Blast from the Past- how many elevators?

[Grangehill1]

When Angelica is arrested at the end of the episode Harry tells her they’re going to take a little elevator ride. And off they go.

JR then calls Jack and hears the explosion. Seconds later JR heads for the elevators.

So…
If Angelica had just been taken down in the elevator, wouldn’t the other one be the one that JR waits for and says ‘come on’

But then Sue Ellen must have seen Angelica in the lobby as she waited and then went into her elevator.
All of this must have happened in the space of two minutes? The Ewing elevators are very fast!
In 36 years I have never spotted this before!

 

['V']

The only explanation I can think of is that it was the very end of Pam's dream, and dreams often don't make any sense.

 

[Jon Ewing Jr.]

Good recognition. Never thought about it. Maybe Uncle Harry just drug Nero down the stairs while telling her about the Miranda decision.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

a man with intimate knowledge of the Ewing Building, Harry took the freight elevator

 

[Angela Channing]

The only way it could have worked is if Harry and his colleagues got Angelica down the lift and out of the lobby while JR was phoning Jack to warn him. He would have had to have moved pretty niftily because when the office is blown up we are shown it it not close to the ground floor.

The timings don't work very well so it's a great observation.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

a man with intimate knowledge of the Ewing Building, Harry took the freight elevator

I was kind of half-joking there, but it actually makes sense that they would have taken her down a service elevator to minimize contact with unsuspecting 'civilians'. A building that big would have service elevators, I'd think. I looked back at the scene and they didn't actually show Harry and his goons drag her into the lobby elevator.

 

[DallasFanForever]

And it was a Sunday, wasn’t it? Doesn’t JR say that to Sue Ellen before he leaves the ranch? So there was no traffic in the building which I guess makes it easier to get the elevators back faster. Just a thought.