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S5 EP5 Dallas: Sweet Smell Of Revenge-The " A New Mental Low Upon Roof Top High" Episode

• Jett Shae • Episode 337

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Revenge smells sweet, but the aftertaste is complicated. We pick up our Dallas rewatch with Sue Ellen finally catching a breath of freedom at the Southern Cross while JR hatches a statewide oil squeeze to force the Farlow's into a corner. The plan is pure Ewing—fast money, faster phone calls, and the belief that you can muscle reality into submission with enough tanks, loans, and nerve. It might even work, if the numbers hold and the secrets don’t. Then the ground shifts. Pam disappears and surfaces on a rooftop edge, a silent portrait of despair that refuses to be hand-waved away. The hospital conversation is gentle and honest: severe depression, a push toward Brooktree, and a reminder that love doesn’t fix everything without help. Bobby’s fear is raw, his care practical, and the show gives Pam’s pain room to breathe. Across town, Barnes-Wentworth family politics light a fuse when Rebecca hands Cliff their father’s first company, and Catherine’s smile tightens into something sharp. Inheritances are more than balance sheets; they redraw the map of who belongs. And just when the dust seems to settle, a photo lands on Bobby’s desk: Kristen with a newborn, a $2,000 whisper, and a question that could detonate every alliance—whose baby is Christopher? We connect these threads to a bigger theme we love to explore: how one new player can dim an old star, from Dynasty’s Fallon and Alexis dynamic to the way Dallas shifts gravity toward JR. If you’re into legacy drama, character psychology, and the thrill of high-stakes scheming, this chapter delivers. If this breakdown hit the sweet spot, follow the show, share it with a friend who loves classic soaps, and leave a quick review to help more listeners find us. Got a theory about Christopher or a character you think the writers “dimmed”? Text us from the link in the show notes or email soaplorepodcast@gmail.com. We’ll feature your take on air.

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Welcome back to Don't Worry if there's no that on place for newbies, novices, and OG Dow High fans and the golden major prime time. I know that's still the only one doing this. Going on the 1981. We're still in down to that one. Um before we try to play out by left out. Everyone else in your topic out of the only option to talk about a lot of down the boarding. That's in 40 degrees, or everybody in my area is breaking out. But that's not about me because that means I get to be extra cozy while I watch my whole story. This is part two of our double scoop of Dallas. I am just picking up where I left off. Same day. We had a little bit of a doozy on the last one. Pam done up and ran off. Bet money. I bet money. She's either at like a pre-K. You know what? Uh, go ahead and pour yourself up something bubbly and bright before we get into that. I'm gonna give you my prediction because I'm like, there's only two or three places she could possibly be. We're gonna jump into a very important piece of fan mail that I feel like has sparked yet another creative venture in my mind. And we'll discuss this episode, season five, episode five of Dallas, whose name I do not know at this time. Go ahead and pour yourself up something bubbly and bright as we watch. Ooh, I like this. The sweet smell of revenge. That has to be about nobody but our good, almost free at last, free at last, sister, Miss Sue Ellen Ewing. Oh my gosh, I felt the satisfaction on her face as she got to look over at JR and like, yeah, yeah, uh-huh. My new man's rich. So what'd he walk with a limp? He got just as much money. So what if we're not rolling in the hay? I'd rather be with him than with you any day. And I'm keeping my baby, and you're gonna pay a girl six thousand dollars a month to do that. That has to feel so good. So oh my god, just she can take a deep breath. She can breathe a little. Now, I'm watching this blind, so we're gonna see how all this pans out. If I know JR and uh clearly this show goes on for many seasons, I'm sure he'll come up with some way to ruin this. But in the meantime, in between time, we're gonna let we're gonna let bygones be bygones. We're gonna celebrate all wins. Shout out to Sue Ellen for getting victory. Free at last, free at last. It only took, what, a hundred episodes? We gotta figure out where Pam ran off to. If I had to guess, stay with me here, okay? Gen X and millennials, I think we have a lot in common, particularly those millennials who were born in the 80s and those of you Gen Xers who were born late 60s and 70s. Everybody remembers having to look out for the man in the white van. My generation didn't have as many milk cartons. We definitely had some. I don't ever remember seeing anyone's face on a milk carton, but I know that is a thing. I do remember watching America's Most Wanted. We we know that his kid was kidnapped. Everybody was warned about being snatched up. You know what I mean? It's in our periphery. I think about that. Growing up, the amount of time I thought about being kidnapped is is extremely high. And I don't think that was unusual for anyone else. All of our generation knew that. And mind you, this is before everybody had a cell phone. Let me be very clear. As a little kid, no one had one. There were car phones and things like that. But by the time I'm in high school, a few people have some, but not everybody had it. And then, I mean, before you know it, beyond, everybody has them. But we knew how to get somewhere, call your parents at work, let them know where you were at, blah, blah, blah. But two things stand out to me, particularly about our childhood. We knew that you could be snatched up and kidnapped. And we also knew that kidnappers really like to slip candy to you. So if any adult you didn't know offered you candy, it was safe to assume that they wanted to put a bag over your head, throw you in the back of the trunk, and do God knows what with you. The part of that that is maybe a newer threat, but still under the same umbrella of being kidnapped, is women walking into hospitals and men putting babies in purses and walking smooth out. I'm not saying that's where Pam is, but it's 1981. I feel like that's where Pam is. I think Pam has either slipped off to some sort of kindergarten, some sort of daycare, or she's at the NICU or just the regular maternity ward trying to put a baby in her purse. That's what I think. She's she's floating in and out of consciousness. I we're gonna find out. We're gonna or she's upstairs sleeping in one of those baby cribs. I really do feel like she's not that far away. I think she's very close. I think she's probably chilling in the baby section somewhere, or she's at the hospital making everybody real uncomfortable. I don't know if I read this on air or not yet, but it made me laugh. It always makes me laugh. By the power invested in me, by me, you were hereby taking off probation for your double dosage reviews of Dynasty, though I struggled a bit with your pardon due to your constant critique of our long-beloved Fallon, who was the original baddie before Alexis took all the good storylines. But never mind that. Go forth, continue to conquer, and stay fabulous, cocktailed, and hilarious. His grace, Lord Byron. Thank you for your graciousness, your good sir, Lord Byron. I am so happy to be off probation. But you hit it, you you said something there. Before I agree with you, let me double down. One more game. We can all agree. I think we got some new people here. We can all agree. We all thought Fallon was going one way and she just pivoted and went the other way. We all thought it would be different. The potential was there. She was absolutely just magnetic the first season. I couldn't wait to see her come on screen because I'm like, oh, she's gonna be a problem. She's gonna develop into something really spectacular and then fizzled out. Lord Byron, you brought something to my attention though. I never considered that perhaps her light was indeed dulled because of the arrival of Alexis. We all like a good television program, clearly. And none of us in this audience are afraid of a little bit of drama. It seems to me that that could have been an exquisitely just really oh, it could have got nasty. It could have got they could have gone so far with either an Alexis and Fallon collab against Blake over some wrongdoing, or a Fallon versus Alexis, mother and daughter. It could have really worked out, but I never considered that once Alexis showed up, uh, the show shifted. Now, in my opinion, as someone who's brand new to this, not knowing the full picture, someone who started watching season two with a full expectation of the continuation of Fallon's reign on season one, it was not clear to me that that hell, that even Alexis was going to be the superstar. I mean, I had an idea because of the memes and stuff. But in my personal opinion, the Carringtons started to run a little bit stale season two. And by season three, you notice the big characters start coming in and they start picking up the storyline a lot. I wonder why that shift was made. Now that you say it, I can't unsee it, Byron. I literally can't unsee that. Alexis came in and she became the confident businesswoman. She married Cecil, cutthroat but charming. That's the thing. Fallon was not nearly as charming as Alexis is. So I feel like that could play off of each other really well. Fallon feels more cutthroat to me. She's a little slicker, she's a little younger, but them constantly sort of undermining each other could really work out. But they just sort of, I believe Good for Jupiter put it this way, they lobotomize Fallon at some point around season two. And I think that's the best way to put it. That's so interesting. I thought of this on other shows, uh, particularly on Dallas. It feels like Cam has also been lobotomized a little bit. Not that she's ever been that complex, but that she and Bobby going round and round, just sort of having one major issue that seems to be time every single season. They're not spending enough time with each other. It seems like she could be a little bit more complex. And I wonder, is it because JR is such a big star? You don't really need heavier storylines ever anywhere else. Sue Wellen. Sue Wellen is developing beautifully. I don't think I no, I'm not, I'm lying. I was gonna say, I don't think I knew she was going to be as interesting as she was at the beginning of season one. I didn't up until that episode where she had to sing Barbara Streisand in her bathing suit, but luckily she hadn't eaten carbs since 1963, so she she looked amazing. The way she looked at JR, and you sort of saw the humiliation that she needed to wear in order to be with him. I knew she was going to be a star. I knew she was gonna be very, very interesting. I don't know how the fandom feels about her, but I can't imagine people don't absolutely love to watch her. They love to watch her suffer, but they love to watch her nonetheless. Anyway, you brought up a very interesting point, and I'm going to treat myself to a little side quest. I am going to allow myself four episodes of the new dynasty because number one, I understand it's not a continuation. There's probably not going to be any sort of spoiling of storylines. And I even thought about this. Even if they introduce new characters that maybe are old characters, how the hell am I gonna know? I only know up until season five. So if somebody weird comes out of the woodworks, fine. We'll figure that out in real time, I guess. But I'm curious to see if New Fallon is that Fallon that we thought old Fallon was going to be. And I really want to see how she plays off of Alexis. If Alexis is in, I feel like they said Nicolette Sheridan is Alexis. Anyway, that got me to thinking, and I'd like to know what you all think. You can reach out to me in the show notes. If you're listening to this on your mobile device, there is a link in the show notes that says send us a text. You can send me a text. I will always acknowledge you and read it on air if you feel like you're if you're comfortable with that. Tell me in the if in the text, if not. You can send it to me that way, or you can reach out the old-fashioned way via email at soaplorepodcast at gmail.com. That's S-O-A-P-L-O-R-E-P-O-D-C-A-S-T at gmail.com. I want to know if you feel like, whether it's one of the shows we're talking about now or another show, if you feel like the introduction of a new character sort of dim the light of another one. The more I think about this, the more I'm like, yeah, this happens more times than not, and I'm so curious as to why that happens, what's going on behind the scenes. Well, let's see what's happening on screen in Dallas. Season five, episode five. The sweet, sweet smell of revenge. Ladies and gentlemen, we are whopping probably 14 seconds into this show. Because I generally skip the opening, even though Dallas doesn't, as far as I know, Dallas doesn't spoil anything at the beginning and just press pause so I can figure out what the name of the show is. Within the first 20 seconds of this episode, we see Sue Ellen and her brand new paramour, Mr. Dusty, whose real government name is Steven, I believe. We see them pulling up the extra long driveway of the Southern Cross, hop out the whip, and just she damn near floats out of the car. She is beyond excited. She is elated. Oh my god, I can't believe it. It's over. But something about this scene makes me extremely happy. It is so poignant, and I don't know if they did this on purpose. I I tend to believe they did. When Sue Wellen was falsely accused of shooting her husband, she was arrested wearing a black and white Corella DeVille realness outfit. They made her take off her blue sight jewelry, they made her take off everything. She was humiliated, her big jaw jaw ring, everything. Black and white put her in cuffs, and she had to just sit in that jail cell and rot for a little bit, only to be rescued unbeknownst to her by the very man who holds her up in this moment. It is so fitting that when she is finally granted a little bit of a divorce, it sounds like, at least this is the divorce before the divorce, that she'd be wearing the exact same colorway. She's got on a black, it kind of looks like a maternity dress, but let's just say it's a black, double-breasted, sort of a tuxedo dress. She's got a stark white clutch and her right shoulder looks like somebody put a little pig icing on it, but it's white. I love that she went to jail for something she didn't do and was locked up. She was chained up metaphorically, mentally, physically, and spiritually, and now she's free as a bird, wearing the exact same colorway. I like it. I love this for her. If Sue Ellen is on cloud nine, JR is pretty near rock bottom, but he doesn't really want to go there. He has to make the very difficult phone call over to Jock, who wherever Jock is, and tell Jock that things did not go his way in court, but he has a plan. See, this is what we're gonna do. We are gonna buy up all the oil in Texas. We're gonna make sure that Dusty and Nim's refineries are good and empty. We're gonna make them very, very desperate. Then we're gonna trade all of the oil for John Ross. It is that important to John Ross Ewing II and John Ross Ewing I, that John Ross Ewing III be back at South Fork as soon as possible. They're even willing, from what I understand, to spend millions and millions of dollars. This seems like a lot of work. I don't know how that would pan out, but if this man could be the first ever remote worker from a rotary telephone, I'd be a fool not to expect the best. Okay, so that's him. His little brother Bobby is not having so much good luck either. Remember, Pam ran off. I truly believe she is at daddy daycare, or she's at some preschool, or she's at the maternity ward in the hospital with a giant purse, probably a clutch, and somebody needs to keep an eye on her. But until we know where she is, Bobby goes to the last place anybody saw her. So Bobby's at the office, at the store, in Pam's office with her assistant and her boss. And her boss and the assistant, there's also a detective there, which is unusual now because we know that they usually make you wait 24 hours to report someone missing, which God, I hope none of you listening ever have to go through that. That just sounds nerve-wracking, especially if you just know something's wrong. But I can sort of understand why there's that long of a time frame just in case somebody ran off. Maybe they're having a little day. You know, you never know. People do a lot of things they don't tell people about. And the the detective is thinking the same thing. So he they sort of go over the events of the day. The detective asks Bobby, Well, I mean, was she acting funny this morning? Bobby says, Not really. I mean, this is not like her. Pam's assistant corroborates that. She's like, Yeah, Pam is super responsible. She's always here. I just can't imagine her doing anything crazy. Like, something is definitely wrong. Her boss agrees, like, yeah, that's not like Pam at all. She just never showed up upstairs, but she was here. The detective's like, Y'all sure she was here? The assistant says, Yeah, I like, I saw her this morning. I saw everything. She's been here. Well, then the detective says, uh, Mr. Ewing, did your wife tell you everything? implying, like, I mean, is it possible she's she's out with out at lunch with Sancho? Maybe. Bobby says, No, that's not possible. My wife and I don't have any secrets. Bobby also insists that the dude put the put a little gas on it. We need to get this ball rolling. You need to be looking for my wife a little harder than you are. We also learn within this brief exchange that Pam's car is still in the parking lot. So she could not have gone that far. She she might be hiding in the building the more I think about it. She might be upstairs or something in one of those cribs. She's definitely somewhere where a baby is going to be, in my opinion. Speaking of babies, new and old, or old and new, depending on how you look at it, Rebecca JG Wentworth is having lunch with her oldest and her youngest, while her middle is MIA, probably stealing a baby. Catherine still gives me the heebie jeebies. But I had to I had to sort of check myself on this scene. So they're at this restaurant, having a good old time. We learn that Catherine does some sort of news reporting on the side, or at least she's trying to be a reporter. Seems like she got lucky. Somebody was sick or something. They asked her to fill in. So now she gets these special little projects. She seems perfectly lovely at lunch in this at the at first, right? She's talking about skiing. That's going to be her next little trip. She goes, Well, Cliff, have you ever gone skiing? Cliff grew up poor. Absolutely not. He's never been skiing. He's rather to make a joke about there not being enough mountains in Dallas, but he's like, nah, I've just I've never been, and I'm actually kind of too busy to do that. Catherine wants to know what he does. He says he's the last of the dedicated civil servants. Rebecca chimes in and says, Well, no, he's a very highly decorated civil servant. He is a wonderful businessman, he's a lawyer, he's a perfect administrator, which is why I gave him your father's company, Wentworth, tool and die. Now Catherine's eyebrows arch up for a minute. She's like, I'm gonna say, What? You gave him what? I gave him Wentworth, tool, and die. Catherine says, Wait a minute, my dad's first company, the very first company my dad ever started, you gave him that, huh? This is where this starts to get really interesting. Because Rebecca, excuse me, not Rebecca, Catherine mentioned she only knew about Cliff what was revealed in the letters. So up until, you know, a couple weeks ago, maybe a month or so ago, she didn't know she had siblings. Now she finds out her mother had an entire life before she met her father, where she gave birth to two children and then never saw them again up until recently. Cliff thought his mother was dead up until recent, only finding out that he had a second sister a few hours ago. This is bound to be extremely messy. I have to see this from both angles. I can totally get where this girl, even though I don't like her, I don't know why I don't like her, I just don't like her. I can tell something's popping, even though her hair color is gorgeous and it looks so pretty with this like purple pinstripe silk shirt she's wearing. There's just something about her that is a little bit askew. Don't know what it is, but I know it's I I know, like I know, like I know. This is a baddie, this is the villain. But think about where she's coming from. So you're gonna give my father's company to your children who didn't earn it. The little girl's also her thought is also this. She goes, Well, Daddy always wanted it to go to somebody in the family. So maybe she had her eye on it. Rebecca's kind of blind to that. Rebecca says, Well, yes, well, just think how happy he'd be that Cliff is right. No, he wouldn't be happy because he didn't know he didn't know Cliff existed. You waited till that man was two breaths away from a deep dark death to even reach out to your kids. You looked at him in his face. Think about that. She looked him right in his eye at that event and said nothing. Pam called her just another lady in Houston. Now I know she's trying to redeem herself, but this is extremely messy for all parties involved. This is gonna get really messy. Also kind of think after the cliff a little. It's very weird. Well, let me be clear. I thought she wanted him up until this thing. Seems like she kind of wants to push him off the side of a cliff. No, she hates him for real, for real. That's what I'm really happy for. And you two moments sleep with one eye open. Matter of fact, send her back east. I don't like it. I don't like it at all. Speaking of baby sisters with questionable intentions, Afternoon Delight picks up Mitch Better Not Have Mama, and they take themselves down to the Dixie Burger joint, and she is ripping into him. Sorry, guys, by the way, I'm talking about Afton and Mitch Cooper. Afternoon Delight says, Mitch, are you listening I understand you're noble and whatnot, but you're embarrassing me. Did I or did I not tell you to put on some clean clothes, to not look homeless, and to go over there and let that man thank you for saving his wife's life? What was so hard about that? So the man handled you$5,000 and you hate money that much, Mitch? Are you high? Are you actually listening to yourself? I'm with you when you're right after. You have at some point get over yourself. You're not working your way through medical school anymore. You don't need to have 7,000 jobs. Doctors get paid well, whether you accept that or not. Anyway, I think Mitch, I understand you you feel how you feel about money, but at what point are you gonna stop trying to earn brownie points? What are you really gaining here? He says, sister, we're never gonna see eye to eye on that. I am a doctor. I did what doctors do. I'm I took a vow to save a life whenever, wherever. I get I get it, but damn. You really you couldn't take a chat. You insist on being a broke boy, that's your problem. But you're the one talking about wanting to get back with Lucy and y'all are fighting over money and you can't accept that little bit of money. What is wrong with you, dude? I'll let it go. If you want me to let it go, I'll let it go. But I'm just saying, couldn't be me. Wouldn't be me. I have to agree with Afton. Like, this is at some point, you can only be so much of a thing, dude. Like, I get it. Well, then he he takes a bite of his very, very dry chicken sandwich. He takes a bite of her very, very dry hamburger. And as they're contemplating why there's no condiment on their entrees, Afton notices that her brother looks offensive. That's what gives, Mitch, what's on your mind? Well, Dr. Chicken Bone Jones wants me to stop by his house. I think he wants to offer me an internship. Afternoon delight, says now that's wonderful, Mitch. Why didn't you why didn't you lead with that? I don't know if I want to do it. Ain't nothing wrong with having a conversation, Mitch. That's all I'm saying. Like, please stop throwing everything down the drain. At least hear the man out. He's a doctor, you're a doctor. I'm pretty sure you have something in common. I have to agree with her. This kid, I turned mine back for 25 seconds to go freshen up my non-alcoholic champagne. What do I come back to? Pamela teeter totaling on a rooftop. So I'd rewind and said, wait a minute, what what happened? Are we at the hospital? This doesn't look like the maternity war. What the hell is she doing? Climbed to the tippy top of some random building, ronzes, high shine, peep-toe grandma shoes, and started teetering back and forth. Now, here I go. Now last episode, maybe I made a fool of myself. That might happen a lot. Actually, no, that's not making a fool of myself. I'm going to be loud and wrong because I never seen this. I thought the doctor who gave her a sedative was out of his rabbit mind. But I get it now. Maybe this is the pattern. Maybe there's some gas leak that has people doing weird things circuit 1981 in Dallas. But she needed to be sedated so that she didn't do something loud like this. Baby, when I say she is zombified when she is zomped all the hell the way out, that's exactly what she is. So Bobby's in his office, he can't get anything done because he's obviously worried sick. Where the heck is my wife? Phone rings and he's like, she's where? And they show this girl on top of the roof. The music is all intense. It's almost like a horror film. Like, oh my God. Now she's not standing on the ledge, thank God. I it that would make me very nervous. But she is as close as she can get. And let us not forget, just three or four short episodes ago, that girl Kristen, rest in peace, tripped and fell to her death over something just as shallow. So I mean, that's what'll get you. Those little angle biter balconies are wreaking havoc all over Dallas. So needless to say, Bobby's pretty concerned, especially since there's no pool for her to splat a tat-tat on. It's gonna be straight concrete, straight caliche. Maybe she'll get lucky in L. That's I'm going too far. I'm sorry I said that. So, anyways, Bobby arrives at the scene. There are tons of people on the ground freaking out. He runs all the way up the steps. Now he's wealthy, so he's getting a lot of passes. Other people are being pushed back. He cannot. He runs up. He doesn't even show any idea or anything. Runs all the way to the top of the building. Maybe, maybe he took the elevator. I'm not sure. But when he gets up there, there's a cop just sort of chilling, damn near, just on his lunch break, like, oh yeah, don't go over there. Don't say nothing to it. She ends towards the edge of the ledge. Anyway, he tries to talk to it once again. It's almost as if she can sort of hear his voice all of a sudden. He just wailing. And he's like, oh my God, oh my god, oh god, I gotta do something. So he tackles her. It's not funny. But he spears her in the side. She falls back. Mind you, this is a gravel roof. So they are definitely gonna feel this. But is it okay? Shout out to the acting. I said also on the last episode, I thought that Dallas probably were the serious as far as actors goes. And that's not a dig. That's like saying, imagine this is a classroom full of A honor too. Like somebody's gonna be more serious than that. That's all I'm saying. They're all very wonderful actors. But she really showed her acting stop just there. I really felt that it was a a wail of despair. Like she's looking over a grave or something and is wailing so hard. So Lord, that was not on my bingo card for this episode. I just knew he was gonna be in the baby crib acting like a baby. So this sounds like this is going to be the second ewing woman who needs to go in sort of asylum. I think the Department of Family Services needs to get over to the Ewing Ranch post-haste and figure out why these women keep going crazy. Pam has just earned herself a one-way ticket to an insane asylum or mental hospital, that's a better way of putting it. Something needs to happen. Why is it always the women who marry into the family who have so much trouble? If I were donor money bags culver, I would look to my left and my right, I would pack me a bag and I would get skedaddled. I'd get my$10 million out of the bank and I'd never turn back. You're not finna run me up the wall. That's what you're not finna do.

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All jokes aside, Bobby is absolutely out of his mind. Like, what in the actual Pam, honey, you're okay, you're okay. She just seems to look up at him. As if it was a bad dream. She's like, okay, bet. I'm just gonna take a little nap. You do what you need to do. Okay, interesting. So obviously the rest of the family, i.e. Lucy and Ellie, are upset that Pam's in the hospital. But Bobby says that it's all psychological. There's nothing physically wrong with her, it's a mental thing. Oh duck. She is going through something mentally. There's a couple of recommendations by a good doctor there at the hospital for a facility for her to go to. Now it's just a matter of convincing Pam that she may or may not need to go. No, not that she may or may not, that she needs to go. It's in her best interest to go. Bobby and his mom and his niece are in the hallway at the hospital kind of talking about it. And one of the ladies asks about Rebecca, like, should we call her? Bobby says no, it's enough bad news for one day. Maybe let's just hold off on it. So it seems like it's the next morning. Ellie's outside cutting plants or whatever, pruning her garden, and Bobby tells her he's heading to the hospital to go see Pam. Ellie takes it upon herself after he leaves to call up Rebecca. Rebecca JG Wentworth, that is. She's excited to hear from Ellie, but almost immediately she's like, Is something wrong? Ellie says, Well, I'm gonna be in town. I just hadn't seen you in so long. Can I come pick you up in about an hour? Sure, absolutely. And why she didn't tell over the phone? Maybe that's just not how Ellie does business. Pam's not in any physical danger right now. She's safe in the hospital, so maybe that's why she didn't. I kind of thought that was strange, but then again, Ellie could be protective of Pam. She did tell Bobby to tell Pam that she loves her. And we don't really know Rebecca like that just yet. You know what I'm saying? You gotta think mother to mother. Although Ellie's not staying it. Maybe she feels a way about oh, well, you had you could have picked up your kids, you could have done better by them. But Ellie also had a thing with Digger Barnes and chose to leave him too. So, I mean, it ain't exactly the pot calling the kettle black, it's more like the it's more like the milk foamer calling the toaster and appliance. So JR. JR is plotting and planning. It is important for me now to start calling Dusty's Daddy Dusty's Daddy, even though I'm gonna call him Dusty's Daddy one more time. But I do know that their government last name is Farlow. The Farlows out of San Angelo are in a quiet war against the Ewing of Dallas. JR's plan once again is to buy up as much oil and gas as he possibly can to keep all of that out of the refineries that the Farlows own, hoping to back them into a corner where they will release not only Stu Ellen, but most importantly, John Ross Ewing III, because this would make John Ross Ewing the first very happy, and John Ross Ewing the second loves making John Ross Ewing the first happy. JR has his secretaries, geez. He has them working their fingers to the bone long before the internet. They, I guess they have to go to the white pages and split the list. I guess one starts at D, the other one starts at A, and they just go down or up the list until they meet in the middle. He asks them to find all of the oil companies in Texas, basically. He's gonna go to almost all of them, or at least the major ones, to stop as much oil as he can from going to the Farlow's refinery. He has very, very astute, very hardworking secretaries. They get him the list by the end of the day. So the next morning he flies out to Houston and he starts with letter A. He goes to this deal, he goes to the guy and says, let's just call it APCO Arco, something like that. He says, I will pay you one dollar more, blase, blase. You'll get a check for$50 million. The guy says, I'm not gonna do that. Now the contract with the Farlows is over in a couple weeks. Why don't you just relax until then? And then you can buy it outright, free and clear. And you know,$50 million sounds like a wonderful, wonderful deal. That's the best deal I've ever gotten. I'd be a fool not to take it. JR is super pleased. He's like, Cool, let's just keep this on the low low until it happens. I don't want Farlow knowing about this beforehand. And the guy said, Cool, we I can do that. JR tells him, Okay, two weeks, you'll get a check, you can pick it up yourself. The dude's like, no, no, no, I don't think I'll do that. I think I'll I'm skipping town. Not just like going on vacation. He's like, I'm moving away from Houston because I don't think this whole deal is gonna make Mr. Farlow happy. And I've seen that man when he's not happy. I don't want to see it again. So I'm like, okay. Now rewind just a little bit. Let's go talk about Miss Sue Ellen. Freedom looks wonderful on Sue Ellen. Freedom on Sue Ellen looks like an electric blue halter top bathing suit, fresh pair of nylons, and some old lady sandals. As she decides she's gonna take a dip in the pool with them nylons, baby. She goes in to swim. Dusty and Dusty's daddy, Mr. Farlow, come out of the house and they're talking about his recovery, how he's doing well. His dad is saying, Dude, you look better and better every day. Don't you can't you tell you're feeling better, you're walking better, everything is coming around. Dusty agrees, but he's still walking with a limp. He's massaging those thighs. It's worth noting he's in his swim trunks, and they are the 80s swim trunks, they are very, very short. Sue Ellen sees them, pulls them in the pool, they are laughing and having a good time. And at first, Dusty's daddy is smiling, but then his smile starts to fade a little bit. Now I'm like, I wonder. He didn't seem like he has a temper to me, but he he just seems sort of meddly when it comes to his son. I understand why. But also stay out of his non-existent sex life. Like it's really none of your business. But now I'm like, is he a little bit gangster? Is he cartel for real for real? I hope so. I kind of like him. The more I look at him, I'm like, yeah, that's a villain. No, he doesn't look like a villain, but he looks like he could make a good villain. No, I'm not no, I don't I don't think so. Actually, I don't think so. He seems very kind, but he's also a businessman. And I'm sure he's gonna be plenty pissed when he finds out about JR. Maybe not a villain, but a powerful man. So I expect this to be a challenge. When I think about the way he is protected, Sue Ellen and the baby, he he's like, Okay, yeah, I'll play with you. I'll mess with you. I'm one try me. But he doesn't seem like he'd go out of his way to do anything crazy. Hence me, stutter stepping on the villain trope. I don't think he's that. But I do think he's gonna be a problem. I really do. I'm gonna try to give us 20 more minutes. Oh, oh my, okay, things just got real interesting. Let me rewind a little bit. Pam wakes up in the hospital, lady doctor comes in and they have a conversation. Doctor is a psychiatrist, so she's trying to get to the bottom of Pam's issue, but she's she's not pushing her. She's being very gentle because she also has an ulterior motive. She needs her to agree to go to this facility so that she can be watched. Uh, she asks Pam, you know, when did you start feeling so down, my dear? What what happened? Pam says, I don't really know. I don't know why I feel like this, but in a lot of ways, I felt like this since I was a little baby. The doctor encourages her to go on. I felt this way because my mama left me as a baby. What did I do as a baby to make her want to leave? She tries to shake it off really quick and is like, I know I love my mom. It's not her fault, but I just feel weird. The doctor says, Well, you've had you have a wonderful marriage, you have a loving husband, you have all these wonderful things in your life. What recently made you start feeling it this way? Pam breaks down because she can't quite put her finger on it. But since she mentioned Rebecca, I'm thinking, okay, Rebecca has just entered your life. Kristen has also died. Sue Wellen has also ran off. There's a lot of sort of major events that maybe, I mean, they do need they would affect her in some way. You would think the mom thing would be positive, the Sue Ellen thing would be kind of sad, and the Kristen thing would be very sad. But out of all three of those things, it's like, what is it? It's a mother and kids. And I don't know. I don't know. And neither does Pam. But the doctor talks to Bobby privately and they discuss Pam's current state. Doctor gives the recommendation of her going to, I think it's called Brookwood or Brooktree. Brooktree, I think is what it's called. Your wife needs to be in Brooktree. She is severely depressed. And I think she needs 24-hour care. That way she can work out whatever's going whatever she's going through. She'll be in a safe place. There'll be someone there 24 hours a day. Peace of mind and good practice. Bobby tells the doctor, well, she wants a baby. Do you think that's part of the problem? Do you think that's what's making her so sad? The doctor says, I no, we didn't talk a lot, so I can't really say, but I would say that a baby is usually a sign of something you're trying to fix within yourself. Maybe Pam feels like if she can pour her love out to her baby, it'll fix the love she feels like she missed out on. Something to that effect. The doctor does not think the baby will fix anything because whatever the underlying issue is, it's still there, and that's what they need to work on. Bobby agrees. Now Pam goes home, she rests, she wakes up, she's still very lethargic, she apologizes for her state. Bobby tells her that's not necessary. He explains to her about the hospital, and she says, Yeah, the doctor asked me about it. Do you want me to go because you think I might try to kill myself again? I mean, yeah, probably. But that's not something you want to say to some. I guess this is a rockin' hard place. It's a very difficult conversation to have because this is number one, so unlike her, and number two, you don't know what's really going on. You don't know what words will push her over the edge. So, yes, people are walking on eggshells. He says, Honey, I just want what's best for you. And if if it's 24-hour care, then I think that's what we need to do. I just want you to be taken care of because I love you. Okay, so while Bobby's taking care of all of that, we have a real, real brief, two real brief scenes with good old new new ewing, Mr. Ray Krebs, and then the other one is with Mitch Bet Not Have My Money. Mitch and Dr. Chicken Bone Jones, we'll go to that one first. Dr. Chicken Bone Jones, who is Chopin Chelsea's husband, I don't recall his government name, we'll figure that out later. Invited Mitch back after Mitch turned down the 5K. He's like, Well, come talk to me. I'm a doctor. Obviously, we'll talk Dr. Steph. Well, originally when the Dr. Chicken Bone Jones met Mitch, he asked if he what sort of medicine he was going to study. Mitch told him he was going into research. Actually, he's not going to practice in that other way. The doctor had mentioned surgery, thinking, Oh, I thought all you young guys like surgery. Mitch is like, nah, I never really I I mean I did a little bit of medical school, but I never took it very seriously. So, Dr. Chickenbone Jones says, Mitch, have you ever considered plastic surgery? Immediately thinking big boobs and Brazilian buttlets. He's like, nah, nah, nah. That's that's kind of not my bag. And I thought the same thing, like, yeah, he's not into making housewives hot. That's definitely not his thing because that's a lot of money. The doctor says, No, sir. I'm talking cleft palate repair. I'm talking um fetal disfigurement repair, I'm talking burn victims, that sort of thing. Think about the satisfaction, think about the joy on a parent's face when you fix their child's cleft palate or a burn victim who gets their life back by having their features restored. It's a beautiful thing. You are bringing people back to life. I think you should consider it. My hospital's already approved for interns. I'd love to have you just I mean, just think about it. I think you got what it takes. Mind you, all this comes from him saving a woman who choked down some some fire wings during happy hours. You know, Mitch, this is one of those things. When you're talented, the doors are opening for you. That seems like a viable option if he's into it. I don't think there's a losing hand here. Especially if he's never practiced surgery. I feel like surgeons really want to be a surgeon. Isn't something you just wake up on the third? And decide, yeah, I'll do that. I think the other way around would work if you were originally thinking you're going to be a surgeon. You're like, nah, I'm more into the research. I want medicine to take leaps and bounds because of the information I'm putting together. Either way, Mitch sounds like he's about to come into some money. Now, on the other hand, Mr. Ray Krebs and the Bolo Don Juan himself are at the Cattleman's Club with some rando out of San Antonio wanting them to go into another land deal. Now, this is very short, very to the point. Neither Punk Anderson nor Ray Krebs are ready to jump in bed with this guy straight away, and they tell him as much, give us a little time to think about this deal. He says, Okay, don't take too much time. Well, he leaves. I'm looking in the background because I'm seeing the waitresses. And on this show, and on some of the other ones too, I do like to see what the waitresses are wearing. Waiters and waitresses. Sometimes they're wearing like tuxedo, sometimes they have on leotards. Now, in a snazzy place like La Mirage, I guess it's snazzy. No, it's a resort, right? Like it's cool. Why they wear shiny tuxedo tops, I don't know, but I love it. I think everybody looks freaking amazing. At the cattleman's club, just in your mind, what do you think a cattleman's club waitress would wear? Cattlemen's club is a bunch of rich oilmen having cocktails and lunch. That's it. I don't know what I pictured. I pictured just a standard uh, you know, skirt and blouse. Something maybe with buttons because it's a little bit more of a stab a snazzy establishment. No, they are in Leotard panties. They're in uh basically nylon draws, nylon stockings, and milkmaid tops. Picture all this in burnt orange. I know, I know. But it's the first time I've ever noticed that. I'm like, why is everybody's breasts all the way out? Why is why is there so much cleavage? Why do you need 10 pounds of tits to serve alcohol in this establishment? And where are your pants for crying out loud? I don't know. Just food for thought. If you if you happen to watch this episode, I've never noticed that before. They've been in the cattleman's club many times. I ain't never noticed them in milk made tops and virtually no bottoms. JR is running around town collecting money, collecting tanks, and collecting oil. He goes to a banker who's happy to see him and he says, Hey, I need to set up some 90-day loans. I need a set of 90-day loans, is what he says. And the banker still seems happy, like, cool, for how much? JR says$200 million. I don't know if he means I need several$200 million loans or I need several loans accumulating to the total of$200 million. That I'm not clear on. But the banker looks really nervous, like, dude, we don't have that much money here. JR tells him, fine, just give me what you can and maybe call around and see who else can give these to me. The banker smiles, he seems relieved, he's like, I can do that. JR goes to another place, asks for enough tanks to hold 50 million barrels of oil. And the dude he's talking to was like, Did you say 50 million or 5 million? Five or 50, I can't remember. JR says, Yes, I did. Tank dude says, That would take every tanker in Texas. I can maybe do, you know, 200,000 or so. Whatever you got, I'll take. So he's running around just accumulating stuff to take down the Barlows and get his baby back. But speaking of babies, this is okay. Let me collect myself because I was out this came out of left field, I wasn't really expecting it. I was hoping for it, but not expecting it. Bobby is minding his own business, opening mail back at his office. He opens it, he sees a picture of the late great pistol-wielding bad girl Crystal holding a baby in the hospital. A fresh newborn. Okay, so she really had a baby. Now is it JR's baby? Let's see. There's a note attached. A little later on, Bobby gets a call, and it's some nobody at a payphone saying, Hey, did you get my picture? He's like, Yeah, I got the picture. And why what is what is this about? Dude on the payphone says, That's your sister-in-law Kristen and her baby Christopher. Christopher, oh crap, I already forgot their last name. Whatever Sue Ellen and Kristen's government last name was, she gave it to it, Shepard Shepard. That's right. Baby Christopher Shepherd. And Bobby's like, okay, that's wonderful, but why did you call me? Why didn't you call JR? Dude's like, nah, nah, nah. I heard a lot about JR. I don't really want to deal with him. Now I got some more information for you, but it's gonna cost you. I'm thinking he's gonna say$100 million. You know what this fool says?$2,000. That's chump change. Bobby's like, okay, bet. I'll get the money together for you. This kind of makes sense because I do remember the episode right before she died. She was on the phone with somebody back in LA, and apparently maybe she was into drugs, maybe she wasn't, but she was definitely talking to someone back there. I tend to believe if that was her plan all along, it seems like that could be a boyfriend she's had and that she's just been keeping on ice. But if we think about Bad Girl Chris and the not slanding crossover episode, she seemed really lost. She act like she didn't have anybody in LA. Or has she always been running these tricks? Has she always been doing that? Is this her pimp boyfriend? Is this is this a lick that they've decided to run on different people? I don't know. But we don't know whose baby that is. Let's be very, very clear. That could she could have been pregnant that whole time that she was in Dallas. And then she told uh that other guy, the older man, that that was his baby. He's been sending her a check. JR is the one who put her up in the hotel. Who knows how many people are involved? But at the end of the day, there is a baby. Do you think good old Bobby Bobby is gonna be like, hey, give me that baby, then I can get my wife out of this mental hospital. I don't know. I don't know. I that's kind of messy. That's real messy. JR is on the phone telling Jock all about the things that he's done to bring down the Barlows. And I guess on the other end of the phone, Jock is like, dang, you spend a lot of money, are we gonna be poppers? JR says, no, Daddy will never be poppers, not as long as the price of oil is rising. So this seems like yes, it's very expensive. Yes, he's doing these loans. Because he said he had collateral, I didn't actually consider that maybe this could be dangerous financially. I was only thinking about uh Daddy Barlow now. Interesting. It it has to be poignant because JR looks at the camera and says, Daddy, the prize of oil will never go down. And this is what, 1981? Okay, well, we all well, yeah. We'll see. Okay, not much left. Only thing going on. Dusty has a a theater room, I think they call it. Projector room is what they called it. Yeah. He likes watching himself back on the rodeo circuit. It seems like a very melancholy or love and loss type episode. He's mourning the death of his rodeo career. Although Sue Ellen says, Dear Emmy, you're walking, who knows? You may be able to do it again. I don't know. Something about it hasn't thrown off. Apparently, he's been going up to the projector room every night since JR and Ellie came and tried to kidnap John Oshwan III. He's been going up there. Could be up in, you know, that maybe to he didn't want her watching it with him. So they end up taking a walk outside. It's not nothing, but it's not something. I don't know what that means, but Dusty misses riding in the rodeo. I watched that documentary on Netflix. I have never been more stressed out watching anything. I don't know how people do that. That's it's an amazing sport, but it is so scary. Also, by episodes in, Pam does decide, or rather, Bobby helps her decide, that she is gonna go ahead and go to Brook Tree treatment facility. End scene. This is a good episode. I am chomping at the bits to get to the bottom of this Kristen's baby thing. Uh, out of something. I don't know if it's a good idea. Huh. Now I'm thinking, hmm. She does have a baby, but whose baby is it? Yeah, that could be weird. Like I said, I'm almost positive. And this is a big assumption that um drawing a blank on it, John Tucker must die is their son. Jesse Metcalf. Desperate house vibes. Oh well, we'll have to find out next time, won't we? Alright, guys, that's it. That's all for this episode of SoFloor. Thank you for joining me today. Remember, you can always reach out in the show notes, check your mobile device for the link, or send me an email at soaploorpodcast at gmail.com. That's S O A P L O R E P O D C A S T at Gmail.com. In the meantime, in between time, learn the Heimlich maneuver. It's worth at least$5,000 in 1981. What is that? Roughly almost$30,000 today. Chicken wings, a very popular food in America, that's all I'm saying. 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