Dallas Recap: The Demise of Not Marta

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By Pollyanna | Sunday, July 22, 2012 | 1:22 am | 11 Comments
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Once he arrives home is is telling his parents what happened and Ann snaps at him that Rebecca is trying to do the best she can.  Ok.  Between the locket, Harris not-so-subtle jabs and this, I’m starting to think that there is a baby somewhere in Ann’s past.  Since said baby isn’t in the picture, I’m going to go with the baby either dying or she had to give the baby up for adoption.  

John Ross and Elena are out to dinner when John Ross sees Not Marta leaving the restaurant.  He freaks out and follows her outside, but she is gone.  He then gets a phone call from his mexican drug lord/thug ordering him to meet in one hour.  When John Ross goes to his house, he asks about the oil being delayed.  In exchange for more time, John Ross tells him how Not Marta skimmed money off of the sale of Southfork.  Mexican drug lord is pissed and gives John Ross an extra week.

The least he could have done was set another place for dinner

Christopher shows up for Rebecca’s doctor’s appointment to do the paternity test.  He is still being a hard-ass and she is all pure and innocent.  They love to milk these stereotypes all they can, don’t they?

Elena meets Sue Ellen for lunch so Sue Ellen can try to talk Elena into giving John Ross the oil to appease the Mexican drug lords.  Elena tells her she wants nothing to do with drilling on Southfork.  Sue Ellen calls her out and asks if she values John Ross more than how much she opposes drilling at Southfork.  As the camera pans out, who should be eating lunch but batshit crazy Not Marta.

This can’t be good

We cut to John Ross getting a call from Elena’s phone, but not from Elena.  It seems that Not Marta has Elena and wants John Ross to come to some hotel room if he wants her back alive.  He hurries to the hotel room and finds Not Marta, but Elena isn’t there.  He looks everywhere for her and realizes that Not Marta just stole Elena’s phone.  She said that it was the only way to get him there.  She wants his help because the Mexican drug lord’s thugs are after her.  He realizes that she is recording the whole encounter and tells her she is crazy.  She attacks him and scratches his neck in the process.  He makes a point of repeatedly touching the scrapes, so I’m guessing this will come into play later.  As he is getting in the elevator, Mexican drug lord’s thugs come out of the stairwell and head towards Not Marta’s room.

As John Ross exits the hotel, there is quite the commotion going on.  What could possible have everyone’s attention?

That is one dead, crazy bitch

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11 Comments

  1. 1
    Enrique's Mole
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 6:37 am

    Great recap – just a small point, though. I believe Gary is Lucy’s father, not husband.

    Somehow I missed that NotMarta was recording the whole exchange with John Ross. The scrapes are going to be the least of his problems!

  2. 2
    Lucy Ewing
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 9:17 am

    enrique is correct (and so is his mole) that Lucy is John Ross’s cousin because she is the daughter of Gary and Val. She just looks old enough to be Gary’s wife. And when did Charlene Tilton’s acting get so over the top. I remember her as not being the greatest actress on the original Dallas but she was never this bad.

    And is John Ross supposed to be this stupid? I mean he goes right up the NotMarta’s dead body in front of all the witnesses, rubs the scratches on his neck, looks all guilty and then speeds off in his flashy car. I don’t see how they are going to make this guy the next JR since at least JR was clever in any situation.

    And will we be seeing more to Rebecca’s nosebleeds or was this supposed to be some new pregnancy detection technique? Is she going to die to leave Christopher to raise the babies alone and Elena helps him? What do you bet the twins are both boys so that in 20 years they can reboot this series again.

  3. 3
    Davis
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Haha I said the same thing about Ann getting a phone call from “bobby Ewing”! I mean I think the audience would know if it said “bobby”, he’s the main freakin character. The thing about twins which can make a pregnancy storyline more dramatic is that carrying multiples tends to have more complications with the delivery and labor etc…so more chance for drama there? Maybe?

    Also, John Ross being taped in the room with Not Marta will probably help him in the long run because the tape would show her being pushed out the window, or whatever, by the other dudes.

    Can they sex Ann up a bit? She wears the drabbest clothing!

  4. 4
    wcsdancer
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    My guess is that the young woman with the child in the park tha Ann was watching is Ann’s grown daughter that maybe she gave up (or around the same age), hence her crying and being so sympathetic towards Rebecca.

    I so saw the plot arc, NotMarta is going to be killed and she’ll have John Ross’ DNA under her fingernails. Plus all the witnesses seeing him flee the scene.

    I also didn’t realize one needed to apologize for throwing up in someone’s bathroom. On the rug or the furniture, yes, an apology is in order, but in the bathroom?

  5. 5
    carol
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 4:30 pm

    The lunch meeting between Elena and SueEllen was filled with so much lisping from awful veneers it was like they were trying to speak Parseltongue.

    If Marta hadn’t been tossed off the building, I was sure that she was going to try and claim JohnRoss tried to rape her. But I like the building fall, it was more fitting for her character.

  6. 6
    Chicken Lips
    Posted July 22, 2012 at 9:11 pm

    @wcsdancer – if you didn’t make a mess in my bathroom, you don’t need to apologize for puking in there. If there is even one drop still visible when you are done, not only are you apologizing, you are cleaning it up and mine too when I see it! :)

    I’m glad that they seemed to make the show with the philosophy it was a “one and done” so the story lines seem to be speeding along. I hope the renewal doesn’t make them slow down in season 2.

  7. 7
    Patty
    Posted July 23, 2012 at 8:25 am

    And don’t forget, at the end of the show John Ross was taken away by the police, so this is going to get good! I knew when they focused so much on that couple at the hotel/apartment/wherever he was that someone was going to put two and two together. I wonder if Rebecca is Ann’s daughter? That could be interesting!

  8. 8
    cmw
    Posted July 23, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    Does anyone else think that Marta committed suicide and made it look like Christopher did it? Wouldn’t that be the ultimate revenge? I wouldn’t put it past her cuz we all know she’s cray-cray. Also, we never actually saw the bad guys in her apartment.

  9. 9
    cmw
    Posted July 23, 2012 at 6:46 pm

    I mean John Ross not Christopher.

  10. 10
    Hbgchick
    Posted July 24, 2012 at 6:42 am

    My take – Rebecca and her what’s-his-name-brother (aren’t they twins?) are Ann’s grown children. This would explain Rebecca being pregnant with twins (isn’t it sort of hereditary?) and Ann’s support of Rebecca.

  11. 11
    wcsdancer
    Posted July 24, 2012 at 5:57 pm

    @Chicken Lips, I *always* clean up after myself after puking, especially at someone else’s house! True story. It’s uncouth not to!

    Oooh! Never occurred to me that Rebecca and/or Tommy could be Ann’s!

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