Who Done It is the fourth episode of the fourth season (1980â€"81
season) and 58th overall of the American television series Dallas. The
episode was written by Loraine Despres, and revealed who had shot J.R.
Ewing (played by Larry Hagman) in the third season finale "A House
Divided". The perpetrator's fate was revealed in the subsequent
episode one week later.For an eight-month-long period of media frenzy
after the broadcast of "A House Divided" episode (wherein Dallas
archvillain J.R. Ewing was shot by an unidentified perpetrator outside
his office), international oddsmakers created a set of odds for the
possible culprits. The favorite was Dusty Farlow, who was Sue Ellen
Ewing's lover (Sue Ellen being J.R.'s wife), with odds installed at
6:4. Sue Ellen herself was given 25:1 odds, as was J.R.'s mother Miss
Ellie Ewing. At 4:1 were Sue Ellen's sister and her husband's
mistress, Kristin Shepard and banker Vaughn Leland, who fell victim to
a J.R. swindle. After Sue Ellen's fingerprints were found on the gun
in subsequent episodes she became the favorite at 3 to 1 according to
some oddsmakers, while others listed Kristin and Cliff Barnes as
favorites (Cliff being J.R.'s rival from childhood).J.R. Ewing is a
fictional character that William K. Stevens of The New York Times
described as "the nastiest man on television, the Iago of Texas
oilmen, the smiling snake of a star of Friday night TV's Dallas, a man
so venal, so low, so mean, so diabolical that he has become an
absolute delight to an estimated quarter of a billion viewers around
the globe." His New York Times colleague John J. O'Connor described
him as "the eldest son of the oil-rich Ewing family..." who is "...a
sadistic bully and a swindler" that "captured the public's
imagination". Prior to the episode, there were numerous people to
suspect for the attempted murder:Although generally regarded as
somewhat rivals of J.R. in the fictional world of Dallas, Gary Ewing
(Ted Shackelford) and his wife Valene (Joan Van Ark) were not suspects
due to their activity in the related Knots Landing world. Similarly,
their daughter Lucy (Charlene Tilton) had an alibi provided by
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