"Who Done It" is the fourth episode of the fourth season (1980-1981) of the Dallas television series . This episode was written by Loraine Despres, and revealed who shot J.R. Ewing (played by Larry Hagman) in the third season finale of "A House Divided". The fate of the perpetrator is revealed in the next episode one week later.
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For the media darkness period of eight months after the "A House Divided" episode (where Dallas archvillain JR Ewing was shot by an unknown actor while working in his office), international odds created a set of opportunities for the perpetrators who maybe. His favorite is Dusty Farlow, who is Sue Ellen Ewing's lover (Sue Ellen is J.R.'s wife), with odds installed at 6: 4. Sue Ellen alone is given a 25: 1 chance, just like J.R's mother. Miss Ellie Ewing. At 4: 1 was Sue Ellen's sister and mistress of her husband, Kristin Shepard and banker Vaughn Leland, who were the victims of J.R. After Sue Ellen's fingerprints were found in the gun in the next episode he became favorites at 3-1 according to some oddsmakers, while others noted Kristin and Cliff Barnes as favorites (Cliff became a J.R. rival since childhood).
JR Ewing is a fictional character that William K. Stevens of The New York Times described as "the most disgusting man on television, Iago of Texas oilmen, a smiling snake from TV star on Friday night Dallas , a very corrupt man , so low, so cruel, so cruel that it has become an absolute pleasure for about a quarter billion viewers around the world. "His colleague John J. O'Connor described him as" the eldest son of the family Oily Ewing... "the"... sadistic and deceitful intruders "who" capture the public imagination ". Before the episode, there were many people suspected of attempted murder:
- Sue Ellen Ewing (Linda Gray), wife of J.R.: J.R. had threatened to instruct him back because he was suffering from alcoholism.
- Kristin Shepard (Mary Crosby), J.R's ex-girlfriend. and Sue Ellen's sister: J.R. breaking his promise to marry her and giving her 24 hours to leave town. J.R. threatened to entrap him for prostitution in response to the business pressures he gave him.
- Dusty Farlow (Jared Martin), Sue Ellen's lover: Supposedly killed in a plane crash.
- Vaughn Leland (Dennis Patrick), business partner J.R.: J.R. crossed it from $ 20 million ($ 59 million in dollars 2017). Miss Ellie Ewing (Barbara Bel Geddes), J.R's mother: J. R mortgaged a family ranch, unbeknownst to her parents, and had plans to drill for oil on the property.
- Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), JR's brother-in-law (through his sister's marriage to Bobby Ewing) and business rivals: His father, Digger Barnes, was tricked by JR's father Jock Ewing from half. combined the oil company (the excavation side of the story, Jock claims he has kept the company on his behalf due to Digger's carelessness), leaving him without a penny except for some oil wells that were shut down by JR.
- Alan Beam (Randolph Powell), a political troublemaker: Beam knows too much, makes it throw away. After J.R. trying to extinguish it, he has a motive.
- Marilee Stone (Fern Fitzgerald), widow of a business associate: Husband commits suicide as a result of business dealings with J.R.
- Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), his polite brother: Sibling's rival, disgusted with the handling of the family business and slight to Bobby's wife.
Although generally regarded as a rival of JR in the fictional world of Dallas, Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford) is not a suspect because of his activities in the fictional affairs of Knot Landing. Similarly, Lucy Ewing (Charlene Tilton) has an alibi given by a liaison with a married college professor.
To keep the secrecy before episodes aired, several ends were filmed, including the above mentioned characters firing each gun.
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Plot summary
After a large number of suspects were identified, Sue Ellen concluded that Kristin, who shot JR In his psychiatric office, while he was discussing weapons and how to get to his room, he remembered that his last time was when he was in condo Kristin. He found J.R at home, when Kristin appeared and Sue Ellen revealed everything.
When Sue Ellen had appeared in her sister's apartment with a pistol (looking for J.R.), Kristin calmly offered her a drink, knowing that she was drunk and likely to faint. After that happened, after placing Sue Ellen back to her car, unconscious, Kristin grabs a gun and shoots J.R. and put his weapon in Sue Ellen's closet the next day to set her up.
After JR hears it all and will notify the police, Kristin reveals that she is pregnant with JR's baby and threatens to reveal everything if the police are brought in. Facing the prospect of another scandal if his son was born in prison, JR decided the matter should be dealt with calmly.
Broadcast and reception
'"Who Done It'" decides "Who shot J.R.?" cliffhanger from the previous season, entitled "A House Divided". Some suggested that the resolution of the complaint was delayed until the November "sweeping" period as a way of ranking by the CBS network for the 1980-1981 television season. Between 83 million and 90 million American viewers (or 76% of all US television audiences in the United States in November 1980) watched the episode; rating 53.3 Nielsen is the highest ranked of every television episode in US history, a record that broke down in February 1983 when the last episode of M * A * S * H ​​<â € < was aired same). "Who Done It" still achieves the second highest Nielsen rating for a single television broadcast in US history, and remains the third on the list of most watched US television episodes of all time (behind the 1983 episode MASH ) and broadcast NBC 1993 from the final series Cheers ).
Dallas went on to finish at # 1 in Nielsen's rating for three of the next four seasons as a result of the publicity the episode generated, though since the last episode of MASH in 1983, the episode of resolution Dallas The 1980 cliffhanger falls into the most watched first international television episode in history (watched by about 360 million international audiences in over 57 countries worldwide during the November 1980 broadcast). This episode also marked the commencement of widespread use of cliffhangers as the core element of the television season finale in the United States since the 1980s, and also remains the primetime show of the highest Friday in US television history (on Friday night sharply decreased in viewership at the end 20th century).
References
External links
- "Who Did It?" in IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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