Dallas
Episode 8: No Good
Deed
By: Carlos Uribe
Dallas
is a show about the wealthy, powerful, and scandalous Ewing family.
It's a continuation of the 1978-1991 CBS series of the same name.
Spoilers
Ahoy!
This
week the cops decide that the most likely killer of Marta is John
Ross. Their evidence seems to be substantial. They note how he
witnesses saw him ran away from the crime scene, they found his
fingerprints and DNA at the crime scene, and that his scratch is
probably from Marta. It looks bad until you dissect one important
piece of information: what the witnesses saw. They saw Marta's body
fall as he was leaving the
hotel. In other words, they didn't see him kill her. All they saw was
that he saw the body and promptly sped away. This should indicate
that John Ross is important to the crime but not that he's
necessarily the killer. They saw that he wasn't at the crime scene.
It doesn't make any logical sense for the police to actually think
that John Ross is the killer and it seems even more idiotic that not
a single character puts this together. John Ross keeps talking about
how there was a camera in the room but he doesn't ever ask them to
look at hotel security footage that a nice hotel would more than
likely have. It should have been easy to prove his innocence but the
characters refused to act logically or even professionally for the
sake of the plot.
It
also leads to a lot of characters sacrificing in order to try and
save John Ross. His mother decides that she will cross a line. She
had promised an honest campaign but for the second time she finds
herself acting dishonestly for family. She goes to a medical examiner
and tries to bribe and blackmail him into ruling Marta's death a
suicide. She offers him the spot of Chief Medical Officer, or
equivalent, when she is Governor and she also brings up that the
medical examiner has been prescribing medicine-even though his
patients are all supposed to be dead. What devastates her the most
isn't that she did this action but that it was all in vain. When her
son ended up being released, it meant that the real killers of Marta
would go free. It meant that she had done what she had promised
herself she wouldn't do and it was all for nothing. She might have
been acting in what she thought was in the best interest as a mother
but it was ultimately backfiring on her. The worst news possible is
if the medical examiner goes through what he was implying and admit
what he did.
The
person who made the biggest sacrifice was Christopher. His technology
seems to be working perfectly fine and is valued to be in the
billions. This means that anyone who gets exclusive rights from him
is going to be very rich. This is showed by the episode when he turns
down an offer by Exxon for some exclusive mining rights. Christopher
realizes that he can not only save John Ross but also stop the oil
drilling from Southfork. All he has to do is to alter the deal with
the Venezuelans: they get exclusive rights to mine in South America.
Christopher is able to save the day. He wasn't the only one willing
to do this as Bobby was even willing to drill in Southfork to pay off
the loan and to keep John Ross safe. Now that the Venezuelans have
been appeased, they plan to fight the deal and ensure that they get
Southfork back.
This
was a pretty good episode of Dallas, even if it had a major logical
flaw. What made this episode good is to see how far the characters
were all willing to go for family. There was more going on: Rebecca
and her brother are revealed to not be actual siblings but ex-lovers.
That twist I had assumed from the beginning and it certainly makes
sense that the series went there. It is a little disappointing
considering how predictable it was. The episode also had Christopher
going from some angry and annoying guy to someone who is finally
letting things go. That character can hold a grudge. Overall this
episode managed to have a lot of sacrifice and it was good.
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