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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 248489" data-attributes="member: 22">Deja Vu  (DALLAS, 21 Dec 84) v Deliverance (DALLAS, 10 May 85)A double bill from the 84/5 season.In Deeds and Misdeeds, the most recent instalment of DALLAS I've watched alphabetically, the Ewing boys visited Jock’s first wife Amanda as part of their quest to prove that they own all of Ewing Oil. In Deja Vu, sixteen episodes earlier, Cliff visits his Aunt Maggie as part of his own quest to prove that he owns part of Ewing Oil. Both Amanda and Aunt Maggie were last seen in Wheeler Dealer six years earlier. (Very, very confusingly, the actress who plays Amanda in Deeds and Misdeeds made her last appearance in the episode immediately following Wheeler Dealer, A House Divided, but playing a different role.) Whereas Amanda is fragile and deluded, Aunt Maggie is warm and robust with a shrewd sense of humour. ("If I know my brother's son, he didn't drive all this way on a Saturday just to show me baby pictures!" she laughs.)The “deja vu” in Deja Vu is Jenna jilting Bobby to run off with Naldo, just as she did years before — at least that’s what Bobby believes.  It’s notable that while JR (correctly) suspects that Jenna has been kidnapped, Bobby’s first instinct is to assume that she has left of her own volition and so there's no point in looking for her, which is the same conclusion he'll reach when Pam disappears after her accident in three years' time. While this might be the first time one of Bobby’s brides has been kidnapped, it won’t be the last  — but whereas Bobby will merely have to pretend to be married to April’s kidnapper, Jenna is forced to marry hers for real.Both Deja Vu and Deliverance include an unusual scene between JR and Cliff. In Deja Vu, they meet secretly and make a pact to keep Bobby and Pam apart now that Jenna is no longer around to do it for them. Then in Deliverance, JR comes by Cliff’s office to offer him an out of court settlement prior to the hearing that will determine who owns Ewing Oil once and for all. Just as he anticipated, Cliff throws him out of his office, thereby making the Ewings’ victory in court, and Cliff's subsequent humiliation, all the sweeter.Pam’s search for Mark Graison makes the papers in Deja Vu when she takes out a full-page ad offering a reward for information about his whereabouts. Seventeen episodes later in Deliverance, Bobby and Jenna make the front page when she is exonerated of Naldo’s murder, and her kidnap/murder/prison ordeal finally comes to an end. Both press items receive unwelcome attention: JR is inspired by Pam’s ad to feed her false hope that Mark has been spotted in Jamaica, while someone with blood-red fingernails claws angrily at Jenna’s newspaper picture at the end of Deliverance. As we already know from the last scene of Blow Up, when Lady Jessica scratched Miss Ellie’s head off a Polaroid snapshot, such symbolic destruction is Not A Good Sign.At the party to celebrate the Ewings' victory and Jenna's freedom, Sue Ellen has fun minesweeping Sly's drinks. She is caught off guard, however, when Dusty Farlow materialises out of nowhere after an absence of three years. This is not the only penultimate episode of a season where Dusty will make a surprise reappearance. He'll repeat the trick in Decline and Fall of the House of Ewing, the second to last episode of Season 13, after an absence of five years.And the winner is ... Deja VuBONUS BEATS:[MEDIA=youtube]R2ILm3bJLRY[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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