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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 45796" data-attributes="member: 22">&quot;Hush, Hush, Sweet Jessie&quot; Ah, such exquisite soap irony: Bobby and Jenna enter the Southfork living room, bursting to share the news of their engagement, only to be greeted by the news of Mark&#039;s death. Next thing we know, Bobby&#039;s gravitating back towards Pam. Mark&#039;s demise is good news for no one. &quot;I can&#039;t believe he&#039;s dead,&quot; laments Cliff. &quot;The three of us could have accomplished so much together.&quot; Even JR&#039;s upset. &quot;The only thing I did like about [Pam] was the fact that she was gonna marry him,&quot; he explains to Jessica. One of Mark&#039;s several lawyers who isn&#039;t Brooks Oliver (alas) delivers a letter to Pam. She asks Cliff to read it aloud. (God bless Ken Kercheval--he even manages to make Cliff&#039;s reaction to this request funny.)The letter turns out to be a suicide note: &quot;It&#039;s important for me to go out while I can still call myself a man ... You&#039;ll find happiness again. Maybe it&#039;ll be with Bobby ... Remember me well, Mark.&quot; (Oh, she&#039;ll remember you very well. She&#039;ll end up having a twenty-seven-week long dream about you.) Where John Beck has gone Audrey Landers and Morgan Brittany are soon to follow, and events are steadily leading towards their departures. &quot;Cliff doesn&#039;t need me,&quot; Afton tells Pam ruefully. &quot;The only thing he needs is money.&quot; And how. &quot;I&#039;m so close to oil I can almost taste it,&quot; he explains to Katherine, plucking up the courage to ask for a loan, &quot;but I just haven&#039;t hit yet.&quot; &quot;Oh, isn&#039;t that adorable? Cliff Barnes asking me for a loan!&quot; Katherine trills, finally liberated from her facade of niceness. Now she can be as mean as she wants and wear jodhpurs while she&#039;s doing it. &quot;Oil, oil everywhere and not a drop for Cliff!&quot; She offers to buy his third of Wentworth Tool and Die, worth twenty-five million dollars. &quot;I&#039;ll give you eighteen million.&quot; &quot;You really enjoy twisting the knife, don&#039;t you?&quot; &quot;I do get a certain satisfaction, seeing how it&#039;s going into you.&quot; They sign the papers. &quot;You finally got what you wanted,&quot; Cliff tells her. &quot;I&#039;m out of your father&#039;s company.&quot; &quot;That&#039;s right,&quot; she snaps, &quot;and it&#039;s just the first in a long line of scores I&#039;m gonna settle.&quot; Bobby Ewing, Jenna Wade and Naldo Marchetta--watch out. Cliff hands the cheque to Leo Wakefield. &quot;Our problems are over,&quot; he tells him. &quot;You&#039;re forgetting one thing,&quot; replies Leo, ever the realist. &quot;Not only is the interest payment on your loan coming up, but the first principle payment is due ... What&#039;s left of this will give you another week&#039;s drilling ... After that, it&#039;s back to square one.&quot; Cliff and Afton have another of their wonderful domestic bust-ups, which starts with Afton breaking the terrible news that &quot;we&#039;re out of tomato juice.&quot; &quot;Still??&quot; barks Cliff. Realising how much pressure he&#039;s under, she offers a suggestion: &quot;I realise I don&#039;t know a lot about the oil business, but you think maybe you put your trust in the wrong people? ... You think maybe you have the wrong crew working for you?&quot; Cliff dismisses her advice. &quot;You&#039;re right. You don&#039;t know anything about the oil business ... You wanna help? Get me some ter-may-da juice!&quot; Once she is out of earshot, he follows her advice by calling Jordan Lee and asking him to recommend another crew. And that is what turns things around for him. Of course, Afton never receives any credit or a share in his success. The same pattern is repeated at the beginning of Season 9 when Jamie suggests the independent oil companies band together against OPEC and lobby for a tariff on oil prices. Cliff pooh-poohs her idea and then steals it. With Mark out of the picture, Bobby comforts Pam in her hour of need and Season 6 starts to come full circle. &quot;You don&#039;t know this,&quot; she tells him, &quot;but I came to Thanksgiving Square that day to tell you I was ready to try again ... Before I could say anything, you told me you were letting me go.&quot; &quot;But that&#039;s because of your letter,&quot; replies Bobby. &quot;Katherine found it and read it to me ... You said you wanted out of the marriage.&quot; While Bobby is answering an emergency phone call from Charlene Tilton (there&#039;s been a hold-up at the Post Office in Timbuctoo or something), we can see Pam&#039;s pretty eyes swivel backwards and forwards as she starts putting two and two together.She visits Katherine in her pokey hotel room. Magnificently unrepentant and sexy in her red underwear, Katherine admits the whole thing: &quot;You didn&#039;t want him anymore and I did.&quot; Pam whacks her one: &quot;You may be my sister, but I never want to see you again!&quot; Morgan Brittany&#039;s having such a wonderfully camp time in this scene that Victoria Principal looks ever so slightly earnest and silly by comparison. There&#039;s an odd shot of her back as she&#039;s leaving and it looks like she&#039;s on casters. JR, meanwhile, is pressuring Jessica into doing something drastic: &quot;Times gettin&#039; short and one of us better come up with something or we&#039;re gonna find ourselves throwing rice after the newlyweds and wavin&#039; them goodbye on their honeymoon.&quot;Matters come to a head after Dusty calls Southfork from the Off Screen Motel. Jessica&#039;s possessiveness (&quot;I knew he&#039;d come if I asked him&quot;) doesn&#039;t go unnoticed by Braddock County&#039;s answer to HART TO HART, the Krebbses. They quiz Clayton in the Southfork living room, where Ray momentarily turns into John Wayne: &quot;You can tell me ta shuddup if ya want ta, but ah&#039;m your friend an&#039; ah&#039;m worried about&#039;cha.&quot; Donna pretends not to notice this weird outburst. &quot;Clayton,&quot; she asks, &quot;why is Jessica so much more concerned about Dusty coming to your wedding than you are?&quot; Brace yourselves for Clayton&#039;s shocking reply: &quot;Because Jessica&#039;s not his aunt. She&#039;s his mother.&quot;The commercial break that follows is an opportunity for people to retch into their wastepaper baskets at the thought of possible Farlow on Farlow incest. Donna&#039;s still looking pretty nauseous when the scene resumes. &quot;But you&#039;re his--&quot; begins Ray. &quot;Just his uncle,&quot; clarifies Clayton (Shame, really--it would have been a brilliant twist!) &quot;I never knew who his father was and I&#039;m not sure Jessie did either.&quot; (The riddle of Dusty&#039;s paternity could have provided a much stronger motive for Jessica&#039;s Season 12 killing spree, with her bumping off all the potential candidates until she finds the real daddy.) &quot;Jessie was a pretty wild kid when she was young,&quot; Clayton continues.&quot; It was always hard for her to keep her emotions in check. We were close at the time and I could kind of look after her and protect her from--well, from herself actually. And then, after Amy and I got married, I really didn&#039;t have the time for Jessie ... and one day she came home pregnant ... Amy and I took her on a long trip overseas so she could have the baby in peace ... After the birth, Jessie went into an emotional depression that was so bad we had to put her in a rest home ... Amy and I kept Dusty. That&#039;s what we had agreed upon. We never adopted him legally, but we got a birth certificate that named us as parents and we took him back to Texas ... After a couple of years, she married Lord Montford and settled in England. I never her saw her for years until Amy got sick and she came over to help me take care of her. I really don&#039;t know what I would have done without her back then ... ... It&#039;s Dusty. I never told him that he was not my real son ... She and JR are pretty close right now. If he finds out about this, he&#039;d probably blackmail me.&quot;The following morning, an oblivious JR sends Jessica off with Miss Ellie and Donna so that he can have a nose at the photograph album he has spied in her room. As with most soap villains and loonies, she has kept a scrapbook of press clippings about the Farlows&#039; adventures: &quot;SOUTHERN CROSS BURNS&quot; &quot;STEVE FARLOW SHACKS UP WITH LINDA GRAY&quot;, that sort of thing. But it&#039;s Jessica&#039;s diary that really freaks JR out. He confronts Clayton, waving the diary under his nose: &quot;Farlow, you&#039;re callin&#039; off that wedding ... I got enough in here to put you away for life ... I&#039;m talkin&#039; about the murder of his first wife. Farlow and his sister set fire to his house and his first wife burned up in it.&quot;Ray grabs the diary, the latest entry of which--oh so conveniently--exonerates Clayton: &quot;&#039;I did the right thing by burning down that house,&#039;&quot; reads Ray, &quot;&#039;but I&#039;m sure of Clayton knew, he&#039;d never understand.&#039; So he didn&#039;t know!&quot; I feel a bit sorry for Howard Keel in this scene. He must convey the devastation of discovering that his sister is a psychopath who destroyed his house, murdered his wife and plans to do the same thing to his fiancee, in only three words: &quot;Oh no, Jessie.&quot; It&#039;s not a great moment.Everyone rushes back to the Southfork soundstage, where Donna describes a scene which, unfortunately, we don&#039;t get to see on screen: &quot;Jessica was on the phone and she was talking to Dusty and she said that he didn&#039;t have to bother coming to the wedding because it had been called off ... She hit me with the phone ... When I came to, they [Jessica and Ellie] were both gone, my car was gone. Ray, she took one of your guns!&quot; &quot;Jessica&#039;s killed once. Who knows what she&#039;ll do with Mama?!&quot; asks JR. Oh my gosh--she might turn her into Donna Reed. I don&#039;t think DALLAS has ever had such a straightforward &quot;Ewing in peril&quot; cliffhanger before, but it&#039;s quite exciting. But what&#039;s that squeaking sound I can hear? Oh, it&#039;s Pee-durr. &quot;I keep having nightmares about that jail!&quot; he sniffles. Pull yourself together, man.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 45796, member: 22"] [U][I]"Hush, Hush, Sweet Jessie"[/I][/U] Ah, such exquisite soap irony: Bobby and Jenna enter the Southfork living room, bursting to share the news of their engagement, only to be greeted by the news of Mark's death. Next thing we know, Bobby's gravitating back towards Pam. Mark's demise is good news for no one. "I can't believe he's dead," laments Cliff. "The three of us could have accomplished so much together." Even JR's upset. "The only thing I did like about [Pam] was the fact that she was gonna marry him," he explains to Jessica. One of Mark's several lawyers who isn't Brooks Oliver (alas) delivers a letter to Pam. She asks Cliff to read it aloud. (God bless Ken Kercheval--he even manages to make Cliff's reaction to this request funny.) The letter turns out to be a suicide note: "It's important for me to go out while I can still call myself a man ... You'll find happiness again. Maybe it'll be with Bobby ... Remember me well, Mark." (Oh, she'll remember you very well. She'll end up having a twenty-seven-week long dream about you.) Where John Beck has gone Audrey Landers and Morgan Brittany are soon to follow, and events are steadily leading towards their departures. "Cliff doesn't need me," Afton tells Pam ruefully. "The only thing he needs is money." And how. "I'm so close to oil I can almost taste it," he explains to Katherine, plucking up the courage to ask for a loan, "but I just haven't hit yet." "Oh, isn't that adorable? Cliff Barnes asking me for a loan!" Katherine trills, finally liberated from her facade of niceness. Now she can be as mean as she wants and wear jodhpurs while she's doing it. "Oil, oil everywhere and not a drop for Cliff!" She offers to buy his third of Wentworth Tool and Die, worth twenty-five million dollars. "I'll give you eighteen million." "You really enjoy twisting the knife, don't you?" "I do get a certain satisfaction, seeing how it's going into you." They sign the papers. "You finally got what you wanted," Cliff tells her. "I'm out of your father's company." "That's right," she snaps, "and it's just the first in a long line of scores I'm gonna settle." Bobby Ewing, Jenna Wade and Naldo Marchetta--watch out. Cliff hands the cheque to Leo Wakefield. "Our problems are over," he tells him. "You're forgetting one thing," replies Leo, ever the realist. "Not only is the interest payment on your loan coming up, but the first principle payment is due ... What's left of this will give you another week's drilling ... After that, it's back to square one." Cliff and Afton have another of their wonderful domestic bust-ups, which starts with Afton breaking the terrible news that "we're out of tomato juice." "Still??" barks Cliff. Realising how much pressure he's under, she offers a suggestion: "I realise I don't know a lot about the oil business, but you think maybe you put your trust in the wrong people? ... You think maybe you have the wrong crew working for you?" Cliff dismisses her advice. "You're right. You don't know anything about the oil business ... You wanna help? Get me some ter-may-da juice!" Once she is out of earshot, he follows her advice by calling Jordan Lee and asking him to recommend another crew. And that is what turns things around for him. Of course, Afton never receives any credit or a share in his success. The same pattern is repeated at the beginning of Season 9 when Jamie suggests the independent oil companies band together against OPEC and lobby for a tariff on oil prices. Cliff pooh-poohs her idea and then steals it. With Mark out of the picture, Bobby comforts Pam in her hour of need and Season 6 starts to come full circle. "You don't know this," she tells him, "but I came to Thanksgiving Square that day to tell you I was ready to try again ... Before I could say anything, you told me you were letting me go." "But that's because of your letter," replies Bobby. "Katherine found it and read it to me ... You said you wanted out of the marriage." While Bobby is answering an emergency phone call from Charlene Tilton (there's been a hold-up at the Post Office in Timbuctoo or something), we can see Pam's pretty eyes swivel backwards and forwards as she starts putting two and two together. She visits Katherine in her pokey hotel room. Magnificently unrepentant and sexy in her red underwear, Katherine admits the whole thing: "You didn't want him anymore and I did." Pam whacks her one: "You may be my sister, but I never want to see you again!" Morgan Brittany's having such a wonderfully camp time in this scene that Victoria Principal looks ever so slightly earnest and silly by comparison. There's an odd shot of her back as she's leaving and it looks like she's on casters. JR, meanwhile, is pressuring Jessica into doing something drastic: "Times gettin' short and one of us better come up with something or we're gonna find ourselves throwing rice after the newlyweds and wavin' them goodbye on their honeymoon." Matters come to a head after Dusty calls Southfork from the Off Screen Motel. Jessica's possessiveness ("I knew he'd come if I asked him") doesn't go unnoticed by Braddock County's answer to HART TO HART, the Krebbses. They quiz Clayton in the Southfork living room, where Ray momentarily turns into John Wayne: "You can tell me ta shuddup if ya want ta, but ah'm your friend an' ah'm worried about'cha." Donna pretends not to notice this weird outburst. "Clayton," she asks, "why is Jessica so much more concerned about Dusty coming to your wedding than you are?" Brace yourselves for Clayton's shocking reply: "Because Jessica's not his aunt. She's his mother." The commercial break that follows is an opportunity for people to retch into their wastepaper baskets at the thought of possible Farlow on Farlow incest. Donna's still looking pretty nauseous when the scene resumes. "But you're his--" begins Ray. "Just his uncle," clarifies Clayton (Shame, really--it would have been a brilliant twist!) "I never knew who his father was and I'm not sure Jessie did either." (The riddle of Dusty's paternity could have provided a much stronger motive for Jessica's Season 12 killing spree, with her bumping off all the potential candidates until she finds the real daddy.) "Jessie was a pretty wild kid when she was young," Clayton continues." It was always hard for her to keep her emotions in check. We were close at the time and I could kind of look after her and protect her from--well, from herself actually. And then, after Amy and I got married, I really didn't have the time for Jessie ... and one day she came home pregnant ... Amy and I took her on a long trip overseas so she could have the baby in peace ... After the birth, Jessie went into an emotional depression that was so bad we had to put her in a rest home ... Amy and I kept Dusty. That's what we had agreed upon. We never adopted him legally, but we got a birth certificate that named us as parents and we took him back to Texas ... After a couple of years, she married Lord Montford and settled in England. I never her saw her for years until Amy got sick and she came over to help me take care of her. I really don't know what I would have done without her back then ... ... It's Dusty. I never told him that he was not my real son ... She and JR are pretty close right now. If he finds out about this, he'd probably blackmail me." The following morning, an oblivious JR sends Jessica off with Miss Ellie and Donna so that he can have a nose at the photograph album he has spied in her room. As with most soap villains and loonies, she has kept a scrapbook of press clippings about the Farlows' adventures: "SOUTHERN CROSS BURNS" "STEVE FARLOW SHACKS UP WITH LINDA GRAY", that sort of thing. But it's Jessica's diary that really freaks JR out. He confronts Clayton, waving the diary under his nose: "Farlow, you're callin' off that wedding ... I got enough in here to put you away for life ... I'm talkin' about the murder of his first wife. Farlow and his sister set fire to his house and his first wife burned up in it." Ray grabs the diary, the latest entry of which--oh so conveniently--exonerates Clayton: "'I did the right thing by burning down that house,'" reads Ray, "'but I'm sure of Clayton knew, he'd never understand.' So he didn't know!" I feel a bit sorry for Howard Keel in this scene. He must convey the devastation of discovering that his sister is a psychopath who destroyed his house, murdered his wife and plans to do the same thing to his fiancee, in only three words: "Oh no, Jessie." It's not a great moment. Everyone rushes back to the Southfork soundstage, where Donna describes a scene which, unfortunately, we don't get to see on screen: "Jessica was on the phone and she was talking to Dusty and she said that he didn't have to bother coming to the wedding because it had been called off ... She hit me with the phone ... When I came to, they [Jessica and Ellie] were both gone, my car was gone. Ray, she took one of your guns!" "Jessica's killed once. Who knows what she'll do with Mama?!" asks JR. Oh my gosh--she might turn her into Donna Reed. I don't think DALLAS has ever had such a straightforward "Ewing in peril" cliffhanger before, but it's quite exciting. But what's that squeaking sound I can hear? Oh, it's Pee-durr. "I keep having nightmares about that jail!" he sniffles. Pull yourself together, man. [/QUOTE]

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