See, the way I had figured it, was that ANY phone call to daddy would be seen as serious-like-whoa and should be acted upon. I mean, Sam hasn't even SEEN his Dad is a long time by this episode, right? (If I'm wrong, sorry, don't have my eps with me). So I thought that ANY call coming from SAM in particular would show Dad that it was serious. I don't know.

Although, now that I see the transcript, I'm all conflicted.