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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard Channing" data-source="post: 366629" data-attributes="member: 10">Being a suspect in a murder investigation (or attempted murder) and not being able to remember if you did it or not was a device that Dallas employed more than once. The original, and arguably the best, example of this is, of course, Sue Ellen in the 'Who Shot JR' investigation, but over on Knots Landing Gary found himself in a similar predicament in the Ciji murder investigation. Later on Cliff also got so drunk that he couldn't remember whether he had shot Bobby, and Jenna, due to being chloroformed, wasn't really sure whether she killed Naldo. I think these are the only 4 examples unless I'm forgetting something?It's an interesting trope which the other soaps never attempted, maybe because Dallas and KL had a resident alcoholic, so it made more sense. It certainly puts an interesting twist on things when one of the prime suspects genuinely doesn't know if they did it or not. And it's not really something I've seen much, if at all, in other dramas, although I'm sure it's been done in various movies.Any thoughts on this as a plot device?[ATTACH=full]46557[/ATTACH]</blockquote>