Dallas Recap: The Demise of Not Marta


John Ross stops at the car in shock.  I’m sure this is in no way noticed by the many witnesses standing around.

Touch the scrapes on your neck, that will make it less suspicious

does the think most likely to make him look guilty.  He nervously looks around and then bolts for his ohso discreet car and peels out of the parking space.

Christopher shows up at Elena’s and tells her that even though Rebecca is pregnant they can still be together.  Now those are words that every girl should want to hear.  She blows him off and tells him she is with John Ross.  She also must think that by not looking at him, he will just go away.

Unless you’re a dumbass, you should be able to tell by my body language that this ain’t happening

As part of the police dropping the charges, Bobby has to apologize to Harris Ryland for the bitch slap.  I don’t know what is more pathetic.  That Bobby slapped him or that he pressed charges for it.  What is with Ryland demanding weird shit?  First, he kept telling Ann she had to hug him and now this.  Bobby gives the most insincere apology ever and Harris calls the police to drop the charges.  Afterwards, Harris takes out an envelope and tells Bobby that it has the secrets to Ann’s past.  We cut off before knowing if Bobby took it or not.

I’m sorry…that you’re a douchebag

Christoper takes Bobby and Ann with him to the doctor’s office for the test results.  I was kind of expecting Montel Williams to bust out with ‘You are not the father!’, but to my disappointment, that did not happen.  Shocker – the baby is his.  The doctor then goes on about the nosebleed and not checking for everything.  Long story short, Rebecca is having twins.  I’ll be honest, I read a lot of trashy romance novels.  Why is it that every author/writer feels the need to make people have twins?  Are twins really that common that everyone is having them?  Does this make the man seem more virile to pop out two good swimmers at once?  In reality, it just means even less sleep and double the shitty diapers.

If the twins are boys, I wonder if they’ll name them Bobby and J.R.?

Christopher goes in while they are doing the sonogram and takes Rebecca’s hand.  Bobby and Ann watch from the doorway until Ann leaves in tears.  Oh yeah, there is definitely some baby drama in her past.  

At Southfork, Ann is sitting in a chair, staring at the locket, when Bobby walks in.  She hides the locket and Bobby sits down with the envelope that Harris gave him.  He explains that he would love to know what is in the envelope, but he would rather her tell him.  He then throws the envelope into the fire.  As it burns, my prediction was right:

Convenient how the fire caused the envelope to open so we could clearly see the picture that is burning

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Pollyanna is your typical midwestern soccer mom, hailing from the great state of Ohio.  When she isn't cheering for her kids, she can be found reading trashy romance novels or watching reality shows that make her feel better about herself.

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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