Why Did Katherine Want To Kill Pam?

[Angela Channing]

In Deliverance, the penultimate episode of season 8, we see Katherine in a blonde wig tearing the photo of Jenna's face the newspaper that carries the headline that "Bobby Ewing & Jenna Wade Will Head For Alter" [sic] following her acquittal for the murder of Naldo. Incidentally, someone in the props department should be sacked for that horrendous mistake, spelling it "alter" rather than "altar"



However, in the following episode, Swansong, Katherine seems to be stalking Pam's home not Jenna's. At this stage there is nothing to indicate that Pam and Bobby will get back together. Even when Bobby stays over for a night of nookie, there is no way that Katherine would know what was going on in Pam's house, for all she knew it was an innocent visit by Bobby to see his son and he decided to stay over as it was late. The final light that goes out is downstairs and not an upstairs bedroom.

If her aim was to stop the wedding between Bobby and Jenna, why the hell was she stalking Pam and attempted to run her over? Wouldn't she have been better off aiming her attention at Jenna herself?

 

[Jimmy Todd]

Maybe at that point she was stalking Bobby, saw him go into Pam's house, stay the night, and was so consumed with jealousy she went bezerk.

 

[KayLloyd]

Maybe at that point she was stalking Bobby, saw him go into Pam's house, stay the night, and was so consumed with jealousy she went bezerk.

My theory is that since she was wearing a blonde wig and sitting outside of Pam's house, her original intention was actually to kill Pam that night and frame Jenna for it. She kills two birds with one stone and clears the way to have Bobby all to herself. But then Bobby shows up and ruins her plan, we see her frustration as she hits the steering wheel. She shows up the next morning to take Pam out, and in her "If I Can't Have You, I Don't Want Nobody" psychosis decides to keep going and take Bobby out for saving Pam, even if she dies too.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

I think Katherine was just driving around Texas making her wellness checks in a blur of caffeine-and-tomato-juice overdose, takes a short cut through Pam's driveway, the accelerator stuck, and she just plowed over everybody by accident.

Katherine was the real victim.

 

[DallasFanForever]

Anyone who was a rival for Bobby’s affections was the enemy as far as Katherine was concerned. She knew that Bobby and Jenna were engaged to be married but once she started following Bobby around at the end of the season and she realized that there was a chance he might be reuniting with Pam she shifted her focus. She would’ve tried to kill Jenna just the same if Pam wasn’t in the picture. And killing herself to accomplish her goal didn’t matter to her as long as she succeeded. The ironic part is by killing Bobby instead of Pam and then dying herself she got to spend eternity with Bobby anyway.