Dallas: Secrets Are Revealed, Mysteries Deepen

Well, well, I do not know how many of you watched the season finale of Dallas on TNT this Friday night. It turned out to be one of the most surprising episodes of the hold season. In my precious post on Dallas and entitled “Mystery Women of Dallas”, I explored the characters of Rebecca Sutter Ewing and Ann Ewing, played by actresses Julie Gonzalo and Brenda Strong.

 

In that article I acknowledge that both Rebecca and Ann were women of mystery, and that being so their secrets hid the depth of their true characters as women.

 

Now during, “Revelations”, the season finale of Dallas, more secrets are reveals that widen the divide between members of the Ewing family. That J.R.,’s and John Ross plot to steal SouthFork was to become known was a given. With so many hands in that deal, Bobby Ewing was bound to discover J. R s deception. The fact that he did not send J.R .to prison was also not surprising.

 

The surprises came from the Ewing’s women. Rebecca and Ann Ewing, the destroyed all previous ideas of whom they were to the Ewing’s men and as individual women. 

 

First, Ann Ewing surprising turn in dealing with her corrupt first husband, Harris Ryland was great. Ann is the matriarch of SouthFork and the Ewing family, and at first, she appeared a helpless victim of Ryland, but his attempt to blackmail Sue Ann into laundering dirty money for him showed Ann shown to be a true fighter when she trick Ryland into confessing him blackmail attempt. Ann’s right uppercut to Ryland’s jaw was not shabby either.  

 

Although, we still do not know the importance of the photos of a child burned in the Ewing’s fireplace, or what other secrets of Ann that are yet to be revealed, she has shown herself a woman worthy of the Ewing name. 

 

Then there is Rebecca Sutter-Ewing, who although is a Ewing regardless of what name she married Christopher under, is not Tommy Sutter’s real sister, but his one time lover who she used for two years in a plot to swindle the Ewing out of SouthFork and Ewing oil. 

 

To make the situation worse,  we not only learn that it was Rebecca who planned to steal from millions the Ewings, as well as Christopher new energy design but that  the overall plot to gain SouthFork and Ewing oil rights was masterminded by Cliff Barnes, who is the fake Rebecca's scheming father, and J.R.’s arch-rival. 

 

Questions for season 2 of Dallas, which will return in January 2013.

 

What is Rebecca real name? Was Tommy her real husband, ex-husband, or boyfriend? Does she really love Christopher? How will she and John Ross, take the news that their failed schemes have brought Christopher and Elena back together? Will these two lovers find happiness? What will happen, when the Ewings learn that the mother of Christopher’s unborn twins is a Barnes, and that the babies are Cliff Barnes’ grandchildren as well as Bobby’s?

 

More to the point, what will J. R. reactions be after learning the Ewing and the Barnes now have blood ties with the coming of Christopher and Rebecca’s twins?

 

Will Tommy body be discovered? Will Rebecca be charged with manslaughter or can she prove she killed Tommy in self-defense?

 

Until next season!