By Joel J. Feigenbaum
In Los Gatos, Colombia, Matt scans the post office, desperate to get a package of emeralds that JR. is sending him for their con. The chief of police, Luis Rueda, reveals to Matt that he has the package and that he considers Matt to be a very suspicious character.
J.R. has noticed that Grace has befriended Jack and that the two are beginning to be an item J.R is certain this is a ploy on behalf of Angelica to gain control over Jack, and he is still not certain why Jack is so vital to Angelica’s plans.
Sue Ellen, who has blossomed in her position as the Fund raiser for Graison Research, has so impressed JR. that their relationship begins to take a new turn. JR. asks her if he may escort her to the fundraising auction she is hostessing for Graison Research.
Clayton discovers that it was Ellie who was behind his buyouts, and while angry at first, he comes to realize what a loving gesture she made. He decides to sell all of Farlow Industries and devote himself to the ranch, horse breeding, and Miss Ellie.
Matt and Pam leave Los Gatos for the mine, a few days’ trek into the jungle. Matt leaves camp to take a swim in the river after everyone goes to bed. Pam’s screams bring him racing back to camp, where he is knocked unconscious and left for dead.
Broadcast: 31-Jan-1986 w: Joel J. Feigenbaum d: Roy Campanella II
by Leonard Katzman
When Matt comes to he discovers that the camp is destroyed and that Pam and everyone else are gone. He makes his way back to Los Gatos and calls J.R , who decides to come to Colombia to meet with Matt in person. He tells Matt to wait twelve hours, and then call Cliff and Mark. Once he puts the calls through, Cliff and Mark make plans to head down to Colombia.
JR. stands in the shadows as they arrive. He has explained to Matt that he never meant any harm to come to Pam—he just wanted to discredit her. He has also bribed the police chief into helping out with the case.
While he is gone, JR. has instructed Sly to explain his absence by telling everyone he is away on business in Europe. Angelica does not believe his cover story and worries that he has discovered her plan. She instructs Grace to seduce Jack. Matt, Mark, Cliff and Rueda are setting up a search party when a young boy arrives with a package for them. It is the emerald brooch Matt gave Pam.
Broadcast: 07-Feb-1986 w: Leonard Katzman d: Michael Hoey
by Joel Figenhaum and Peter Duane
In Colombia, Mark and Cliff work anxiously with Rueda in the desperate attempt to gain Pam’s release. Cliff is perplexed by the $100,000 ransom demand. "Why did they ask for so little when they could have had so much more?"
Reluctantly, Mark and Cliff agree to let Matt go alone to deliver the money. Mark believes that Matt may have had something to do with the kidnapping and will now skip out with the money. When Matt is late in returning, Mark is sure his worst fears are being confirmed.
Finally, Matt returns. The next day, Pam is released into Mark’s hungry arms.
Back in Dallas, Ellie and Donna have fears of their own—that Jenna may be cracking up. Jenna agrees to see a psychiatrist, but when at her first appointment she finds herself opening up to him somewhat, she catches herself withdraws, and then dismisses him.
Mandy confesses to J.R. that she was the spy. JR. feigns surprise, never revealing that he already knew and used her to take phony information to Cliff. He has his eye on Sue Ellen, in whom he has taken a renewed interest. When Jerry Kenderson brings Sue Ellen home from work and gives her a friendly kiss goodnight, J.R. stands in the shadows, watching.
Broadcast: 14-Feb-1986 w: Joel J. Feigenbaum , Peter Dunne d: Bruce Bilson
by Hollace White and Stephanie Garrnan
Pam insists that she still wants to be taken to see the mine, much to Matt’s dismay. In a panic that she will discover the truth, Matt calls J.R., who tells him to simply explain to Pam that much excavation will be needed before she will see any real evidence of emeralds; she shouldn’t expect to see them lying on the surface.
In Dallas, JR. invites Sue Ellen to accompany him to Martinique, where he is headed for a big oil conference.Sue Ellen rejects his overtures and refuses his offer. Hurt, JR. calls his private eye with instructions to start digging for dirt on Jerry Kenderson.Ray, filling in for Donna at the school where she has been doing volunteer work, finds himself particularly taken with one of her students, a young deaf boy living with a foster family.
Only Jenna is not doing well. When her psychiatrist brings up the day before Bobby’s death, Lucy’s wedding day, she rushes out of his office in a fit of anger.
Broadcast: 21-Feb-1986 w: Hollance White , Stephanie Garman d: Corey Allen
by Susan Howard
JR., who has asked Sly to get him all the available information worldwide on Dimitri Marinos, has begun to smell a rat and is holding back in his dealings with Angelica. He connects with a man named Alex Garrett, a former attorney of Marinos’s, who mysteriously warns J. R., "Watch out for Angelica Nero."
J.R. decides to go with Jack to Martinique, but to proceed slowly and to find out more from Garrett once he gets there.
Pam gets back to work with J.R. and finds the situation just as unpleasant as ever. When she discovers JR.’s latest tricks with the cartel she gets furious, but JR. tells her that her situation in Colombia just proves how inept a businesswoman she really is. Mark helps Pam realize that she doesn’t have to carry on for Bobby just to prove how much she loved him; it’s time for Pam to get on with her other commitments. On the way to Martinique J.R. finally asks Jack to impersonate Marinos. Jack is furious, but J.R. assures everyone that Jack will cooperate because it is in Ewing Oil’s best interests that he do so. Jack is resentful, but finally agrees. He feels betrayed by Grace— as well he should. Behind his back Angelica, Nicholas, and Grace hatch a terrible scheme—Jack and J.R are to be blown up on the yacht.
Broadcast: 28-Feb-1986 w: Susan Howard d: Linda Day
by Leonard Katzman
In Dallas, Pam is becoming increasingly concerned about Jenna’s deep psychological distress. She tries to help Jenna, but is rejected. Inadvertently, Pam tells Jenna that she and Bobby had planned to remarry right before his death, and that Bobby had told Pam that Jenna had known about his feelings.
In Martinique, J.R. continues to try to connect with Garrett, but with no success. Finally the attorney agrees to see him, but only if there is no chance the two men will not be seen together. They settle on a meeting at the upcoming costume ball, where they will both be in disguise.
Meanwhile, Jack and Grace make up and agree to start their relationship over. Angelica witnesses the scene, and although Grace assures her she was just doing her job, no longer trusts her assistant. Grace warns Jack and J.R. that their lives will be endangered on the yacht the next day.
At the ball, Garrett tells J.R that three years ago, when Dimitri Marinos was near death, he had added a codicil to his will cutting Angeliea off from Marinos Shipping. Just after that, Marinos went into seclusion. JR. begins to understand the clever scheme Angelica has been running.
Just as Angelica introduces Jack as Dimitri, pandemonium breaks loose. The assassination attempt has begun.
Broadcast: 07-Mar-1986 w: Leonard Katzman d: Larry Hagman
by Peter Dunne and Joel J. Fiegenhaum
In the aftermath of the ball, J.R. and Jack are relieved to find themselves still alive. Grace and Nicholas both turn state’s witness, explaining the elaborate plan Angelica had made to prove Dimitri was alive in order to have "him" assassinated publicly. Alex Garrett takes charge of the Marinos affairs and explains to JR. that although he must temporarily halt the Ewing—Marinos deal, once things are straightened out, he will resume the deal as planned.
Back in Dallas, Pam worries about Jenna. She explains to Mark that she let slip the truth about Bobby and that Jenna hadn’t believed her. Mark later confronts Jenna, assuring her that it really is true: Bobby and Pam did plan to remarry. Still Jenna does not believe it. Finally Jenna breaks through to a blocked memory of Lucy’s wedding and remembers that she did release Bobby. Jenna decides to move away from Southfork with Charlie.
Donna agrees to adopt Tony, much to Ray’s delight.
Pam realizes that she has gone as far as she can with Bobby’s dreams and that she should get out of Ewing Oil. She decides to sell Christopher’s Ewing shares to JR.
Broadcast: 14-Mar-1986 w: Joel J. Feigenbaum , Peter Dunne d: Linda Gray
by Leonard Katzman
JR. is jubilant as he prepares to buy Christopher’s shares of Ewing Oil and finally take over as undisputed head of the company. He is further thrilled with the deal he made with the cartel, to buy them out of the Marinos deal at fifty cents on the dollar. The cartel members have no way of knowing that Garrett will make good on the deal, so they are more than happy to sell out to JR. J.R. takes out a $1 billion loan so that he can pursue his two projects at the same time.
Jenna apologizes to Jack and goes to Bobby’s grave to say goodbye to him. Having straightened out her problems with Bobby’s death, Jenna decides to stay on at Southfork, perhaps she and Jack can work it out. Angelica, now hiding in Europe, buys fake documents and begins her plot for revenge. She finds Nicholas in Zurich, and kills him with a well placed hat pin.
JR. discovers that there’s nothing in Kenderson’s background that can be used against him but stumbles on some interesting tidbits about Mark Graison in the process. He decides to speed up investigation into Graison’s past. Sue Ellen tells Jerry that she cannot leave Southfork for him. When she bumps into Mandy she is shocked to learn that she and JR. have broken up. Mandy tells her the cause was another woman—Sue Ellen. Convinced that Pam has finally put Bobby’s death behind her, Mark asks her to marry him, and she says, yes, one more time.
Broadcast: 21-Mar-1986 w: Leonard Katzman d: Bruce Bilson
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