. What was I talking about? Oh yes. Yes. Cliff being smart and whatnot. So with their little dinner, she says, Cliff, baby, I'm concerned that you and your sister aren't concerned with each other. He's like, I mean, we care, but I mean, this is what we do. We're siblings. Rebecca says, Well, you know, she can have a baby. I don't know if she'll ever get over this. Now, mind you, Cliff has been through her through two different kid losses at this point. He is being a little bit too casual for my liking, but his thing is that he says, She got over you coming back from the dead, so like I'm sure she'll be fine if she didn't have a kid. She'll be fine. She always does this. Pam always mad about something. I guess that sat asides Rebecca for a minute. She goes, Well, here's another thing. See, I have this company. He's like, Oh, word? I didn't know you had a company, Ma. She's like, Yeah, I inherited it. The thing is, it's run by these trustees. I don't really know a lot about business. I was thinking maybe you could run my company. Mind you, she asked him. I'd like the record to reflect one more time that he has not asked her for anything. I do not like the narrative Pam is trying to paint. He even says, Mom, I don't know anything about business. I don't have any businesses. She goes, but you your business savvy. You understand checks and balances and accounting. I mean, you're a lawyer, it can't be that hard. I tend to agree. It's probably not super difficult. So Cliff agrees to attend one of her board meetings. Now, why this woman has literally 20 men on her board, I'm sure I don't know. It is some sort of um supply company. So they supply all of the parts for oil wells. And as Cliff looks over the records, he sees that they actually haven't made any money. And the chairman or the head of the board, whoever he is, he is very proud of the fact that they their profits look exactly the same over the last X amount of years. And Cliff's like, I ain't no genius or nothing, but I thought businesses wanted to increase their profits. Now, this is where you could tell that the rest of the board ain't really feeling the chair guy. Because they're like silently nodding, they're dry snitching a little bit. Like, yes, please continue, Mr. Cliff. Please continue and elaborate on profits, please. Cliff puts it to him like this You sell oil crap. This is the oil mecca of America. Why the heck aren't people fighting, beating down your door to get your parts? It's a good point. I also don't own many businesses, but I do know that in 1849, during the gold rush, the people who made the most money were the people who supplied the shovels and the dynamite and the pans and stuff. Or those cool people on the East Coast who I'm high key fascinated with, those people who hunted whales like in regular boats. I can't even imagine. They made more the people who sold them like the nets and all that. It's always the suppliers for the people who have the dream make the most money. And he's right, like even to This day who do um they call it a hotshot. So say you have like a dually truck and there's rigs that are digging out in the middle of nowhere. It could be really expensive to get things shipped, and then plus it's you got to coordinate things that don't really have an address. So hotshots are people with trucks who'll put 10 or 11 pipes in their bed and drive it out to you and make a ton of money. You're always gonna make it bringing little things like fittings and nuts and bolts and stuff like that. So it would appear that Cliff has a new job, at least for the time being, with his mother. I think that's the least she could do for abandoning them oh so long ago. Gotta talk about the elephant in the room. Jim Davis, aka Jock Ewing. Now, for the last what uh six episodes or so, Jock and Ellie have been enjoying a second honeymoon in lovely powdery. It is time for them to come home. Since IRL, Jim Davis, is gone. The producers, the writers, and the cast have to work around this. I suppose when this happens on a show, you have two choices. You either recast as quickly as possible and hope by the next season or so people tend to forget. I think that's easier said than done when someone just quits a show versus when they pass away in real life. You got to be a little bit more delicate with it. So in this episode, Jock is just out of sight. He's super duper busy. They're keeping him booked and busy in places that make it difficult for him to come home easily. So he's not just out shopping, he's not just at the doctor, he's God knows where. So let's rewind back to the beginning of the show. Ellie arrives at the airport, and Donna, Bobby, and Ray show up to greet her. Hugs and kisses. Oh, mama, where's daddy? When we were in New York, David Culver intercepted our flight. I don't know how he knew we were flying in New York, but he took Jock to Washington, D.C. to talk to the government about something. Jock's gonna call us tonight and fill us in. The family's like, oh, okay, cool. So Ellie goes, Well, where is everybody? Where is Pam? Where is JR? Pam's at home being catatonic, and JR is out running amok. He's got a lot on his plate. He has met his match. Fast forward to dinner, where they're eating that hideous chili that Ellie prepared. Phone rings, and it is Jock, and she's oh yes, okay. Oh, oh, okay, cool. JR? Yeah, he's right here. You can talk to JR. Passes the phone to JR. He goes into the dining room to tell the whole family that Jock has been selected. He's basically the oil avengers. Him, Punk Anderson, a couple other people have been sought out by Los Estados Unidos to head down to South America to teach South Americans how to tap into these untapped oil wells. They're gonna teach South America how to drill. Uh-huh. Okay. Not terrible, but it, you know what I'm saying? It gives him a place to be. It keeps him completely out of sight. There is absolutely no timeline with this sort of passion, this passion, this sort of project. And plus he's working for the U.S. government, so it's super secret. Probably not going to know where he is most of the time. That's how we're handling Jock at this time. Now, just because Jock is out of sight, don't mean he's out of mind. And it certainly don't mean he likes what's going on back in Dallas. Now let's rewind just a little bit more. Let's say you're an elderly couple who almost broke up, cussed each other out, got back together all over to Chala Swamp. Wouldn't you feel kind of funny if you go on a second honeymoon and not only does your grandson get kidnapped 1.5 times, but a whole girl who pumped lead into your son ends up dead in your pool that everybody swims in like nothing happened. And your daughter-in-law has fallen in love with the guy who came back from the dead and ran away. They don't care. Ellie's like, okay, cool, let's eat chili. Matter of fact, Ellie has bigger fish to fry. Actually, she's not gonna fry that fish this time. She's gonna bake it because if Paris taught her nothing, it's not that her family's in complete shambles and that they are ruthless and weirdly criminal. It's not that maybe they should drain the pool or put up some sort of boundary. Hell, maybe they should build a more sturdy balcony so people don't trip and fall when they're on LSD and crack their head and poo. No, no, no. She's like, dang, I'm getting too thick. I was out of shape. Let me get out here and drink lemonade and work out in my denim. She spent a considerable amount of time on camera this episode on a stationary bike. Like, damn, y'all. I'm I was I was passing out in Paris. It was hot, it was hard to walk. I did relate to her. You don't realize how how much you don't move around. Okay, if you're an athletic person, I'm not talking to you. Shout out to my homegirl who likes to listen and go on long walks. I'm not talking to you. You're probably gonna be fine if you go walking in Paris and New York. But that is the quickest way to realize like, oh, I'm not moving like I thought I was moving. When you are walking around a city, especially a city you're not familiar with, oh my god, your feet hurt, your shins hurt. It takes two weeks to recover. I remember being in San Diego and we were at this conference. Now, I it visually, I thought my hotel was like a block away from the opening doors. Baby, no, it was hot and I was not dressed appropriately. I learned real fast that these I'm not trying to be cute. If I'm walking on vacation, let me I put on tennis shoes and either way, Ellie's like, I listen, your girl done got thick, your girl done got out of state, let me ride this bike. She tries to give Lucy a little bit of advice, basically saying, go get your husband. Like, y'all don't even really have a problem. I agree, Ellie. But also, she's starting to miss her little Gwen baby. She takes it surprisingly well. I don't know what reaction I thought she would have to Sue Ellen leaving, but it almost feels like she felt like it was inevitable. And then I remembered, yeah, she don't really like JR that much either. Her son or not, she's like, I mean, hell. I get it. I almost love Jock. I totally understand why women want to run away from people named John Ewing. I get it. And leave John Ewing, aka J Avra again, or John Ross Ewing. She did. So Ellen is in San Angelo trying to live her best life. Now, at the top of the show, she is freshly back from the funeral of Kristen. She brings the baby, immediately hands him off to the maids at the sacred cross. Dusty is there, ready to meet her. Dusty's looking really good. He's he's only using a cane now. He doesn't have those forest gump crutches. He's able to move around a little bit, and apparently other things are moving around. This is why this is the grown folks portion of this episode. I'm still gonna keep it clean and cute just in case some of my nieces and nephews are listening. But you read between the lines, okay? Suelen hugs him. He's like, How's your mama? She's my mama blames me. She can't accept that Kristen is gone. Sue Wellen's mother, excuse me, Sue Ellen's pimp says that it's Suelen's fault that Kristen was dead. Now, if you had just stayed with your miserable husband, your sister wouldn't have gone over there high and tripped and fell and drowned in the pool. Okay, Ma, if you say so. If you hadn't trained your daughter to hook up with her brother-in-law, she wouldn't have gotten high and went over there and tripped and fell and fell into the pool. But Sue Ellen's like, yeah, I just feel bad because that's my baby sister, and I feel like I could have helped her. She's as she's talking about it, she gets emotional. She's like, Hold me, Dusty, hold me. He does hold her. Now, mind you, I'm watching this. He's the one who starts nibbling and dibbling at her neck. And I mean, she's a full-blooded, she's a red-blooded woman. What is she gonna do? She starts responding, he starts responding, they start kissing and making out, and then he abruptly stops. I'm a little confused. Maybe okay. Maybe mentally he's all there, but he still says, you know, that I I've got, I, you know. Unfortunately, there's not much I can do about it. She immediately starts apologizing. Oh my god, Dusty, I'm so so sorry. I'm so sorry, my darling. I just I I didn't mean to he goes no, please don't apologize. There's just nothing I can do about it. Read between the lines. Maybe there's nothing. I mean, I think you can do something for her. You feel me? But it it it it raises a deeper question. Obviously, they have affection, obviously they have love, obviously, she doesn't really care that that part of her life may not be open anymore. But he definitely does. He doesn't seem insecure about it, he's just like, oh my gosh, I don't know. But I mean, everything else is starting to work. Maybe that'll work too. Now, when they go to dinner, as in dinner in the house, they don't go out to eat. Sue Ellen is sitting quietly at the table while Dusty and Daddy Dusty discuss business. And it's a little bit too familiar. It's like, dang, I've seen this before. Are you back in the same situation? No, she's not, because this time there's actually love. Love makes things a lot more bearable. So she decides it's about time to go put the baby to bed. She says, Well, Dusty, darling, after I put John Ross to bed, do you want to go into St. Angel? Maybe we can just drive around and listen to music. Maybe we can go to a movie. Here's where things start to get weird. Daddy Dusty immediately says, Well, we go to bed really early around this time. We only hang out, we only stay up late on weekends. Matter of fact, we go to bed super early and we wake up as soon as the sun rises. Number one, when nobody's talking to you, Daddy Dusty. Number two, that's a full-grown man. He's he's fine. He'll be if he wants to wake up at four in the morning and hang out until 11, he's gonna do that. Number three, she's been in your house for a few weeks. She knows what time people do and don't go to bed. And number four, sir, find you some business. Daddy is giving me, he's never really given me the creeps. He's still not necessarily hold on. Let me be let me be clear on it. He's a good looking man. First off, I think that every time I see him, tall, powerful, but gentle. I understand you are concerned about your son. Matter of fact, Dusty says, Sue Ellen, if you want to go to the movies, that's what we're gonna do. And she goes, No, no, no, I think I'll just go to bed. She's not trying to, she don't want to, she doesn't want any smoke. This is not her house. She is very used to living under someone else's rules. So she just sort of goes upstairs, like, okay, I guess I'll go to bed. When she does, Daddy Dusty tells Dusty, son, you don't want to push yourself too hard. And he goes, I know, Dad, I know. I understand you being a helicopter parent. I understand you looking out for his best interest, but also riding around, listening to music, having romantic time is perfectly natural. I can't understand how he is okay with her living there, moving her son in on there, defending them as he does later on the show. But you feel like romantic time is off the table? Also, I do not appreciate him telling her that his son was impotent. That should have been Dusty's conversation. And let me tell you something, we're gonna figure this out. They're gonna figure it out one way or another. Speaking of trying to figure out stuff, J. Ara cannot. He has met his match. These daggone sacred costs, St. Angelo people are not to be effed with. Matter of fact, the PI that he hired keeps coming up empty-handed. Sir, I had a telescope, I hit out in a car, I army crawled, I tried to tap the phone in the fridge. Nothing. These people are, I mean, they're stacked. They got guns on top of guns, they're vigilant, they're diligent, they're crafty. They are JR. That's one of those things, though. It's when your reputation precedes you, that can be a good or a bad thing. It might make you a little bit more predictable. So I suppose Dusty and his family have reverse engineered this. Like, okay, if I was gonna kidnap a kid, how would I do it? And they basically covered all of their bases. JR can't take this crap anymore. He's like, you know what, dude, you're fired. I need a doer, dirtier dude to get my kid back. Plus, Jock threatened him, allegedly on the phone. In no uncertain terms, you get that boy back on this ranch. JR seeks some counsel and he starts to think. He thinks long and he thinks hard. Oh he's like, How do I show up and steal my kid back so my dad doesn't beat my ass? And also, how do I keep from getting shot again? He gets shot again. This will be the third time in five seasons. We can't have that. So he does something 10 times more brilliant than I would have ever thought. He's like, I don't need to sneak over there, I need to show up normally. What I need is a bulletproof vest, i.e., my mama. Let me just hide up under her skirt. So he goes to Ellie, who is on that bike trying to get summertime fine, and he says, Mama, don't you miss your grandson? I sure do miss that baby. Well, why don't you go see him? Oh, yeah. Do you think Sue Ellen will let me go see him? Yeah, for sure. She's always liked you, you always liked her. Yeah. This is an interesting point. I love that Sue Ellen, although she's escaped or she's ran away. She has had visitors in the form of Pam and now miss Ellie. She was like, Yeah, y'all come on through if you want to come through. So Ellie does just that. She goes and she plays with the baby. Oh my god, he's so big, he's so cute. Whoop de woop. Did you miss Granny? John Ross is eating his fruit. Y'all know how you feel. If y'all don't, if you want to have a peaceful conversation, yeah, but we have some grapes, some mangoes, some something. While she's going on and on about how precious baby John Ross Ewing III is, John Ross Ewing Jr. comes hopping out the helicopter and Sue Ellen jerks back like, I know you've lying. You old bag. I can't believe so. She storms over to JR. How dare you have your old mama call and lie to me? My mama doesn't lie to anybody. And if I just jumped on the airport, she didn't know I was coming. And that is what Ellie says. She says the same thing. I didn't know he was coming until he jumped on the helicopter with me. And this is before cell phones, so okay, you gotta pass this one time. Well, just because Ellie is here doesn't mean the armed cowboys aren't as well. They're locked and loaded, ready to aim at JR at the drop of a dime. Right about this time, Daddy, Dusty and Daddy Dusty come out the house to make sure everything is everything. Daddy Dusty introduces himself to Ellie, very cordial. I hate that we're meeting under these circumstances, but I sure have enjoyed having your grandson here. Precious, precious baby. She says, I know, but he's a Ewing. My husband feels like he belongs on South Fork. He goes, I understand that he is a Ewing, but I feel like he belongs here. He belongs with his mama. Matter of fact, let's let these. This ain't got nothing to do with you. It don't have nothing to do with me. Let's let Sue Ellen and JR work this whole thing out. In other words, let's just be cool. I like you. I I don't want to have to disrespect you, so please keep it cute. She's like, Yeah, I'm here for my grandson. I don't really care about all the other stuff. Well, JR is not this beautiful knight in shining armor. He had a whole plan. Ellie, as he likes to call her, is the Trojan horse. So as they're saying their goodbyes, she's holding the baby. Um, no, they set him down for a second and he takes off running. Correction, correction. JR is playing with the baby. Ellie has him too. JR pulls a softball out of God knows where and says, Hey boy, go fetch. Throws it so the baby puppy can run. John Ross runs right out of the gate. Ellie goes to scoop him up, not really thinking anything of it. One final little squeezy poo before I go put, you know, before I get back in a helicopter. As they get outside of this little iron gate, JR says, Mama, now here's a time. You're gonna jump in that plane. They're not gonna shoot an old lady, but they will shoot me. So go think, I'll shoot a baby and an old lady. Get in that plane, get in the helicopter. She's like, What? But you know what she does. She does start inching towards a plane. Now Suelen sees this and freaks the F out. Miss Ellie, please, Miss Ellie, please don't take her, please don't take her. Eventually, Ellie comes to her senses and says, You know what? The baby does belong on Southworth, but not this way. She turns around and hands the baby back, and Sue Ellen's like, Thank you, thank you. She would have got open-handed slab. Take her down. Jeremiah, Hezekiah, Jededai. Y'all shoot the send Ellie to Swiss cheese. She tried to get that my baby, or at the very least, rough around. Handcuffs. Going to San Angelo County, lady. JR was like, Mama, you had one job. Damn. Now I gotta figure out another way to be sleazy. End scene. Oh no, not bad. Not super great, but not bad. Listen, the bit players are gonna have to step it up a little bit. Lucy is not interesting enough. Mitch is definitely not interesting enough. Afton is Cliff is doing his part. Donna Culver and Mitch need to get over the fact that they're with wealthy people and just embrace it. Especially Dr. Mitch. I'm having a real, real hard time believing that he can continue on with this. Well, I don't care about shut up. If you didn't care about money, you would have been a missionary. The best development so far is that the people at the Southern Cross, pardon me, I think earlier I called it the Sacred Cross. People at the Southern Cross are not effing around. Daddy Dusty has already said, you are not in Dallas anymore, baby. Round here we run things. Tings don't run we. Alright, guys, that's it. That's all for this episode. Join me next time as we jump back into an exciting, hopefully, episode of Dynasty season five, episode three. Remember to reach out to me. You have thoughts on this? Is Mitch too pretentious? Is Donna Culver boring? Is Pam the exact same character through and through five episodes D. Excuse me, five seasons D. Is Ellie secretly trifling? Is Daddy Dusty a little bit creepy? He's a little too comfortable at the very least, right? Right? You can send me a text if you check the show notes on your mobile device, or you can send me an email at soapfloorpodcast at gmail.com. That's S-O-A-P-L-O-R-E, P-O-D-C-A-S T at gmail.com. All right, y'all. 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