- Hello? - Hello. Is Bobby Ewing there?
Sorry, he left some time ago. Any message?
Yeah. Um, my name is Kit Marlowe.
I'm calling from California.
It's really important that I speak with him.
- My number is 213... - 213.
- 555... - 555.
- ...4606. - 4606.
I'll make sure he gets the message.
Thank you.
He said he'd give him the message.
You be sure when you ask Bobby for Jory's number,
you don't tell him it's for me.
I don't wanna ruin the surprise.
No sweat, Mrs. Taylor.
I'm glad to help.
David, would you put that damn thing away?
- We got some business to talk. - It helps me to concentrate.
It's not like we had a major problem here.
[J.R.] We just want some fast action.
Whatever it takes to dissolve my marriage to Michelle,
I want it done as soon as possible.
Is she still living in the same house with you?
- Yeah. Is that a problem? - [David] Not necessarily.
But isn't it just a little bit, uh,
uncomfortable for all of you?
That's why we want fast action.
Well, I'll see if I can't petition the court tomorrow.
I'll need your marriage license to the other wife.
And I need a deposition from you attesting to the fact
that you didn't realize that you were still married
when you married Michelle.
I think it can all be settled in the next 24 hours.
- Under a real friendly judge. - [James] Oh, good.
I've got the license with me. Uh, but one thing.
I don't want any paperwork or anything
sent to Michelle till after I talk to her.
Which will be when?
Well, tonight, I guess.
I've gotta get it over with.
Good. Well, I'll just go prepare the deposition.
Be right back.
She used to date from time to time
but not too often.
She was really serious about her acting.
And about Bobby?
I think so.
She really liked him a lot.
Did she tell you why she was going to Texas to see him?
No. I got back here one day and there was a note from her
telling me that she was going to visit him,
and that his real name was Ewing.
I suppose she'll explain it all when she comes back.
Yeah, if she comes back.
Mm.
- Hello? - Kit? It's Bobby.
Hi, Bobby. How are you?
- I'm fine. How are you? - [Kit over phone] Real good.
Although I need to speak with Jory.
- Do you know where she is? - Oh, sure, I do.
She's staying at the Tower Hotel in Dallas.
That's 214-555-9000.
Great. Thanks.
So, um, how's it going with you two?
Oh, just fine. She'll tell you about it when you talk to her.
Okay. I got the message.
- I'll see you, Bobby. - Bye-bye.
She's staying at the Tower Hotel.
You better call her, talk to her about something,
in case Bobby asks.
I will. When are you leaving?
First plane I can get out tomorrow.
And thank you, Kit.
You've been a big help.
It's my pleasure. And don't worry.
I won't tell Jory that you're on your way,
because I want it to be a surprise too.
[Debra Lynn] There you go. How's that?
Is it good?
Hi.
I went by your room.
I guess you meant it about leaving.
Didn't you think I did?
Well, I guess maybe I didn't.
Hey, little guy.
I want you to stay.
Not with things the way they are.
No. As my wife.
[James] You and Jimmy and me, as a family.
Because you're afraid of losing Jimmy?
Yeah, I'm afraid of that. But that's not the reason.
Well, then tell me what it is.
Well, I guess maybe it's because
I still see the same things in you
that I fell in love with the first time.
I mean, you don't wanna run an empire, rule the world.
You're just you. You wanna be married and have a family.
Lead a regular, normal life.
And we could've done it before.
I think we can now.
[James] Well, anyway, I wanna try.
So I guess I'm asking you to marry me,
or stay married to me.
Will you?
Oh, yes.
Yes. Yes.
[sighs] You.
What about Michelle? Have you told her?
She thought I was leaving too.
Well, I spent the day at the lawyer's.
I called her at the office, and I'm gonna meet for dinner.
- To tell her? - Yeah.
Do you want me to go with you?
I think I should probably do it myself, you know?
I owe her that.
[chuckles] Come here, you.
[J.r] Ah. Michelle's gonna be out of here by tomorrow.
James has decided to stay married to Debra Lynn.
Now, isn't that great?
Do you realize a fourth generation of Ewings
are gonna be living here at Southfork?
[Bobby] Yeah, except that James is actually a Beaumont.
Oh, well, that's just technicality.
Oh, Ray Krebbs has never changed his name.
And he was a Ewing. I mean, partly, anyhow.
I remember how tickled you were about that.
[sighs] Yeah, well, things have changed, Bob.
Right now, I understand how Daddy felt about Ray.
My, oh, my.
The wonders of parenthood.
That brings up a subject I think we ought to discuss.
Why did I have the feeling
that the other shoe was gonna drop?
Bobby, I think that James and Jimmy
should have the same heritage that you and I did.
- That's all right with me. - But they can't.
[J.R.] The heritage I'm talking about is Southfork.
- Forget it, J.R. - [J.R.] Damn it, Bob.
My boys have the right to grow up on family-owned property.
Well, it is family-owned. We're brothers.
That's not the same. You know it.
J.R., you are really something.
You never gave a damn about this ranch
until Mama gave it to me.
Which she never would've done if she was thinking straight.
Give me a straight answer. Why do you care that I own it?
Because my boys, James and Jimmy,
have a right to grow up on their own ranch.
[Bobby] You have nothing to worry about
because I'm not gonna kick you off.
[J.r] That's not good enough.
[Bobby] That's as good as it's gonna get.
- Hi. - Hi.
- Right on time. - Yeah.
- Would you pour? - Sure.
I, uh, talked to Debra Lynn today.
She was packing.
It's funny. I was so happy for me.
But I felt a little sad for her.
[Michelle] She really cares about you.
Yeah, I know she does.
But so do I.
And if one of us had to get hurt,
I'd rather it was her than me.
I wish nobody had to get hurt.
Well, I've done something
I think will ease the pain for you.
What?
[Michelle] I've bought the McKay ranch for us.
[sighs] We can live there.
Still be near Southfork.
You won't have J.R. looking
over your shoulder all the time.
And we can have our own family there.
If that's why you bought it,
you shouldn't have.
But it's perfect.
Not for us.
There isn't gonna be any us.
I don't think I understand.
I went to my lawyer's today.
I'm getting a dissolution of our marriage.
James, don't joke about this.
I'm sorry, Michelle. It isn't a joke.
Debra Lynn agreed to stay here
as my wife.
You know, you really have a terrible sense of humor.
How do you keep such a straight face?
You know I'm right for you.
Not that little country mouse.
There's no easy way to say this.
Tomorrow or the day after...
...you're gonna get the papers.
It's over.
Banging on the damn door. I'm coming.
Who is it?
[Michelle] Open the door.
Whoa. Whoa.
My good old buddy, Cliff.
That bastard dropped me.
He wants little Miss Priss and that damn kid.
You're talking about James?
Who else?
No more marriage.
You know why he did it?
I'll tell you why.
J.R.'s why.
J.R. hates me.
Mm-hmm.
I really loved him. I really did.
He didn't deserve you. He's just a dumb kid.
Dumb kid.
[Cliff] Hey, look at the good side.
At least he's out of Ewing Oil now.
You don't have to live at Southfork.
You don't have to see J.R. every day.
But I really loved him.
He didn't want me.
I'm so damn mad.
You're talking to the right guy.
I'm the world's leading expert on the Ewings.
And I've learned one thing.
[Cliff] You don't get mad. You get even.
[chuckles] Get even. That's funny.
That's the truth.
And I know how we can do it.
[Cliff] Just think of the team we would make.
You sell me half of Ewing Oil and we'll drive him crazy.
We can do it. Listen to me.
[whispers] Thank you.
Ah, good morning, everybody.
Sit right there, darling.
Well, it's a big day.
First official breakfast for Mr. and Mrs. James Beaumont
and my grandson, Jimmy.
Well, since it's official,
welcome to the family, Debra Lynn.
Thank you, Bobby. I'm really happy.
[chuckles] You know, Debra Lynn,
you ought to get a decorator.
Take a look at one of the rooms, have him fix it up.
[J.R.] And then we could take Lucy's old bedroom
and turn it back into a nursery for little Jimmy.
With your approval, of course, Bobby.
Oh, by all means.
And you know what, when we get a chance,
we ought to decide about the right school for Jimmy.
They're harder and harder to get into nowadays.
Never too soon to register that boy.
I think we have a little time.
He's not even 2 yet.
Yeah, yeah.
And, Debra Lynn, now that you're one of us,
I want you to go down to the store,
get yourself a whole new wardrobe.
Kind of a wedding present from me, all right?
You know, something befitting
the wife of a rising young oil executive.
Maybe you have forgotten.
I'm out of the oil business.
[scoffs] Well, that's just temporary.
You got every reason in the world
to make your life a success,
and I got big plans on how you can do that.
Well, let's dig in.
[J.R.] We've got a lot of work to do today.
Here you go, drink that. It will make you feel better.
Nothing is gonna make me feel better.
[sighs] How much did I drink?
I don't know. I wasn't there for the most of it,
but I'd say you had your fair share.
[Cliff] Go ahead. Drink that.
Ugh, how can you stand this?
Do you remember what we talked about last night?
Not much.
You were telling me what that skunk
had done to you and why.
- And I think you're right. - About what?
I think it was J.R.'s fault.
Do you remember when I went to James
and talked to him about you?
Vaguely.
Because all he could talk about
was how much he loved you
and how happy he was.
So somewhere along the line,
J.R. must've gotten to that boy and poisoned his mind.
[Cliff] I mean, that's the only explanation.
Now all we have to do is figure out
how we can get back at him.
I know what I'd like to do.
I'd like to give him a vasectomy
starting at the neck.
It's not a bad idea, but I think there's a better way.
You have in your power
the ability to do something that he could never get over.
I wish I could.
I would love it.
You know, it's funny that some of the great ideas
are the simple ones.
Sell me half of Ewing Oil.
- What? - I mean, James isn't there.
You need me. We could turn that company into a giant.
And just think what it would do to J.R.
Who are the two people
that he hates the most in the world?
You and me.
So what do you think his reaction would be
when he found out that we jointly own
his beloved daddy's company?
He'd hate it.
He would absolutely hate it.
Well, then let's do it.
Let me call up the attorney to draw up the papers.
Call him right now. I won't sell cheap, Cliff.
I paid a fortune for that company. It's gonna cost you.
Hey, this time, I don't care what it costs.
Um, listen, why don't you call up Southfork
and have him deliver all your stuff over here? Hmm?
[Cliff] I mean, you know, just until you find a place of your own.
Why don't I?
I don't know. It looks good to me.
- Yeah, me too. - I don't wanna redecorate.
- It's not like it's our house. - Yeah, that's for sure.
And another thing, what's wrong with my clothes?
Don't you like the way I dress?
You look fine to me.
Then why do I need a new wardrobe?
And what does the wife of a rising
young executive look like, anyway?
As far as I'm concerned, she looks like you.
I mean, it's all moving a little fast for me.
Picking out a school for little Jimmy.
[James] I mean, now that is really dumb.
Well, your dad is certainly forceful, isn't he?
Yeah, I don't think he can help it.
I know he's really happy that we stayed married,
but he just can't get over
trying to run everybody's life.
You're not gonna let him run ours, are you?
[scoffs] No way.
But I'm gonna try and be patient with him.
- Maybe it'll all pass. - I hope so.
- But I somehow doubt it. - Hey, trust me.
I'm only gonna let this go so far and that's it.
Yeah?
Dad? Could we talk for a minute?
Sure. I hadn't had any calls from your school lately
so I can trust you to take the bus with Christopher.
That wasn't what I wanted to talk about.
Yeah? What's on your mind?
I've been talking to Mom a lot lately.
She really wants me to come over there.
Well, I'm sure she does.
You're not planning on going real soon, are you?
You got your big brother and your nephew living now.
Everything's just going great.
Yeah, great.
Anyway, Mom wants to see me.
She sent me a ticket,
and Clayton's flying to London tomorrow
and I'm going with him.
Well, that's kind of sudden, isn't it?
Couldn't you have mentioned that earlier?
You've been real busy.
And I only made up my mind today.
[John Ross] I really wanna see Mom.
Well, that's only fair.
You get along with that limey she married?
Yeah. He turned out to be a real neat guy.
[chuckles] Of course, she's got a tutor for you?
Yeah.
Well, you have a nice visit.
Just make sure you call regularly, huh?
I will.
- Dad? - Yeah?
I love you.
If I ever did know how to do the two-step,
I'm sure I've forgotten by now.
It's a good thing you're with me.
I am the best teacher that there ever was.
[J.r] Of course, this is nothing like the offices
we had at Ewing Oil.
We'll stay here for a while,
then find something worthy of us.
We'll be wheeling and dealing before you know it.
Yeah, son, when somebody comes in to visit you,
I want them look around these offices
and know they're important offices
and they're dealing with an important man.
And then you stick it to them.
Oh, James. Of course.
[scoffs] You sure have a lot of plans for us.
Well, I've been waiting for this all my life
and here it is.
You don't seem too excited about it.
[James] No, I'm just thinking about John Ross.
When he took off this morning with Clayton
he hardly said goodbye to anybody.
Is he ticked off at me?
No, no. He's just excited about the trip.
- You know how kids are. - Yeah.
I'm gonna miss that little sucker.
We all are.
But I'm gonna keep you so busy,
you won't have time to miss anybody.
Good morning. James isn't in.
Don't I know it.
Take his damn name off the door.
[laughs] Game, set and match.
No fair. I was getting warmed up.
- Oh, wonderful. - I want a rematch right now.
Oh, no. I'm taking this win and running with it.
You are too strong for me and too young.
One more set. Winner take all.
[laughs] Winner take all?
We haven't been betting anything.
So let's play. I'll think of something.
I have already thought of something.
Oh, yeah?
Yes, a quiet drink,
and a quiet lunch, in a quiet clubhouse.
And then what?
Well, if I have any strength left, a quiet dinner.
A quiet, early dinner.
And then some more Texas two-step?
[Jory] I was kind of getting the hang of it.
No, not tonight. You are wearing me out.
Please?
[sighs] Lord, protect me from tireless teenagers.
Hey! That's not funny.
I am not a teenager.
I'm a legal voter, I'm a legal drinker,
and lots of other good legal stuff too.
Yeah, well, right now,
I am only interested in the legal drinker.
- Come on. - Ahh.
Okay. No dancing.
- Maybe a movie. - Oh.
You can just sit there and eat popcorn.
You should've seen that office when I finished it.
[laughs] I wish you would've been there to see it.
Yeah? I hope you didn't mess it up too much.
I was planning on using that.
[Cliff] Another nail in J.R.'s coffin. Me in his office.
It may take a while to put it back together. [laughs]
I'm not gonna worry about that.
Hey, put your drink down and sign these contracts.
I don't want to put my drink down.
Why are you in such a hurry to sign these contracts?
How did you get them so fast?
I just paid a little legal overtime.
Now come on. I'm in a hurry.
Sooner you sign these contracts,
the sooner you get the check,
the sooner we can go after J.R.
Good old J.R. [chuckles]
[Cliff] Right there. Sign right there.
That's good. Now here.
We gotta get these things signed,
then we're gonna go out and do something.
[Michelle] Do you know what's funny?
[Cliff] No. What's funny?
Is that everybody thinks
that I am just a dumb blond
who doesn't know anything at all about business.
I never said that.
Not to me, maybe.
- But it's very funny. - Why is it funny?
Because I just sold you
50 percent of Ewing Oil
for what I paid for all of it.
Are you kidding me?
You couldn't have gotten it that cheap.
[laughs] Sure. I'm kidding.
Never trust a dumb blond.
Well, hello, James.
Come on in and pour yourself a drink.
Thanks.
I missed you earlier.
I know you and Debra Lynn
are having some sort of second honeymoon,
but you could come down for dinner.
Yeah, I'm sorry. We were real busy talking.
See, we kind of made a decision.
Oh? About the room or the decorator?
No. About our lives and where we wanna lead them.
Uh-huh.
I know you want Debra Lynn and Jimmy and me
living in Southfork with you.
Of course I do.
Well, that's not what we want.
We've decided to move back east,
where she comes from.
- What are you talking about? - It's not gonna work out here.
Well, if I remember correctly,
you were a man in search of his daddy and a family.
And you got that.
Here we are all living together.
Well, you got that.
It will always be your family, not mine.
And I know you mean well when you do it.
Yesterday, you had our whole lives planned out for us.
Because I care for you and your family.
I want your lives to be good.
Well, so do I. But I want them to be good
because I make them that way, not you.
I can't do that while I live here.
Well, that doesn't mean you have to move away.
You could buy a house in Dallas.
At least we could work together.
You can't help being the way you are any more than
a lightning can't help striking the ground.
You just don't understand. You never will.
James, don't do this to me.
Oh, believe me, it isn't easy.
But you'll always be welcome in our house
if you wanna come and see us and Jimmy.
But we're leaving.
You know, you did turn out to be
the father I always wanted.
[James] But now I'm a father,
and I have to do things my way.
Just like you.
- There you go. - Thanks.
- It was a great day. - Yeah.
I even enjoyed that stupid movie.
[laughs] Do you want some coffee?
Nah. I'm gonna head on home.
I'll call you in the morning, okay?
Call me early.
You get some rest.
[Hillary] Hello, Jory.
What the hell are you doing here?
You poor baby.
You've fallen in love with him, haven't you?
It's none of your damn business
how I feel about him.
Of course it is. You're my daughter.
Not anymore.
I wish I'd never met you.
Is it so easy for you to hate me?
I hate what you did. I hate what it made you!
And because I will always stand
in the way of you and Bobby?
Do you think I don't understand how you feel?
Even with everything going on in Paris,
do you think I didn't see what kind of a man he is?
But that didn't stop you, did it? No.
You just went right ahead with your dirty little plan!
Do you know what that did to him?
I know what it did to me.
And worse, I know what I did to you.
And I regret that with all my heart.
Yeah, sure, you do. What do you want here?
Why can't you just let me alone?
Because I love you.
And I've lost you and I can't stand that.
You've lost me because of what you did.
Don't you understand that?
Of course I do.
That's why I've decided to turn myself
over to the authorities.
I'm willing to take what I have coming to me.
God knows I deserve it.
But you're my daughter.
And I couldn't just let it end like that between us.
What do you want from me?
Not your forgiveness.
I can't even forgive myself.
But I never stopped loving you.
Can you remember what we had?
I devoted my life to you.
I didn't have to but I did because I love you so.
I know that.
You were the most wonderful person in the world.
Maybe that was the problem.
Maybe I never thought you'd do anything wrong.
[Jory] You were perfect.
Maybe you just fell from too high a place.
No. I was never that special.
There were two things in my life that I loved.
John Foley was one.
But mostly you.
When John died,
something in me snapped.
But as God is my witness,
I never intended for April to die.
I was going to let them go.
But that's not what happened, is it?
Are you really gonna turn yourself in?
Yes.
I don't wanna run anymore.
Maybe for Bobby...
...it will at least make April's death easy.
But I can't live the rest of my life
knowing that you turned against me.
Please.
I can't forget what happened.
But I could never stop loving you, Mama.
Oh, Jory.
There's one more thing you have to do, Mama.
- You have to see Bobby. - I can't.
He's the one that you have to have forgiveness from,
not me.
No, I...
Let me just take my punishment
and you two go on with your lives.
We can't.
Not till Bobby knows what I do.
You have to, Mama. For all of us.
I'll go with you.
I'll be right there by your side.
Tomorrow.
Do you remember when I was little...
...and there was something coming that I didn't wanna do?
You would make hot cocoa
and we'd sit up and we'd talk all night.
And you'd make everything all right for me.
I remember.
I bet they have great hot cocoa here.
I'm gonna order us some.
And tonight, we'll sit and talk.
And tomorrow won't be that bad.
Oh, you're getting heavier by the day, Jimmy.
Now, you all be sure and call me
- soon as your plane lands. - Oh, we will.
Well, I'm gonna miss you, Debra Lynn.
Well, it's not that far away. You can come visit any time.
Goodbye.
- Here you go, James. - Thanks.
Well, you know, you're really something, Daddy.
So are you, son. So are you.
- Say "Bye-bye, Papa." - Bye-bye, Papa.
Come on.
We're leaving right now.
Bobby's waiting for us.
Hey.
No matter what, nothing's ever gonna change
how we feel right now.
Thank you.
Good morning.
Do you have any aspirin?
Oh, right there in the nightstand.
Coffee and an aspirin. That's a heck of a way to celebrate.
But then, we did most of the celebrating last night.
Justice of the peace said
you're the drunkest bride he'd seen.
Cliff, what are you talking about?
I'm talking about our wedding ceremony. It was lovely.
Really? Too bad you don't remember it.
[sighs] Quit joking around.
There's no way in hell I would ever marry you.
Well...
...according to this marriage license, you did.
It's not my signature.
I never applied for a marriage license.
You might have missed it when you were signing
all those contracts yesterday,
but it was in there with them.
Oh, you bastard.
I was so drunk. I didn't know what I was signing.
[chuckling] Yeah, well, I noticed that.
[Cliff] But it's legal.
Mrs. Barnes.
Why?
Why did you do this?
Well, for one reason, being married to you
gives me 100 percent control of Ewing Oil.
And for another, I always thought
you were a damn fine-looking woman.
I always wondered what you would be like in bed.
So this morning is as good as any time to find out.
You stay away from me, you miserable little creep.
Wait a minute, you might not love me now,
but over the years, you'll learn.
[Cliff] Starting now.
Get away from me!
I'll blow your damn head off.
Is that any way to talk to your husband?
I mean it!
Where are you going?
- Southfork. - You're forgetting something.
You don't live there anymore.
[Michelle] No. J.R. does.
He is the one who did this to me.
I'm sorry, Bobby.
How nice.
There aren't really words
to tell you how I feel.
- So? - I told you in Paris
that I meant to change history.
And what I did was destroy all our lives.
Why are you sorry?
For April?
You, me? Why?
All of us. Especially Jory.
[Hillary] And you.
By some miracle, Jory and I have come together again.
And I can only ask you that you not take out
what you feel toward me on her.
[Bobby] I wouldn't do that.
Believe me, not because of you...
...but because too many innocent people
have already been hurt by you.
For what it's worth to you,
I'm going to turn myself in today.
[Hillary] I don't ever expect you to forgive me.
I can only hope that somehow you'll find a way
to understand what happened to me when John Foley died.
Who can understand that better than I?
Because I care for Jory, I'm gonna tell you something.
[Bobby] I'm not really sure you deserve to know it, but...
...the anger and the hatred I felt towards you is gone.
The pain will always be there.
But I don't want an eye for an eye anymore.
Thank you, Bobby.
Before I turn myself in,
I would like one more day with Jory.
One more.
That's her,
the woman who killed my sister.